skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His writing is well thought out and fun to read, too. Armageddon and the Narratives of Empire series are exceptional.
"Keep out of reach of children" appears to be the take-home message.
Okay. Learn how to install and link a BLAS version appropriate for your machine architecture. Do not assume the particular compiler you are currently using has a magical optimizer.

This will future-proof your code and make it more portable, not to mention instill confidence that your code is correct. Of course if you are just playing around with a toy project, this is probably not worth the effort.
I am not so sure.

The way Russia put in their lousy equipment and untrained staff (if all the reports are to be believed) then his better troops and weapons are not yet there / ready for other use.
Kyiv – European Square Live Cam
Wow, that's great (/s)! Next-gen ransomware can then finally allow zero-click payment of the ransom instead of all the convoluted "go to that site, register account, buy bitcoin, send to address X, don't forget to add gas,..."-mess.
You lock the missile on a target while aiming it. The seeker will remain locked to exactly that target until it hits. Only way it's hitting a neighbouring truck instead is if that's what you aimed at when you pressed fire.
How will the Russian army defend their supply lines after encircling a town? Ukrainians are armed to the teeth with handheld western weapons to destroy armed vehicles with, and Ukrainian infantry can just lay behind and wait. We are seeing Russian convoy after convoy be destroyed to surprise attacks. Ukrainians don't have to take the fight head on. They can just wait and take out the supply lines.

This is an unwinnable war for Russia, because Ukrainian infantry is armed and not willing to lay down their arms. Russia has learned nothing from e.g. Vietnam.
> Putin can invade Finland and Sweden now

I can understand that he was lied to, and/or he miscalculated the power of his own army. But at this point it should be clear even to him it's a complete mess and they are being ridiculed by the whole world - outdated equipment, weak morale, soldiers without food, no fuel, sinking tanks. Do they really want to be humiliated by the Nordics? I really doubt so.

My take is that Finland and Sweeden will wait a bit to see how the situation develops, and if Putin starts to bark about enlarging the invasion, they will join in a blink.
There is a mistakenly published article that explains the ideology, an article that should have been published after successful occupation of Ukraine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20...

Basically: Russian people and territory re-unification before letting the cultural erosion making it impossible, which is seemingly insufferable.

Then there is some rambling about a new order due the coordination of Ukraine Bielorussia and russia would make Europe autonomy crumble.

Then the world was expected to be in awe in such a display of power, and that would have made all countries realize that west dominance is in jeopardy.

It's that a simple madness.

french translation here:
https://www.fondapol.org/decryptage/la-russie-na-pas-seuleme...
As the parent of young kids I can assure you that kids will chew on and eat anything but the good food you try to feed them. We do our best to keep the harmful stuff our of their reach, but mistakes happen.
> In the West, you have a range of views and there is no deliberate censorship of views by the State. In Russia, you get and only get what the State produces

I would argue that big tech is making an effort to sway public opinion in certain favorable directions, if not outright censor them under the guise of safety or whatever generic excuse we've heard over the past decade. The information we've been digesting is essentially only what big tech allows to be heard.

Yes, there are several ways to access information from alternative methods but from what it seems like, only a fraction of both the West and Russia do that.

By censoring an opposing agenda, albeit anti-west propaganda, you will create exactly the same vacuum as you accuse the Russian government of.

> It is sometimes better to act than not to act, even if what you do is not perfect; it all adds pressure and expresses that you are serious about what you're doing.

Strong disagree. We should do the right thing rather than just anything that could put pressure on them.
Are there requirements somewhere for people to do at home tests?
The Virus That Causes Mono Does a Lot More Than That
LOL, it's OK if they cut off our sunshine, because we're used to living in the dark anyway.
3D files for printing the case will be added to the site.
ICANN's response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30540188
It's better in context.

The unit of electric field strength is V/m. They put ants inside a test apparatus, so the "per meter" part is fixed (by its design) and the voltage is experimentally manipulated. They do use the right units elsewhere in the paper.

I imagine this was done to avoid measuring the electric field in the electrode/air/floor/ant medium, which is not exactly homogeneous.
I promise you, there's lots of people out there that used to be great co-workers in the office that are now struggling and not getting much done remotely.

Maybe they're in a blind spot for you, but I guarantee you they exist, and they're probably the majority.

