skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cold war high side estimate was 50M if the West lets USSR to expend the whole of its arsenal on USA standing, doing nothing.

Recent figures I read were 20M-40M for worst case scenarios.

Realistically, a coordinated all in launch is ~1000 warheads, with 400 of them megaton scale in R36 MIRVs from West Siberia.

First strike is only possible with computerised launch infrastructure operational. Beheading the command structure is a way to prevent an effective first strike.

Without it, assorted launches get detected early, giving time for counterattack.

The missile defence can much more easily shoot down 20 boosting missiles coming one by one, than 10 missiles coming simultaneously.
Looks like information war. Russians does not have enough military to win war with Ukraine, so trying to convince Ukrainians, that something terrible happen.

And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything.

At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.
We as a society seem to have no problem killing millions of insects to make it easier to grow plants though. No matter what you eat, things are dying to supply your food.

If you want to minimize the number of animals being killed, it’s probably best to eat the largest ones you have.
Off the top of my head, the exception to this is functions (i.e. that you declare inside Postgres), because the function body is really just a piece of text, in any of a bunch of different languages. So if you have a function which refers to specific database objects that are being renamed, you'll also need to update the function definition with the new names.
If revenue attributable to ads was over 10 billion at the time of writing, then it adds up.

Edit: 3.66 billion in 2007, so yeah, doesn’t add up.
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Yeah, i've not eaten much Octapus previously, but I had it occasionally in sushi or civeche that came with it. But I really can't continue to eat it even in that capacity in good conscience.

Was something that I had thought about previously, but wasn't until I actually saw one while diving that I decided I couldn't continue eating.
Wow. One of those was picked up by Argentinian media as if it was real war footage. The one from War Thunder, which was labeled as "Ukrainian missile defence firing". And to be honest, I bought it.
It is not always possible to get all the nutrients you need without animal products, either because they are not available or because the price is too high.
I think people do not realize that blood is the lifeline of human being. Cord blood banking has the cells frozen at the youngest age possible. Cord blood rich with stem cells and immune cells and exosomes can be infused back to the baby herself or himself for the rest of her or his life. Because it is his own blood, just rich with the youngest and healthiest cells of every type. So theoretically, the cord blood should never be wasted. Ten years ago, there was no cord blood treatment for cerebral palsy. Now they do. Just ask thousands of families around the world. Science develops, but for the children, they only have one chance to bank and they cannot even make this decision without being represented by the parents.
Levity appreciated. It's needed even more during these times.
Life isn't a comic book, nuclear power plants don't explode like bombs do. The only thing that would accomplish is poisoning Ukrainians.

The reason Chernobyl was taken is obvious if you look at a map. It's on the border, and there's a massive offensive across the entirety of it.

It's not a target, it's simply on the way to a target.
I don't think it's likely. Finland was simply not that big of a prize once Soviets pushed the border far enough from Leningrad, so the amount of inconvenience required to change their plans was achievable for the Finns. Ukraine is a different matter, though, for both economic and cultural reasons. I could see Russia deciding that Western Ukraine isn't worth it, but that would still mean the loss of most of the country for the Ukrainians.

The other thing is that the invasion has already triggered those massive sanctions, and they aren't just going away even if Russia pulls out. If Russia does pull out, it'll have paid that price for no gains. So I think that they will keep pushing even if the military costs are higher than anticipated. Putin especially, since this entire escapade appears to be his pet project - the elites who are hit by the sanctions would have a great excuse to remove him.

So I do think that it will be occupation and guerrilla warfare for a while.
Incident Severity and Priority 101
Were these supposed to be three answers to three other posts?

>That would be a bonus in my eyes. We shouldn't be there fighting endless wars, funneling taxpayer money into defense contractor's and politician's pockets.

Sure. But that doesn't change that currently the US very much profits from having NATO bases in Europe for its own, non-NATO purposes.

