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In response to one country invading their neighbour you think that economic sanctions are petulant bullying? What do you think a more appropriate response would be?
I believe I detect a little bit of sarcasm in that statement.
Right now it looks like Putin gets stopped in Ukraine, he likely gets ousted by a coup, and all those countries join NATO.

Finland is sending 4,000 AT4s, Germany and the US are sending stinger missiles and javelins, other nations are sending Howitzers, fuel, automatic weapons, pistols and Turkey is sending its drones which have been remarkably successful.

I don't know what rock you're currently hiding under, but the EU is financing 450M euros of military aid to Ukraine. That isn't "looking away" or "staying quiet". I have no idea where this silly hyperbole is coming from.

We're also apparently doing Schroedinger's sanctions, which are simultaneously "nothing" and yet brutally repressive towards the Russian people.
Maybe? That would reduce the risk to the holder, but it also reduces the usability of the network, since you'd need to coordinate beforehand with potential users. That of course opens up the possibility that one of the users will give you up to the authorities you're trying to evade, who could then just wait for a bus with a wifi signal to pass by, then search all passengers for a hotspot. The risk of that happening is directly proportional to the number of users, so best to keep the whole affair small. And of course a cop could always get lucky and just catch you fiddling with a hotspot on a bus.

And how are you getting a network connection to forward over wifi while riding this bus? If the network is purely local and used to access PDFs on a server on your person, then you would need to carry all that contraband information with you (and consequently increase the risk you're taking on).

There's prior art you could follow from various resistance movements, though most of the examples of people not getting caught use long-range, broadcast signals like shortwave. You need sustained proximity to use regular wifi, and that strikes me as way less safe. The other thing to consider is that both ends of a wifi connection can be triangulated, so a broadcast signal is far safer for end users (unless it requires special equipment that is itself suspect or forbidden).
Mumble works great for me in the meantime
This is wisdom. There are so many great countries out there (seen through the eyes of a digital nomad). Countries that you can build in, and succeed in.

I can recommend Estonia, though it might feel too close with the current war. Also I love all the Nordic countries (haven't had the opportunity to visit Finland yet).

If you speak English and you're in IT then Australia is also a very good option -- you'll need to be sponsored, but IT doesn't have too many troubles. Great weather and AU political problems are tiny in comparison (though every country has it's challenges).
Currently we don't force TURN, so in practice this means that voice packets go direct between the clients if possible, and so the IP addresses of the clients are necessarily exposed to each other.

However, this is utterly trivial to fix: matrix-js-sdk already exposes https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/blob/96ba061732b... and we simply haven't exposed it as a setting in Element Call yet. I've filed a bug for it at https://github.com/vector-im/element-call/issues/251 - thanks for bringing it up!

In terms of moderation: this is no different to moderation in Matrix as a whole, where we're already busy working on shared greylists (MSC2313 and friends) - https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix... has more details at the end.
> I'm not saying you're doing this, but I am frankly tired of knee-jerk, simple answers to tricky problems.

This one does have a knee jerk simple answer.

Increase pay to attract and retain sufficient talent. The root problem is are consumers willing to pay extra for the end goods so that enough truckers will be willing to do the job under current parameters, or are they willing to forego consumption, which is exactly what is playing out.

Of course, the problem of insufficient supply of truck drivers can also be solved by reducing demand for truck drivers, by using automation/trains/reducing regulations/etc. The reducing regulations one is cheapest, of course.
"Biased" to me doesn't mean "I disagree".

It means:

- presented as a fact, rather than as the opinion of a scholar/researcher/etc. (meaning Wikipedia says it is true without citing anyone else)

- ignoring a significant controversy or dissent

- describing uncertain information as certain

- perpetuating the myth that science is settled and can't be updated with new information
Yes. Apple doesn't support DP daisy chaining and they only recently added support for variable refresh rates on Macs despite it being a thing in the monitor space for 8 years. If their own products don't use it they don't care about it.
Everything's on the up.

I'm an omnivore, and use tofu for meals on occasion. On my trip to the Asian market yesterday (cheapest price around), tofu was 50% higher than what I paid last trip two or three months ago (was $1.39 for House Foods 10oz - a common brand around here, now $1.99). Nothing's safe.
>Are you seriously suggesting Ukrainians want a war with Russia?

Yes, they want to wage a defensive war against the invaders.

Putin and Lavrov have said Ukraine is a historical mistake. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia and commit cultural genocide.

Ukrainians have every right to kill the Russian invaders. The West has every right to put sanctions on Russia and support the Ukrainian resistance.
> It does not work against the past (taking snapshots of the code and using them later)

Right on the page, it says this.

