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> They overthrew a functional government in Libya

That's not really an argument in itself tho.
The Kinzhal does not enter space, therefore no space-based intercept is applicable. The Avangard is an example of a FOBS - will the space based intercept be able to intercept a FOBS vehicle? I'm unclear.

Is it really necessary to lead with "Again"? It makes me feel like you think
I can't understand, and therefore you're smarter than me, that you are some know-it-all who has to be right, and that it's zero sum so that I must also therefore be wrong for you to be right. Your informative and accurate point can be made without that word.

We can and should learn from each other. You know a lot and I want to learn from you.

I hope that wasn't too antagonistic, I just wanted to explain how your comment made me feel. I had some very mean things to say to you before writing this out. Thank you for posting, I wasn't aware of Starlink's military implications.
I don't believe Postgres supports temporal tables and as Reshape is Postgres-only, it won't help.

The principle behind Reshape might be applicable to temporal tables though but I don't have enough experience with them to say.
It would have been not viable for Russia if it could expect further economic sanctions, but most of those were already in place and there was less incentive to not invade. They might install a new government and will be in a more influential position. Dependency on Russia will cause other states to continue cooperation.
>Both Russia, Ukraine and Serbia have a Neo Nazi problem

So does the US. But in the US, neo-Nazis are not in our government, the Congress and in top military positions. They are extremely powerful in the Ukraine and are dictating policy.
That entire list of predictions is apparently from a PDF dated 2004.

Aaaand now Brexit is a thing. A long-term pseudo-thing, but still a thing.

*Reads the rest of the list*
So are you now saying "a pact with Moscow that placed ICBMs" on the U.S. border is an inapt comparison?

The distinction isn't meaningless. You can't reach the conclusion that "we don't care about sovereignty" if we only violate it in the face of perceived imminent threats.
I don't think the parent wanted to justify the invasion or blame it completely on the US. I myself despise the invasion, but the responsibility that the US bears on this conflict cannot be underestimated, and it is totally absent (or at least severely under-reported) from Western sources.
I didn’t say that Ukraine is Nazi.
> - Forwards (and usually also backwards) compatible disk format, meaning version updates don't require more than a few minutes of downtime.

How so? Postgres' data formats are forwards (and mostly backwards) compatible with release 8.4 in 2009; where effectively only the catalogs need upgrading. Sure, that can be a lot of data, but no different from MySQL or any other RDBMS with transactional DDL.

> - Replication works across version differences

Logical replecation is available since at least 9.6
Another what-if option that I wish had been discussed here: What if the EU had placed a peacekeeping force in white uniforms in Ukraine? (in theory a week ago, but that might just have prompted an even faster Russian attack, so it probably needed to have been done last year).

I realize that many EU countries are also NATO countries. But still, if it was done under an EU banner, and the soldiers were not there to fight Russians, but to act as a neutral peacekeeping force. I know many of us did not expect Putin to be crazy enough to launch a full scale invasion, but is he also crazy enough that he would have attacked an EU peacekeeping force?

I realize that it's way too late to do anything about this - going in now would be seen as an attack - but still, knowing what we know now, what would have been the best possible way to try to prevent this? It might also inform what to do later, if after the dust has settled, there is still a democratic Ukraine to help.
When you have the third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on the plant like ukraine did at the dissolution of the soviet union you have a choice. They chose to trade nuclear safety for empty promises. A mistake no country will ever make again.
> - No need for a vacuum process that can run into trouble with a sustained high write load.

MySQL has a similar mechanism called the purge job. It can lead to similar problems, for example DML slow down.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/innodb-purge/
NATO is a defensive alliance against Russia. What the invasion of Ukraine has done is proved that the states that chose to join NATO in the decades since the end of the Cold War made the right decision.
It's not really an easy situation. There were many complications even with states like Greece, Turkey, and (North) Macedonia. I cannot imagine what Poland and the other formerly occupied states would do if Russia were invited.

At the end of the day, NATO was created to counter the USSR. When the USSR collapsed, we had an opening to integrate Russia, and we squandered it. That was the real opportunity.
Well that will never happen because the US seems to care about Mexico (and has a substantial population of Mexican heritage people in the US) unlike Russia with Ukraine so it's a moot point. It's like saying imagine if Ireland joined Russia and decided to put Russian troops on their territory, it's ridiculous and has little meaning just like making up any other geopolitical fantasy. I can understand how thought experiments might be useful in physics but in geopolitics we have realpolitik not wild fantasies. If you want to go in that direction then I assume Nazi Germany concerns at the beginning of WW2 about the spread of globalist capitalism and communism would become legitimate concerns too then and justify invading Europe over?
> Ukraine is a nation, parts that might prefer not to be are no nation.

