skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isolating Russian users from foreign internet services is literally the Kremlin's dream

That's 100% the Kremlin's doing. USA and Europe are effectively already at war with Russia and it will only escalate up from there.
you are mistaken. it's not rhetoric. they really do believe in this.
When programming an AV to drive like a human does, are the programmers including all the contextual human judgement that goes along with the human decisions, or just throwing away the letter of the law because it's too much trouble? I have a hard time explaining to a human teenager the etiquette that goes along with something like merging onto a highway, and it varies by region.
I've had F-droid for a while. There are pros and cons.

Pros: looking for a simple app? you'll find it ad-free and functional, no need to search long and hard and deal with signups, ads, and premium trial like apps from Play Store.

Cons: lack of updates. many things like signal (for whatever reason) are just not updated. I ended up downloading signal on Aurora (Minimal Play store) because it kept, rightfully, complaining about being on an old version, despite being the most up-to-date version on f-droid.

A couple other pros and cons but those stuck with me. In the end a good companion to a play store install, in my case.
The teen famous for tracking Elon Musk's jet has a new target: Russian oligarchs
"Many people may already feel fear and anxiety about the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). The threat of a nuclear explosion can add additional stress"

Ah, yes, a little additional stress from the nuclear explosion over and above covid. It's hard to know if this was written with a straight face or not.
I hate to break it to you, but Russia started a war! Russia, the place where Russian citizens live, protected by an army of Russians. Russia is not some ephemeral theoretical quantity, it's a state governing its people with their consent. The preferences of their citizens are not a priority and, if you feel that consent has vanished, the only one who can do anything about it is you.
“Space Weather” preparedness is an interesting read too https://www.ready.gov/space-weather
One of the best literary long-tail effects of having a child has been that my wife and I became huge Margret Wise Brown fans. She was a fine artist and a true blueblooded bohehmian, and I'm grateful I got to "know" her & her work.
It would kind of be nice to understand who is behind this. Where's the repo where the website is built from? Who are the devs in the organization? Otherwise, it just feels like an advocacy site for a large company that is not Apple.
Reminiscent of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [1] where there were and are ongoing patent disputes for the last 30 years.

The highly esteemed Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad Institute, who recently got turfed out of the Whitehouse for being an asshole following testimony by 14 different staffers [2], wrote a highly biased reinvention of history around CRISPR published in Cell [3] which was severely criticised [4,5]. To this day, this highly cited 'review' still does not have a conflict of interest statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction#Pate...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander#Science_Advisor_to...
[3] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5
[4] https://www.statnews.com/2016/01/25/why-eric-lander-morphed/
[5] https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1825
> Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.

Is there a reason other than Covid-19? I know that when they give Iodine 131 pills to to fight thyroidal gland cancer the patient must be isolated from everyone else because he is radio active. But other than that this doesn't make any sense.
What in the world does that have to do with anything?
From what I’ve gathered, the IRS was using IBM’s 7074 emulator in production under z/OS to run some very old applications written in 7074 assembly-they might have finally stopped by now, but they were still doing it as recently as 5 years ago.
> If the team is correct, the diameter of the binary’s orbit is 10 to 100 times smaller than the only other known supermassive binary, and the pair will merge in roughly 10,000 years.

/remindme in 10k years
I have no idea if it's in the creator's interest but I'd love to see Solid get backed by a company the way React, Angular, and Svelte are. That might make people take it more seriously as an option but, as-is, it certainly feels like a risky option to use professionally.
These are the type of things that had to be a result of government bureaucracy and unnecessary rules. Probably something like "All guidance must mention xyz about COVID".
How's it working out in Russia? How much more money would I need to expend for a loaf of break had I been in Moscow?
>What is the next step? "Higher" alert?

Essentially yes. The current step is the equivalent of DEFCON 3.
> Probably helps that many token founders don't seem too virtuous

This perception is exacerbated because this kind of stuff has been happening behind the scenes for half a decade

Many founders do want to collaborate with their community, a community that expects and begs for exchange listings, which the founders cant talk about in advance and the exchanges know that and basically extort them and dump on the community, making the founder look bad and radioactive from then on.

Many/most want their project to organically grow and get help from large whales along the way, but it's more likely that tokens which have high value and many coveted exchange listings have nothing organic about them at all and cannot be emulated. Any founder trying to emulate it get into these token crashing toxic arrangements leaving many community bagholders.

