skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% agree, now who you want to be the judge of bad/good wars? The UN w/ veto power for big countries? Maybe the international war crime court where "the US government has said that it will not cooperate with the ICC and has threatened retaliatory steps against ICC staff and member countries should the court investigate US or allied country citizens" [0]?

Don't get me wrong, as an American citizen, I enjoy my privilege very much. But, if I didn't have this privilege, I would fight as hell for amoral money or at least a fair international court.

0. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/02/qa-international-crimina...
Russia said they would pay foreign bond holders in rubles even if the bonds are owed in dollars and euros. The exchange rate would be set by the central bank. Most would consider this a default on the loans.
Is this "Linux is garbage" opinion shared broadly by security researchers? I did some Googling around about opinions, and I didn't find anything that suggested that this view is widely shared by security researchers (I found some claims that security researchers held Linux in high regard, but those claims themselves didn't seem particularly authoritative). Also, what is "alienating"? (I don't have much of a view into interactions between kernel maintainers and security researchers) As for "written in C", what production-grade kernels aren't written in C?
Watched too much Russian news? I have no idea what was going on in DNR/LNR. The western stance was that Ukraine was combating separatists aided by the Russian government.

The Russian narrative of "we're helping the newly recognized DNR/LNR" doesn't make much sense - why are they invading all of Ukraine to make those two regions safe?

This is sort of like if the US "helped" Taiwan by taking Beijing. Or South Korea by capturing Pyongyang.

Also, the Russian news keep saying "DNR/LNR forces aided by Russian forces". When it's clear it's just the Russian military.
Archived: https://archive.ph/w2guc
I was wondering what the 84% floating batteryicon was about until I scrolled back up
If you were being sarcastic, then I did not realize, no.
I think this framing gives undue weight to the fact that the majority of people historically identified as religious, without examining the number of confounding reasons for that (like it being the best theory previously, or the threat of being put to death for not identifying as the regions majority religion, etc). I think this is basically an appeal to authority argument no?
A new speed milestone for Chrome
standard front-running stuff. you can see the transactions that are in the mempool, you can either submit your own higher-fee transaction (likely to be included before theirs) or if you're a miner you can try to mine blocks with your transaction included and theirs specifically excluded so that yours goes first.

that essentially tells you that the price is about to go up or down, so you can make money on the movement.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/front-running-flash-bots-and-...

https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/miner-extracta...
I was going by the last sentence of the article: It comes in two flavors, either single- or three-gear, which cost $699 and $799 respectively.

If you go to Yerka's site it does say that "The Yerka model with gears incorporates sealed gears inside the hub which means less service, more reliability and you will be able to shift without pedaling" so the three-speed might have an internal hub gear. But this also clearly implies a model "without gears".

And finally at the store page - https://yerka.store/products/yerka-v3?variant=35584723255449 - it pretty distinctly gives you an option of "3 speed" and "single speed". And has photos of a bike with one big gear behind the cranks, doesn't even have a chain guard to help keep your pants out of it. No fancy internal gear there.
It's entirely possible he was expecting another Crimea. As in, very little resistance and practically no reaction from the rest of the world.

That's what happened last time. It's not completely ridiculous to expect it to happen again.
Putin's motivation is nostalgia.

He misses the USSR. He misses the Cold War. He misses the restrictive cultural atmosphere of totalitarianism. And he wishes he could have fought the Nazis.

Now, at the age of 69, he gets to relive his youth.
Read this
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-04/shorts-wh...
> Ukrainians watch the same superhero movies, they play the same video games.

The people you've "othered" do the same.

This is an absolutely disgusting comment and instead of you taking this as a moment of introspection and an opportunity to humanize and relate to the "others", you just "own" your xenophobic views and then come here to proudly justify them.

The bar to humanize people is reddit and disney apparently.

JFC.

Also, it's spelt Iraqis. Not Iraquis. Literally any spellchecker would've told you, but I guess they're not human enough to care.
Could be that the marked is getting split because of the sanctions and internal prices are diverging.

Similar in Soviet times there was a special internal rate that was very disconnected from international.
Debian's actually one of the distros I thought of when I said "properly set up". Their tools packages are very out of date, they don't install the proper maintenance setup by default, and the installer doesn't support subvolumes. Going through the man page, yeah I see it does mention using btrfs-check for various parts when generally that is not recommended (see the Arch Wiki[0] or OpenSUSE docs[1] to see how they warn against it).

> So keep parroting "it's stable!" all you want, my experience has shown btrfs is "stable" until you have a problem.
I've been running it on multiple production machines for years now, as well as my home machine. Facebook has been using it in production for I think over a decade now, and it's used by Google and Synology on some of their products.