The environment that you work in has an effect on how well you can do the work.
I can imagine a world where China finalizes their "official" crypto currency, transitions their entire economy over, forces all international trade to use it, and it becomes the standard currency for logistics. It'll provide traceability for them for all Chinese-connected transactions forever. The best oversight and control mechanism. They find current sanctions ineffective because the levers aren't strong enough yet, but they'll be more than happy to sanction countries themselves in the future.
Russia has invaded Ukraine.

It's like having a criminal break into your house.

If my neighbours are unhappy with me taking action against that criminal - maybe they're friends with him - I'm not much inclined, in the situation, to have much sympathy.
I can attest to this. "Communist" is a slightly dirty word here in Denmark, but nowhere near the levels of the US.

I think the general consensus here is that the USSR was a shitty totalitarian state that failed for shitty totalitarian reasons. Communism was just what they called their brand of totalitarianism. In reality it was a corrupt dictatorship.
I believe you missed an important point.

> Our government friends at the NSA are equally guilty of that as well, I'm not seeing much outrage over that either.

Not the same. In Russia the only cybercrime that goes to court is Russian on Russian crime. Crime against the west isn't a crime. Russians are allowed to write malware and defraud targets... just so long as those targets are not Russian.

If I ripped off 10,000 Russian grandmothers as an American; the FBI would find me and prosecute me.

> You're not more entitled to be in this space more than the next person regardless of your contribution, beliefs or identity.

You probably typed your message on an Intel, AMD, or ARM CPU running on 95% American code. Russians are entitled to what the west decides to give them unless they want to do a better job themselves.
I don't buy this. Once you get a country in the mood for war, the marginal cost to them of more war gets less and less. In for a penny/in for a pound as they say.

If anything, I bet China has had to think twice about Taiwan after seeing the way the world has reacted to Russia. China has not been tested against a determined, capable enemy and their credibility as a superpower is at stake. They could lose to Taiwan even if no one helps Taiwan.
Very good! The secret is to focus the eyesight on the target, not the ball
To a point, yes. I mean, bikes have changed a ton in 51 years and I guarantee you my dad would struggle to work on the newfangled high end high tech stuff, nor would he be the guy that you'd want to professionally fit you to your new road bike. He's got people on the payroll who do that, for sure.

Bookkeeping is different, though. He's actually been defrauded by a bookkeeper in the early 1980s. I don't know the details but she was siphoning money from the business in some scheme, probably a 1981 version of OP's Stripe API issue. If you simply trust a person like this and don't verify regularly, the mistakes and frauds happen. Receipts is where the rubber meets the road for a retail biz and I just don't see a substitute for an owner who cares and checks.
This is crackpottery. What is the mechanism of action that such a weak low frequency AC magnetic field could effect the biology? There is none. This makes about as much sense as that crazy neighbor who lives without power and rants about how they can feel cell phones.
"at the cost of some npm shenanigans"

jDeploy developer here. No shenanigans, I swear. npm just simplified things. Some have expressed interest in adding self-hosting options, so I'll likely add support for that. It's open source too, so others could potentially add other hosting options also.
Can you adapt the products to other languages/regions? It could go a long way towards diversifying your sources of income. The sanctions won't last forever anyways, meaning there's a good chance that investment could pay off in the end.
>As a simple example, imagine a small team of, say, 6 developers:
>
>The team has created and now supports a mobile app, an Alexa skill, three separate web apps, fifteen microservices, and a partridge in a pear tree.

If a team of 6 developers created 15 microservices, I'm afraid that they don't understand the pros nor the cons of microservices and they should be fired instantly.
That's because Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) is internationally recognized as being part of Azerbaijan. Even Armenia itself does not officially recognize the independence of Artsakh. Thus from a Russian point of view, Azerbaijani military attacks on Artsakh are an internal matter for the Azerbaijan government and not an act of aggression against Armenia proper which would trigger their mutual defense treaty.

During the war, both Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were doing a kind of kabuki dance, provoking the other side into bombarding either Armenia or Iran, to trigger either regional powers' intervention in the conflict.

It's a sad reality for the Armenian people that they were never truly independent and sovereign, but always a protectorate of the Iranians, Romans, Byzantines, Turks or Russians. I think everyone in Western leadership circles (or at least those who can actually place Armenia on a map) recognizes that and there is not the antagonism against them that, say, Belarus or to a lesser extent Serbia is experiencing.
Oops, I meant :target.
Ukraine wasnt "kept out". They just hadnt progressed to full membership yet.

NATO had already expressed its desire quite clearly both in Bucharest in 2008 and in Brussels in 2021 to put and keep Ukraine on the path to full membership.

