skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU and America have been clear throughout that they will not be putting troops on the ground or directly fighting Russia in response to an invasion of Ukraine. No one is willing to risk a nuclear war.

The calm before the storm as Russia places their troops was the last few months. This is the storm, as Russia takes Ukraine by force. Assuming they succeed in taking it (which seems very likely) it's unclear what they plan to do - either installing a puppet government or incorporating Ukraine into Russia (or a mix of the two) seems most likely.

The EU and America (and other friends) have promised severe sanctions on Russia in response to this - which they are currently announcing, and they will probably continue to extend over the coming days. They have also promised to support Ukraine with intelligence, military supplies, and economic aid. They have been providing that over the past months, and every indication is that they will continue to do so as long as it's possible.

NATO is also greatly increasing it's readiness, in case Russia chooses to go beyond Ukraine/Moldova (Moldova is the only neighbor to Ukraine uninvolved in NATO and the conflict, and Russia already occupies a piece of it) into any NATO country. In that eventuality the various NATO countries have all committed to going to war - there's a reasonably high chance it would be a nuclear one - which also means it's very unlikely that Putin will try this.
Inline assembly? Is that not too unsafe for Rust?
>Did the firearm make warfare more or less brutal?

It absolutely did. Ancient warfare almost never really consisted of the grand bloody battles you see in movies. A vast majority of it was siege and intimidation tactics. Routing your enemy from the field was the goal, not the annihilation of their forces. This old world of warfare persisted through the invention of early firearms into the Napoleonic era, but came to a crashing halt in the American Civil War, when generals finally had to leave those tactics behind in the face of modern artillery, repeating rifles, and industrially driven "total war". From that point on, warfare changed completely. The objective became destruction of the enemy forces, and their country's ability to wage war, and this came to a head with the American bombings of Germany and Japan in WWII; an event unparalleled in world history for its sheer brutality and number of innocents killed.
This entire theory has been disproved by modern China essentially becoming a Singapore writ large with a very bustling economy not only tied to but pivotal to the international trade system, but managing to remain authoritarian without liberalizing much.
That's what war is about. (acting strategic)

That's how Hitler was initially so military successful.

Act hard, ruthless and be done before the (main) enemy realizes what hit their ally.

EDIT: Not saying it's ethical to do so.
Thats what we get told, but there is always strategic reasons with so much stuff which few people get to hear about.

On the news a while ago, the news was going on about how the UK is banning dual use goods, so this tells us some Govt dept has audited potentially every business and its goods and compiled a list of devices which can be considered multi use. You see this alot with chemicals, Glycerine, used as a cosmetic can also be used for bombmaking. I only found this out when I purchased a litre and then some internet forum started going on about how it can be used for bomb making.

Its why we dont get taught everything, not even in the news. Anyway oil prices have gone up which will push more people towards electric vehicles, and yet Russia has the largest oil reserves in the world, so no doubt they will benefit, because if another internet forum is to be believed, the Saudia's have all but exhausted their oil reserves which is one of the reasons for them IPO'ing their national oil producer.

Kind of explains why I also wasnt allowed an export licence for an app but also highlights who was behind it!
I thought this part of Putin's address on the 21st was surprising and interesting if true

> "Moreover, I will say something I have never said publicly, I will say it now for the first time. When then outgoing US President Bill Clinton visited Moscow in 2000, I asked him how America would feel about admitting Russia to NATO.

> I will not reveal all the details of that conversation, but the reaction to my question was, let us say, quite restrained, and the Americans’ true attitude to that possibility can actually be seen from their subsequent steps with regard to our country. I am referring to the overt support for terrorists in the North Caucasus, the disregard for our security demands and concerns, NATO’s continued expansion, withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, and so on. It raises the question: why? What is all this about, what is the purpose? All right, you do not want to see us as friends or allies, but why make us an enemy?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220224100924/http://en.kremlin...
Just curious if you could share how old is your daughter.

I have tried teaching coding (several approaches, but eventually on Scratch) my 9yo nephew, but ran into many issues. For example, trying to debug a counter, I thought it'd be fun if I asked "hey, what's 7 - 2", and he went "it's 5, duh" and then I went "and what's 2 - 7", ... and he went "that's not possible!"

Turns out his math teacher hasn't yet introduced negative numbers! I had to go back to number line...

Anyway, what you've done is really cool! I'm sure once he's old enough it might prove to be very useful.
Oh no. We didn't do that. They just beat us. We kept our fabs and we kept our fab engineers and we built and we built, but they just beat us.

