skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically Russia can't occupy any significant part of Ukraine, nor Kiev in particular - tens of millions of pissed-off resisting Ukrainians with many taking up arms (on Ukrainian TV they said that they already give arms to such civilians as former police, and Zelenskiy said that they would give arms to all "willing and capable to defend the country") would shake off any army, and any such occupation attempt would be very unpopular in Russia too. Such scenario would be fiasco and catastrophe for Russia and especially for Putin's regime and would make sanctions issue a noise. On the other side if Putin goes "only" for enlarged Donbass zone - like making Donetsk unreachable for Ukraine artillery, etc. - and limits the all-Ukrainian strikes only to military objects as it was officially declared then such conflict will soon again go back to slow-burn/frozen state, and that as usual would take international attention away from it.
Probably referring to tracking dots, eg:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Ask HN: What  is going on in Ukraine?
Why is Russia invading Ukraine?

What should other countries do about it?

What's China position in all this?

Economic impact in Europe and America?

Is the USA going to war?
Fusion is "sensational" science

Much like AGI, "room temperature superconductors", "Mars colonization" and so on - the science is intense, the reporting hyped up and every tiny step will continue to be posted again and again as if something revolution happened.

Meanwhile the world needs to many more nuclear reactors pronto if at all we stand a chance of climate change mitigation

We need better web security and privacy, better engineered cities and so on
But no one cares about mundane engineering that may actually work - they only like pies in the skies
Nice, I wanted something like that to create badges for git deps in Clojure. Here is my attempt to do it using Supershields:

https://supershields.io/d1a18b018347defeec7b

Two questions:

1. text doesn't fit, how to fix that?

2. quote characters — «"» — get escaped as «&#34;», how to avoid that?
Why Lua?
The Economist is the one publication I subscribe to. Willing to pay for the analysis, maybe also for the writing. Plenty of other free sources for news.
This is maybe less helpful but, I've searched the internet for many things and discovered many treasures but in the end looking back... the largest treasures I've found have been from experimenting on my own hunch or curiosity.

You have an idea of what you want to build, just build it. Build a motor, build a box, put it in the box, see what happens, rinse repeat.
So how many nukes did this Saddam guy have? Do you think that can change the calculation?
Sadly have to agree. Nordstream is just Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 2.0 (modulo violence).
There are a lot of stuff to do on DF but you don't have to do them all. You need food, you need booze and learning how to make those two is necessary but rest is optional really. You can pick a safe starting location or wall yourself in and even ignore military (at least up to a point I think)
I can put you in touch with my dad (who knows a lot of people in Eastern Romania) to potentially help. We live in California, but are originally from Romania. Feel free to get in touch (email at the bottom of https://dvt.name/resume/).
The US has antimissile defenses on ships ( the Aegis system), and the whole thing started as ship-first, presumably against subs.
Is it really a silly policy? I like that a lot.
But once you set it up - you've set it up for everyone on your team - you just add subdomains and keys to each person - which can be done by a script (depends on your DNS might require 1 manual step but you need this with ngrok anyway).

So it's not 120$/year - it's 120$/year/developer.

And setting it up for yourself - I've found multiple instances where having a configurable nginx reverse proxy on a public server saved me a bunch of time, it's much more flexible than ngrok.
> latest prime minister got fired by Russians even though Russia cyberarmy helped him win the elections.

Actual source? This "russian disinformation" and "russian election manipulation" has zero credibility if you read and listen to anything other than CNN at this point. Please send me actual proof before making claims like this.
You are choosing to play with words instead of trying to understand what it meant. It can also be that you are trying to make a point of the broadness and the impossibility of providing an exhaustive definition. If we tried, we would do nothing else, for anything: is freedom actually freedom if I am not allowed to harm others gratuitously?

For the law, the slave and the dictator both have dignity, and lower-rank laws will go into detail into what that entails up to the point the judicial system would need to establish if a certain act violates the dignity of a human or not: e.g., "can we kill a dictator nude in a public place and exhibit their remains at the entrance of the presidential palace?" Does it violate their dignity (even if we consider undeserved?)?
I think it's because you can't load assets from the entire game world in main memory, so when you go to a new zone it'll load assets from disk (slowly).
You aren't alone thinking nuclear is the best outcome in the renewables plan forward.
My kids have done quite well without watching any YouTube.
Piped can bypass age restriction (eg https://piped.kavin.rocks instance), it's the new Invidious YouTube FOSS frontend alternative.
I think GP might be referring to anti-nuclear movement

Germany shutting down nuclear plants in favor of natural gas plants and soon-to-be-increasing coal plants for base load is bad for energy independence, climate, and now world stability
> The historical original reason for its existence have disappeared

It seems that we are being reminded that it has not.
It's not a matter of "again". Gas purchases are not on the table as far as sanctions go. It's the other way around. The EU is afraid that if they impose serious sanctions Russia will cut off the gas supply. This will hurt the EU far more than it hurts Russia in the short term.
Tokamak fusion can only ever be far more expensive, per watt and per watt-hour, than existing fission. Fission is getting more expensive all the time.
We Quit Slack
> My prediction: A repetition of Crimea. The Donbas will be incorporate to the Russian area of influence, but not the rest of Ukraine, some noises will be done by the West about sanctions or whatever and in five years nobody will remember.

