skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that it prevents Germany from making a deal with Russia once the freezing winter sets in.
Indeed. I'm no Russia apologist, I want this war to end as badly as anyone else. But it also doesn't make sense for them to perform these attacks. For better or worse, the invasion of Ukraine makes sense, because it used to be a part of the Soviet Union, so there is some sort of explanation for the behavior, although it's a shitty one.

But making holes in these pipes doesn't come with any reasonable explanation, as far as I can tell. The most probably explanation I can come up with, is NATO and/or allies doing the attacks themselves in order to justify an invasion of Russia to "stop the attacks on foreign soil", but that's borderline conspiracy theory, so not even sure I want to go there.

I guess I'm hoping it's Russia, but I find it far-fetched to believe, because what possible reason could they have for doing so? Demonstrating capabilities? Also feels weak... But then again, Russia is not exactly acting with reason at the moment, so I guess anything is possible.
Well don't buy a Samsung then. Sometimes things are that simple. They're pretty well known for bloatware and why would tv be any different? I have a Phillips (not really Phillips but some vague company licensed their brand), basically the cheapest option in the 70 inch 4k space. I don't have issues with ads. Just the standard yt ads because I'm cheap and don't have yt premium.
If there's no such platform, can anobody explain to me why?

I believe that this would be a great niche for people that want to sell stuff on-line but don't want to mess with the banking system or live in countries with problematic (non-stable) currencies.
The efforts by these news outlets to peddle pure propaganda like "energy experts think it's Russia" is ridiculous. We have zero proof as of now that it even was sabotage, although I admit there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that it was deliberate.

If Western governments have any evidence it was Russia, then present it; otherwise STFU with the propaganda. Just because one is an "energy expert" doesn't make one God.
I m beginning to think it might be sabotage ...
He says he doesn’t care about personal wealth yet doesn’t donate to charity and instead amasses quite a bit of wealth.

He’s not odd, he’s just a YouTuber who is really good at SEOing youtube and getting billions of views.
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One theory I've seen is that it removes the incentives for the oligarchs to throw Putin out of office and attempt to quickly get sanctions lifted.

So Putin would benefit in that situation.
You're welcome. Glad it helped.

> But at least US researchers cannot claim to be in an disadvantaged position compared to other countries?

I can't give a definitive answer to that, unfortunately. For one, I'm not working in the USA. Next, Europe has a lot of collaborations and cooperation under its belt in this regard. Lastly, China's ecosystem and prowess is completely opaque from me (both secrecy and not being interested/have time).

However, the technology is evolving pretty fast. NVIDIA's DPU, AMD/NVIDIA GPUs and AMD processors change the landscape a lot.

Intel's systems are not the best systems for heavily GPU accelerated clusters for a long time. So, they might look powerful in enterprise, but HPC is a completely different landscape. Intel is not the clear leader everything computing for some time now. They're not the worst, but they're not the best, either.
So "Egyptians" don't even really exist, but "the British" absolutely, unequivocally, 100% do, and the latter claim to the Rosetta stone is ironclad and irrefutable, whereas the former is basically fantasy.

Shit like this is the reason half the world danced when the Queen died, you know.
The Swedish coast guard knew of this since Tuesday. I would guess it simply haven't disseminated as fast after the initial shock.

In Swedish: https://omni.se/fyra-gaslackor-upptackta-tva-i-svensk-ekonom...
Conspiracy theory: since this impacts Russia negatively, it may have been them so these attacks can be blamed on someone they plan to attack.
Nord streams are dead in the water.
Germany essentially switched from baseload nuclear to baseload Russian gas.

I personally can't think of any other logical explication than German politicians having been "bought by Russians" to explain that decision.

I definitely saw this kind of stuff coming like 10+ years ago as they went full steam ahead with energiewende.
Anyone pro-war, they just eliminated a major incentive for peace. That includes the more right wing end of both Russian and EU and US governments.

Anyone else selling Europe Gas (or Power). That includes chunks of the middle east and north Africa as well as Norway and Belgium

Anyone Buying Russian gas (China)

Anyone competing with European Industrial Goods (the USA)

Also, it's entirely possible this was just an accident.

Or there may not be a direct benefit: hackers (interference with control systems seems much more likely to cause multiple leaks like this) may have done this by either by accident, maliciously, or as part of some ransom plot.

This list is actually sort of everyone...
I found their sudden non-profit to profit trajectory extremely dishonest. Their mission statement also reads like moralistic verbiage, rather than the statement of disinterested pioneers of AI - which is problematic given how this has become a money thing for OpenAI, rather than an idealistic pursuit.
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Exactly! But Scala is out of fashion at hn these days
There is such a thing as a "coffee power nap". I won't go into the science of it, but it basically makes sense to fall asleep after having a cup of coffee (but not at night).

