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Show HN: How to avoid World Wars!
Everywhere I travel, people everywhere have the same concerns: earn enough money, raise a family, enjoy life. They don’t want these conflicts. So why does it happen?

The Russian security council has just unanimously voted to recognize the Russian-speaking breakaway regions of Ukraine as independent. While it’s tempting for many to explain it all as “Putin is behind every decision in Russia and eveyone is a puppet”, this is a more serious situation. What was Putin suppossed to do, ignore them? When the US congress pushed Obama to intervene in Syria, or pushed Trump slap sanctions on Russia, they resisted for a while. But whether Stalin or the Pope is replaced, the cold war or the Crusades would have still taken place. Because the apparatus continues to operate.

Avtually the problem is actually far deeper and more. Almost always, it is the combination of two things that lead to escalating conflicts in the world:

1) A discrete (usually binary) choice between status A and B for people on the ground

2) An absurd concentration of power in a state, federation, corporate industry, etc.

Together, they use mass media to pit regular people against each other on one or another side of an issue, keeping them divided rather than working together to fix the system upstream.

I have written about it in many areas of life, and once you see it, you can’t unsee it (links in the comments below)

Factory Farming [1]
Plastic [1]
Fossil Fuels [1]
Vaccines [1]
Party Poliics [2]
Presidential Elections [2]
Net Neutrality [3]
Women in Tech [4]
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [5]

I could go on… but let me just suggest an obvious solution. Make a UN treaty (like nuclear non-proliferation) committing to gradual transitioning to a system where each region could vote for its membership in neighboring states, and the results would be continuous, eg 30% membership in A, 60% in B, and 10% in a nascent independent state C. This would be reflected in regional arrangements. Separatists among Tamil Tigers, PKK, PLO, Hamas, Catalonians, Kurds, would have had less to fight about.

As it is, systems resist change and people are pushed by mass media and culture to ostracize those who push for the system to change, as “traitors” who ”side with the enemy”. Meanwhile, by insisting on 1) consensus on discrete outcomes and 2) concentrations of power on both sides, they just paint themselves into a corner, and could lead to nuclear armaggedon. All for what? The inability to improve the current international system.

(1 and 2 is also, incidentally, why blockchains don’t scale as well as almost all other Internet protocols).
I think this is a good idea.
Usually i want to mock classes and functions with these frameworks. gmock just werks for dat.
Were businesses pressured to close by the city and the police because people were allegedly flouting mask mandates, or to deny the protestors food, water, heat, and washrooms in -20 Celsius weather? The business closures advised by the city and police certainly furthered their war of attrition against the protestors, despite the lack of evidence of any real threat. On the contrary, a number of small businesses remained open during the protests and experienced relatively few disruptions.

The border protests were certainly more economically disruptive, and it's remarkable that it took days to clear out a handful of vehicles.
I dont know why but unlike chromium we have very little "Firefox alternatives".

I always thought of Firefox as more developer friendly but lately there is very little difference between chromes and Firefox devtools, instead it seems like Firefox keeps trying to appeal to the general audience... But all the general audience cares about is what it knows. And they know chrome because when you go into Google it tells you to install chrome, a "faster" browser.

Not to mention that a lot of websites that rely on JavaScript dont work as well in Firefox like they do on chrome, it is the reason why I have both installed.

Anyway, it seems like a lost battle. But I'm sure google will keep them going because otherwise they become a monopoly in the sector.
Author here, u/skeeto from https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/sxy5q4/pythons... has some good insight into the 3.10 difference:

> Ironically, CPython 3.10 has gone the opposite direction and made thread scheduling much more deterministic. It now only releases the GIL on backwards edges in the byte code The example in the article always prints 40000000 in CPython 3.10! I expect this will ultimately make Python code less reliable in the future as many programs will accidentally depend on this behavior.
Also interesting:

As far as I know the Japanese Americans where forced to sell land they own for close to nothing and where never reimbursed.
Ah, you're that krastanov. https://github.com/Krastanov/QuantumClifford.jl/commit/aafd5...

Hey, when everyone else is falling back to "oh we just simulate the hard cases to verify them", making simulation faster is making verification better.
> I don't want 4K: 5K has over 77% more logical area.

Can you elaborate?

5/4 = 1.25
For me even that is too much :-P. I have a 27" 2560x1440 monitor and i consider it too large.

At least when i upscale older (or very demanding) games from 640x480 or 1280x720 they look crisp enough instead of the blurry mess that was before a few years when this became possible outside of emulation.

But i bought it because of the VA panel, 165Hz refresh rate and flat surface since i couldn't find any smaller monitor with those characteristics. So if that next-best-thing-to-OLED tech is actually good, i'll most likely get one since i doubt i'll see a real OLED PC monitor in not-gargantuan sizes.
Yeah, why not? Do you expect China, Korea and Taiwan to join NATO anytime soon?

