skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China seems to have been blindsided on this war. They most likely were made aware of the republics but certainly didn't expect full invasion. On day 2, china demanded diplomatic talks, hosted in china. Russia refused. Said they could happen in their puppet belarus. Which is outrageous and a huge slap in the face to China.

Russia saying they stand for peace is absolutely absurd. Everyone around the world knows it is Russia who is the aggressor.

>"If the talks are rejected, the Ukrainian side shall bear all responsibility for bloodshed," Medinsky said. "But we remain here until 15:00 waiting for a response from the Ukrainian side."

On the contrary. Russia bears ALL responsibility hence forth regardless of anything Russia ever says or does.

>"We are waiting. Everyone is in Gomel waiting. If they come then there will be negotiations," Lukashenko

Oh ya, I bet they are waiting. I bet China is on the brink of breaking their alliance.

You must remember, China hates Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_of_Peking

The UK used to own Hong Kong, Portugal Macau. Those were rightfully returned to China.

Russia still holds Chinese land.

If you also look at it, China was going to uphold the right for these new republics to exist.Casting significant doubt on China's intention to invade Taiwan.

I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30471021 about how Russian spies have infiltrated Canadian media. They pushed utter lies that Canadians are nazis. For example, https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...

You will notice this Russian spy: https://globalnews.ca/author/rachel-gilmore/ stopped publishing quite abruptly. At exactly the same time the russian invasion was happening and the Canadian government getting wise. Did she escape back to Russia or did the RCMP pick her up? We may never know.

We must also face the possibility that our perception of China has been manipulated by Russian spies. That China is actually our ally and Xi Jinping no longer believes in territorial borders or at least any need to move them. China's very long history has never been about expansion. The list of wars involving China is quite small.
And what if Ukrainians disagree? Maybe because they prefer freedom and choosing their own destiny?
Building out nuclear plans takes years, many billions of euros, and considerable protest from wherever you install them. Installing wind and solar power is cheap and fast, in comparison.
> Ukraine didn't have ambitions to join NATO before Putin attacked it for the first time in 2014

That's just not true.

> NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.

This is from the 2008 Bucharest NATO meeting official declaration. [1]

[1] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
I know, my question was whether Poles would enforce this rule.
Don't you think some fuel tankers in Poland would be happy to take that money (with permission and insurance from the government)? A tanker can carry about 8000 gallons, so that's maybe $32,000 per tanker. The driver might have to be a brave Ukrainian though, if Russia isn't worried about attacking civilian targets.
I'm so happy we have all decided to put our capes on the moment a white majority nation is invaded despite the huge potential price to pay for it while we left people in the middle east get terrorised.
> I don't find it helpful in the output of package managers, ffmpeg, etc. It's clown vomit that makes things even harder to read imo.

IMO in the case of package managers it actually makes it more readable. For example zypper (in openSUSE) uses a colored heading to group the packages it is going to install/upgrade/remove/etc and it uses a color for the first letter of each package, both making it very simple to quickly scan the packages that are going to be installed or affected whenever there is a big list of them - e.g. i can quickly skip all the libraries (since they begin with "l").
Germany isn't planning to spend $155 billion per year on defense. Why would it matter if $155 billion is 4.5% of Germany's annual GDP?
> Ukraine had them and gave them up

That is a mistatement of facts. There were Russian troops controlling Russian nukes under Russian control on Ukrainan soil. Even if Ukraine somehow seized them they couldn’t have maintained them in the long run.

Saying that “Ukraine had nukes” is equivalent with saying that Belgium has nukes just because the US keeps some nuclear warheads in an airbase physically located in Belgium.

If you are interested in more I recommend this Arms Control Wonk podcast episode: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1215097/deterrence-i...
And was just saying this to my wife the other day: explains why they seem to have avoided moving with any effort to online shopping, even in the last two years of COVID lockdowns. With online shopping they can't really push you through a maze of junk before you get to the checkout.

Around here you can buy things online from IKEA but they make the shipping and delivery a pain and more expensive than their competition.
The title is too optimistic for the dry style preferred here and people will complain. Try to change it to something like "Unify: A new server and client programing language" (Ideally, the title should a sentence from the site. I couldn't find one, so I made one up. Perhaps it's not accurate. Choose a good one.)

It's not possible to see the examples on the site. I usually ignore all the docs and look at the examples first. If I like them, I read the docs. Where are "HelloWord"! and "Fibonacci"?

Are you hosting the git repository? Is there a mirror in github or gitlab?

> Errors are an thing of the past.

I can make error in some any levels, that no programming language is foolproof enough against me.
Or it might be deliberate Russian propaganda The Guardian is helping to spreed as useful idiots.
Microtunnels
Ukraine gave them up, yes.