Maybe I am not understanding your point. Both the website and the blockchain strategy make it impossible for you to record video content and claim it happened in the future, but neither of them defend against recording after the timestamp happened.

The blockchain strategy does not require a centralized service, while the QR code requires the website to be up forever.
There won’t be a city, they’ll have more Russian wasteland when it’s over.
I just always find it funny that 'Eurocentricity' is one of the problems, given the whole movement is AMERICA-CENTRIC as hell. We've even co-opted what being 'Eurocentric' means! Talk about arrogance!
This is Amazon's fork of Elasticsearch, to avoid the licensing restrictions introduced when they switched from Apache 2 license to "Elastic License and Server Side Public License" - https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Humor (sort of): https://medium.com/@johnlakness/case-study-decentralizing-th...

My idea for this specifically is to make a pijul repository for Wikipedia, and then a staking/delegation/voting mechanism for acceptance of each vertex in the hash tree. At each level of the tree, a user would be presented with versioning options based on maximum aggregation of unique voters, like in hierarchical clustering, which will roughly define the ‘tribes’ of viewpoints. It would also be possible to render from a specific hash. I would hope to build a user interface with maximum flexibility to explore across ‘versions’ and encourage voting and merges across clusters.

I’ve also considered using randomization, as in, selecting a hash to render with probability equal to the vote within the user’s cluster. This would be to prevent too much separation among the clusters.
ah, ok. thanks for the info!
I have no idea why this is being down-voted. This is the truth. People in western europe have no idea what it means to live under scarcity. Take Sri Lanka for e.g. - not even under sanction, but lack foreign reserves. Long blackouts, disruption of normal life since petrol (gasoline) is not always available. Eventual food shortages because fertilizer needs to be imported. Now think of another country under sanctions - even hope of better future is being crushed.
Agreed. I used to be pretty libertarian, but the underlying premise companies and individuals act in their own interest is disproved again and again (see also how a company isn't actually profit maximizing if it discriminates in hiring).
I don't have a set of experts in my mind.

To me, experts are people who have spent a lot of time studying something firsthand, have turned over their research in a transparent way, who submit their work to criticism by their peers and the public, and who have no hidden financial backing from a biased party.
Most sanctions have inverse effect of strengthening the authoritharian government. Maybe if you have free press and strong oposition you can use sanctions to turn population against governemnt. However, my experience of suffering under combination of sanctions and authorian government is that dictatorship gets stronger in these cases. I would even support sanctions in the 90-ties against Serbia if they increased our chances of overthrowing Milosevic. But they didn’t, quite the oposite. He only went after NATO bombing and defacto loosing all wars Serbia participated in.

It looks to me sanctions are implemented as a punishment, as a feel good move, as “we have to do something”. What’s the realistic end goal of blocking internet access, or software, or Visa/MC/Apple pay to Russia? Does it help a goal of overthrowing Putin, or strengthening his case? “We have to do something” is not a good reason if there are no positive effects, but there are negative ones.
I'm glad some devs in Russia are working overtime. Fuck em.
Very cool! How’s your experience been building guis in iced with wgpu? Thinking about trying it out myself
Utility scale solar has a MASSIVE cost advantage.

Also, the vast majority of houses can’t sustain their energy use off of rooftop solar alone.
I believe what the parent post is hinting at is that this is likely to impact the notability treshold - which would require some proof in order to start the discussion.
This. Dissidents would be cast as pro-Evil and purged from social media for misinformation.
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Why? All security agencies have both offensive and defensive operations. Hacking tools leak often, because you have to install them on hostile systems. So it seems like an unrealistic goal to want an agency with good defensive advice and no leaks.
Russian propaganda by a new green account, how predictable.

The Russian army hasn't been making progress against Kyiv for several days, and in fact Ukraine has been launching successful counteroffensives the last two days.

Russia has been successfully killing civilians though.
There is one more move for Putin's regime in terms of economy if he wants to keep going.

It's to shift into conquest mode and burn up your system. It's a non-sustainable move, and if you're going to do it, then typically they go for broader conquest (Moldova would be an example of expanding the conquest, as would formally taking Belarus). In normal times the economy is sustainable: you have $n GDP and $n tax revenue coming in, and you can do certain things with that stream. Sanctions crimp that heavily of course. So Putin can move to an unsustainable model, which means it'll collapse on him eventually, but people in his situation often do it anyway.