Also, during the Soviet times they used to have flourishing copycat IC industry.
I'm not blaming him for anything. I guess you're taking being an egoist as a bad thing? It's needed for the role he's in. He just takes it to a next level, that's all. Like you said, he's got a cool name, why let that go to waste?
Related meta analysis:

https://addictions.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1...

> Conclusions These results provide strong evidence of greater DRD in individuals exhibiting addictive behavior in general and particularly in individuals who meet criteria for an addictive disorder.

They don’t draw conclusions about causative success, just a correlation with addiction.
"Genuine", sure, but justifiable? Most reasonable people would want drug lords and cyber criminals to get caught.
Social & local still has room for new useful solutions.

Most people don't need new randos in their lives. They might have time to be in group chats with peeps of value. Selecting interests by unverified people isn't the solution, even though most apps go this route.
Value + ease, is key to this. The are clever ways to group people and semi verify that have not been exploited yet.

What I am working on. If you are a skilled iOS dev or backend pro (cloud functions to be written!) and interested, DM. (or anyone else).
And then there would be a black market, immediately. Prohibition tends to be exceptionally violent. The point being: using a decentralized currency makes authoritarianism harder. This is not exactly a radical idea: foreign currencies have very often been banned from use in dictatorships. Why people kick back on "internet money" being a tool to use against abusive governments is strange: It's more or less it's only real feature, and the feature that makes it's enormous computational cost worthwhile.

I'm aware this is a wildly radical set of statements, and I'm not a bitcoin-carrying-anarchist, but you can't really deny that this is the real application of "internet money", and thus the original point of the article stands.
The extraordinary extent to which huge chunks of London and the political alt-right across Europe and the USA relies on Putin's (and other oligarchs') laundered wealth is really a brake on any ambitions that sanctions will work.

You can't stop Putin's illicit private wealth (he's probably the richest man in the world) spreading through the West because it already did.

There will be no co-ordinated all-party pushback against Russia in the USA or the UK, because big chunks of the political system of both are aware of the side on which their bread has been buttered for some time.

And a lot of alt-right figures who have spent years saying that it's a lie that they have Russian support, but at the same time that Putin is a strong leader the West can learn from, are either going to go silent, obstruct or outright attack any sanctions measures.

I don't just mean the obvious people. It's going to be very, very illuminating.

And that is before you look at the soft power issue of, well, exported power in Europe.
How does Prisma compare to EdgeDB? Pros and cons? I have limited experiences with DBs and ORMs, but EdgeDB looks very interesting.
Sure, I believe you and have no quarrel with what you're saying here. The problem is that you didn't include any of that information in the GP comment, so there was no way to disambiguate it from garden-variety flamebait.

Since that's internet default when it comes to inflammatory topics, that's what a comment like the GP will pattern-match to, unless you explicitly disambiguate it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). The fact that your comment also added snark made this even more likely, as well as the fact that you've been posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments already.
Disappointed in Europe at the moment. Putin knew sanctions would be endlessly pushed off as "still trying to achieve diplomacy". He called the bluff.

Putin made it 100% clear he does not want Diplomacy. He wants a victory by conquest. He wants war. He doesn't care how far he has to take things to get it. Anyone who listened to his bizarre rant on Ukrainian "history" can see this.

What the hell is NATO waiting for? "Okay, but if you kill another thousand civilians, we're REALLY going to start thinking about those sanctions!" seems like the defacto mode of thinking right now.

2022 shaping up to be a disaster.
Don't those natural gas pipelines go through the Ukraine? Regardless of how they get destroyed, when they do, Russia will have everything it needs to justify a full invasion.

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/europe-map/
Validation on holdout sets.

When I was a student in the 1990s, I was taught about hypothesis testing (and all the hassle of p-fishing etc.), and about Bayesian inference (which is lovely, until you have to invent priors over the model space -- e.g. a prior over neural network architectures). These are both systems that tie themselves in epistemological knots when trying to answer the simple question "What model shall I use?"

Holdout set validation is such a clean simple idea, and so easy to use (as long as you have big data), and it does away with all the frequentist and Bayesian tangle, which is why it's so widespread in ML nowadays.

It also aligns statistical inference with Popper's idea of scientific falsifiability -- scientists test their models against a new experimental data, data scientists can test their model against qualitatively different holdout sets. (Just make sure you don't get your holdout set by shuffling, since that's not what Popper would call a "genuine risky validation".)

