skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author did not make it seem like that, they explicitly pointed out otherwise, the 5th paragraph:

> This is not to say that there aren’t some benefits to breastfeeding. In poor countries where water quality is very poor, these benefits may be very large since the alternative is to use formula made with contaminated water. In developed countries — the main focus of the discussion here — this isn’t an issue. Even in developed countries, there are a few health benefits of breastfeeding for children in the first year of life (more on this below).
Empires and kingdoms have fallen through internal systemic failures, both political and logistica

Yes.

I watched a documentary on hughtube, and it showed how the red chinese were turning frogs gay through chemtrails in their passenger jets.

If this continues, the US will fail due to lack of kids and due to everyone left being an immigrant!

(the above example comment shows what really causes civs to fail, dumbassery)
"with" existed in python 2. In python 2.6 in fact, like comprehension lists, decorators, generators, descriptor protocol, exotic slicing assignation, advanced nested unpacking, infinite parameters...

Python was always chock-full of advanced features, people just usually don't notice because they get productive in 3 days with the basic features and don't need to go further. It's has the quality of a very smooth learning curve, but a very long one if you care.
Why shouldn't it be expanding eastwards? Seems to me that if a bunch of countries want to get together to protect each other, they have every right to do so.

Especially when a near-by country has a habit of being an aggressor:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...

And let's not forget Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
Thanks. How many troops has the Russian ministry of defense reported this time?
Without arguing over content, why the quotes? Applebaum is well documented as existing.
You misremembered to such an extent that the article actually said the exact opposite of what you thought it did?

Impressive.
I don’t see any reason smaller nations wouldn’t be a risk if we’re going down that path.

They seem happy to partner and buy tools.
A year after Texas cold spell,study shows renewable energy could avoid blackouts
Yes, of course we had to intervene to save Kosovars from Serbia's atrocities: no question.

I disagree with Putin POV too, but I find it difficult not to remember the arguments the West gave to justify Kosovo's independence.

After all, the UN could have seen troops to preserve Kosovars' safety.

My point was on the legal basis: can a territory detach itself based on the sole majority of the population living on it?

Of course, Putin never asked the people living there what their opinions were.

And I'm also flabbergasted when the US denounce the lies that Putin will tell to justify an invasion, since Iraq's invasion was just among the worst set-up ever.

We can't have it both ways all the time. After all, far fewer civilian Kosovars were killed without reason than Iraqis by US troops. I'm talking about the civilian casualties here.

All the measures to stop Putin invading Ukrain are justified, but I feel that the West gave ground to Putin by its handling of Kosovo and Iraq.
I upgraded my ram in my 2014 air and it is running like a champ!
> he thinks the west precipitated the crisis by pushing to have Ukraine join NATO

NATO doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO (at least, not for the foreseeable future). That's why, even now, when Ukraine is more or less begging to join NATO, NATO has done diddly squat to do so.

A lot of the pressure to join NATO within Ukraine has increased since Russia invaded Georgia and then Crimea. Russia only has itself to blame for the fact that its neighbors are terrified of Russia violating their territorial integrity and want to run as fast as possible from its sphere of influence.
And Russia gets to decide whether another sovereign country gets to join a military alliance…why? Because they can? The amount of laundering of Russian propaganda on here is depressing if not surprising.
You are supposed to fund it yourself with a forced savings account. It works provided you earned enough in your working years, didnt get too sick, didnt buy a too expensive flat.

There are legions of elderly workers who sell tissues in food courts to live who dont have enough saved. They have access to subsidized healthcare and apartments but they are still scrabbling for pennies to keep their head above the water.

It's an interesting approach in that the elderly arent completely hung out to dry but they're expected to still participate in a rat race and be subjected to market discipline albeit in a lower gear.

Macroeconomically, by expanding the labor pool it helps keep a lid on inflation. Hawker food, taxis, cleaners, etc. are all very cheap in SG.
> Quoting on Linux is consistent.

Out of curiosity, what do you use to do this? Gnu getopt and genopt are brilliant in my experience and handle all of the edge cases really well. The fact that they are consistent just means that it works, as long as you don't hit the stack limit.
I suggest replacing "an idiot" with "misguided".
75% of people work on a computer every day, for hours at a time. Those extra hours are unlikely to do any more damage…
Crypto has been around for 13 years and apparently "it's still early".

Imagine if the consumer web had been restricted to out-of-the-box HTML4 + CSS2 from 1999 to 2010.
This is really a story about the weakness of digital identity. Stringing together identities proofed to IAL1 yields an IAL1 identity. Authenticating to AAL2 can never change that
What? If you need further details you have to read the author's detailed works. Her name is right there on the page and directs you to her website where you can verify her credentials - https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/people/jessica-frazier
> I have no problem interoperating with the DOM in WASM.

