skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia is seizing foreign currency reserves (effectively, by forcing conversion to the ruble) held by average Russian citizens. These sanctions are going to be a bad time for them. There are no military options so what else can you do? Still, we shouldn't forget that sanctions are a form of collective punishment that disproportionately affect average citizens.

My faint glimmer of hope here is that the West finally takes actions to stop enabling oligarchs and they can start with denying them real estate in Western urban centers (primarily London and NYC). The UK too could enforce disclosure of who the beneficial owner is for an LLC, something they're meant to do but are incredibly lax about.

The US in pareticular seems to be compltely fine with civil forfeiture (which, for the record, is a disgusting practice that targets people who can't fight back). The least we could do is seize the assets of oligarchs, particularly when identified as having enriched themselves from state theft.

I'm not that hopeful.

As for the Russians trying to escape, I would too, just like I would if I were in Ukraine right now. Best of luck to both groups.
Boundless good will come of it from the perspective of the people running the system. Just abandon the idea that the system exists to help you or make society better.

this sounds like a fantastic tool to use psychiatric diagnosis the way it's supposed to be used: as a science-shaped cudgel with which to beat inconvenient members of society.

Remember that time in living memory when homosexuality was in the DSM. Now picture that but with machine learning able to pick out the gay posters online.
There may be reasons other than believing his horseshit but those are generally even more egregious than simply being stupid.
Historically, if the news wasn't good or the situation needed a larger boot to step on people then martial law was taken out of the cupboard to control the population. With 8000+ Russian protestors arrested, a ban on factual news, lots of other restrictions put in place and so on talk of martial law is not all that strange.

Maybe for you it is strange, but for me it is a fairly logical next step in a series of domestic escalations. The same happened in Poland in the 80's in response to the Solidarity movement, authorities used it to be able to use the military against their own civilians. Not that that worked, but that's besides the point, they did in fact try.

And just like with the invasion being a total fabrication of the West right up to the point that it was a fact you could of course do the same thing with martial law.

But some elements of martial law are already present today, some more may follow and who is to say when it becomes enough to say that it actually happened? Would you be satisfied with 8000 people jailed and a ban on the media to report the facts or will it take a Russian army battalion shooting at protestors? Maybe some kids protesting the war jailed? Oh, sorry, that already happened. Or do you believe that is Western propaganda?
This was a very nuanced take, and mentioned some things that western media refuses to mention.
Literally billions of people rely on glacial meltwater which will eventually run out. Yes it is technologically feasible to provide the whole world with desalinated water, but it is also technologically feasible to provide the whole world with renewable energy and for some reason we haven't done that either.
Well, it doesn't use Electron, it uses tauri, which doesn't bundle chrome but uses the native browser and is therefor much smaller, faster und more lightweight.
Also pipelines are already proven via oil and natural gas. You can transport oil from remote areas in Canada to western Texas with little effort.

Very trivial to extend the idea to routing water from any of the thousands of lakes in Canada.

Vegas had a plan to do just that (though from Reno). These ideas aren't pursued because water is not scarce enough for them to be economically justified yet. If the time comes, they will do it and likely cheaper than you think.

If renewables eventually take over, we can even repurpose the existing oil pipelines. Likely need to widen them, but much cheaper than land use/zoning legal battles.
Ukraine is one of the world’s bread baskets and produces roughly 12% of supply. If they miss the planting season because of war it’s going to have a long lasting effect, and you can’t plant again until next spring.
Ok, but your comment failed to disambiguate those two levels. That is, it could be read either as a point about partisanship (which is what you intended), or it could be read as a garden-variety partisan swipe. When there's an ambiguity like that, the flamebait interpretation always wins out in the mind of the median reader, which is what determines the expected outcome of the thread. Therefore, the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
>Fleeing the country is a strong peaceful revolt on the other hand

No, it just ensures that the only people left in Russia are the ones who support Putin.

And like I said, Ukrainians have no choice. Why should Russians? As another poster said, even autocracies need a certain level of support to operate. It's not fair to punish Russians but their country is literally waging a full scale war while threatening the west with nukes. They can stop it.

Or we can all wait until Kyiv looks like Grozny, millions have died and we're sacrificing the Baltic states to "prevent nuclear war"...
Billions of Chinese? The PRC only has 1.4 billion people or so.
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Clean water in the right location can certainly be scarce. If a large population is close to the limit and unusual weather or some other event causes a shortage, I'm not sure how long a quick fix like trucking it in would be sustainable.
Facebook never bent to apease anyone you are confusing facebook with Google
Russia is an interesting case because.

