skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, just to be clear, "can't be said of Russia right now" really means "publishing information that disagrees with the official line is punishable by up to 15 years in prison".

https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/04/i-vse-ravno-15-l...

Translation:

https://novayagazeta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2022/03/04/i...
I'd define it as 'everything you've documented so far still works as documented, and possibly if you're aware that many of your downstreams are relying on some undocumented behaviour, you try to account for that too (but that part is a nicety, not a commitment).
Yeah I really do not understand that! Very strange move
This is actually easy to know:

Did you say something positive (judged by the state)? It is not fake news.

Did you say something negative (judged by the state)? It is fake news.

It is a simple erosion of citizen rights, giving the state vastly more power over its citizens than previously.
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Calling the Maidan (1) "the CIA-financed coup" and a bloody invasion a "predictable response" really is showing your true colours. You should not be taken seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
Or salvage parts and engines from the leased Boeings if they are comparable.
I'd say very little good can come from this. What would be an example of an "appropriate" use of this technology?

Basically where it could excel is giving probabilistic prediction of "mental disorders" across a high volume of users. What is a good thing you would do with that? Advertising to suggest someone to get help, maybe?
We are building the frameworks so that we will be able to take advantage of this but haven't yet. Can message me via the webform on our website? I would love to learn more about HPC, my understanding is limited.
Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) Guide to Cyber Self-Defense – EFF
Ok, I'm giving some credit to company above. Someone contacted me hours after this post and took down repo like minutes after I've responded (tho they say they found it in parallel). Root cause - third party was doing some POC and I'm guessing misconfigured CI.
My suggestion: read Jordan Peterson, "12 rules for life". The book will not answer your question exactly, but it will provide rules that might help you handle things.
Yes, it's a terrible shame that NATO is not engaging in a full on fight with a nuclear adversary.
Thanks for that.

My initial reaction to the title was "wait, you can describe prime numbers using formal languages?". I could feel it in my guts that this would probably have some mind blowing Math/CS implications.

A shame how I'm so rusty in my Mathematics and CS nowadays :(
With all this prosecution and attacks on journalists I hope that the Assange case gets a new light shined on it.

It may not be the appropriate time or some may claim whataboutism but Assange exposed a war crime just as these journalists in Russia are currently exposing in Ukraine.

I am not saying America is the same but I am saying that all journalists should have protection from prosecution when exposing crimes irregardless where or whom committed them.
Stallone movies don’t apply. Minority Report is the future mixed with Robocop.
Kyiv: Des visiophones qui renseignent les Russes? – Reflets.info
It must be a bit shocking to lose access to basically every service that requires interacting with a Western economy while your country expects you to go about as usual. If you live in North Korea chances are you don't know any better. But Russians had access to the same things we do until a few days ago.
>There's some kind of idea going around

It's not new, by any stretch. I remember seeing such many references in the early 2000s and beyond. Doing some vague poking around textfiles.com, I didn't pull any easy to find 1980s 'boxen' references. It almost looks like it might have been the addition of 'unix boxen' to the 'new hacker dictionary' by esr which spread the joke into the mid-90s communities. I wasn't online at that point myself, so I can't speak from any personal experience. But the various hacker zines etc are using 'boxen' by the later 90s and early 2000s, which would allow for it to have spread through the folks of the time finding and trolling through esr's version of the 'hacker dictionary'. https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html complains about esr adding unix references, and does not include any boxen references that are found in the http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/ETC/MISC/JARG_331.TXT version folks in the 90s would likely have spread around.

edit: nope. definitely there in the 80s on usenet

so he was just encoding existing slang usage, rather than introducing it, on this point.

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.wanted&mid=PD...

more edit: considered the second oldest boxen reference in the usenet archive is esr himself, maybe he was the one pushing it :)

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.sys.att&mid=...
I remember a post by the BBC a couple of days ago touting how many visitors they get from Russia. I wonder if that was such a wise thing to do. These types of measures were likely inevitable, but I wonder if that blog accelerated it. Mostly because I have a lot of faith in human incompetence, and maybe Kremlin would not have noticed anything for far longer had the BBC not gifted them data analytics with a bowtie.
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While working on a project I wanted an easy way to show visitors what features were planned. I wanted this info to be concise and on the frontpage.

Most of what I found involved kanban boards, but I wanted something simpler. I saw some timeline tools but none were interactive. So I had the idea to make this app, It's a simple roadmap/timeline that you can embed on your website.
Russia will never give up nuclear arms. Just look how that worked out for Ukraine (...)

