skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, technically it was the head of Yugoslavia that started a war with Slovenia the moment it left the federation (after Croatia left too). Luckily, war lasted 10 days. Not Serbia, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-Day_War

NATO bombing was not out of the blue. The head of Yugoslavia was a similar mad man (to Putin), just warring out of desperation. The best proof one has of his lunacy is the fact that Montenegro split from Serbia without any deaths. How did this happen? Due to the mad man dying in 2000. I'm pretty sure he would have enacted order by butchering civilians again, inside "his" borders.

Serbia is also the only country out of these conflicts that does not guarantee seat in the parliament for the exYugoslav minorities. Even though the leadership displayed aggression that was successfully deflected, the defenders made a deal to guarantee inclusion of the Serbian minority in the parliament (Croatia, Kosovo etc.)

Still, we have a country like Germany, that self-flagellates for decades and the sentiment of the majority is quite clear. While the general sentiment of people/press in Serbia is that NATO bombing is equivalent to Putin bombing Ukraine. and yeah, every now and then, the most popular Serbian (Monacoan) tennis player will say things like "Kosovo is Serbia" with complete indifference and still be the Jesus like figure his father makes him out to be.
Yes, keep the lights on keep doing your boring job while the Russia army is bombing around some of your offices ...

IMHO, when the collateral damage is that some of your employees are sleeping in metro tunnels and some of their neighbours are dead because of the bombs falling on their cities, cutting off customers from the country invading them is very very justified.
Mostly yes. That's certainly why the Russian narrative won in Russia and Belarus.

Propaganda/media is one of the most useful ways to steer a population, it even doesn't have to be particularly good propaganda if its voluminous and exclusive.
simply, it puts inner pressure on him. if enough people in Russia feel the war on them, then they will stand up.
So you are saying it’s ok to kill people with some other skin color or language, like, Iraqi people for example?
This has nothing to do with "Selfishness" but everything to do with "Self-Preservation". I hope you understand the distinction between the two. Given our huge population and agrarian-based economy there is no other option.

India is following the proper strategic and diplomatic path. It has good relations with both Russia and Ukraine and has even been approached to mediate between the two (https://www.opindia.com/2022/02/ukraine-requests-pm-modi-to-...). It is already sending Medicines and Humanitarian Assistance to Ukraine (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-will-send-human...). Diplomatic efforts via back channels are ongoing.

Coming to the current mess, Ukraine is being used as a pawn in a "proxy war" between NATO and Russia. The US/EU are fully to blame for pushing Russia against a wall resulting in the current invasion. Here is Henry Kissinger himself after the Ukraine crisis in 2014 - https://cnnbc.com/henry-kissinger-on-ukraine What he feared has come true today.

In summary, Geopolitics involves overall Strategy achieved by a set of Tactics all in the service of Self-Preservation.
Almost all the most popular apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Chrome, Google Maps ..) do.

And of course, nearly all games do.
Google translate this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226224717/https://ria.ru/20...

It was auto published on 26 on ria and bunch of other sites and than purged.
It explains everything
My mother made all her calls from a public phone box (Rural Bavaria in the 80s).

Having your own phone number was as unusual then as a domain might be for some today.

Spread the word and show it!
AirGuard: Protecting Android from Stalking Attacks by Apple Find My Devices
Probably the equivalent would be a custom store, something like this:

<script>
import { writable } from "svelte/store";

function autoCounter(interval, initialValue = 0) {
let { subscribe, update } = writable(initialValue);
setInterval(() => update((n) => n + 1), interval);
return { subscribe }
}

let counter = autoCounter(1000);
</script>

<div>The count is: {$counter}</div>
The “rally behind your leader” effect is only usually temporary.

These sanctions and moves spread an unambiguous and clear message which can’t be blocked by state news channels which is “no matter what your government says, nobody supports you”.
>It's we Russians who are fucked for the rest of our lives.

I sincerely hope all this goes away as fast as possible and we all can resume our lives in peace. Including you Russians.

I don't see how that can happen with Putin, but fortunately he is far from being the only person who can lead Russia.
I use the Aurora store, simply because my banking apps aren't on f-droid. And without those, well, banking it becomes really inconvinient.
If you think i am russian troll, please check out my comments from past few days

edit. in case i initially misunderstood what you wrote, there is still a lot of people who are west oriented a nd hate everything that happens.they are horrified by what is happening. many writing that they ashame to be russian. i have friends that go daily to protests those days. shutting down this communication will isolate them and will be disservice for everyone long term
Its not about the partition of India, its about the colonization of India. This is like telling a person whose legs were cut off to grow a pair and start running.