Putin's gamble is that reducing the country to rubble now makes it unviable as a member and hence lowers the likelihood of him ending up like Gadaffi and Russia ending up like Libya.

It could backfire and it may be the worst gamble anybody ever made but it's not irrational.
See FACTA. If an overseas bank (say in Australia) open an account for a US citizen, subject to US IRS taxes, then they have US regulations to comply with for not just that account.

FACTA requires an overseas bank to identify US account holders and then report their personal and other details to the IRS, including balances and withdrawals.

So now some bank in a foreign country has to not only do due diligence on you and as soon as you say you are a US taxpayer or there are signs you are, it is required to report your account to the IRS, and if it doesn't it's subject to a 30% withholding tax on transfers to it as an institution from the US.

Of course, under the rules, it's up to the bank to be careful, but the local tax authority doesn't care, so often there's a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sort of attitude.
PSA: do not drink the reagent solution or suck on the swab like a lollipop after the test.

That's pretty much it.
Thanks @sidcool. Would love to have your feedback if you get a chance to try out the product :)
This is a purely wargames matter, so obviously.
I'll add 3. connections tend to be symmetric, and even guaranteed for fixed connections (well technically mobile internet are asymmetric by design, but it doesn't matter much because uplink is still reasonably fast) and 4. government-mandated peerings, before 2017 it'll be simply impossible because Telecom and Unicom (not sure about Mobile) don't have good peering back then with each other.
Strong disagree. By your logic, we should be invading Russia.
You're just believing in MS propaganda. Yes, people created compilers and virtual machines for other platforms, but MS never considered this important. Their goal is to have only Windows as first class citizen in the .net world. If you write C# code you're tying yourself to a closed product that is restricted to a single platform.
>My QoL is insanely improved.

My question is: how did people not realize this before the pandemic?

The workers of Silicon Valley (and other urban centres) literally created and sustained this problem all by themselves: "You have to get to Silicon Valley!"
Before ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 2000, Russia and formerly the USSR carried out a total of 715 nuclear tests. Since 2000 the US has regularly made allegations that Russia has been secretly carrying out various low yield nuclear tests. This was part of the justification stated for our pulling out of the intermedia rate nuclear forces treaty. They have also been developing novel nuclear weapons such as the Poseidon torpedo system [1] the creates artificial radioactive tsunamis through targeted underwater nuclear detonations.

There was also a report from the Congressional Research Service about Russian arms exports and development from October 2021 [2]. It's filled with lots of interesting data, but a couple of interesting points: Russia is the world's second largest arm's exporter, behind only the US, accounting for 20% of all sales. Russia was also the driving force behind the modernization of the Chinese military. The only downside mentioned is that, "Despite producing modern and technologically advanced systems, Russia’s defense industry has numerous challenges, such as inefficiency, low production capacity, lack of a modern machinery base, limited innovation, and efforts to diversify into civilian and dual-use technologies."

We're currently in the middle of a ongoing information war. Take everything you read, from any source, about current events with a grain of salt. Remember how different Iraq looked before, during, and then long after the war. Ironically, slightly dated sources can provide the most relevant information.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...

[2] - https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46937
If ICANN took a side in this, then in a year there won't be an ICANN. There will be several miniCANNs catering to different countries (at least the large ones).
Haha except there will be no customers and manufacturers will move to other cheaper places… if you think the dollar is going away without a fight we’ve seen how the money works now and it’s all controlled by the West right now. That’s why the Chinese want to change it and not a single western nation will agree to it ever because how does it work for them?
Russia will cut itself from the internet in a couple of weeks, no need to worry.
A complete picture would also mention that Artsakh obtained its de facto independence for 100,000 Armenians at the cost of ethnically cleansing 700,000 Azeris, Kurds and other ethnicities from the region.
ICANN declines Ukraine request to shut down Russian websites
> The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous.

What?
I tell my clients all the time why I can't just make a "quick change" and I have to manually review the data sometimes and go through a ton of code review. I tell them...

> As a human I can only mess up one or two orders a minute. Computers are uniquely qualified to mess up thousands of orders in seconds.
A lot of companies have "hybrid" status with a few days per week in office.
It is made illegal precisely because it is not trash fire propaganda. Read some coverage of this crisis on there and judge for yourself.
IonQ’s New Barium Systems Demonstrate Industry-Leading Qubit Readout Performance
I've tried it out. It's quite obvious the limited number of crawled sites when searching for anything obscure or one step outside of programming.

