skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deeply dishonest to claim that a handful of deeply tragic mistakes are in any way morally equivalent to the systematic and relentless targeting of civilians that the Russians are engaged in.

The U.S. military has committed war crimes. They have all been prosecuted by the U.S. government. From Abu Ghraib to Clint Lorance to the Marine Snipers to Eddie Gallagher. There is no moral equivalence.

https://twitter.com/truthsunchained/status/14987658293825454...
> the only web institution that hasn't broken down over time, and has done an impressive job of holding itself to quality standards given the absurdly large scale.

Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg come to mind. Wikipedia might be an encyclopedia, but those are the libraries.
Are you suggesting that free speech is responsible for misinformation?

The first amendment is absolutely not a double-edged sword. The alternative is STRICTLY worse. You end up with governments, like China's, who lie and challenging that lie is punishable.
For SAT, a problem that is pretty much the poster child for "NP-Complete," the progress of SAT solvers over the past couple of decades has been nothing short of astounding.
I have given up on 'troll' almost as much as 'literally'.

A troll would pretend to support Putin and so on.
Except that there is plenty of evidence that this is really the case. Russians are crossing the border in unprecedented numbers, for instance:

https://yle.fi/news/3-12345301

Flying is getting harder and harder so while the borders are still open (there is talk of martial law in Russia, which, even though it was just denied does not seem to have much effect on calming things down, in fact the denial seems to have the opposite effect), people are getting out via the land, either by car or by train.
How in the world does any human old enough to know about the birds and the bees not grasp the essential math of human reproduction?

It takes 2 to replace 2. Not 1 for 1, 2 for 2.

How the ever loving F do you wind up asking about the 2 kids mating with each other? What the hell is going on in there?
> a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.

What's the option, though? Inaction? Sanctions hurt the people because hurting the support base is the only way to exert pressure on those unrepresentative governments.

At the end of the day, all governments operate via the consent of the governed, even autocracies. But the expression of that consent gets really ugly the less democratic the environment. The international community can't fix Russian democracy, so all that is left for us (absent military action) is to change the reward structure for those who can.
I’m sorry to hear about your situation and I’m wishing you, your friends, and your family the best of luck. I don’t consider you or anyone in your situation an enemy. Take care.
> Seems like most of the disinformation is currently coming from the NATO/Ukraine side.

Sure... /s

That's probably why the West has just enacted a law that whoever talks about the war in Ukraine in terms of war will face all kinds of trouble. Oh, wait.

Really, you can't make this stuff up, do you actually believe that people on HN will read what you say and then dutifully turn to Pravda for their news from now on?
Seconding Dave Ackley as someone doing really fascinating work, his youtube documenting his research is full of great insights: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject
It strikes me that the effort that goes into trying to outright suppress disinformation is also a waste of time. It leaks through anyway and the consequences of being seen to suppress it leads to distrust.

All that you can hope is that the person reading it is open to information and changing their mind. If they are not then there is nothing that can be done anyway.

I have been drawn into trying to evaluate this claim that the Czech Republic / Czechia has had a statement issued by its "Supreme Prosecutor" that anyone supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine will face criminal penalties. I would love to be able to go to a reputable media source to evaluate it. It is inordinately difficult to judge. I would prefer that the BBC/CNN/LA Times spent time debunking this sort of thing or confirming it. As it is I am on my own with nothing but a wall of flag-waving and emotional condemnation instead of investigative journalism -- that's what I want from the media -- not opinion pieces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30560672

In looking at that story it was fascinating to see the struggle within the Czech Republic with various sides accused of being Russian mouthpieces and the establishment of state censorship apparatuses well in advance of this phase of the conflict with Russia.
What made media outlets questionable and untrustworthy is their blatant agenda, not outside misinformation. I don't even need them to be accurate, balanced, or some other high quality, but they have turned into straight-up propaganda and present almost fact-free moralistic view of the world.
As I understand it, signalling will happen over the matrix protocol. as matrix/element already had a 1:1 voice chat, synapse integrates well with coturn, so you typically run coturn along side synapse.
The only thing this sort of obvious political bias does is discredit Wikipedia and push readers to less reputable sites for information.

Like many others on here, I prefer to go directly to multiple biased sources like npr, CNN, breitbart, nypost because I understand their bias and can sort through it to tease out information.

The thing that I find the most distasteful is any source that purports to be unbiased, but uses subtle language tricks to skew their readers towards a conclusion.

I find such things to be the most toxic, and avoid them.

I don't agree with the other commenters on here that argue "it's mostly good", so that makes it ok.

