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Buffer, yes. But the Maidan protests started because Russia made the first power grab. The very openly pro-Russian government of the time had just passed legislation that put Ukraine on a direct path towards becoming what is now Belarus. TBH, if that hadn't happen, we'd just have Ukraine more or less locked by Putin now. So no, we're not talking about a buffer zone, sorry. Not even in the strict military sense - the invasion today came from Belarus as well, and some reports even claim Belarusian troops, not that it matters much. So without that regime change, we'd most likely see Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation in a military capacity as well.

We _had_ a buffer zone until yesterday. NATO was supporting Ukraine without much real intention of having it join, while Russia had Crimea and half of Donbass. This could have gone for decades - see Transnistria, which does exactly the same for Moldova for 30 years.
> Instead, the US will likely prop up the resistance once Ukraine falls and try to make occupation as costly as possible just like we did in Afghanistan.

a band-aid solution at best. The fact that putin has desires to resurrect the soviet superpower, is the problem, and i doubt there would be any possible diplomatic solution to that.

Nobody likes war (least of all nuclear war), but if the threat of such weapons is shown to be a bluff, the peace brought about from it's use in WW2 would all but be in vain.

Somebody must back down, and i would say putin and his ambitions must be the one to back down, or the US & allies must escalate. Otherwise, the next authoritarian country is going to want in.
(If it's what I heard) Requesting more troops is not triggering article 4

And as per the Tweet itself, it's a consultation
Very true. Some keyboards have latency twice as bad as the round-trip ping time of a server you might be connecting to half-way across the country, which is...nuts. There really isn't any reason for a keyboard to take half of a tenth of a second to register a keypress.

RTINGs tests for latency, but I would caution folks to note that "high latency" to them is ~8 or 9ms, which as Dan's tests show, can be almost 10x better than some common keyboards out there.
I'm not a Trump fan at all, but one of his major complaints was that Europe isn't allocating enough money to defence. Which is quite a reasonable thing to demand.

Primary responsibility to defend Europe should lie with Europe. The ability to defend oneself is just as important as climate. One has wide public support, the other is taken for granted (thanks to Nato).
Thats assuming Citizens Advice will even help you. My local Citizens Advice wouldnt help me, but thats headed up by a retired copper.

Edit: I've always found his ability to track me down in the middle of some woods when I was out walking to be a rather curious use of technology considering he was retired and wouldnt have access to mobile phone triangulation facilities or the gps facilities on my phone. However he outed himself when he went back to get some answers for me!
Comparative analysis of fixed broadband speeds in cities across the world, 02/22 [pdf]
This is cool. The keyboard is too small to comfortably type on for me. Chrome on iPhone XR. Thanks!
They don't necessarily have to directly do it. As far as I remember Linutronix is rather invested in training (I enjoyed a Linux training from them around 2010), and so they might just help out other intel engineers in landing those patches.
I'm more than happy to be proven wrong. But the erasure of Ukraine is not novel.
Am I correct in saying that Estonia is categorizing this as a threat to their security therefore requesting the rest of Nato to consider this an attack on a member?
It's the same reason why the US didn't want sowjet missiles in Cuba in the 60ies.
I don't think Russia meets all of the following NATO requirements.

--New members must uphold democracy, including tolerating diversity.

--New members must be making progress toward a market economy.

--Their military forces must be under firm civilian control.

--They must be good neighbors and respect sovereignty outside their borders.

--They must be working toward compatibility with NATO forces.
I think the correct reading is: he'll take whatever he can get away with and he'll start with former USSR countries.
lots of great tidbits in the book. for example the first maps were made in radiant and tested in quake3! with getting fragged by a coworker and all
There is sure thing in racketeer's psychology though. They'll take as long as they can. Giving them anything surely won't stop them from taking more.
Of course not, I blame Rupert Murdoch. But this sudden allegiance of the modern Trump/GOP to Putin is a sign of things to come.
Yes, I too use Vanced frequently and casting works fine.
It also detects and casts to the smartyoutubetv app on my firetv.
While "huge startup package" varies wildly - epidemiologists are cheap, for example, you are by and large correct.

The data center where my nodes for HPC are kept? Indirects.

The salary of the folks who review and submit the proposals, manage the budgets, and make sure we're complying with neat things like human subjects protections? Indirects.

Journal subscriptions? Indirects.

Direct costs cover remarkably few things.
Archived: https://archive.ph/YhdEB
Direct image with the regional data: https://i.ibb.co/r28gnMm/IMG-3792.jpg
When people start dying?
No matter how much I can pay, why should I when I am getting a vastly superior experience with these options? This is just downloading and installing an app, wayy less of a "hassle" than setting up payment and exposing yourself to Youtube's abhorrent feed on the front page. These ideals don't work in the free market; if I can take something for free I'll take it as I see fit, as will all rational consumers across the world if they can.
It doesn’t have to be, but in practice it helps restrict calories by eliminating late night snacking.

