skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"existence of your own civilization" is a strong statement. At face value they just want to conquer back half of Europe. Not to send millions across our souther border. Not to kill any Americans. Not to rape their women. Not to turn their sons into homosexuals. Not even compete for jobs with Americans or abuse their welfare system.

So from our point of view it's a European problem. A quick reminder - they have 500M people and a GDP comparable to ours. With so many resources and 20+ peaceful years they should be able to field dozens of panzer divisions. Do you see any? The Ukrainians are fighting like their life depends on it. You can see it. The Snake Island martyrs alone is a tale for the ages. And Ukraine is a small and poor country. Do you see other Europeans even trying? And if not, is it really existential? And if not for them why should we care?

The Russian despot increasingly looks like a statesman in touch with reality. It's a real puzzle how he managed to pull if off lacking diversity and not having enough girls in his spetsnaz units. America spent 20 years in the sandbox wasting precious resources for no particular reason. Having run from Afghanistan the way Americans did we'll be lucky the Chinese don't grab Taiwan next month.

As a side note, the loss of DJT is a gift that just keeps giving. Elections have consequences. Going back to at least 2008.
Personal Accounting
- recommend to talk to an accountant about the sale.
- the sale of the business will be counted as personal income and because it is in your name you will be income taxed immediately. Just be careful to ensure that you hold $ for the large tax bill.

Business Sale
- The business 9 years old, that's attractive.
- Again talking to a business broker or accountant will be useful. To sell you will need to have some documents in the right structure so buyers can assess the business fairly.
o that's much less esoteric, thanks for the explanation
You could build Serenity in C in a similar about of time
Your comment would be better without the last sentence.

And the handling of that CVE does illustrate a key difference between Rust and C++. Rust says "it's our fault if we get the intuitive semantics wrong". C++ says "it's your fault for relying on your intuition". It does no good to pretend there's no difference between the two philosophies.
> Besides, why should I let my opinion be swayed by an internet comment?

Yikes, well I tried to avoid this type of emotionally charged ad hominem remarks, it seems you took great offence, as if my opinions caused you to perceive it as an attack on you personally and you were swayed by it

Well that is quite some hill to die on, have at it!
Yes, that's it.

1. The first goal is to become a pure extension. That should be done in 2-3 PostgreSQL release cycles.
2. The long term goal is to become a part of PostgreSQL.
The main parallel is that it's about a power maniac who won't stop until he is stopped. Or to put it differently, he'll take as long as he can. So the question you should be asking, will he stop with Ukraine if he'll take it?
Right, no more vacuums. And within typical workloads there should be no bloat.
Meet more people?

The gross statistics back it up. The average American eats about as much seafood as the average Russian, which is surprising considering one has ample fisheries and coastal areas and the other doesn't. Both countries are about mid-line per capita globally at something like 20-30 lbs (9-13 kg) per person per year (vs 60-80 pounds (27-36 kg) for countries like Korea, Japan, etc.)

More detail, if you look by locale in the U.S. the average Midwesterner eats something like under 1/4th the seafood of their coastal countrymates. That's not 1/4, that's again less than 1/4th so we're talking from zero to 7.5 pounds per capita.

Since population distribution in the U.S. is heavily skewed towards the coasts, you can estimate that for example, the average of 20lbs per person per year is representative of the average coastal person. This means that the average Midwesterner eats less than 5 pounds of all types of seafood per person per year or about something like less than 1 small shrimp per day.

The thing is, modern logistics make it possible to eat fresh Sushi in the middle of Kansas. Being away from the coasts isn't really an excuse as the availability is or can be approximately the same.

