skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putin is unlikely to be trying to occupy all of Ukraine. The sheer cost of getting bogged down in an insurgency he couldnt possibly win suggests he's going to take an option which plays to his strengths instead.

More likely he will try to cleave off strategically important territory with Russian majorities (forming a land bridge to crimea, maybe all the way to transnistria) and leave Kyiv having extracted a promise to remain unarmed, "neutral" and providing no aid to insurgencies or face another bloody assault.
> for all intents and purposes have proven disastrous for the local people and the US

Except for the generation of Afghan girls that got to attend school for the ~20-years that the US was in charge.
> I don't know that NATO has the guts to give Putin that bloody nose.

Your analysis seems rational in this moment. But: the policy and personality of a democracy is liable change rapidly and radically in a way no single actor ever would or could. Autocrats often do not understand this, and make the same assumptions you have.

The scenario you describe would raise such apocalyptic outrage in America and Europe that war without thought of consequence would likely ensue.

You simply cannot extrapolate future behavior of complex democracies from current behavior as you would an individual. The concern you laid out in your post is relevant: once enough citizens arrive at a similar opinion, policy can rapidly shift.
Are you, yourself unable to recognize the unlogical things that you do merely because you were conditioned to behave that way? It’s the same thing here. I’m baffled by people who are unable to recognize that
I have been following this closely and I have not seen anything in news reports or other OSINT that show U.S. ICBMs in Ukraine. Can you provide a source to support your comparison?
You do realize that the issue in both cases is Russia right? Russia is not a democracy. If an insane dictator puts up nukes near you it’s a very different situation. Not at all the same thing.
Didn't matter, it violated airspace.
SWIFT doesn't mean much. Bank transactions can be done by other means, which happened recently. It's speed and convenience, but not qualitative difference.
You do know that Bulgaria, just like Romania, is crap at using EU development funds, right?

Your country could look like Austria by now if you wouldn't be so corrupt.

Look in the mirror first.

How do you explain Slovenia or Estonia or Poland with your world outlook?
>Could you please elaborate?

Lets just say it not only resource burned me because this wasnt just a simple string of data encrypted with an encryption algo, but it would have resource burned anyone else who decided to have a go at decrypting it because of some of the methods I employed. I set out to defeat any automated brute force cracking with Amazon cloud/Bluffdale level of resource at their disposal. This could also apply to quantum computing, because in a way there are probably enough computing devices connected to the net to emulate a quantum computer in near realtime.

I turned their weakness into my advantage, but you would have had to have thought out of the box.

I cant go into any more details, its as simple as that, so you can say what you like, but I'm not here to convince you, but I will say current internationally recognised encryption methods are just lazy imo.

Edit. The difference with the resource burn though is I would get paid anyone else would be needing more tax dollars, so over time it could have been possible to see who was spooking on the reports because of their actions.
>Mearsheimer has been proven wrong

Everything that Mearsheimer stated would happen to Ukraine has now come to pass. He predicted it perfectly 7 years ago. He was not wrong. Neocons and Liberal Imperialists, as he calls the "war party", have now sacrificed Ukraine and left them to be massacred by advancing Russians. If you want to debate any of his arguments, please do so.
Rust belt… sounds lovely
Does this actually mirror the incompleteness theorem logic or does it just create an infinite recursive loop?

They seem distinct.
Yes, that was my first thought: I'd better not install that, surely it'll conflict with something...
Hmm, various websites disagree. I would guess some were given to Russia and some were destroyed with the uranium being kept for other purposes.

Gave to Russia:

> Ukraine handed all its nuclear weapons to Russia

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-nuclear-lesson-with...

> Ukraine have acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear states and are now transferring Soviet missiles and warheads to Russia for dismantlement on a strict schedule.

https://www.stimson.org/1995/politics-nuclear-renunciation-c...

