skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, he might as well say that since he got nothing to lose right now. Russians are feeling it, more than half of all countries are against him.

What I'm finding interesting is that there's no impartial news in this whole conflict. Either Russia (it seems any Russian leader on that position would act the same way) is somewhat justified on doing it (because of NATO's expansion to the east, etc...) or He's the next Hitler trying to expand the Russian empire and trample any democracy next to him.

I only found one video explaining the conflict from both sides of the conflict on an impartial matter. The creator did his job explaining the economic, political and geographical aspects of the conflict.

My two cents:

The conflict is complex on both sides:

- Russia thinks Europe and the US are their enemies. They don't want them as "neighbors" even though they do business together, play sports together, etc...

- The right to self-determination of the Ukrainian people is a fact. They need to do what's good for them in all aspects of their lives and with this conflict escalating, they are more than willing to join NATO.

Possible Outcomes:

1. Russia "wins":
- 2/3 of the world won't be conducting any type of business with the country.
- This will push a further polarization of the World, literally creating cold war 2
all over again just that this time we'll have 3 proxy powers: Western, Russia and
China.

2. Russia "loses":
- Government collapses: I don't even know what would happen with Russia if Putin is
deposed. Chaos will be the least of the issues that Russia would be dealing with.
- Government "caves" to Ukrainian demands: This will undoubtedly create bitterness from
the Russian people to the West in general and will put nations to rethink their postures
and form alliances to shield themselves from Western sanctions.

3. Russia agrees to cease fire if Ukraine doesn't enter to NATO: This would imply Russia not giving up Crimea nor
the "independent" states formed after the war.

4. Putin goes nuclear: Not much to say...

I can't imagine what Ukrainians are going through right now. It's easier to condemn and go to war with Russia but let's just think about it for a moment. The implications of a full scale war between NATO and Russia, when the latter is threating to use its nuclear weapons. I'm not from the US nor Europe and I'm looking a grim future all of us if this conflict keeps escalating.

There has to be a diplomatic way for the sake of Ukraine, Russia and the rest of the World.
Just from the grants on that page, none of them are designed to actually result in concrete wiki-relevant activity. This is, apparently, deliberate[1].

The metrics of success are not defined in a measurable way with respect to the wiki projects; whatever they do result in won't be published until the end of the year. Maybe we will see 4.5 million worth of value. Maybe we will not.

I'm not saying that it's a waste in absolute terms: the initiatives are likely a net good to humanity. But I don't think they are going to improve Wikipedia very much when the money is withheld from the platform itself. Yes, that's a false dichotomy, because if you have enough cash, you can have both racial justice funds and engineering excellence. But somewhere a decision was made that one is more important than the other, and I suggest that if you can have only one, going the other way will help Wikipedia more.

And no, I don't have an example of an racial justice grant that resulted in a value, but I don't claim that they are axiomatically without it.

The WMF does do quite a few other grants that I think have been and are valuable in wiki-adjacent areas. A lot of Wikipedian in Residences are very interesting, and these can have vast potential for increasing access to non-Western cultural resources. Something that I'd say is more in the WMF wheelhouse.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Knowledge_Equity_Fund#W...
Looks like a business opportunity for an enterprising law office to reach out to as many of these drivers as they can and file hundreds of such lawsuits. Until it's no longer cheaper for XPO to misclassify...
So if you click the "dismiss" button that is clearly labeled on the message, you still can't use the oven?
From your preceding comment I got the impression that you didn't know about Yugoslavia and might benefit from a Wikipedia link, but apparently I was wrong about that. Apologies.
The thing to do with a sprouted potato is to put in the soil, and then after some time, you've got two kilos of potatoes that taste just slightly different than the potatoes from the original bag, but are just fine anyway.

Doing this is even more fun if you have grade-schooler kids who can do the digging for you.
A lot of people deny the 2000 and 2016 elections. Should we ban anybody who questions those election results as well?
Former MI6 Chief on the Ukraine and Russia Conflict [video]
>But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia.

And that is how you make the Kremlin change their mind.

>Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week.

The worst repression in the Soviet Union was not Communism. The worst repression was the Russian repression of minorities and non-Russian Soviet states.
It's because Democrats are losing working class votes because of pandering to their leftist fringe in an unrelatable ivory tower bubble.

