skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how you arrived from "shooting a plane above Ukraine" to a "nuke in Poland".

And no, of course we don't have any guarantees either way. But just like Putin puts his troops in Ukraine and says "what are you going to do about it", I believe we should do the same thing back - impose a no fly zone above Ukraine and call his idiotic bluff, he knows what attacking NATO would mean for him too.
Didn't Ukraine already give up nukes for security assurances in 1994? And here they are being invaded by one of the signatories?!

Seems like nukes, NATO, or EU membership are the only way to be sure Russia won't invade, if you're a neighbor.
When it is hard enough to engage people on a lab-leak possibility, engaging on lab genesis is way beyond. If a lab leak can be established, then it will be time to consider the actual origin process: lab-propagated natural, or lab-produced. Even then, for lab-produced there are three reasonable alternatives: weaponized, incidental, or wholly accidental.

A weaponized strain would be designed deliberately to be indistinguishable from a natural origin, so there will be no proving that without documents or a confession. An incidental genesis would be an intentional chimera, produced just for research, that got loose. An accidental genesis would be very like a natural origin, but just in lab animals based on strains handled in the lab, maybe even mixed with a natural strain brought in by accident, even incubated unbeknownst in a lab employee.

Personally, I doubt we will ever know more than we do now. All four are possible, all four should be guarded against in the future. But guarding against weaponized viruses is arbitrarily hard. Russia probably still has casks of weaponized smallpox stored underground somewhere. US and China, too, possibly.
I’m in the process of culling/updating mine: codetaco.xyz
> Putin wants an isolated Russia and he appears confident he can mitigate dissent caused by putting the iron curtain back up. This is just playing into his hands and giving him exactly what he wants,

This logic led to embracing China in the hope that it will make them grow more liberal and democratic. Instead it led to US media/sports/gaming industry/etc kowtowing to China and apologizing to them in Mandarin.

The only solution is to contain the totalitarian world.

> Even if he pulls out of Ukraine tomorrow he will have succeeded in destroying any chance Russia ever had of joining the West

This is Russia's doing. We are only reacting. It's beyond ridiculous to blame the west when Putin is invading a free country and threatening us with nukes.
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Oh I believe you. I just expected that it had a limit. Also I believe the amount of streamed videos could be a factor too. Unless Russia is now equal to North Korea in terms of brainwashing.
There's some interesting info from Zemax on manufacture.

https://www.zemax.com/blogs/news/future-of-cell-phone-camera...

Coarse manufacture is fairly simple - you can just press out plastic blanks. The tricks are fine shaping and polishing. You can also use resin:

https://jp.mitsuichemicals.com/en/techno/feature/feature06.h...
I think that's the point where NATO should show restraint. To not respond to nuke with a nuke.

But before that, given the apparent weakness of Russian conventional army NATO should show no restraint and pay no attention to a single word out of Putins mouth.

Basically demand from Russian system of power to deliver war criminal mr. Vladimir Putin to Hague before talks can be resumed and Russia may have any hope of loosening economic sanctions.
Just because it is propaganda doesn't mean it won't have actionable information within it. It just means that you cannot shut off your brain and consume any of it - ever. Every last creator has an angle, even your good guys.

I'll use the Postman questions, because they apply to every piece of media, which is always at its base a technology:

1. “What is the problem to which this technology is the solution?”

2. “Whose problem is it?”

3. “Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?”

4. “What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?”

5. “What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?”

6. “What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is being gained and lost by such changes?”

You can ask these questions about every Wall Street Journal or New York Times article or opinion piece - or Vox or The Verge, wherever. It's not always a clean answer to each question, but the consideration itself is important. What is this person's argument, and how may this person or institution sponsoring this argument benefit from presenting this information this way? And it's not a "wing" thing - these questions need to be asked about your favorite writers and thinkers as well.
this rules. gonna try it out tomorrow morning!
I’ve been using https://typesense.org for the same reasons. They’re not taking investor money so I have more hopes they won’t start throwing everything behind the hosted version over timeS
Making potatoes less toxic? I don't find that depressing...
you've identified one of the key weaknesses of this general valuation approach.

trying to make forward-looking predictions extrapolating a decade or two out based upon backward-looking financial metrics may only make sense in situations where you have reason to believe that the conditions and dynamics that generated the past results will continue to persist for the next decade or two into the future (and it might not even make sense then)
If they stopped invading everyone nobody would hate them.
I agree but heirs don't tend to.
You realize that TASS is state-owned and just repeats the same propaganda that comes from Kremlin, don't you?