>The former Soviet Republics where nuclear weapons had been based, namely Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, transferred those weapons to Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

> effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

> In May 1996, Ukraine saw the last of its nuclear arms transported back to Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/science/ukraine-nuclear-w...

> Ukraine transferred its last 40 nuclear warheads to Russia

> Most tactical nuclear weapons were transferred from Ukraine to Russia.

https://www.rferl.org/a/the-destruction-of-ukraines-nuclear-...

> All nuclear weapons were removed to Russia

https://www.nti.org/countries/ukraine/

Destroyed:

> Ukraine gave up a huge arsenal of nuclear weapons left over by the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and used the fuel from its blended-down warheads to drive its nuclear power plants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/politics/putin-ukraine...

> In 1994 Ukraine agreed to destroy the weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine

> Ukrainian workers cut an air-to-ground X-22 cruise missile into pieces

https://www.rferl.org/a/the-destruction-of-ukraines-nuclear-...

> they had to destroy all of their nuclear weapons.

https://historyofyesterday.com/did-ukraine-actually-get-rid-...
If Russia uses nuclear weapons first in a European war then yes. But the targets would probably be Russian forces in or approaching Poland or Germany rather than mainland Russia itself.
Real-world implication is that you can render extremely complicated flat vector graphics in real time at full resolution, and use GPU rather than CPU resources. Current CPU-based vector graphics rendering makes quality compromises for performance (rendering is often subtly incorrect, e.g. adjacent solid-color regions get rendered with hairline gaps of the background showing through, lines have poor antialiasing, or compositing is done in the wrong color space), gets bogged down as drawing complexity increases (which can lead creators to compromise their artistic vision for performance), takes CPU that might be needed for other tasks, and sometimes cannot handle display refresh rates so you end up with rendering delays, janky scrolling, etc.
He can also easily lie, Trump style, manufacture facts etc. Doesn't have much of restraints. And that's in the case he wants to talk to you at all - usually that's reserved for political appearances for the people, via TV.
Of course. First, we should not underestimate a terrible financial situation, and a feeling of injustice after losing the war and being forced to pay enormous retributions that were draining the economy. So it was natural than a new strong leader was needed that would unite the nation against a common enemy and finally launch a military operation.
Ever heard of EU development funds? Foreign investment?

The problem is local. Corruption.

And I'd take Western elites over Russian ones any day of the week. There are 0 (ZERO!) developed countries in the Russian sphere of influence.
It requires “com.apple.vm.networking” entitlement, but only if you are a non-root user, the entitlement is not required if your process runs as root.
In any case it should obviously be a choice if you want to protect yourself.
Pardon my skepticism but are there really politicians and media personalities in the US that support Putin's attack on Ukraine?
That was not the family i was talking about see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs
Define insanity? Copper can make you insane so can any number of other chemicals.
And you seriously contend that they are the ones running Ukraine?

Both Russia, Ukraine and Serbia have a Neo Nazi problem. But that does not justify Russia invading Ukraine.
By the way, you are including a lot of useless files and binary files in your git repository.
(.egg folder, pycache, pyc files). They make your repo very heavy.
Take a look at this example .gitignore : https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitigno...
According to who?

Apparently Zelenskyy thought Ukraine had a chance of joining NATO, and was actively partnering with NATO.

I don't see any reason why Ukraine couldn't join us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Russo-Ukrain...:

On 14 September 2020, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved Ukraine's new National Security Strategy, "which provides for the development of the distinctive partnership with NATO with the aim of membership in NATO." On 24 March 2021, Zelenskyy signed the Decree No. 117/2021 approving the "strategy of de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol."
> Now on the one hand, NATO is a purely defensive alliance

The author doesn't get it
France and Turkey has quite the army just by themselves and they are both NATO members. I wouldn’t be as pessimistic.
“Moscow’s tried-and-tested Georgia strategy now tailored for Ukraine”

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/moscow-s-tried-...
C++ has a well defined memory model: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/memory_model And it's not that different from the C memory model. How did Linux work with C?
I think one of the central theses of his argument is that NATO is actively expanding to antagonize Russia, rather than a passive expansion due to the Baltic states falling out of the post-Soviet sphere of influence taking advantage of NATO's open door policy: this is not a far-fetched assumption, given the relative prosperity of Western European countries compared to their Eastern European counterparts.