I'm not saying it doesn't have problems (I've certainly faced a few), but it is tiresome reading the same cracks against it because they set it up without reading the docs. You never see the same thing against someone running ZFS without regular scrubs or in RAIDZ1.

[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#btrfs_check

[1]https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:BTRFS
Useful commands and tools for operating Docker engine on a Linux server
Interesting. I heard from some older, conservative East EU folks that they approve of Putin because Ukraine is full of "drug addicts and immoral behavior." So maybe there is a religious conservative thread backing this conflict. This kind of thinking is not that unusual in the US either...
I recently chatted with the creator of TinyPilotKVM (https://tinypilotkvm.com/) which lets you remote control a server without installing any software on it. It's a KVM over IP device that you plug into your machine. He sells a few hundred of them a month after launching in mid 2020.

The podcast episode is at: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/105-tinypilotkvm-let...

It covers everything from how he got started, starting with a proof of concept, 3D printing and refining the process as he went.
> If you are somehow practically unable to arbitrage it,

On the Wise page it says "Sending money to RUB with Wise is temporarily stopped." So yeah, that's why the rates are so different.
The rate for buying USD is 132 RUB in my bank app
They absolutely are. They have been used for thousands of years to hold back the populous and abused by leaders who manipulate it to get what they want. I'm not saying atheists don't do bad things either, it's just they don't justify it as "the will of God(s)”. I think by and large religion has an awful track record down through history and has actively attempted to retard human progress and learning, they want to be the only source of “truth”
I don't feel guilty about bugs but I feel super guilty about not having tests.
Thank you, that's a great reply to his comment. My first impression of his comment was that the kernel project shouldn't chase the latest-and-best compiler releases -- or similarly the most recent C language changes; rather, a boring-technology approach is sensible for such a foundational project as Linux. I see your point, though, that GCC is simple to upgrade. (If I were making the tech decision here, I'd want to ensure that newer GCC's didn't introduce features that I thought were too risky for my project, or at least that I could disable/restrict those features with flags.)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30527015
There was a period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when foreign vendors tried to the RIAA/MPAA tactic of highly publicized enforcement against individuals and small institutions. Microsoft, for example. It mostly backfired.

They eventually shifted to enforcing against large entities and intermediaries. Same as in the West.
Russia isn't as big as the USSR was. You don't need to glass Siberia to make even a limited nuclear exchange unpalatable.
> he thought the West was weak and divided

He wasn't far off. It's American stratotankers with British Eurofighters and F35 circling above Poland along the border with Ukraine... the response and sanctions without these two would limp behind if we counted only on continental EU countries, then Nordics only care about their own backyard.
Just regarding your point #4: actually, the Russians are opposed to Ukraine joining NATO and that is probably their main reason for invading. Were Ukraine to become a full NATO member, it would be forever immune from Russian aspirations of reconstituting the old USSR empire which of course included Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakstan, and several others. Furthermore, if Ukraine joined, Georgia might be next, constituting a ring of NATO military installations right on Russia's western and southern flanks, and in the heart of what they consider the "near frontier". From their point of view, this would be unacceptable, and the few remaining Russia experts in the U.S. government and in western Europe are surely aware of this.

This is not to say the Russians are justified in their very violent action in Ukraine, but it's important to understand their motivations if they are to be countered on any level short of all-out conventional war or, God forbid, nuclear armageddon.

I do agree with your point #6, that "firm will to bring the world back from the brink" is required here. I don't think the various "cancel culture" sanctions will do anything useful -- might put pressure on the oligarchy, or might not. Does a billionaire care that Portugal (or whoever) has impounded his $20m yacht? Or that suddenly his UK bank accounts are frozen? I don't really know. But it's important to keep in mind human nature. Pushing the Russians too hard, e.g. cutting off Visa/Mastercard/Paypal, boycotting Russian athletes, etc., may backfire and create more sympathy for Putin's stance, thus prolonging the conflict and maybe escalating it disastrously.
Can anyone explain the consequences of this coupled with the list of "unfriendly countries" that Russia just announced? [0]

> Russian citizens and companies, the state itself [..] that have foreign exchange obligations to foreign creditors from the list of unfriendly countries will be able to pay them in rubles

[0] https://tass.com/politics/1418197
quick the hokage needs to trap the fox spirit in a little boy
Despite the sanitized name, "economic sanctions" are violence and collective punishment. Average Russians will be (and already are) take the brunt of this as their savings are destroyed by inflation and/or seized (the Russian "parliament" passed a law requiring all foreign currency payments and bank accounts to have 80% converted to rubles).

Lack of food security and access to basic medicines will kill people here, just like it did in Iraq and is doing in Iran and Venezuela. Speaking of Venezuela, all of a sudden the US has warmed to the idea of easing or removing Venezuelan sactions [1] since its a large oil producer.

