skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you got down-voted by pissed-off Russian men, but your prediction regarding what will happen in the Russian society is spot on. The problem with the alcoholism and prostitution over there has already been pretty bad, but now it will of course get much much worse.

Unfortunately, so far in history Russia has only been a one huge long tragedy. Navalny gave a speech at his kangaroo trial that his wish is that Russia be happy. Maybe some day they might eventually figure out how to make that happen. But maybe not. 50 / 50 chance perhaps. But the next best thing would be that Russia does not spread tragedy to all other countries with radioactive fallout, and also no way to say for sure if that might happen or not, but does look likely.
Nah, Oxford.
The strange part is that Ukraine thinks it would punish but the Russian government wants the same to keep up their propaganda.

When you want the same as your enemy that is strange.
I always found this funny. In Russian "second hand" is spelled секонд хэнд, which I find hilarious.
> I feel like I'm talking with a wall.

You repeat questions I already answered.
Who considers Russian disinformation protected free speech?
Can you please show me the law? Because that would mean that the U.K needs to close GCHQ and any other secret-service maybe even some police-work.
Why do you want to replace it with a Mac mini instead of a Mac laptop? Personally, I'm waiting for the low-end MBP to be announced — hopefully with all the same ports as the new MBPs — and I'll get one of those. These do look nice, but I have to be portable, and an iPad doesn't cut it for me.
Interestingly, they also work for accessing RT and Sputnik from the EU that are banning them.
Ethanol produced via fermentation tends to have methanol as well though. IIRC wine has a fair bit in it.
https://archive.is/jGJoy
This piece by Stephan Uhrenbacher is a good example of counter-psyops
that I mentioned in some recent comments here.

For some reason those comments were down-voted, perhaps because people
feel instinctively uncomfortable with influence operations.

I hear some people say that they avoid advertising (switch off)
because they "know they are defenceless against its influence". Yes,
modern influence is sophisticated, but it's not magic or something you
cannot counter and even learn something about your enemy from (by what
messages they use and prioritise).

Intellectual Self-Defence (and what Snowden and I have called Digital
Self-Defence) is an important craft in our time, and this piece touches
on some interesting points.

- know what messages are being directed at _you_ and why

- see that some (different) messages are directed at _others_

- understand that other people will decode and process propaganda differently

- manage frustration of those differences and your powerlessness

- help counter disinformation by open, frank discussion and calm reason

- anticipate events and the enemy's messaging to decode agendas

- see the patterns/rhythm of propaganda machinery and adjust

The word propaganda means "to propagate", which is not the same as "to
transmit/disseminate". It relies on YOU being the medium of
propagation. Intellectual Self-Defence means not becoming a tool of
the enemy and amplifying his messages.
> Other than that, I don't understand your question.

It's simple: a user inherits from your class and adds a method to their user-defined subclass. You then ship a new version of your library that adds a method with the same name to your class, but with different semantics, and other parts of your library call this method expecting it to have the semantics you defined. You've just broken the user's code, even though you say this was a "backwards-compatible" release, and it isn't the user's fault because they were using your library as it was documented.
Not abandonned though, just no features to be added, and C doesn't evolve a whole lot, so no need for updates. This is a pretty desirable state for a project to be in, actually.
War as seen on TikTok: Ukraine clips get views whether true or not
I've posted this link yesterday [1]. You can get the data on current state of pipelines, LNG terminals and quantity of gas that can be processed.

[1] https://memgraph.com/blog/gas-pipelines-in-europe
You're underestimating how huge the surface area of the sphere these satellites are orbiting, and how little material they have. Even if you somehow blow them all up, they won't shield you from ICBMs.
True, but China buys all of those "high-end things" in enormous quantities already. Can't they just resell them to Russia, if Russians (or anyone else) want to buy them?

Without sanctioning China, I really don't see how the US and her allies can prevent most "normal" goods from making their way (eventually) to Russia. Hell, even IKEA is in China.
No, obviously. It's daydreaming at best.
> we can "pump" a new string w' = xy^nz (for any n > 0)

While this is certainly true, I would prefer to note that n ≥ 0. n > 0 is just a special case of that.

(You can see clearly that 0 repetitions will always be valid by considering the proof of the pumping lemma: since a regular expression is recognized by a finite state machine, the only way to recognize a string of length exceeding the (finite!) number of states in the machine is to visit some states more than once, which means traveling around a cycle in the state graph. The 'pumpable substring' of the pumping lemma is a path through such a cycle, and repeating it zero times corresponds to traveling around the cycle zero times. The rest of the path is just as valid as always.)
There's something to this. Over the past few weeks I built up live RSS feeds that sucked in the latest submissions to apposite subReddits, and a collection of other feeds and sources.