EDIT: To be more specific, the news I heard on Ukrainian media was that corridors were indeed open for a brief period, but fire started again almost at the moment when transports with refugees began moving, giving them no chance to leave.
Ok. So there's a war on, and I make a public post online advertising that I have a bunch of cash and I'd like to meet up to facilitate a trade...
That's not exactly "cheering on nuclear escalation" though. I'm against further escalation, but I'm also against the notion that even the slightest western intervention is immoral because it might anger Mr. Putin into starting a nuclear war.
Would developers stick to dedicating time for macos if apple took a smaller chunk?
> This would put the United States in the near-impossible position of having to choose between further escalation and compromising on the very principles that drove it toward the war in the first place—the right of a nation like Ukraine to be free and independent of subjugation to foreign rule.

Is this guy for real? Since when does the US hold a strong principle for the right of a foreign nation to be free and independent of subjugation to foreign rule? It's actively supporting perhaps the worst ongoing subjugation over several decades. Half decent writeup, but tarnished by the overt deification of the US.
>Why do you think NATO is an offensive alliance against Russia?

It was set up specifically to oppose Moscow.

It destroyed Libya.

It is an offensive alliance without question.

That doesnt excuse Russia, but Russia invading Ukraine doesnt excuse NATO either.
I'd send this message to Putin.
That site is half hypotheses made up by the author, and half irrelevant things like "this study proves that you won't die sooner if you cut 2 hours of sleep". Nothing in there indicates that sleeping less won't lead to less physical ability.

I only skimmed for references after the comparison with junk food, hunger, and cavemen. It truly sounds like they are making this up as they go along.
'Deterrent forces' are understood to be a nuclear threat. If you do not mean a nuclear threat, then you explicitly say so.
You sound kind of paranoid. Firefox’s security is fine.
Chechens with nukes. What could go wrong?
Weird? It’s the same as Trumpism. They see the same messaging over and over which is largely based on fear and hated and some people lose their minds. Luckily it’s not the whole populace.
USA is just a nation that invents their enemies and imbues them narratively with demonic power which they are later really too scared of to efficiently act upon in any manner.
You could say the same about the German citizens and WWII.
> If I were more of a conspiracy type, I'd say they and Putin are on the same side now.

Is MasterCard is bombing civilians?
Short answer: Ukraine surrenders. Long answer: Millions dead. People here no idea what is Putin thinking. He is hell bent to get Ukraine. When Russia did that 70 years ago, they don't mind 20mils to reduce Hitler's men to women child or old. Ukraine is far weaker than Nazi Germany. Plus, Putin can sponsor Iran and NK with massive nukes upgrade. He can also arm your average plane hijackers with that too. Zelensky surrenders will save many of us who are non-Ukrainian. The war in Ukraine will also stop. A couple of decades later, Ukraine can regain independence when there is a regime change in Russia. Putin not going to live forever but Ukraine can. I see so many people cheering for Zelensky are just ensuring death sentences for more civilians in Ukraine and also future terrorism-on-steroid victims. You all have gratifying emotional response to cheer for Zelensky, but logically to surrender is better outcome here even though extremely hard to do. Just go read Russian warfare doctrine. Never they do a short war. It is always war on attrition unlike American "mission accomplished" short war doctrine. There is no point talling ahypothetical fantasy not existing. We all know Western countries are reluctant to use nukes while Russia always will (read their doctrine and military training). Russia has bigger land and more obscure than western counterparts. In EVERY multiverse of nukes warfare, Russia always come out ahead (yes pyrrhic victory but still wins).
Waterpik, or some kind of analogous water flossing device. It's probably a sign of getting old, but I'm unironically excited about this purchase, even months after actually buying it.

I could basically never be bothered to floss the conventional way, but water flossing has become part of my nightly routine.

The amount of gunk that comes out from between your teeth even after brushing is pretty staggering.
can confirm and dont understand why this is downvoted
Sure, pure eugenics by genocide might be a quick fix. But how long does that last? You think radiation only affects those who fit your stereotyped profile?

What about all the opportunity to forgoe scorched Earth policies and work through compromise. You would think ending up with more supporters would be more self serving than making glass and gambling you can intimidate the left overs into ideological submission.
the problem with that is it would end up like the cobra bounty in india, which resulted people breeding cobras to turn it for the bounty. when their only allowed export is weapons they will make more weapons to export
> 'Cryptocurrencies' should not be used at all.

Why not? Are you allergic to them or something? Why can't someone transfer money using crypto if it benefits them to do so?
I have always had insomnia for 20+ years. It all started with becoming hyperthyroid and subsequently hypo (with radio iodide). I was able to bring it under control with cbt-i. But i find that if i have a special event (it could be a day trip, meeting etc) next day, i cannot sleep even a wink. And sure enough suffer the next day. The best i can describe the feeling when trying to sleep is either sitting in a tree branch and not trying to fall or driving and trying to stay alert. I have managed so far, but i am not able to sleep before any job interview while i am trying to change job. (all the leetcode questions are not helping)
You're not the only one, https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb0...
I call bullshit on this. All you have to do is visit a supermarket anywhere to see it. Go to restaurants. Maybe 1 in 10 cut back on their meat consumption ( and even that should be met with skepticism ) but the idea that 1 in 10 don't eat meat sounds like so many outrageous vegan propaganda on social media.