And in six years Putin will grab more land again, knowing that nobody will do more than "condemn" it because everyone is afraid of the other scenarios.
A better analogy would be if the car got you in an accident. I don’t care if something breaks quickly as long as that means it can be returned or replaced.
I'd never heard of it before I saw SRK playing with/against the sea in Dear Zindagi. So now that's the image I have when I read a comment like yours, and it takes me a minute to remember what it actually is!
> No, it does not. A number of Eastern Europe countries are in NATO and none of them have American nuclear weapons.

Yet. There were murmurs about moving them from Germany to Eastern Europe.

Additionally - US has DCAs (Defense Cooperation Agreement; straightly bilateral, nothing to do with NATO) with most EE countries. Nobody knows, what they brought there, US is certainly not telling anyone. The nukes might be already there.
Russian oligarchs care about borders, trade routes, and cargo ships. It's about money and power. Russia obviously doesn't give a rat's ass about democracy, they have their population locked up tight.

They expect to move in, battle, secure new territory, deal with stern blabber and a slap on the wrist, and it'll be back to business as usual, with slightly higher profit margins.
Pornography is an active good for society that affords people an easy way to enjoy themselves and live out fantasies while causing no inherent harm to anyone else. It is certainly less harmful to society than tobacco, gambling or telemarketers.

Sex is a perfectly enjoyable past-time, similar to woodworking or snowboarding, and nothing changes about its morality when you record it on a camera.

It is also worth noting that pornography has existed in essentially every human culture that has had writing or visual artistry. The noble spirit of mankind, if such a thing exists, has yet to crumble.
"Learned helplessness is behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control."

The key part is beyond their control. As a society we are being trained to see software beyond our control. "The algorithm" decides. Many non software engineers fail to see that behind each software decision there is a company that can change it.

Learned helplessness is dangerous even just because improvement becomes impossible when people just accepts software like if it was the physical laws of the universe.
A government or a state?
The browser still runs XML with XSLT stylesheets. What if devs would generate XML view models from the server and use XSL AKA functional programming to render HTML? and then just use Javascript to update the XML or XSL stylesheets and let the browser do its magics? Did anybody ever attempted to write SPA like that?
Do you think Putin did not take this into account? Europe has messed with herself and her dealings with Russia for so long that we are totally utterly self-screwed (renewables… tell that to the 400EU/MWh).

Like with China. Look: as a protest for the Uygurs, the US did not send… diplomats!

What a shame.
The rest of the article qualifies the statement with a "since the dotcom boom".

And BTW, congrats although 20 years late :)!
As is becoming painfully clear right now, relying on other countries for your energy needs is also unreliable. You just get unpredictable and large supply shocks every few years instead of smaller predictable ones every night.

Building out grid level energy storage looks like a way better solution than hoping the countries which are allies now will remain so indefinitely.
I didn't mean to describe it in a light way, at all.

I fully agree with your description that this is a full scale invasion into a sovereign country.
This reminds me of some of Startrek's greatest quotes:

There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.
- Jean Luc Picard

and

When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?
- Riker
Do you mean characters as in real languages? Because then bytes don't matter, but codepoints, which can be any length.

Obviously dealing with legacy formats that are bit or byte aligned should still be supported using char arrays, it just would require compiler assistance for pointers.
Show HN: Acme Clients – a definitive list of popular acme clients
Lots of different takes on this, but I don't think Putin is as imperialistic or "crazy" as he's made out to be. Much of the problem is that the US promised Ukraine (and Georgia) that they could become a NATO member. From Putin's point of view that's the US expanding their influence right up to Russian's doorstep. While the cold war is over, it's not like "the west" (broadly speaking) and Russia ever really become allies.

In a perfect world Ukraine should of course have the freedom to join NATO; but it's not a perfect world and we can't wish Putin or general Russian attitudes away. All of this could have been avoided if we just rescinded the NATO invitation (or better yet, never made it in the first place) and have Ukraine remain a neutral "border state".