How many years would it take for a colonized country to develop. Does anyone have an answer? You can't show countries like singapore (too small and practically a one party country). South Korea (was a military dictatorship, homogeneous population).
I think its very sad normal Russian people are going to be targeted when European countries are still buying oil and gas from Russia 700million a day going straight to the war machine.

Europeans pretend to care and sanction everything except for the oil and gas that is funding that war.

There should always be a difference between government and people.

All these sanctions are harming normal people, essentially economic carpet bombing.
So banks refer to SWIFT for instruction on how much to transfer where? And anyone who hacks SWIFT will be able to fake fund transfer instruction?
This is a pure war of agression, it is an invasion. There is no justification at all for this.
Come up with a new word. Not everything is 'whataboutism'.

But more to the point, if it's such a small force why is part of the National Guard of Ukraine. Disband it and send the members suspected of war crimes to stand trial at The Hague. I'm sure a nation looking to join the EU would have no problems doing that.

edit: Also something that's bothering me...what do you mean they are "explicitly neo-Nazi"? Is that somehow different to being a Nazi in your mind? Weird thing to point out...
Absolutely unrelated to the article, but does anyone else hate prefaces?

I was a big reader (bk-before kids) and once read a preface that was so thoroughly shit that I almost didn't read the book. I ended up skipping the whole thing, and the book was excellent, had me from the first line!

From then on I never, or very rarely read a preface. I would value others opinions on this cause I just can't see the point of them.

The link for example; what benefit to the story would that be if you read it before animal farm? To me it would wreak the story, totally full of spoilers and also, putting forth the authors understanding of his own work, which in turn reduces the readers freedom of interpretation.

In summary, should prefaces actually be postfaces? (connected by a little perforated strip which can be removed and fucked in the bin)
What's up with every Russian answer on HN being brand new accounts? None of these responders had an account and now chose to speak up?
There is no way that a state that nationalizes everything and then has to sell it all in a yet-to-be-birthed private economy has the ability of doing it amicably and for the people. There is no market depth, there is no liquidity, and there will always be people close to the decision makers or an international market of people willing to exchange, racing against the domestic people.

The folly was the communism, the unbridled accumulation of revenue producing asset was just waiting for the communism to fall apart, I think it is shocking I also think I do not have sympathy for it.

Time to do it again. Cheap revenue producing assets.
Russia-Ukraine Prompted US to Develop Autonomous Drone-Swarms, 1k-Mile Cannon
Which also makes you very sad.
Around 20 years ago Putin said he could imagine it. How things have changed. Maybe he wants to break the record of Gaddafi of being in power of a non-monarchical nation for the longest time.
WMDs? That was a lie. They invaded to preserve the dollar regime/oil.

Not plausible? I think you've been watching too many Marvel movies where good vs evil is "obvious"
Sounds great. Where can I, the owner of the device request the keys?
I mentioned this point on HN once or twice in the past, and the response has been pretty much "nobody's going to do that, learn to live with our fixed width articles, you outdated dinosaur!" :)
Go Proposal: arena: new package providing memory arenas
>HTTrack for any wiki I found useful.

On the Internet Archive you can also find many .warc files which are website backups that can be used for offline viewing.
> Using a tool to help someone see that their thoughts or words are foolish isn't a bad thing.

That's not what you're doing. Whataboutism is a method of _stopping_ interrogation via deflection and redirection.

I think a lot of people that engage in whataboutism do actually think they're trying to start a discussion or analyze the situation more deeply. They just fail to see what their actually doing due to not being particularly skilled analysts (trying to be nice here...).

> he basically did nothing.

Unwarranted assumption
You can grow coloured crystals instead of adding colour artificially. As a teen I grew copper sulphate crystals (they were bright blue)
I always thought that swift main feature was sorta like a DNS for banks. An hypothetical SWIFT consortium would assign unique short names to banks so to provide a baseline for authentication and identification.

This only based on the swift codes you have to add sometimes next to the IBAN.
There is one thing I do not understand and I was hoping you (or any other person who knows a lot of Russians) can explain: I hear that Russia and Ukraine have many personal connections from the past. I happen to be from the Czech Republic and I imagined that it is probably similar to our relation to Slovakia - we used to be one state, many people having friends or relatives in the other country, mutually intelligible languages, mixed marriages... I always assumed that personal ties are stronger than propaganda (if I know that my Slovak brother in law and all of his friends are not fascists, I would hardly believe the propaganda claiming that they are). My view was obviously incorrect, but how? Did I overestimate the connectedness between Russia and Ukraine? Or underestimate the influence of propaganda? Or something else?
It's literally what a bunch of population really believe in. i been couch surfing livejournal (which is mostly russian those days). it's real believe and desire of many russian people. right now a bunch of them saying "he made a right call, we need to go all the way through it, and sanctions will make us stronger and independent".
and no, it's not trolls for hire. it's people that been posting this kind of stuff for 15 years
Staking $100 or $1 or $10,000 or 100BTC or 100 widgets isn't the important point. It's that the previous poster is suggesting that he could have made 35x his bet on a single spin, while missing that he would have had to risk over 95% odds to lose his entire bankroll to do that. He would have to bet everything on one spin. If you lose your bankroll, you can't bet anymore, and your edge over the house is worthless.