Might is pretty thin ice, here, they didn't and they don't.

> 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 separatists are a small fraction (best estimates around 23%) in the East and without Russian support they would have been overrun long ago.

> 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.

No, the problem is that NATO is a very blunt weapon that doesn't really work well against nuclear armed dictators.

> The West invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, especially the latter one was totally unjustified.

Agreed.

> We happily deal with Saudi Arabia and support their war in Yemen.

Again, agreed.

> Spain can crack down on their Catalonian independence movement as much as they want, including blocking voting access with police.

Agreed again.

> The EU lets, literally, drown poor people in the Mediterranean. I could go on.

And again. But: even if you could go on, you shouldn't because none of these have anything to do with Russia invading Ukraine.

> The question is, what is the world going to do about it?

Apparently, not a whole lot and it bothers me quite a bit.
Ask HN: Trending Content on TikTok, Twitter etc. looks completely off to me
** First off, I'm aware this topic has a strong political side to it and being aware at that risk it is NOT my intention to turn this into a turf war. I acknowledge propaganda isn't one sided. This post is about US companies, not about the geopolitical situation. Please stay civil in the comments. **

I opened Twitter today and I was just shocked.

In my western EU democracy, I woke up to the trends in all of social media looking like the discourse is completely dominated by an actor that represents the absolute opposite of any respected media source or any of my peers.

Investigating those posts and accounts, all of which try to sow doubt in the media and general disinformation, just all of it is fishy. The people aren't real. The network is shallow and unconnected. There are strange typos. The accounts posted meaningless fluff before and "woke up" to spew out carefully crafted psychological warfare.

It just seems so completely obvious to me that this is a carefully orchestrated attack on public discourse and I feel weird that just nobody seems to speak up about this.

And it is Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and others fueling this with the social proof of their brands by letting this happen.

I'm all for free speech by real people, but after all we've learned over the past years, how come that in 2022 social networks silently stay behind this with their brand? Where are the employees speaking up? Where are the executives hiding?

I am just so shocked and I didn't know where else to bring my frustration.
One of the reasons things like the EU are a good idea, is because there are very few if any nation states e.g Basque in Spain, Northern Ireland in Ireland/UK, Scotland in UK, Shetland in Scotland, Swedish Finns in Finland and so on and so on (and it's a global thing, Kurds in Iraq/Syria/etc). It's all a bit fractal and and subjective and shades of gray and often it's the drawing of sharp artificial boundaries over the top of that that causes the problems.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/23/tucker-carls...

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/jen-psaki-slams-donald-t...
Well, in my admittedly limited experience of Windows 10, sometimes windows that look active, down to the blinking cursor, don't actually have the focus. So if all windows look the same, maybe people will get in the habit of clicking 10 times where they want to type, just to be sure.

I'm thinking mostly about the UAC window asking for a password.
I really don’t think people advocate for Rust as it being capable of producing only correct programs.

But in the niche it occupies it is objectively gives much higher safety guarantees than the previous generation of languages, much much more so than C, and somewhat more than C++.
What responsibility is that? Should the US have vetoed the NATO membership of all the Warsaw Pact countries that wanted to join?
Direct quote from Trump: "I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful. So Putin is now saying it's independent, a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper."
This is also an excellent book on the subject: https://bookstore.ams.org/cbms-92
> I wish there was an alternative that gave a nod to vim but remained in 'input' mode without loss of capability

Problem is, without modes, we lose capability that comes from the fact that modes exist, such as simple characters being compositeable commands;

How should a non-modal editor know whether that [d] I just pressed is me wanting the letter `d` or the delete command? It can't;

Either I have to somehow tell it "the next letter I press is to be interpreted as a command", or "interpret what I press as commands until I say otherwise". The former gets tiresome rather quickly (what if I have to do several commands?), the latter would again be a modal editor.
No one in the west wants to invade Russia. Everyone wants to not be invaded by Russia. That sounds pretty defensive to me.
Economic sanctions do not replace diplomacy, they are just a different form of warfare.

Russia's economy is on the verge of complete cripplement though. It is basically an oil state and an oil state without customers will soon be in massive trouble.
> NATO is a defensive alliance against Russia.

Strictly speaking that isn't true.
“ What Should I Think of Pro-Putin Politicians and Media Personalities in the West?

You should despise them.”