Also, Russia is too damn big and unpopulated, it would be almost impossible to defend it all without nuclear deterrence. Much like Canada, in that regard.
What happens when Finland becomes the "red line" or Poland etc. Both parts of the Russian "empire" at one time or another. It has to stop somewhere. Now is as good a time as any, especially as Russia has proven they are militarily weak.
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It’s to the point where RT is able to publish the equivalent of this BBC article.

https://www.rt.com/russia/551256-how-access-rt-censorship-by...
We ferment CO2 + H2 rather than syngas (CO / CO + H2 / CO + H2 + CO2) but yes gas fermentation is not new technology.

Like traditional chemical processes which use metal catalysts, superior catalyst design improves the performance and ultimately the economics of the process.

Edit: I should have mentioned that it's not just the catalyst that has been improved, the design of the process itself has been improved. So upstream (gasification) and the design of the bioreactor also impact how well the process works.
Stupid question but could starlink be used as a weapon? Like a global signal jammer? This would be a huge problem.
(Go the game, not golang)
It was meant half as a snarky comment and half as a sad testimonial of human nature. I mean: You hear the news that Ikea is closing, you likely link it to the world news, you think "got to buy some last minute furniture". I know it is human.

On the other hand: Lots of people protested the Iraq war. Lots of governments in the west did not participate in the coalition of the willing and protested (I know Germany under Chancellor Schröder did). Should we have done more against it? Probably. I still would justify it with it being a 9/11 aftermath thing, where the USA was on a rampage to get revenge and at the same time being absolutely unchallenged 10 years after the end of the cold war. They couldn't have been stopped by anyone.
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Yes that's all built into Firefox sync. It sync your tabs and bookmarks and much more across computers and phones automatically. You can also send specific tabs from your phone to your computer and when you sit down on the computer, the tab opens. :)

If you are on chrome, I'm not sure if there is something like that but it should exist some plugin...
Sure, there are great programmers in Russia. How is that relevant though?
I guess having a high "yearly income" in one year includes things like inheritances and house sales, which would make it more believable.
You do realize that Russia has more nukes than any country in the world, right? Whether you like it or not, cornering Russia in this way and not offering a way out of this mess without some dignity is an invitation for Putin to do something catastrophic and desperate. Big talk like this is foolish and could end up with a nuclear nightmare regardless of which side is right.
Also, being a victim and being privileged are generally seen as mutually exclusive, so it's a way to avoid guilt.

And with the infinite torrent of knowledge (including of the amount of suffering in the world) at our fingertips, guilt is an ever-present temptation for anyone with means.
Sure but it speeds up the process dramatically no? Sorry I’m obviously in a bad mood this morning.
"chemical imbalances", is that a thing?
Now your are mixing copyright problems with accessing public-data...not really honest of you.

And it was not the Goverment who went against the users but Atari, Codemasters, TopWare Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and the "Ministy of Sound"...for COPYRIGHT violations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kin...
It's so pro-government that the government feels the need to discredit it?

Interesting...
Collapse that indirect pointer. The source is http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
Well actually iCloud is pretty slow with syncing, and at notifying even local file changes.
Maybe nuclear war is better than letting Russia win.
Can you point to some examples of that? Sorry but your revelations sound like utter bs...
Even if the BBC is biased, it's still in the interest of both sides to claim it is biased against them.

One side may be accurately describing the problem, the other side protecting their territory.
In that case they are illegal. https://yanmaani.github.io/does-council-regulation-eu-2022/3...
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/never-ending-loop-home...

There are several more papers that back the mental health angle. The key issue in the United States is that we need to have the consent of a mentally unwell individual before we can give them the psychiatric help that’s needed to get them off the streets
Drug induced, perhaps.
> These platforms need to welcome the other side then, the ones doing the censoring.

Everyone is welcome, the ones doing the censoring just don't want to go there because they're happy in their cesspool.
If I've understood it correctly it's not a hijack but rather a circumvention of Cogents RU peering block.
Interesting! It’s the same here in Sweden with the public service TV channels.
Putin's 'non-expansion' terms actually mean rolling NATO back. Sure, it'd probably 'work' in the sense that he'd be able to restore the Russian Empire as a result. I guess he might be happy with just that.
I can see companies using this to screen applications to filter out potentially problematic people, sometimes with more social acceptability (think airline pilots), sometimes with less (most other jobs).

If you consider that "good" is another matter.
Ok, I really really appreciate the response, I will do some research and see what I can find here.
The reality is that Sovereignty is relative to how close a country is to the border of super power nations. Do you think Mexico or Canada can ally with any nation or join any military alliance they wish?
There are dozens of Markdowns flavors:

Github Flavored Markdown
Stack Exchange Flavored Markdown
Markdown Extra
LiaScript
MultiMarkdown
LeanPub Flavored Markdown
Markua
Python-Markdown
Kramdown

Even that is enough to show that Markdown is bad by design. But when you actually use it for any serious document, you face the bad design and struggle with the "easy" tool :)
I don't think you understand the analogy…
>The same with Catalonia.