It is nearly impossible to tell the difference between founders, the best thing that has occurred is that nobody needs these exchanges anymore. liquidity went onchain.
Not sure about signal but some apps such as newpipe have their own fdroid sub-repositories that update more frequently.
It's one of the reasons why, if you ask programmers from other countries what they think about programming languages with "native" keywords, the response tends to be overwhelmingly negative. Code is particularly punctuation-heavy, especially with the modern trend of C-style syntax. US-English keyboard layout has all of the needed things readily accessible - of particular importance is that ".,;" all require a single keypress. But then you have to stick to ASCII for identifiers and keywords.
tbh I am more worried of an EMP nuke detonated high in the atmosphere than localized nuclear explosions. An EMP would lead to famines and total chaos.
Absolutely, in the last few weeks I’ve been kind of deep diving on Russian history and geopolitics as tensions heated up and the war broke out. I’m well aware of Putin’s ascent and maintenance of power.

I’m honestly doing my best to see this conflict from all sides, including the Russian side. It’s worthwhile in order to make sense of things, but also important to help in recognizing the struggle Russian people who oppose the war are up against.

I’m not voicing support for the war at all – I’m actually very upset by it.

I don’t understand why my comment is clickbaity. Apart from not generating clicks, I don’t see how it’s misleading or controversial.
> Throughout history, revolutions only succeeded when there were enough privileged people on "their" side (eg. those with money, status...).

Counterpoint: what about the French revolution?

You are absolutely right that it's easier to have revolts led by the privileged - the American revolution was one. I'm sure there were plenty of others.

As for sanctions causing regime change, you may be right. But that's also not the goal here - the goal is to tank Russia's war effort and generally cause pain for him and his cronies. Of course plenty of people are probably hoping regime change will result but I doubt it'll be a direct consequence, if it happens at all.
Nothing about avoiding population centers? My reaction to nuclear attack would be to hightail it into the woods. Take some supplies, wait it out, and try not to be a burden to emergency services.

As for fallout and the like, I would just have to hope. Being far from potential targets and away from major jet streams (or whatever I'm not a meteorologist) would be my way to go.
I use @pm.me (Protonmail’s domain) and I’ve had a couple of instances where emails I send bounce or email systems of certain corps won’t deliver to me. It’s pretty rare but it happens maybe once a year or so. Notably the web server of the government of the city I live in (Austin, TX) won’t accept emails from that domain so I have to use my Gmail to communicate with them.
Well Russia is biggest weapons supplier to India. Also Russia is only consistent country stood with India on all fronts.
Herman Miller Aeron: pitfalls of trying to buy second hand (2016)
I agree that Russia is violating International law, and possibly committing war crimes at this very moment. But why don’t we apply the same standard to US or China when they do it?

I am not talking about boycotting or private businesses refusing to serve people from a country. I mean sanctions proportional to the damage!

No one would ever put sanctions on the USA no matter what we did. We could invade a country and occupy it for years, or totally destroy its government. We could drop nukes on it. Oh wait we did all these things.

Just as one example that was condemned by the UN: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pa...

The USA would never allow anyone to do to us what we routinely do to them. Imagine if USA were to, I dunno, attempt to invade a neighboring country, carve out a piece for ourselves, and then that country would ask Russia for help and Russia would put nuclear missiles on it…

Oh wait. Cuba. Bay of pigs invasion. Guantanamo. Cuban missile crisis…

Shoe on other foot for USA means unacceptable.

Imagine if Russia started arming “moderate rebels” against the president of Mexico, and they wound up joining the Zetas and Sinaloa cartel, and taking control of entire cities in Mexico. Russia would say we are propping up a brutal dictator who is cracking down on drug gangs brutally. Imagine Russian weapons would be used by drug gangs to kill Mexicans.

What would USA do? We all know.

Imagine if Russia started an alliance to “contain US expansion” into Central and South America and sign up countries that have historical grievances with US doing stuff like, I dunno, trainingg rebels and overthrowing their governments. Maybe start with Nicaragua and Panama, then gradually get closer.

Would the USA allow this? Shoe on other foot.

George W Bush was a worse actor than Putin by far. And got zero sanctions. He still gets to joke around and give speeches after large swarhs of the entire middle east were destroyed. Remember that guy campaigned on NO NATION BUILDING! Unbelievable

The world is fixated on Putin invading Ukraine and possibly doing regime change there. They are united in imposing extremely harsh sanctions that will affect the people of Russia. While USA Presidents have done far worse things just in the last 20 years, and the world doesnt really have a say… means we are above international law baby !!!

So, all this about “we would accept sanctions” please. We have privilege. The biggest baddest kind of privilege. White privilege is nothing compared to AMERICAN privilege baby.

I will leave China as an exercise to the reader. I will say this though… in the US we have freedom of speech, so people like myself and Noam Chomsky can live here AND openly speak the uncomfortable truth about what our country has done. Russians and Chinese can’t.

So in that respect, USA is far better.
Sanctions aren't about regime change, I think.