>We should reduce our presence in Germany speaking of Ramstein, Merkel didn't like that idea though when President Trump pitched it.

How did Merkel come into play here as a gotcha? You're the one arguing that the base should be removed. Further, President Trump pitched ~10000 ideas a day, from drinking bleach against COVID to raking forests, to having to flush toilets 10s of times, to applauding Frederick Douglass for becoming more successful, I don't blame any sane person not keeping up with that crap.

>Nowadays it'd be more useful to have them in Poland.

Huh? Where did that 180 come from? So you want bases in Europe after all?
I clicked the link for that and was taken to a page where I could purchase the scholarly work, "Algorithms of Oppression - How Search Engines Reinforce Racism". $28 softcover / $90 hardcover

And, the credibility was gone.
It's not a bad thing to rip off good ideas, though that was not the case with Win 11.
It was always possible for me to perceive sentience, feelings and emotions from a variety of beings, I don't understand why grown adults are just reaching a cognitive maturity to notice that and making that a line in the sand on whether they will farm/consume a being based on that.

These seem to be two separate things to me? Can someone shed light on both:

a) why these are related concepts

b) your journey to cognitive maturity to notice at all

I really can't be the only one confused by this trend, this has got to be cultural as well
Yes, possible DNA sequences do not occur with equal frequencies. The whole point of selection pressure is that it selects for specific sequences. The same sequence occurring in a host species and a parasite is also not surprising. Rare events could result in horizontal transfer of genetics between host and parasite. Such things have been documented before.
In person is the future, but that isn't mutually exclusive with offices. WeWork is not an office.

Signing a 10-year lease on a commercial building is. Those are the days that are over.
It would be nice if it were true, but neither are better. Yes, both perhaps have less pernicious ad tracking and placement, but they just don't feel as effective
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I also think humans are curious. We want new things, new experiences to discover, etc.

But also agree we should put the brakes on octopus farms. It's like a puppy mill for food.
Saw couple of videos where Russians were fighting and there were civilians Ukrainians around not touched at all.

I think here lies the hope of Ukrain. Putin does not want bad social media coverage (especially for ukrainians - his hope is just to change the government as far as I understand it).

Thus they will try to not make the war a blood bath and they need a quick capture of Kiev. No quick victory means city by city fight, which will be very costly for Putin, both in terms of resources as well as Ukrainians seing the social media coverage.

On the other hand, the troll farms are based in Russia.
Close. But much of the control of gene expression is not formally epigenetic. Much is due to modulation by transcription factors and mRNA splicing machinery. Clearly related to DNA access for transcription but not what is typically meant by epigenetics.
Rice and lentils.
Maybe it is just my own bubble, but it seems like more of a Twitter war than a TikTok war.
Ukraine will be freeed from Russia long before that Gnome / KDE thing ends.
Not eating animals does not immediately get you to vegan. Human body is not designed for a vegan diet. However, eating animal products that don't kill the said animal, (milk, cheese, yogurt, eggs etc) is sustainable and feasible. Of course factory farms, which encourages over consumption, are not the way to go.. Not everything needs to be eaten daily. Also, things like 4 egg omlet with a mountain of cheese etc are an abomination. Consume in moderation and the production won't be a burden on the planet.
But the answer is probably embedded in that sentence. If 1% of searches use it, that's a fairly huge volume of traffic.
> and dare I say plants too?

I mean, if we also can't eat plants... there's not gonna be much left to eat.
> And it seems like largest country in Europe (by area), with 200 thousand strong army, tons od most sophisticated NATO weapons

Where did you get this idea?

Ukrain has only a tiny airforce, no modern air defences, and most heavy military hardware, from artillery to tanks, is cold war vintage.

NATO never supplied it with modern fighter jets and missile systems, if it had, Russian helicopters would not be circling Kiev right now.