Less culture war, twitter wokism, identity partitions.
True, but that should affect basket players too, who don’t seem to be specifically predisposed to ALS.
If you use other valuation methods, it is even more pronounced.
On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party
I replied to a sponsored content email
You can read the book:

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

It proposes many interesting strategies and ideas on how to protest in dictatorships. Be subtle, use humor and focus your message on the most common people. Don't call for democracy, free speech or anything like that. You will be branded as foreign forces. Find something every Russian believes in like peace or the brotherly bonds between Russiand and Ukrainians. Pick small battles to win first.
My boomer parents are now asking me about 4chan because of the censorship (someone in the mainstream was talking about it last year.) People are looking and they'll get sucked into this stuff.
Anyone can write poor articles on securities valuations, period.
sure, appreciate the comment! :)

The main instance @ call.element.io also doesn't seem to work for me, but I chalked that up to (assumed) heavy server load.
The stock market is usually correct about companies, you need to have a really good explanation for why it is wrong. Lots of people thought that Facebook or Google etc were overvalued. They weren't, even if you account for the low probability of them taking the market the combined valuation of every similar company together shows they weren't overvalued.
I hate to admit it, but this is what I see too -- and it's not only the coasting employees who are doing this. WFH has made it OK to join meetings from a crappy cellphone connection while en route to karate class or whatever, and all this corner-cutting is diminishing the quality of communication and interactions. I can't recall how many times I've had something important to walk through on my screen during a meeting, but half the call can't see it because they're on a phone. (And yep, it's shared before the actual meeting, but not everyone prepares.) All other things being equal, does anyone think a remote team will out-perform a company who's all in the same office? We might be in for a giant game of Chicken as companies keep tabs on what their competitors are doing, and copy.
It might be immoral, but surely keeping they planes will be legal by some means, executive fiat or whatever.

Is there international treaties covering such things?

Mind, I'm from the UK our government just ignore international law when they like and only to please their own ends, not even in times of crisis, so can't see something as simple as breaking a treaty will cause any change here.
> A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

How odd - all the media they list are American. I guess it's okay for media in other parts of the world to focus on their locale and allies, but Western media must cover the globe evenly?

It's also odd they didn't complain about, e.g., BLM-related incidents getting disproportionate coverage versus the many atrocities taking place in the world. Was ignoring the world okay then, but not now?
I got new boilers (furnaces for radiator heating) installed recently, and halfway through one of the crew asked where they should install the boxes that connect the thermostats to the internet. Luckily they were completely separate, so I said I never agreed with that and they left them boxed up, because they had never thought to mention it. (They listened to my explanation that I would not have something that literally starts a fire in my house connected to the internet without at least being able to control the software it runs, but I think they were just being polite.)
Or Russia does not find those countries to be enough of a threat either due to size, military force, existing relationships, geographical boundaries, or a multitude of other factors. Or maybe Russia has begrudgingly accepted those countries joining NATO, but the last straw was a huge neighbor like Ukraine joining that is strategically important to them.
> First, I cannot stress enough how stupid this decision is.
You're right. Absurd.
I really wish people will stop putting equally between Rails/Django and React or Svelte.

Rails and Django are indeed web frameworks but you can easily have Rails with React or Django with Svelte.

So the article includes them in the list of frameworks and then moves on to discuss a FE solution.

If you want to replace Rails or Django with vanilla you need also backend API. Of course you can do that with vanilla Nodejs.

But I dare you implement proper security from scratch.
My ZX81 had audio.

The ZX81 was so badly shielded with its thin plastic case it would make
nearby radios go crazy. You could tune a MW radio off-station, put it
close to the computer and listen to code executing. It made different
sounds depending on what loops it was in. That was how I was able to
make "computer music" in 1981, by poking little "machine code"
routines into RAM and running them to make "songs" come out the radio.
To answer that question: Yes, I am and I’m not alone. GRRRM is free to not give a thing about this anger (look up the response to someone asking if he was going to do a Jordan) but I came to the conclusion that in buying and reading fantasy series I feel there is an understanding of fans that we expect authors to finish series. Obviously that is naive and there is no contract or obligation but there is ample precedent for authors being happy that their series take of and finishing them especially for the early fans. If you start a series still being written you are supporting the authors ‘live’. Could have sponsored the Tolkien estate instead.
After reading several of the comments, I think OP is not a native English speaker, and that makes for some awkward grammar/sentence structure.
Yes, that's why I can only do so with technical articles rather than conversational/general literature (papers rather than newspapers), the vocabulary is more standardized :)
> I still do not see the logic of punishing people who left russia - as they obviously do not support the war.