Meat production has been increasing in the US through 2019.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Meat_Animals_PDI/l...

Don't have pandemic numbers and I'm sure the pandemic put a dent in it, but 10%, come on.
It’s probably not worth it to put some government agency’s page behind a ddos mitigation service before an actual attack. Those services can be expensive, and as has been mentioned in this thread, the FSB’s homepage isn’t really critical to anything.
Chickens eat kitchen waste and produce eggs and meat.
The Russian military has been extremely insular, and has insisted for a long time to produce everything they need domestically. It is unlikely Russia's warmaking potential will be halted long-term.
Don’t think this will happen. Russian have been hardened historically thru wars, 90s and other crises. Common people are very resilient and many grow their own food up to this day.
By "high fidelity" do you mean very similar to native app? Because there's just no comparison.
> Taking a device that is supposedly mine and configuring it to work against my interests repudiates the idea that I am the owner of it

strongly agree here!
It's a good thing most first world countries aren't constantly talking about the transition to a cashless society...oh wait...
I remember reading an analysis of (I believe) WWI that said that by that point, the rulers of Europe had successfully completed the hard work of discouraging war among themselves through a long-term project of intermarriage. They were all related to each other and therefore mostly uninterested in going to war against each other.[1]

But at some point popular demand for war started to rise and the noble houses weren't able to stop it.

We're seeing something similar here.

[1] This can't be the whole story; European history is replete with brother-brother and father-son wars. But I think the idea is worth considering anyway.
That's not the primary reason, which is that they don't make f1.2 zooms.
"Anonymous prank calls the FSB customer service line" is about the extent of this.

If you really feel like DDOSing something, the good folks at the IT Army of Ukraine routinely post lists of specific targets focused on military, propaganda and banking sectors. https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022 is the Telegram (note the "2022" at the end - there are others that copy the content but change the IPs for their own ends).
No, but the ‘why’ is fairly simple: early RPGs (like D&D) drew heavily on existing fantasy stories, and ‘wizard in a tower’ was a popular theme. Is this not common knowledge?
Disclaimer I'm not Russian but watching the roll out of the war, I am again fascinated by westerner's imagination of that an inidividual could achieve in a oppressive regime. People literally get arrested by holding a blank paper as a one-man demonstration on the street. People lose source of income and housing semi-permanently because of speaking out anything against the propaganda. The secret police can force mothers to knee down and beg their children to not being vocal. Tell me what I can do without losing my and my family's fucking lives if you think there's a way out of all this.

I do not deny the possibility of revolution of any form, but there is tons of things one fears worse than death, even a violent one. I really hope you guys get the chances to do the right thing under these circumstances. The wall between daily norm and hell is thinner than a piece of paper.
> it would be an odd coincidence for a lab-leaked virus to have its first big super-spreading event at a live animal market,

Not really if the market is literally next door. The infected lab worker goes over to do their after work shopping for a few days in a row and you've got your outbreak.
I also wonder about the "Putin loses power in Russia" scenario that the author brushes aside.

It seems to me that we could fight Putin on the "internal politics" front in a way that A) forces a choice between escalation of the war and stabilization of his regime and B) Has enough plausible deniability that failure doesn't immediately trigger a nuclear response.
Are you accusing me of hypocrisy? The way to avoid negative attention is by being anonymous. People who specifically avoid being anonymous want to have a reputation. When they turn around and moan about being insulted they're trying to have their cake and eat it too: they want only the positive attention attached to their identity and none of the negative attention. That's just not how the world works.
I think this is true across the entire political spectrum in the US. Our social media reads as a mix of apathy, nihilism, signaling and historical ignorance. In other words, many of the people who by all rights should be happy with their comfortable lives in the wealthiest country on earth have somehow decided the world is a terrible place, everything is terrible, it's all going to hell, so let's just pull whatever thread seems likely to piss someone off who's got it slightly better than me and see what unravels.
Americans are ingrates.
Wrong, ai increases gdp exponentially
https://archive.ph/5tf7V
Any blockchain shorter than the market leader is subject to a 51% attack.
The whole point about Anonymous is that it's a label for anyone to freely use. There have been dozens (at least) of hacker groups using the Anonymous moniker, nevermind all the splinter groups.
Not any less useless than "customers simply need to make better/more principled choices"
In my experience, people want smart TVs for streaming, not for watching live TV.