The article mentions Breiman's "alternative view of the foundations of statistics based on prediction rather than modeling". Breiman does make a big deal of evaluation on holdout sets; but his "prediction" idea isn't general enough, since it doesn't accommodate generative modelling (e.g. GPT, GANs). I think it's better to frame ML in terms of "evaluating model fit on a holdout set", since that accommodates both predictive and generative modelling.
The idea of an EU without a mutual defense treaty is so absurd
Not just land. Bank accounts and personal property were also liquidated under duress.
Kristen Cavallo (CEO of the Martin Agency who disputes Coinbase CEO) has references to a presentation but not receipts. I'm curious how much of the final product the agency pitched. (not that they don't deserve at least some credit)
Being pro-Ukrainian is super dangerous in separatist-controlled regions. Some people has died or has been tortured because of this. I think that most of the people from this region that openly supported Ukraine are now either in Ukraine or jailed/dead.
He said it himself in his speech: He does not consider Ukraine (the whole country) a separate nation, but rather a lost piece of Russia which he intends to "reunite" into his nation.
Only polls with the smoking barrels. Lol, it's so ridiculous how actually far western people are from the wild reality of Russia. So naive.
Wozniak’s sweet 16 was along these lines:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
I have no capslock and I must scream
Unless I'm missing something, this seems to match the definition of invasion given by Biden the other week and should trigger the hyped up draconian sanctions.
Examine why HashMap is slow (2015)
That's not what TFA suggests.
Brave's ad blockers are built-in, can do CNAME uncloaking and won't suffer from Manifest v3.
Sounds like it is predictive. Just not when:

> Controlling for differences such as household income and cognitive abilities ...

So it's a (predictive) IQ test.

Perhaps it disavows the prior assumed basis of "deferred gratification", but not the predictive power of the test.
It reminds me of a notorious bar here in Chicago that has continued to allow indoor smoking ever since the city's 2008 ban went into effect. The popular understanding is that they just keep paying the fines as a cost of doing business.
It means that they are quite content living in a country that they call their home. I understand that it is hard to grasp, but not everyone in Ukraine works in Poland as a laborer.
It has nothing to do with West. People who are 40 or younger in a majority recognize Ukraine as their homeland, no matter the ethnic composition or the language preference.
But it does happen. The probability of me encountering even one car during a bike ride is like considerably lower that you are expecting.
>So if you were in London you would never get to the destination?

I don't live in London, but if I were to do what I do where I live I would just push my bike around assuming there are always cars driving near me.
but being edgy on twitter is the number one way of getting attention.
Love the use of "peacekeepers" here. It seems so aggressively bullshit here but on the other hand myself and most people wouldn't blink if the US did the same thing.
>and if you regularly exceed these you are a danger on the road.

98% of my driving is not in city centers

>A roads in Scotland that are _not_ safe to travel at 60mph for large stretches of due to poor road camber, poor visibility, narrow lanes, etc.

Slowing down for safety is different than going slow just because you feel like it.

>This is a dangerous and unpredictable way to cycle

It's not more dangerous that being a pedestrian. I'm already off the road before they even get close. I can trust that drivers can stay on the road.
Luckily, when Rio Turia gets to Valencia, there's only about 5km before it flows out to the Med so extracting a bit more won't affect those down stream.

The area being serviced isn't massive and the chanels are narrow and quite deep.
> Then Russia truly is screwed.

Too early to say that so definitively. Russia is banking on a close relationship with China in that time frame. Looking into the future from here in 2022, that doesn't seem like such a bad bet.
>Very weird to hire people to do work, and especially convincing them to leave their current job, when you don't have any work that needs to be done.

Spec work and pitch work are very much a thing. As counterintuitive or infuriating as it may seem, having no paying clients doesn't mean there is no work to be done, in the agency world.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or take HN threads further into hellish flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So far they only propose their server proxy thingie. Is it clear what data they intend to share?
Aren't sanctions rather used to punish the people, until they rise up against the leader we want to get rid of?
Makes me wonder what kind of things existed that people have had this attitude for in the past, but are no longer. And since it didn't exist for me to get accustomed to (and therefore have a loss aversion towards), I just take it for granted.
Trump’s Truth Social App Launches Without a Social Network
I think all of this started when Ukraine started to use Baykar Bayraktar TB2.
I've never understood the marshmallow test. I'm supposed to sit there and stare at a delicious marshmallow for some indeterminate amount of time in order to get one extra marshmallow? Offer me a whole bag and we'll talk.

I've always wondered if this test measures more of the child's willingness to please the researcher, and not so much their capacity for delayed gratification.
No. 完全不要
The parent of the comment you’re replying to directly states that children come first, the topic is marriage and being in a loving relationship.

I have seen a handful of psychologists which claim that happiness of the parents is quite important to happiness of the children, and throwing yourself on the altar of self-sacrifice could be causing more harm than you think.

If taking care of yourself means not being in a relationship with someone, but you have children, what’s the priority? That’s always going to be a hard question.