This technology isn't easy. Notice how far China is behind despite massive investments. Sometimes we just don't have the tech. But it's okay, TSMC and friends will bring it here.
Regarding the ractors, I'm a big fan - I believe true multithreading in a language with a GIL is a revolutionary change. On the other hand, I also believe that Ruby has always had a culture of single threading, so for the ecosystem to adjust (in practice, for having threadsafe libraries), it will take a very long time (if ever; I'm pessimitic and personally believe the ecosystem will never catch up, but of course, I wish all the best :)).
As someone who uses and likes Elixir and Ruby, the syntax is more accurately described as Erlang and Ruby in a car crash.
MOEX Russia Index (Imoex.me)
Whatever is inevitable for eight years is really not.
Unless they're literally housed inside the containment building, this is useless against precision guided missiles and bombs. Are you talking about deterrence to nuclear bombing of Chernobyl? Then it is a moot point because the fallout from the weapon itself would dwarf the dormant fissile material in the containment facility.

Sorry, but this makes no sense. If Russia wants to deter EU with fallout, they already have such a mechanism - their massive stockpile of nuclear weapons to deter aggression by EU.
I think bad code in Jupyter is a symptom of both the tool and the user. Jupyter's flexibility for running cells out of order should never have been allowed. Code developed in this way will not be able to be transformed into a sequential program. One example of this is illustrated in your demo, how did the algorithm decide input_shape was an input but num_classes should remain a global? For me, it is obvious that the user's intent was that these are the variables that define the model.

Personally, I wouldn't pay those prices to hide the data scientist's problems. However, if you developed extensions to prevent and encourage the user to overcome the tool's problems, I would buy that for myself.

Also, you probably don't a demo that would fail to run in the second cell (in both unclean and clean code) .
> Sounds pretty much like a normal (gaussian) distribution, or basically a non-story

If your interpretation is correct, this means the center of the distribution is "neutral", but it could very well not be the case.
You have no idea. Human lives mean nothing in China
> nobody can make a profit selling flophouses to indigent single men if they're required by law to make them as nice as middle-class apartments.

What exactly do you mean when you say "as nice as middle-class apartments"? Are you talking about how nice the carpeting and hardwood flooring is? How nice the building looks from the outside? How likely the roof is to leak or collapse? How safe the electrical wiring and fire suppression systems are?
Richard Branson: “My thoughts on war in Ukraine”
Most "vegetable oil" in the US is soybean oil.
States have sovereignty separate from the federal government. Tribal nations have limited sovereignty from federal government. Territories do not have any sovereignty from the federal government - they basically are the same entity. Since the federal government was created by and is formed by sovereign states, no, territorial landholdings of that federal government don’t have a role. Think about them like a city relative to a state. Or perhaps like the frontier - they are lands held by the country, underdeveloped, and depending on sophistication of population, may or may not have organized local governments - and in those cases, yes, people vote for their own local government. When you think of the “wild west” those were territories that eventually achieved statehood. Or Alaska. People born in those territories (US Nationals) can move to US states to live and work, or continue to live in the “frontier”. And trust me, there are aspects of living in the frontier that make it “freer” than living in a state - basically that people give less of a shit what goes on out there if they even know where “there” is. Some territories (like Marshall Islands) elect not to become states but to become sort of quasi protectorates for lack of a better term - having their own internationally recognized sovereignty as independent nations but in tight alliance with and under the defensive umbrella of the US. At risk of pushing too many analogies, saying the US is less democratic because territories don’t have the same rights as states would be like saying your country is less democratic for not letting adolescents vote in elections. Well, maybe that’s true in strictest sense of the term, but then “full democracy” by that definition is not really anyone’s ideal. Perfectly pure systems for their own sake are usually not a desirable end outside of thought experiments.
> Just tried the picker https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-spectrum/Picker.html and within 30 seconds you can find divergences from the browser's behaviour.

Took me exactly three key presses. I navigate using vimium. I just don't know how to pick anything on vimium without my mouse on this, while standard select work just fine.
Does asm! now give you as much power as llvm_asm! did? I remember a while ago that there were some constructs only possible with the latter.
I am not planning any "casting aspersions" (wtf) games, I am stating quite outright what comes to my mind. That is it.
Ask HN: Modern SSG/CMS for teams with different skill sets?
My startup currently has a user facing website with terribly outdated content and design:

https://tovera.com

Seeing as we're essentially pre-launch it's been last priority since the initial push. It's hosted with Cloudflare Pages and built with Next.js.

As we grow and build out marketing, content, and design teams I'm looking for Jamstack compatible tooling for a more user friendly (ideally web driven) WYSIWYG SSG/CMS combo.

Ideally we'd be able to achieve the "Holy Grail" of a web development team (currently big on React) being able to implement anything that needs to be done while also maintaining ease of use for updates and new content from the various non-technically skilled teams.

In my initial research I've found it incredibly easy to get lost in a sea of SSG, CMS, headless CMS, etc options.

Can anyone suggest a unicorn/silver bullet approach that meets these needs?

