skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For normal payments it is possible for another company to step in and process the payments. That would be massive effort but not impossible to get done in say couple of weeks.

Per another comment, the massive effort has already happened over the preceding years, out of the expectation that something like this was going to happen sooner or later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30572790

> But that would still mean that the system would be cut off from the rest of the world

Could Russian banks adopt China's UnionPay as an alternative to Visa/MasterCard? UnionPay is already accepted in many Western countries due to the desire to gain the business of Chinese nationals (tourists, business travellers, international students, etc). Would it be technically possible for a Western intermediary processor to distinguish a Russian UnionPay card from a Chinese one?
> perhaps i am too young and naive, but i am terrified of playing that game.

The problem with this approach is that in every future conflict this argument will be in play and so in every future conflict there is no plausible way to finish the conflict other than let the aggressor roll with it.

This might be the first time when a nuclear weapon is used offensively without being fired.
Looks like someone else already answered this better than I could have.
Lab leaks might be able to be avoided, it was human fault, also people really want to blame China so it's kind of wish fullfillment.
Punishing civilians for the actions of their dictator is a despicable form of victim-blaming.

Russia isn't a democracy. Ordinary people can't oust Putin because the rest of the world makes their lives difficult. This doesn't fix the problem.

Punishing his existing subjects because he's invading another country to acquire more subjects is despicable.
People can quote retweet or screenshot if they want to engage. This isn’t a locked account or one that has most of Twitter blocked or something, so they’re clearly not shutting everyone out.
This discussion makes me feel young again! :-)
Why is a national border at all the logical line to draw? I think per your argument I should get to decide you can't come into the state I live in, Colorodo.

You have a level of personal ownership of the space you live in that you don't have over the country as a whole. A country is not just a scaled up family.
The first illegal thing would be the act of making it in the lab, not the release, accidental or not.

Manslaughter need not have intent or motive. The actions or consequences that precipitate from powerful leaders of state who bio-engineer weapons (against the law) do not need murder-intent either.
After 32 years in the USA, I am still amazed that I have never, ever seen what Brits call "new potatoes" sold commercially anywhere. These are typically dug right out of the ground early in potato harvest season, and not cleaned. I've searched farmers markets and food coops ... nothing.
I know macOS opens the folder after hovering the icon over it for a second. I want to say BeOS did this, too, but it’s been a long time since I used it as my daily driver.
Fitbit recalls Ionic watch following skin burns
> will no longer be supported

On an completely unrelated note I'm sad to observe how corporate speech alters the language. I'm sure it's called "will be rejected" not "will no longer be supported".

I have an ancient smartphone that's "no longer supported" and it still works. I'm sure the message meant that Russian cards won't, but I guess as people got routinely scared to use anything but the vaguest terms it became a habit.
That's a good assessment on the choices you can pay for. I also think about how likely it is that the carrier will cancel or delay the flight, will it be a mess to get my money back if the flight gets cancelled or changed (even if the policies say it is allowed), and will the wifi work after I pay for it on long flights. Those things aren't covered by paying even more money and don't correlate with paying more for a flight.
This analogy does not work. Nuclear weapons technology and military doctrine has changed since the 1960s some people thought an effective first strike was possible, that is no longer the case and has not been for over a decade(decades?) to my understanding.

My main point here is not the nuclear thread, I am focusing on the fact that US security concerns outweighed Cuba's defense interests, they asked for the missiles after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. So while ideally every sovereign country should be free to decide whether or not they want to join NATO and which kind of military assets it wants to place there, I think one should not plainly dismiss Russia's security concerns about its neighbors becoming NATO members.

Maybe you think I am objecting to something I am not. I asserted your claim/statement was too strong. I objected to the claim that you know Putin's thought process about Ukraine joining NATO. In particular that it threatens Russian security. Claiming Putin's actions are consistent with your assertion is much stronger, but also leave open the possibility for other explanations, for Putin to have other motivations.

I am not claiming to know what Putin thinks, when I write »Putin considers Ukraine becoming a NATO member a security thread.« this is of course just a shorthand for »Considering everything I know, especially what Putin said and did, it seems to me the most plausible explanation that Putin considers Ukraine becoming a NATO member a security thread.«, nothing more, nothing less. I don't think anyone could reasonably mean anything else with a phrase like »Putin thinks« in this context, therefore I didn't think it is necessary to use really precise language.

