skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is analogy is an over-vilification of the Russian people, but I do think it helps bring the intricacies of this into perspective:

Imagine there's one big bully in a schoolyard playground, alongside the one kid who is singled out. All the other kids (freely) choose to follow the bullies' lead and, at the very best, join in by ostracizing the victim. Who is in the wrong in that scenario?

The best thing Russian people can do is render Putin the king of an empty kingdom, and that was always the solution. Sure, there are hundreds of thousands, to millions and tens of millions of people (depending on where the poverty line is in Russia) for who that isn't an option. Equally so, those people wouldn't have been able to lift Putin's empire into what it is today. There would rather be no expertise for nukes, nobody to architect oil pipelines, and a terribly demoralized and disloyal army. Russia is has aspects of a developed country because of the fantastic people that live there.

Stop paying taxes to dictators, narcissists, and megalomaniacs.

We should widely open borders to Russian refugees and defectors. Patriotism is the love of a country, not a dictator.
Waste from the point of view of the human labor and non renewable natural resources (e.g. fertilizer, fossil fuels) expended to bring the food to your hands.
What’s industrial home control?
Anyone who ran across the border and hoped to get their savings from inside Russia once out were naive (or more likely just in a hurry). This is one of few good use cases for cryptocurrency.
What's their verdict on the probability that it's a lab leak?
Online "news" has gotten to the same point with me as TV "news": I basically don't believe anything anymore ... it's all just noise. One thing might make more sense to me personally, but if the power-that-be have decided that's not the "right" thing, then I'm labeled a conspiracy theorist.

So I just believe what makes sense to me. I'm probably wrong as often as right, but that would be true if I tried to make sense out of today's news too.
> by posting supporting "evidence" for an article written by a guy with a fascist agenda.

I compare sources with opposing biases because I believe it helps to parse out what's true and what's not. Bellingcat is absolutely in opposition to the Gray Zone line, I suggest contrasting their reporting on Syria for proof of this. That both of these sources are agreeing on these claims suggests there is some truth there. If you think that ignoring it is simply the most convenient thing for now, that's at least a more honest opinion than blanket denial and willful ignorance of independently verifiable facts. The latter is far more helpful to fascism than whatever you think you're accusing me of.
I haven't heard that before. I figured most of the fallout was actually the product of fission. Which should still be the same in the air.

But if fallout is the product of irradiated soil, then things are different. Would love to learn more.
I'd doubt there's huge money being made by Amazon, but if they give a profit cut to one or two companies that make products AWS offer as a hosted service, then a bunch more will probably also start changing their licensing to match. Putting resources into building an alternative that discourages this is probably not as much as it might appear (there are already plenty of developers at Amazon, and it's unlikely they're all working on other things that need to take priority), so it may be a good investment.
Urban rail is one of the few things where "if you build it, they will come" is actually true, so Marin's population would almost certainly be much larger today if it was connected by BART.

Whether that's a good thing is, of course, a separate question.
>Do you not have the ability to lease a static IP from the ISP for a nominal amount? From my experience this is always an option even on consumer lines.

Where I live (US), most ISPs won't give you static IPv4 addresses unless you are on a "business" plan. Beyond that, you also have to pay for those static IP addresses (it's ~US$25/month for 5 static IPv4 addresses, with one of those wasted because I'm forced to use the ISP's router, even though I already have one).

Perhaps where you are, static IPv4 addresses are available on "consumer" plans, but here not so much.
Not really. PRC war/political plans for TW has always assumed worst case scenario of US intervention. Any TW plan is a US deterrence plan foremost, which if successful opens up various options for TW from blockade to full out invasion. TW can be dismantled at leisure as long as PRC can deter US.

The real question is whether PRC will take "half measure" options off the table and skip straight to leveling the island. UKR military improvements since 2014 thanks to western support is basically the porcupine model US has been pushing on TW. As was expanding US/NATO security architecture to trigger current "fighting to the last Ukrainian" strategy. Which has has pushed RU from "special operations" that would have spared most of the population to scorched earth. We'll have to see if UKR/TW thinks that's worth it once frank appraisal occurs when/if this war ends. This could very be a decade long war that turns most of Ukraine into Yemen. Except much harder for TW as an island not self sufficient in anything to support a prolonged insurgency.

In the meantime, PRC has learned that US/NATO will not interdict directly when you have 6000 nukes instead of just 300. That most of major non-west resource exporters have remained neutral. There's also opportunity a prolonged war will divide US attention across Atlantic again. Better to push sooner when US military has not pivoted and TW is still at UKR 2014 levels of ill preparedness - many of potentially lessons and developments that could push TW scenario sooner instead of delay it.
It's the other way around, isn't it? Having public transit would have allowed more people to move out of the city while commuting there for work. Analogous to what happened with the subway in New York, which made outlying boroughs accessible.
As opposed to journalists, who would never keep an exciting story running despite weak evidence.
That’s a bit of a catch-22 because part of the reason the county is isolated and small is because there are few good commuting options to the rest of the bay where most of the work is there.