Now if you take a more conservative strategy, lets say you can lose 1% or win 35% of your initial bankroll, sure it may take longer but if you have an edge in your favor it should take a very unlucky streak of bad luck to go bankrupt and when you win your winnings will compound on top of eachother and the casino still will go bankrupt within a month if they don't ban you from playing roulette. So a more conservative strategy nets you more cash on average.

This is kind of a tangent, honestly I'm not even sure how unlikely it is for a gambler with a reasonably executed winning strategy to double up a few times over a long night if they're running hot. They would be doing this over hundreds of rounds of betting, so a small edge compounds rather quickly.
> Who is a terrorist?

We can decide by consensus. Now I see Putin and his orgs being terrorist committing unjustified war crimes.

> In the Israel vs Palestine violence, which wallets will you block?

Those who commit war crimes. Israel mostly, could be Palestinians too.

> Every side has justifications for why it believes it is right and the other side wrong.

How does one justify Putins actions?
>gorilla warfare

Sorry for being that guy but even though gorilla warfare would be genuinely horrifying, the term is actually guerrilla warfare. Which funnily enough can be translated as "warfare warfare".
It's simply not possible to change the infrastructure that fast. Gas is used for heating, that's not optional in winter. Europe needs to build more LNG terminals (which they decided to do) and order gas from other countries that have the ability to greatly increase their output. This all takes time, but in the long run Europe will stop being as dependen on Russian gas and oil as they are now, Putin made sure of that.
I wonder why they don’t consider a tariff on Russian gas?
Note: article was updated saying Visa also joined the blockage.

Current title:
Visa, Mastercard block Russian financial institutions after sanctions
> As someone who was from a country where sanctions were supposed to destabilize our leader, it doesn't work, never did, never will.

Did you rally behind your leader because of sanctions?

More importantly, what would you suggest, given your previous experience? Start an actual war to depose the leader (not always turning out great, and I'm assuming your country wasn't a nuclear superpower)? Leave everything as it is, let the leader invade neighbors with no repercussions?
Namespace CEO sad that they make exceptions and you just have to contact them.
Well, more than a few of those conquests were prevented by Russia. Assad wasn't spared because of his tactical genius. The calculus might change for a few regime changes this year...
> You don’t think a random generator that looks like it outputs log₂(26²⁰) ≈ 94 bits of entropy, but is limited by the weak PRNG state space to 36 bits, and further limited by poor seeding to about 20 bits, creates a false sense of security?

I don't think so, as the Erlang documentation states that 1) the distribution protocol is in plaintext, 2) the cookie is not secure in the cryptographic sense, but in the sense that it will prevent accidents, and 3) the cookie handshake is not cryptographically secure.

It is not possible to generate a cookie that provides any true security as the distribution protocol is plaintext and the cookie handshake is not secure. Claiming to get any security benefit from a "stronger" cookie would only give a false idea to the user.

Erlang does not start distribution by default. This is done by the user of Erlang, or the application that runs on Erlang. It is up to them to make sure that their environment is secure and that they understand how Erlang distribution works. Namely, to not open ports in the firewall willy nilly and only allow communication to them from an isolated network or over TLS. Frankly I don't know what you would expect Erlang to do here, maybe to add even bigger warnings to the documentation?

The problem here is application developers not understanding how to configure their application to be secure by default. They are the ones opening the distribution wide to the Internet and not advising their users on how to do it safely, not Erlang.
Well, there is a difference between reading a random news feed or using a service e.g. for communication where the US government can seize my data any time they want to.
With this coalition I almost want to ask a doc to purge any vaccine residue he finds in my body. Seriously, I cannot imagine many less trustworthy enterprises.
No quite true.

