skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The SWIFT exclusion is not extremely harmful to Putin and his direct followers

>All these events will lead to unrest and panic in the country, which will be put down by the Russian authorities.

This is missing the broader point of economic sanctions like removal from SWIFT. How long are Russian military and security forces going to work without getting paid? This is especially true when you factor in the risk they would be taking. If Putin's government fails and Putin is ousted his supporters will probably be arrested and imprisoned by the new government. Who's going to starve for a lost cause? The fanatics will be the minority.

>Europe has not only put all the leverage and negotiating cards on the table, it has even played the cards. Russia, on the other hand, has not. Russia still has many options to further escalate the invasion (no more gas supplies, nuclear weapons, more troops

This is the most ridiculous assertion in the article. Russia isn't the only gas exporter and if Russia does cut off it's supply countries will just buy it someplace else and invest in alternate energy sources like renewables. It will just incentive countries to achieve energy independence killing Russia's energy market. Russia has the most to lose here, not the West. Russia's economy depends on gas and oil exports. The West doesn't rely on Russia's imports.

The other to point the author makes just fall apart on their own. The West and NATO also has nuclear weapons, more troops than Russia, better trained troops and modern equipment. Not only that NATO and the West has the economies and production capacity to sustain a protracted conflict. Russia doesn't. Committing nuclear suicide is Putin's only card left.
It was an advisory referendum, according to the Wikipedia article you linked to.
It all depends on the situation. Why did they obliterate Katowice in the first place? Was is it an error, was is a retaliation, was it nonsensical move of a madman? Hopefully at some point both sides will realize that neither the other side wants to continue and they would all stop at some point. Like in the movie By dawn's early light.
Started using org-mode a few months ago.
I keep my notes and todo list in a self-hosted git repository.

On desktop I use Magit to push/pull changes.

On Android I cloned the repository in Termux and pointed Orgzly to it.
This wasn't absolutely trivial, can provide details if needed.
Also created some convenience scripts for git operations (commit-and-push, pull, check status).
Now I can push/pull changes with singe-letter commands in Termux.

I find the friction to be low enough.
Using git is also very convenient to resolve any conflicts in case I forget to push or pull some changes.
The way hooks are handled when invoked in functional components is magic, as all stateful things in react are, but hooks themselves are very straightforward. Once you've written a custom hook, it's obvious that they're basically just (yes, this is an oversimplification) react components without the render step. You use the React API just like any other component, including using hooks, and then return some piece of state or whatever is needed. Like functional components, they're just functions that run top to bottom when the props change.
.... Well, I didn't think about that side really. Goddamn. Are we really going there? Recon I should get in the car and head for the north already? ;)
I was under the impression that the UN is functioning as designed. All relevant parties are at least at the table. That's why the vetoes exist: without them, the UN would fall apart, diplomacy would be made more difficult, and that would help nobody.
As a military officer I agree that trust is a huge amount of effective leadership. It’s something that is immediately visible when visiting a different team.

So what do you do, as a software manager, if you don’t trust your team? Do you set higher technical standards? Do you invest in training? Do you hold responsible for failure to deliver a certain level of quality?
I'm finding all this ukraine virtue signalling on social media a bit tiresome.

I'm neutral, I don't want war or anyone to die. But all this virtue signalling and simplification of good guy vs bad guy narrative makes me want to block all social media and msm.

You realise just how little depth of thinking there is and superficial everything is.
Applications need recompiling to run nativly on ARM. However you can still emulate x86 for programs that need it (with a speed penalty).

Ubuntu has great support for ARM. However the is an extra dimension that Arm laptops are also _much_ less standardised then x86; I would wait to see hardware compatability this this precise device.
Lenovo ThinkPad x Snapdragon: Fanless ARM ThinkPad X13s offers long battery life
I am not Dutch (much like many people here), so your rhetoric question is difficult for me to understand. What happened? What did you expect to happen? What was the purpose of that referendum in the Netherlands in the first place? Was it a binding one? UPD. And, importantly, why is it all relevant to the topic?
I don't want to comment on reforming of the UN because I honestly do not know enough about the apparatus/system and what changes might lead to which consequences.

Regarding your comment "would much rather prefer fixing the UN, than joining the NATO". I don't understand how you can compare them. I see NATO as a military alliance and the UN as communication platform for countries (writing and voting on resolutions). I don't see where one can replace the other.
I suspect that developing, maintaining, and securing a few thousand nuclear missiles is not 1000 times more expensive than doing so for just a few nuclear missiles.