That said, you may fall asleep, but you don't know how the quality and depth of your sleep is affected. You can be sleeping for 10 hours and still wake up wrecked.
There used to be a website where someone gave homeless people money to fight each other. Perhaps it still exists. Is that ethical?
Contestants on the reality TV show "The Island with Bear Grylls" get lightly starved. And if you get to the final round of "SAS: Who Dares Wins" you get to be lightly tortured (kept awake, loud music, people shouting at you, bound, blindfolded..). (But they do have medics on hand at least...)
Nordics/baltic states have bunch of surveillance in the Baltic Sea since forever, as Russia has been discovered time and time again to do their own surveillance there. I guess we just have to wait until evidence gets served from any of the states around the sea.
Minimal. Its only the pipes leftover gas that is escaping, compared to a oil field. Together with that gas rises, contamination of water is minimal, again compared to what an oil leak would do. Adding up to that experts say that long-term effects of these leaks are essentially not going to be noticeable.[1]

https://news.err.ee/1608730996/scientist-minimal-lasting-env...
It's not as bad as it seems because the language already have constructors.
So instead of having a peculiar case for constructors, you unify constructors and methods by saying that void does not have to be specified.

And i do not buy your argument that it will break the grammar, the parser of javac consider constructors as methods.
OP mentioned Rust as a language that has been more talked about. GP brought some data to support that.
It no longer matters who did it, if you think about it.
Good. I love seeing it. Here’s hoping the young in Iran bring real change and maybe even a topping of the Ayatollah
Has building a webpage never been easier or never been harder for a newcomer? I honestly can't tell. On the one hand there is an abundance of tools to ease the process, on the other hand even the entry level tooling for a webpage in 2022 is staggering.
I really see no benefit for anybody.

I do not know the contracts between Russia and the EU countries. Once there is no pipe, you cannot tell Russia stopped delivering gas, but they just could not, even they wanted. Little time ago there was a big discussion about a turbine, that made supply difficult. I do not know to which extent that could help Russia. Maybe somebody has more idea/information about it.

But I don't think some political party would have the means for such operation.
1. get linux apt-get repository if you need software while offline. Whole thing has 70-80 GB.

2. get some HDD space, for sneakernet style sharing.
Exactly this! If you are hitting an authorization server via the introspect endpoint, why not simplify things even further and just hit dynamodb or redis or database and check the value of a cookie?

A few reasons why you might want the opaque token come to mind:

* You want the OAuth ecosystem (the libraries, the scopes, the user permissioning)

* You are being forced to use an opaque token because your user authenticates somewhere else, and they only provide you an opaque token.
I thought VSCode was a fork of Atom. Did I just make that up?
To make it even more confusing, FLOP is sometimes used to mean "floating point operation", so it can be correct to say that a computation takes 1000 FLOPs. A machine with 2000 FLOPS would do 1000 FLOPs in half a second.
Please define "extended time". I used to have frequent outages from minutes to several hours (I think 8-10 hours max), that is not really a problem if you have as a backup a phone and tethering. If you are talking about a month of outage country wide, the food, fuel for heating, a couple of guns and a thousand bullets may be what you need to survive that, because that will cause massive chaos: our logistic chains cannot work without phone and internet.
Everyone is not posting $0 to infinite. See Colorado job listings. The most important number is the bottom of the pay range.

It is fantastic for high school students and anyone looking to sell their labor can see what the going price is by sorting the bottom pay range and eliminating businesses or occupations where the bottom pay range is too low.

While it is obviously known that being a doctor pays better than flipping burgers, seeing price numbers can help project future cash flow and help people make better decisions, especially for employers offering the lowest wages.

And of course, people who are earning $17 because they were hired a few years ago do not have to go out and interview at other places to find out their employer is offering new people $18 per hour.
Preventing Germany from negotiating a new deal in winter when they're out of cheap gas

Making sure Europe will buy more of their fracking LPG

Making it harder to secure a diplomatic end to the war (selling more weapons, strengthening their position in europe, &c.)

Some other long term shenanigans that will be declassified in 50 years

It wouldn't be the firs time the US does something shady, I'm not saying it's them but I would absolutely not be surprised if it was, I would also not be surprised if it was Russia even though it sounds equally dumb

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/eu-us_lng_trade...

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-europ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-wikileaks-idUSKBN0...
That last sentence of yours is a doozy! Using an acronym to describe a love of acronyms. I’d be grouchy if I wasn’t so amused, well done and have a nice day!
I have long considered that having to have the class definition explicit in the file is redundant, especially as the 2 have to have the same name anyway. Obviously if you need to `extend` or `implement` then an explicit declaration is needed. But otherwise, just defaulting to the file base name is more than sufficient.
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Who said consentual sex causes any harm? I'm arguing the opposite.