"Every Russian general is born with the ambition of driving his tanks to the Atlantic Ocean"

This is not helpfull, Russia has the idea that it should be able to do as it pleasesnl in its sphere of influence, but I never met anyone thinking it stretched to include anything past former eastern block borders.
> Of course, we can't stop eating every animal...

...

> Why do humans have a complete lack of an ability to say "stop, we're not going to do this anymore".

I'm trying to understand how these two statements were separated by only a couple sentences.
> This is insane of course, but I have no idea how to avoid Google in the modern tech world, especially if you use the Android platform.

I don't have a google account tied to my android-based phone.

The only drawback I'm aware of is that playstore doesn't work. So I download the apks directly and install that way, for things I can't install via one of the alternate app stores.
Heh I lived in one in Spokane, which was a former brothel. Rent was cheap and the people were OK but it was infested with endless spiders.
Debian stretch uses the 4.19 LTS branch. A switch to a new GCC would happen in a new version.
Anja has $35 per month for 8 years paid for 20 years of storage. The big player you have mentioned charge around thousand at the beginning and then an annual fee of around $165 for every year. Yes, Anja is the cheapest so far.
10 billion search queries a year seems about right.
Biden Administration Debates Legality of Arming Ukrainian Resistance
> Genuine question: how much does Russian public opinion matter

If it didn't matter, internal Russian propaganda organs wouldn't be firing on all cylinders. The press is not just a 'jobs' program.

Every government requires the consent of the governed. Democracies, semi-democracies, dictatorships, autocracies, theocracies, all of them only work because people believe in them.

For this reason, all forms of government put a lot of effort into manufacturing consent among the people they govern.
One "solution" is to intercept the nuclear missiles from space. (Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative).

It was restarted a couple years ago with commercial involvement. Possibly a Starlink derivative. Putin must be aware.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
> There is no other moral stance where someone could reasonably say this. Veganism is a moral stance the same way as "racism is bad" and "abusing my spouse is bad" is a moral stance. No one would ever say "I'm trying to limit kicking dogs to just Tuesday-Sunday".

I agree that this holds from an ethical standpoint, but from an environmental one reduction is perfectly reasonable and needs to be part of the conversation.
Interesting, I wonder how hack groups have comms and form groups over stuff like this.
I’m not plugged into the hacker underground, how does it work?
The missing side of this is that at some point, Russia is taking the bet that NATO blowing those tanks up is not worth escalating to the apocalypse over.

There's a very reasonable argument that NATO could tomorrow announce they're intervening in Ukraine to protect it's sovereignty, operations will be limited to Ukranian territory, and that any attempt to strike out will be met "unescapable retaliation"...and maybe NATO and Russia then have a shooting conventional war in the Ukraine and it stays there.

The reason everyone's trying to avoid that is because the tick-tock of escalation depends on the other side correctly reading the situation and the fog of war. NATO countries are activating units on their borders right now near Ukraine because there's a very real risk of a Russian platoon will get lost, invade a town which is actually in a NATO country, and then you've got to deal with that - and it's probably better the question not get asked because once the shooting starts it's very hard to get it to stop (i.e. suppose our out of position Russian unit calls in artillery, so NATO drops air strikes on the position inside Ukraine, so now the news going up the chain on both sides is "the other side is coming across the border!")
Hope you are safe.
This reminds me of the "fear" scene from Apocalypto [1]. Living in fear is not really living in my opinion, I'd rather die fighting for what I believe in than live in fear.

Speaking of bloody nose reminds me of boxing. You get hit and you hit back or your opponent won't respect you. You will fear opponent, they will sense it and capitalize.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3H_xsdr-Vs
not just every sauce. But salad dressings, marinades, processed crackers/cookies, cereals, granola, most bread, most tortilla shell (soft and hard).

Hell - most "dried fruit" aside from raisins, like blueberries, dried cranberries, and so forth, are all swimming in it. Eating those "healthy" kale chips, beet chips, coconut chips? Check how much added sugar and how much omega6 ridden oils they use

Sardines are packed in soybean oil.