Thanks!
I love my Sodastream at home.
Just came across a startup that tackles carbonating water on the go as well. Still not in production but hopefully they manage to get it out to market soon.
https://www.bottleplus-shop.com/
> one that is a source of Vitamin E.

AFAIK the high temperature of frying oil destroys the vitamins it may have
I would say, so far Putin is proceeding rationally. He prepared his economy for this over many years, made strategic agreements with opponents of the West, and slowly built up a force which will now take a neighboring country using classic military techniques and massive imbalance of power.
>So most likely it is to test Taiwan's response times and wear out their aircrafts

Rings a bell, Russians were doing it on Baltic sea for over a decade, and president of Estonia was called paranoiac
The Fog of War (Ukraine Conflict Day One)
Maybe "crash" is not the best phrasing in this case.
its revisionist bs. The US was a democracy for much longer than their BS metrics
Nobody promised helping out for real. It's all posturing to get a proxy pawn to sacrifice for the suzerain's benefit. Ukrainians got sold down the (Dnieper) river and I'm surprised they still have not realized somehow, when they should have realized in 2014 at the latest. I'll eat my words if there is some other grand strategy behind it but from today it would seem that even sanctions haven't been agreed upon and readied to go unlike what we were told.
Putin's shoes but i keep drawing blanks. I only see downsides to the invasion and no upside from the perspective of Russia

That's your problem. Putin doesn't care about Russia. This invasion has nothing at all to do with the economic or strategic well-being of the nation of Russia. This has to do with the preservation and expansion of the political power of one single man and his oligarchal cronies. The rest of the country can burn as long as they hold power.
It's not clear whether every financial weapon will be used. For example,

> The foreign ministers of the Baltic states called for Russia to be cut off from SWIFT, the global intermediary for banks' financial transactions. However, other EU member states were reluctant, both because European lenders held most of the nearly $30 billion in foreign bank's exposure to Russia and because China has developed an alternative to SWIFT called CIPS; a weaponisation of SWIFT would provide greater impetus to the development of CIPS which in turn would weaken SWIFT as well as the West's control over international finance.[262][263] Other leaders calling for Russia to be stopped from accessing SWIFT include Czech President Miloš Zeman[264] and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[265]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...
Not a full write-up, but here's a recent thread that discusses some cases, like Dead Space 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435419
https://www.key.aero/article/antonov-an225-reported-safe?utm...
Not even every financial weapon. EU isn't united on kicking Russia out of SWIFT.
...I mean, we do though? There's definitely differences in the products and you wouldn't necessarily sub them 1:1 in some things.
I would say never actually look for problems. Certainly, never start with the solution and work back to find the problem. Train yourself to stop and think when you encounter a difficulty. Learn to ask yourself if there can be a better (faster, cheaper, automated) way. If you have an answer, THAT is your idea
It's only usable in unsafe blocks.
Ivan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian Fascism [2018]
dictators are blind.

a single person does not have the mental nor technological capacity to run everything. they must delegate. the way dictarships work is the dictator's subordinates, friends, whatever, must live in constant fear of each other, so they are incentivized to lie (or at least omit truths) to the dictator. a benevolent dictatorship doesn't exist, because no benevolent person would survive the process of getting dictatorship.

decisions based on falsehoods may look irrational from the outside.

of course, putin may very well be getting plain crazy. certainly no shortage of normal civilian russians admit it off the record.
Ask HN: Where is the best analysis of the situation in Ukraine?
If that is true, then every explosion contaminates the vehicles and personnel staged in the immediate vicinity. Doesn't sound so brilliant to me.
i was talking about "Free country". i feel sympathy for mental health treatment, that is why i said in india, medical treatment is essentially free now for rich and poor alike which is kinda big deal when it comes to increasing the overall health of communities. if you have less people who are sick, only because they did not have money for procedures otherwise, that is great.
But they can't "easily" blame such Weapon usage on the EU (saying they accidentally caused it) or "Ukraine" terrorists.
Even if they were, what's easier, to honour such an agreement with an expensive (materially and in terms of human lives) and dangerous (would cause the conflict so spread) deployment or to say "Sorry, you're going to have to tough it out yourself.".

The USA and UK already abandoned the Afghani people, feels like the once mighty US military really doesn't want to be in a shooting war against Russia. As someone living in Europe, I would also be wary of how it would escalate if NATO got involved.
I had an impression that Intel was like Boeing some decades after the McDonnell takeover. Still cranking out product, but a messed up bureaucracy, badly managed at every level. Gelsinger may be a sharp cookie but I cringed every time I heard him say that Intel's roadmap was to take back the fab tech championship. That's like saying you're going to become the world chess champion. Maybe you really do have it in you, but it's not something you can simply buy, especially now that you're funding your competition.