I don't like Putin or Russia's attitude one bit by the way; but when the stakes are this high you really have to deal with reality as it is, not as you want it to be. Ukraine not joining NATO would have been a minor inconvenience at best; Ukraine at war is a much bigger deal, especially for the Ukrainian people. We kinda screwed them over in a game of international politics.
I don't particularly want to increase my YouTube time and I don't have a need to find new videos actively, but often some comment for example here in HN suggests a video/channel I do like. Is that what you were asking?
It's a relatively recent switch and as far as i understood it's still running the original in headless mode and communicates with unity, with the unity program basically only being the front end for the game.
I've been thinking about what can the Russians do?

Seize a part of Ukraine and force the Ukrainian government into a peace treaty that hands over the territories. What those territories are is hard to predict.

Overthrow the government and put a puppet one in its place. This would require some sort of occupation to keep that puppet regime in power, and the Russian forces would be constantly harassed and attacked by guerrilla style tactics (as in Iraq but probably better trained and equipped).

Unless Russia has additional hundreds of thousands of troops they can't effectively occupy a country as big as the Ukraine. That leaves limited objectives.

They also have a limited timeframe before the ground thaws, limiting operational activities with heavy equipment to be along roads. The famous mud country side of eastern Europe is staring soon and will continue for some months making major tank manoeuvres more difficult.

If you are in the Ukraine.

- Ensure you have at least 1 week of food and water.
- Make a bug out bag if you need to leave at a moments notice (including basic medical supplies).
- Have an escape plan that DOES NOT include major roads to get out of the city.
- Cash is king and anything else of value you can trade for supplies.
- If you have a Dacha (or a friend has one) that might be a good place to wait it out if you have to get out of the city.

Be safe
Yes, that’s why for instance Java uses it to store large amounts of class files.
Trusting anyone on HN or any other social media to answer some of these questions for you is silly.
> Gotta hand that small remark to Putin, he upheld the tradition of no war during Olympics

Putin hardly cares about that tradition.

"In 2008, Russia launched a military intervention into disputed regions of Georgia in eastern Europe. The conflict unfolded at the same time as the opening ceremonies at the summer Olympic games in Beijing—with Putin, then prime minister and Russia’s leader in all but name, in attendance alongside US president George W. Bush, who did not look pleased. Six years later, Putin had an opportunity to repeat the trick, during the 2014 Winter Olympics hosted by Russia. At the time, the pro-Russian government of Ukraine was collapsing, with protestors demonstrating against Ukraine’s withdrawal from ties with the European Union. The night before the games’ closing ceremony, Putin took part in a lengthy meeting with his security team to plan an intervention in Ukraine."

https://qz.com/1203504/2018-winter-olympics-russia-probably-...
I agree with the principle as stated there. That principle is the same with any state-power (through any time in history), and it is the only logical for it to be so. It works on smaller scales as well (organization and corporations). The power that be is power exactly because of its influence over as large territory as possible (either physical one, or digital, political, etc).
India does quite well in free style wrestling too, Both men and women[1].

India ranks 3rd in field hockey(men)[2]. Women's team is doing well recently too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_in_India

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_hockey_in_India
I don't think this is the case. China has refused to call this an "invasion" and said that it will buy Russian wheat to break sactions.

I don't know what China's plan is but it's clear they have one and that it involves backing the Russian invasion.

https://www.ft.com/content/55d86391-2d05-4eb4-869c-83a7878b8...
Yes. Though people are consistently impressed by how Vishy Anand keeping up his level, he's 52 now I believe. He was also "late" to reach the world top compared with many of the newer chess stars like Carlsen or Alireza.

World top 10 is a young man's game I believe but you can never discount a former Super-GM, they are still super strong.
Should we build N Wind turbines or blow the money on more fusion research? I would guess that we need to keep fusion research alive but the real bulk of the money should be for things that will work now.
What you’re spewing out is utterly nonsensical.

This is cultural, not something we’re inherently born with.

Muggings are inherently worse, someone taking your freedom and possessions under the threat of violence.
So, it has to gain:

- geographically defensible borders

for which it pays with:

- international sanctions

- loss of trust by the population

- economical distress

Not a great deal in my opinion.
An alien concept but sort of explains some things.
Yea, but you have to factor into your analysis the fact that at the time Soviet nuclear weapon design was leaning more towards inaccurate but with enough boom it doesn’t matter, so their weapons were on average larger and this limited their effective ballistic missile ranges. So Cuba, while a provocative encroachment, was from the Soviet side a necessary escalation of their military forces to counter things like the deployment of intermediate range ballistic missiles, such as the Jupiter, in Turkey and Italy.

Also … While the “Cuban” part of the crisis can be viewed as instigated by the Soviets, it would be awfully foolish to ignore the fact that they were reacting to the US/NATO moves to deploy missile forces in Europe… by accepting the request from Cuba for nuclear weapons to defend their country from America, which they only asked for after the failed invasion effort in the Bay of Pigs.