Just an idea: perhaps it's easier to circumvent sanctions if you can move abroad in order to make money transfers. You could also make money transfers for your family and friends while you're there. Or even create some kind of a business, where you're a middleman. Perhaps the sanctions can be improved in a way to not hurt people leaving russia, but obviously as it increases complexity, it also requires more time to prepare.

Still, a russian may make money abroad and then return to russia with the money. So "improving" those sanctions would effectively decrease them.
Because DNSSEC is a bad protocol that nobody serious uses, with an inexplicably committed cheering section.
This seems like wishful thinking. Young people are in no way manipulated by advertising and influencers et al. right?
Frankly, I don't know. I'm just sharing my experience and opinion that sanctions don't help.

It's quite possible that there's nothing at all that can be done right now, apart from humanitarian help. No matter how much we wanted the war to stop. At least if we're only looking at options that don't lead to worse outcomes.

The time to prevent this was probably years ago. But I'm far from geopolitics expert, I can just speculate lake enyone else.
Show HN: Windows XP Themed Mastodon Instance
Hello HN, sharing a forked Mastodon instance I set up themed in a Windows XP style with a focus on retro tech.

Brief overview if you haven't used Mastodon before, Mastodon[0] is a Twitter-like, federated social network with an open source code base[1] that uses the W3C standardized ActivityPub[2] protocol to create an interoperable social network.

This is a beta, so expect some theming issues here an there. Source code for this instance is available at github[3], and please open issues if you find any bugs or style issues.

[0] https://joinmastodon.org/

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

[3] https://github.com/assemblylanguage/lunadon
To get the prediction variance in a Bayesian treatment, you integrate over the posterior of the parameters - surely computing or approximating the posterior counts as considering parameter variance?
Corrupt west, of course. At least you can say what you think. Most of the time.
The article and the comment are talking about hosting the site and its resources in the same place/on the same domain, not about the kind of hosting used. This advice still holds even if your entire site is behind a CDN.
This is the funniest apology for DNSSEC I've ever read. It's fine, as long as you never try to turn it off! Or use Route53! Don't do that, or your whole site will fall off the Internet for a day. Got it!
>The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.

This is international flights of russian airlines that has leased airplanes. Currently like 60% of planes are leased and companies started to demand their planes back. Some planes already get arrested. This is move essentially to prevent returning airplanes because otherwise civil aviation (and not only) in russia will be dead.

It's still interesting to see, what they will do with spare parts. Also I think some airplanes must get some updates from "cloud" daily, which will probably be blocked as well
This might be true (as horrible as it sounds - and many people in Ukraine think exactly this), but I still hope that a vocal minority acting together could start something new - and then we could see another, better Russia (Russia that returns Crimea, Donbass, and don't start new wars).
Honest advice: Get a tshirt with "FUCK PUTIN" printed on it. Wear it everywhere, even if it's covered up by a jacket. If you find yourself in a risky situation, make sure it's showing.
Same, its almost a wholesale rejection and works just fine for either getting the point across or driving millions in revenue

In the web3 space, all the “call to actions” are direct payments, so the funnel is reduced to a single step - optimized by orders of magnitude over the long winded funnels of web 2.0 services for even higher margins and even faster sales cycles

most of the learnings from all these other frameworks was to optimize for the most user experiences to keep them engaged for a convoluted product where the user session needs to be transferred between views and made longer and longer

In a world where most sites and services never needed to do that, and the current web3 ones that monetize well definitely don't need to, none of this complicated frontend (or associated backend) matters any more

The only remaining relevant learnings from the past 10 years are responsive design for different screen sizes, CDNs for even more caching, and better auto deployments from version control updates
The sadder truth may be that you won't be getting anything much better than Putin from Russia in its current state.
The primary reason we don't transfer goods via train is that from the perspective of truckers, roads magically appear and cost nothing. Toll roads are far and between and prefer to rip off commuters rather than tax trucks what their weight causes in damage.
Don't be so sure about that. There's a lot of posters from eastern Europe in this thread. Many may remember their own fights with USSR. Not to mention maidan.
Growing number of Russians, Ukrainians seeking asylum at U.S.-Mexico border
Yes, and those explanations are based on valuation strategies: discounted cash flow being the most generous, though also perhaps more "accurate" than other methods despite being very sensitive to changes in discount rates with historically low interest rates.