You do it by forced labor, labor gulags, forced building of manufacturing, total war mobilization of the large Russian population like it's WW2 again. Over time this would break Russia, near-term it would be a potent spike in their potential to march and conquer territory. The Germans did this during WW2, shifting out of sustainable economy to burn-it-up mode. It can't last indefinitely and it involves killing large numbers of citizens in the process. You have to redirect your economy into a command funnel, which starts to destroy all sorts of structures as you shift your resource allocations to war efforts (so for example Putin shifts labor resources to manufacturing tanks, and as a consequence there's not enough labor to operate grocery stores or repair potholes in the streets or whatever).
Here is one I saw wrt the Russia sanctions specifically that seems to be well-sourced and makes sense whilst being pretty terrifying for the Russian people[0].

TLDR; Russians are about to face mass shortages of basic goods at the same time their markets are crashing. This is going to cause major problems when people try to buy things like food and seed to grow more food. There's already a brain drain hitting Russia as these sanctions take effect, so the government may be forced to close the borders as well.

0: https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/03/04/world-war-of-economic-...
the question is whether economic sanctions could lead to "full on nuclear war"
Willingly to War – Public Response to the Outbreak of First World War
I've been finding it very easy to empathise with Russians in this. After what we've seen happening in so-called "enlightened" Western democracies, with all our press freedoms, and yet we still have homeopathy advocates, far-right (and left!) conspiracies, and all kinds of gnashing of teeth over "fake news".

How can I not look at Russian society, with a far more controlled environment, and think "how can Russians not know about it? How are they so easily deceived?", well, how are -we-, in the West, so easily deceived? It cuts both ways - but at least Russians have more of an excuse.

I am hoping you and your people find kindness wherever you decide to flee to. It is already difficult enough to uproot yourself (and your family), with an uncertain future, leaving friends and memories of better days behind. We need to advocate for Ukrainian refugees - those who are fleeing Putin's war of aggression - but we cannot forget that, while Ukrainians are the worse off in this conflict, many Russians will also be victims. Many Russians will not be able to return home. And many Russians may see friends and family prosecuted for opposing Putin's war.
The planet will survive, but it's occupants? Less so.
Your comment made me do a double take. Surely an individual is not to blame for a countries injustices, imperialism, and war crimes? Otherwise large parts of the developed world would have to be abandoned immediately.

We need to consider borders, immigration, work authorization, regulations, wealth, health, friends, family responsibilities, kids, partners and their own constraints - before being able to pass judgement.

It's takes incredible privelege to propose that one can just pickup their bags and go wherever they want in the world.
The oil companies could reduce their record profits a bit to help the country.
Specifically the only choice offering dual ovens in a single form-factor.
I think there is a philosophical question of whether the act of severing relations without active, pointed violence, could be considered an act of war.

After all, trade and increasing cooperation and communication is commonly believed to be the antidote to war. When we trade with each other for things we need, then it makes taking what we need with violence a less economically attractive option.

So, by instigating sanctions and cutting off trade relations, how could that be construed as anything other than "we're taking all options for settling disputes off the table, except violence"?

I'm not taking Russia's side here, and the situation is obviously more complicated since they were the ones to initiate violence in Ukraine, but it does seem like the West has effectively made a strong alliance with Ukraine and declared war on Russia, even if they have yet to exchange bullets (or nukes) directly.
Is the DNS free, even if you use other registrar than Google?

I have some domains with country-specific tlds, and I'm using small registrars there. he.net is free even in this case.
Learning how such a thing is calculated would be interesting.
No,I'd prefer if we the people had the power as our founding fathers intended. The government should work for us, we should not be beholden to it.
just tried it on Mac with Bohemian Rhapsody midi, feedback:

- the resolution seems to be broken

- the CPU meter in Activity Monitor shows 100%

- would it be possible to play notes automatically when i scroll into view?

- the UI/UX is not very user-friendly, i suggest adding a "?" menu that shows the shortcuts

other than that it's absolutely incredible!
> All the polls in Russia show more than half the population supports the special military operations in Russia.

When dissent, both personal and published, is criminalized, that less than half of people will tell a stranger promising anonymity and purporting to represent a media organization that they dissent doesn't mean anything like that less than half of people actually dissent.

Opinion polling can be problematic in a liberal democracy with a strong tradition of freedom of political opinion and expression, but in regimes that aren't it is beyond problematic.
> And because it is hard to know what somebody thinks I will just assume that he thinks what he says unless there are good reasons to assume he was consistently lying about this concerns for decades.

This seems native, there is a history of politicians and political parties hiding their motivations, or at least some of, for years/decades. For example it seems plausible that Putin thinks it hurts his personal power or his friends rather than hurting Russia or Russians at large. I can not tell, and it would take considerable insight to tell, the difference between that and Putin thinking of Russian security, but being mistaken about what would increase security the most.

