skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See earlier point about air defense systems being a priority due to lacking fighter parity.

Which EW systems are you talking about?
The agreement literally says "respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine" on page 3. What is fuzzy about the wording?
Is any part of Chernobyl still in operation? It seems like everything was shut down by 2000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant).
> EU and US will use every diplomatic and financial weapon against Russia

[Citation needed]

The softening of sanctions has arrived already.
It's a fun 3D "game-as-a-website" that I was astounded by (still am)

https://youtu.be/PN5YvuHVQXg?t=6
I do not understand the cost breakdown.

So a developer wants to build a hundred basic units (350 square feet/30 square metres) in a block and the cost is costing eighty million dollars?

We can do much better. Where are the factories building the prefabricated units to build apartments from?

I have a friend from East Germany who's parents grew up in the Stalinist apartments. They solved this exact problem in the early 1950s. What is wrong with LA?

And not to pick on LA. This is a problem throughout the West as far as I can tell. What is wrong with us? Why can we not efficiently build housing?
>why should she turn to America’s president for information?

Because he has the World's most powerful intelligence agencies behind him?

I know, children and propagandists will say "but, what about Iraq?" or some-such.

But most serious people know that we generally hear about the relative few intelligence failures versus the multitudes of successes, and that the U.S. and its allies unquestionably wield the World's foremost intel services.

And, here, we have the benefit of hindsight so we know unequivocally: our intelligence had it right and "she" would have done well to "turn to America's president for information".
They aren't more efficient. However, their costs (especially for labor) are much lower than in the USA except for stuff they can't source from government owned sources.
> you need to build a lot of equipment.

Cryogenic distillation of air is a solved problem. There are plenty of plants already in operation all over the globe meaning there only needs to be modification to existing plants to further collect and crack the remaining 0.1% of air. I'm sure this is not hard to do with existing cryoplants.

If we already have the capacity then why are we without Neon production is a good question. Neon isn't in high demand like the easily extracted major components of air: nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), and argon (0.9%). Neon is something like 18ppm in air so a lot of energy has to go in to get very little out. So my guess is economics where the existing Ukrainian cryogenic plants have kept their prices low enough to discourage adding this capacity to new/existing plants elsewhere (maybe they get cheap energy, subsidies, etc). Now it might be profitable.
It’s not clear to me how your future former boss has the power to starve you to death.
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I felt it was an observation not an attack.
Can you expand on that? Russia's main export is oil.
I do not think the US does political assassinations (I may be utterly wrong here, if so, please post examples!) It does use assassinations against terrorists or quasi-political figures such as Qasem Soleimani, but I doubt that eliminating Putin is even being contemplated here.
> Russia could have asked for this guarantee if it really cared about

They did exactly that, only to be ignored, and denied that they could even ask for it.

> it wasn't even a topic of discussion.

Whaaat? It is public, you won't have any trouble to find it.

> Ukraine had nukes and gave them up.

Soviet Union had nukes, not Ukraine.
Biking will always be an option. If you are in decent shape you can travel over 100 miles in a day.
>The goal is to educate humanity so that we can start making more conscious decisions

I don't think you can educate your way out of economies of scale that make it cheap to feed people garbage. The only real solution would be to declare PUFA as unfit for human consumption but that won't happen obviously

Besides, many people really will just eat whatever crispy oily sugary slop has the shiniest packaging. It is unpleasant to believe this, but it's true. Think of how health conscious or critically minded the average person is, and remember that 50% of the population is below that average. A lot of people really just go through life without making choices, just consuming whatever is directly in front of them. This can be hard to believe if (like most people on this site) you are significantly smarter and richer than average, and spend your time around others who are similarly smarter and richer than average, but it really is true.