When there's a hidden bias, it makes it much more difficult to tease through the information to find something that resembles the truth.
Should it? It isn't obvious to me at all that throwing an exception in this case is the best behaviour. Throwing an exception when testing a value for 'truthiness' is extremely surprising.

On the other hand, I would strongly discourage 'if(x)' where x is a float that may be NaN purely because the 'correct' behaviour here isn't clear to me.
I've been a big crypto sceptic for a long time, but with the current situation I had to deposit a lot of money to Binance, because Russian banks/government has stopped allowing people to withdraw USD from ATMs, forbidden transfers to other countries (only $5k/m to relatives), forbidden to cross borders with more than $10k (not they are possible to cross at all now).
There was a story on front page yesterday for russian IT specialists who want to get out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30552091
You should still believe the reporting of actual events done by the major international news orgs. You don't need to go into opinion pieces or into hypothesizing.
OpenAlias allows for sending Bitcoin and Monero to any domain name via a TXT DNS record by supported clients.

https://openalias.org/
I’ve found that thoughtful opinions are best sampled on an individual to individual basis and not easily found by reading articles from a news organization.

News orgs are rushing to print the story and (at most) only include small tidbits of reactionary analysis. It isn’t the fault of the individual as much as it is the medium. The medium inherently lacks depth.

Two places to start:
Daryl Cooper, Michael Tracy.
EU Cooperation on Security and Defence
The compiler presumably can't know in most cases, but the runtime might be able to throw. It depends on the language implementation and the tradeoffs.
>No doubt about it? That's just as much an "information op" as the other side you claim.

I guess we'll see, and revisit this comment in the future. Personally, I find it funny that people like yourself don't believe the Russian military is superior to that of the Ukraine after watching a week of YouTube videos.

>heard somewhere of Russia's fearsome military is irresponsible at best.

Irresponsible? Lol get a hold of yourself.
"Most would not agree with you. "

Don't agree.

1) The 'NATO' expansion issue is actually a distraction. This is absolutely not about 'NATO on Russias Borders'. While there is a kernel of truth there, it's used as propaganda.

2) Russia, specifically Putin, has been trying to grab Ukraine back for 20 years. There is 100% legitimacy in the fact UKR/RUS have a special cultural relationship - but - that's skewed through Russian Imperial Chauvinism in that they view Ukraine basically as a vassal. That Chauvinism is probably a couple centuries old.

More recently, we have the Soviet Dystopian Unreality machine, in which the Truth can be manufactured. Putin is using this to great effect, literally making his bid for Conquest into an issue of 'victimhood'. It's all a bit 'Mein Kampfy'.

Putin has been 'very directly intervening' in Ukraine with his laughable stooge Yanukovich for a very long time - rigging elections, killing journalists and protesters, supporting corruption.

The West has definitely been intervening and more or less on 'one side' but it has been a lighter touch - and most importantly - the West will ultimately accept the choice of Ukranians.

Here's the Paradox:

Putin is ex-KGB/Soviet counter intelligence - cynical, repulsive, fearful, skittish + nationalist + authoritarian.

But imagine of Putin was a charismatic man. A great speaker. Someone who talked about 'hope' and 'people'.

Putin has a giant advantage vis-a-vis the West in Ukraine! Ukranians see Russians as 'bretheren'.

If Putin were to have created a 'Positive Russia', messages of hope, clamping down on corruption ... then in 2014 he may literally have been able to give a speech to protesters instead of shooting them.

I have peers in Belarus that can flee to Canada - but they don't want to. They are going to 'Georgia or Latvia' - because it's closer to home. This speaks to their natural cultural ties and choices.

The 2014 'Revolution' was bloody and a lot of young people were just killed.

Police can sometimes get really, really out of hand and that indiscriminate shooting of protesters is something Ukranians will not forget.

When the Russians invade, that's what they know is in the future.

I honestly think that if Dimitri Medvedev came to power, Ukraine would have joined a 'Eurasian Economic Union', Belarus would have dumped Lukashenko.

Literally Putin could have had the Eurasian Union and a more united 'Rus People' by just retiring and shutting his fat mouth.
What are the baseless claims?
They're using the word in the context of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_farm
There is a much older, well-tested solution to this problem: a strong and just legal system that protects and enshrines unfettered public discussion as a fundamental right. Sure, there is tech that exists to promote the spread of whispers of news, but ultimately the goal is not to have to whisper about it.
We are afraid Putin will use nuclear weapons. We don't like that he came from a KGB background and that he seems to be friends with mafia. And that he likes to assassinate his rivals.