Two days ago I deleted all that, as it was making me sick and crazy. I think maybe what we need is 'slow news', and to rely on anything we really need to know percolating through the misinformation and speculation.

What stressed me most was the unexpected extent of polarized alarmism all over Reddit, and (to a lesser extent) even here on HN. There's no logical reason why I couldn't have expected that to happen; I guess I just didn't map it out internally in the calm before the storm.
It is not about defending but presenting the point of view. It is easy to find articles explaining the Taliban point of view and why they had support in Afghanistan (I even saw a very interesting 5 hours documentary on the national french television not long ago with interviews of prominent talibans). It is not easy to find articles explaining the Ukrainian point of view in current Russian media.
The USSR used to have high-powered jammers used to jam the short-wave radio frequencies of the VOA, BBC, etc. Those noisemakers could be received worldwide. They shut down decades ago.

Here's a picture of one, abandoned.[1]

[1] https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/old-russian-jammer...
> Tanks cost less than fighter jets

The MiG 21 cost less to procure than a BMP-1 armoured personnel carrier if Wikipedia [1] is to be believed [2]. A BMP is not a tank and can be assumed to be less expensive than one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21#Cost

[2] which is in this case probably is seeing as how this is not a politically sensitive subject
> A quarter of US adults say they always use TikTok to get the news, with nearly half of US millennial and Gen Z adults – under-41s and under-25s respectively – indicating the same, according to analysis firm Forrester Research.

I find this shocking. Is there a worse way to get news? Maybe RT or OANN.
Do you really need multiple Macs?

Ever since USB C came about, I just have one MacBook which acts as desktop (and laptop). USB C requires just one cable to charge my MacBook and transmit video. Aka I plug in the "power cable" and boom I got a desktop PC. (The monitor has an integrated USB hub).
all it does is measure emotions... it's like saying if you're sad you must be depressed or if you're happy you must be manic
Civil war in Russia is pretty much a given at some point. This can't go on forever. Though, it has gone on long enough that maybe that is based on a faulty assumption: that in the longer term the world trends to improvement. That might not be the case, we may be able to reach some local maximum and then fall back again.
Ideally please bookmark your comment. Lets wait for a couple of years.
I'm really surprised by this move. Starlink will need as many customers as it can get all over the world, and there're too many countries, even some in EU, who'd want to filter some content, or otherwise would ban terminals. Some are huge, like India. For those declaring that all traffic would go to the in-country land station could work. With that arrangement even China wouldn't totally out of the question. Making spacex free-speech outpost is nice and would create some contraband market for terminals, but...
This is interesting, but it overlooks the way people often bullshit their way into a higher class. Boris Johnson is a common example of this: he's sort of an everyman's stereotype of what an upper-class person is like, and he plays up to it, but he's certainly not upper class himself.
It's funny that the EU needs censoring to "protect" the public from censored media...that smells really bad to me TBH.
Most likely AM radio. The range is thousands of miles at night, and most cars still have an AM receiver.
People keep saying not to use this, and I think that's pretty wrong-headed.

Sure, if you're going to do greenfield software development, and you don't absolutely need to kind of closeness to the metal (not just performance, but direct access) that C offers, then use something else (Rust, Zig, Go ... if you need to compile to native binaries, Java, C# & their myriad of variants if you don't).

But if you have to use C, to extend an existing project, use a specific library, or hook some other system... why not use Cello?

For sure, this is not a tight black-box abstraction, so you should strive to understand the semantics of how it works. Once you do though, it'll make your life a whole lot simpler.
@dang can we please add (2007) to the title?
Software vendors can deliberately leak "pirated" copies of their programs to Russian torrent sites with backdoors and other malicious code added. That could be an effective countermeasure.
Try the Vietnam proxy war.

And any sensible and rational being with non-zero knowledge of Iraq and Saddam's transgressions against humanity should support the Iraq war which was all about toppling him. Since you're clearly not one of those, here's some homework to get you started: Halabja massacre, Kuwait invasion.
Which one is a worse place to go for news: 4chan.org/pol (don't go there if you haven't been before) or cnn.com? Personally I'm not sure. The curation in tiktok sounds particularly disturbing though since it would just form a feedback loop with whatever the algorithm decides you're "most interested in."
I like the small versions of sneakers. But shrinking watches seem a bit pointless, as watches are about precision which is what you lose when you shrink them.
There aren't "known CSAM sites" lol... If they were known they'd already be taken down. There aren't big scary CSAM sites on the public internet hosted in foreign countries that need blocking.
Both sides calling a lack of freedom of press, guess it's only freedom when one sided narrative fits. With the internet it's possible to get around most walls
The earthy suffering to test your faith is all over the texts and their ethics.
What, no wind up short wave radios available?
They may be spending much less time on their phones soon. The apps in Russia are shutting down like falling dominoes. Same goes for phone sales.
I’m a little shocked the Apple Watch hasn’t slimmed down yet. I would have thought based ion the iPhone product history that they would realize a higher sales rate once the dimensions came down.

