skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or it’s the case that they see the other side as being perpetually and blatantly dishonest.

That's a logical fallacy. One's honesty has nothing to do with whether or not other people are honest. It turns out you can actually disapprove of all dishonest people, no matter whether other people are dishonest too.
> That's plainly false,

Thanks for denying experience. You could have said: "That should not be the case."

But yet he kept denying changes.

> offline references to books, papers, and other things that are only available under specific terms and conditions, typically after some payment

I was talking about birth certificates, official but personal documents, things like birthday greetings personally signed by Erich Honecker, a Radio interview done in the 70ies at a GDR radio station were only one last tape of the recording exists in family archives.

Nothing of that is anyhow publicly available.

Whenever we proposed changes we were shut down by this person. They felt (or were - I have too little insights into the hierarchy of Wikipedia and don't want to actually) to be righteously empowered to change back any change were one could not provide citable proof. And that is actually a point I agree with.

But he also was not willing to accept/provide a way to proof how "facts" in the entry were wrong.

If they were missing I wouldn't have an issue. But they were already wrong in the cited source and we had the original documents to proof that. He just wasn't willing to look at them.
This is so ridiculous.

For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit.

I'm not Russian.

It's not as if Russians can't just register .com domains either. This is just fucking people around purely for the sake of it.

What should I do here? Fly to Russia and tell Mr Putin to stop?

It feels like corona all over again. Bad thing A happens, so you react by doing something that's about ten times more damaging.

The whole 'least worst case' scenario in which the West being directly responsible for a revolution is somehow less likely to cause fallout than just getting involved in the war is insane. The actions of people (e.g. the Russian government) aren't a set of if-then-else chains that you can find a loophole in.
Again, Putin does not perceive NATO as a defensive alliance, he sees it as an organization that aggressively spreads in order to increase the influence and power of the west and the US in particular. Putin is worried - whether justified or not - that US nukes will end up right at his borders.
This would be good to know. I always cut out a safe distance from the sprout. Usually it is black and green. The rest I keep.
The definition of an oligarch is "someone who is part of a small group that runs a country." (Wiktionary)

So, you can try to claim that Russia doesn't have oligarchs, but if they exist you can't say that they don't run the country.

EDIT: For example, if the country is run by the military as you say, then the top leaders of the military would make up the oligarchy and each of them would be an oligarch.

I'm unsure how any dictator could run a country in the absence of some form of supporting oligarchy.
Being born inside a different border doesn't make you a bad person. The beliefs you hold can however.

Russia's culture is directly responsible for what's happening.

How can I possibly dislike a culture of xenophobia, racism, ethnic superiority, conquest lust, power & might as right, advocation of government as a vehicle for conquering, and the use of force as the highest ideal?

I'm speaking of the German region ~1890-1930, which very aggressively espoused and supported such ideas, many millions of people believed similarly to what the Nazi regime ended up codifying as its core ideas. Which had predictable end results. Yes, I can dislike very large numbers of people that hold such ideas, properly so in fact.

How can you dislike hundreds of thousands of racists in southern states circa 1950? Oh quite easily and entirely rationally.

You can dislike evil aspects of a culture. And you can properly dislike people that hold evil ideas, particularly to the extent they're important ideas that shape a big part of who a person is and or help to enable large movements of evil. That goes for the US, just as it does Russia, just as it does for anywhere else. And you can hold people morally responsible for the ideas they choose to believe in and the consequences that those beliefs have when they touch the real world in action.
Chains like McDonald's almost certainly don't cut their French fries onsite, they'd get them delivered already cut and frozen.
Very unlikely NVIDIA have been signing with an expired cert for 5 years.

The real reason this is problematic is that Windows kernel driver signing wasn't complete before 2015. For signing (of anything) to be robust, it must be paired with a timestamping server. The signature then has these components:

1. The signature itself.

2. The certificate.

3. A data structure containing a hash of the signature, and a timestamp, signed by a timestamping authority.

The purpose of (3) is to prove when the signature was computed, which in turn means that signatures can live longer than the certificates themselves. Note that normal Windows (and Apple) code signing for user space gets this right for a long time. Apparently Windows didn't in kernel mode until 7 years ago.

Introducing timestamping isn't all that easy. If you stop accepting signatures because the underlying certificate expired, then you just put a time bomb in everyone's computers. So Microsoft had to allow the usage of expired certs and hope they'd never leak. They (eventually) lost that bet and the cert will now be revoked, but it won't have been used for many years so probably the overall damage is small.
At the time of my post, I was unable to verify the Google Trends searches (I was using it incorrectly, and have verified it, see other comments). My main point about using the Trends data is that if there are so many more clearly substantive sources (videos, interviews, history), why lean mainly on Google Trends.
That the US is arguably the most powerful nation in the world and that sanctions by smaller economies vs empires like the US are like Palistinian children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks.