Precisely.
As long as the tyranny is in a place which is economically interesting to you and it is not being done by your allies. We know.
I once did something similar at a job that bored me. I wanted to at least read wikipedia while pretending to work.
> C++ has a well defined memory model

Only since C++11, and it's not a full blown memory model.
Yeah this part disappointed me too, as NATO done things in the past that I struggle to explain as "purely defense" (eg Serbia, Libya). I still think the article holds true, but I think the author should've been more nuanced here because Putin apologists are going to use this mistake to undermine the whole article.
Do you have benchmarks to back that up? The efficiency per core is worse, but I’ve not seen 10x worse. One thing to be careful of is making sure to have parallelism in your benchmark. Single-threaded Postgres may well be 10x faster on workloads of interest, but that’s not very representative of real use.
You can find small far-right groups in virtually every country, including the US and many European countries. Talk about them is mere distraction, they are not running the country.

And there's little doubt that if a country goes through a violent clash against corrupt government (see euromaidan), such groups would take the opportunity to gain standing. You can draw parallels to capitol hill events, or imagine what groups like Soldiers of Odin (the nordics) would have done had there been protests with bullets.

And when your country is invaded by a foreign nation, your army generals are not going to ask about the political opinions of those who are willing to fight for their country. A small group of nazis defending Ukraine from Russian invasion? So what. There will be nationalists standing in any country's army if they get invaded.

Talk about nazism is a mere distraction and something Putin's trolls would do. Please don't.
it is not just Poland. Now it is Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Czech Republic. They are all NATO and are all "between" Germany and Russia.
A Russia under a dictator has no place in NATO.
Effective teams don’t keep secrets
On our (West's) side there were definitely lots os mistakes that were made during the last few years.

The most important one is the promise given to Ukraine that it will enter NATO and the EU if only given enough time for implementation details, totally ignoring the needs and apprehensions of Russia next door. Which might be ok in an ideal world, but fact of the matter is that international relations are as far from an "ideal world" as one can imagine, they're one of the last, true bastions of open hobbes-ianism when it comes to politics and human relations. We needed more realists, more people willing to see things as they really were, and less idealists, less people saying things like "how can Putin not accept the sovereignty of other countries? Doesn't he know that breaks international law?"

Also, one must have the feeling that Ukraine has been a little let down by the EU and NATO in all this, especially by the EU. I can understand at this point why NATO won't get involved more than it has (I think they now see the possibility of Putin starting WW3 on the flimsiest of pretences), but imo the EU could have done so much more, at least when it comes to direct economic assistance given to Ukraine and to real economic sanctions imposed on Russia. Just two days ago the Belgians and Italians were still bickering [1] over not imposing sanctions on Russian oligarchs related to the diamond market (very strong in Belgium) and the luxury market (very strong in Italy). When you put in the balance the selling of luxury bags to some Russian oligarchs' wives vs the fate of a nation to whom you had promised the world then something is wrong, really wrong (hopefully, once the war really started a day after that those petty negotiations were put on hold)

Source: me, living in a NATO and EU member country bordering Ukraine

[1] https://twitter.com/MatinaStevis/status/1496758467943866374
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> The major variable here is political will; consequently if you are a citizen of one of those Western countries, one thing you can do here is signal to your representatives that you, in fact, are willing to accept a degree of economic pain in order to send the message to Russia that wars of conquest will not be tolerated.

I know armchair generals are peeved about what's going on right now, but suggestions like this are psychotic. I urge anybody on HN who might be entertaining this idea to look at some of the numbers in this article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq

Putin will be fine if the Russian economy is deliberately tanked. Normal Russians won't.
I agree. Bulgaria was on the right track until 2009. It's almost as if different countries face different realities.

Corruption does not happen in a vacuum. Ultimately, the responsibility lies to those with power. What I am saying is geopolitics are not decided by the common person. You seem to disagree and that's fine
That's why you can't have a reasonable conversation about this topic. If you dare bring forth an alternative view, or just a different view, which doesn't align with US/Western interests, you immediately get called a "Putin apologist" without the need to even prove wrong any evidence you provided.

So now I ask, can you provide any evidence that prof. Mearsheimer has ties with Russia/Putin that influence his opinions?
Russia is not some third world country.

There is at least a good chance it will have a better leader after Putin. Because Putin has become a terrible leader.
Ukraine as a sovereign state has to build a relation with its neighbor. To join a defensive pact with most of former enemies of Russia is a provocation. That does in no circumstance justify an invasion, but it does serve as an excuse. Nato did show signs of expansion by giving (false) hope to Georgia and Ukraine.

On the other hand, around 20 years ago Putin said he could imagine joining Nato one day...

Of course the west is ultimately not to blame for Russia to invade. There were bad choices...
It's perfectly possible to be a fascist without being a neo-Nazi.