Like think of how more than 2/3 american adults are overweight. Why? Because they literally can't stop picking up food with their hands, putting it into their mouths, and chewing and swallowing it. All you have to do to not be fat is to instruct your fleshsuit to stop picking things up and placing them in your mouth. Calories cannot legally enter your body without your consent. And yet 2/3 adults are overweight. So I don't think education will do anything here.
We could've avoided this:

(1) https://i.redd.it/iq2zlt0ldrj81.jpg

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfk-qaqP2Ws

(3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PPaqnReu8

We still continued in order to destabilize all of Europe and prevent them from merging Central European industrial capital with Eastern European natural resources. It's the same old policy -- everything else is just bread and circuses.

Well, we still have Russia by the throat, now I just think we shouldn't squeeze so hard that they collapse -- which would lead to a complete and utter destabilization of a huge chunk of the world, and it would be detrimental to our short and long-term interests. Miscreants would take over and have a field day.
I don't use Jupyter, can you take my sometimes ugly, research-grade Pytorch code, and turn it into a clean, production quality code?
Hypothetically: your precision-guided munitions killing only family members of only military officers who haven't yet surrendered to you would be a stronger offense. Your enemy's anti-aircraft guns firing only at their own aircraft, and their tanks driving under your control to destroy their munitions depots, the crews helplessly imprisoned within. Your enemy's civilian populace becoming convinced that their own leadership is crucifying babies and mass-murdering anyone who speaks their language, your soldiers treat civilians well, and their family members are urging them to surrender to you.

Compared to those things, the power of nukes is trivial; all they can do is destroy. You can't surrender to a nuke, and the point of warfare is to convince the enemy to submit, not to damage the ecosystem. Damaging the ecosystem is just a side effect, so it's the wrong way to measure the strength of offensive resources.
Yandex was the only one for me. I blocked it on all the hosts files under my control and my pihole network dns
I see. Didn't know that
Huh, maybe the pointless speculative waste of cryptocurrency will produce actual engineering improvements as by-products. At least Merkle trees have real applications, unlike ASIC bitcoin miners.
> Shipping the homeless elsewhere than California's most expensive cities is way outside the Overton window.

Why? Unless you can show proof that most of the homeless in SF and LA are locals who fell on hard times rather than junkies who moved in for better weather and benefits, shipping them out seems completely reasonable.
This development is a tactical prerequisite for besieging or attacking Kyiv. The exclusion zone covers the shortest route to the city from Belarus - the shortest route available to Russian forces.

It’s also perhaps a strategic coup for Russia in two ways - but it could also be a boon to Ukraine. The coming days will elucidate which party most profits - probably Russia.

Russia’s first strategic gain is simply one of properly executed rapid maneuver armored warfare. They now hold a redoubt that is difficult to safely attack, threatens Kyiv and the entire Dnipro plain, and preemptively protects their politically weakest supply line, Belarus.

Russia’s second potential strategic boon here is more modern - they have seized an infowar high ground.

The Financial Times this morning quotes an anonymous Russian security official claiming Chernobyl’s occupation creates a potent psychological deterrent against both strategic escalation and subtle tactical interference from the West.

The disaster of 86 looms large in the minds of European polities, especially the Nordics. Placing the radioactive zone in the battle space may chill European feet.

And in American minds, Chernobyl is unavoidably associated with the USSR and memories of a more dangerous iteration of Russia. (I expect many on this side of the Atlantic think the plant is in Russia.) Occupying it elevates the danger and the power associated with Russia nearer to Cold War levels of respect, which is a fundamental goal of Putin’s revanchism.

However, in the Slavic societies of post-Soviet eastern Europe - including Russians themselves - Chernobyl connotes the corruption and failure of the USSR. Gorbachev himself blamed the Union’s destruction entirely on the loss of scientific and nuclear prestige, and national confidence, engendered by the disaster.