What? How? Was a year or two ago I dived into WASM last time, but at that point there was no direct DOM access, and all the talk around it was pointing to it maybe existing far into the future, not anytime soon.

How are you accessing the DOM from WASM without using any of the JS host? You're not talking about just sending messages from WASM to JS and "manipulating" the DOM that way are you?
Finally! Another VCS!
As long as it is plain files, rclone takes a few minutes to set up, and removes those difficulties.
Not all choices are free and simple though.

For example, if your family and entire social circle is built around a religion you could say that your religion is still a choice, but if leaving a religion means leaving every important social bond you have, the choice is not as simple and free of consequences as choosing a BBQ sauce at the supermarket.

Similarly, if you were never taught stress coping mechanisms, or were conditioned by your parents to seek approval from others, or have been taught to live fast and enjoy your youth, etc. it’s probably a lot easier to decide to try opioids. Even to the point where not trying them feels like going against everything you’ve ever been taught and everything that’s kept you safe and alive up to that point.

It’s a nature vs. nurture argument and you’re ignoring the influence nurture has.

We could do this all day, but it’s really not hard to think of a scenario where a bad decision to you is the rational decision to someone else. There are more variables at play than try opioids or not. Your entire life up until that point plays a decision and no two lives and value systems are the same.
against whom exactly? nato? usa? or ukraine? in which of those cases it’s something meaningful? what would it even mean to lose/“be stopped” in each case that it would be impacted by dirty road?

american imagination about this conflict surely runs wild
Russia has already invaded Ukraine, with special forces and proxy forces, in Donetsk and in Crimea, indeed Putin claims Ukrainians and Russians are the same people. The forces they support have even committed war crimes like downing a civilian jet and killing hundreds and in recent days shelling civilian villages.

While it seems to be fashionable to make excuses for a murderous dictator like Putin, Putin’s intentions are clear and include at the very least regime change in Ukraine to install a puppet regime.

If you call massing hundreds of thousands of troops at two borders, invading two parts of a country and staging massive war games at another puppet state nearby ‘zero evidence’, your denial of reality is chamberlainesque. I hope you accept you were deeply wrong about this if Russia does invade again.
You dont need any propaganda machine to see that countries that are furthest from the conflict geographically and economically have the least to lose. That is why the warmongerist representing US/UK war efforts in every conflict is so excited about the situation.
FWIW, I recently bought aftermarket batteries for two older ThinkPads off of Amazon. After a few months of incredibly minimal use, one battery holds just under an hour of charge and the other holds about 10 minutes.
>Yet when Bill Gates or Bezos want to sell off their stock to fund their various hobbies they have no problem doing so.

That's because they don't actually spend that much of their wealth. If Bezos and Musk spent their entire fortune on their space companies, rockets technology would improve, but not to the scale of $300+ billion. Once they approach a certain level, every rocket scientist is working at maximum capacity our pipeline of training becomes bottlenecked.

>If we tax their wealth and a lot of it turned out to be smoke and mirrors that will, if anything, aid price discovery and lead to more efficient markets

I would agree if I could trust politicians with that amount of responsibility, but I don't. The majority of them don't seem to understand basic supply and demand or are intentionally pretending not to so they can pander to their voters.
And if 20 years from now, Mexico and Canada decide to align with China and invite Chinese troops to set up on the border with the US, then the leader of the US should explain to US citizen living near the borders, "Hey, I know this makes us vulnerable, and I don't like it any more than you do, but I cannot ethically do anything about it because no country gets a say in the military alliances of any other country," according to you?
A family member of mine put it that way: I need a big screen, how else am I going to do gaming and netflix on there?
I still can not reason with why you would want that but apparently this is what the mayority wants...
Personally, I want a small phone too. I have pretty large hands, so I am comfortable with up to 150mm height, but I have other requirements that somehow limit me to two phones right now. [0] Especially I want a recent model because there are so many flaws in processors that you always have to have a recent one to be kind of secure -.-
Sadly the Asus seems to have crap support and the pixel is quite old already.
I currently just hope that the Pixel 6a is smaller then the leaks suggest.
In the mean time I bought a Pixel 4a as a stop-gap solution.

[0] https://geizhals.eu/?cat=umtsover&xf=10063_11.0%7E157_131072...
The Economist has traditionally the worst coverage of Russia amongst Western media. To the point where it starts looking like it is something personal for the editors: always the same narrative, facts and opinions that not fit in the picture are conveniently ignored etc.