If you accept the latter rather than the former, I think it's hard to lay the blame on the West for simply having a defense alliance that sovereign states chose to join -- unless you would argue that NATO should simply not exist.
It’s a forum - yes, but so is every other “social” app. It has “boards”, but they are called “clubs”, places where people gather around sharing ideas and things they have made publicly, explaining how they did it.

Exchanging knowledge - hence the “network of knowledge feeds”. An evolution on traditional CVs and résumés that relies on the evolution of knowledge displayed in real time instead of where you worked and what you did.

I imagine that companies build products and they know what they need from people to build their products, so what if instead of submitting these relics we now call CVs, we could share our knowledge, and if we are good at conveying our knowledge, we could also teach others (and be much more relevant than schools), and score business opportunities.
You can blame the US all you want, at the end of the day they invaded Ukraine for no discernible reason (it's been nearly eight years since Crimea, with no moves towards NATO from Ukraine and no moves towards Ukraine from NATO) and it's costing them dearly. If you see that as a vindication of his position, so be it, but it clearly makes no sense.
What does pirated mean in this context? Usually I think of computer-related pirating as copyright infringement, but this sounds more serious.
Strange strategy. To take a country, essentially swapping one border of a poorly functioning state with six new borders. Borders with countries that are EU members, NATO members and in most cases much stronger.

Why exchange one weak border with six much stronger ones?
I'm not sure why you would think they would leave Kyiv alone when they're fighting there right at this very moment. It's pretty clear Putin aims to replace the government in Ukraine with his own puppet regime and then go along his way similar to how Belarus is, it remains unclear what will happen with western Ukraine, whether they invade "pacify" it and or just split Ukraine into two.
It is, but it is also an important defense of everyday people. Even if you don't like it, I doubt truckers in Canada would qualify as kleptocracy. So as long as we don't have protections against governments freezing accounts, banking secrecy is very essential.

Many such protection do enable crime and of course, but any form of privacy can be abused.

I guess there is a case for public representatives to have their transactions scrutinized, but I believe that would punish the honest as well as the criminals.
Is Uber still working in Russia? Why?
Understanding it is easy. A war-mongering murderous autocrat decided he can take Ukraine and so he did.

Don't fall for the Russian divide and conquer strategy and look for imaginary complexity when the reasons are simple. Putin has stolen what he can from the Russian people and now he tries to steal what he can from Ukraine just as Hitler and Stalin did before him. And every Russian that is not on the streets protesting this war, either out of cowardice or because they support it (and don't be fooled, a lot of them do) is guilty of waging an expansionist, criminal war.
Isn't the goal to have multiple storage engines, so you could use the one that best fits your needs? Current storage engine probably won't be removed when this is merged.
I do wonder why they captured Chernobyl and are fighting their way to Kyiv as we speak, then.
I’m not sure if this is the best source to read about the situation? The “Facts” listed are backed up by links to Russia Today videos on YouTube, or nothing at all.
Well, I think the equilibrium here is that, all civilian rocket launches should be announced, not the worst outcome. Isn't this already the case?
And the same frequencies that were dominant in 2003 are now shutting out the other voices. The Bill Kristols and David Frums are going to awaken from their hibernation.

It's pointless to argue really--there's 0 hope that we'll do anything differently.

To be clear, there are limited options now wrt to Ukraine. Nobody wants to go to war with Russia. But being hardline and not pragmatic means we'll set ourselves up for similar issues in the next few years and decades.

