skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Handing out guns doesn't quite work.

Czechs have a 500 year old gun culture, and were quite well armed. It is a shall-issue country, and every gun permit is automatically a concealed carry permit. Today, close to 20-25% of the country own guns, probably more undeclared owners.

Nevertheless, it got occupied by Germany and by Russia on two separate occasions, and at some point "elected" Hapsburgs.

The days of "God made Men. Smith&Wesson made them equal" are long past, and we are now well into the age of neo-feudalism.

Choose your suzerain carefully.
You mean "fought their draft" in the sense of "avoiding being sent to Vietnam"?

Sure, that would make hypocrites of those who were draft dodgers back then, and advocate the draft now. But how many of those are there? I'd guess the vast majority of baby boomers who now advocate the draft weren't draft dodgers.

And AFAIK, compared to those who went, draft dodgers were a small minority.
An interesting analysis. It seems to stop just short of attempting to answer the really important questions, though. For example, it says:

> This is based on a 2017 UNEP report that estimated we’ll need annual CDR of 10Gt will help achieve a 2°C scenario.

and:

> The average cost is $332 per ton

So currently the annual cost to keep to that scenario is about $3 trillion per year. To put that in perspective, it's about half the amount that Covid-19 is thought to have cost the world in 2020 according to one estimate.[0]

It's possible that the costs of CDR will go down as the technology scales up, but it's also possible that a relatively short economic stress like Covid-19 is easier to manage than a multi-decade commitment to funding CDR at a level like $100 billion per year, for example.

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/business/economy/how-much-has-the...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/s6g5un/want_to_sup...

There are ukrainian charities you can donate to.
My background here is just a user of both, nothing too deep or profound. I guess I've also got a few nights on a project to make a mongodb compliant API for postgres jsonb in python.

Obsolete feels like a strong term. for a problem thats truly document oriented workloads mongodb still seems more efficient, if not in literal performance then in scope and understandability. the mongodb API is the defacto "standard" API for document dbs as far as I can tell, and realistically SQL is a notable barrier for application devs. Also, operationally, mongodb is easier to run, between Atlas and having more clustering capabilities available for "easy". Those two things mean you _can_ move faster than with postgres (with the same relative amount of knowledge)

That said, for the aforementioned side project, a few nights got me the basic pieces of the API in place (next big step is the aggregation pipeline, which id argue is intermediate for mongodb and much less used), so it's not hard to adapt a codebase to pg/jsonb. And imo there aren't that many hardcore document only problems at the small or even medium size. And once you're at medium to large, the mongodb pain of transactions as a second class citizen, lack of data integrity options, schema fluidity, and overall less strict structuring makes Pg much more appealing. Pg/jsonb is powerful, and if you have someone willing to be a db admin postgres is extremely powerful.

So, mongodb maybe not Obsolete (it's popularity would attest otherwise if nothing else), but id take a better option if I were able. But if I needed a FE or mid-tier application dev to magically be an infra person, mongodb starts looking good again.
Yes flutter performance is horrible on web, but not bad on mobile and as native app
> I think it's wishful thinking to imagine soldiers will make the 'right' decision when the call comes.

I understood the point you are responding to differently than you - it is not about doing the (morally) "right" thing, it is about doing the self-preserving thing. I imagine there is always a lot of people willing to do horrible things when they can reasonably expect they will face no personal consequences (your Tiananmen Square massacre example, which would mean personal consequences for not doing it). The expectations are very different for officers hitting the launch button - they have to know that if they do it, it is very likely that they themselves and everybody they love will die or face horrible future in the post-apocalyptic world. I am not saying this means nobody will hit the button, I am just saying it makes doing it a lot harder and (hopefully) less likely.
Do you really think that the US will nuke Russia to protect Poland or Germany?
Sure: https://archive.is/KCNrw

> “Uber stops working in Ukraine, Bolt and Uklon continue to work

KYIV. Feb 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Uber service has stopped working in Ukraine, the company said in its app.

"Uber rides are not available in this region at this time," a message to passengers in Kyiv reads.

In Lviv, the application shows that there are no trips available.

In Kharkiv and Odesa, a message is also displayed stating that trips in the region are not available.

"Due to the growth of geopolitical tensions and recent events, we have decided to suspend the operation of the application. The safety of all application users is our top priority. We continue to monitor the circumstances and hope that this is a temporary situation," the company said.