This article has a lot of pure speculations, that oversimplify the internal politics and decision making process in Russia. Yes, there’s a relatively small inner circle of people loyal to Putin and sharing his views. Yes, those views are conservative and nationalist. Are those people committed to a war and occupation of Ukraine? Unless you are reading minds you cannot be sure, and for the same reason we do not believe in the world government, it does not make sense to believe in this war conspiracy, when there are explanations of Russian strategy that do not rely on insanity.
We shouldn’t spare much kindness for trolls like this.

The facts are indisputable and known to everyone, Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine.
It’s often USA.
Toyota and Yamaha join forces to develop hydrogen-fueled V8 engine
WebSockets are actually fantastic for providing low overhead and high flexibility. It’s really not difficult to use any number of modern frameworks to do things like encode and decode from wire formats or even multiplex across the channel.

WebSockets shouldn’t be approached as a “from scratch” communication method unless you have very specific needs or your application is dead simple. Everyone else should take advantage of the numberous libraries available to help with the basics.

> I don't think WebSockets are really bad but it makes me internally wince whenever I see tech stacks trying to push using them for everything, even for transitioning between pages with no broadcast mechanism.

I’m not up to date with the less popular web frameworks. Which frameworks do that?
Almost all of the complexity of VCS is in or around merges. Take away accidental complexity and there is a lot of inherent complexity in merges.

First git project we had a guy who was bad at merges, and his solution was to avoid them as long as he could, which just made things worse. He also disliked another engineer. That engineer was definitely making mistakes but at the end of the day his Dunning Krueger was causing me less trouble than merge boy’s. Also suspect a little ageism, but would not have been able to defend that suspicion.

So one day merge boy was loudly exclaiming that old guy had written a terrible bug and the hit history proved it. Only the bug in question was something I specifically looked for in the code review, and had been happy to find that he had gotten it right. But here in git annotate it shows he got it wrong. What the hell?

So I step through the commit history one commit at a time, sure enough the code was initially correct… until merge boy did a merge and fucked up the three way. Again. And got old guy’s name to show up in annotate. I didn’t even know you could do that.
All in (software/hardware/people) ~$1-2k per terabyte of data indexed.
NATO has no de jure or de facto commitment to Ukraine. Together and individually they've said repeatedly they don't want Russia going in to Ukraine and they've offered Ukraine support both military and non-military short of an actual commitment while at the same time threatening Russia with sanctions.

What exactly is stopping Putin from acting? Every day that goes by and Putin fails to act is it better to say "NATO is losing it's shit" or "Putin is afraid to act and is trying to find a way to declare victory without the burden of acting"
A president with a poor approval rating and a war machine left without a war to fight make fast friends.
Russia also signed a treaty that said it agreed that Crimea was part of Ukraine, not Russia. It tore that treaty up and invaded Crimea because Ukraine was thinking about not extending Russia's lease on Sevastopol.
I like the ”Internet Explorer 5 is closed source, but could hypothetically look something like this” bit.

Is this source code available through MS partnership programs or an old leak?
Have you done a search for your app on Twitter, ordered by newness? Quite often you'll find a reference to an email list alongside your app in someone's twitter posts.
Well, that's one of the things that did help to do in the Nazis during Barbarossa (amongst many others of course). The Russians even have a name for it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa
> Once spammers fear for their lives, they will stop.

I've seen many Indonesian scams which utilizing many Blogger/Blogspot websites (which are definitely ugly) and phone numbers. Even though the government enforced all cellular phone numbers to be registered under a valid ID, this still not actually stop them to scam more people.

One of these scam sites is https://berkahmy-pertamina.blogspot.com which was published this year (see RSS/Atom feed for details) to impersonate Pertamina (national gas/petrol company) to run classic lucky draw scams.

Let see how many SIM cards you can count in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4BlFXAnvI (at 3:30 and 8:40). This is from an actual Indonesian TV show about police investigation and was taken before the regulation was passed by the government.
we added e2ee in beta in nov 2016 (https://matrix.org/blog/2016/11/21/matrixs-olm-end-to-end-en...) and exited beta and enabled it by default in may 2020: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/06/cross-signing-and-end-to-...
Good points, some more or less relevant.

> - it’s easy to hit a Unix command line length limit when a single * argument expands into many arguments. xargs solves that, but it shouldn’t be necessary.

Not on Linux. It used to be a single page (so in practice 4k), but on my system for example, it's 128k. Never ran into this problem.

> Unix tools cannot discriminate between * and the list of arguments it expands to. Consequently, rm cannot know whether you typed a single * or the specific list it expands into, so it cannot ask silently accept the latter and ask ‘are you sure’ for the former.

Fair point. I like to alias rm to rm -i for that reason, which is sometimes inconvenient too of you actually want to delete a lot of files, so I have to pass -f again to undo it...