If they added BART there, the potential for adding density would make more sense. Obviously other factors like terrain and NIMBY-ism play roles as well, but you don’t need to reject all rail options within reach of a major metro just because people don’t live there yet.
I worked in credit card acquiring business (implemented credit card application for the terminal).

Cards with Mastercard or Visa logo can still work without Mastercard or Visa processing the payments.

Obviously, they do work in ATMs.

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.

But that would still mean that the system would be cut off from the rest of the world -- cards issued by Russian banks would not be valid outside of the new system. Cards outside of Russia would not work because it cannot communicate with Russian system. And cards issued outside of Russia would not work inside Russia for the same reason -- the transaction would not be possible to authorise across the border.
Thanks for implying I don't know what an economic sanction is. I do not believe this is part of the economic sanctions announced by gvts. This is a private initiative.
It is partially banned/restricted for companies only. Personal transactions do work well. However, there 12% tax on buying currencies on currency exchange for both companies and personal accounts
I see this logic for javascript, css, and fonts, but is it still worthwhile to host image files on a CDN if your site has a lot of high-resolution jpegs?
This is only possible because Russia is the first clear and acceptable Bad Guy since WW2 Germany.

There are very few gray areas about what they are doing in Ukraine, so everyone is firing with everything they've got. Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction someone called them.
If you are talking about the Butler Lampson talk that Alan Kay mentions, I would also be interested if anyone has found this somewhere ...
Aphantasia (and how not to do math in your head)
As far as I know, yes. I think (though I am not sure) that hacker news was a sort of test for the arc language.
The worst thing, that you don't mention: China has a much stronger economy than Russia. Currently we're cutting Russia from almost everything, but still (as silently as we can) buy its gas - because it would be very hard for us to stop buying it.

Cutting off China? That would hurt both sides to the point I doubt it's even possible... But then again I wouldn't expect cutting Russia the way we did was possible. Still, even individuals boycotting China would probably hurt more than Taiwan is worth?
> The only alternative is no viewfinder at all, just the back screen, but this can't be done because sports and wildlife photographers will always require an eye piece.

I'm curious about what makes the eye piece a requirement for these particular photographers (and if/how it could be done away with).
Downplaying the lab leak is dangerous, because it is the difference between an accident and mass murder. I think the best evidence for a lab leak is common sense.

https://dispatchito.substack.com/p/the-strongest-evidence-of...
Yeah, that's what I will probably do. However, this doesnt sound secure, and some providers do check if card holders equals to account owner
Yeah, see my comment explaining why. Basically corrupt f*ks did it.
>> There's no guarantee that what replaces Putin is going to be more Western and not reactionary.

Who is assuming that's what is going to happen?
Pretty much all of Russia's liquid cash is in physical gold and bills, it'll be interesting to see how that's getting moved and used.
And how do you pay them back?
Deepmind: Learning Robust Real-Time Cultural Transmission Without Human Data
>The benefit for Microsoft of Chromium Edge is they get to outsource development

They also wanted to get superior compatibility. While the old edge was quite a bit better than IE, it still feel short.
Since the war started, and the repressions inside Russia tightened (e.g. news stations being taken off air for calling this war a "war"), a lot of us Russians including myself have been fleeing the country, fearing for our safety. Now Visa/Mastercard have left us all without access to money.

If I were more of a conspiracy type, I'd say they and Putin are on the same side now.
Same literature, different assumptions on how easy it is to predict cashflows or how to even go about it. A DCF is after all, discounting future cashflows.

If it's all as simple as you say - really - just go start a hedge fund. You can start an LLC in a day, throw some money into a brokerage account and be up and running. There are still plenty of LPs who will invest in a simple long only fund, even with vol, as long as the performance is good.
One possible solution is to buy the cheapest, low-power wifi hub you can find. Plug it in and DO NOT connect it to the internet. Then make this wifi network the target for all your "I wish they were dumb" appliances.

EDIT: assuming that the appliance only insists on wifi connection and not internet connection.
War is an insane situation! I’m a strong proponent of corporate neutrality in general, but if it were Microsoft who shot thousands of people last week, Mastercard would have long since cut them off and there'd be no surprise or concern about it.
They are not true believers. They will believe what is on the TV.

If you start running new propaganda - they will start believing it.