If it's not soybean oils, then it's cottonseed, grapseseed, canola, corn oil, or any other number of oils that we have as larger industrial byproducts.
> An extremely weak side of Rails, is how it is very tightly coupled to the database.

You mean that Rails — being an MVC framework — is tightly coupled to (or defined in terms of, even!) the schema you've chosen for your business domain, as understood by your RDBMS.

If that's a problem for you, it's very likely because you're using your RDBMS wrong. (E.g., not taking advantage of abstractions like views+triggers to provide schema [API] stability atop storage [implementation] mutability.)

An RDBMS schema is an encapsulating API for your data, just like a GraphQL schema is an encapsulating API for your data. It's just not in fashion to use it as one — very likely because the spectre of "non-standard SQL" and inter-RDBMS portability has scared all the framework developers away from actually using RDBMSes for what they're for (instead using them as glorified indexed document stores.)
I think APL has a lot to teach us about parallel (specifically GPU) programming. I've rewatched a few talks with Aaron Hsu and listened to his arraycast podcast[1].

In researching an upcoming blog post on monoids, I tried implementing the problem in Guy Steele's "Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem" talk[2] in APL (actually I tried GNU APL for this, because I didn't need anything fancy). This is what I came up with:

+/((⌽⌈\⌽a)⌊⌈\a)-a

That in turn should be fully parallelizable and run fast on the GPU, as it's based on a couple scan (generalized prefix sum) operations.

There's a considerable amount of DNA from APL in modern compiler-based machine learning frameworks, mostly by way of numpy. Dr. Hsu makes a good case that APL has quite a bit of power which is considerably diluted in later spins such as numpy. I'm especially fond of the power (⍣) operator[3], which represents parallel iteration and I think can often be translated to a per-thread while or for loop in a compute shader. I don't believe numpy has anything quite like that (but feel free to correct me!).

[1]: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode19-aaron-hsu

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY

[3]: https://help.dyalog.com/15.0/Content/Language/Primitive%20Op...
The human body also isn't designed for vaccines, going to space, or doing math. Somehow, when we need the human body to do something, we find a way to make it happen.
> Russia could make the case that the United States is a co-combatant.

It never did during many cold war proxy wars, what changes now?
Ask HN: What can replace neon in semiconductor chip production?
In KrF and ArF excimer lasers, which are used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes, neon accounts for over 96% of laser gases used as the buffer gas.

Taken from Phillipkglass comment

With 90% of the supply coming from Ukraine what can be used to replace it in production. This seems to be a matter of national security that needs to be solved and quickly
I take your point, but I bet they wish it was a little more consistent now
Or uɯnʇnɐ.
I don't think their "plan" is anything, it looks like an (common) anti-veg(an)itarian argument that tries to say that if standards were applied evenly it would result in an absurdity.
My numbers included the arsenals of all countries, and casualties for all reasons, including the direct blast, fallout, breakdown of infrastructure, the possibility of a nuclear winter, reduced food production, etc.

Even people in areas with no nukes, little fallout and not affected by nuclear winter could face mass starvation due to lack of fertilizers, diesel, spare parts for machines, etc.

Even in North America, Europe and North Asia, having the electric grids knocked out, central administrations crippled, much industry and agricultural infrastructure knocked out, followed by nuclear winter might see more people die from cold and starvation than from the nukes themselves.

Anyway, I don't think we really want to test this, even if the total numbers do not fully add up to complete destruction.
The most robust solution is to individually toggle selected state on each item, and don't unselect all on a new click. Like a checkbox. Click once for selected, once to unselect, don't unselect all on any click.

A multi-select drop down is just solving the problem of a checkbox list being too long, or not what the designer wants it to look like. The most clear UI for this input type is a set of checkboxes in my opinion. Same for a single item select and radio buttons.