But they’re still adding new sensors instead of shrinking the battery.
Reality is any platform without moderation turns into a cesspool. Individually you want to be in control, but in aggregate the product rots. I can’t really think of any user generated content product without some form of control that hasn’t turned into complete shit. If you know of any please enlighten me.
Just a note for American readers. In the US calling someone 'middle class' means that they are fairly ordinary salt-of the earth folks living a normal life, but who are not poor and not living paycheque to paycheque.

This is not true in the UK. To call someone middle class here means that they are above average in money and social status. It would probably be similar to calling someone 'upper-middle class' in the USA.
How would they do that though? Russian interest rates are through the roof, so even if you could borrow money to start a business you likely couldn’t make it profitable. If you had assets to begin with they better not have been in the stock market, because that has been closed since the invasion began and basically everything you own is now rated 0. If your assets were in savings, then they too have lost basically all value along with the rubbles.

Even if you somehow overcome the need for capital, how do you setup the supply chain necessary in a world where you can’t readily trade with anyone but China? Which you may not be able or doing in a month if things turn sour and China also start sanctioning.

Sure Russia has a lot of wood, but Russia doesn’t have the industrial material to transform it into furniture, and right now, Russia doesn’t have access to the high tech commodities required to build an efficient lumber industry, let alone factories to process it.

You’re right of course, this will open up for opportunities in the very long run, but it’ll be very localised opportunities that can’t take advantage of the global supply chain in a country that had an economy which was around the size of the economy of Italy before this began.

If you look at history, then you can’t really build empires in isolation. Even the current “American empire” saw a lot of its economic rise throught things like the Marshall plan, which as an example, lifted my country (Denmark) from what was basically medieval farming methods with lots and lots of manual labour to the average farmer owning tractors in less than a decade. Unless the oligarchs of Russia plan on investing basically all their national profits into building the country’s industry, then I would personally wager that these images are the last chance that a lot of Russian have to but IKEA things for a good while. It won’t stop there either, after a few years of isolation the average Russian won’t be able to buy things like coffee if the sanctions get worse.

War is hell.
Both sides think the other side might use nuclear power plants as a dirty bomb.

Anyway if the Russians want to control all the country they can't let a nuclear power plant left alone, it's a strategic asset.
There's plenty of drawn lolita imagery easily publicly available on the clear net. Primarily because it's legal in many countries. Often times it's only filtered behind going into a settings menu and hitting a checkbox, but usually not even that.

Example: Almost any of the various image booru sites have it, usually behind a checkbox.
I wonder if you talk about 'bad apples' whether you have understood what the primary task of a scrum master is, which I think is to be there for your team and not be a process manager. I think that the word 'master' was a very badly chosen term.
Love the way he articulates why he’s credible before he starts talking about the subject-matter, and it’s a humanizing and thoughtful way to detach himself from the conversation. It’s like a breath of fresh air to watch these days; everything you interact with wants your attention and expressions of humility never feel authentic. But this did. I guess that’s why he works at Stanford.
Many things the agencies do is either illegal or would be illegal for ordinary citizens.
I tried multiple times to grok rust, but it's still too difficult for me to understand and be comfortable. In contrary go other than the struggle of unused variable compile error, I can use it within hours.
The ISPs have no choice in this.
The History of SRE
My own perspective is that of a husband of a wife with tumors that we thought meant certain death, yet she miraculously survived.

So get three to five personal consultations from different neurosurgeons in our own native language, this is just for your information so that you understand what the different options and opinions are. These consultations are just for your information, these will not likely be the neurosurgeon that will operate. Don't waste time, this can be done in a week to 10 days.

Also don't confuse personal sympathy with professional capacity. You want somebody who has operated a similar operation a few thousand times already. You want a genius in this medical field and not somebody to drink wine with.

I can recommend:
https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/einrichtungen/neuroch...
the other option in Germany is:
https://neurochirurgie.charite.de/

I can just comment on possible locations in Germany, I don't know about others around the world, but certainly there are others.

Good luck, god bless the kid
True for your new project from scratch when you already sucked up C++ such that you know what&when.

But at this point you know C++ pretty well (including all what you don't want to use, take a look at the CPP Core Guidelines), and using Rust is almost trivial, since Rust doesn't really introduce anything really new you wouldn't be already familiar with.