The argument that women will interpret the posters as a message that they are seen as objects is potentially interesting, but then what about all the women who work at modelling agencies and ad agencies and actual sex related businesses?

The argument that women will feel threatened because the posters will cause the men to attack them, or even just low level menace them, is saying that men are helpless reacting animals and are not responsible for their actions, which is the same argument as saying women are responsible for rape by not dressing badly enough.

These theoretical posters are simply and merely inappropriate for facililitating the work being done in most workplaces. They are unwelcome but it's merely because they are a distraction and an annoyance. It doesn't cause any sort of harm that can justify any legal consequences.

There is no argument for making them illegal, and in fact they're already not because there are tons of businesses where such images are central to the business. The same image will be interpreted as porn in one room while it's just the businesses product on the wall at countless clothing manufacturers. So the image itself can not be said to posess any intrinsic harm or evil.
> How can it be unethical if the person knows full well what's coming with no surprises, and the person judged that it was in their best interest to do it? That'd be saying it's unethical to provide someone with a benefit-cost > 0 which they've agreed to, and I don't see why that should be true.

Because it's inherently degrading and dehumanizing. Ethics is more than just benefit vs cost.
Well, art is art. It doesn't matter who's making it, what their background is, or if they follow preconceived rules.

That doesn't apply to engineering because it either works or it doesn't. The presenter misunderstood basic concepts of information. If you don't understand those, you can't design a working computer.
Seriously, OP should change title to [November 2021]
Based on your words, you do not invalidate cache anyways:

> When the next HTTP request comes in to view that object, I lookup the object's date in the shared dict. If the modified date is > now(), I set the bypass flag to 1, so nginx updates its cache.

I see it exact as stock behavior and asking what the difference Lua logic brings here.
would we actually have to pay for it then it would show that most kids who watch MrBeast content today couldn’t actually care less about it

but the kids are not the ones paying. if we had to start paying for it, the result would be an argument between parents and kids.
Not that I've tried ReScript but it advertises fast builds, which the (sample size of one) large scala codebase I've worked on was really slow to compile.
There is a nice strategy that is playing always 1, and claiming it.

Everyone else should not play 1 because otherwise they would not win. But if no one else plays 1, you win. So they must take turns to lose and make you lose. It's a good strategy to not meet them again ever :)
It scares the German population, because every day here the news was about "are we going to make it through the winter". 50% of all houses are heated with Gas. The fact that no gas was flowing through doesn't really matter and likely wasn't going to for a while anyway still worries everyone.

It will make the pro-Russian arguments sound better, if people are scared.
Vitamins, minerals yes.

But what I found super useful is gut health probiotics. No need to eat them all the time, just when you feel challenged.

I don't want to promote specific supplement products here, but let's just say there is one that helped me enormously.
For a normal web app, not too much.

As sibling comments point out, an opaque token can be stored elsewhere (though, to be fair, the session identifier which is in that cookie can be placed elsewhere too).

Cookies are limited in where they can be sent (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...).
I'm convince the least thing the NATO wants is to get in direct confrontation with Russia. That would give Russia the perfect excuse to use nukes.
- https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ => GA

- http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ => GA

- https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ => Plausible + jQuery

- https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/ => No JS included

So 3/4 have analytics, + one with jQuery.

Tested by looking at requests made in the network inspector of the browser developer tools.
> People enter those challenges fully knowing how they're going to go.

People who have financial need aren’t able to clearly decline and have agency over their decision. Asking someone who supports a family if they will degrade themselves for $500k if not really a fair question and people will say yes.

It’s like saying that people who blow their boss do it knowing fully well what they’re getting into. There is a power imbalance so even perceived consent isn’t really consent because of the leverage and greater power of one party.
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> always going to the database for connecting an opaque session token to an identity can quickly become slow

PHP does this every single request. I’ve never had enough users that this became a significant issue (and you probably don’t either)
and only for the chance of winning $50k
Many things can become popular and then disappear when social mores change in response to negative outcomes.

https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-paris-morgue-a-gruesome...

We’re as stuck with the machinations of click-bait as fin de siècle Parisians with their morgue.
Especially they can be repaired very quickly and the crews have a lot of experience given that damages e.g. from anchor droppings, earthquakes or ground-trawler fishing nets are very common.