*sources: something something forgot to copy paste use the google or DDG it's like 2 minutes of searching plus some math
Perhaps then there was some logic behind the idea that the United States President should always be someone who is slightly unhinged, or at least appears to be. If enemies believe you are too straight laced to actually strike back then the MAD theory falls apart.
Please understand the connection between anti discrimination policy and expensive housing. It is illegal to discriminate in housing except via higher prices. So that's where all the pressure winds up for people to avoid the externalities of poor neighborhoods. I grew up on welfare and then became middle class via STEM and got to see both sides of it.
will savelife's fund be used for weapons and violence? the name doesn't seem to suggest so.

is self-defense considered violence?
4. Continue life as normal. Some Georgians are following this strategy under the assumption that the occupying Ukraine is going to require a lot of money and soldiers. Russia will run out of either (or both) of these finite resources before it has a chance to invade Georgia.

Note that Russia not only have to contend with sanctions: They also need to remain domestically on high alert for sabotage and terrorism.
Right. The idea of active-active OrioleDB multimaster is to apply changes locally and in parallel send it to the leader. Then sync on commit and ensure there is no conflicts.

The design document will be published later.
That's when you hire thugs and minimize training.
Aside from the advice mentioned (I bind caps to escape), I find that beginners use escape waaaay more often than is necessary because they aren't using all the commands at their disposal. For example, entering insert mode to delete some characters instead of using d+motion or x. Or entering insert mode to add indentation instead of using the = operator. It would take too long to enumerate all the cases where there is a much more streamlined way to perform an operation than entering insert mode, but I think this would explain the difference in experiences between people that may have used longer and aren't bothered by escape-use frequency and newer vim users.
This is why it's more useful to talk about blame: http://blog.pnkfx.org/blog/2022/02/09/what-is-rusts-hole-pur...

Regarding memory safety, C++ says: "It's your fault if you get it wrong." Rust says: "It's our fault if we get it wrong in safe code." There is an enormous qualitative difference (in terms of ease of programming) and quantitative difference (in terms of number of bugs) between the two.
When there are hundreds of branches, not just feature branches but real long-lived development branches, and pull requests are managed the way they are in the Linux kernel (chain of trust all the way up to Linus).. "Do the mass replace" becomes quite non-trivial I imagine.
Ask HN: Is MongoDB obsolote when Postgres and SQLite provide JSON types?
It seems to me that NoSQL databases like MongoDB became obsolete. I can't think of a case where I would use NoSQL over Json(Bytes) types of Postgres and to some extent SQLite.

Could someone with the knowledge elaborate on the topic, please?
Provided useful features and functionality that people wanted. Tabs and plugins are a couple of big ones off the top of my head that people loved. It was also adopting open standards and new technologies though, which was an uphill battle because Microsoft was fighting them with incompatibilities and closed extensions, but people actually did like those things. Good support for developer features as far as I know went a long way to getting around that and having content providers take up and support firefox as well although I'm not a web developer so I'm a bit less sure of that aspect of it.

Competition has improved but so has firefox. Why should the expectation be that they stood still while everybody else went ahead? And it absolutely has declined. You also did say that they don't have features you want and seemed to imply that was part of the realities of not having enough resources or struggling to compete with google. Just doesn't seem like the reason holds water.
Very much this - most of my experience is with Postgres but the rough impression I have is that SQL Server is the best of both Postgres and MySQL, and Postgres and MySQL are improving, but not in any great direction towards what SQL Server offers.
At some stage my son was wilfully damaging plants.

As part of the discipline to make him stop I showed him videos of plants sped up.

It becomes a bit harder to deny that they aren’t the inanimate objects we perceive them to be because they are slow when you see them react to stimuli and they show what seems to be intent.

Although it certainly isn’t a consensus opinion there is a real possibility that (given that the nervous system specialises what normal tissues can also do) plants are considerably more “conscious” than we give them credit for.

They have been proven to be able to communicate.

There are even suggestions that they could “see” without specialised eyes.

I’m not sure where this would leave moral vegans.

Besides attempting a diet of fruit - we clearly need to kill to survive.

