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I Visited Bucha Today
- aliqot 4y agoPage isn't loading, posted 18 mins ago by a green name, how did it already get 13 points? Anybody get a screenshot or archive link before it dropped? Found more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre Going to return when the site's back up.
- zubi 4y agoOff topic, but I was wondering what the green names signify since I started following HN. Can you please tell?
- reducesuffering 4y agoNew account
- mastazi 4y agoAt the moment there are 3 posts in HN home page by "green names". Nothing strange IMHO as I've never seen any indication that post ranking is affected by age of poster account.
- ShivShankaran 4y agohttps://archive.ph/20160327060128/http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/pentagon-admits-spending-millions-study-manipulate-social-media-users.html https://archive.ph/20160327060128/http://www.washingtonsblog... This blog post was scrubbed from the internet shortly after. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_post_identifying/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit... "Reddit has removed their blog post identifying Eglin Air Force Base as the most reddit-addicted "city" - Eglin is often cited as the source of some government social-media propaganda/astroturfing programs" Also note the same themed posts on reddit from accounts that are around 1-2 years old and have 4-5 random posts in last one year but are suddenly active posting about the war. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoIt's actually a new, second account. I posted for post of a year, then had the original account deleted. I strayed too much from being on-topic (that topic being Redshift).
- andreyk 4y agoIt seems to me that lots of things get upvotes from people who just want to discuss it and don't click to actually read it. In particular, I wonder how many things in the 'new' page actually get read before being upvoted -- links are usually on the first page of 'new' for only 15 minutes or something like that. It would be interesting to see the composition of the front page if people instead had to click first before being able to upvote.
- paragraft 4y agoSite seems crushed under load. https://web.archive.org/web/20220929224847/https://www.amazonredshiftresearchproject.org/slblog/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220929224847/https://www.amazo...
- fasteddie31003 4y ago
- unethical_ban 4y agoFor being named after an AWS product I thought it would have some better uptime!
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoI wouldn't want AWS to catch any flak because of me, well, not unless I'm writing about Redshift, in which case they get all flak that's appropriate :-) AWS have nothing to do with this site, and certainly nothing to do with its hosting.
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoThankyou for posting that link. I was not expecting a strong response to the post; I took no steps to handle additional traffic. Experience is the key to performance, and this is the first time I've posted a noticable thread. I've upped the number of Apache servers to four and increased the thread count per server to 32. Too late now, of course; but I'll know better in the unlikely event I should come again to post something of interest.
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoI have rewritten the blog, moving to an index-based layout, rather than the original single-page layout. I've also moved the CSS link inline. There is no javascript, there are no cookies. This has broken the link for this story. I added a redirect, but it does nothing. No errors, no logging, just... doesn't do anything. That's an experience I have to say I have had before, with Apache =-) I've added a couple of words of explanation to the top of the index, and a link there to the blog post.
- glogla 4y agoI know this isn't the topic, since this blogpost is about something else, but the redshift reverse engineering section of the site is excellent. Reading the whitepapers, you can see the author is really knowledgable about redshift and also hates it with a passion as only someone who spend years fixing it would have :)
- asdfasdgll 4y agoMax was (maybe still is, I haven’t been there in a while) quite active in the dbt slack in the redshift channel. He helped me immensely. He really, really, really knows his stuff.
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoThankyou! You're very kind to say so :-) I have to say, I think for all of us if we devote all our time to one particular and extra-ordinarily narrow field we may well come know more than others in that field, it always remains the case that the difference between what we know and what there is to know, remains enourmous.
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoAh, a fellow sufferer! :-)
- eevilspock 4y agohttps://archive.ph/m3FuF https://archive.ph/m3FuF
- jmillikin 4y ago> I took the metro as far as I could go, which is about half-way, > and a bus from there. The center of Bucha all told is about 30km > from the center of Kyiv. An aspect of the Ukraine war I'm still having trouble wrapping my mind around is how close (geographically) everything is. I thought of Kyiv along the lines of London during the Blitz -- in danger, but not necessarily on the front lines -- and of Bucha as perhaps a town along the road from Russian territory. But in truth it's more like a suburb. The distance from Bucha's rail station to the Office of the President of Ukraine is about the same as San Francisco to Millbrae. It puts into perspective how fraught the early days of the invasion were, and the true weight of Zelensky holding his ground in Kyiv.