It is easy to claim that sanctions against the US would have been legitimate when it is clear to most that they would have had little to no meaningful impact.
If Iraq happened today I think more people would be upset and protest.

In 2001 I don't even think I had a cellphone, we didnt have social media like we do now, the only source of news was the News Paper and TV.

If it happened now we would be blastered on twitter with videos / photos of it happening in real time like we are know. Much more aware of war crimes happening.

We can't change what happened in the past but I would like to think we can change the future, and Iraq doesn't happen again.

(I was living in NZ at the time still at school when 9 11 happened)
2022-1945 = 77

people give birth around age of 25

1: the adults in 1945
2: their babies became parents in 1970
3: their babies became parents in 1995
4: the babies of the parents in 1995 are now adults and are giving birth to the next generation

there have been 4 generations since ww2
Putin is persecuting them. I just said we shouldn't embrace. There's a lot of middle ground.

Ask someone like Alexei Navalny or Mikhail Khodorkovsky why they stayed to fight and be jailed instead of fleeing. Fleeing doesn't help.

Russia hasn't been conquered since the most recent Russian Empire was formed. But regimes have fallen from within...
*lose

"loose" rhymes with "goose" and is the opposite of tight.
I find it strange that so many people in these threads keep saying things like "go home and fight putin." Imagine if this had been the western response to the German physicists to whom we offered refuge before/during World War II. When the intellectual capital of your enemy is trying to come over to your side, turning them away out of spite isn't "being tough" or "holding people accountable" - it's just counterproductive.
> a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.

Its easy to say that but you have to look at the bigger picture.

It's easy to say "just punish the government / the oligarchs", but as most Westerners know, these people have become extraordinarily adept at hiding their money and distributing their assets. So it is very difficult indeed to target them per-se, hence you need to make it difficult to move money/assets around, sell assets and gain new money/assets.

You also need to look at the even bigger problem. How do we stop Russia attacking Ukraine ?

Nobody wants World War 3. Even the Americans who are usually keen to test out their latest toys are being remarkably disciplined about sitting on their hands.

So, you don't want to engage in a direct fight with the Russians, what's left on the table ?

Diplomacy ? Well, they've tried and are trying, but not much light at the end of that tunnel as of yet.

So your only option left is to accept that running a war needs two things, money and supplies. If both of those dry up then its only a matter of time before the war grinds to a halt too.

Hence you end up doing things that affect banks, the central bank, transport and logistics.

Regrettably its not just about targeting the military and the government, you have to target the supporting structures too (food, parts, consumables), hence you need to go big and go fast on sanctions.

Yes your average Russian will get caught up in the sanctions. Yes it will be difficult and unpleasant for families.

But frankly the alternative, full-blown war across Europe and the potential for nuclear bombs being used is unfathomably worse for everyone both inside Russia and outside.
> But that should not obscure the fact that NATO, led by Washington, laid the groundwork for confrontation with a series of missteps after the breakup of the Soviet Union, provocations that fueled Russian resentment and fears of Western encirclement. First came the ill-advised expansion of NATO in the late 1990s, which was criticized not only by the left, but by a long and impressive list of former establishment cold warriors, including George Kennan, Richard Pipes, Sam Nunn, and many more.

The endless attempts to cast Russia as the victim in any way are ridiculous. Nobody in NATO really wants Georgia or Kosovo or Ukraine in the alliance. NATO was ambivalent about many of the Eastern European countries and many in the West wondered (even up until the invasion of Ukraine) whether NATO still had a purpose.

No, they begged to be let into the castle because they feared that Russia would invade them, a fear validated over and over and over and over by how Russia treats its militarily weaker neighbors. Under both Trump and Biden (and probably even before that), Poland has been offering the United States billions of dollars if it would be willing to build a military base there. Nobody is pressuring former Soviet nations into NATO. They are desperate to get in to avoid getting mauled.
"Experimental programming language" is a huge stretch for this thing.

I think you need to understand a bit of some C subcultures to get this reaction. C more than other communities is about best practices to achieve certain goals like portability, stability, security, maintainability, etc. These best practices are often restrictive, or advocate cautious use of language features. Cello breaks a lot of these rules, sometimes haphazardly, and no experienced C person would advocate for some of those hacks.

