skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was thinking. He's just a bit southwest of Kyiv, so it might be impossible to get all the way to a safe border soon. I'm sure there are lots of people escaping now.
Putin is a 69 year old dictator who is realizing his life is over. He's decided to go out with a bang. He obviously does not care about his country since this war will only hurt Russia, it's already had multiple consequences that are directly opposed to his stated goals. He wants to play with his army and tanks.

"Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.
...
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead."

--- The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
First, my heart does go to people in Ukraine found themselves in conditions not of their doing or their wishes. At similar place was my heart with Iraqi during shock and awe attack with 2 Tomahawk missiles per minute hitting them first 24 hours, million of people died directly and many more indirectly in that war. Same with Syrian war or Lybian or any other war which leaves disarray and destruction in its wake. Ordinary citizens suffer the most and it is tragic. There is little one can do once the war machine is on (especially if a nuclear power is the culprit). That is without dispute and no additional commentary needed.

However, the geopolitical and strategic principles are by extension natural laws and there is a solid theory behind that. There are facts (some of which are not known to us) in which US/EU stance forced/pushed Russian elites to conclusion that they need to assert themselves militarily (that is also not controversial ... this goes back 2 decades). The tug of war among different interest resulted in this situation. Tensions exists and can be converted into destructive force if not handled properly, or perceived to be (again nothing controversial).

If Russia elites made decision surely weighing the cost/benefits (strategic as well as tactical) that's that. EU and US interests with Ukraine are also not parallel if one studies the history, and this situation is no different (although not pertinent to discuss). Media is managed by both sides, narratives are prepared for respective populations, there is nothing controversial here. International law is in its infancy and selectively applied, and mostly non-enforceable against a super-power.

Moving to today's situation, wars have their life cycle determined by force fields of international state players. Nevertheless, on personal level I would join you in a being opposed to any war, and denouncing aggression on civilian targets regardless of the culprit.
And loose all intelligence data
> Assistance and Access Act

fondly abbreviated as ASS Access
Some browser users are literally children.
Oh dear. Trusting one source is not enough and the BBC has a clear bias on this.

Use multiple sources, rather than just one (very biased) source.
I never really tried DF, only read some tutorials about it. I have high expectations for this port, but at the same time, I'm worried that the learning curve will still make this game unpleasant to play because it takes too much time.

Factorio is also an excellent game, but I don't play the mods for the same reason I would not play DF. Too much things, and often the game design is a bit hairy for no good reason that would make some sense.
PresenceJS – Building realtime web apps with WebTransport
In a way the comparison is understandable, but in Kosovo and Bosnia there were systemic etnic persecution and genocide by the Serbian government.

A more similar comparison would be the US and USSR funding of factions in Italy during the Anni di Piombo. And then say US or USSR officialy arming and sponsoring Forza Nuova (or another militant organization) for indipendence of Padania.
A serious stretch. Nevertheless the argument that they're too slow to build has been popping up for 20 years now.
One immediate economic impact seems to be that MOEX Russian index https://www.moex.com/en/ is down currently 29.4% from yesterday. Sorry, 30.5% now. Anyway, it updates every minute.

Please instead refer to the news sources to the level you trust them, not comments from random people like me, who might or might not be part of some misinformation campaign (whether consciously or not).
There was a survey that shows that most of HN users are American. I'm not, but this place definitely has some American bias.

Something like Al Jazeera and SCMP are great non-Western news sources.
That's helpful. It's hard to know from here which decisions are better or worse.

I'm sorry to hear about your family and hope that they stay safe. You must be absolutely wracked with anxiety. I am too, and I don't even have any family there.
Web outages possibly linked to the Ukraine invasion
I just wanted to check flightradar24.com - but no luck. Then went on to find other live map services and liveuamap.com also seems to be down.
I'm wondering, could these be related to what's going on in Ukraine? Have you encountered other outages that could be connected? These are not the official government sites that were reported to be attacked some hours ago, but live information sites with probably valuable information for civilians. Liveradar24 is not a military intelligence site, but some MIL transponder codes were tracked on there, as well. This the last archive.org snapshot of liveuamap: https://web.archive.org/web/20220223210344/https://liveuamap.com/
Show HN: "Ido” stops you if there is some risky arguments
I always feel scary to grab command(s) from shell history and press "Enter" by accident. So I write this small tool which asks me to confirm when it finds something risky.

I expect the native interactive shell can do this for me. Feel free to give feedback and/or suggest a better way.

Thanks a lot.
It's completely irrelevant on who would be the nuclear war. A nuclear war will wipe out an absolutely humongous part of humanity. Even if you survive, you will be doing much much worse as essentially all supply chains will get broken.