Wait, what? Catalonia had nothing to do with Russia.
You can't simplify a double negative like that, when there's more than 1 bit of information. "They are [not] noticeably worse than others" can mean any one of the following:

- They are worse, but not noticeable

- They are on par with others

- They are slightly better than others

- They are much better than others

- They are the best among others
I think so. A quick Google search returns 15.3M results. Googling for an exact match returns 217K results. All results seem to be related to mental health.
The arguments are more complicated than that. That response serves to shut down any criticism of the BBC, as in “oh no matter what they do, they’ll be criticised”
He is an actual evil person. He is interesting from that point of view. Sending soldiers into Ukraine, telling them they are fighting nazis and that people will welcome them with open arms...

About 10000 Russian casualties so far in this invasion. They have no training, no air support, no fuel, nothing. Putin is sending all these people to their deaths believing a lie that the Ukraine people are nazis, while he is playing bunker bitch at home, afraid to even sit next to people in his own staff.
I want to add a recommendation for this book to any novice player (though not to an absolute beginner). It really improved my game, and gave me a new perspective on how to play.
In theory, every modern programable radio transmitting device could become a jammer in their operational frequency band with the appropriate firmware (like SDR dongles or even some WiFi routers and Bluetooth dongles, for example).

That's why we require FCC certifications, to make sure that these kinds of devices cannot act like jammers out of the box. However, like I said, with the right custom FW, they could be turned into jammers illegally by bad actors.

A common easy trick used in some home WiFI routers to boost the range for free, was to select a specific country from the device configuration menu, outside of Europe/North America, which had lower restrictions on TX signal strength than what the FCC/EU allowed, and presto, extra (illegal) WiFi range for free.
Ev's original is no longer online, so here's some alts:

- https://kevin.lexblog.com/2005/11/29/ten-rules-for-web-start...

- https://archive.is/FNZBX [archive copy of original]
What would flooding requests to their IPs do? They're not hosting the internet.
To add a background: independent from government (they were controlled by the previous generation of the oligarchs) journalism was "encouraged" to leave Russia some twenty years ago. Some landed jobs in Ukraine.

These don't disagree with the government, they just complain, that it's very inconvenient to report facts that at any moment later could be arbitrarily labeled "fake" or "disinformation".
This sounds fictional, but if not I hope you do find someone who can escalate that internally.
> any men will take a beautiful woman for sex, but providing for her long term is another thing

Looks like you never dated a Russian woman. Beware! You may end up totally dominated and providing her long term :).

Jokes aside, poverty combined with increased materialism and class division was indeed a big problem in Eastern Europe after the fall of USSR. Lots of women simply wanted "something better", which is to be translated that they valued money a lot more than true love. Social values were turned upside down. Thieves and crooks became the new social reference for success. You could no longer impress a girl with just a smile and a guitar. It was somewhat normal to prove your masculinity by fighting on the street or spending lots of money in a stupid way. Police rarely bothered, unless someone "important" person was involved. Crime proliferated to unbelievable levels. People were stealing things like tires, fuel and windshield wipers. At some point I had to lock the battery of my soviet car with a padlock (battery costed nearly half of monthly income and for some people over here it still does). Oligarchs were born out of criminal activity and questionable privatization of government property, such as factories and land. Later it turned down most of oligarchs had connections to the ex-secret service ranks. Some of them were loyal to the US, others to Russia. Most medium to large business is still controlled by such people or their offspring. Foreign investment often needed their blessing. It is a long story indeed, but I feel that after more than 30 year of "transition" to the new form of rule, people are slowly returning to some of their previous values, such as family, friends and other non-material things.
Yeah, you can choose from the one video platform that has a non-negligible amount of content.
Scam e-mail impersonating Red Cross
Yes, it's strange. Mind you that the several accusations of bias (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/18/bbc-trust-says...) are political and Nadine Dorries' angle is "wokeness", not political party bias.

So I'm assuming it's a way to shift public debate to the "culture war" topic, where people are more emotional, less rational, than say the economy, etc.
I remember reading an article that stated if you lived in Palo Alto (as opposed to East Palo Alto), and make $175K, you are considered “poor.”

It was a bit over the top, but uncomfortably close to the truth.
On the other hand, does the political opinion of anyone in Russia actually matter outside of Moscow?
> Global website security ecosystem at risk from EU Digital Identity framework [pdf]

Global website security ecosystem is already compromised (CIA, NSA) from a long time. It just gives you a false sense of security. With this new law data just becomes available to normal law enforcement.
A practical idea. I wonder whether a more consensus-based alternative to this could use some aspects of the current-highest-block from a blockchain to incorporate proof of a previously-unknowable, globally-verifiable value.
That's a lot of complicated, non-portable steps, with many subtle semantics that can easily be implemented incorrectly.