And you don't need a western-oriented government in russia. All that is needed is to remove one psycho, after that things will mostly go back to normal after russia compensates all damages and returns all territories.
And having a firearm to protect your life in that rare situation is still important…

The police are the cleanup crew, those first 5-10 minutes you’re on your own.
If some event doesn't have a direct personal effect on you, it's probably nothing you need to know about or be concerned with. If it does have a direct personal effect on you, you'll find out about it without being told.
I got to stay at home with my parents through the pandemic and watched them become increasingly old and misled in real time as they attached themselves to the US alt-conservative news, called the mainstream sources "fake", but still watched both, one in adoration and the other out of spite. This trend was evident before, but simply accelerated by the fact that they were not out in the world in any real sense as an actor engaging with specific consequences. They used to participate a little bit in comments threads on the local paper, posting cherry picked sources for their views with the assertion "I'm just providing information". Then the comments section closed down, so they stopped. Now they just spend two or three hours of each day rabidly agreeing with each other that the world is insane and someone or some conspiracy is to blame. Any suggestion that they should try to disengage a little is met with the justifications of addiction.

But I have an aunt who is slightly older and rebuffs attempts to broach political discussion. And she is, so far as I can tell, stable and content with things, even after the passing of her husband. I recall visiting when I was young and the husband carefully managing the TV remote to mute commercials - there was a definite control over exposure and conscious decisions about faith that my own parents would never attempt and only enacted on us children haphazardly.

With people of roughly my generation, I can see the long-term indoctrination creeping up as they settle into careers. It comes and goes more easily early in life, for sure. By eighteen you're molded roughly into whatever society said you should be, and the onset of that is precisely the thing that makes so many teens commit suicide, and so many others foot soldiers to some ideology. But afterwards things become a little more self-inflicted, built off subconscious voices trying to justify how you ended up where you are. Many people do make a break away into "standing for something" that can take them away from the political sphere and engage with life in a more concrete way like my aunt. The terrified, reactionary elderly, I think, never got there, and ended up in a place where they have no pursuits or rules of conduct that would ground them and make them reconsider their concerns about new information. Once you're attached to bad ideas and you have a media source to reinforce them, all your energy starts going to their defense and you have nothing left for yourself - you just hate everything all day and your personal decline only motivates going deeper and rejecting friends and family; additional socialization by itself doesn't do it, it leads to "drama at the dinner table" as the entire conversation is pulled towards their topics of choice; every word out of their mouth inevitably leads back to their attachments. It's really on society to cut off the supply and deescalate, but for now, the war continues, I suppose.
I think the point the gp was making was with regards to sanctions from private entities. My note here is that while the scale of private entities sanctions currently is novel, they themselves are not, e.g. boycotts have happened in the past many times.
>Technocrats want to (micro) manage everyone's usage of everything.

From Collins English dictionary: "A technocrat is a scientist, engineer, or other expert who is one of a group of similar people who have political power as well as technical knowledge."

I think you're conflating 'technocrats' with 'greedy people'.

I'm not saying people with technical knowledge and political power cannot be evil. What I'm saying is it doesn't require any special skill to be really greedy.
The screen exists so the thermometer can tell you to download the app.
>Both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).

That's very interesting.

If only those folks could get to Putin and put an end to this war.
> Only some basic functionality is available without the app.

What functionality is lacking without the app?
Under a foreign flag: Canadian veterans explain why they're fighting for Ukraine
Why do you conflate Putin with the Russian people?

Sanctioning oil and gas would end a direct war subsidy to Putin. Broad sanctions against the people of Russia don’t do nearly as much to stop the war as simply not buying petroleum-chemicals to fund Putin’s war chest.

The Russian people are no more to blame here than Republicans who voted for George W Bush before he waged a war of aggression and killed 500k Iraqis based on a lie about WMD.

In fact, the Russian people are less responsible than those Republicans since the US is supposed to be a democracy and Americans still have fair elections to vote unpopular candidates out.

The only crime of the Russian people is the accident of being born inside her arbitrary borders.

We should stop dehumanizing and punishing an entire population for the unconscionable actions of their authoritarian leader.
> I think the best evidence for a lab leak is common sense.

The best "evidence" for Newtonian physics (as opposed to General Relativity) is common sense. Common sense is not evidence.
The crux of the problem should be the grave injustice IF it was indeed lab generated and leaked. That is why I refer to it as a Lab Genesis, not a leak. The mere downplaying of the possibility is criminally insane.
It is not pseudo security. A secure booted system that can only load signed software is the optimal solution for preventing unauthorized code from running. iOS on iPhone/iPad is a great example where you can be sure nobody can insert themselves into the OS unless it is signed by Apple.