> For a first strike it might still be good to be as close to the target as possible because it minimizes reaction time. And for a first strike you are not so much worried about them being in a static location.

First strike is not really important in my understanding. I thought the current doctrine was there was no way to first strike enough assets to prevent massive retaliation. There is no victory with nuclear war only mutual destruction, first strike or not.

> But I was a bit sloppy there, I just wrote nukes but I am not actually sure what kind of military assets would be the most worrisome. Maybe it would be an anti ballistic missile system close to your border that weakens your nuclear posture. Maybe it would just be a hand full of military bases with a few hundred tanks.

>

> In the end it doesn't really matter, I think a NATO presence close to Russian borders is unlikely to be a security thread to Russia, no matter what kind of assets, but Putin thinks otherwise.

I think this leaves us in a place where we do not have any concrete example of how Putin thinks NATO's threat to Russia will be substantially changed with Ukraine joining NATO.
Interesting, I have never seen such a thing. Perhaps it's more for comfort than mechanical reasons?
The Constrained Tile Placement Algorithm Behind Generate Worlds
Can you be more precise with which generations you are referring to? Maybe age ranges?
At this point the best solution might almost be legislation banning touch screens from cars and home appliances...
>Supporting these affected nations is a win for all involved, except Russia. We should prevent them from going into recession, enable them to reduce their dependence on Russia, while strengthening our relationship with them.

I mean.. do you really think this is going to happen? No one will pay attention to Kyrgyzstan just at they aren't paying attention now. I don't understand these flowery, optimistic arguments that have no bearing to reality. Russia is still the local superpower in the area and they will likely continue to lean on them for support. The alternative is to entirely change their economy to rely on western support, and except western countries to actually bother to try and prop up Kyrgyzstan
Thanks! Changed from https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jses....

(Event announcements like this aren't on topic for HN because they aren't intrinsically interesting. An article or transcript or recording of the event might well be.)
> uncalled invasion by Russia

To be clear, in no way the bloodshed that Russia is causing in Ukraine can be justified. But to claim that this invasion has got nothing to do with the policy of the West to expand NATO in the direction of Russia is nonsense.
And even if German work weeks would be, mostly, 35 hours the question is the overall output isn't it? And there, Germany is usually at very top end of each statistic I can remember. In output per employee that is.

And it not just German arms, French subs were good enough for Australia, Belgian small arms are used by everyone... I could go on.
> Users may have the file pre-cached

This is no longer true. Due to security concerns browsers no longer re-use the cache between websites.

That said, hosting assets yourself is fantastic if you use a CDN. Accessing American websites without CDN from Europe can be quite rough. I remember one of my first remote freelancing gigs where it took about 5s to load the company’s website hosted on Heroku. Just because of availability zones.

At my current gig, we self-host our assets and it’s fine because we’re US-centric. We host in us-west-2 and I live in SF and everything loads super fast. But you can really tell the dev site loads slower when working from the east coast.

Network latency is no joke.
In a lot of ways, it's about stepping stones as well. Once out of the country and in a safe place there are more options.

I had heard that Russians were having trouble opening bank accounts in Georgia, but I can't verify that rumor. It's definitely a hard thing.
Looks amazing, thank you for doing this. I use Synthesia for a few years now and it was also quite helpful teaching piano to my daughter. She takes piano lessons but Synthesia is how she learns the songs she likes by her own. If there will be an open-source variant we can be sure that we can revisit and relearn our favourite songs even in many years, when commercial Synthesia might have long been gone[1]

Also, I think Synthesia made a business out of producing Youtube videos of the Synthesia visualization. If there was a free way to produce this kind of videos many Youtubers would be grateful.

EDIT: Seems I'm wrong with the above paragraph. I thought to remember that you had to pay for the rights to use the visualization on Youtube, but that is not the case. The conditions[3] look quite fair to me.

One small remark regarding your visualization: From the screenshot it looks as if the keyboard shows the black keys centered around the gap between the white keys. This is not how a real keyboard looks like. Better explained than I ever could in a thread[2] from a few weeks ago.

[1] Another software we use is PianoJacq. For learning and practicing it is even better suited than Synthesia.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29943081

[3] https://www.synthesiagame.com/Video
Not at all. The agreement to create temporary ceasefires to evacuate civilians were the only real outcome of the last talks. It was largely reported in Russian media. Today during the morning briefing the Russian officials said that the zones and logistics were agreed and respected but russian forces haven't observed any movement of civilians. They observed rearrangement of ukranian units though.

The ukranian live YouTube channel I follow provided a few messages from (allegedly) people nearby (e.g. no buses or people were still in shelters). No clear picture from these messages.