So Russia risks reminding all their former satellite peoples of the last empire’s outcome. Ukraine’s morale and propaganda may turn the loss into a victory - especially if the Nordics polities, and German citizenry, favor outrage over trepidation. In this pursuit, Zelensky spoke several hours ago with Sweden’s PM about specifically the Chernobyl battle - and Ukraine’s FM called it an “attack on Europe.”

I hope desperately that Ukraine gains greater European unity, and Russia gets further opprobrium among those Europeans who yet still take an understanding view of Putin’s new imperialism.

But I suspect the affair will on the whole benefit Russia. All else aside, it’s clear they are fighting a conventional ground war. They need the hard tactical advantage of occupying this particular 1,000 square miles to win; even if they lose the information battle they have advanced their cause.
Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C
Not to deminish that they're people but that's basically a weekend in Chicago... For a "full scale invasion" it's nothing and would indicate that there won't be much resistance.
Yes, it's called MAD. I think it's been settled fact for decades that any country launching a nuclear strike against another nuclear armed country will be in turn annihilated. There is no survival.
NATO forces have been above Ukraine for the last several years. The US et al. were flying ISR missions right up against the borders of Belarus, Russia, and eastern Ukraine rebel-held areas up to a couple days ago.

"Reckless brinkmanship" is an odd phrase, when we're talking about responses to Russia invading a sovereign country.
Are you catching the results? Probably a lot of people is trying https://github.com/torvalds/linux
> The Russian forces seem to be trying to encircle or assault Kyiv.

Yes, but although Putin is a bloody bastard, he's not stupid.
His plan isn't to take entire control of Ukraine militarily but to swap the legit government with a puppet one he would control at will. Once he succeed, which is a matter of a few days, he'll gradually withdraw most of the forces, things will slowly return to normal and in a few years Ukraine will essentially (if not effectively) annex itself to Russia, with both the EU and US doing nothing but economic sanctions Putin and the oligarchs were long prepared against. Most of Europe depends on Russian gas, which means the moment those sanctions become too harsh is the moment he'll either cut our supply or further raise the prices (my last heating bill already doubled). That's his guarantee against any real action.
I'm sorry, but Ukrainian people are screwed.
The endgame is to avoid them where possible in order to minimize the risk. It's not absurd and very reasonable. People stick to all kinds of obscure diets and most are not going insane.
that repo is awesome - you should do a ShowHN for that!
Hey! So what's your take on this, is this something Sidekiq can benefit from or not so much?
I listened to all of these and didn't hear anything concerning: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chomsky+yugosla...
All over the news if you do a search. First hits:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rejects-calling-ru...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/24/china-refuses-to-call-attack...
well that explains a lot
Thanks for your comment. First I want to say I'm a big fan of prettier and no we're very different.

At MutableAI we're laser focused on actually _transforming_ Jupyter notebooks (beyond formatting). Meaning we will actually remove dead code and in some cases refactor your code for you. We also use large scale transformers / neural networks to document your code, which IIRC prettier does not.
The person who flagged it probably thinks any attempt to even entertain the possibility of a compromise with Putin was akin to helping him destroy our democratic values and free speech.

Fucking irony.
Are companies still allowing permanent remote work? Google, Microsoft, etc. I don't care about the vaccine mandates as much as whether or not they force people to go into the office
The market and tech is in a completely different position to what it was back then.

Xilinx is well ahead of Altera.

Xilinx already is extremely profitable in it's current markets already.

Xilinx and AMD provide extreme supply overlap, and greater bargaining position with TSMC.

AMD can leverage the IP much better within it's own products and vice versa.

The times of easy performance wins are gone. Accelerators are the future now.

Market is much better suited, software toolkits are better.
Nobody "guaranteed" anything, they just agreed to respect Ukraine borders. Which Russia didn't, but other parties don't have any other obligation than "seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance" when there is threat of using nuclear weapons.
But we get new revisions when updates come, can read reviews and they don't cost £11000 per year.
I suspect Russia will just keep slicing the sausage. Then take the western provinces and re install a puppet regime as was there before (like Belarus). If that turns out to be inadequate down the road, just take another slice or two down the road.