If you did discounted cash flow analysis on Facebook or Google, you'd find that despite their high price to earnings ratios, their earnings produced fair valuations, not overvalued ones.
This is where automation will start. It seems trivial to have special on/off areas for driverless trucks that will just stay on route 40 or route 70 or w/e for 2000 miles. Then short range drivers will pickup/drop off trucks to these hubs. By having it being only highway and just staying in the right lane they can run 24/7 without any more complicated things.
You can always "hold up an old newspaper". Nothing prevents you from storing and reusing an old signature.

It always only proves that it wasn't taken before a certain date.

You can then also prove "not after" by timestamping the picture (having it signed by a RFC3161 timestamping authority or putting a hash on the blockchain).
>But again, a few anecdotes of stupids doing stupid and hatefuls doing hateful, doesn’t qualify as a “bloodthirsty mob with no regard for innocent civilians and children”.

I just don't feel like catologing every red flag instance on here. It's a more widespread social trend.

>I’d be furious and concerned about escalation if I were them — but the original comment suggested something much more broad-based and sinister.

The comparison was in regards to polarizing dehumanization that's often a precursor to many bad situations. I think you're drawing conclusions from OPs statement that aren't there.

The populist trend to try and deport/target innocent exchange students is definitely a trend in that direction however.
New York Times vs. Sullivan the Case for Preserving an Essential Precedent [pdf]
Thank you, I was not aware of that incident.

I hope this war stops as soon as possible. The Russian people I know (including myself) don't support the war and are trying to help with the humanitarian aid, refugees etc (I'm outside russia).
have you like, actually talked to Russians? I have a number of ethnic Russian friends and I've been active on some Russian-language discords/subreddits. the ones I've talked to are aghast at this and blaming themselves for staying out of politics up until now.

there's selection bias since I'm finding Russians who are on Western social media platforms, but still, I don't think you can claim the "vast majority" are like this.
This source is a "partner" of Yandex News [1]. Yandex has rules for "partners", and one of the requirements is "quality of headers" [2], although as we see, Yandex doesn't care much about it.

[1] https://yandex.ru/news/smi?name=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%...

[2] https://yandex.ru/support/news/info-for-mass-media.html
I just spoke w a friend yesterday about the non-violence part and how it resonates a bit negatively.

But the gist of the practice is to expand awareness to feelings/emotions and the driving forces behind one’s actions, and bringing ownership to one’s talk and self-talk.

This in a way cleans up a lot of self-maintaining patterns that otherwise keep creating friction. It also makes possible deeper connection and intimacy + effortless compassion in all relationships.
I work at Shopify. It appears as of a day or two ago, I was told that we're relocating people from Russia to Canada.

Of course this situation may change, things are fluid, but it may be worth applying to the careers site and seeing what happens.

https://www.shopify.com/careers
The harm here isn't that there is no non-WiFi oven available, it's the underlying reason why the oven wants Wi-Fi and an app: "growth and engagement" aka data collection, advertising, etc. The primary purpose of this oven isn't to be an oven, it's to build a "platform" which you can then use to "engage" its users with more ads, DRM-encumbered consumables, etc. Their intended end-game is the "Unauthorized Bread" story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...

Regulation should address non-consensual data collection and the rest will follow. Non-WiFi ovens will be back on the market once the connected ones stop being profitable (since you can no longer stalk... I mean "engage" their users).
Trying to learn Mandarin. Took French in school but can only read. Would be embarrassing to speak. I chose "No".
> block Russian news sources

Or phrased differently, block their users from being able to access Russian news sources.
Trace amounts of solanin remain even in the most perfect potatoes. No potato is safe! >:D
This wouldn't be good enough.

Imagine pan frying something on your range, the food splatters, and it changes the temperature on you. Now you need to adjust the burner back down (or off), but you can't adjust the temperature because the controls are now wet with grease. Better be quick to dry off controls and turn off heat before you start a grease fire. Or failing that, moving the pan off from the heat source...

Just ban them.
Putin invaded in 2014 and 2022. Putin did not do additional invasions when Trump was president, he remained in the part of Ukraine he took when Biden was vice president.
i'd love to learn French too, i fell like i'm missing out!

currently: russian (native), english and german secondary
so what you are saying is, your government officially agrees with russia about humanitarian corridors, but then tells your own citizens not to follow them?

Do you have a picture of the notice? How do you know it's your government?
These seem to be mummies wearing pointy hats that were therefore called witches as shorthand for identification, not mummies of supposed witches who happened to mysteriously share millinery choices with 16th century European imagery.