Can Intel pull that off without first having to be deeply remade? It's not a battle of the bankrolls and Intel doesn't necessarily have the bigger bankroll anyway.
It’s definitely both. LA taxpayers set aside some 1 billion dollars to address homelessness and instead of coming up with a viable solution the city chose to build 20-50 units at a time at the tune of 500-800k each to address a problem that exists orders of magnitude greater than that solution (~1000x). The number of homeless in Los Angeles is in the range of 60-70k if not more.
I'm constantly thinking about this old HN comment, and how it applies not only to Agile but most of the modern JIT wisdom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18448602

> You saved some sprints but invalidated the purpose of the project. Very agile.
NATO/US is preparing to handle the refugee flood into countries invading Ukraine. They are not keeping russia from taking ukraine or holding it, by using military force. It looks like the takeover of Ukraine will be done by tomorrow.
Why? Can’t you just use anchor tags?
>> We're not mammals that experience torpor. That doesn't even remotely apply to us.

Your first sentence is obviously true. Your second one is probably false, since the total removal of that seems unlikely compared to evolution simply disabling it. I have no evidence that part of it remains, nor do I see any evidence of total removal.
Now and then we have a new person joining the community who wants to just close all the old bugs. Have to be vigilant that that does not happen.
This is such a fantastic library. Gave me a far better shot at making my work accessible than I'd otherwise have.
There’s some really good interviews with him out there, he’s the type of dude that would show up to the UN in flip-flops. He didn’t wanna live at the presidential palace and spent his time on his farm with his family and dogs. Believe he drove a Volkswagen beetle
Maybe not marketed as such, but in the US anyway most bottles of "vegetable oil" are soybean oil.
>"Additionally, the team notes the findings only apply to soybean oil — not to other soy products or to other vegetable oils."

This was the bit I was honestly curious about. I've taken quite a liking to tofu recently and have been curious if too much is possible.

I still eat a fairly balanced diet so I'm not too vexxed on it, but it's a good distinction here.
That was yesterday. Today, the situation is evolving quickly.
I assume its to make sure no one in the Ukraine makes a dirty bomb, not the other way around. Revenge is a powerful motivator and Chernobyl has the raw materials to make for a horrific revenge.
in your answer, where do you think i made a mistake?

the user says >I don't think FOSS people would agree on that at all.

what did i say wrong?
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It's actually a result of the spineless geriatrics in the government not being willing or able to keep up with an evolving world. We see the same with climate change.
I fail to imagine how the reactor could practically be used as a weapon.
I found, but YMMV, intense exercise until exhaustion is probably best, for example when doing some regular gym work, I'd do a sort of HIIT on weights, and only after about 6 months did I then start getting the urge to run and then I would run miles and miles on the treadmill. Just dont do anything which causes pain though which shows up straight away or after some sort of exercise.

Personally I'd knock back some vitamin K1 & K2-MK4 to protect your bones especially if older.
EU also paid to build a city in what used to be Palestine, and before anyone moved in Israel demolished it all. No one even talked about it for more than a day

> 319 Palestinian owned structures were
demolished or seized, and 447 people (including 222 children) were displaced. Of the structures targeted in
the six-month reporting period, 62 structures were funded by the EU or EU Member States with a value of
nearly EUR 391,406.

https://eeas.europa.eu/sites/default/files/20200528_final_si...
> "weirdly requires setting up a payment app" is one of the criteria that puts a country quite far down my list.

Goes beyond that. The visa process is the most intense of any major country (if you have a high ranking passport). WeChat (the only way to communicate) requires you to be invited by someone else already in country. Street signs aren't in English, neither are any public transport aids. You can't communicate, can pay for things, can't find your way around (once you leave the cities no one speaks English). It was incredibly hard to travel there.
Wonder if we should start inflation-indexing the cutoff for unicorn status...
The nature of globalism is that there's many steps in the supply change that are dependent on one or two countries. Semiconductors are also dependent on the Netherlands (ASML) for example.

Also violations of the air defense zone, though not meaningless, are not super important. The air defense zone covers a part of mainland China larger than Taiwan, as well as waters that might at least be considered international waters. News articles about that are pretty pointless.
The West was ambivalent about eventual Ukraine membership in Nato for 8+ years. What has that achieved?

- If Nato had put a memorandum on Ukraine membership: Russia would have less of a reason to attack but Nato wouldn’t be able to help defend Ukraine in case of an attack

- Nato stays ambivalent about eventual membership: Russia is more likely to attack and, as stated by the Nato general secretary and the US president, Nato won’t help defend Ukraine in case of an attack
Basically Germany and Italy don't want it. Cause of big financial investment in Russian businesses.

Germany especially should really do some soul-searching. They are enabling Putin for the last few decades.
Will war in Ukraine lead to a wider cyber conflict?