But a Russian allied governement was installed at that time ( the president then wasn't even born in Ukraine and was a member of the Communist Russian Party before).

It's Russia who broke that word and the West did react pretty quick. This could and probably will decimate the Russian economy and shorten the lifespan of the potential invasion significantly.
If you earn a wage, or otherwise rely on an earned income to live or sustain yourself, you’re not rich in the same sense that you’re using the word. Wealth and income are not the same.
I disagree. Education and other funding is irrelevant if they are teaching Russian at your local school.
My personal take on this is the Western world must show force in order to avoid further conflicts. I believe NATO has a leadership and strategy crisis at the moment, British secretary of defense talking about "kicking the backside" underlines this. A sane strategist talks like this? Definitely no Kissingers today.
Other than that, EU needs to have a strong army that's independent of USA.
Why? Putin already demanded NATO to return to pre-1997 membership, that means excluding Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland etc.
Russia will want to extend its influence over the ex-COMECON countries, Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc.
Russia was always a superpower ever since its existence, it had only a small dip the past 20 years because of the bad economy.
I know this might read like a pro-Russian view, but it's not, it's just the reality.
Regarding Ukraine, it is not a surprise to those who read History books, Kyev is where present-day Russia was originated along with its language and culture. In Russian eyes, it cannot be another country.
The bear must not be cornered. My view is that we should return to the status quo of the Yalta agreement, otherwise we'll head straight into WW3.
You can use phpcs <https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/blob/master/src...> to easily do this.
I posted this because of the cyber/Tech angle in some tweets:

> Ukraine’s vice PM & minister for digital transformation says an “IT army” formed & now it’s recruiting IT specialists from other countries. ‘We translated tasks in English. Task # 1: use any vectors of cyber and DDoS attacks on sites and systems of Russian govt, biz, banks.’ -- https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1497813622793379842

> Zelensky announced the formation of a new unit - the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. It will be made up of foreigners who want to take part in repelling Russian aggression. -- https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1497826690822594562

While I can't picture myself taking up (cyber) arms against a foreign nation, aren't EU / US law quite explicit about the legality of meddling as a civilian? Or does it mean registering with the UA office will make it legal?. There are plenty on the fringes in the West who don't have a job or are totally disillusioned by their prospects for a good future.

The idea that attacking Russian assets (banks, companies) from your home in say UK, France or US and with impunity could be tempting. I think calling for a "foreign cyber army" may set a dangerous precedent to vigilante hacktivism and lead to escalation. It could also get messy if not coordinated with ongoing activities. No idea how the law works in this case? Even if I would lot of the cyber is uncharted territory.

I do hope it works out for them and they can recruit some top cyber brass this way.
Unix for programmers and users by Graham Glass. Excellent book that explained everything concisely from shells to system calls.
And then later on Microsoft shipped Windows 8 - which was a touch first interface on millions and millions of desktop computers.
I still remember the utter despair when non pro users didn't understand what was happening with the interface.

You can't make this sh!t up!
I think the Russians are pretty unmotivated. I doubt they signed up to attack a peaceful neighbouring democracy to replace the government with another brutal dictator. On the other hand they can't refuse orders without being court martialed or worse. However a potential way out is general incompetence - getting lost, running out of fuel etc which seems a thing https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/02/26/russias-li...
While it's "impulsive buys", they are at least for me still intentional. I go to IKEA when I know I need new stuff, but without explicitly listing all the small stuff. I know I will go through every department, and then see whatever it is I need on the way.
The problem is political, it is not shortage of planes, tanks and missiles. Europe has more and better military hardware than Russia in every category except SAMs.

The challange is EU governments and armies don't act in unison.
But then what's it actually demonstrating? That public key cryptography can be used to...validate that someone has a private key?

I feel like I knew that already. ;)
It is a highly political sector as well as a capital intensive one. You can sink as much money into your prep-work as you want, but if you don't end up getting the permits and regulatory approval, it is all for naught.

Contrast that to any other kind of power generation, and the regulatory uncertainty alone is enough to sink any interest in spending a large amount of money up-front on something so uncertain.
Russia has no right to tell a sovereign country how to dictate their internal affairs. As much as Putin wants to pretend historical claims give him the right to Ukraine (ala China and Taiwan), the war was completely unjustified and shows a tyrant willing to use any available means, militarily, to counteract his grievances with NATO and nationalist desire to reconnect the Soviet Union. He didn’t want a diplomatic solution, don’t be fooled, he wanted to buy time staging his troops. He knew what he had to do and that the West wouldn’t stand in his way. So he went in. At the peril for not just Russia and Ukraine, but for everyone else also.
Probably 3blue1brown.

https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/videos
>"If Russia was in fact waging some kind of imperialist war, wouldn't they have annexed more resource rich neighbours that the world cares so much less about? Like Belarus, or Chechnya? Look at those countries"

Chechnya is not a country and is a part of Russia. Before that it was part of the USSR.
More so than IKEA, the store that makes me buy a lot more than I planned on is Costco.