Drop downs have a lot of caveats, and unique compositions in the wild, so many of them are inaccesible and it's essentially just because someone wanted it to look pretty. I think that is bad software.
I've eaten Octopus in the past but didn't knew how intelligent those creature were until a couple of years ago. Since I saw multiple documentaries about them and read about them, I would now feel like a cannibal for eating them.
There are plenty of people who strive for some kind of vegetarian or vegan diet, but they aren't not eating animals unless they are inspecting every food item they consume for all the microscopic animals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-animal
> Were these supposed to be three answers to three other posts?

Rude. If you need clarification to my statements, just ask. No need for snark.

> Sure. But that doesn't change that currently the US very much profits from having NATO bases in Europe for its own, non-NATO purposes.

These are my opinions. I'm saying NATO countries should pay what they agreed to or leave the agreement. I'm saying we shouldn't be in the Middle East.

> How did Merkel come into play here as a gotcha?

It's not a gotcha, it's current events. The Ramstein base was brought up recently. Trump wanted to reduce troops, Merkel didn't like the idea. That's all.

Just because Trump was mentioned you don't have to bring up the propaganda like the bleach lie (he was talking about UV disinfectants). He talked about forest management to prevent wildfires (he's correct), which you simplify to raking forests. Please keep on track and don't diverge into petty stuff like that.

> Huh? Where did that 180 come from? So you want bases in Europe after all?

I'm saying if we do have to have strategic bases in Europe, it would make more sense to have them in Poland to defend against the most likely adversaries, Russia and China.
A Repulsion Simulation [video]
Anonymous is supposedly joining the cyber war:

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/1496954233492541444

https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1496965766435926039

They are claiming responsibility for taking down RT.com and some other Russian sites.
There's a great explanation on algorithmica as well:
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/complexity/languages/
PyTorch Distributed Evaluation
I applaud people who take advantage of the fact that the internet is still largely machine-readable and hackable.

I am much lazier, but I use "reader mode" to similar effect.
Someone get the hacker known as 4chan on the phone!
> I can understand how the desire to find those alternate states of mental being, especially for someone who never really found their place in the world, could be very habit-forming.

Habits are based on expectations. Hallucinogens seem to require that you lack some expectations, otherwise you might not get what you want at all.
I can't read their mind but I don't know if that's what they're trying to say. The common anti-veg(an)itarian argument is that if you apply standards evenly it would result in an absurdity, thus leading you to question the premise.
But what's the point? What's the actual need to continue to acquire more? Why can't we say enough is enough? You're just describing a mechanism. Oh, I know someone will respond with "who gets to decide what's enough?", but why is their answer to that, "well just let anybody do whatever they want"?

The reason is the human condition for power and greed knows no bounds, and multi-millionaires and billionaires who like to play Sim City get to decide things for the rest of us. We're apes with technology and economics.

I mean we still have orcas in nothing more than shallow swimming pools. Orcas are the size of school buses, can weigh up to 10 tons, are likely the greatest predator ever to be on Earth, one of the most intelligent and emotional animals, and we've kept one of them in a single tank, alone, for over three decades and has been in captivity for over five decades. Her name is Lolita and her last pool partner was in the 1980s, where he committed suicide by ramming his head over and over into the side of the concrete pool. Those two are just two examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_(killer_whale)

And even in that situation, we can't say to ourselves to stop. Humans are still keeping, capturing, and breeding orcas for nothing more than shallow entertainment. It's really sickening at times.
In this case practical attacks are very likely, due to insecurities added with C11 and the stoneage review model of Linux development.

C11 added insecure Unicode identifiers, and you won't find them in reviewing them manually via email. You need a special linter to detect such Unicode attacks. Or a proper development environment.

Compiler development usually evolves into more bugs, not less. Just now they caught up with the hundreds of bugs they added with gcc-9. Not talking about const, restrict, and strict aliasing, and the still not existing -Oboring for the kernel. Would you dare to use -O3 and -flto and -fstrict-aliasing in the kernel?