The value proposition for the non technical person is that all the streaming apps are available right in the TV and easy to use.
Maybe a DDK, but not full code.

I think they may have learned with the previous leaks!
Do you know what genocide means? It's war, it's bad but it's not genocide.
Thank you for the links. How did you originally find yourself falling down this rabbit hole?
Other than a couple professional apps, the actual Mac apps I use on the regular are Ulysses, the Affinity suite, nice, little tools like Soulver, and built-ins like Pages. I very much miss the old days of software, not just Mac software — paying for software that was purpose-built, tested, and often, it seemed, liked by its creators was much easier, even at 80s & 90s prices, than dropping $3-$100 on what today is a crapshoot that will likely move out from under your feet with an update six months from now.
perhaps i am too young and naive, but i am terrified of playing that game. i'm very glad i took up a career where these are dinner-time conversations and that i don't have to bear the weight of making those kinds of decisions. can i ask why you think it's a bluff from putin?

for my entire life, the media has portrayed him as either an evil genius or a mad-man (sometimes, both). in any case, it's painted a picture of a man perfectly capable of taking everyone down with him. why should i think otherwise?

note: i am being completely earnest in this response. in the last week, i have thrown up several times post doom-scrolling on twitter. i had to delete the app. i am convinced this will end up with everyone in dust. my mind has reverted to the following quote from The Wasteland several times:

<< "And I will show you something different from either

<< Your shadow at morning striding behind you

<< Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

<< I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
Actually moving reactors (back?) into the cities would be a great move because that would make people understand how incredibly safe those thing are.

Meanwhile we have coal power plants in the cities spewing out harmful particulates, gases and even radiation and people percieving them as safe because they live next to them.
Goes hand in hand.
> Check john mearsheimer

I've had enough of Russian propaganda.

> because he's not expanding russia. hes not letting ukraine to join nato.

Previously you were all saying we're hysterical and there will be no invasion. Russia has the same MO as cancer: expand as much as possible. It's well known that it wants access to our (Romania's) mountains. He's not going to stop at Ukraine. Putin has already revealed that we want's the Republic of Moldova.
The government invoked the emergencies act which gave them the ability to freeze bank accounts of people the suspected of supporting an ongoing illegal protest. This means that the due process changed from what it normally is to something that allowed the government to quickly de-escalate a protest that was anything but peaceful.

Due process was still followed even if we don't necessarily like what it was.
One of the important things to keep in mind is that the standards of evidence for safety policy decisions are not the same as those of civil or criminal convictions.

For civil or criminal convictions, the "innocent unless proven guilty" (for various standards of guilty) applies. For safety regulations making, in general "better safe than sorry" is the standard that needs to apply.

Whenever any group feels threatened with regulations that will cause them inconvenience or cost (eg. In this case Move research centers out of urban areas, stricter interpretation of which BSL standards apply to what research - virologists have said on record they were doing a lot of Coronavirus research in levels 2 or 3), there will be push back and an attempt to conflate the standards of civil/criminal conviction (ie. You can't prove X caused Y) with standards of policy making due to self-interest. You see the same sorts of issues with self regulation in the Finance industry, in the aircraft manufacture industry which predictably also led to crises.

Those have to be over-ridden at a soceital level which happened to various degrees after the 2008 crises in Finance and the 737 Max crises in Boeing/FAA.

In other words, in this particular case, whether we can find out what actually happened (very unlikely given so many intersecting conflicts of interest) really doesn't change the key points of what needs to happen going forward.
So ...

Chrome has the best resourced development.
Brave leverages Google's investment, and adds their own features (and vulnerabilities).
Opera similarly.

So ... there's not a lot of choice, really. Firefox or the mono-culture.
For example all-cause mortality in the linked there biggest meta-analysis is actually lower at 6 than 8 hours (graph[0]) and only slightly higher than at the optimal point. This isn't the same as general ability but it's likely correlated and all the evidence seems to point in the same direction.

0. https://guzey.com/files/books/why-we-sleep/shen2016.jpg
this is the most painful thread I think I've ever seen on HN
Wait wait wait.

At what point in history was Chechnya an internationally recognized free state a la Ukraine?

Sure there was a period of time when Chechnya was a semi-recognized failing state [0], but to say that it was in anyway comparable to Ukraine is disingenuous at best.

[0] news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/135716.stm
Turns out I was thinking of pwn2own in 2016 [0]. Can anyone update me on how Firefox does these days at CTFs?

[0] https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/12/034206/pwn2own-2016-w...
Russian citizens aren't getting bombed. They are getting economic sanctions. Considering these citizens are paying taxes that fund the war, I think they're fair game for economic payback.
Those probably count for as much or more as the rest of the sanctions because they are the things the fat cats use to keep score.