There is nothing in Secure Boot that prevent people from running their own software. You can update the Secure Boot DB/DBX with whatever you want. Yes, the certificates expire - my computer was bought 4 years ago and Microsoft's UEFI CA will expire in 4 years. At that point I will probably have bought a new computer, but if I have not, I can update the certificate to the new one they released.

Secure Boot is very much an improvement over non-secure booting, and Authenticode signing is an extension of that security to enable signed-only software to run.
Maybe but it’s the constant updates to Java which do my head in.
> but I can't help but feel if you can't deal with the attention appearing/posting things publicly gets you

Deal with it by not being female, maybe?

I mean, I think your idea makes sense in principle. But the nature of the attention is not irrelevant: there is good data that shows that women encounter both the lion's share of online abuse, and also much worse abuse on every level than men, even on non-gender-related topics.

The raw truth of the world is that women in any sphere of influence but perhaps particularly in science and politics get so much more abuse of so much more vile a nature, that we should probably be forgiving of their wish to ultimately just be able to speak without having it shoved in their faces.
Big fan of matrix. Run a server on my RPi.
Or have they been? "Unplugged" is a good metaphor, for they currently control the vast majority of energy to all of Europe[1]. We're turning Russia into a gigantic version of North Korea, and with the same major ally, China. What happens if Russia diverts its gas sales to China -- it's Europe that'll be unplugged.

1. https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5701h.ct003365/?r=0.025,0.336,...
You could also do this with an iPhone hotspot- although the connected device _will_ have Internet access. Not sure if that's a problem for an oven or not.
But those are standardized too, and definitely not something a builder would demand you buy.

Usually you buy a house/apartment here, and then you buy a kitchen separately, and they ask you if you want a standard oven or a built-in one, and they leave a hole for either... I guess you can buy an oven with them too, and they install it, but you can definitely buy any standard sized one, and just screw it in, eg:

https://www.mimovrste.com/pecice

https://www.mimovrste.com/i/17170441/550/550 <- example diagram

You also need a separate cooktop for the builtin variant, but they can cut out a hole for that too (sizes are pretty much all standardized)

A lot of people still use standalone ovens+cooktops, eg: https://www.mimovrste.com/stedilniki/gorenje-kombinirani-ste...
> Wagner mercenaries in Kyiv have sustained losses during their attempts and are said to have been alarmed by how accurately the Ukrainians had anticipated their moves. A source close to the group said it was “eerie” how well briefed Zelensky’s security team appeared to be.

I wonder where the leak is and whether it is silicon or carbon based.
> It would be one thing if Visa/Mastercard were being forced to do this, but for them to take it upon themselves to "pick a side" during a global conflict feels really wrong.

Maybe they were forced. In any case, it really sucks.
This [1] is probably not the talk you have seen, at least I would not describe Chomsky as furious in that clip. But I was not aware - maybe I once knew and forgot - that removing the missiles from Turkey was not really a concession but planned anyway because they were obsolete.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUUgYQASfI
> The permutations of different CDNs and asset versions meant the cache hit rate was low anyway.

A CDN with DCs in a number of locations and appropriate DNS setup at least has the advantage of local delivery which can have more than zero significance if you have an international audience and you really need low latency.

But if you are in that category then you probably won't (or shouldn't) be loading a bunch of stuff from a CDN or otherwise. And I wouldn't source script from a 3rd party anyway, I never saw the security tradeoff as worth it.
Please do not use crypto no matter how tempting it is to join the Ponzi scheme as I said before and many other critics like Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl), Molly White (@molly0xFFF) (@web3isgreat creator) and more reliable critics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512981

Please try use Paypal with a VPN or in another country, Moneygram, Western Union or use cash, better yet use Transferwise (Wise) or buy gift cards to get your money out.
At the time of the Iraq War I thought US mainstream media were nothing more than bloodthirsty warmongers, liars, and dogs of the state [1]. I still hold a grudge against them TWO DECADES later for the lies and war propaganda they spread during this time.

I mean I'm ultimately against banning media, I linked to RT a few days ago to make a point about the propaganda they spread, back at the time of the Iraq War I was a huge Jon Stewart fan and watched him every night just crap on that bad ol' media using clips from the media and you can't really do that effectively while banning that same media. However, I've got to say, I don't think banning American Media in the early Bush era would have been a preposterous idea. I mean at the end of the day the US media succeeded in selling that war to the "coalition of the willing". US war propaganda is probably more dangerous than Russian war propaganda because it's more sophisticated in the way it manufactures consent and has this veneer of journalistic freedom.

[1] A wiki article that summarizes popular criticisms of US media from this time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War
Evidence is not proof. There is lots of evidence.

A hypothesis is not a theory. Being loose with language and concepts is dangerous.