We strung Ukraine along knowing we wouldn't come to their six when it counted. Honesty has to be the preferable approach.
China makes using cryptocurrency a crime – again
Poland had same security warranties in 1939. France was supposed to attack Germany the moment Poland was invaded. You might want to read up on what actually happened.
This sort of purposely single-user OS is really interesting to me. I really don't need to pretend my computer needs to support many simultaneous users with various access controls. It's just me on pretty much all of my devices. As long as the OS can multitask decently (a big feature of BeOS) and I can sandbox untrusted stuff I might want to run, I'm not sure if I need anything more.

Also I'm really grateful for Haiku since it made a hand-me-down laptop which has a CPU clock speed measured in Mhz and a built in floppy drive feel snappy and useful where even Lubuntu stuttered back during one of the R1 alphas.
When you click on an article titled like that, you assume it's about Mozart (born 1775), but yea - Dibdin was first (1745).

But hey, what's with earlier composers? Guillaume Dufay? He was born 1474.
My guess is you're pointing out the four year gap between problem "resolved" and closed but that was what I was doing.
The Canadian government is not planning genocide. Your comment is irrelevant.
Ukraine is a nation, parts that might prefer not to be are no nation. Everybody is pulling strings in Ukraine, the Maidan revolution was supported by the West, the separatists are supported by Russia, organized crime is supporting corruption. And now?

The problem is that NATO and the West lost so much credibility in the last decades that we stand on shaky ground when we oppose moves such as Putin's. The West invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, especially the latter one was totally unjustified. We happily deal with Saudi Arabia and support their war in Yemen. Spain can crack down on their Catalonian independence movement as much as they want, including blocking voting access with police. The EU lets, literally, drown poor people in the Mediterranean. I could go on. Thing is, Russia has no right whatsoever to invade Ukraine. The question is, what is the world going to do about it?
"wp" and "wiki" are both unclear... Which "wiki"?

Just call this "wikipedia".
What this is doing is permanently aligning Russia with China. This is Putin’s guarantee to China that they’re their forever trading partner and will never look West, at least any time soon.
Just another cowardly work around. If we want to live under the protection of weapons of mass destruction and the means of a global nuclear holocaust than we should take on that responsibility ourselves instead of delegating it to the US, Britain and France.
Easy: No internet, no smartphones.
Do Russian military knows how to safely operate the remaining functional reactors in the power plant? If Chernobyl episode 2 is just a wrong button away, the entire EU is in danger.
There is only one thing that will secure peace in Europe

NATO has to invite Russia to join. Or Russia has to apply.

Someone has to go first, but neither country’s nationalist cold war war hawks would do it. That’s why we need moderates in office.

Trump should have done it, but it never occurred to him to di that!
The only thing I've really struggled with when trying to get into using vim full-time is navigating my project. In VSCode I basically hit CTRL+SHIT+F -> "portion_of_a_function_name_or_something" constantly. I abuse the heck out of global search. Is there a way of navigating your project in vim that's similar/easier?

How do vim people quickly navigate their code without going "what was the name of that file with that function"?
Thanks for explaining this much better than me. I totally get why people are upset, watching Twitter feeds and videos can get to some people, perhaps I should've been more sensitive that my opinions might be construed as defending Russia's action which I am certainly not since I have no horse in this fight.

I simply understand geopolitics as a game of power and its easier for me to characterize nations as weaker vs stronger in terms of geopolitical capital when I'm describing my ideas, and some people might have been off put at my description of Ukraine as slave caught between two masters.
I've seen plenty of articles in western media about Ukrainian neonazis. You linked to one of those articles yourself.
It’s a done deal. This war is the contract.
Based on lies https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-detai...
It baffles me how some people can completely disregard the Russian aggressive foreign policy. Like in their argument they completely ignore it.