The point is that none of these sanctions are about principle. It's purely self-serving to US strategic interests and the protection of capital (much like Shell buying discounted Russian oil [2]).

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-venezuela-discuss-...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/06/shell-defends-decision-to-bu...
Drawbacks of engaging with customer complaints on Twitter
Assume I patch my Linux boxes once a month. I see a commit where an attacker has a trivial privesc. I read the commit, see if it's relevant to me, and potentially decide to do an out of cycle patch. As in, instead of updating next month I'll just update now.
This is so cool! I wanted to do something similar with the G4 cube, but the Mac mini is slightly too big. Hope the next version is smaller.
Ransomware Group Threatens to Leak “Nvidia's Most Closely Guarded” Secrets
Ukraine will be a buffer one way or another, for NATO or for Russia. It is very clear that the Ukrainian people would much rather be a buffer for NATO, but that doesn't change the fundamental nature of the situation. Recognizing that Putin's interests are the same as ours, just in reverse, is not saying that he is "right." And if you think these fights are irrelevant to ordinary people, you are obviously not thinking it through. What about all of the Russians whose money has just lost 30% of its value? What about all of the Germans who need Russian gas to heat their homes? And the Ukrainians who no longer have homes.
> 1. If I had shorted RUB on US intelligence reports leading up to the invasion, would I be able to collect, or would illiquidity stop me from being able to obtain RUB to cover my shorts?

The keyword you need to put into Mr Google is "B-book".

Unless you:

a) Are a big-cheese in the trading world; or
b) Opened an account with the very very very very small number of brokers that are 100% A-Book

You will almost certainly be trading on a B-book account.

In a simplified nutshell, B-Book means that your order never goes anywhere near the market. Your trades are internalised by your broker, they are market makers for their own book, and they settle their trades internally. Your broker reduces their own internal risk on their B-book by (if necessary) making the necessary risk-reducing trades on the real market.

So in essence, yes you would be able to "collect" because your broker would be doing the settlement internally.

However, and its a BIG however. In exceptionally volatile markets such as Ukraine events, your broker will implement risk management procedures in order to prevent lots of clients blowing up their accounts and therefore exposing your broker to a large aggregated risk. Therefore unless you already had a trade in-play before risk management was enabled, its unlikely you'll be able to put on much now (at least not without a large margin requirement).

I should say that all the foregoing applies soley to "day-trading" (i.e. CFDs, Spread Bets, Futures etc.). For equities ("stocks & shares") then then there is always external settlement.
This is entirely contrary to how the Macintosh has worked for decades which has also shaped user expectations, and closing the app entirely creates a performance penalty for document-oriented apps. Whenever Apple has experimented with doing it a little different, such as when they added sudden app termination to Lion, it has generally degraded the user experience by running contrary to expectations.

I also second everything in bitigchi’s reply to you.
The sanctions regarding exports to Russia have to this point been relatively limited. The financial sanctions are what are doing the work right now.

Russia's principle problem is that its own currency is becoming worthless and external currencies are becoming inaccessible. This is a problem for the Russian state as well as individuals residing in it. If a ubiquitous and stable worldwide cryptocurrency were to exist, this would no longer be so much of a problem for Russia, to the detriment of all other sane countries.
I just learned that 50% of Russian government tax receipts come from oil & gas revenue.

With one simple decision - banning oil & gas imports - we could devestate Putin’s ability to wage war and it would impose less direct hardship on everyday Russians?

To protect civilians from higher energy costs in Ukraine and EU western governments could temporarily provide direct subsidies.

This seems like an idea worth trying. What am I missing?
Annexing Crimea went relatively easily for Putin. It makes sense, given that past success, that he expected little resistance from Ukraine or the rest of the world.
In before irate trumpkins compare rt with cnn/msnbc while ignoring the fact that fox news is 100% legal to operate. Oh wait, too late.
I think his motivation is purely personal one, don't try to find any rationality there. Think about a small child that wants to get something or an ex-boyfriend wants his girlfriend back.
Assuming this is the actual price of RUB, and not an artifact created by the illiquidity of RUB on sanction-impacted "retail investor" markets while the real money changes hands elsewhere (I have no reason to believe that, I am simply listing every possible scenario), this will stick around until long after the war is over.

>I guess what I am ultimately asking is, did the Ruble lose value, or did every other currency that isn't a Ruble gain value?

Foreigners with dollars will compete with Russians with rubles to buy local Russian goods, unless Russia disconnects itself from global trade. This will impact local prices, even the prices of raw natural resources, because the world is all one big market (unless Putin discovers the Juche Idea - but beware, even North Korea, one of the most isolated states on Earth, sells natural resources to China at prices at least somewhat tied to commodities markets.) Anything that involves imports to produce (this is a bigger category than you think, Russia does not make its own oilfield or farm equipment!) will be impacted even more inevitably.