* their capitol is also their largest city. 10% of all russians live in Moscow.
* If just 1 or 2 million of the 11 million people of moscow went downtown to shake keys in protest, something would change.
* The protest does not need to immediately change things. Simply it sends a message. And by shaking keys it sends a message of peace but also of dissatisfaction.
Who is to say Putin isn’t deposed by somebody even more ruthless than himself?
I mean obviously if you use something like solar or wind it will not produce CO2 so any CO2 your process extracts will be a net gain. If you use it to make ethanol that then gets burned you’ll just be putting CO2 back into the air. If you make construction bricks with it, you won’t.

Solar can also be used to heat things more directly than first converting to electricity (and taking a big loss on that), but then you really are subject to when the sun shines. But if you put your facility in a desert in Arizona you’ll probably do quite a bit with a set of mirrors used to heat specific objects.
The post says there is no E2EE at the moment. They're probably talking about signalling, since with the current implementation of full mesh you get E2EE 'for free' in WebRTC.

Also the post mentions: https://2021.commcon.xyz/talks/extending-matrix-s-e2ee-calls...
Propaganda Techniques
> Sorry, but no, we don't.

https://www.praguemorning.cz/expressing-support-for-russia-o...

https://spravy.rtvs.sk/2022/02/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagand...

I don't see any difference.

> You are either unaware of what cancel culture means or you are changing the subject.

Of course I'm aware what does it means. I'm also aware of "deplatforming" and other ways to silence unpleasing speech. Which could be described as a single word: censorship.

> I think the repression of the free media in Russia is quite uniquely all it's own.

I thought the same until Europe started to ban Russia Today and other websites. And don't even tell me that it's different. It's a perfectly legal website which tried to present alternative view point. But West is too afraid that its citizens might believe to something other than official propaganda.

> It's the only country that I'm aware of where the head of state gets a dead journalist for their birthday.

Baseless accusations. I could say that western agents killed him. It's just as likely.
Why not just use FluffyChat?

https://fluffychat.im/
it's not North Korea YET, but it's pretty damn close right now.
Remember Belarus protests a year ago, Lukashenko lost the vote by something like 95%. Almost everyone went to protest against Lukashenko, but because he holds on military the protests couldn't do anything. When it comes to how much military Putin has, Lukashenko is not even close.
That's not a valid comparison.

Nobody tried to install nukes in Ukraine.
Yeah that's not how commodities with fixed production cycles work in the short term.
When you find yourself having to make a public apology for an old blog post in the future, you’re going to regret doing that. Or maybe a gen Z hacker that hasn’t been born yet will ransomware your business because you wrote an article today with a word that will become socially unacceptable in the future.

I have no delusions that my political opinions or writing style are original enough or convincing enough to change the world. So it’s all just risk for me. If I’m writing something on my blog, it’s probably a focused technical article with no politics and little to no humor.
I don't get your point since that is what "reconcilation" means. Here is yet another article supporting my claim: https://www.ft.com/content/ed40d675-16b3-4a35-a157-b9bf0078b... Do your own research to learn more.
The Obama book deal is more of a legal bribery than something people actually read
Didn't see any revolting Americans when the Iraq War was initiated.
Tauri + Electron (or Hydrogen) provides a lightweight cross-platform Matrix client that doesn't rely on Electron...

Meanwhile, Nheko, NeoChat, Fractal and others provide very usable lightweight native cross-platform Matrix clients too. Element is also working on its own experiments (TBA) based on matrix-rust-sdk.
I'm not really a power user but I have been editing on and off for well over a decade, so perhaps I'm part of the insider group you think is too powerful. That said, I don't share the perception that these problems are as bad or widespread as you say. There are certain topics, such as Middle East politics, where there's such a critical mass of people who are just there to push an agenda that to maintain order there need to be actual admin-imposed restrictions. And there are some topics where individuals or small groups keep the article's tone and content under tight control, but that's usually because the topic is obscure enough that few people are interested enough to force changes through. Popular or politically charged topics have so many people contributing that it's virtually impossible to create a Reddit-style echo chamber, more often the problem is articles that consist of a jumble of contradictory propaganda. I think overall Wikipedia works well: even on today's highly politicized topics like COVID-19 vaccines and Ukraine/Russia, on Wikipedia you can read about the dissenting views, not free from refutation but considerably more free from the blanket statements, false equivalences, and even self-censorship that the news media treats these topics with.