But that also means that I am unwilling to accept a simple »But you might be wrong.«, »Politicians often lie.« or »Maybe he fears looking weak.« as a counterargument. Sure, they all might be correct and I know this, but I think assertions alone are not good enough. I have written quite a few comments on this topic today but I think there was only one good counterpoint, namely why does Putin not openly justify the war with those ignored security concerns and went instead with the protection of Russian in Ukraine? And if I am not misremembering, no one tried to make a different case for the primary reason, not for natural resources, not for Crimea and Sevastopol, not for actually protecting Russian minorities, not for the water supply to Crimea, not for an easier to defend western border, not for a delusional desire to return Russia to past power or enter the history books as a hero.
> Uses JavaScript, which is notoriously hard to test because of complex UI frameworks and difficult-to-mock APIs

It really depends. I’ve found testing JS/TS to range from “damn this is not worth automating” to “this is how it should be”.

Obviously UI frameworks may fall in the former category, but IME this is a place where JSX really shines: it’s an unopinionated DSL, perfectly fit to stub however you see fit. Much more complex is testing DOM and event loop behavior.

Server-side (non-presentational) JS/TS may be difficult to test, but that’s really more an accident of history than anything. It almost all depends on the Express API or something like it, and it’s damn near impossible to reason about at a unit level or as a statically analyzable system. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and I’ve developed complex systems without this problem, to the point unit tests provide enough confidence that few if any integration tests were of any value. Which in the article’s parlance means nearly all tests other than internal library code were testing pure logic functions or infrastructure functions. (I’m still sad I wasn’t able to open source this library code but a new implementation is on my side project list.)

> Set of patterns that refer to one another, providing mutual support

I first skimmed the article then re-read it, because I found this challenging as a reader trying to keep track of my cross-reference stack. It was better on a second pass, but I do think there’s an opportunity to inline some linked information at the expense of redundancy to minimize that, and to treat this format as more of a reference backing the article.
Restraining yourself from using your most powerful weapon especially if enemy uses his is not a sign of weakness but of strength.
When the API makes your query appear parameterized but it's not, then you may be the victim of attacks that work against non-parameterized queries.
There isn't really historical precedence for this, and this was sort of the idea behind strategic bombing which had the opposite effect.
Just ignore this guy, he’s a troll. The Cyphertrace thing he is referring to is 2 years old and EXTREMELY overblown. There is a an unclaimed bounty from the FBI to trace Monero transactions. Wouldn’t cyphertrace have claimed it if they actually could trace Monero transactions? The Monero community is very open about discussing the tech and its issues. They are near-pure technologists, not get-rich-quick-cryptobros.

The 51% “attack” he is referring to is that a mining pool briefly had over 50% of the total hash rate. No attack took place, and within hours miners had moved to other pools bringing the hash rate of the 51% pool down to the mid-30s%. I’ll also mention that the power of 51% attacks is largely overstated too, especially in a privacy coin like Monero.
Does anybody actually listen to these Bitcoin Pushers anymore??
Are you getting new features in that app every week?
I think that $1M is way to cheap to expect a taker.
The article repeatedly calls Anyonymous "an international hacker group", which is a misnomer. They might as well just write "the hackers" without further specification.

Anyone from anywhere can and will call themselves "Anonymous". It could be CIA, an actual ring of cybercriminals, or a teenager with access to a botnet.
People on different excel versions causing business errors is going to have an order of magnitude higher problem than libraries not being up to date. At least an old version of react will still work - and if it had an error, that error was acceptable at the time of shipping. Plus the developer is in charge of updating libraries, presumably with some forethought. A user updating their excel at their whim is uncontrollable and irreversible.
Ya, and the oil companies too are not simply pausing, but leaving large investments in the field.
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
> Why is a national border at all the logical line to draw?

A border is a line that has come to be agreed upon by the people on either side of it. And people on either side of those borders have the right to self-determination. You can't logic your way out of the desires of other people and how they choose to be governed.
Many free CI services have stopped being a thing because people exploited the free compute for crypto mining. That’s directly impacted a lot of developers at least.
Downplaying a potential source is a crime? That's silly, that's an over-reaction. You might disagree, but calling it a crime?
But they are holding the guns and working in the factories that build the bullets…
This and other cases of test-specific implementation code is also specifically called out under tradeoffs in the article FWIW.
https://video.disney.com/watch/sorcerer-s-apprentice-fantasi...
And has since June 2004 in MySQL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Milestones
50k-Year-old DNA reveals a critical shift in ancient human history
My LCD TV doesn't even have a digital tuner built in. I have a separate (also not internet connected) box to receive OTA digital TV. It's "HD" in the sense of 1366x768, I think. It's probably around 15 years old, barely used.

What would you pay for it?
Definitely does NOT fit in the toaster that way! :-)
It's not theatre, between this, and the trade disruptions, it's currently crippling the Russian domestic economy.