Even 'javascript reverse string', which I expected some docs or stack overflow pages seems to give me a HN thread, someone's github repo and a not very related SO thread.

Is MDN, MDSN, more dev docs documentation on the roadmap?

It's definitely an interesting technique. Do you have anything in place to detect garbage, substenceless articles like which has started popping up on Google?

I've seen the occasional one using github repositories or pages. Looking at the current list you're broadly reliant on moderators and communities, and as the search engine you moderate which sites are indexed.
> It's pretty obvious that Russian troll farms have been running massive psyop

Alternatively, this narrative is a massive psyop.
Isn’t that a result of the push to cable-tvize the internet? Symmetric high bandwidth internet became commonplace during the height of the P2P downloading era where I live. Because the market was there.
In cases like this the government would have to prove the intention to circumvent the RT ban which is pretty much impossible in the case of tor.

This sections is essentially targeting people who would for example start a "not-rt.eu" broadcasting rt content.

Instead the more important question is whether people running tor have to take measures to block access to RT as they may be ISPs.
> War is a brutal thing, involving the deaths of thousands of young men.

Just want to point out that most EU millitaries, along with the Ukranians and the US have women as well. So there is death all around, no matter the sex.
With respect, if someone actually came up with a peace agreement that worked for Ukraine/Russia, I would hope it would be worth far more than $1k.
This is cool! There has been a bunch of these lately, is there some more or less comprehensive list of *doesnotexist websites somewhere? Would be fun to browse through them all for inspiration.
The clause says "members must assist with all the means in their power" or similar wording.

Whatever lawyers decide that clause means, I think the odds of outright invasion of an EU member _not_ leading to open european/world war is basically zero
He's definitely double dipping on the "I want to return to the office" and "It sucks going outside"
I’m wondering the same. You’re not piping them into a shell.
> Russia loses nuclear war (in terms of response time )

Could you elaborate on that?

NATO will not strike first. I understand you can respond to ICBMs but there's very little you can do to protect your cites against them. So what do you mean by "losing nuclear war"? Even if 10% of Soviet nuclear equipment still works, that still means hundreds of nukes. The only "winners"* would be China, South America and Africa, not Russia.

* good luck living through nuclear winter
Do you have a camera in my home? This is eerily accurate.
I can concur, having attended various schools around the globe growing up. In one nominally American school (actually run by Canadian Catholic brothers, but largely attended by boys of American ex-pats), calling someone a "Commie" was fighting words (i.e. liable to get you punched). In other schools if you called someone a "Commie" people would likely think you were very strange and/or drank too much of the Kool-Aid.
Oh, nix23--you took me wrong, I was actually giving you a compliment!!! Everything I said was with love...I see you took it the other way tho. :)
Plus: Parkinson's law for software. As PG wrote: "Software has bloated to consume the resources available."
They overthrew their own government in 2014.

The idea that the Ukranians will just be like "welp, we lost, we're Russian now" seems... cope-y.
Underground:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_storage
It seems a bit rude to ask me for examples, have me provide one, and then just shrug it off that you don’t have time to address the items.

“You can use ed25519” kindof flies in the face of the point being made in the post, which is that sure, you can use modern crypto, but you’re bounded by the lowest common denominator, and GPG’s lowest common denominator is horrible broken crypto selections.
Both languages are strictly pass by value. Java pretty much uses pointers (references in name only) and primitives only, and both languages copies these all by value. For actual reference you have to go to c++.
In Vietnam, most the US soldiers were 18-20 year old kids. The draft ended shortly before I turned 18, but I had older friends that were drafted and sent off to fight. No one I knew died, but a couple returned with life altering injuries, a couple others returned with what we now call PTSD, but back then they were just referred to as 'losers', and 'weak'.
Why Does the U.S. Buy Russian Oil?
Not really:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_storage
> TBH I had not thought very hard about the toxicity of the reagents.

Forcing parents and children to endure a situation such as the one you depict should have also been thought about a lot harder than it was.

Who cares about the reagent toxicity when this very process is riddled with psychological warfare, the denial of what humans need to feel safe and comforted in a group, and explicit scapegoating of swathes of people?

Even when doing it "right," these rapid at-home tests instill horror, social and mental problems, and all sorts of insane power hierarchies that confuse young, growing minds. The testing itself is toxic.
What would "crypto currency" mean here? How would it be different from a real currency?