Things like Russian real estate could remain steady in RUB denominated price if Europeans are not allowed to compete with Russians to buy it, but wheat, tractors, things like that are going to become twice as expensive almost inevitably. Fortunately that will be counterbalanced by everyone's wages doubling (foreign firms compete with each other to hire Russians) unless, again, Putin disconnects from global trade.

In that case, the biggest problem will be the availability or lack thereof of goods at any price.
You can typically make a branch and push it up to the server, and I usually do this before any rebase. In future development scenarios (mac, windows) will you be able to do this reliably in the future?
Well, reading Youtube comments will make you want to puke on the whole of Russia. And no, there's zero chance it's all bots.
It is not "feel-good rhetoric". It's a suggestion that it would be better to do the hard, consistent work to humanise the opposition so that their decisions can be criticised without writing them all off as people.

But if I must spell it out to you -- I'll get downvoted for it -- I am saying that, essentially, "othering" politicians as inherently not doing good, or saying that they are all tainted by the actions of some of them, is the precise sentiment that was exploited to allow a corrupt, amoral, malignant narcissist and populist into the White House, who deliberately tried to overthrow the democratic process.

Very few of the politicians tarred in that way are anything like as dangerous as the man this enabled. And the most dangerous of them take part in the tarring.

If you cannot look at politicians and seek to find the good and the common ground in them, you're doing the nihilistic groundwork of future fascists. Don't do that.
Russian monetary system was pretty stable by the way. It's not about financial institutions doing a bad job, it's just a dictator not accountable to anyone waging wars he can't afford.
Lenovo is releasing 16:10 screen for their next generation laptops lines. So it is a matter of time till replacement screens for those to come up on ebay. I guess?
I wonder what would finally cause the US Dollar to finally collapse? Would it be China somehow? Either way, the only thing propping up this machine is the fact that the US dollar still means something. What would the world look like post-US?

I noticed that recently my local dollar store has now become the 1.25$ store. This can't bode well for the future...maybe we are experiencing the fall right now. You wouldn't really know until after the fact.
Ya I'm 44 and have had multiple personal experiences around the metaphysical that science simply has no explanation for. Now that I'm older, I realize that it's the models that are wrong, not reality. So I'm open to substantially more spiritual explanations than I used to be.

I'd even go as far as the say that stochastic and emergent behavior is what forms our reality, not determinism. And that consciousness itself is the emergent behavior of the chaos working at the lowest levels of reality. At the end of the day, emotion and love and magic and all of that woo woo stuff is at least as real as atoms.

But we don't have good language today to talk about the physics of our own personal realities. The things that are true in my life may not be true in yours, and vice versa. We just assume that the true reality is the one we all agree with, but I have not found that to be the case.

So we talk past one another about, I don't know, critical race theory or whatever the flavor of the week is. When it's really about, how is my reality impacted as I learn the truths of your reality and our shared reality? If I'm wrong because I don't know something, does that mean that my reality is wrong? What happens if I make decisions over years of my life based on incorrect information? What does correct mean if it diminishes my quality of life? Can I be correct without hurting anyone else?

Some of these questions in the end aren't answerable. In my own reality, I struggle with having to eat meat because that's what my body was designed to do. I carved a rotisserie chicken last night, divided the breast into portions and consumed it. There was almost no separation between the chicken's life and my own. How do we solve something like war when an awful lot of people haven't even stopped to think about the violence their own survival requires?
Everyone makes mistakes. If you feel guilty about writing bugs, you will feel guilty all the time.

It's a good thing to want to develop a good product, and it's good to take pride in your work. But if your goal is 0 bugs, it's just not possible.
> European NATO members are at this moment incapable of stronger (military) help to Ukraine, because of the nuclear (MAD) threat. NATO is now actually a reason why we cannot fight Russian invaders the same way Allies did fight against Nazi Germany.

MAD is only the problem here to the extent one assumes that the US nuclear shield, and MAD, still protects you from nuclear escalation by Russia in the event of nuclear escalation by Russia if you are out of NATO.

Otherwise, the problem shifts from MAD to unilateral assured destruction, which is an even bigger constraint on your action against Russia’s whims.
The fundamental misunderstanding is thinking that people vote to implement their wishes as opposed to express their values. Why don't people vote for policies that help them-- the rich as well as the poor btw? Working class people vote against social welfare programs, professionals vote for tax hikes.

The reality is that people know that their individual vote has a tiny chance of changing policy so the material reward for it is very small. The psychic reward for expressing your values is greater. So the working class person may vote to reduce social welfare, but won't tear up a child tax credit. The professional who votes for higher taxes won't donate an extra $5k to the government. In both cases when those people vote they are expressing their values, not their interests.