But what ends up in the HN comment thread is a largely unfamiliar-with-C-culture looks at the README and comes away with the impression that this is an accessible way to learn C, which it is not.
By this logic, I don't have freedom of speech because I'll be thrown out of your house if I go there and start insulting you. The interesting part about freedom is where it intersects with someone else's freedom. Grandparent is pointing out that this is one of those cases, and the response is that it's not "real" freedom then?
>why on earth are invaders within the fence line of a nuclear facility

Maybe Russia is worried that Ukraine might have been covertly developing nuclear weapons, and they don't want to give the Ukrainians any more time to hide the evidence.
Why is the media here in the US not reporting on the fact that grain prices are going to quadruple if sanctions on agricultural products and inputs are not lifted?

Do they want to see the whole world destabilized by a famine?

This is ridiculous.
Go back and fight for freedom. You fed Putin and his authoritarianism for years. While was good, you all enjoyed it. Now you leave Russia and after the War, regardless of Putin, regardless of how many people die in Ukraine, if the business are good again in Russia, you will come back home.. is that fair? I think it's not.

Fight Putin on the streets
Those people are especially brave because the numbers are so low. But they are being made an example out of and that will have a chilling effect on whoever might have followed them.

> If Russians cannot manage this, then I do not have sympathy whatsoever.

If you haven't seen this firsthand, then I understand.

But I have seen it firsthand. Here is how it went: in the 80's, when solidarity was rising up in Poland a relatively small minority drove the revolution, and found support in a large chunk of the younger generation and some in older people as well.

But the bulk of the Poles had seen it all before. Small uprisings that were brutally smacked down, with the local secret police making lists of people to raise from their beds in the inevitable crackdown. So they were advising their kids not to go to the Solidarity rallies, not to protest and so on. In some families this led to harsh words, and some families never really recovered.

Because that one time those kids and the people behind Solidarity were right, they prevailed. They managed to achieve critical mass. They showed that you too could be brave and on the right side of history, and live to tell the tale. And eventually, after the wall fell of course all those other people suffered from memory loss and they too had been present at probably every demonstration, instead of sitting quaking in their house about the kind of terrible thing those idiot youngsters were bringing down on their houses. But make no mistake: for all the same money the army would have opened fire on the protests. It wasn't a 'done deal' until it was and it could have very easily gone the other way, as it had so many times before.

And note that it was tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacification_of_Wujek

(I really don't like the title of that article) and
even if you may see the death toll as 'acceptable' the
fact is that those people died and if the same thing had
happened in for instance Gdansk the death toll would have
been a very large multiple of that. It may not have been
enough to break the back of Solidarity, but that's not
something we will ever know for sure.

If you've seen the kind of bravery in Russia in the last couple of years, regarding the murders of journalists, the jailing of opposition politicians and so on then you really have to keep a little bit of room for the cowards that were right every time so far, and who can not with all their fantasy see a million people march on the Kremlin. And by not being able to see it they indeed make it less likely. If it happens it should be massive. 2000 people will get arrested, a substantial multiple of that might get shot, and we're nowhere near the point where a million people would mobilize. But if and when they do, there will be a lot of blood flowing and at the end of it Putin will be gone. But they'd better bring something more potent than just their housekeys.
No, you can’t. It’s one of the main features, explained right there in the page.
If you really want to stop worrying about code formatting, just stop doing it. It is not really that important. I have never spent any time worrying about it, and I don't see why people would be upset about formatting.

Moreover, using an automatic formatter will not fix it, because, guess what, there is no universal code formatter. All of them have different results and a long list of parameters. Determining the best way to use one will create more work for you as you manage your team, and will inevitably add a new step to your already complex building process. Just stop worrying and use that time in more productive ways.
An unbelievably long and winding paper for something that didn't even appear to work, and can be summarized by "we made a device that calls me when my dog plays with his toy". The call logs are full of the dog calling accidentally, calling while sleeping with his toy, or otherwise not even seeming to realize he was calling anyone.

The paper reads like something one would write in high-school when you're given an assignment to write a 5 page paper. You fill it up with fluff until you hit 5 pages.
Top Largest Companies That Have Exited from Russia (65)
The only fake stories and propaganda I’ve seen so far are from the Ukrainians:

- Ghost of Kiev using ARMA Footage.

No evidence this person exists.

- Miss Ukraine fighting in Kiev.

It was an airsoft gun. She says she isn’t fighting.

- Snake Island soldiers killed after heroic standoff.

They all surrendered.

- Nuclear Reactor shelled, radiation rising.

A training building was involved in a relatively small firefight. Reactor was never in danger and radiation levels didn’t change.
The training building that caught fire was outside of the perimeter of the reactor complex and there is no evidence of “shelling”, which means heavy artillery.