It also uses the cheap food trick ($1.50 hot dog, $5 rotisserie chicken) as well.

I tell myself I am going to run in and get one thing, but I come out with my shopping cart full.

Because Costco changes what they carry on a regular basis as well as the promotions, whenever you see a sale, you want to immediately grab a bunch of stuff.

Also add its super friendly return policies and you are thinking “If I don’t like it, I can always just bring it back”.
It's a long overdue correction. Alliances were not just big promises and handshakes and expectations of blind loyalty (and doing the right thing).

They were power structures forged in quid pro quo deals that continuously benefited the parties.

As the cold war, uh, thawed to room temperature and China became the new focus the old alliance deals started to make no sense. Now that suddenly the kleptocratic gas station attendant feels insecure the old alliance starts to make sense again, but the underlying deals might need a bit of tweaking.
Maybe I'm missing it, but does he actually state any views on homosexuality in this? Other than the implied views from having voted for Sanders and stating that he's 'struggled' and 'shifted' on the subject (shifted to what?). It's a non-answer and I don't understand the praise in that thread for it. "Why can't we just TALK about it?" he says, in a thread where he could very well just talk about it. "God loves his children" makes no distinctions between saints, murderers, and homosexuals, yet we know God disapproves of murder, right? So it's a non-statement with regards to homosexuality.

His two links are 404s but the Internet Archive versions of those don't seem to contain answers either (they don't mention the topic as far as I can tell).
Nobody dreams of being a trash collector. It needs to be done or society falls apart.
If the people building the house run the cold water pipes through the outside walls then yeah - you have to worry about temperatures there too.

You only have to freeze your pipes once...
The EU/US joining would be what causes WWIII.
> they need to become 1000 times cheaper

1000 times? Citation desperately needed.
The national healthcare system in Germany to a large extent is based on a command economy.

The number of licenses for psychotherapists - in fact, for any kind of physician - allowed to bill through the national healthcare system is artificially constrained (not unlike the taxi medallion system in New York, for example) by regional authorities for statutory health insurance physicians ("Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen").

This can create artificial scarcity for specific kinds of medical professions, such as psychotherapists in this case.
Slava Ukraini! Stay strong!
If we're talking about IKEA store layout, we must mention the classic SCP-3008. Don't forget to open the journal transcription at the bottom, which has the meat of the story.

https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-3008
I love this! Using a 2000+ year cipher to circumvent Deep Packet Inspection seems almost poetic.

I feel like the article missed out on mentioning one key thing: Using a deny-list doesn’t work. It’s much more viable to default block and allow the stuff you know you’ll allow. Defaulting to allow and blocking stuff you don’t want is how you end up being owned by rot13.
Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal
Nuclear weapons are really a horrible curse, in every single ways possible. You can see the bully coming after your neighbors and you know, they know, everybody knows you won’t do anything to defend yourself to avoid a nuclear conflict. If we wouldn’t have nukes we would join our neighbors and fight but the real risk of a complete nuclear annihilation freezes all our moves.

Ukrainians and Georgians are indeed fighting our war, defending the European cause, while we are bystanders. The entire situation makes me feel sick.
Merkel always had the stance that trade could improve relations in the long run.

With Merkel now gone, Germany is more open to put up a more resistant position - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/world/europe/germany-russ... . The odds are very high ( and definitely how it is now), that the rest of Europe will follow.
I am torn between upvoting you for the timeliness of your observation, and downvoting what you observed so that I can remove it from my conception of what is going on, as a coping strategy in this, the worst of all timelines.
I too love campfires.
Clearly I'm living in a different reality from those folks...
That's because they have army regiments founded and staffed by actual neo-nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion#Neo-Nazism

One of the main streets in Kyiv was renamed after this very controversial gentlemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

According to Jacobin, Bandera was a Nazi sympathizer: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/stepan-bandera-nationalis...

Wild.
Ok, but by that logic refineries would also show the same pattern. I'm not aware that they do, although I'm having a hard time finding data to back this up.
> BEFORE you need it

Sure but, you can't change past. So NOW, is the best option left on the table.
It still could be impersonation but a couple different people have confirmed it's real:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-26/ukraine-s...

- https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/149760858882246656...
It's wrong but not an attack on democracy. Modern environmentalism is a big astroturfing campaign. It pretends to be a grass-roots movement with little girls at their front. In reality it is backed by billionaires who do not want their private islands to sink (metaphorically and literally).
Or Germany could decrease out enormous welfare spending.
...but how will we solve new problems?
> How idiosyncratic are my preferences and environmental circumstances? Are any architects working on house designs for me?