- qaq 4y agoNot everything it's just that Bucha is actual Kyiv suburb
- nextos 4y agoYes, it's like Arlington and DC almost.
- cafard 4y agoA good deal of the American Civil War was fought within what are now suburbs or exurbs of Washington, DC. Meet a Virginia Railroad Express (VRE) train at L'Enfant Plaza, and you will likely find some commuters from Fredericksburg, to say nothing of Manassas.
- asveikau 4y agoDC native here. Glancing at Google maps, I'd say it looks further out than Arlington. Maybe I'd put it at about Rockville.
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- cmurf 4y agoPutin is expected to formally annex four Ukrainian regions, following sham elections. From the outset Russia's war of aggression sets it outside its obligations under the UN Charter, the Budapest memorandum, and Geneva Convention. But once annexation is announced by Russia, the rest of the world has to decide what to do about a violation of the most central proscription in all of international law. I'm skeptical the UN system avoids defacto collapse if it refuses to strangle the Russian regime at this point. And if the UN system ends, whether 5 months or 50 years, I uave serious doubts about WW3 being avoidable. The UN system stinks. But it's all we have, born from the ashes of WW1 and 2, to avoid it. Since we haven't done the hard work of getting rid of nukes, I'm also skeptical humanity avoids using at least one. China and India need to show up and defend the Charter. They agreed to be bound by this obligation.
- hutzlibu 4y ago"I'm skeptical the UN system avoids defacto collapse if it refuses to strangle the Russian regime at this point" Maybe it simply lacks power? What can they do, except declare the referendum illegal?
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- actionfromafar 4y agoI think the highest value of the UN is in the security council. It's a forum for the nuclear powers to talk to each other. Everything else is secondary. If it's enough to avoid WW3, I don't know, but it's all we have.
- cmurf 4y agoRussia is a permanent member of the Security Council and will veto anything holding it accountable. The Security Council is already lost. And under the UN Charter, Russia can't be removed. The Soviet Union were expelled from the League of Nations after invading Finland in 1939. The General Assembly can and should do more. Or the UN system will defacto collapse into irrelevance.
- maxdo 4y agoBucha is only one of the suburbs of Kyiv suffered. Kharkiv region, Izuym, Mariupol, is much much worse. God knows what else will be found after liberation of other parts. It's really shocking to see how people are easily manipulated. Half of the russia thinks that they are at full fledge war with US, EU and rest of west. Simple logic check like ok... their army is here, but have you heard of Western Rockets, F-35's , Tanks. Nope. Still we are under atack
- tim333 4y agoThis Russian guy on RT doesn't seem very manipulated, more: >on RT's show "Beautiful Russia," propagandist argues that Russia shouldn't worry about the way events like Bucha are being perceived or covered in the West. Instead, he says, Russia should lay into that: "Yes, that's how we are... We'll show you even more. Fear us!" https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1571266222871789575 https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/15712662228... I think Patton may have had the right idea.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoSimple logic check: How many satellites, AWACS does UA have?
- hutzlibu 4y ago"Half of the russia thinks that they are at full fledge war with US, EU and rest of west." Are you sure about those numbers? It sounds a bit like a strawman argument to me.
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- ivraatiems 4y agoWhat about this violates the guidelines?
- ummonk 4y ago> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- andreyk 4y agoPlenty of politics stories do get posted and discussed as on-topic, even if they are the minority. I mean, "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack" was a huge thread on here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336 These guidelines are deliberately broad and allow for many exceptions wrt politics.
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- bigDinosaur 4y agoWar is indeed horrible, but this invasion is entirely on Russia and is entirely unrelated to Ukrainian corruption.
- morpheos137 4y agoNot really. Look at the big picture. Due to Ukrainian corruption over the past 30 years the transition from communism to democracy was botched, even worse than it was in Russia post-Yeltsin. Economic failure secondary to corruption resulted in unhappy people. Naturally people fell back into ethno-nationalist populism and violence and politicians promised pot of gold at the end of the rainbow solutions like EU or NATO membership to deflect attention from their domestic failures.
