skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're wrong about Crimea ( Novorosiisk), but mostly correct about the rest. Ukraine has a lot of specialised heavy industry - tank, engine, ship, aircraft building. Important parts of it are needed by the Russians, which is why there were many joint programmes before 2014 - Russian ships used Ukrainian produced turbines and engines, there was collaboration on new cargo aircraft, etc.
They are both imperialist moves, and I do think they are comparable, so there's no need to sugarcoat it. But there's empires and empires: I'd much rather live in a US democracy rather than a Russian dictatorship.

Also, you can't really compare Saddam to Zelenskyy.
I mean, anecdotes for andcdotes, but my office is on top of a subway station and isnt fully insulated around the windows (And today it was -15 C here in Toronto). My home office has neither of these two factors.
Anyone who finds this interesting is probably already watching the YouTube channel 'Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't' but on the rare chance someone isn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MncyGuQc_gc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yHbM9w4BI

Probably in my top-three de-stressing channels.

Warning: NSFW language, rambling, but deeply enthusiastic and knowledgable host.
the moment the first cable is cut, you have a war.
Except those that got droned.
Indeed. I find it funny how we see a big push to return to office these days. I've been in 'hybrid mode' for years before the pandemic. Sometimes fully remote and sometimes with irregular visits to the office if there was an actual purpose.
Looks like a merge conflict wasn't properly fixed:
https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/fetch/blob/main/test/test....
Some platoons layed down arms.

They were sent to Ukraine under false pretenses to gather information, later they found out a invasion was starting and they didn't want to attack Ukrainen people.
Mostly it's a belief of the propaganda of Russian supporters (there's a few here too). Here's how to spot them.

The strongest argument they can make is one based on the hypocrisy of the west. (But there is a lot of truth there that's why it's strong and they use it)

It boils down to "they did it, so we should too".

It doesn't have any morality and say it's good or has any claim to noble acts. There's no positive arguments in support only negative against their enemies.

The west has the freedom mythos for people outside to believe in. Russia only had an internal facing fatherland idea. Russia does not appeal to freedom for all in its propaganda, indeed they will attack the idea of freedom as false through examples of western hypocrisy.

It's also defended, for example, by the claim that the entire world except Russia, is lying via media, corporations etc.
Are you seeing this as a reason to justify Russian invasion into Ukraine?
My world of reference is Oceania. However I still do find it hard to believe the average person in Europe knows were Chernobyl is.

But I'm sure you are right, and I hope you are doing well in Europe given the situation.
They could have used https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot (python API interface) or https://github.com/goldsmith/Wikipedia
Not just in the US. There's a very real possiblity that Jeremy Corbin could've been Prime Minister of the UK when this happened, and he's quite openly siding with Putin over this invasion and arguing the UK is actually to blame for it - as is the Stop the War Coalition and the broader left which he represents, much like their equivalents in the US are.
Website APIs tend to sprout "API key" requirements with little or no notice, which seem like a terrible idea. This kind of breakage is far less likely to happen to the HTML endpoint, because it gets about a zillion times more usage.

It is actually sensible to stick to the interface that the majority of users are using, because that interface is the least likely to break. Spontaneous API key hoop-jumping is a form of breakage.
I don't think there's a need to defend against it. You can acknowledge that the US has done some fucked up shit. The invasion of Iraq was, as far as I understand it, based on outright lies from the Bush administration about evidence of nuclear weapons in Iraq. Just say, yeah, the invasion of Iraq was fucked up. This invasion of Ukraine is also fucked up. We should condemn both.

There are probably nuanced arguments to be made about which is worse. You could maybe argue that attacking a NATO-aligned country is more dangerous for world peace than attacking Iraq was (at least from a western perspective). You could point to the fact that there's no reason to believe Putin will stop after Ukraine if that attack goes well; his "excuse" for invading Ukraine applies to most former Soviet countries. But you don't have to defend US invasions, you can accept that at least some US invasions are bad even if you generally prefer US hegemony to Russian or Chinese hegemony (which I also do, FWIW).
Zipline's drones will now trial medical deliveries in Tanzania (2017)
> it's very likely because you're using your RDBMS wrong.

Sorry. But no.

RDBMSes make poor tools for complex domain logic, business-rules, etc. If your solution to "my database and business-logic are too tightly coupled" is to move more of that business-logic into the database, "you're using your RDBMS wrong".

RDBMSes are near impossible to test. They have no source-control, no collaboration models (pull-reviews, CI/CD). They have no deployment strategies. Lack distribution.

Which is why in e.g. Rails all business logic is in the models, commonly and not in your DB schema.

(and with "no", I do understand that it is possible, just that accessible tools, frameworks or even books and course lack severely).
Eh, independent is a stretch. Both have the Queen as head of state, and her representative, the governer-general, has some powers.