Avoiding nuclear war is the top priority.
The mobile app version is far more reliable than the website, give that a try
Fission getting more expensive is tied to the very lucrative fully-legal corruption industry. Once a fission plant construction project is started, the money starts flowing, and is practically impossible to stop. If it is ever finished, the money would stop, and nobody actually involved wants that ever to happen, at least not until their kids graduate college. So the project blows through deadline after deadline, and cost overruns pile up without limit, until somebody manages to pull the plug. Once it looks like the money will stop regardless, there is some incentive to deliver a reactor; we saw that in Finland recently. South Carolina is the more typical cancellation after billions are spent, except in that case with a few indictments.

Normally nobody gets indicted, and nobody ever has to give any money back.
Thou there's a difference between "Nuclear War" and "some rebels shot a nuclear power plant and it disintegrated"
Upvote me if you absolutely detest stalebot.

Closing issues after a while if the reporting user fails to follow up on a request for additional information can be useful. But more often than not these stalebots kick in because the maintainer(s) never chimed in. Don't use a bot that can't distinguish between those two cases unless your only aim is to wage war on your users and sweep everything inconvenient under the rug.
I think the included keyboard idea was moreso to make clear that its an actual computer and not just a "VR monitor".

As an example, if you saw a monitor for sale and it came with a keyboard, you'd assume that it could be an all-in-one rather than just a monitor (you'd probably do some more research to confirm this obviously), whereas if you just saw a monitor on its own, you'd assume the opposite.

Of course in the case of AIO's and monitors its already quite clear what your buying, but in this case those context cues are a lot more important. I'm not sure it needs to actually include a keyboard, and if it does a cheap one would be perfectly fit for the purpose Im describing, but certainly it should be shown with one as much as possible.
Of course the Professional Pundit Class isn't likely to be more informative. They just have a well realized propaganda script to read from already.

"the internet" at least gives you glimpses of what people honestly think; even if they aren't the people whose thought one the matter really matters.
Nord Stream 2 doesn't matter for Russia. There are several alternative options (e.g. Nord Stream 1). The main reason Russians built it is to spend government money on top officials development companies. If Europe closes NS2, it's even better, let's build it to New Zealand.

The whole Nord Stream 2 thing is pathetic. Ex-German chancellor Shroeder is on its board of directors. And Germany kinda plays on Russian side here a little, doing nothing but supportive words. If they agree with Russia to split Poland again, I wouldn't be surprised.
Doesn't most of european gas run through Ukraine? Ukraine could use it as leverage .
Logging issues with a big company like Microsoft or Adobe feels like talking to a brick wall. I don't bother wasting my time on it anymore.
Did you know that the fossil energy sources are also intermittent? No energy plant is ever working 24x7x365. Stop with the fud already. There are real concerns with solar and wind that could be ameliorated with small scale storage, nuclear, geothermal and hydro. But to call them toxic and destabilizing is patently untrue, the destabilizing factor is not renewable energy.
Can you evaluate the source at every silent update?
Occupying countries where a sizable number of people hate you is generally not a good idea if you are not willing to be ruthless because it will tie up large parts of your military in anti-insurgency activities. So I don't think that is the long term plan.

If I were to guess, reversing the effects of the US-supported coup of 2014 will be one of the first things on the agenda. A defensible border will be the second goal. Mountain ranges and big bodies of water often make good borders. In Ukraine, the Dnipro river looks like a good candidate for a Ukraine-Russia border.
List of Ongoing Armed Conflicts
Sure, https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/issues/1285#issuecom...
From the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So yeah, the conflict should actually be flagged as off topic.
A commenter said "Yes, WONTFIX and INVALID seem a bit much. We'll just keep it in the database for eons."

I wonder how they knew how right they were.
The problems with games are not due to the inaccuracy of FP64 'double'; they are all caused by FP32 'single'.
> I would be hard pressed to think of an airline that gets GE and its ilk to service the engines.

Have you heard of Emirates? Perhaps more of a Southwest Airlines kind of person? The real question might be which airlines let Tim down at the local service centre maintain and repair their $24million (per engine) 777 engines?

https://www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ge-aircraft-engines-w...

https://www.geaviation.com/press-release/services/ge-engine-...
Turing machines don't have pointers, just offsets from the current position. Since you can't move infinite steps, you can still use finite offsets.
>The fault for that lies squarely on Boeing.

Why? They don't make the radar altimeters and multiple aircraft manufacturers are affected. Why is Boeing at fault for issues that (also) manifest themselves on Embraer and Airbus aircraft?
Also Prima.it has got 1B+ founding a couple years ago. Unicorns in Italy are rare but are some.
> Surprisingly, it appears that no other department has been routing around the damage that is this new tool.

I recommend a different strategy when you encounter annoying processes like this—insist upon following these processes, to the letter, and going through appropriate channels until the system collapses under its own weight.