Long-term investments are not done based on knee-jerk reactions to events when this actor (i.e. India) is not even involved in those events. Given China's belligerence/assertiveness against "Western Interests", India is the only safe and logical choice available today.
What the international community needs right now is for India to act responsibly instead of aiding an aggressor who is currently conducting an unprovoked invasion of a neighbouring country in order to change its democratically elected leadership. Nobody is threatening anyone. It's just how things work out.
I am in Ukraine right now. In a small village to the north of Kyiv. I am the author of PhotoSwipe (https://github.com/dimsemenov/photoswipe).

Yesterday I was filling bags with sand to make a fortification for local defenders. I hear artillery as I am writing this. And by the way, you get used to it.

In the last few days I received about 20 emails offering support, none of them were from russian devs. One asked a technical question about my lib, I answered "do you know what's happening in Ukraine right now?" - no reply.

I see a few russian companies and personalities openly condemn the aggression (such as JetBrains) and I'm very grateful to them. However most are silent, or have very weak Instagram post "no war" with a sadface, or even worse - post with "we are out of politics".

And that's IT people, which are presumably more informed. Unfortunately, due to misinformation most russian people have no idea what's happening here, that's why sanctions should affect regular people, and not just putin and his close allies.
I think you’re still oversimplifying. NATO countries may have been involved in bloody wars, wars which were varying degrees of bad idea, but at least those wars were fought against regimes which were terrible - brutal and repressive towards their own population. Ukraine is a mostly liberal democracy, which makes invading it even harder to justify.

But sure, US citizens might not have had much say in whether the US invaded Iraq. That doesn’t mean that sanctions wouldn’t have created political pressure which could in turn have made an invasion less appealing to the neocons in power at that time. So while I’m sorry to see average Russians (or at least those opposed to the war) suffer as a result of these sanctions, I can also acknowledge that sanctions may actually put pressure on Putin to de-escalate this conflict, and also warn him of the consequences of future aggression. It’s possible Putin will ignore these sanctions, but doing so risks improving the position of his opponents within Russia.
Have a look at all dietary recommendations around the world, they all say mostly the same thing: eat a lot of vegetables, legumes and whole grains, some fish, don't drink calories, and eat little of the rest.

Somewhere in there they also mention dairy (which may or may not include fortified substitutes) for the calcium.

Edit: I only looked at the ones in languages I understand (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, UK, USA, canada, Germany, austria, and Spain with the help of a friend). They were all remarkably similar.

Edit2: FAO summarised the Japanese ones here:https://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/food-dietary-guideli...

One can explore every country there. Poor countries where food can be scarce don't advice against animal products. Is that because it is eaten rarely by the general.population anyway? Or are they a good source of nutrients when calories may be scarce?
In a different context, for sure, but this was about SWIFT and finance. Even still, comparing army sizes isn't that useful either -- number of raw bodies only tells a fractional story; Where they're fighting makes a huge difference (home turf advantage), morale, motivation, equipment, training, non-human resources.

Numbers are useful when they're qualitatively comparable, but in this context, I'm not sure what number of troops should say you're allowed to bank wherever you want.
Boris Johnson's popularity has completely and utterly sunk after a series of scandals that have exposed him as a lying, cheating, hypocrite. It's quite likely that he won't be allowed by his party to contest the next election. To say that he's popular and in particular popular as a rallying cry against international condemnation is utterly false. He's deeply disliked by a large chunk of the population.
That would make sense in the context of payments like SEPA, etc. where a unique code helps limit mistaken transactions - however, that doesn't mean SWIFT itself is actually being used beyond the identifying codes banks use on the system.

Where a SWIFT MT103 would come in is typically (but not always!) much larger transactions, such as moving $100m from a corporate account in one country to another.
Could I (US citizen) get in trouble for providing free VPNs to Russian nationals?

Would these Russians get in trouble for using my US based VPN?

I want to support Russians during this difficult time but I don’t want them to get in trouble. I disagree with sanctioning and punishing ordinary citizens for the actions of the rich and powerful 1%. Imagine how it feel being a US citizen and getting punished for Donald Trump’s decisions. It’s wrong and makes no sense.
Well, because as you can see, this law is already introducing strife where there should be none, by unskillfully requiring something that's not useful. What problem is this supposed to be solving again?

By rolling out QWAC, we would be reducing the agility of the ecosystem and preventing automated certificate issuance methods like LetsEncrypt which have improved the status quo immensely. And for what gain?

This is not a debate over whether certificate issuance should be controlled by corporations versus the government.
Anonymous anti-Putin security disclosure for Russian IT professionals
Why do you monitor your kids?
Agreed about 1843, but it seems rare that they've got a proper longform article these days - or maybe they do but none of them are interesting to me.

Speaking of longform, I use Longform.org almost daily and just noticed that they're shutting down, or at least they're no longer aggregating articles. Wonder what happened.