Of course, Wikipedia isn't apolitical: since the beginning it's been full of people who consider themselves critical thinkers and skeptics interested in spreading the truth as science tells it, which is itself an ideology that is necessarily opposed to political or religious ideologies which assert some truth that can't be refuted or proven by evidence, and of course to conspiracy theorists who openly detest science and expertise. So yes, people and organizations who make enemies of Wikipedia's ideology won't get nice or even 100% fair treatment in Wikipedia articles. Anyone who sees this as some new development due to recent political currents wasn't paying attention during the 2000s. If you see it as a problem, you're free to follow in the footsteps of widely mocked sites like RationalWiki or Conservapedia and create a wiki that favors your ideology instead. I think it's telling that even people who lean more left or right wing still rely on Wikipedia rather than those places.
Where do you get a complete list of spies and their activities if you do not work for covert operations government agency ala Edward Snowden?
It’s not only about revolting, but without a free press, economic sanctions are one way to get people to know that something is going on. Russian citizens may not even know what is happening, but when they suddenly can’t buy thing, when Apple Pay stops working, when costs skyrocket… that gets people to pay attention.
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I meant as an inquiry, I would love to see major publications spreading false information (such as Economist, NYT, etc.) and we can discuss about it, referring specifically to the claim of western propaganda against Russia. Not more generally.
> wont take much for this to fall again

Yes it will, as crops have a growing season. If it gets missed there is simply less wheat for everyone in the world for roughly a full year until the following growing season.
I am confused by your stance.

On one hand I do agree that there is a lot of propaganda on all sides, so one should be especially critical about data sources.

On the other hand, I think then that using Google Trends data for this is a pretty excellent source for this data, and a prime example of something that would be difficult to game. It's publicly available, so anyone can verify it. I guess a true conspiracist might think Google is faking the data, but that seems extremely unlikely and bizarre, given that there are whole swaths of terms you could search for to make similar points.

You may reach a different conclusion based on what a 4-5x increase in "Visa" searches means, but if anything this would be an example of data I would have a ton of confidence in.
And the fact that Moscow people would rather complain than do a simple act of walking downtown together..

* shows that Russian people think that Putin would not use his nukes.

Because if Putin would use his nukes.. isn't walking downtown and shaking your keys a much better outcome!?
This is going to sound rough, and I don't actually mean it personally. As i said, i have a lot of compassion that this isn't easy, and I'm not sure I'd have the fortitude to do it either, BUT. It is your responsibility that Putin is in a position where he CAN ramp up repressions. YOU are the power he wields, and it's you that have to resist him. Without a population to preside over, the president is nothing. Without an army to fire the tanks, the tanks are just hunks of metal.

Again, I don't want this to sound like a blame you. I understand that real life is more scary than some intellectual debate on HN, especially coming from a dude in western Europe, but philosophically I don't see who else holds the blame, because it's sure as hell not ONLY Putin.
Reply in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30568961
Putin was shaken up by Euromaidan and been preparing so it doesn't happen to him ever since.
Ukraine 2014 != Russia 2022.
Back then Ukraine even had free speech.
You can estimate the trustworthiness by analyzing the motives of the source. YLE is the Finnish equivalent of BBC. They have a record of being extremely trustworthy (this can be analysed retrospectively). Do they have a significant enough incentive to lie about this subject to throw that trust away? I see no such motive here, thus it's highly probable that the source is not intentionally lying. The same is true when it comes to the Finnish Government.
The typical solution to this is to create the message, publish its hash immediately, then publish the message itself at a later date.
I get it, dictatorship sucks, but the subjects of the dictator are the only people capable of dethroning him. The tanks aren't going to shoot themselves.
I don't think we've reached the point where the balance would tip. Yet. When you strike at the king you best not miss.
> This problem is too “cold” to resurrect today

How long ago was it? It may not be...
"As long as he controls the military protests can only do so much. "

Most succesful revolutions happened, when the military joined the protests. The military is made up of common people after all.

And it is hard to see through the fog of war from the distance - but my impression is, that the russian army fights very hesistant and with low morale and badly organized. And they are not welcomed as liberators. No matter the propaganda, they will come home one day and share their stories.

I wish you all the best, that you can return one day and manage till then.
With Thunderous Applause.
The usual route from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Eastern seaboard is over Norway and Greenland, but since the EU airspace is closed to Russian flights, the routes to e.g Cancun, Punta Cana, Porlamar, etc. have to take a detour over Kola Peninsula and the fly over the Atlantic parallel to the North American coast. The detour adds maybe 30 minutes to the flight time.

The reciprocal closure of Russian airspace over Siberia to European and US airlines has a bigger impact on cross-continental flights. The London-Tokyo has been trending in the news, since it's now 3 hours longer and has to go over Alaska, [but I think the bigger impact is on nonstop flights like Washington, DC - New Delhi. These must be completely non-viable now for US carriers.]

edit: Chicago - Delhi was not actually routed over Siberia and is only 1.5 hours longer now: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ua898
In Israel, use of desalination made more effluent suitable for irrigation. Before that, the effluent contained too much salt.

This isn't desalinating specifically for irrigation, but it is a source of water for irrigation that wouldn't exist without desalination.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-study-water-des...

Israel is not self-sufficient though; they import 80% of the grain they consume.
>> If everything normalized tomorrow, what would stop Russia and Ukraine from resuming wheat shipments?