PS:
To clarify my own positioning on this - I eat meat. I occasionally go vegetarian for health or spiritual reasons. I do believe we can and should strive to minimise cruelty, waste and environmental damage and impacts.

The lives of some livestock are significantly better than that of many wild creatures and it can be a humane choice given that they would not exist without our intervention.

That said I don’t think that we are currently near the level of responsibility that we could be. Our levels of cruelty, waste and environmental impact are unacceptably high and will seem barbaric to our descendants.
https://zeihan.com/russias-twilight-war/

Peter Zeihan predicted this in 2017. There is first of many wars to come.
That is essentially their entire point:

"By contrast, many species in the Southern Hemisphere would have been preparing to hibernate for the winter as opposed to gearing up for their reproduction cycles. That may have contributed to the survival of those species—particularly mammals, certain amphibians, birds, and crocodiles—who were more likely to be sheltering in burrows or caves at the time of impact."
Since joining NATO is a process rather than will happen immediately, this is not really an option. This caused the mess the Ukraine is in in the first place. Putin is really clear that he won't tolerate NATO to expand to any more direct neighbors.
ukraine is not an ally of USA though
> Talk of Ukraine joining NATO may well have been what triggered this war.

There was zero chance Ukraine would have ever been admitted to NATO. Everybody understood that, including Putin and his generals. And while NATO and the U.S. maintained the official position (perhaps better characterized as a non-position) that any country, including Ukraine, remained free to apply to NATO, member states like Germany would have vetoed and almost certainly privately gave such assurances to Putin. Moreover, the last decade of shenanigans from Turkey and then Hungary have soured even the U.S.'s appetite for future NATO admissions of any country outside Western and Central Europe.

Ukraine missed its window for NATO membership by about 20 years. Today the U.S. wouldn't even seriously imply Ukraine had a chance at membership. Russian apologists would point out that Ukraine already entered quasi-formal "dialogue", but fail to mention that such such dialogue has been frozen for nearly 20 years. The status quo (which has no actual substance, anyhow) is for all intents and purposes permanently frozen. One might reasonably criticize NATO and the U.S. for leaving things as they are--to fester. The counter argument is that by making a formal concession it would only embolden Russia, which would never change their tune even if NATO formally renounced the possibility of Ukraine joining. Perhaps more importantly, it would be a huge loss for Ukrainian reformists. (There was a similar motivation behind the EU's long refusal to state the obvious regarding Turkey's membership in the EU.)

Beyond Putin's general revanchist sentiments, what he and other Russian leaders really worry about is de facto Ukrainian-EU economic integration, not NATO. There's little chance (but perhaps non-zero, and greater than Turkey's) Ukraine could ever join the EU anytime soon. But there's an infinite number of intermediate relationships, all of which disfavor Russia--at least from the Russian perspective.
Small / Home Office network IPv6 wish list
How it being an open source would help ad blocking on the client side? It certainly won't be as easy as current blocking methods for html/css/js.
Ukraine VPNs are probably still up - in which case, another way you could serve is by doing analysis and writing documentation on Russia's cyberattack methods, where they come from, patterns in their design, but most importantly, how they may best be prevented or reduced in their effectiveness.

Documenting the behavior and collecting intelligence is a difficult skill and intensely valuable even if it is not direct retaliation.
I tried this, but it (understandably) caused a delay whenever I typed j alone in insert mode
Ah, yes, the famously productive Zoom meeting. Barking dogs, construction, echo cancellation artifacts, lag, “no you go ahead,” endless monologues, creepy pseudo-ASMR from people’s giant gamer headsets, Bluetooth glitches, “let me try turning off my video” for 6 hours a day. So much fucking value generation. It’s just palpable, isn’t it?