To give some figures, the IMF estimates that the sizes of the economies in 2021 (in US$ million, PPP) were:

* Russia 4,328,122

* Ukraine 576,106

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...
Org Mode tries to be an outliner. Outliners are the right tool for the job from my experience (> 30 years) since you can create and use context to reduce redundancy and makes it easier to find and to understand things again retrospectively. I had a look at Org Mode many years ago when switching from Windows to a Linux laptop which meant that I needed an alternative for Ecco Pro. But I quickly reached the limits with Org Mode and a few other tools and finally developed my own tool, which has proven itself over more than a decade in daily use in large, complex projects. A few years ago I released it as open source: https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline
An old colleague once told me, if it's either really stupid, or extremely genius, most of the time it's the former.

In all those years after hearing this, it has always been the former :D.
What I observed is my local school administrator working to building consensus from the teachers, the unions, the parents, the janitors, the athletic groups, the board of health, etc, etc. Which is a perfectly good approach for a stable system. However, there weren't enough hours in the day to build all this consensus with a deliberate and slow planning process. That's what I meant - so not a billion - but so many parties that here wasn't enough time in the day to align everyone. Meanwhile - kids were stuck in remote learning.

Our unpaid school committee and paid professional clearly worked their butts off. Unfortunately, hard work isn't always good enough if your fundamental slow work mechanisms can't adopt to the reality of child development. And unfortunately, the unions appeared to be a leading group that was seeking to delay and put up road blocks to returning to school.
Russia actually had much harder time to maintain its arsenal than Ukraine because most of USSR's nuclear industry was in Ukraine.
The website linked is not a landing page, but the actual tool, which is based purely on JS (Vue and Typescript to be precise). Here is the Github repo:

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
But all sources I can see indicate Soviet weapons did indeed use PAL-equivalent security systems and there's no indication that Ukraine ever had a "fully functioning nuclear force". Some argue it would have taken a few years to acquire complete control of those within their borders had they not been handed over or destroyed. Excerpts from "The Soviet Nuclear Legacy", 1995:

>Fourth, nuclear warheads and or delivery vehicles are equipped with switches that permit arming and fusing only when a given code is entered-these devices are called permissive action links (PALs) in the USA. Launch crews do not have these enabling codes, which are provided by higher commanders prior to actual use. All categories of strategic weapons in the FSU are believed to be covered by PALs.

>To launch an ICBM, for example, now requires a '12-digit key' inserted via a complex and apparently highly secure system, and originating with the top political and military leadership. The ICBM crews do not normally have access to be able to launch missiles, but must receive a special 'preliminary' command from the top military leadership. Then they must receive additional codes that physically unblock the missiles for which they are responsible. Only when they have received these codes and commands do the crews have the physical ability to fire any of the 10 missiles in their group , . . The crews must correctly insert the codes in three tries, with an allowable time span of several seconds between each try, or else the crews are locked out and unable to perform the launch sequence. After a certain span of time has expired, the blocking system is automatically activated.

consultable at https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/files/RR/SIPRIRR10...
As one of the main contributors to SciNim, let me tell you that we're painfully aware of the size of our community.

But when evaluating these things keep the following in mind:

- we're very active on matrix / discord [0][1] and more than willing to provide significant help to anyone who wishes to use Nim for scientific computing

- all of us that do use Nim for scientific computing wouldn't do it, if it wasn't feasible. While we're small, we do have all functionality that any of us need & in the cases where specific things are lacking, we have the ability to call Python [2], Julia [3] and R code [4].

And just keep in mind, every community starts small. :)

[0]: https://matrix.to/#/#nim-science:envs.net

[1]: https://discord.gg/f5hA9UK3dY

[2]: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy/

[3]: https://github.com/clonkk/nimjl

[4]: https://github.com/clonkk/nimjl
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Second the recommendations for "an elegant puzzle" and "the manager's path".

Cant believe this one has not been mentioned yet: "Becoming an effective software engineering manager" by James Stanier (https://pragprog.com/titles/jsengman/become-an-effective-sof...) - a good book, and very specific for exactly your situation.

Would also like to mention my own podcast "Ask an engineering manager" - more focused on SWEs, but also has some episodes about how to be an Eng Mgr, e.g. https://askanengineeringmanager.libsyn.com/017-typical-mista...
After the US and its allies are done destroying Russia, they will go after China next.

Doubtful, given the state of the global economy.
I have a T450 from 2014 or so. Its keyboard is worse than my T510 (old keyboard), but still quite a bit better than other laptop keyboards.
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Fedora 35: aarch64 DVD ISO should work.

Just FYI, we run our entire production api on arm on AWS. Its pretty rock stable and mature. The stability of ARM on linux is pretty much a solved problem at this point.
Am I going crazy or is there no way to install this locally apart from a "development" setup with git clone or docker?
A siege of what? Land? Because the Ukrainians seem to prefer to die over living under Russian suppression.
Nice to see things like this where they publicly release the info on the incident report.