Running the code in a Wasm sandbox sounds a whole lot easier and less error prone. You do have to trust the Wasm engine, but nothing else. And you don't need in-depth knowledge of OS security mechanisms.
I didn't complete the first game and reloaded the page and now I can't play until tomorrow. In this case I think the imposed limit is kinda "artificial" and would work better having a unlimited number of games/puzzles as opposed as in Wordle
I would say it is the same kind of bullshit. "Mental disorders" are just artificial conventions that classify emotional distress, non-compliant behavior and stuff.

There are no proven "chemical" imbalances with for example depression. And psychotropic medication does not balance the "chemicals".

I also doubt that being sad or mad about something on the internet will give you accurate predictions about the mental order or disorder of the user. Of course there will be some correlation, but there also will be a lot of false negatives and false positives. I mean diagnoses by non-artificial human professionals are quite unreliable.
At least real wood furniture can be repaired. Try repairing the cheap sawdust board that Ikea furniture is manufactured out of.
Those all seem consistent with "among the best" to me. Otherwise you would have some outlets that are noticeably better than this one, which is precisely what is claimed to not be the case.
It took me 10 min to see that he is talking about the game and not the language. There is even a "Endgame Pointers" chapter in this book :).
I play go and I really don't understand most players, who seem to be desperate to improve at it.
Go is an abstract game, played for fun. Go skill has limited to no applications outside of being good at Go.
I don't think improving makes the game any more fun.
If you're playing with a friend irl, if one of you gets too good ye will no longer be able to have fun games together.
If you're playing online, then as you improve you will simply face opponents at the same improved level for eternity so nothing will change from your perspective.
So, improving doesnt make the game more fun and can potentially make it less fun.

Online go servers like KGS and OGS seem to be hyper focused around their ranking systems and almost every player is desperate to grind more rank. Ive always found this baffling but I have a theory. Maybe if you can put a number on someones skill at something, these people feel good if the number goes up cus they feel reassured they are improving at something in a measurable way? (Even if that thing is utterly trivial)

Perhaps certain people need some kind of metric to feel good about themselves? Could also apply to the trend of acquiring excessive amounts of money or luxury goods.
For anybody curious like I was, you answer a series of questions and at the end have to sign up to see any job postings.

I didn't end up signing up but they could atleast provide a sample of the roles they have available instead of wasting the time of anybody that just wants a quick idea of what they have to offer.
Of course they do. They care about their privacy, just not mine or yours.
I don't think the separation to the time of peace and time of war is even needed.

Ideally, any limitation of freedom is there to actually guarantee freedom, e.g. your freedom is limited in the form of an obligation to come to a police station to submit an explanation, but thanks to that the police can protect people from those that would otherwise limit their freedoms.

In similar vein, freedom of speech has to be limited, when some propaganda could lead to the decrease of the freedom.

It is tricky of course to judge what limitations are justified, but I find the sanctions against russian news sources on the quite safe side.
Only false information will get you a fine or a criminal conviction. If you report facts backed by hard evidence you'd be safe. To get 15 years you'd need to create some fakes on purpose that led to for example mass casualties at the war zone.
There is a war taking place, that tends to polarize opinion more than usual, whether in the last couple of decades, or centuries.
This is excellent viewing for a Saturday morning.
I assume starlink was strategically important to the US from the start. The demand for satellite internet is probably exaggerated
Thanks! Funny enough, the topic touches engineering, business, actuarial science and peoples life or death situation. All ending in courts inconconclusively. A huge part of human endeavors put together and nothing came out of them. Very representative of our species.
No, in unary.
You seem to take away that the author leaves us with judgement. It seemed to me the author ended on a sad note.
OAP = Old Age Pensioner?

I never heard of that acronym before.
I wonder if the reliance on external services for apps to function will eventually force Russia to accelerate isolating their internet infrastructure. I know they've been attempting to do that. But now this might be the impetus.
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Supports my theory that Putin just decided the West is going to hell in a handcart, so why not?
Is it? Any source that can confirm what you say?

Because I can see lots of Russian entities still based in Russia

Eg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
It's actually not the last day but a temporary suspension. Russian market is quite large and attractive to likes of IKEA and they will try to return when the hype is over. But some would be displaced by that time by the other companies. We've seen this in 2014-2015.
Amazing, was literally just thinking about how this is one area I've always been interested in but never taken the leap
Oxford would work better I think.