Or if you fast for an entire day and don’t overeat during your other feeding windows to compensate you can also find yourself in a caloric deficit.
Having every file pollute a global namespace seems to require more discipline than the current hierarchical system where you can easily copy a directory tree without having to worry about breaking something else.

That is the main problem with these so called "solutions", they usually take more effort and discipline than the problem they originally set out to solve. The right solution is just to learn the original system properly rather than trying to invent an even worse way to work around it.
It will be more than that after a few more months of Tucker Carlson's shows.
Vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, study finds
Peace is better than war.

The war is over Ukrainian NATO membership. If NATO membership was off the table, or if Biden was strong and had the conviction to defend Ukraine there would be no war.

Instead he entertained Ukrainian NATO membership and tried to fend Putin off with finger wagging.
Thank you for having the patience to say what I wanted to say.

I am not a pro-Putin guy, but, if we don't recognize our part in this chaos, then, we're just promoting more of it.
Very Orwellian. We were never at odds with Russia. The only ones telling you this are the bad people.
> I think the west should've decisively defeated the soviets when they broke apart,

That wouldn't have been feasible given military realities (nukes, the total impossibility of invading and occupying Russia), and even if it had been what would it have achieved? The age of imperialism is over. The west has won allies by respecting the right of their populations to self-determination. (And when it hasn't respected self-determination, it has often lost ground.)
Yeah that was my first thought too. That motor isn't going to be happy running flat out for very long.
What about a GDPR request.
The right to be forgotten.
As I understand it, you have the right to get all your information removed.
Not trying to make accusations but why would anyone block these segments? Isn't that how the content creator is making a living? I just skip them by hand if they go on and on or I've already seen it or whatever.
Oh I think I understand what you're saying now. You have a laptop with a QWERTY hardware layout, and rely on the WM to remap the keys to a different layout? Sorry I can't help out. Just wanted to understand the issue.
Kinda like gmail's nested labels. Hierarchies win again.
My institution employs about 7000 people.

I'm interested if there's a single company that employs that many people you can point to that pays $0 to handle payroll.
So some altimeters, manufactured by companies supplying all OEMs way hefore 5g was thing, have trouble with 5G now. There seems to be a solution for this old equipment, civil aviation moves on. For once no need to pick on Boeing here. Or on anyone else.
I would be very surprised if there was any encryption, but I don't know how the tech worked, other than it was all 'dark fibre', that is, purchased links between sites without any offered services.

The EMC drive arrays were expensive enough that they'd be shared between projects, effectively, capacity was 'leased' to different teams within the organisation. Those drives were replicated between the sites via the fibre, so the infrastructure team responsible for that would have been doing whatever they could I guess (probably getting it working at all was the challenge rather than worrying about encryption).

I do know that exchange connectivity for trading was via leased X.25 connections over the PSTN, and there was no encryption on those links. The client orders were small though, nothing to get excited about.

Proper inter-bank stuff, the big bucks, were carried on the SWIFT network, which is encrypted, and that would be the place to attack if you wanted to get up to mischief. I guess that's still used today (was heavily used last time I worked in that industry 10 years ago for settlement, fx, etc)
By the way, in case someone doesn't know the significance of that symbol, they can read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)
Yeah, I think the idea is instead of fighting, to make the annexation as painful as possible like we did in Afghanistan.
And, the quote is onjectively bs. Hard times create hardened people who create hard time for others. And suffering.Good times are created by people who care and have right values.

The hard times in Ukraine now won't make anyone better. Men in west won't be inferior for not going through it.
The nukes never belonged to Ukraine, unfortunately. It was always controlled by Soviet Union.
Russia should have no say over Ukraine.
I remember playing through Morrowind. It was my first Elder Scrolls game, and I got entranced by the in-game history books about a character called Jagar Tharn. They were deep and convincing in a way I'd never seen in atmosphere-setting content before, it really felt like I was reading about real events.

Turns out, Jagar Tharn was a major character in an earlier game in the series, and the histories more-or-less recounted the plot of that earlier game.

I think you're right that that referencing of earlier stories really carries a lot of weight, but I don't think the player even has to be familiar with those stories to profit from them. The very fact that they are "real" stories and places that exist outside of that game I think allows the designers to treat them more convincingly, more engagingly.
>would it actually work?

I don't have a mathematical proof, just an intuition about how the graph (nodes are routers, links are routes) would change in time. Yes, the packets might find another path, at least at first, but each time the recipient signals rejection every intermediate goes dark. Eventually, the sender will be surrounded, at some radius, by dark nodes. The best case is if the bad sender is rejected very quickly.