For example—a place I used to work had an internet filter that was too restrictive. Rather than admit that the internet filter was poorly designed and never should have been put in place, the bureaucracy provided us with a form to fill out to unblock web sites when we were blocked from visiting something necessary for work.

You could obviously try to work around the filter, and some did. If they were blocked, they tried a different site or filled out the form, and just tried to get work done the best they could. This was, in my opinion, a mistake. Fight bureaucracy with bureaucracy. People started filling out forms every single time they tried to access a website for work that was blocked. Not just once per site, but every time they wanted to access a site they’d fill out the form. The IT department got a thick stack of forms to sort through every single day, and the entire web filter was scrapped not too long after.

“Silently routing around bureaucracy” is a good plan if what you’re doing has some real importance to it. But if you want to solve bureaucracy long-term, make it painful for everyone.

The other danger with routing around bureaucracy is that when something goes wrong, you end up dangerously exposed because you can’t CYA properly if you’re routing around bureaucracy. If you route around bureaucracy and shit goes south, bureaucracy wins and you take the blame.
depop was funded in Italy, in an Italian incubator/accelerator, and moved the HQ to London a year later after getting seed investment from Italian investors so could be argued to be an Italian unicorn of sort.

But before depop I'm not sure why people keep ignoring/forgetting about YOOX?
> Addon functionality is strictly worse

Security and convenience are often at odds. Imagine how much "better" things would be if we didn't have any security requirements.
A gas pipeline is also an easy target unless it's under the sea like North Stream.
Here's a (static, that don't flash) screenshot: https://up.l3m.in/file/1645698692.png

edit: and here's a (very slow, 2s transition) gif of what it renders to: https://up.l3m.in/file/1645698812-slow-strobe.gif
Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
Everyone shut up a minute I'm trying to flicker some Morse code.
Yeah, the issue is (disclaimer: I might have missed something vital here) that it is very hard to know exactly how wide text is when rendered inside the SVG. Some characters take less space than others and the safest way to determine the width of a string when it is rendered is to actually render it. This, of course, is hard to do on the server side. I'm not sure what shields.io does (I'll take a new look at it though) but given that their badges contain more predictable text strings (at least on the left-hand-side it tends to be static text) it is easier there to adjust the size of the SVG manually whe you create a new badge. Supershields badges, on the other hand, can contain very different text strings and there is no way to know what the text will be before you execute the Lua script.

Hmm, a bit rambling response, this one. I hope you get what I mean (and that I'm not completely clueless - have to look at the shields.io code again!)
> The powers included the ability to freeze the accounts of those suspected of supporting the blockades, without obtaining a court order. Standing beside Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said most of those accounts were in the process of being released.

> The aim of freezing the accounts was "to convince people who took part in the occupation and the illegal blockades to listen to reason," Freeland said, adding that the government had already asked banks to begin "to unfreeze these bank accounts."

Whatever you may think of the vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions, I hope we can’t all agree that freezing assets without a court order to break the will of the protesters is an overreach. Imagine if they said you can’t spend cash in stores. I bet they would if they could.

Long term this is going to make for a lot of crypto enthusiasm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_PBfLbd3zw
> Yes. It's a shame that the firefox user base is so easy to outrage.

Firefox's user base was a third of all internet users a little over 10 years ago. Now it's as little as 5%.

The "the users are wrong" attitude might not have been the main cause of the decline but it has been a real factor, IMO.

> Same with the more recent change ragrding tabs. I am using firefox for a very long time now, and I just don't see that firefox is massively going downhill so far, like many people seem to suggest. Of course I am bummed out that certain features could not be retained (such as installable PWAs on desktop). But these are just the realities of the fact that it is hard to compete with google.

In Firefox's heyday when they were a scrappy underdog they took on King Kong on its home turf (the Windows desktop) and won (or at least took a huge chunk of market share). The idea that what has now become a big rich company that makes nearly half a billion dollars a year from their browser somehow doesn't have the resources to make that browser competitive is hard to believe.
Kurz got booted because of run of the mill power politics and because his clique was arrogant, careless, not very effective and made more than enough enemies. No outside influence needed.
But its funny, russian propagandist standpoint is that he got ousted because he stood up to the EU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhtC20nqjk
> One of the biggest problems with managing bushfire in Australia is having the fire "jump the line".

It's also a big problem with pine forest fires. The trees and their cones explode and when combined with the generated heat, the fire can jump over a three or four lane road in an instant. That creates spreading and accelerating fires which can go on for days and burn extremely big areas down.