You know, you’re right. It probably is the most efficient way to work, to continuously subject employees to this torture. The problem is I’m a fucking human being and there’s only so much abuse I’m going to take from you. And by being a remote worker you are, necessarily, subjecting your coworkers to this abuse every second they have to work with you. It is inherent to the notion of video calling with consumer-grade hardware on a packet switched network.
When I didn't know better I thought them as some kind anarcho libetarian group, but behind every effective cyber offensive there is always a powerful actor.. mostly a state or private interest.
> once I learned that the octopus is capable of thinking I stopped eating them (even though I eat other animals much higher up the evolutionary ladder)"

Yes and this is exactly the issue here, that people in the world are increasingly incapable of being grounded in principle, its whatever in that moment is trendy to believe, do etc., through group thinking. Social media does a great job of trust in large numbers.

And going back to the original parent comment, this is largely cultural is it not? We are simply using the ideas that arise from one culture to impose it on the other only to be disappointed.

> What it says to me is that some people stopped eating them because it was surprising that octopuses have a complex sensory response system, because they never thought about it. But it's not surprising that a cow does so they keep eating them.

It is insane to me that the people arguing octopus lives matter essentially, are not seeing the irony of their reaction, that they would continue to tolerate the farming of foods that they regularly consume (beef, chicken) but not under the same amount of vigor and without the same level of virtue signaling attached with such dangerous thought exercise.

The craziest take away is that literally people will stop doing a behavior that is inconsistent with their own values, as long as they are made to FEEL informed. If the documentary was mostly powerpoint slides it is NOT possible to FEEL because it does not try to pander or manipulate the emotions of the audience.

The sad matter of the fact is that being informed with facts that you have to weigh yourself and reach your own conclusion is too difficult, (boring even!) that the individual living in the so called "First World" CANNOT/MUST NOT be burdened with because they are too busy with whatever ephemeral activities they are engaged in at any given time.

Remember! Original Parent noted eating octopus NEVER bothered him UNTIL he saw a Netflix documentary. Or one can reduce this to an outsider: Individuals in the West are increasingly growing dependent on for-profit motivated organizations to think and judge for them. The more obfuscated and difficult it is to follow the cui bono chain, the increasingly emotional and tribal they become. ex) If YC startup selling imitation crustacean meat was behind the Octopus Lives Matter, one would immediately deduce there are biases and conflict of interest and such narrative would lose credibility. However, if the distance between whoever benefits and the narrative is wide and uncertain (multiple beneficiaries) it becomes increasingly credible (must be of good non-profit social cause) and resilient against Truths that challenge it. Often explanations that deviate from the narrative are labelled with hostility and written off as conspiracy...

and on HN, such contrary views are quickly downvoted and censored outright.
To quote https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB

"The purpose of Russia Today is to make sure you have no idea what’s actually happening in Russia today."
So many gross Russian apologists on HN. Ukraine would be in a much better financial position if kleptocrats like Yanukovych hadn't siphoned billions of dollars of public money into their own pockets with the help of American collaborators like Paul Manafort. Something like 1/2 of a year's GDP stolen by Yanukovych and his cronies.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-treasury-stripped-by-oust...
Off topic: any plans for Delphi-like GUI RAD IDE? When I see some non-trivial Flutter UI code - it ought to have been generated by machine.
"Metacognition. Think about it."
It's About Time: How Temporal Illusions Shape Felt Reality
Block based programming languages are a bad idea for teaching kids programming and I would argue actually counter productive.

I disagree with this. Block based languages reduce the amount of text on the screen (less dependent on reading skill), reduce the amount of typing (dexterity and keyboarding skills) and reduce the number of confusing syntax errors (important if the learner has limited patience and emotional control skills).

All of these skills are important and can be learnt given time, but they are not the same as learning programming. The ideas of abstraction, repetition and problem solving are still there in block languages.

If a kid can't grasp BASIC/HTML/Python, they won't be a programmer (with or without Scratch).