- nosuchthing 4y agoThe deal for EU membership was tied to a poison apple of requirements from IMF + EU loans that demanded sweeping austerity. the pre-Euromaidan politicians decided to take the loan offered from Russia that did not require the austerity cuts to social services, pensions, and selling off public infrastructure. Euromaidan violence followed and after the coup everything continued to escalate and collapse into the Ukrainian "civil war" much of the eastern Ukrainian population was dehumanized after euromaidan. language laws passed, large opposition parties were made illegal. violent ultranationalists like azov begin gaining power. Ukrainian civilians have been abused and victimized by corruption for many years, decades.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoPutin has been quite clear that this is full blood and soil, Ukrainian identity doesn't exist and all of Ukraine is actually Russia. They do not care about Ukrainian corruption in the slightest.
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- wrp 4y agoThere is actually a technical component to the Bucha story, as there seems to be controversy over the satellite imagery. On April 4, the NYT published a satellite photo of Bucha dated March 11.[1] However, a Russian OSINT group claims the photo dates April 1.[2] Machine translation: Thanks to the help of our team of OSINT and GEOINT specialists, it was possible to determine the time of the image for certain. - A picture from the NYT allegedly from March 19 shows sand alluviums after a downpour that went from the 31st to the first. - The attached comparison from the NYT is based on two images that have identical shadow positions. They allegedly compared March 19 and February 28. In fact, they compared February 28 and April 1 - the time and position of the shadows coincide. The original dates of the pictures are American time. - The Maxar website provides information on which satellites have been surveying the Bucha region over the past period. A total of three satellites were involved. - By checking the angle of inclination of the Sun above the horizon, the SunCalc program was able to find out by searching the exact time of the image and the direction of the shadows. - The picture was taken on April 1 at 11:57 GMT (14:57 local summer time). [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/briefing/russia-ukraine-war-briefing-bucha-warcrimes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/briefing/russia-ukraine-w... [2] https://t.me/rybar/30599 https://t.me/rybar/30599
- raphlinus 4y agoIf by "controversy" you mean disinformation techniques designed to cast doubt on credible reports of war crimes, you are correct. See [1] for an analysis of this claim, including tracing it back to WarOnFakes and denials by Peskov. One of the great things about that report (making it I think particularly suitable for a Hacker News audience) is that it invites skeptical or critical readers to check the evidence themselves. Likely there is a reader of this thread who is competent at analyzing satellite imagery metadata and figuring out shadow angles. [1]: https://www.info-res.org/post/disinformation-denial-russia-s-attempts-to-discredit-open-source-evidence-of-bucha https://www.info-res.org/post/disinformation-denial-russia-s...
- wrp 4y agoDispassionate technical analysis is where I'm trying to turn the focus, getting away from the reliance on emotional and ad hominem rhetoric in these threads.
- ellis0n 4y agoMy engineer friend, with whom we develop the first phones on the 8051 processor in the 90s, left Bucha a few hours before the Russian invasion. In fact, russian governmet destroyed the Ukrainians at the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than 50 programmers suffered. We asked for help for many years, but the russian government made Ukraine an outsider and this buried a lot of projects that could have been successful like WhatsApp the founder is from Ukraine. Unfortunately, russian government look at Ukrainians as slaves for all 30 years of Ukrainian independence. Thank you for your visit and support
- UncleEntity 4y agoIDK, I’ve seen enough war damage in Panama and Iraq that I know I don’t want to take a tourist trip into a post-combat zone. Seems somewhat disrespectful to me.
- Max-Ganz-II 4y agoI may be wrong, but I think it depends why you go. I felt I had to go, and it is specifically a feeling, inside me. I've been trying to pin down exactly what it is, and I'm not sure I've succeeded. It's something like where something so awful happened here, to ordinary people, the horror, the terror, the violence and death, it feels encumbent to - and grimly - witness what happened.
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- aredox 4y agoYeah, nice work, Sherlock. They had prepared this propaganda skit weeks in advance but they just forgot to tell the mayor of Bucha. I guess you are a big fan of Faurisson and Meyssan.
- miguelazo 4y agoIronic you'd bring them up given that Zelenky's regime is completely controlled by the Azov Battalion and they're even funded by the same source. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/03/ykgh-j03.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/03/ykgh-j03.html