At least that was my experience.
To be fair they have quite openly experimented with shutting themselves off from the internet, presumably for situations like now.

Ref: https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-disconnected-globa...
Covid lockdowns triggered record rainfall in China
I think that your view is too simplistic. Navalny's views are not that clear [1] - certainly not ultranationalistic.

[1]: https://ukraineworld.org/articles/opinions/what-does-aleksey...
Buy when it's low, sell high.
How do you prevent that they don't spread to other non russian torrents?
Apple iCloud does it all seamlessly (depending how large your files are) https://www.apple.com/uk/icloud/
You don't need advertising if you have a useful product. You only need discoverability.

Advertising is an industry of mental pollution. It exists explicitly to convincing people they need to buy a product. If they don't know they need to buy it without being convinced, they don't actually need to buy it.

It is literally not worth $2 to me to have your junk injected into my brain. This isn't personal of course. I don't even know how useless your junk is. But the fact is, if you're selling a thing, I don't need it. I have more things than I need. I need less. I'd pay $2 to not own your thing specifically because I don't want more things. And that's not even getting into the real issues with advertising.

Advertising is a lot more than your argument claims. It isn't just notification of a product's existence. Advertising is specifically convincing people to buy your thing. Maybe informing people of your product's existence will get some sales. But you'll get a lot more sales if you convince people they want your product. And you'll succeed at that a lot more easily if you attack statistical psychological weaknesses than if you just list product features. This isn't an accident, and it isn't going off the rails. It's what advertising will always become, because it's effective.

Your argument is along the lines of "well I won't abuse it." That's completely irrelevant, unless you're the only person allowed to advertise in the whole world. It really doesn't matter what your goals are. It matters what the effect of the policies you recommend are, and advertising has well-documented negative societal impact. As long as you don't engage with the actual problems with advertising in your arguments, your arguments aren't addressing my point.

If you actually want to address my point, tell me how you can fix the negative societal impact while still allowing advertising.
And guess which banks are sanctioned?
Believe it or not, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are permitted to do things ordinary citizens aren’t, in the course of their work.

As to the relevant bit - section one, paragraph one, subsection a:

>> 1)A person is guilty of an offence if—
>> (a)he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer [or to enable any such access to be secured] ;

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1
But you are saying in this analogy that the restaurant should post negative reviews from its customers, say on its website. Why should they? It’s not like they’re taking down negative reviews (videos) from things they don’t own.
Apparently yes: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1500026380704178178
> (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood)

There's some kind of idea going around that because the plural of "ox" is "oxen", plurals with -n must be triggered by a word ending in "x". So you see cutesy references to "boxen" or similar.

But -n is just an ordinary plural marker; the same ending that makes "oxen" the plural of "ox" also makes "kine" the plural of "cow" and "children" the plural of "child". (In those last two cases, the words are sporting two plural markers in sequence.)
Update: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1500026380704178178

They were being jammed.
True, but in war they could add a warning to the website.
> What is the purpose of fighting? Have you looked at Russia? ukrainians would like to remain free of totalitarianism and will die trying. They will not accept becoming a vassal state. What is the alternative to fighting?

The point is that it seems completely hopeless without direct military help from the West. Looked at Russia, in what sense? I have lived there, so I know what life is like there, but I don't know the state of the military. Except that it's enormous, and only a fraction has been deployed so far.

Why won't they accept becoming a vassal state, if the alternative is complete destruction? Or are they betting that Putin will back off before it's levelled to the ground. Perhaps he will, but I wouldn't bet on it, look at Chechnya.

Clearly Putin thought the resistance would be weak and starting out they went to great lengths to spare civilians, but that has already started to give way. It's awful to think what will happen if this drags on.
I might agree but "states" here should really mean "decision making elites within states". It's not like "Russia" as a country fears for her security (that's of course a category error!), it's more that there's a pretty well-defined elite of people with decision making power within Russia who fear that their current power might not be stable.

Democracy helps solve these screwed up incentives by vesting sovereignty (the source for legitimacy of that sort of power) in the people as a whole, and making the status as an "elite" highly time-limited and contestable. So nobody has to fear more for their security than anyone else.
Have you thought about what happens if Russia looses? Ukraine is a red line for them.
I don't think I've seen that take and you may be mixing up what he says with what he thinks, always confusing when talking about blatant liars.

I've seen people saying that he thought he could force them to install a pro-russian regime (or further split the country) with shock and awe and merely the threat of great violence and underestimated the will and ability to resist, and overestimated his ability to project power, but not that he's totally disconnected from the reality of public opinion in Ukraine.

The whole point, whether the invasion worked really well or not, is that he needs to overule their democratic opinion by force. He seems to grasp that or nothing he's doing makes any sense.