We teach mathematics to everyone but don't expect everyone to become a mathematician. There's no need to handle programming education in such an extreme way.
The US does not currently have a legal permission to be in Ukraine. Ukraine does not have a defense agreement with the US that could land troops, Ukraine is not a NATO member, so forth. Right now, for the US to cyberattack Russia would be a direct act of war and quite literally cause the Cold War to become the Hot War.

For this reason, just like how our troops are not in Ukraine but in surrounding countries watching, our NSA hackers are most likely standing down as well, as tragic as it may be.
You are a good person.

I’m about as far away as one could get from this situation, is there anything I could do to help?
On paper yes. They are obligated to join or whatever. In practice, the whole west has become so risk averse in last few decades, they would just fold and offer 'asylum' to the fleeing poles and making statements like doing everything in their power to avoid 'escalations'.

Unfortunate reality is that the west collectively lost their balls post 9/11 due to the needless wars sapping the spirit. They would wait till its too late and by then its too late. The politician with actual brains and balls and who has kept europe whole and safe so far has recently retired and the rest are just good for press releases.
Minimal Binary Boot
Agreed, but battery farming conditions sometimes makes it a easy call to make.

The “quality of life” (hard as it is to measure) of battery chickens is clearly not good.

We’ve kept some pet bantam chickens and I was surprised by what intelligent, curious and communicative creatures they where.
I get the point you’re trying to make, but the blame doesn’t really lay with php.

Like most things introduced in early php, the mysql extension was just wrapping c functions.

The concept of “real” escape comes from mysqls’ C API: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/5.6/en/mysql-real-escape-str...
I don't think that's fair. A google search isn't necessarily unsubstantive—it depends—and the HN Search links I post are all pointing to consistent explanations.
> though I eat a lot of eggs and some dairy still.

See, I feel like this just erodes from your argument. There’s not necessarily any trauma at all to the chickens or the cows involved in the production of eggs or milk. Trying to group that with the consumption of meat feels just very irrational.
They are allies. US, Canada, etc has given loans, sent resources and weapons.
> Your friend is a terrible human being.

… do you have anything else to add to the discussion?
> The thing is, modern logistics make it possible to eat fresh Sushi in the middle of Kansas. Being away from the coasts isn't really an excuse as the availability is or can be approximately the same.

Flash freezing is relatively new technology (I assume that’s what you mean by “fresh”). It is not surprising midwesterners go all out on sushi (the real kind, not Californian roles) just because the logistics are easier now. Food is local because it has been that way for the last hundred or so years.
I see you know nothing about Ukraine.
This is a lot of very commonly repeated speculative talking point soup when people are trying to rile up vegans. I'm not a vegan, and I'm not saying you're being disingenuous here, but if you use these lines to try and engage vegans at some point and don't get the level of engagement you're looking for, it's because this kind of both-sides moral equivalence between meat eating and plant eating is pretty common in the needling-vegans scene :)

That said, if we think there's a continuum with humans, dolphins, apes, and maybe octopuses on one side, and fungi & prokaryotes or something on the other, then plants (and maybe shellfish?) are certainly 'better' to kill and eat than cats, eg.
Oh come on man. If being a dumbarse and engaging in dangerous behaviour was a jailable offence, then we'd need to arrest every single male under the age of 21.

(To any dumbarses reading this comment, launching cyberattacks against adversarial nation states will land you in prison if you're lucky, a body bag if you're not)
In 2014 an artist made an interactive work intended to capture the existential anguish of the conference call [0]. Slate calls it, "Like David Lynch Directed a Remake of Office Space.” I don't know about you, but it sure works on me. Try it [1]. That is how I feel every time I have to be part of a collaboration that includes a remote worker.

Which is of course every meeting for the last two years, but a national emergency is bound to cause some low-grade suffering. Making the vile space of Zoom into the center and essence of working life permanently is a whole other thing that I didn't sign up for and I'm not on board with.

[0] https://slate.com/business/2014/01/the-existential-despair-o...

[1] http://conferencecall.biz/