People at different levels of society are, of course, affected differently, but everybody's affected at this point. Even for an aristocrat, drinking moonshine in Krasnodar just doesn't have the same caché as Don Perignon in Paris.
The cast majority of Mac users do not buy software.
No, they're not. They fight that tooth and nail too.

The thing is, you can piecemeal road improvement, a lane here, a better interchange there, etc, so you're not facing too many NIMBYs at once. You can't do that with a new rail line.
Cost disease. Other countries have been completing public works projects of similar-or-larger scope for dramatically less than it costs here. How can anyone rationally accept $175 MILLION (pinky finger) for bridge planning?

There are two many people sticking their hands out in American projects.
There's relatively strong empirical evidence they aimed artillery at satellite phones in Syria.

https://www.rferl.org/a/marie_colvin_death_concerns_about_sa...
I wish this comment was pinned to the top of every Javascript discussion thread!
Have any of those been newly invented in the past <10 years?
Just want to point out there are options other than supervisord. You can even use systemd in a container, though I would avoid it. s6 and runit are both options.

Using something Python-based for this sort of thing makes me slightly nervous.
IMO more useful would be signing while image with verifiable timestamp. this could be used then to prove that some image is at least that old.
It could be useful when you expect that someone will try to alter it and publish it as original, you could then prove that your version is older therefore have to be original.
In January 2020 there was discussion on Chinese Social Media about lab conditions at the plant, and that it came from there. There were multiple quality sources about it. There ended up being a crackdown on discussion about this from China with several people being taken away.

I've always considered that a reasonable and boring explanation for the source, and I've seen no reason to update that point of view.
There was due process. My understanding was because of the 1 week state of emergency they were explicitly allowed to do this. There were court orders ahead of time.
A lot (most?) of them are. Trojan, in Portland Oregon, wasn't. It left a bitter taste in the mouths of many Oregonians, especially the main population center of the state in Portland, to the point the basically banned it. Also a lot of Washingtonians were not happy that the leftover nuclear waste was buried up in their state as well as increased radioactive levels in the Columbia River detected since then, and higher than average deformation of fish. It was on the ballot year after year to get it closed down and finally leaked docs from the US NRC sealed the deal. I got to watch them blow it up! :)

> After 16 years of irregular service, the plant was closed permanently in 1992 by its operator, Portland General Electric (PGE),[3] after cracks were discovered in the steam-generator tubing. Decommissioning and demolition of the plant began the following year and was largely completed in 2006

> The Trojan steam generators were designed to last the life of the plant, but it was only four years before premature cracking of the steam tubes was observed.[citation needed] In October 1979, the plant was shut down through the end of the year for repairs.[14][15][16] The plant had an extended shutdown in 1984, with difficulty restarting.

> In December 1992, documents were leaked from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission showing that staff scientists believed that Trojan might be unsafe to operate.[26] In early January 1993, PGE chief executive Ken Harrison announced the company would not try to restart Trojan

> In 2005, the reactor vessel and other radioactive equipment were removed from the Trojan plant, encased in concrete foam, shrink-wrapped, and transported intact by barge along the Columbia River to Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, where it was buried in a pit and covered with 45 feet (14 m) of gravel, which made it the first commercial reactor to be moved and buried whole.[31] It was awaiting transport to the Yucca Mountain Repository until that project was canceled in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Young girl returned after kidnapping by man she met on Roblox
Theoretically there could be a zoom that is an F/1.2, the issue would be the size and expense to manufacture ruins any possible commercial viability.
Well if everyone agrees to stay on their side of the line refugees wouldn't be an issue. Clearly some people want to walk over the line. Why do you think their wishes are less valid?

The main argument for your position boils down to "their ancestors had less military power, so they should live less desirable places". You can justify that with some logical systems, but not the one you're using (self-determination).
Well, Hypertrophy is not going to help most ppl. Cause of the layer of BF. So I would lean towards fat loss
Did you check out the anonymity properties of Bisq and localcryptos?
Anyway, cholesterol is an indicator, not a cause. If you do stuff to add cholesterol to your bloodstream, you just muddy the signal. Your liver produces cholesterol according to what it perceives a need for.
I tried this a while ago and couldn’t for the life of me get it right.

At some point I decided to stop wasting my time and ruining bagels and just ate them as they were :)
I really dislike this trend... My parents own a robotic vacuume cleaner, which also requires you to login to companies servers before you can unlock all the functionality.

I'm of the opinion that a device should be as independent as possible.
Maybe to achieve special functionality you can implement a remote but that too should work as independently as possible.

Anything more then this is just a sin, anti-consumer behaviour.

There is absolutely no reason why must login to a server that's on the other side of the planet just to tell the vacuume cleaner to clean only a part of my room...