Taxi calling services Bolt and Uklon continue to work.

Uber has been operating in Ukraine since 2016 and is present in nine cities.”
Jim Keller, TSMC 2022 Open Innovation Summit: Innovating Digital Transformation
> But that buffer was about to join NATO.

That is not correct afaik.

Besides that the downsides associated with all this far outweigh the upside of where NATO's borders are.
It's not meaningless though. With all the checks and balances that the rust compiler enforces, you have a higher likelihood of having a correct and less buggy program.
I live in a large city, but have reasonable hope not to be targeted in a first strike by either side. (I live in Singapore.)
Analysis of Putin's imperial ambitions and Ukraine's 300-year road to statehood
I remeber a video from the grugq where he said he has a "friend" who pirated Iran targets directly from US IPs because he knew he had no chance of being extraded.
The taunting knight in the photo was supposed to be French. But apparently that's not the F-word in question.
Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires for a reason.
The system that generates the map is available at http://www.srp.ecocentre.kiev.ua/

(Might be a bit overwhelmed at the moment.)
Doom Emacs had this behavior by default, and it caught me by surprise when it prevented me from typing "noto-fonts-cjk." I knew a lot of people do this in Vim, but it took some time to figure out exactly what had happened. Excellent framework though.
There are only positive impacts if you acknowledge your impulses and bring them into the light and to the conscious.

You realize your limitations and make peace with yourself and are better prepared in the future.

The problem are people who don't acknowledge their dark shadow, like Putin and eventually it integrates and takes over them.
You are probably downvoted for - voluntarily or involuntarily (I cannot judge) - running the errands of the enemies of the free world by suggesting that it is hopeless while it is absolutely not.

(Why is it not hopeless? Russian forces suffer large losses and their morale is breaking, after all, what sane person wants to shoot their peaceful neigbours and relatives? Russians are already taking to the streets to protest the madness one day into this stupid war, who would have expected such bravery from the already suffering Russian people? Half of the European population is already looking for anything they can do to support Ukraine, ordinary Russians raising up or to make Putin and his closest people suffer. Pro Russian trolls who were previously tolerated since we wanted to hear all sides are now kept down. The list probably goes on.)

Every free human is now at war, and for now, for us it is information warfare.

So lets make sure the madmen get nothing for free. Don't run their errands.
It's not clear they had a choice. The west was scared shitless of nuclear proliferation in ex-soviet republics, and would probably not have lifted a finger about the matter.
This goes over network construction very well, but I'd like to know about more about how modern compilers go about doing autograd.
Sorry, I meant to say the Soviet Bloc.
Thanks! This is pretty useful information. I don't have any idea why they made this choice, so I can't say if it's good or bad, but it's important to understand what's going on in Ukraine, and this is a thing that's going on in Ukraine, and will probably happen in future war zones.
What are you talking about? Turkey is a good weapons customer of Russia and Putin and Erdogan continuously profess their mutual respect.
How Taiwan used simple tech to help contain Covid-19
Former journalist from Estonia here. Our media republished a 1994 speech given by late president of Estonia Lennart Meri at a banquet in Hamburg, Germany. Vladimir Putin, a then internationally unknown politician from St Petersburg, was also among the listeners -- and demonstratively walked out of the room during Meri's speech, as reported by Deutsche Welle [1]. Quoting DW:

"On February 25, 1994, Putin was also in attendance. One distinguished guest, then-President of Estonia Lennart Meri, gave a speech. Putin did something that has never happened at this ceremony: he got up and left. "With his legs straight [ed.: in a marching stance], throwing a contemptuous glance at the host, he left the hall, every step accompanied by the creaking of the parquet," according to a correspondent for the German magazine Zeit. "His exit was followed by whispers. Who is he? What's his problem?"

What exactly did Meri say that so annoyed Putin? The speech reads like a prophecy of what happened 20 years later in Crimea. And Putin's reaction shows that he sent a clear signal to the West.

The Estonian president referred to a paper from the foreign ministry in Moscow: "It notes that the problem of ethnic Russian groups in countries neighboring Russia cannot be solved by diplomatic means alone." Other means were conceivable for Moscow, Meri concluded. He warned against Russia's "neo-imperialist policy" and appealed to integrate Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, into the "democratic world."

Lennart Meri was a former filmmaker, literary translator, writer and IMO a world class intellectual with excellent speeches. For anyone interested, I google-translated this Hamburg 1994 speech to English [2]. The original source in Estonian is also present on the homepage of President's Office [3].