I did giggle a bit that they basically turned it off and on again though.
No way this is GDPR compatible out of the box, watch out if you need/want to care about that sort of thing. It calls a third party API to geo lookup every visitor’s IP address

By compatible I mean technologically too - if you put it behind a cookie banner then it doesn’t do anything till the visitor allows it

The cynic in me also believes this is a grey area marketing play more than a call to arms
Diplomacy has not worked, it didn't work after polonium, novichok or Crimea. It's big stick time time unfortunately.
Indeed. Towards what the GP comment was saying, maybe they need to ask how this road to hell was paved with good intentions? Especially for cryptocurrencies, Signal and the internet.

The same technology used by Ukraine donators is also used by terrorists, criminals and extremists. Maybe ask why they use it? Or even in the case for Signal, the same users who want privacy and want to chat securely and send MobileCoin to each other, the same extremists are doing just that on Signal and financing their criminal activities with MobileCoin to each other; with that being completely untraceable.

All these libertarian technologies can be used by anybody, including the 'crazy conspiracy people' which some of them once thought that mass-surveillance was happening to everyone vs those who said: 'If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide'.

Those 'crazy conspiracy people' they speak of built those tools and it's a double-edged sword since anyone can use them.
Interesting that they replaced the product name "Hoppscotch" with "Hüpfburg" in German. Not sure what's the reason, as it's not even a correct translation. German also seems to be the only language the devs did that.
22 years and counting. 99.999% of my spam comes to emails in various leaks.

I get possibly a dozen or so emails a year to catch-alls that I dont recognise as having been given out - its incredibly rare that it is every anything other than someone mistyping my name.

I also get a monumental quantity of spam so not exactly a small sample but still just one example.
Heckman on Causality, Do-Calculus and Econometrics
Google to limit ad trackers on Android
Say you propose a fix to the UN security council. The plan will be considered by the permanent seats, and on seeing there are more downsides than upsides, they veto the plan. What will you do then?

I do agree the org needs to adjust it's rules, but how will you impose the plan without a member leaving due to perceptions that the plan is biased? And what if that member is a superpower country? Where are your armed peacekeeping forces coming from then?
Came to the comments because of this. Font renders very thin on my Android device (Firefox and Chrome).

Setting the default font size to 200 should strike every web developer as a questionable idea.
It doesn't look "elegant" or anything like that to me, it just looks off and unpleasant for regular text, with the bonus of being hard to read.

Recently I had to implement a web design where the default font weight was 300. Same there, just seems like a bad idea to me.

Fads come and go.

Ultra light fonts mostly just feel like a signifier for poorly thought-out promo content to me. Reminds me of early 2000s print ads too.
Don't mean to insult the author, the same description perfectly fits the site that I had to implement.
I have an M1 but never use it at home, the battery is only really useful if I need to spend a few days on the road away from power.

My daily driver is an Intel 1185g7 based Laptop which I can work a whole day without charging if needed (tops out at about 10 hours), and anymore than that doesn't really add any value. If Linux support gets better on the M1 I think I would consider switching but honestly when I put them side by side I don't notice a big performance difference. The M1 just uses a lot less power to get that performance.
I got off Postman years ago and have been using Insomnia since then: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
I actually stayed at Arcosanti for a few days in college. Very cool concept that I wish had more traction. Maybe with a touch of what people are ready for today.
Not to pile in, but I also found the video (via YT recommendations), and certainly think it holds up given present events.
They could proxy access to an AGPLv3-licensed application, where such access does not convey copyrightable content. For example, consider a database server that puts up a banner with a link to the source when you open the connection. You could remove said banner with a proxy.

It actually doesn't have to be a second party in my opinion, I believe it'd be perfectly legitimate if it's the same party. I'm just using that as a more clear-cut example because otherwise things devolve into endless arguments about whether a judge would see it as good faith or not.
Any evidence [man made presumably] climate change kills people all the time? At least more that would have died than if it were 1C colder as storms and the like have always been a thing. In general cold periods have been correlated with low human populations - apparently the population of Europe dropped to about 130k in the last ice age 30,000 to 13,000 years ago and is now about 750m so the warm weather doesn't seem to be killing people very effectively.

One reason I mention this is not just to be an evil climate denier but also if we want a reduction in CO2 globally, it's not going to happen unless you get places like India, Russia and Asia to cut back which they probably won't do if the arguments don't stand up to fact checking.

[population data https://www.pnas.org/content/112/27/8232#:~:text=Corresponde... ]
Nowadays I am quite satisfied with the RESTer firefox addon: https://github.com/frigus02/RESTer. This does look neat but there is no explanation on how to install it locally, and telemetry is enabled by default.
I've previously been the manager for the 5 solutions architects and enterprise architects at my company and while most came from a developer background, not all of them were always up to date with technologies. What I decided to do was have a rotating weekly meeting with each of our technical teams. We have teams specializing in VMWare/Hypervisor, Firewall/Core-Network, ActiveDirectory and so on where the architects had a Q&A with each team about what they were working on, what was new in Best-Practice and so on. This helped my team stay current on a lot of new technologies without having to spend a lot of time and money on books and unnecessary certifications.