Very. SFO is is in climate zone 3, and the Bay Area is a micro-climate unto itself:

* https://basc.pnnl.gov/images/iecc-climate-zone-map

Do you think Florida or Texas could do the same thing? Minnesota or the Dakotas? Anywhere in Colorado or the New England region?

An architect will design anything you want, as long as it meets code.
100% poland would step in for germany. Matter of fact east eu memeber states account for 15% of german exports and they never voiced the idea of sanctions against germany in their disagreements.

Anyway we can keep disagreeing all day about this. There is absolutely no hate towards germans or germany, i am not sure where this comes from. I imagine east europeans can also claim germans hate them for calling them cheap labour and the south europeans for calling them lazy and it would lead nowhere and so on.

Germany is part and parcel of a free european history and germans are loved. End of story.
> went into more useful ones like research and development.

What does Germany have to show here?
But that is not what will happen. From all indications of Russia wins this war and installs a puppet regime that regime will meet heavy popular resistance and be overthrown as soon as Russia leaves the country. So I do not see much option here other than trying to defend Ukraine and to isolate and/or topple Putin. Your ideas about not provoking Russia are not relevant in the current climate where Putin is hated in Ukraine and where the Ukrainians do not want to be in the Russian sphere of influence. Your strategy might have worked in 2010 but now it is too late.
That's too naive. How can you try be logical and diplomatic when you know you're building dependent relationship with a dictator who already had several wars under his belt. I mean, it was opportunistic, cheap gas is nice and Germany is far away from Russian border, some countries are closer but you know, you can always build a pipeline or two around those. Not your problem afterall.

I just can't believe anyone could eat the diplomatic and logical narrative up.
Telegram channel: https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022
I generally like IKEA as a concept and furniture source, but am aware that big corporations use all sorts of tricks to get you to like them, use their stuff, not like or use competitors and so on.

But the IKEA hate seems mostly based on snobbery and/or brand awareness. Like those stories about random tech things that shoehorn Apple or Telsa into the title because it gets people to click. And people seem to hate other, poorer people wearing the same clothes as them, using the same chairs etc. It's weirdly self-defeating behaviour.

This article's most interesting bit is the part when they discuss IKEA's focus on low prices:

> The main ingredient of the company’s affordability is a technique called flat packing.

> The company reduces manufacturing, logistics, and fulfillment costs by disassembling items and fitting pieces together in a box as tightly as possible. “We hate air” is a common mantra at Ikea: Every pocket of space is accounted for and minimized.

> “Ikea designs products with manufacturing and transit in mind from the get-go,” said Katelan Cunningham, of the logistics software company Lumi. “They design for the realities of the supply chain, rather than having to make sacrifices for it.”

> Obsessive changes in packaging have saved Ikea millions of dollars:

> When Ikea transitioned its Ektorp sofa to be flat packed, it shrunk its packaging for that product by 50%, reduced its logistics by 7,477 truckloads, and led to a 14% price reduction for consumers.
> Repackaging the Jules office chair by separating the base and the seat saved the company ~$1.4m per year.
When I see videos of people creating custom made tables from a large slab of oak and some resin pour, it looks awesome, but probably IKEA could furnish your whole house using the same amount of wood and still cost less. IKEA is a blessing for this planet.

As for self-assembled stuff perceived to be more valuable, I also think it is nice to know that you can assemble, and more importantly, disassemble it yourself. It's more repairable (IKEA sells spare parts as well), makes moving easier, and also allows you to "hack" IKEA products: https://ikeahackers.net/
The Roman empire was a superpower. Do we need to give most of western Europe back to Italy?

Same with Britain, and any number of other examples throughout history.

Times change, there is no right for Russia to control Ukraine (or to be a "superpower") just because that's how it used to be.
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>China's very long history has never been about expansion. The list of wars involving China is quite small.

LOL. What has "long history" got to do with what the CCP is doing now?
I agree with your point on the political challenges, but not with your point on military hardware. There was a recent report on the French military by the rand corporation that stated that France wouldn't be able to sustain a long conflict [1], and the Franco-British intervention in Libya was critically dependent on US logistics and intelligence. I don't think that it is the european armies that provide the Baltic states any comfort right now.

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA231-1.html
The association of public insurance providers in Germany provides a limited set of licenses that make psychotherapy reimbursable, everyone else practices in private. These licenses can also be transferred, making them a commodity among therapists.

It's a horribly outdated stance that has pushed waiting lists far beyond the stated legal maximum wait time. This means you can technically get private therapy reimbursed, but the bureaucracy in between (proof you have attempted to get therapy at 3+ places that get reimbursement, filing and often fighting over specific charges) is designed to stall people already fed up with life into simply giving up.