The USSR went partially this way in Finland: sliced off half the country, though they left the other half alone, on sufferance. I don’t think Putin would be satisfied with that: he’ll want another Yanukovych or Lukashenko.
Ok, thanks. (I meant a USB programmer integrated onto a board with the ATTiny85 soldered on). To answer my own question, there are these[1] USB boards that you can pop the ATTiny85 in to program it. I wrote an AVR emulator back in the day, and yeah, they definitely don't have USB :-)

[1] https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/SparkFun/PGM-11801?qs=W...
Putin is trying to conquer a country because someone gave the heads up on his alleged plans and his feelings are hurt? People do not give Putin the credit he deserves and thus Putin plays them.
This is similar to the problem we face, where you're charging based on usage of something people don't usually count. For us, that's GraphQL requests.

While certainly big companies have monitoring for this kind of thing set up, we learned that a majority of engineering teams have absolutely no clue how many GraphQL requests they get per month. Like, not even a ballpark. Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Billions? No clue, could be any of those.

Our free plan was originally 5M free requests per month, which is relatively generous — but people didn't know and thus we had almost no users on the free plan. We recently changed it to just be "free for solo developers working on side projects / indie hacking / etc. no matter how many requests".[0]

So far, the change's been well received! Curious to see Planetscale dealing with the same general kind of issue, just on a different layer.

[0]: https://graphcdn.io/blog/unlimited-free-requests-for-develop...
> Their industry and economy was struggling and fell apart overnight but the West wasn’t happy to just win, it wanted to Win Big. We rubbed the unproductivity of it in their face, kicked the market wide open to fire sales and mass demobilization

I'm not familiar with this; can you elaborate or link me to something?
Yes. For example: russia took airport in Hostomel earlier today. Ukrainian army started counter attack and prevented russian planes from landing. Airport isn't retaken yet, there are heavy fights out there, but the main objective of preventing massive russian troops landing is achieved.
It not really a byproduct per say of oxygen and nitrogen, but the byproduct of that process has a higher amount of neon than air by about 99 times. Still, the gas that we got is about 93% argon, and then you got to remove the carbon dioxide, but then its mostly neon left I think.
Yes, countries have neighbors. Learn to deal with it.

Those neighbors are allowed to join defensive agreements. Also Gorbatshov denied being "duped" about NATO expansion. Also Putin has no reason to be bothered by NATO troops in neighbor countries. They aren't anywhere close to invasion strength (even if you are prepared to consider they would want to despite all the treaties).

It's just that the NATO troops would be in the way when Putin decides to reintegrate those neighbors too his historic empire.
Show HN: Quick and easy way to keep up with the latest Ukraine news
> What specifically do you mean by "concrete promises"?

Actually admitting it to the EU or NATO. Actually pledging to defend it.
Holy crap, Europe needs to get off natural gas yesterday.
Eventually people will realize that the vast majority of the foods they buy at the store are:

* Undernourishing: lacking historical nutritional value

* Lopsided / Disproportionate: ingredients are wildly over/ under represented wrt 'nature', like extreme levels of PUFAs in products due to added seed oils

* Addictive Filler: Added suger or other added sweeteners, added corn derivatives, etc

The only way to really avoid this is to go to extremes. For me that means cooking all my own food and tracing as many of my ingredients back to their sources and vetting them. Just buying 'USDA Organic' isn't enough these days, I need to ensure the various farms are not contaminating their soil with pesticides / fertilizers, among other factors.

What I'd really like to see, and this is a bit out there for HN, is a US certification for farmers practicing both USDA Organic and Korean Natural Farming (a somewhat radical organic approach to farming). I trust KNF with my health.
Given the situation in Ukraine, I created a quick and easy way to keep up with the latest news on Ukraine from a lot of sites.