Example of the Queen's representative interfering in local politics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
You are aware that Gean rearmament, conventional rearmament, was a hard pill for the Western allies to swallow? Let alone nukes? And Strauss, defense minister back the day, wanted German nukes. Turned he didn't get a majority for that. Thus, the compromise. And hence no German nukes. Technically it wouldn't have that much of a problem.
The German economy is dependant on Russian gas, regardless of who is currently leading the country.

Also take into account that until recently, Russia has been considered a reliable business partner in Germany, to the point that many Germans considered a russo-german partnership to be more advantageous than the current transatlantic one. While support for that idea waned in popularity a little after the Crimea takeover, some, now more on the political fringes, still do today.
More went to school than got droned, what's your point, that innocent people die in wars? People also die under Sharia Law. Pick your struggle.
That's exactly what I had in mind. It's not as if the US didn't have other options. Bay of pigs was US supported but it wasn't the US doing the invasion, though without US support it would have never happened.
Yes, I think we are seeing the breakdown of nuclear deterrence. Because it does nothing to stop Putin from attacking allied (non-NATO) states, but it deterrs the west from intervening.

I think at some point people will realize that MAD is a huge bluff. Because when you see the nuclear bombs flying, there is nothing you can do anymore to win the war. The only thing that you can do is to prevent the loss of more lives by standing down and calling off the counter attack. The only logical move is to renege on your "credible" second strike promise, stand down, and start printing the enemy's flags. In practice, modern warfare is not about conquering the enemy country, it is about destroying the enemy military and state, which would be achived by airstrikes and/or a nuclear strike. For these reasons, I predict the boundary between conventional war and nuclear war to become more blurry (US and Russia have been trying this for decades with the development of smaller nukes, and missile defense systems), and conventional war to return to Europe.

The way to stop this is not in strengthening the NATO and going black to block confrontation. The only way forward is to question block confrontation, the post-WWII-order, and souvereign nation states. Because the nation states are the entities that are fighting for influence and raising armies, and in some sense they have to, if they don't want to be left behind in geopolitics and the global economy. I know it's a tall order, but we need no less than a "revolution" of the world order (however that may look like) to secure peace.
It leaves out a crucial question: what would the US have to do for Mexico to isolate itself from the US as much as possible? What has Russia done in the past 100 years to all other countries in Eastern Europe?

If you extend your analogy with the US behaving like Russia towards its neighbors, perhaps Russian forces on Mexican borders would sound perfectly fair.

After the US invaded Mexico, killed off political and cultural elite, and started colonizing it with american resettlers to eradicate Mexican culture, but Mexico somehow regained independence, would it really sound so strange if Mexico started seeking alliance with China to prevent it from happening again?
…for a couple more weeks of winter.
This is technically true and also 100% bullshit. It is phrased that way, but I have never heard anyone actually believe that NATO is anything except the US promising to use its military and its nuclear weapons to defend weaker European states that didn't have the ability to credibly defend themselves from the USSR.
Playing both sides. That is how you do diplomacy.
> Lithuanians, make sure "Made in Lithuania" is visible on everything you ship. You guys rock!)

In some cases smaller European countries' manufacturers prefer to put "Made in the EU" because it's more reputable. No idea if the Lithuanians do it too.
> Look up Azov battalion.

Who BTW are funded and equipped with our tax dollars. Yay!
To be precise : it is a second world country.
> The situation is not that complicated. Ukraine is an independent country and can decide what alliances to join or not. It’s not Russia’s business and it surely does not give it the permission to invade it.

It's funny how many people here constantly repeat that it's a crime to attach and split an independent country, but I could not hear such voices anywhere in any western country when NATO bombed civilian targets in Serbia for months to support Kosovo independence.

As a remainder, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Cuba, Guatemala, Mali, Yemen ... all independent countries attacked by NATO and its allies. Sorry if I added a few extra or missed a few, the number is just too big to remember correctly, since the number of independent countries worldwide attacked by NATO and its allies is bigger than list of countries attacked by Nazi Germany in WW2.
Yes yes yes. Russia is a peaceful country, just somehow surrounded by festering wars. Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, not to forget its brainchild North Korea.

But sure, it’s everyone else’s fault!
So let me get this straight, on 27th September it’s the BbC causing panic, despite every petrol forecourt in the country having the print press on display showing these headlines

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2021/09/27/what-...

And the government promising the send the army in?
Ukrainian “Come Back Alive” foundation got over $4M of donations in BTC in 24hrs
Ukraine was a Sobiet republic under the USSR, as was Russia. Ukraine also took other military stuff, the Black Sea Fleet was fiercly discussed issue as well. Economically and politically Ukraine didn't have much of a choice, sure. Legal ownership wasn't the propblem so.
My version of this is a bash script that opens the article in lynx:

https://github.com/boris-marinov/bin/blob/main/wiki
> Either we agree that countries have sovereignty and can enter whatever pacts they so please or we do not.