Worst case would be someone damaging a lot of cables at once, e.g. near Highbridge, Skewjack, Bude (UK) or Bilbao (Portugal) - almost all Europe-US links end there [1], so a single sabotage submarine could place time-based explosives that cause a sudden catastrophic loss, large enough to overwhelm the capacity of cable runner ships.

In any case, a complete loss of communication between the US and Europe is highly unlikely. European traffic would simply be redirected among the bunch of SEA-ME-WE cables and hop from there over Malaysia and Japan to the US East Coast. A ton more latency and likely much less capacity along the route, but enough to survive.

[1] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
It used to be really easy back when Netscape Navigator (and Communicator) still included a WYSIWYG HTML editor and ISPs provided users with some megabytes of hosting accessible with simple FTP.
This doesn't affect them negatively. They didn't want to send any gas, and now they don't need to make up excuses.
or if the user allows JS in their browser, then just do some GPU/CSS/Font Collections,etc. finger printing and get the unique id, since all the major bowser vendors are not fixing this problem (except may be for webkit).
It makes no sense for it to be Russia or Germany, they can simply turn off the flow (Russia already did). So they have lost control as it cannot now be turned on.

Any other country, and factions within Germany or Russia might have a motive.

But yeah, people are rushing to fit every event into a "Russia bad" narrative...
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It also limit's Russia's ability to profit from selling their gas to the EU and may benefit US energy companies by raising prices.
agree —- i kept waiting for the author to spend more time on the indignity and exploitation Mr. Beast is dispensing. there are desperate people out there that will leap at a chance for this much cash. how long until we see a Mr. Beast version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(King_novel) (the arnold movie is ultra cheesey and fun too)
It locks Germany into its geopolitical position.
I tried to install it once, a long time ago (around 2000?). Linux was already taking off, BSD's had the possibility to overtake it, other unices were made available more for the end user.

But basically, the hardware support was pretty bad. It took me a long time to find a SCSI controller which was supported, when ATA disks were already standard for years. Same with network- oder graphic cards.

Nowadays, if esoteric OS's would just support standard Vmware hardware, they'd be much more successful (looking at you fuchsia!)
This is an important point… I purchased a website about 3D printing at the beginning of this year and have been steadily improving the content quality and posts… Only for a recent Google update to obliterate 90% of my traffic overnight.

Two months later it’s starting to recover but that’s not the bedrock of a business you’d like to build upon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schröder

> Gerhard Fritz Kurt "Gerd" Schröder is a German lobbyist and former politician, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005|

> Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom

They're not even trying to be subtle about it, it's just plain sad
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> The most probably explanation I can come up with, is NATO and/or allies doing the attacks themselves in order to justify an invasion of Russia to "stop the attacks on foreign soil", but that's borderline conspiracy theory, so not even sure I want to go there.

I know you're not trying to go there, but even this hypothetical doesn't make any sense. The attacks are on Russian-owned pipelines in international waters, there's nothing for NATO to defend. Furthermore, if NATO wanted to do a false flag, it would make more sense to blow up Chernobyl, since Russia has previously threatened it and NATO has historically emphasized that attacks that spread nuclear fallout over NATO countries are grounds for article 5.

To be clear, I don't see a clear benefit for any of the major players here; even the suggestions that it's Putin strike me as wishful thinking. Something strange is going on.
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No it won't, because now they have no alternative.

Before, the protesters wanted to force the government to open NS2 and end the gas crisis. Now there is no alternative.
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> having a blocklist of revoked JWT IDs in an in-memory cache (like Redis) can bring back some performance benefits.

Doing this obviates some of the benefits of JWT's statelessness, but for situations where revocation is really important and you can't have that few seconds of JWT validity after a user logs out, this totally works.

My employer has an article about this topic here: https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/tokens/revoking-jw...
Putin won't be able to rebuild their army by printing RUB.
I feel people come down too hard on JWT. If you do just two things there’s basically no difference between sessions and tokens.

Don’t use it for storing sensitive data
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What even is the <base> element?
"The Russians did it" - source: "I think all Russians irrational and insane, therefore it makes sense".

Let's not forget that Nordstream 2 was requested by the Germans not the Russians. Yet the infrastructure belongs to Gazprom, which by the way isn't allowed to participate in the investigation. They lose leverage on Europe and they already had turned off the Gas tap anyway. It's not like anyone can force Russia to turn on the tap.

This makes absolutely no sense from a Russian perspective. The very fact that people can rationalize this by saying Russians are irrational evil monsters is not all that different from the Iraq war and quite frankly extremely disturbing.

And yes, while the person above rightly points out that the article is from 2021 the next half of the sentence hints at how this may still be some sort of proof for their behavior.

Here's Germans demonstrating to open NS2, which is now conveniently off the table[1]

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/germans-call-nord-stream-2-050655816....