Autoritarian regimes with a lot of money can do more damage than those with few. As witnessed this week.

Throughout the history, trade happened with partners. Western world made it seem like taking it away is a sanction instead of having it as a "gift to improve each others country".

This could be reversing because of Russia now.
Seems pretty reasonable though. Wearing masks and some amount of social distancing isn’t that hard, and reducing other strains on the medical system during nuclear war seems prudent.
"A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch" is (IMHO) an equally valid recommendation, w/ the benefit of being a much shorter and more accessible book.
Wasn't CRISPR discovered in bacteria rather than invented?
If sanctions are worthless, would you rather all the sanctioning countries militarily invade Russia and take out Putin and all the oligarchs? That was what used to happen when countries had wars with each other. Won't ordinary Russians suffer even more than having to move their domain names to a local provider?

Should belligerent countries be able to invade any country they want and suffer no consequences? You seem to be advocating for no consequences and having Ukrainians constantly die in a war just so the average Russian isn't inconvenienced

What is actually your alternative suggestion that you think will have real world and quick effects?
These are hard trade offs to make. Covid is increasing in Ukraine as people make this trade off. I read that they have run out of oxygen tanks.
They've already used the more common separators such as "." and "::" for other purposes, so "\" was the only one still available that was already used for something vaguely similar.
What about fork(2) for network servers? I've written parallel network servers two ways; open the socket to listen on and call fork() N times for the desired level of parallelism, and just create N processes and use SO_REUSEPORT. I prefer the former. I suppose there is hidden option C of "have a simple process that opens the listening port and then vfork/execs each worker" I find that to be a bit strange because the code will be split into "things that happen before listening on the port" (which includes, e.g. reading configuration files) and "things that happen after listening on the port" (which includes, e.g. reading configuration files)
Is this allowed by ICANN?
People keep saying that Putin is threatened by democracy in Ukraine, but I find it unconvincing. Democratic countries had no problem making friends with dictators - just think of America's former (and current) allies. Conversely, those same dictators had no problem cozying up to their democratic allies.

These talks of "being threatened by democracy/authoritarianism/whatever" usually sound pretty close to Orientalism or its mirror image.

After all, it would be a piss-poor dictator who can't turn its neighbor's political system into a self-serving rhetoric, whatever the system is.
If Russia were to be forced into an isolationist command economy as you describe I would surmise that, much like the Soviet Union, its influence and relative threat to the rest of the world would deteriorate over time, maybe leading to a similar internal collapse. For your and the world's sake I don't want that outcome, but I'd nonetheless take it over its current status as a relatively more robust economy helmed by an aggressive and violent expansionist.
imagine the bad luck if that’s when you contracted it?
Because then we can use the non-democracy excuse to invade whoever we want.
i hope Netflix used in their response to the Russian officials the new Ukrainian battle cry of the last days frequently mentioned without beeping even on Ukrainian TV and everywhere, "The Russian Navy vessel, go f&ck yourself." - that is the response given by the Ukrainian defenders, most of whom died in the fight that ensued, of the Snake island to the threat by a Russian Navy missile cruiser to bomb the island if they don't give up the island.
Just be sure everyone in the hug was in shelter before being exposed to fallout, otherwise those hugs might be radioactive!
Actually LOL’d!
"Email is no joke" -> "It’s kind of a sensitive subject."

i.e. someone did sue about email. it's relevant.
Unfortunately not. The majority of countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, but this doesn't include Russia, or Ukraine, or the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munition...
I didn't see an answer to the big question I have: what about energy loss (and, to a lesser extent, container damage) through neutron loss? There is this quote:

> The released neutron may collide with another deuteron, accelerating it much as a pool cue accelerates a ball when striking it. This second, energetic deuteron then goes through one of two processes: screened fusion or a stripping reaction.

So a neutron "may" collide. But what if it doesn't?

To be fair, the density is a lot higher an dhtere's an erbium lattice so this may just be a non-issue (or at least a much-reduced issue).

Anyway, I'm glad to see alternatives to "hot" fusion being researched. I'm far from convinced the tokamak approach of massive boondoggles like ITER will ever be commercially viable.
I'm on it as well. A trick I found for getting around casting devices not showing up, at least in the cast of spotify casting devices a couple weeks back for me, was to install the app ControlDLNA from f-droid. Opened it once on the network and magically the casting options appeared and worked perfectly.
until you understand that it is not countries and peoples that are at war, but elites are at war - you will continue to be a victim of your false beliefs.
For the rhetorical “you” (unspecified ordinary citizens of wealthy nations), yes, unfortunately that is often how it works.
Note that this is not a direct quote. That bit about COVID-19 appears in a big paragraph about what to do if you’re sick or injured. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a shared boilerplate across lots of government websites about emergencies. This whole page mentions COVID-19 a few times but really isn’t as ludicrous or reminiscent of satire as people here are making it out to be.
If they'd taken the same path OLPC did there would not be a Ten Years of Raspberry Pi.
Awesome, let's connect. I'm actually building a community app for book readers as well that helps with book discovery and connecting readers. Would love to see what we can do together.