> “cat paper* > paper.all” or “grep foo > foos” fill up your disk

Hmmm, does it create the output file first and then expand the arguments? Otherwise the output file has to already exist, which would create the same problem on Windows, or Linux with a glob syscall, unless you explicitly check if stdout is redirected to a file, and that file is one of your input files.

I guess in windows this cannot happen in practice as you cannot open a file twice for reading and writing, but then this has nothing to do with command line handling anymore.

> calc 3 * 4 + 5

You'd probably make it so that it has its own parsing too in that case, so you can do calc '3 * 4 + 5'.

There are ugly situations with the Linux or really shell way, and after having switched to Linux a long time ago I might be biased towards it, but I really think I had greater wtf moments with command line handling on Windows.
You're painting Carthage a little bit as a victim, when it was initially a power the equal of Rome. The Punic Wars were brutal for both nations. The sack of Carthage came only after Carthage, led by Hannibal, conducted a 15 year campaign of conquest and terror across Italy. The Romans' relentless adaptation to building a navy, even in the face of unimaginable losses, is remarkable and speaks to a cultural adaptation and perseverance that was a driving force of their success.
Neither part of that is true. The US and the entire world economy will suffer immeasurably if there's all out war. The US will be seen as even more ineffectual internationally than it already is after Afghanistan, emboldening Chinese aggression in Taiwan and elsewhere.

Russia - lets be clear, the country that is threatening an all out invasion of a Sovereign nation it's already attacked and occupied; has the possibility of gaining territory, blocking NATO expansion, threatening it's former Warsaw Pact partners into favourable deals, gaining control over Ukraine's enormous agricultural resources, etc etc.
if i write an article saying “is elon musk alien?.. no” it would be reasonable to say that i wrote an article about him being an alien. it’s not their conclusion that is idiotic, it’s the hypothesis itself
"Elites have hijacked Russia and conflated the country's interests with their own"

Um... Replace "Russia" with the name of any nation on earth, and the sentence remains true.

As an individual with an Economics graduate degree, The Economist strikes me as such a flimsy propaganda rag, it's sad and pathetic it has any attention at all.
But the media isn't going to read the study before they publish all their cute headlines about getting some sun to extend your life. And everyone get dumber.
For some alternative perspective - here is an analysis from Chinese government outlet Global Times:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252149.shtml

US needs Ukraine crisis to harm European economy, and legitimize its military presence

...

Chinese analysts said Sunday that keeping the crisis intense will benefit the US in several fields: legitimizing its military presence in Europe by demonizing Russia and poisoning Russia-EU ties, increasing uncertainties and concerns to harm the eurozone economy so there will be more capital flight from the continent to the US and thus easing the US inflation pressure, and using the tension to stir up trouble for China-Russia ties.

...
You hear academics talk about systemic problems but 90% of politicians openly deny the existence of systemic problems.

It's obvious why it's not helping anyone.

Your comment reads like that meme of Obama awarding himself an award.
Did you forget Cuba exists and that the US was regarded a the agressor for trying to get the soviets out of there? Or would it have be totally ok with you if we invaded them?
I read crazy theory conspiracy this is about destabilising EU and our energy policy. US can not put sanctions on closest allies directly (NS2), so there has to be war. Just crazy conspiracy theory though...
What? I am literally using the term to describe the exact same point. What is different in the framing ?
I think the question the article brings up is, why is Russia playing chess against Ukraine and other such countries?

Why isn't Russia instead building bridges, establishing stronger economic bonds, and addressing its own issues inside itself to help increase the quality of life of its people?

And they seem to answer it by saying that Putin and entourage love chess and are really good at it, that's why.

Thus the conclusion is that they are more focused on themselves then what's best for their people.

I don't know if that's true, but it's what I understood from the article.
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The problem is that Russia isn’t the only country that puts out propaganda, and most people are now well aware after the lies that were used to justify the Iraq war. So far I haven’t seen any objective facts except some out of context satellite photos and anonymously sources information from the US intelligence community (A group of people who’s job descriptions are to spread misinformation)
When Googling for what that is, they look very similar to the foam pillow I tried. It was the closest I got to something comfortable, but in the end still not as good as the knee pillow. I'd probably be able to find a comfortable cervical pillow, but looking at the prices the knee pillow just seems like a much cheaper option that works just as well in my situation.
Propose a solution.

If decentralized, how will you stop incitement to genocide?

If government run, how will you stop political censorship and risk of authoritarian takeover?

If privately run, what changes are you suggested to the current approach?
> Basically, he thinks the west precipitated the crisis by pushing to have Ukraine join NATO

This is a downright lie. Anyone who follows NATO knows that there has been very little desire to allow Ukraine to join.