If the Russian people are so much against Putin and on the side of the West, then why not arrange them to all leave their apartments at the same time, to walk into their central squares, and to start shaking their keys -- as the Czechs did.
BTW, the Jupiter Ace and ZX81 both have excellent iOS emulators, written by Kevin Palser.
If it was clearly obvious, then why wouldn't the Economist use these other sources directly, instead of leaning so heavily on Google Trends data? It's a flimsy way to present truth.
Yes, many times.

Arch reproduces all published packages and reproducing a package as a user is as simple as running `repro pkgname.pkg.tar.gz`.

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-repro

Do note we have multiple rebuilders. The tooling is written so you should be able to reproduce Arch packages on any distribution, but we still struggle with packages embedding "uname" into the binaries still.
Aren't wizards based on astrologers/astronomers? They would need a high place so trees or other buildings don't block their view. Might also be useful to have a well positioned window to get the light of the sun or moon in specific angles, to make calendars, horoscopes, or other tracking. Also could be useful to keep adversaries from spying on research, might have made it difficult for thieves to enter and steal valuable instruments. People with enough time to research might have been wealthy and able to build these buildings that required more engineering. Could have also been a "showroom" for monarchs/warlords to display castle/fortress engineering.
Maybe because Ukrainian men don't have the choice to flee. It's not like Russians are moving away during peaceful times. It's a full on war in which one party is bombing the civilians of a democratic country, threatening NATO with nuclear war and Russians are the only ones who can actually stop it.
Do you have a source for that?

Edit: seems people misread my intention, I am challenging the parent response because it reads like something out of a spy novel with nothing to back it up.
I feel like this is a misunderstanding. You can already self host 'Element Call' and point that to your own homeserver. The passage you're referencing just refers to their hosted Element Call client. I'm pretty sure they're currently trying to move away from credentials-based login on 3rd-party clients to token-based authentication. I would guess they open up their hosted client when they finished implementing this new authentication scheme to avoid the doubled effort and to discourage using your homeserver credentials on "random" clients.
Might not be a bad idea to monitor https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/#!topicid=&subtopicid=... WHS: Wheat Outlook. Also, the February report https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=103... has a section on Russia.
The most likely good is in the ability to study the model itself to better understand mental disorders and therefore inform treatment, or in the ability to deploy something similar to monitor folks who are already clinical patients on an opt-in basis. I'd agree with you that the deployment of the model in almost any context re: observation of the general public is very unlikely to be beneficial.
To the persons voting my comment into the dirt, I was being sincere.

If you really have never heard of this type of thing occurring, then you are either willfully ignorant, or completely separated from the reality of how business is conducted with Google. I don't say this with malice, but with plain honesty. This is a fundamental part of how the interaction with Google works. To deny this so plainly can only make any sort of sense through sarcasm.
Of course some people would flee from Russia. What's so hard to believe about it? If you can leave country, you don't support the government and it's obvious that conditions are going to be harsh, surely you'd do that and in big country there will be thousands of people in those conditions.

Just don't make conclusions like the entire country wants to leave.
There are 100's such stories, all of which center on the very lucky few who still have the means to move themselves around and some hard currency. For the remainder it will be very hard to do anything at all.
Different sources have different biases. To contrast, if you go to RT you just hear about joint task forces between Ukraine and Russia to protect Chernobyl, or Russian forces handing out food to grateful Ukrainians, both of which aren't representative at all either, and likely staged.
I have tried making an effort for this in the past but it didn't work as there was no opposition but there wasn't much support as well.

Also, I am not sure how we can verifiably prove that the editorial stance of one source is either day pro or against something, so it should be rated higher or lower, and if equal whose tone do we go with. As wiki editorialisation of news events is not preferred, you will have to go with existing editorialisation in media
So would the US be okay with Cuba hosting Russian nukes to keep their self-determination from the US?
You can uninstall the apps you don’t use or need. Sometimes the website is more than enough.

If an app is bloated you can review it in the App Store and mention the problem.

Otherwise you can make more space by moving some of the data to the cloud, such as the music you don’t listen often or your old pictures.

Getting a new phone with a lot of storage is the easiest.
About Code Interviews
We might have reached the highest price of wheat in history. A lot of historical things happening as of late.
I literally quoted you, and responded to it. Here it is again:

"A significant proportion of Americans believe the 2020 election was fraudulently stolen. And that’s with free press in America.
Not at all hard to believe that a significant proportion of Russian people believe this lie."

Believing in election fraud and believing that a population are coincidentally killing themselves during a military incursion are not remotely analogous.
what's going to happen with so many countries / companies cutting Russia off is that it's going to play into Putin's narrative that Russia is surrounded by enemies. Imagine you are a neutral teenager who never cared about politics, then Playstation takes all your games, you don't have access to any of the media sources that can explain the situation (they are all banned now), you can only hear what government tells you.
The only use I saw for this is that you can enable compiler flags to crash the program when NaNs are encountered. Useful for testing Fortran code, in my experience. I didn’t see any support for other languages I’ve used.
I wonder which one will reject composite numbers faster. The non greedy version starts with the smallest (potential) factor first, while the greedy version starts with the largest candidate factor first.