—

People debate if this is a needed part of the information war, and I’m not here to go back and fourth on that.

I am curious what Russian propaganda or information ops look like in the west because I haven’t seen them yet. (I’m not a social media user)

Does anyone have examples?

Edit: Added details for clarity.
I’m a trained former nuclear submarine sailor, and current Army Officer, so this engagement sits at a nexus of my unique experience.
This reminds me of phrenology because it's just as crazy and evil.

Yes, I did read the article as it's really short. I was about to say that I've been on the internet longer than this guy's been alive but... I am no longer sure that number in his name? refers to his age.

"Xiaobo Guo, Guarini ’24"
I think only lesser people would think all Russians support Putin. Every Russian I know in Silicon Valley that are sickened by Putin.

Eric Stalwall, the House Representative in East Bay (of the SF Bay Area) proposed to kick all Russian students out of the US. That sickened me and I won't forget this going forward (he ran for Democratic nominee for President in 2020). How can you blame citizens of the country for the country's actions? That's like Japanese internment camps all over again. I can't believe in 2021 someone would propose such a stupid and horrifying thing, especially in the Bay Area.

I'm glad you were able to escape safely.
Why don't we just make DNS refuse to resolve the domain while we are at it? This mass censorship is apparently the new hotness.
He explained that the crisis in Russia is the fault of / was somehow started by the US.

He said that a few months ago, not this week. Now he doesn't say anything anymore.
If there's anything I've noticed about the writing community and the internet, it's that people turn green with envy on a whims notice to harvest some type of opposing clout with the community. And they use that envy to take pot shots at somebody for living their own life and has their own views on the world.
I grew up on potatoes from the farm. Tons had small sprouts on them by the time spring came around, we cut them off, ate them, nothing bad ever happened.
> Just as one example: the intellectual current in the US was to delay [reading] until later for largely Rousseauvian reasons (reading is an adult imposition that children aren't naturally interested in). Montessori became famous in large part because she taught children how to read earlier. (This is mentioned in the review above.)

I must admit that before my children started attending Montessori schools, I had this naïve view that Montessori education was somewhat similar to Waldorf, while on matters like this, they are pretty much diametrically opposed. It's somewhat amusing that there are multiple alternative school systems that claim for themselves to be "child centric" but have such startingly different theories of what children really want or need.
The u.s. is the most warlike country on the planet.

I say this as a US citizen hasn't improved of any of the US invasions and wars in my lifetime.

The idea that bombing and invading Syria Iraq and Afghanistan were somehow defensive wars is a joke
Further segmentation into boutique social media platforms that cater to different groups will just make this "Hypernormalization" even worse and lead to more political polarization.
The free and open global communications network we enjoyed is officially being terminated. It was nice that it existed for a while.
You can just use Mastodon. Find an instance that supports your freedom of speech views, or run your own and say whatever you'd like.
Wow. The author is speaking about Javascript front-end frameworks.

I'm an old guy now, and I've rarely seen a need for a front-end framework. I know that sounds like heresy.

I've never bothered to learn Angular, React, NextJS, Svelte or any of the alphabet soup named frameworks. Normal javascript works fine these days for a sprinkling of front-end interactivity. jQuery is not even necessary anymore.

And with more recent technologies like Phoenix LiveView, there is very little need to use any of those front-end frameworks.

Count me as old-fashioned, but very few apps really need those kinds of frameworks. They could mostly do without them.

Frameworks are mostly necessary on the backend.
Compared to dying because of a high explosive bomb landing in the middle of your apartment building I think you got the better deal.

Keep in mind that just having choices is a luxury.

Oh, and your dictator, your primary responsibility. Or do you blame the West for Putin?
These problems will tend to evaporate when water starts running low enough to impact people's daily lives.

Civilization adapts quickly once somebody pokes the bear.
Facebook and Twitter want everything done in-app. so they include the whole kitchen sink, including their own bespoke browser (although Twitter t.co links open in Safari sans extensions). Facebook wants to know every link you click on in their app and attach a bunch of tracking params to the URL so the destination site knows who 'you' are.

Facebook is also very feature heavy and they don't apologize for that. Every week something new is added (like in their recent 'favorites' feature and short video Reels crap). They need to be bloated because they are bloated apps by design. It would be nice to have 'lite' versions of the apps however.
Makes sense when you need access to special equipment. But most of us seldom need much more than a keyboard and screen.
The name of the game is Kaos. Success will come and go on many time and space scales.
I've seen projects like this in the past - either you have skilled people and use a strict CSP from the start, or the footguns of dynamiically crafting objects ultimately leads to a bunch of XSS that (probably) wouldn't have happened with mature frameworks