Here's my email:
booksforthewise@yahoo.com

And our Instagram where we're building our community (over 50k+ book readers)
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-Jeff
To be honest, nuclear threats can pretty much be waved away with mutually assured destruction. I think we're all just saying, "Surely they won't do it..." because we know that if they do, there will be nothing left to worry about / plan for.
I don't think we will agree with each other. I wrote a longer response, but it was just reiterating my previous points.

But I'll will leave with a rhetorical straw man argument.

Russia has a mandatory draft. These people did not choose to join the army, similar to how most people did not choose which country they live in. Is sending weapons that may kill these forced soldiers better or worse than providing economic pain to the entire population?

In both cases people who lack free will be affected.
To extend on your fire analogy, it's not just a fire, it's arson - and the arsonist is still there, sprinkling gas around and throwing matches. You can't extinguish the fire without dealing with the arsonist.

As for Putin, he's basically a gopnik. There's a Russian word for what these guys do - "быковать", literally "bulling", but it's basically a display of aggression to establish oneself higher in the hierarchy and to make the victim afraid to fight back. If you acquiesce to gopnik's demands, he will come up with more, until the point where he "justifiably" takes away your phone and wallet.
> Don't pretend the West has no more precise option

You are welcome to name what it is.
On the contrary. I think everyone should try growing some of their own food. It's not only great for your physical health, but your mental health too! Also having some long-term food storage and water on hand is a great way to weather unexpected circumstances. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing. It's sort of like having a generator or battery storage for backup power... If everyone had it, the whole grid (or food availability) would be a lot more resilient. Imagine if all of Ukraine's residents had plenty of food and water in their homes for the next 2 months. That would be huge.
> essentially cancels out the whole theory

Ish. As a country, when you have 30 economic partners, losing one is not the end of the world; whereas losing 25 of them definitely hurts. Obviously that's more difficult the bigger the partner is (e.g. from an European perspective, sanctioning the US would have a much bigger impact than sactioning Russia), so really it's a question of size and proportion more than anything.
I’m glad she helped inspire today’s children's authors to be more developmentally appropriate and those authors have gone on to produce better work as a result.

But “Goodnight Moon” is overrated.
> I guess I'm asking is this, are you doing this for free publicity or for genuine moral concern.

Not all "what about all the other countries" questions are whataboutism. The author was not trying to justify the invasions because other countries were doing it too, but was to point out the inconsistency in the reasoning stated by Namecheap --- if it were a moral concern then it certainly appears to be an ingenuine one; if it were a PR move, then the pretension of it being a morally driven decision really defeats the purpose of the message.
Next: a history of why HFS used colon as its separator.
How are you going to survive in the woods? In many places and times of year this would be very difficult for all but the most intensely prepared or experienced people. And is it even good advice?
I am genuinely asking; how worried should we be?

I'm really freaking out about this...
I wish they included that bit in their outreach based on a lot of comments in this thread. It probably would've helped add some additional perspective into their decision making.

(This is one of those threads where we also thank dang for this service.)
https://nerdist.com/article/goodnight-dune-parody-childrens-...
Putin is responsible, and the higher-ups.

But since Putin does have fairly high approval, the population is somewhat responsible too.
You are using whataboutism fallaciously. Pointing out double standards isn't whataboutism.
In oppressive regimes, fewer resources need to be put into building infrastructure and improving the human condition of its citizens when more and more of the country's income is generated by harvesting natural resources or via other tasks that mostly require unskilled labor. Democracies only really build infrastructure because their citizens need it to focus on generating economic growth via their own skilled labor, which often can't be done without roads, stable electricity, clean drinking/industrial water, etc.

In these situations, for republics like the United States, the best way to encourage the country to improve the standard of living for the citizens is via sanctions since it forces the country to sell these commodities at lower prices to a smaller group of potential buyers. If enough countries limit trade to where the country has to primarily rely on its own citizens for economic stability, they'd be further pressured into at least partially building schools and infrastructure and other things we/the United States believes should be a bare minimum for life.
During the Cold War, I believe the official British advice to be broadcast to the populace in the event of nuclear attack was "First, go make tea," because it was the most ingrained and instinctive thing every Briton knew how to do, and would best maintain calm. Whatever this advice says about Americans, I would like to fix it and elect the opposite of the thing perpetuating it, please.