I completely agree. The problem is that for the past 70 years or more, this has not been like the US has behaved. They set the historical precedent that it's ok to respect other countries sovereignty if and only if said country aligns with your own interests. When that's not the case, it's fine to overthrow the government to make it more "democratic".
Is Russia an _official_ enemy though? I mean morally, after yesterday, of course. But is there any legal grounds?
Are you seriously bringing up education of girls wrt to Afghanistan? It was an excuse to appease some Europeans to stay longer ( specifically the Dutch ).

No leader or country will ever start a war because of some diversity concerns.
For some context - here's a website of this foundation listing the Bitcoin address in question: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

This is almost the same amount of money they've received in the last year and a half, according to their financial statements listed on that page.
Thank you everyone for the _really_ helpful responses!

It is immediately apparent to me that my interaction with vim has been heavily informed and limited by my preconceptions and previous text editing experiences.

Time to start engaging with vim as its own entity, with its own conventions and idiosyncrasies.

EDIT: Formatting
Easy target near the border, and a symbolic target that people know about.
I’m sure you could work out why Twitter suppressors speech that the deem effects them as Americans doing that overseas would just cost them money
You must be the only person then that slept through Yugoslavia, 9/11, the Iraq war, Afghanistan, Libya and others.
To be fair Estonia's treatment of its Russian community fed right into Putin's propaganda machine, when you still have this: "7.3% are "persons with undetermined citizenship"" (to quote wikipedia [1]) ~30 years after the break-up of the USSR then you know something was not done right on Estonia's part when it came to really integrating the Russian community. The same partially goes for the condition of the Russian community in Ukraine, especially recently. This is of course not a discussion that we can have right now, in a neuter manner, so to speak, because there's a war just close to us (I'm from Romania myself), but going forward the people involved will have to look back and see when things starting going adrift.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Estonia
First I “live” in command mode and only visit insert mode to …insert stuff afterwards which I always leave with escape.

So using vim becomes a series of small edits.

I map caps to Ctrl and use Ctrl-[ for escape.

That means I can still use Ctrl for insert mode shortcuts such as

Ctrl-w (delete last word)
Ctrl-r to insert a register (eg Ctrl-r% for filename)
Ctrl-h instead of reaching for backspace.

There’s loads of them.

It just takes a bit of muscle memory but if you’re a touch typist it’s well worth it IMHO.

Doing it this way, rather than say ‘jk’ in insert mode, also has the advantage of working in other vim-like programs where you’d have to repeat the mapping. If that’s even possible.
> Now we have major websites that you can count on one hand that makes up the Internet.

No they don't make up the Internet. We have a couble big sites backed by megacorporations that have taken over the majority mindshare, but there are still plenty of smaller sites left. Don't give in and pretend that Google et al have won. Find traditional forums for your interests and participate in them. Start one if needed. Subscribe to individual blogs via RSS. Consider hosting your own. Want to share your creations? Create a website for them instead of just putting them on the most convenient social media platform. The independent web is not lost until we all agree that it is.
Its all a bit of a joke to be honest.
There are 100k Russian troops, thats a population of some UK towns like Harlow, Romford, Royal Leamington Spa, or Gillingham trying to secure a landmass 2.5 times the size of the UK!

Its a joke, because once the Ukrainian population is psychologically motivated into guerrilla warfare against the Russians, it would be over in a day or two.

This invasion with media complicity, is just project fear or govt's around the world enjoying their population's desire to be governed. Russia is doing each and every govt around the world a favour by reinforcing the govt form of control instead of self determination.

Now if Russia went in with 1million troops, then it would be something to worry about, but this is all just psychological reinforcement of hierarchical control systems on populations.
I once saw a very beautiful large building on hackernews. Then one person commented that it was turned into a dozen condos so that it was affordable to everyone (including racial minorities).

The next HN comment immediately talked about how that building is a slum.

You literally cannot see the residents inside. It's impossible to tell. It's the same building but now somehow it was ruining the character of the neighborhood. Strange.
That was not an unpopular position at the time, with predictable backlash now made manifest. Also on topic US should also not have made NATO an offensive alliance with Kosovo... a "humanitarian" invasion outside UN security council authorization. Or set precedence of unilateral secession to balkanize countries for US interests, which RU rationalized for Abkhazia / South Ossetia in Georgian war. This is exactly the same playbook/justification RU is using to "rescue" Ukraine, for much more valid security considerations. Everything RU is doing has been normalized by previous US interventions, of which there has been too many, with a host of lawyers trying to legitimize them under the liberal international order.
US can elect a president that could actually build a wall
Yes, I agree with everything you said. Voting and protesting matter. Expression matters and is very important despite everything I said earlier. Otherwise everything would be even more alike than it is now. Your logic is sound.
Unless the nation happens to be majority non-white.
Outside of pretty narrow specializations, research into IQ is extremely touchy. Am I missing something here? How is this a result of my bias?
Unless you think NK is a superpower, you've failed to actually read a one-paragraph post, congratulations.