What my point is, i would recommend not reading a whole lot of information on a variety of topics, but talk with the experts at your company and see what they recommend. If you have a specific topic in mind, then of course you can grab a book or take an online course, but as an architect there's too many topic to cover and be an expert in all of them.
Supreme Court to hear case that could limit EPA's power to fight climate change
> Biggest lie ever. People want 16:10, but for years the industry shove 16:9 to your customer because it was the cheaper panel.
Any background on this? I always assumed 16:9 became popular because of videos.
So... a fix was released in 2017 for Ubuntu Xenial and the reverse proxy servers still weren't running the fix in 2022?

Appreciate the honesty from central government, but it's not a great look.
That would have been outside the boundaries of the UN mandate and Bush Sr. wouldn't violate it.
I quite like the main points of this article.

I don't quite agree though with the "go to space VS help homeless people, on the margin" part of the frame.

Marginalist thinking is useful for understanding the dynamics of many economic phenomenon. I don't think it tends to describe the trade offs in this case though. Neither homelessness nor space take up a big enough piece of the pie to trade off against each other meaningfully. IMO, these are kind of disingenuous rhetorical cliches.

It's a spectrum, obviously. "Infrastructure or defense" as a dichotomy has more reality attached to it. These are both actually significant government expenditures. They actually require big chunks of available, and competitive resources. There's a real history of diverting resources from infrastructure to defense during wartime, and building infrastructure after wars as part of the demilitarization.

We're never presented with a "street signs vs waste treatment" dichotomy. It's on the "doesn't relate to reality" end of the spectrum... just like "homeless shelters vs particle colliders" doesn't.
Would a smart and well-connected Russian keep their savings as a Ruble deposit in a russian bank? It’s too late now, but I’d like to imagine that some individuals kept their stock market savings with international broners.
Something that people here might be missing: If the Russia companies/banks/brokers get sanctioned, they might be in a situation where they can't honor their engagement. Who'd want to deal with that? The Chinese might be thinking pragmatically after all.
"Can be a net positive, if we also start to really stand by our principles of democracy and equality. The EU and NATO have a less then stelar track record on those for quite a while."

Absolutely. Our values are the engine of this entire thing. I'd say thanks to our insanely wired world, with the daily metric ton of stories coming out of Ukraine, people are realizing how precious Western values are, what they actually mean, and how necessary it is to defend them. We haven't thought in these terms for quite a while, in the context of superpower aggression.

"And the European disdain for military and defense spending only started after the end of the cold war when huge standing armies weren't needed anymore."

Yep -- we all hoped and worked towards a more advanced world. We didn't quite get it. But with the Kremlin intentions and ruthlessness made clear, for all to see, we now can make a wiser attempt. The aggregate political will that existed in Europe just 1 week ago, will now take a very different shape. That's despite Brexit, the pandemic, and the memory of our many past misdeeds. Great to see Western unity. That's what's holding the world together right now.
FWIW, I switched from X270 to X13 Gen2 AMD (5850U, 32GB) recently and the difference has been night-and-day - even just web browsing on X270 caused audible noise, while X13G2A is practically completely silent unless I do something very demanding.

So maybe look into T14s Gen2 AMD (which may be pretty similar to X13 Gen2 since they share the HW maintenance manual). But YMMV of course, and I have no experience of M1.
This plays right into Russia's narrative and inflamme things even more without any obvious benefit.
Krita found the hurdle of having to go to their website to get the gratis download is enough of a hurdle that people pay for the app store version over downloading. I'll try to find the article about that. IIRC Flathub is working on supporting paid apps on Linux too.
> seemingly old gear

1.Russia doesn't have much new gear and 2. the old at least works reliably in the field. Russia for example backed down from gas turbines in tanks (like T-80) because of poor reliability and high maintenance (and maintenance is always a huge issue in Russia)

> without proper support

that is the best Russia can. Support and logistics has always been an issue.

> and young conscripts in first

the young people grew during Putin's Russia and they are much easy to make them kill Ukrainians.

> you have to send in the best soldiers with the best gear first to seal the deal

that were the ones who were dropped on the airfields near Kiev in order to capture them and thus facilitate coming of the next wave of the best - the Pskov's 76th paratroopers - who were to flew in. The capture of any of the airfields failed.

The ground attack, even by the best of the best, was too slow to make to Kiev for the "Czechoslovakia 68" plan to work.
Due to journo's lazyness headline became misleading: in Belarus votes are not really counted anymore. Like literally, numbers are taken out of thin air. So it's not like "referendum approves" anything - it's Lukashenka decides
Or 3:2 even better