The effects of war are not magically undone when the war ends.

If the war ended today, it would take Ukraine decades to recover. Pictures like these do not show the people whose lives have been shattered or lost:

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-invasion-before-and-after...

Similarly, the sanctions on Russia are only a symbol of the loss of trust and willingness to cooperate that many people throughout the world feel. How many years or decades will it take to build back that trust?
Why hasn't supply increased already?
there is a lot of fear mongering about nuclear holocaust wrt NATO joining the war etc., but this is incredibly far fetched even in a worst case scenario[1]. I don't say the nuclear threat is nil, but it's also not as bad as war-hawks pondering escalation scenarios or the media makes it out to be.

What do you think would happen to Putins daughters in London, to the family members of oligarchs, to anyone who carries the smell (shame) of a past support of that regime. Even enemies of the West will think twice and have no choice supporting the force that is stronger. (whether that's good or bad or if they like it or not)

anyway nobody knows anything about any of this even the ones who are supposed to be experts in it. so certainly don't take my word for it but do question it when they make it clean cut.

[1] assume RU does launch nukes without sabotage on their systems before, and 1 or 2 cities will be lost to nuclear holocaust. There will be immediate containment of many of the missiles not fulfilling their objective. This is a lot messier than the academic idea of a neat escalation scenario that ends in total annihilation of the human race including a nuclear winter.
Agreed! I use Prettier (driven by ESLint) in all my web projects (including enterprise clients', where I've helped introduce / improve / standardize tooling). IME it's a mistake not to use it.
From experience I can tell that one can get used to other people's styles and just work with that oneself. Unifying among an enforced style and sticking to it really reduces the amount of unnecessary discussions.

I genuinely feel that focusing a lot on the detriment of someone else's or an established code style is a sign of a lack of team work.
Or you could see it as "poisoning the well" - an approach so common and accepted that neither of you see it, apparently.

Although clearly a lefty news organization, I don't see the NY Times as a "wing" on that easy left-right spectrum we all seem to love. NYT has had many writers and done some excellent work along the way. In the aggregate their ideology is more in support of population density (cities), industrialism and technology - with some hostility towards more pastoral living, herding animals for food, etc.
This is a terrible use of the word multiverse. Perhaps it's for SEO reasons? "Multiverse" is a bit of a hot word lately.

That might be a good topic for a book: how search optimization effects language.
> Risking the life and property of thousands/millions mostly because of your own ego is irresponsible.

It’s irresponsible for Putin to have invaded Ukraine and directly causing thousands of deaths
My point was that YouTube seems prefer to erase historical events rather than promote a favored narrative of those events. That's interesting to me.

All this hub about right to publish is a non sequitur.
another interesting point

> slave labor

Can you be more specific?

Googling "Google slave labor" reveals a lawsuit from 2019 or so from folks whose children were injured & died in cobalt mines that big tech ultimately received refined cobalt from.

The case was thrown out[] because the companies were found to have just purchased refined cobalt down the supply chain, and the labor did not fall under the definition of human trafficking.

[] https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/11/federal-court-dismisses-...
This narrative of a military superpower having no choice but to invade much weaker neighbours because it's being bullied by them is non-sensical but has a lot of appeal to people. The inherent contradiction in the rhetoric of being so strong that you 're being victimized by much weaker parties was really perfected by Trump.
I think you asking the question wrong. It's "are the vast majority of people who are stabbed done so with a knife?".
Yuval Noah Harari: No matter what he does, Putin has already lost this war
>> My faint glimmer of hope here is that the West finally takes actions to stop enabling oligarchs and they can start with denying them real estate in Western urban centers

Recently, Italy seized real estate and other properties of Russian oligarchs and their lackeys, worth ~$150M.
Buttons based on a fretboard, triggered with pickups... Timers sounding off with chord progressions... Seems fun.
Should be normalised for pricing.

'Supply and Demand' is real, meat is expensive now and it definitely changes the equation a bit.
So in the initial beta we haven't turned on E2EE, purely because it will make it way harder to debug any problems which surface.

However, at this rate, things are looking pretty stable and i'd expect us to enable it in the next few weeks. It uses normal Matrix E2EE, which means a Double Ratchet between the pairs of devices participating in a given conversation, which is then used to secure the signalling which is used to set up the calls between the devices. The call media is transport-layer encrypted via DTLS and SRTP, so as long as the signalling with the DTLS fingerprints is secured by Matrix E2EE, the whole call fabric will be E2EE.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/pull/2002 is the PR we actually need to merge in order to enable E2EE on it, ftr.
Right, if you were in power people fleeing over the berlin wall would have been shot from both sides, not just by the soviets. Cause they should have stayed inside and overthrown the soviet government. Same goes for north koreans, shoot them and send them back, let them fight the government.