As for projection capabilities of FR-UK, they are small and old and creaky and everybody knows it.
> It's basically inconceivable that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is really in Russia's best interests.

That’s exactly what Mearsheimer has been saying. He has said that it would be a terrible mistake for Russia to invade Ukraine.
Which practical uses could this have in production?
Sorry! Someone already filed an issue about this [1], but I haven't had time to investigate exactly what is appropriate to put there. I don't use Linux, nor have I ever released and distributed open-source software before, so I'm just kinda guessing here -- other people have added the project to various package managers, not me.

Installing via Linux Homebrew is simply listed as an option because it's available as a Homebrew formula. And the option to install via cargo is also noted.

[1]: https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless/issues/46
What about documentation, quality/test reports, change logs etc.?
Not at all the person you're responding to, and don't agree in the slightest with their viewpoint, however from what i recall Hillary Clinton was selling herself very tough on Russia in the last election she lost.
this got miscommunicated once and led to Boris Yeltsin opening the nuclear football and weighing launch orders when the call came in that it was actually a Norwegian sounding rocket, not a surprise Arctic first strike.
Not everyone reads the article
The EU doesn't have a military or any mandate to put one together under an EU flag. Probably it will happen eventually, but previous attempts to establish one have been rebuffed by the citizens of smaller countries with a policy of neutrality, who still get a veto on questions like this.

Maybe there could have been a combined French/German (or whatever EU countries you'd like...I imagine there'd be no shortage of volunteers in the Baltic) peacekeeping force.
What you want is mostly already here - just use native HTML elements.
I wouldn't easily assume that Russians had been too happy bordering NATO. Maybe they just didn't have the means to respond until now.
No, you would get the distance from the border to the other end of the large country, since that is longer.
Would also like to know this, because Germany being on Russia's side feels a bit... out of nowhere? A bit odd? Not something you'd expect.

I mean, i can understand some controversy around the actions of Turkey because of a variety of reasons, but Germany?
Flyt apparently.

Or rather, probably not but it is unfortunate to write an article about a 4 letter swearword starting with an F and then suddenly reveal a new word that matches that description.
You (kind of) can by now. Killing male chickens after hatching is outlawed in Germany since the beginning of this year. From [1] it reads like Germany subsised research into preselecting female eggs and only hatching these ones.
This is still killing male chickens in some way, but arguably less gruesome than how the industry has dealt with male chickens before.

[1] https://www-bmel-de.translate.goog/DE/themen/tiere/tierschut...
That is what I'm talking about, yes.

Page format for tables hasn't changed since 8.4, tuple format hasn't changed in a backwards-incompatible manner since 8.4 (probably earlier).

BTree indexes have changed a bit, but ones created in 9.0.x can still be loaded and used in 14.x.

GIN/GiST/SP-GiST/BRIN all don't seem to have had backwards-incompatible changes, looking at https://why-upgrade.depesz.com/show?from=8.4&to=14.2

The only thing that changed is the catalogs, upgradable through pg_upgrade.
'nano factory' fits inside a shipping container (2021)
NATO isn't a defensive alliance, period. It is a mutual security pact.

Here is the actual treaty:

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.ht...

Article 4 is quite deliberately vaguely worded. And the treaty also explains why NATO only got involved in Libya after the UN requested it to.
> He argues that Russia invading Ukraine (and putting a pro-Russian government in its place), it is the same as USA invading Iraq.

Typical Putinist deflection. Watch some talk shows on Russian TV involving him from the past decade. Whenever people question or criticize his actions, he does not answer and instead start raving on about the US this and the west that. Even if the action has nothing to do with the US or the west. It's a simple tactic to try move focus from whatever he's doing to whatever evil he thinks the west has done. He's always doing everything to paint the west in bad light; he wants people to think the west is evil, and in doing so, he's supposed to get a free pass.

I used to watch (English) Russian propaganda channels on youtube. They're all full of this. Obviously a lot of people buy it.

The reality is that whether the war in Iraq was justified or not is a completely separate discussion, and the US going to war with Iraq (whether justified or not) is not a justification for Russia going to war with Ukraine.

You can draw parallels, but that is no justification. And vague "self-interests" is no justification. Anyone who thinks USA waged war for oil is probably also condemning that war.

For another example of self-interest, Finland (together with Nazi Germany) attacked the Soviets in Continuation War in order to regain lost territory and to annex East Karelia. You can argue that's self-interest but it does not justify invasion, and I think most people condemn that offensive.