>how far up the chain

All the way, as close to 100% as possible. I would want this to be part of TLS encrypted socket such that either side of the socket can signal unhappiness with the counterparty, and have that be respected. This should be difficult to spoof, so you'd have to pick a way to signal it within the TLS stream, and do packet inspection at the middleboxes. (I never said it would be an easy solution!)
Do you think this was right?:

NATO proposed Ukrainian and Georgian membership of NATO in 2005-2008, in the clear knowledge that this would destabilize the situation.

France, Germany, and others were against this. The proposal began the issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBQikfYyKs

We then openly backed the 2014 putsch in Kiev, an open act of aggression just as irresponsible as a military incursion. CIA John Brennan, Senator John McCain, and Diplomat Victoria Nuland were there in Ukraine when Yanukovych was being overthrown. There is also evidence to show that we were involved through NGOs in overthrowing and promoting an atmosphere desiring the overthrow of Yanukovych.

"F* the EU" said Diplomat Victoria Nuland -- knowing full well that the Germans and French would be against a coup in then-neutral Ukraine.

Meanwhile, once again, soon after the Iraq debacle: here we are getting dragged into another "war for democracy".

Russia and America turned Ukraine into a "if we can't have, burn it to the ground" situation. Further American intervention in Ukraine will just turn it into another Syria.
I understand that this is true for some forests but not all. Lots of California forests need to burn their underbrush and would do so without human intervention. Out gorge in Oregon is not supposed to do this though.
Firouzja has dozens of wins against Carlsen already. I'm only surprised that Pragg didn't.
Russia Attacks Ukraine
Sending them weapons is a pathway. Pledging neutrality is not.
I'm more of an optimist. I think Putin just proved the need for Nato and how dangerous he is. Trumps support of him might be the thing that brings down Trumpism.
I watched the video in its entirety.

> Putting a number on the size today of Azov is difficult because of how the two melded together. Some people joined Azov because they just wanted to help fight and didn’t care about the neo nazi stuff. Some are true believers. But one thing for certain is that it’s not some fringe group that exists on Wikipedia only.

This might be true, but it's not evidenced by the video. The video documents two independent groups, one of whom (the first) look like they might belong to Azov. I counted 7 people at the most.

OTOH, it's clear (from the end of the video) that there are protests in Kiev itself with reactionary (or at least hypernationalist) themes. It's not clear to me where the line is on those, probably because I'm not Ukrainian. But those protestors are in the capital.

In sum, it's not clear to me that we should discount NATO's current arms distribution because one of two groups in a video from 2019 has far-right members, members who cut a deal with the overarching military chain of command to secure arms for the broader military.
`The sad truth is $500k for a career grant seems like a lot when you're in the university, but when you get out and see where else money is being spent you realize how poor academia really is.`

This hits me every now and again.

But your first point is huge, and one thing we've been working on with our program's grant writing class. Students phone in their specific aims pages to go write their approach sections, which is what they're working on, and that's a huge mistake.
They're totally already doing this.

Have you ever seen spam advertising videos on the free porn sites?

A good chunk of the spam/advertising videos are cropped/edited/blurred/sharpened/what-have-you copies of copies of copies.

Most likely because their similar hashed copies get flagged.
Correctness Proofs of Distributed Systems
What is a “much better” CD player? It’s a digital medium so that doesn’t make any sense. It either reads the disc and the data on it or it doesn’t.

If you’re referring to the DAC portion that does make a difference obviously but that doesn’t have to do with the CD itself or tracking.
just putting it out there as a random foreigner that happened to watch kabaddi randomly on tv while travelling -- kabaddi rules! Great spectator sport
How long do you think Russia can hold out if the entire world sanctions them? Do you think they'd trade Ukraine for trade with every world partner? Bottom line: Russia can only win a physical war - they cannot win an economic war.

This is bait and bad bait at that. The longer Russia continues to provide us with video evidence of their bullying only makes it easier for us to convince undecided countries to sanction Russia to submission.
You seem to know your stuff, so I have a question, where's Firouzja? I expected him to participate in more tournments
Maybe the core was just always ideologically close.
> I assure all the people of Estonia that there is no direct military threat to Estonia and that the situation in Estonia and at our external border is calm," Kallas [Estonias PM] emphasised.
Ask your Indian friends about the national cricket team of New Zealand in world cup & world test competition (yeah, I know), then work out the per-capita of that contest.

India probably have the best cricket team in the world right now and they have depth. Their second eleven might be in the top 5. They are awesome and a period of India being the top dog is a good thing for cricket. (Some friendly played, properly tense games against Pakistan would make it even better, we can't have everything).

India pop 1,380 million
NZ pop 5 million
Norway also about 5 million
Corollary (because I’m not sure I was explicit enough): propaganda most certainly has worked on me without my even realizing, a great many times I am sure, and it most certainly has worked on you as well, dear HackerNews reader. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re immune, or too clever.
Skeptical. This video by Sabine clearly explains why a lot of these fusion research claims are dubious with a focus on ITER and JET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
Responding to a flagged comment:

It is indeed possible to have a tool that could cross-post to both. Use something like OBS to record a copy of your video that you're streaming to youtube, twitch, tec..
> The added functionality with this approach is that you can use the Space as a casual grouping of windows in a related project.

