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New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "U.S. pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine used for strikes on Russia"

2510c39011c5 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:39:31 +0000

> why then have all the moves against Ukraine were when Trump was not in office?

In regards to the timing of the two Russian invasions, perhaps Putin felt those were his best chances to make such moves.

The first time when Russia invaded Crimea on February 20, 2014 was because of the Maidan Revolution. At the time Ukrainian government was a mess. The then Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, who was an ally of Putin, was to be ousted on the next day of the Russian invasion and eventually fled to Russia.

As for the timing when Russia invaded Ukraine again on February 24, 2022, I think one of the reasons was because of US troops chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan happened a few months ago. And after that, the US would be politically unlikely to get itself involved directly in another overseas war so soon; and Putin hoped this time it would be a blitzkrieg coup, and then he could replace Zelensky with a puppet president.

I am not saying that Putin intentionally invaded Ukraine at a time when Trump was or wasn't in office; I only feel that these are two very opportune moments for Putin to seize, which both happened to be at times when Trump was not in office.

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Chinese Vessel Cuts Taiwan Internet Cable in Apparent Sabotage"

2510c39011c5 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:47:55 +0000

they even have a patent for cutting undersea cable by dragging anchor...

https://patents.google.com/patent/CN111203499A/en

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k"

2510c39011c5 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:11:23 +0000

the page on archive.org could not be loaded now...

but google cache still serves a copy...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

Remembering Freeman Dyson

2510c39011c5 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 05:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/remembering-freeman-dyson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22853508

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve

2510c39011c5 — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:26:15 +0000

Article URL: http://phrack.org/papers/escaping_from_freebsd_bhyve.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22805970

Points: 102

# Comments: 46

Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture

2510c39011c5 — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:01:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00847

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631673

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Exploiting Logic Bugs in JavaScript JIT Engines

2510c39011c5 — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:59:30 +0000

Article URL: http://phrack.org/papers/jit_exploitation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20254045

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Language Models Are Unsupervised Multitask Learners [pdf]

2510c39011c5 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:49:32 +0000

Article URL: https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19184692

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Twenty Years of Escaping the Java Sandbox

2510c39011c5 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 19:08:14 +0000

Article URL: http://phrack.org/papers/escaping_the_java_sandbox.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102195

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Physics as a Way of Thinking (1936)

2510c39011c5 — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:15:57 +0000

Article URL: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/physics-as-a-way-of-thinking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016520

Points: 71

# Comments: 7

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan"

2510c39011c5 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:04:10 +0000

  The one big problem, though, is that China does not believe in freedom

I feel it is not that china doesn’t believe in freedom...it is just that they don’t practice freedom for the time being...but their government always promises future freedom to their people — although that promise may never become true...but the good thing about promising without a specific time is that the promise can always appear to be credible even when one is pushing the day of its realization to the infinity...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan"

2510c39011c5 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:41:48 +0000

I think one of the major benefits is, when china’s currency is accepted by other countries, that means the products (or service) made in china are accepted by other countries. When chinese products are accepted by other countries, those countries are willing to use their own products to trade with those chinese products...

I am not talking about specific products, but those manufacturing in macro sense...

There is no use to hold a certain currency when you are not able to use it for the time being or at some point of time in the future...and the more you hold a certain currency, the longer you are expecting it is useable or the more you expect it to increase its value.

Speculose: Analyzing the Security Implications of Speculative Execution in CPUs

2510c39011c5 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:12:17 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04084

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177616

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Spectre is not a Bug, it is a Feature

2510c39011c5 — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.quarkslab.com/spectre-is-not-a-bug-it-is-a-feature.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16169695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Create mixed reality models in PowerShell"

2510c39011c5 — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:31:18 +0000

it is all about different labels...and different labels have different visibility, in terms of effort to get to that information...so I guess by narrowing unflagging privilege to a very small group of users, the mod hopes to make it significantly more difficult for people to advocate a certain post here through purposeful manipulation...thus perhaps “unflagging” capability, as one of the last lines of defense, is only given to a very small group of ultimately verified users, through manual assignment or some thrshold based on percentage rather than an absolute karma value...

that’s my guess...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Create mixed reality models in PowerShell"

2510c39011c5 — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:01:12 +0000

well, how to define “ordinary user” is a huge problem for the system administrator — access control is at the root of all security issues...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Ask HN: How can I make pending comments posted from a new account visible?"

2510c39011c5 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:15:48 +0000

I was hoping to get some quick solution by asking here, so I could join that conversation before its fad fades...

But yes, generally, questions like this should be emailed to the moderators and then wait for their response...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Ask HN: How can I make pending comments posted from a new account visible?"

2510c39011c5 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:10:16 +0000

They probably would give better visibilities to those new accounts created from certain well-known IP address ranges...

And their visibility mechanism seems to be a bit involved...as for now, each of my three different HN accounts has a different view scope for posts in a same thread...

Seems these days it is much more difficult for a new account of vague origin to participate in a discussion here than it was a few years ago...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Ask HN: How can I make pending comments posted from a new account visible?"

2510c39011c5 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:01:17 +0000

thanks for the pointing...

but for some reason that I am not quite sure, I do not have this "vouch" nor "flag" option for any of the posts that I have the read access...seems the discussion system here works in a way that involves more parameters than "karma" alone...

New comment by 2510c39011c5 in "Ask HN: How can I make pending comments posted from a new account visible?"

2510c39011c5 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:32:55 +0000

Perhaps the question could be rephrased as, "how to make any comment posted by an account created less than 5 hours ago visible by any other accounts?"

It looks like the system does not allow a new account to initiate a discussion thread; so I have to ask with an account with a certain accumulation of karma in order to solicit that information.