You can also search for news and content on other topics as well, but there are not any features beyond the search.

This is just a very simple site that I mainly created for myself to keep up with what is going on in Ukraine.

Let me know if you find any bugs!
> I'm not following why if kids are happy homeschooling and socializing on popular video games is a negative?

Many kids, including our three, would be perfectly happy if they didn't have to do any schoolwork ever again.

During the worst lockdown period here our middle child got 45 mins "online" with his teacher each day, and apart from that, he was on his own. Two working parents, with two (allegedly) full-time jobs. As the saying goes, "do the math"...

Far too much TV was watched. Far too much youtube too. Far too much Minecraft was played.

For the kids this was Just Fine(!) For us parents, not so much.
I'm not saying I agree. It's just that Russian politics is a tad more paranoia driven than you might imagine.
You forgot to add some homophobia to your straw man depiction of the West.
Not that I know of, no. The Russian blogosphere as I knew it in its heyday (not very well) just used whatever LiveJournal was capable of producing without much configuration, for the most part, so you had the “cut” used to delimit either the hook or an abstract (под катом [pət 'katəm] is used as the rough Runet-speak equivalent of “below the fold” even today), but not much else.

As best as I can tell it was around the time of the English-language The Correspondent hype (either pre- or post-launch—I remember there was a whole section about this one gimmick in the marketing materials) that Meduza introduced these quasi-footnotes, so I guess I just assumed they saw them there and decided they wanted the same thing for themselves. No idea about the real history though.
"The most efficient system is no system" -Elon Musk
Good advice! I think it would make it more interesting to challenge myself to help junior developers grow as much as possible.

I guess sometimes I feel like people will grow on their own, and that my mentoring doesn’t really make a difference. But maybe I’m misjudging how much I could help if I really applied myself to it.

And to be clear, I think using “rein in” was bad wording on my part, due to the negative connotations, and I regret not writing that differently.

I do give advice and try to teach rather than to just say no or criticizing, and I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback for how I work with junior developers. It just hasn’t been something really fulfilling to me.
Yes, which is why I said it's still speculation.
This is a very good read on cyber conflict:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/152662...
“People” don’t want their regular neighborhood police either, but take it away and people start appreciating it.
The entire Western world is declining birth rates. It's very worrying. People complained about over population, but a nose dive in birth rates can become near irreversable.
By Western standards it is probably seen as paranoia, by Russian standards it is seen as self defense. They have never really gotten over the implosion of the whole USSR.
The sanctions are extremely tough and not entirely painless for the US and other western countries.

Also the US has delivered weapons to Ukraine.

They don't want to engage in a war with Russia, and that decision I think is the right one for now. A couple years down the road, if the sanctions don't succeed in containing Putin's aggression, we might have a different discussion.
It takes two things for an agreement like this to become worthless.

The first is a violation of the agreement, which is what Russia is doing currently.

The second is the lack of enforcement of the agreement against the above violator. If the other signatories enforced the agreement, then it would signal that the agreement is worthwhile, and other countries would be willing to enter into it.

Yes, of course Russia is the aggressor here and was the first to break the agreement. But the moment when these agreements become worthless, is when violations are not enforced, not when violations occur.
Also, vimtutor. It'll show you everything you need to know to get started.
Putin is very rational and predictive. The nuclear option is not relevant.

He moved troops to the borders, waited for a response. And this response was what he expected to be: just sanctions. This gave him the "ok" to invade.

Sending troops would be a clear signal. Costly, but you can also see it as a good exercise.
Which is the only sensible stance to take. Unfortunately that requires rational actors.
But they’re nowhere close to even be compared. What you’re saying is like claiming that a dog is like an eagle, there’s only a few ft difference in altitude. The key feature of the dictatorship (bird) - the absolute and total power over your life (flying) - is something the corporation most of use work in (dogs) simply cannot have. If they want to (flap your paws real hard, I guess) just walk away.