The problem is that the majority of people don't care and they'll just buy a new device/robot cleaner once the company turns their servers off, because let's face it we're still very fast away from a law that would force companies to open source their stuff before they shutdown everything for good.

This kind of behaviour is just making the e-waste problem worse...
> spontaneous populist expression

That is almost the definition of the "hacker group Anonymous". It / They are a swarm of swarms of undefined individuals who join these various swarms based on their own ideologies, motivations, availability, skills, and current level of life boredom.

This is it's greatest strength: if it hits "viral internet meme" popularity, it can actually achieve a productive level of coordination / chaos with no specific 'head' that can be cut off.

It's also it's greatest weakness: As you've described, the ability to (mis)attribute blame, ie. "state cyberattack disguised as ..." because there is no cohesive group to need the reputation points of claiming responsibility.
>still no tea at the end of it

Oh, that's easy. Just drop the "no tea" and you will have tea.

If you prefer to have tea and no tea at the same time, just remove your common sense.
Virulence is not the only parameter. Damage caused by the disease is obviously more important. And in that case Sars-Cov-2 is way overpowered compared to previous coronaviruses.

That virulence (contagiousness) is also evidence though. Yes, an airborne respiratory viruses needs to be more contagious than other types, and a more contagious virus needs to be less deadly, or natural selection is going to do its thing (people die before spreading it). Sars-COV-2 was LESS contagious and more deadly than a typical respiratory virus. That is called evidence.
So he came back but Discord is still going to shit the bed very soon - don't see what's changed.

>I attempted to discuss the impact of the decommission with Discord, and while they acknowledged my concerns, they gave me no guarantees that the decommission date would be postponed. discord.py remains the 2nd most popular library in the ecosystem. If the decommission goes ahead as planned, it will be a far more catastrophic blow to the ecosystem than the original privileged message intent requirement. In order to minimise damage of this change, I felt like the library needed to be updated.

Why does he feel the library needs to be updated if it will again break very soon by Discord shutting people out?

I don't get it.
Their choice might be Ukraine leveled and tens/hundreds of thousands more dead or take the deal
Why comparing Zig with Nim, though?

I think Nim has quite nice standard library and production-ready.
Zig, on the other side, is still highly experimental.
> The Times made a heat map that ignores the human cases and just plots the stall samples (I’m not totally sure why would you do that?), and then the finger points really squarely at a specific stall that sold live animals.

This would ignore the fact that testers would over-sample points of interest. If you got some positive tests in some location, you concentrate your probing there. You would need to also display the probing density.

Unfortunately I cannot see all of the article, it's not ideal that pay-to-read articles are posted here.
I’ve read this years prior. I don’t see how it’s relevant to this article. But if a whole book’s premise is invalid because of some bored dude wrote an article, then so be it.
Visa, MasterCard suspend operations in Russia over Ukraine invasion
Interesting, the linux desktop landscape has moved on the opposite direction. Still has a long way to go but has been improving consistently. I often see windows users using aberrations to read PDF's with ads and trying to persuade the user to join an online service like foxit or adobe. On linux, evince has gained very discrete features over the years but works very very well, actually better than before; it probably eats a bit more memory because of the newest libs. Okular is on the same direction but is more feature rich, not surprising considering the KDE heritage.

The pdf reader scenario is just one of many cases the desktop on other OS's became a vector to spread ads while the linux has only improved over time. Considering the popularity of android, it has the same problems as windows in terms of apps being just a way to spreads ads; fortunately f-droid saves me from these.

So, I hope things will continue to improve on the FLOSS desktop. Hope it brings more users too.

With regard to the electron apps... With 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, I really don't care that much about the performance loss. It feels a bit inconsistent sometimes, but I like to know that I'm using the same app as my colleagues on other OS's.
You raise a goood point, deaths by knife do approach (checks notes) a rounding error on the number of auto deaths.
>this was the only option our builder offered

I don't understand this. Couldn't they leave an empty space?
Fascinating. Those with more medical knowledge, what implications might this have for people with circadian rhythm disorders (e.g. N24, DSPD)? I personally don’t see much of a connection, but then again I’ve never been to medical school ;-)
From my upper posts, it seems like 'organic' only permits ethylene gas for potatoes. As it's a simple gas, I'd have less worry about it.

I kinda thought potatoes would be.. uhhh... sacred and not need much for longer-term storage, but I guess I was wrong.

I still don't buy organic, but I like growing my own stuff, even though it's technically not organic since I'll use fertilizer...
Very. They (China, Russia, India) are calling it "the multi polar world". Knocking swift, visa, mastercard and the dollar out of every country they can has been a goal for years, and now they are handing it them on a plate. Sigh.