And CNN doesn't set policy or make people say fascist things.
Leverage, I think. He can extract a lot of concessions in exchange for Kiev. I suspect Russia would trade it happily for the Ukrainian coast, which is strategically more valuable and has a plurality of ethnic Russians.

Also they probably want to destroy/capture military central command.
They would eat you if they could/wanted.
It's not necessarily a matter of Germany not wanting to have a larger military. They are still bound by an international treaty that limits their military might.
As to who, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458506

And "direction" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement about China. They were, and still are, very protectionist of their internal market, using official and unofficial means.

Not to imply western countries are exempt - they also made (and make) use of protectionism in growing their industries. Only after industries matured, would the market be opened, and economic propaganda launched how unrestricted trade was the only way to prosperity (and, by pure chance, this would give the now globally-competitive industries new export markets). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism#In_the_United_St...:

Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, was of the view, as articulated most famously in his "Report on Manufactures", that developing an industrialized economy was impossible without protectionism because import duties are necessary to shelter domestic "infant industries" until they could achieve economies of scale. The industrial takeoff of the United States occurred under protectionist policies 1816–1848 and under moderate protectionism 1846–1861, and continued under strict protectionist policies 1861–1945.

In other words, protectionism has a proven track record of developing economies, while unrestricted free trade is only theoretically able to accomplish this. Of course economists are immune to empirical proof - from that same wikipedia article:

There is a broad consensus among economists that protectionism has a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare, while free trade and the reduction of trade barriers has a positive effect on economic growth.
"In recent months, Russia has once again been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the US and Western media loudly proclaiming (since November) that Russia is planning an imminent invasion of the Ukraine, though Russia has repeatedly denied that fact and it's not exactly clear what Russia is waiting for, or what advantage it could expect to derive from lying about its intentions at this point (the whole Western world expects an invasion and the US has pulled embassy staff from Kiev)."

Given that it's now obvious that Russia in fact has been planning an invasion of the Ukraine, for months, which furthermore undermines the author's later claim that there was some peaceful concession that Putin would've accepted... I'm not sure why I should take this author's argument seriously. They seem naive and under informed.
I can't understand how chaps like Mendelev are welcome on Twitter, but the president is permanently suspended. (Orwellian phrasing, too)
It's worth mentioning that initial expansion into Warsaw Pact countries was actually frowned upon by NATO: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Future_of_NATO/U0DKEhe7...

Mearsheimer points the finger at an enthusiastic expansion of NATO here and draws a line from it to the West being at fault, but I don't think it was really the case.
Russia is restricting the use of its airspace for all British flights
> They are extremely powerful in the Ukraine and are dictating policy.

No, they aren't, that's pure propaganda from Russia, which, ironically, uses international neonazis as a means of undermining other states around the world.

https://www.justsecurity.org/68420/confronting-russias-role-...
That clearly reads to me as cynical admiration of the strategy, not support for its actual execution. And no those aren’t the same thing.
The facts in the video are indisputable. Basically the same is said from the man himself just read the transcript of V.P.'s speech delivered on Feb 24 -- there everything is said (so from this perspective the speaker is properly understanding the situation). Right now it is early to say or conclude much about the new arrangements as all force-fields of geopolitics have not reached new equilibrium (and they may not be for some time). However, the substance of the video and the reason that lead up to this are no mystery, they have been communicated openly for several months now.

Hence, there should be little puzzlement over how and why this is happening. One can reject the argument made by V.P., however, one cannot deny the reality of it. And, of cause, any military commentators/strategists are way to honest/smart to reject or deny it (from 1998 research article):

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-internatio...
The problem with that is that Europe needs Russian gas to flow, and Putin knows that.
Now, if we could get China to join in on the sanctions the Russian economy is fucked.

It will of course never happen, since China is the one enabling this.
> I'm especially fond of the power (⍣) operator

Oh boy, I had a mind-melting moment with _inverse_ (⍣¯1).

Aaron helped me understand what was going on. He wrote about "Decoding Inverses" here: https://www.sacrideo.us/decoding-inverses/

And that took me from a clunky solution to Dismal Arithmetic (addition):

{10(⊤⍣¯1)⍵}∘{⌈/⍵}∘{10(⊥⍣¯1)⍵}⊢ 100000 10000 1000 100 10 1
111111

To this little gem:

da ← 10⊥(⌈/10⊥⍣¯1⊢)
da 169 248
269

(Edit: add code example, fix language)
> going in now would be seen as an attack

Send in people, give them Ukrainian passports, deny everything. Not only Russia can perform false flag operations, deny responsibility and not get flak.

(The only problem being sidestepped above is that when there is a madman with nukes there is no semblance of fairness and all bets are off.)