Your first sentence is far too dismissive of that. These things are diametrically opposed if they parent of the comment you’re replying to is to be believed.
SCOTUS is a legal institution that interprets laws given the facts and case in front of them. It is not their job to ratify Executive powers in the absence of Congressional action. They are not, nor should they be, a backup Congress.
These regions have unilaterally declared their independence since the 2014 revolution/coup.

In that sense the only thing that is new is the official Russian recognition.

It's a messy situation. According to the census on wiki only 1/3 are of Russian ethnic background. Does that mean only 1/3 supported the breakaway from Ukraine?

You can't help but to make comparisons to the Sudeten Germans and the like. "Peacekeeping missions".
To be clear, the NYT did ruin Wordle, just not in the ways most people are saying. They added a bunch of tracking to it, and they redid the word list to censor anything even remotely politically incorrect.
Right, but the point remains that the company made no money. It’s a lot of effort to do what he did and to not sign 1 contract especially as employee’s 6mo paychecks were coming up is still surprising to me.
Had the police simply cleared up the problem using existing laws a good crisis would have gone to waste.
> The old adage "No one is thinking about you as much as they are thinking about themselves" is true.

Or "No one is thinking about you as much as you are".
It does say "recognized as sovereign states by Russia"
As an EU citizen - I am very glad that you hold no power of making those kind of decisions.
1. https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=362

2.

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=254

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=250

3. https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=194

4. https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286

5.

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=219

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=172

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=174

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=322
There were reparations paid in 1988 - not saying that it was enough, or should count as reimbursement, but there was some financial acknowledgement.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which officially apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government and authorized a payment of $20,000 (equivalent to $44,000 in 2020) to each former internee who was still alive when the act was passed. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."[30] By 1992, the U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion (equivalent to $3,500,000,000 in 2020) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned.[29][31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988
Well, if we’re sharing: I won’t, especially since I don’t have much.
“Adding the marshmallow test results to the index does virtually nothing to the prognosis, the study finds.”

This does not mean that the test is not predictive. It means that the index (a bunch of measurements) contains statistical dependencies. From a practical view, the marshmallow test result depends on many cognitive factors unrelated to self-control. The child must understand the instructions, remember them for the duration of the test, trust the provider, value the second marshmallow, and then make a decision. To be of any value, it should have been tested against a standard cognitive battery, which it almost certainly would have failed to improve upon. Cognitive tests have worked extremely well to predict life outcomes for decades now if not centuries.
The problem is that other EU citizens want their lights to come on when they press the switch, so Russia has them by the balls.

The other option of course is for the EU to pull a switcheroo and invade Russia.
> Nuclear power plants have been shutting down because the companies

Except that is demonstrably false:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
The think is, at least in some of the US states, there are major benefits for long term land holders (wrt. property tax) and some of the land once owned by Japanese Americans became very expensive (I have heard, as it was in Silicon Valley).
True. It’s the Gish Gallop of model numbering. Fortunately, it is the preserve of the crap brands. It’s sort of like seeing “in exchange for a free product, I wrote this honest and unbiased review”. Bam! Shitty product marker! Asus GL502V vs Asus GU762UV? Easy, neither. They’re clearly both shit or they wouldn’t try to hide in the herd.
If only one thread is reading or writing the counter at a time, and holds the GIL while doing so, it's not a data race, but a mutex which fails to ensure the atomicity of the read-modify-write operation:

with GIL:
x = counter + 1
with GIL:
counter = x
But what happens if say, the wind doesn’t blow as much as expected [0]? Renewables are great but since you can’t easily bank massive amounts of power for later, you need some sort of reliable, consistent energy source that continues working when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. Like gas or nuclear. But with nuclear plants falling out of fashion, guess what that leaves you with. Renewables are great but you can’t just ignore their downsides.

0: https://fortune.com/2021/09/16/the-u-k-went-all-in-on-wind-p...
The endgame is first buffer zones against the West around Russia, and if possible, restoration of the pre-USSR Russian Empire. That's what Putin says, and it's consistent with his actions.

First South Ossetia, then Crimea, then Belarus, now Donetsk.
Oh for sure. I blame David Cameron (ha ha only serious, he was senior at Carlton which merged with Granada to form modern ITV plc)
>Three years of updates of Google's own software on their own hardware is ridiculous and inexcusable. It also shows that it was never about who made the SoC.

Are you talking about the pixel 3 or pixel 6? The pixel 6 (which uses their own SoC) is getting 5 years of security updates. That's much longer than what the pixel 3 is getting, which confirms my comment.
Russia wants to permanently block Ukraine's entry into NATO. By holding on to disputed territories indefinitely, they can make that happen. See also: Russia support of Georgia's breakaway territories after Georgia was inching closer to NATO membership. This is the exact same thing with the exact same playbook.