It’s never just as simple as “they started it”…
I’ve been trying to devour as many lectures about the general situation there as possible and I think I’d start here:

[Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault?](
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4)

Most other lectures I’ve seen have been reactionary to news of late, whereas this is hauntingly prescient.
What about something going wrong on ngrok's end and your hands being tied while nothing is working? Some might prefer similar solutions on servers that they control themselves.

Nginx or Caddy aren't all that hard to set up, for example: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-use-nginx-to-proxy-...

Actually with WireGuard, OpenVPN and the like, you can do some pretty interesting (and sometimes problematic) things as well, so there's definitely a lot of flexibility with a few footguns here and there: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-publicly-access-you...

Disclaimer: everyone's setup has their own requirements and whatnot. If using external services works for you, that's great! Also, that second article of mine may serve as an example of that NOT to do (you typically would only want to selectively forward ports, rather than forwarding all of the traffic like i did).
brute force grep -R for the win.
Yes. It's a shame that the firefox user base is so easy to outrage. 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.
Adopting k8s for our 2-people startup early on was a huge win: as this tech isn't likely to get superseded anytime soon, we invested happily into CI/CD and logging & monitoring pipelines on it. We have ~daily release cycles now with a very low count of user-affecting mistakes.

We definitely would have skipped this investment with other low-tech (scp) or proprietary tech stacks (ecs, ebs, etc).
> They could have built this in Java, .Net, Go, really any shared memory concurrency runtime and threading, and would not run into any of these issues.

Right, they'd have brand new issues because they were dealing with shared memory.
Can you be specific? What do you need clarifying?
> "People also have the legal right to record a police officer with their own phone".

People have been shot dead for reaching into their center console or glovebox. So you'd better think very carefully about how you're getting your phone out.
Are we actually learning new bits of fundamental science from these experiments?

Are there still bits of these fusion reactions we can't simulate accurately enough due to insufficient compute?

Or is it just a matter of ironing out engineering issues?
> Russia obviously doubts

You still don't get it. Do you doubt that Russia is powerful? Hence, the diplomacy.

> strategically important rail bridge

That's kind of the problem isn't it? Strategic assets near Russia (I think it's safe to assume the aforementioned bridge isn't in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is concerning to them.

Every country involved is protecting their own interests.

I have no sympathy for any of the governments involved. On any side.

However, I hope that you and your family would be safe.
We can cyan a peace treaty.
I get your point but honestly you have to be an optimist to think that way. Al Gore was nearly voted in office on a global warming campaign. And since then nearly nothing good happened and it only got worse. So how can you judge someone who is just thinking about themself or profits at this times? I try to be optimistic and engage in politics to change the world a bit but as time pass by it feels more and more like a last „ grab what you can to have good life“ before catastrophe.
Life in the Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk
This a curated list of ACME clients (software you use to get/renew certificates from Let's Encrypt et al).

The list was put together as a community resource because current lists can be a little noisy (with obscure/unused clients) when figuring out which tool you need to use.

Source for edits is here: https://github.com/webprofusion/acme-clients

Note: I am also the developer of Certify The Web which does feature on this list.
"Blockchain will help mitigate the strobe issue" /s
So what evidence do you have that humans behave in this way regardless of culture?
>threat for united countries between Moscow and Berlin.

Are you talking the PLC or the Nazis?
> It's not a question of "possible". It's a question of "probable".

Let's just say the topic of "probable" hasn't the best track record right now and still hope for the best.
I have played Kabaddi as a kid but somehow never imagined that it was televised. Looked for clips of Pro Kabbadi League on YouTube and couldn't help but laugh out loud because of it being presented as a serious sport with commentators and everything.
> Tokamak fusion can only ever be far more expensive, per watt and per watt-hour, than existing fission.

Why?
You can with storage systems albeit with lots of constraints. Having nuclear is important to guarantee baseload, but we can't rely on that solely either. With current gen nuclear tech, well also run out of fuel within a few generations.
Pretty funny how open people sometimes are about intentions and goals, and still nobody believes them. Personally, I think people like Xi and Putin can be taken, when it comes to strategic goals, taken by their word. Which is scary in itself, also scary that nobody seems to do exactly that.
Having just watched the Finnish president and prime minister address the situation, the press' pressing questions about joining NATO were continually downplayed, as is customary.

Finland is almost militantly neutral, since that was the original condition to independence in the first place. On the other hand, Russia just voided the Minsk agreement with Ukraine to attack, so...

Imagine being Russia's border neighbor, man. It's seriously stressful.

But if any country is prepared for russian invasion, it's Finland.