But then when push comes to shove and we are shown clear evidence, the only arguments they can find to justify real aggression against a sovereign state is whataboutism.
Well, if that's not the threshold uncrossable line, then there simply isn't one and all of this is completely worthless.
I did not claim that was the case. It was a hypothetical to point out that sovereignty is wielded in an argument when it's convenient.

We don't care about sovereignty when we're violating it.
wordpress isn't part of any base system, at least.

It's just some PHP (eww) blog software.
It is possible to be a white nationalist and not be a white supremacist, but there is considerable overlap between these groups.
> I did not eat octopus prior to this but I became firmly in support of encouraging everyone to avoid eating octopus and related creatures after this experience. Not only do I think they're immensely intelligent animals, I am firmly convinced that this particular specimen was smarter than a number of humans that I have met.

Where I live octopus is a very popular food, representative of our gastronomy. I love everything about eating it. But, as you said, the notion that these are highly intelligent animals has been creeping into me. I've also experienced over this last decade how much more intelligent birds are than previously thought, so I can connect the dots. Also, pigs.

Still, I might die with this moral debacle active, for much I want to respect life in general, I don't think I can give up the party surrounding octopus gastronomy. Time will tell.
Muscle memory. It feels clunky at first, especially when coming from a non-modal editor, but I hardly realize I am even doing it any more.
Zelenskyy can think a lot of things, doesn't have to be true. Most recent example was him thinking that diplomacy would prevail and Russian wouldn't invade, and we all see how that turned out. As for reasons why it wouldn't happen, Ukraine joining NATO goes against German energy interests, and joining NATO requires you to not be in any conflicts, which Ukraine has been in with Russia since 2014 on the eastern border.
That's right! "Simple" views (ones mapping directly to a table) are quite powerful in Postgres and an application interacting with them won't know the difference.
> That is, the energy that would be required to build it would vastly exceed the total energy it could store integrated over its lifetime.

Storage ‘buys’ energy when it’s cheap and ‘sells’ it when it’s expensive, where ‘cheap’ can even mean ‘free’ at times.

You would build it using averagely priced energy (using only cheap energy is impractical, as it would keep machines and personnel tied up waiting for prices to drop)

Also, having a large buffer can mean having to spend a lot less money on excess solar and wind farms. They wouldn’t have to meet all peaks in demand.

Those still could make it economically viable.
What is "left" and what is "right" is a question of consensus, of course. The Eke is surely considered right-wing in Britain, and likely in most of Europe.
I'm German, so I do have obviously a view on Nazism. I was never taught the USSRs perspective on WW2 so. I think mainly because of the Cold War propaganda, we skipped ( and I had a really great history teacher at that time) over the Russian effort.

Turns out now, that this lack of education, for lack of a better term, might be an issue. So, sincere question, what is the Russian understanding of Nazism?
You are wrong about the budget. But further discussion about it is pointless and will be going in circles.
I assumed it was aimed at Ukraine hackers? They don't have much to lose at this point.
How to build a highly-available service in the Cloud?
This argument can only be made in good faith if you completely ignore the events of the past 5 years, where anyone who was outspoken but didn’t tow the CNN/neolib line on just about any of the big issues was either directly or indirectly called a fascist or a neo-Nazi. Regularly.
For a long time, I really thought Putin to be a smart man with motives beyond his own gain. That he really tries to make Russia better and works for the common person.

But after he renounced Ukraine's status as country and after I saw that many people protest in Russia and even part of his army is abandoning him, I'm not so sure anymore.
I don't know about you, but I think most Americans are opposed to invading Cuba or Venezuela (especially without any immediate ICBM threat).

You are trying to imply a hypocrisy that simply isn't there.
Downvoting rather than contesting is sad to me.
Yes I can. A "modern military" isn't a guaranteed victory if your enemy is fighting in it's own turf in difficult terrain. The best armies in the world have failed to do this in Afghanistan (several times now).
They fire up winnuke.exe!
The only time when it isn’t, it’s when it is used to mean anything vaguely bad.