I suspect that since a factor must be smaller than the square root of a composite, the greedy version you proposed would waste a lot of time checking numbers which could never be factors of the composite under test.

If the number is prime, I think both variants have the same performance because they will exhaustively evaluate all numbers less than or equal to the composite under test.

Edit: this is not quite correct. One of the prime factors must be smaller than the square root of the composite numbers, but the other one can obviously be larger. For example: 2 * 17 = 34. I’m leaving the original statement as is, because I’m hoping someone with a better math background can chime in and explain if the way that prime factors are distributed is symmetrical or not.
I don't get why companies that large would bother considering not using HSMs. Basically it's about public-key encryption, even if https is not ideal, it's quite a widespread implementation that can be sufficiently secure for many use cases
Don't want to come of as a crypto shill, but check out the crypto.com card. It could be pretty useful for you (if they give you one, not sure about the whole sanctions situation). I have been using it for daily payments for over a year and I'm pretty happy with my experience.
Privateer Wayfinder: Space Traffic Management
This meme is considered harmful.
Fair chance it would turn into a bloodbath. Better would a national strike. Equally difficult to organize but much harder to attack.
> Also 1,2 million Ukrainians have already fled the country

> so that number would be even higher if this demographic was given a free choice.

Sounds like they did have a choice

What if Russian soldiers were given a free choice? How many would choose to invade Ukraine?
> "Every virtual machine today is imitating in software what we was directly in the hardware in 1961. That's one of the reasons I say we don't have a field. The reason we don't have a field is because none of you know this. It'd be like a physicist not knowing what Newton had done." ~paraphrasing around 52:45

As someone that did not know and would certainly like to learn more about the history of computing, what books / resources would you recommend?
Yes, remember that Wikipedia, just like other big "nonprofits" abuse that meaning to make money. This isn't some org comprised of engineers and servers. It's a few engineers, some servers, and mostly warm bodies that are incentivizes to come up to contrived problems to justify their existence. It's very similar to modern U.S. academia.
Dark days ahead of us.. money won't be enough if everyone is fighting for the same resources.. then we'll have water issues very soon, things are changing at a very fast pace, it's scary
I hope you still believe that Russian is shelling civilian cities, because that is on video
It was called the SKLed:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210716204751/https://ecat.com/e...

and now redirects to a 404: https://ecat.com/ecat-skled
Related: I’ve met developers who think NaNs are a language or library (notably pandas) feature.
I support the economic warfare against Russia, not because I'm OK with hurting average Russians citizens, but because I don't know any better alternative. Would NATO entering Ukraine and engaging Russian troops be better? I don't think doing nothing would be better. I don't think lighter sanctions would save Ukraine or sufficiently punish Putin, because it's questionable whether the current harsh sanctions will even save Ukraine or sufficiently punish Putin. This is a horrible situation all around.
"You're assuming that Russia would feel like it needed to conquer its neighbors in a peaceful world."

? Yes, Putin has been trying that for 20 years.

Putin + Kremlin believe that Ukraine is 'not a country' and is a 'vassal of Russia'.

Straight up.

They have been actively doing things to support this for a very long time.

See: Yanukovich, the laughably clown dirtbag who is the Belarus/Lukashenko analogue.

Here is a good articulation of the Geostrategic and Historical Russian Nationalism:

(Article was put up by accident in Russia but taken down)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20...

here is the English translation:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z7zQiS-99mhqmJqJ-r-a2MJc...

This is not about 'defence and NATO'.
helpful / thank you -- passed along to my contact
plague. war. famine.

welcome to end of 'end of history.'
You see this with public figures, they do something horrible/super-unpopular and then they whine and say "I've been getting death threats" to posture as victims (maybe they are getting threats and maybe they aren't, but the effect is the same -- ie that they are transformed in the public consciousness into moral beings)
Magicians and strologists where pretty close in the past. Many of the magic powers were related to celestial bodies and hence astronomical observations were part of the job. Hard to do astronomy from the ground if your neighbor's henhouse is stopping you from observing the raise of Mercury.
China Radio International broadcasts professionally-produced news all over shortwave in a bunch of different languages targeting different countries.

It's just the news filtered through a state news agency. You know because they say "china radio international" all the time. It's surely propaganda same as BBC is but they aren't keeping the origins a secret or anything.
1. stop cooperating with three-letter agencies (probably, impossible?)
2. limit powers / volume of moderation