We had a similar fire around a decade ago in a region that I go yearly, and it was a sad view to say at least. Kilometers of road under the shadow of trees were barren, black/brown mountains covered with ash and other unpleasant things. The region is healing by itself and help from forest services and volunteers, but it shows that keeping fires small is very hard.
Russia already has border with Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
nevermind the app just went down
Ask HN: How are you insulating your investments given the Ukraine situation?
Maybe vertical tabs would work for you? If you want something simple and fast, Tab Center Reborn is nice. If you want something more with more features, Tree Style Tabs is good enough but it is somewhat slow and and hard to configure.
Unlike nuclear power plants.
Awingu, secure browser-based VDI/RDP made simple
Oh really? I've got a few boxes of guys stored away and, like Mitt Romney, binders full of women.

(*ba-doom-tish* for the-in-retrospect much-maligned Mitt Romney on this day)
Exactly, Hitler was not incorrect in his assumption that the West did not have an appetite for war. He got away with it.
I hope all Russians reading this are aware how serious the situation is.

The world now looks at Russia similar to how it looked at Nazi Germany in 1939.

You've got to get rid of Putin.
To be honest I don't have that much issues (used to have much more with older SD card, pre-micro), but still, imagine a Raspberry Pi 4, 8 GB ram, and an nvme (m.2) hard drive. It would be soooo nice. I know there are compute module based products that do something like this, but imaging a 65 dollar pi with this slot.
I don't log in into YouTube, even on phone, so NewPipe was an improvement for me. I can bookmark videos and subscribe channels in the app. I could do that with bookmarks in the browser but this is more convenient.
My pretty unfounded opinions on this:

Because it's now or never, while there still is pro-Russian separatism and the Ukrainian military hasn't become even stronger.

Coordinate with China to exert pressure.

They don't want sanctions because it's bad for global business.

Living costs go up.

No, maybe (hopefully?) if the Baltic states get treated the same after Ukraine.
He explained why they can't send troops.

They can send equipment because if equipment is lost it's no big deal.

If you send NATO troops and they are killed then all out war between NATO and Russia is inevitable and that could easily be world ending.

Essentially sending troops to Ukraine has a very poor risk/reward. If it works and Russia is discouraged from attacking then great, everyone goes home. If it doesn't work then it's WW3.
Strictly speaking, US doesn't need ICBMs in Europe, would be ineffective there... just enough weaponry to prevent Russia to use theirs for retaliation.
MacOS windowing is so hard for me to use though. I though I'd set my tmux in one window, browser in another, and everthing else in another.

However, randomly my windows focus in the wrong space, if I plug in another monitor all hell breaks loose.

Recently there's a weird bug where if I press the button to open spaces (ALT in my case), when I click back into iTerm, iTerm reduces it's size instead of staying fullscreen.

I switched to Gnone on my desktop, and that behaves exactly how I'd imagine it would work, but MacOS just seems to do it's own thing constantly.
Putin is trying to normalize economic relations with the EU. I believe Russia feels like they have been treated like a malicious threat, a necessary evil that EU has been ‘tolerating’ due to energy needs. This is Putin saying, ‘ok we’re so evil, let me show you evil’.

They just want to be treated like a legitimate energy partner to Europe and not like a rascal that governments need to find some alternative solution for.

The outcome they seek is to wipe the table clean of negative attitudes, scale back of all sanctions, and just general good-faith energy deals without being seen as the worst thing ever.

Putin:

You need energy, we have energy, we’ll sell it to you. Why are you trying to subvert a simple economic exchange by co-opting Ukraine into NATO and also back dealing alternative pipeline projects? What is so bad about this basic arrangement? You think we are some old Soviet Cold War threat? Ok, let me show you the old Cold War Soviet threat. How come you don’t come fight us? Because we are not the Soviet Union and you know that.

That’s all it is. That’s why no one sensible can figure out the rational for any of this, because it really is a respect thing.
Why would they want Estonia?

Also, I suppose war simply has a cost, sanctions and so on can simply be factored into the calculation. It's not a Russian mindset, it is rational.
Words coming out of a man like Putin are entirely meaningless. Only his actual actions matter.
This reminds me of a GCP issue that was opened in 2011 for users not being able to remove themselves from projects. It affects me still, I got an invite from a friend for a little hobby project he was working and he lost access to his Google and now I can't remove it from my GCP.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152?pli=1
Then maybe updates shouldn't be "silent" and it should be easier to install a zeitgeist-approved old version.
I seriously think declaring something "far-right dog whistle" is a leftist dog whistle, signaling good progressives should oppose that something. After saying this, usually no serious arguments are given. Because they are not needed after declaring an idea the enemy.

Cycles in history is of course not "of course not true". in any complex system, there are oscillations. Most famous is economical boom and boost cycle.

Meme is not without merit. The reason we are able to discuss things like gender/race equity in marine corps promotions is precisely because these are good times. And this lack of focus may lead to bad times eventually.
Those passion projects exist you just haven't heard about them. Unfortunately , we're past the point where reach is free and organic. You now need to pay if you wanna be heard.