The cool thing about this is how well this mixed approach copes with the command-tab switcher; you stay local to the space until you tab to a thing that is in another space, which can make for really useful working patterns if, for example, you use site-specific browser apps for different online roles.

For me it is regularly VS Code full screen in one space, browser and another app (Apple notes, a messaging app or tailed server log in terminal) together on another.

But the difference between how Spaces works and how the WM in the demo video works seems like night and day.

For all my frustrations about the way changing the app in one half of a Space can work [0], the Apple interface is at least an attempt to produce something that is driven by obviousness and gestures, in the way that (as a veteran mac user can tell you) that the "menu bar across the top of the screen" model is more instinctive and quicker to interact with than each modal having its own menu.

The system in the demo video is jerky, hyperactive and surprising.

I'd rather accept the limitations of a simpler approach designed to avoid level of surprise and jitter.

[0] Not as well as iPadOS does. Never thought I'd say that sentence.
if only ipv6 wasnt designed by network giants gripping their aging boxes built on 1940s concepts, monopoly usurers ISP who literary live by a centralized network and profit from nat, and advertising behemoths who still need to attribute clicks to advertising campaigns... we wouldn't be compiling lists of dozens of reverse proxy solutions that do nothing but work around all these things getting in the way of what what's network should have been already.
That thread is the actual situation and it's a travesty we have so many on this very site and the American far right that are Kremlin war apologists.

We have fools believing the Kremlin is actually afraid of NATO, the defensive alliance, when Russia has NUKES. Kremlin isn't even afraid of NATO confrontation when they're invading another country, because of nukes. They're sure as hell not concerned about NATO confrontation in their own territory. The whole argument is schizophrenic.

Again, why would Russia be concerned about NATO imposing themselves on Russia, when NATO won't even defend a Ukrainian invasion?
The moral of this era seems to be: no one attacks a country with nuclear weapons.

France has nukes, so this isn’t going to be Hitler 2.0 with Putin posing by the Arc de Triumph.

There are several ex-Soviet countries that are NATO members, so that’ll be the real hot spot if it gets there as the US et. al. will be required to act militarily in their defense (in theory).
> I think right now in the west in general the appetite for getting hands-on in Ukraine is just not there.

I hate to say it, but I agree. Germany sent Ukraine a few thousand hats to help them resist Russian aggression, for Christ's sake.

Western powers will drop a strongly worded letter in the mail and implement economic sanctions that'll do diddly squat to the Russian authorities, besides maybe push them into a closer alliance with China.

Honestly, the least they could have done is massed NATO troops in Poland, the Baltics, etc. and kept strategic ambiguity about whether they planned to actually use them (instead of explicitly announcing, like dumbasses, they weren't going to get involved in any way that would bother Putin).

> It's entirely possible, especially given recent events, that Trudeau decides it's politically expedient to get involved directly in some meaningful way....I'd give this about a 0.001% chance of happening, maybe less.

Definitely less. IMHO, if they were going to have to get involved, they would have needed to have been moving troops and equipment for quite some time. I don't think they've done that.
Even if fusion succeeds in net positive energy (which is still a ways off - even ITER, planned to finish in 2030, will not actually generate energy, they didn't even add a turbine to try), there are huge hurdles to scanning it up.

It's impossible for fusion to be a significant source of energy in the time left to avert catastrophic global warming. Even with the most optimistic estimates, we will at best have a handful of small plants, nothing comparable to a fission power plant.
What you are suggesting will backfire. IDK why people have such cynical thoughts to make people's life more difficult. Many Russian don't support Putin, so why even try to punish them?
> eventually be used by many

And that’s the issue. The status quo may be the best choice for the lowest common denominator. But some power users could get much more out of something with a different approach. You can’t force a one-size-fits-all ontology onto the masses.

People need to wake up and realize that not all software technologies need to be popular to be successful or useful. It seems people around here assume this without even thinking about it first.
> US presence, aka expansionism

Not to dig into this too much, but what I meant was that US wasn't there to permanently make Afghanistan a territory of USA.
I'd say in this case everyone has nuclear weapons i.e. thug and bystanders with abundant second strike capabilities and also a healthy desire to live. With that level of mutually assured destruction, conflict if any would almost certainly stay conventional.

In fact if NATO had moved in about 50 to 100K troops at the invitation of Ukraine sometime over the past 3 months, its really unlikely that Putin would have upped the ante.

If anything the multiyear patience and planning on his part suggests he absolutely wants to win and wont take a chance if he thinks he might lose or draw