1: https://www.dw.com/en/vladimir-putins-infamous-history-in-ha...

2: https://zerobin.net/?5938a7875752194a#kVyn/9uj46bUH+M1z7rk+w...

3: https://vp1992-2001.president.ee/est/k6ned/K6ne.asp?ID=4236
I can implement a basic behave_differently.sh

head -c 1024 /dev/urandom

paradox.sh paradox.sh will be different than paradox.sh paradox.sh
Well, the German army was significantly downsized since the end of the Cold War and Reunification. Once Germany had thousands of modern tanks for example. Now we are down to fraction of that. We called it the Peace Dividend, not sure if it actually saved any money so.

The reason why the German Army was that big was the USSR and Warsaw pact. They were supposed to check any Soviet advance long enough, preferably before the Rhine, for the bulk of the US forces to show up after being shipped over the Atlantic. It would suck if that becomes necessary again, the high level of militarization during the Cold War was decidedly not a good thing.
One of my great regrets in life so far is shirking that responsibility and selfishly allowing a dog to last too long. I’ve learned from it and since had to make that decision again and actually made a decision this time but the guilt remains. It’s a dreadful responsibility.
This doesn't really answer who you'd expect to attack Russia. Finland? Norway? Poland? Spain? France?

Might as well start preparing for the Mexican invasion of the United States.
To be glib: Hopium.

To be frank: That number's missing a zero.
In a competitive market, which browser is going to win, the one that says "no one under the age of 16 can use this browser because they're too likely to fall victim to the security holes we intentionally didn't fix" or the one that says "we fixed that security hole"?

I actually use a vim-style plugin in Firefox and this seems obvious to me, how do you think the majority of users feel?
I think we should work in offices with the ability to work remotely when necessary and(/or) if we choose. I don't like needing to find the perfect spot to setup my desk where my company isn't looking into my home. I don't like having a company laptop that at any given time could be listening in on family conversations. I don't like the idea of my company seeing my child struggle through LGBTQQIA+ issues because I happen to have a work camera at home. I like and enjoy my privacy. I want offices to still be a thing.
>NATO is an open alliance, not an American empire.

NATO is an excuse for America to have their colonising army in Europe while making it look like something else. America can brainwash Europeans by using the media of these compromised nations and their own peasants via their corrupt corporate media... but don't expect outsiders, include Russia, to fall for this nonsense.
I've noticed the same pattern but with one major difference. They are sending the emails to two email addresses, mine and my sister's. Both in the "To:" field so I can see who received the email. Somehow our emails got linked in their database and now she's constantly receiving recruiter spam on my behalf.

Not sure how they got linked, other than the same last name we have very little in common. We work in completely different industries and different job roles.

Really wish there was an easy mechanism to correct the mistake though.
It looks like maybe the hryvnia has lost 5% of its value over the last year (and 12% over the last three months)? The bigger issue is that it's likely that Russia will overthrow its government before April (50% probability) and after that it's anybody's guess what the new regime will do with the hryvnia.

https://tradingeconomics.com/ukraine/currency says 29.7 hryvnia to the dollar at the moment.

I mean, I'm not saying cryptocurrency is a bad idea, but the hryvnia doesn't seem as totally pointless as you suggest.
You're right, thank you. I mis-remembered, in NY it's major crimes that's around 30%.
I am from Poland and now I need to seriously consider possibility that Poland within 10 years or 20 may be under Russian occupation. Again.

That is not a high risk, but becomes a real possibility. Rather than insane rambling and pure fiction. Or something appearing to be a dark pessimism.

This is not situation that I like.

So, in the end

- (1) I may not have option to choose

- (2) I would prefer to fight Russians in Estonia (Baltic countries are likely the next target) than in my own country

> would you still believe that if you were to be the first on the beach with a rifle?

I am not going to pretend that I know how I will behave in situation that is extremely beyond what ever happened to me.
> Reminder to people who didn't grow up in the US: Americans are by and large a bloodthirsty, vindictive lot

I'd take away "by and large" here.

Many of them are also exceedingly generous, open and friendly and cares deeply. This holds true for both sides of the political spectrum.

They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start.
How do you think about the world your kids will grow up in? I just find it very strange, that I would sit at home on Zoom my whole life to better facilitate having kids who will themselves sit at home on Zoom their whole lives. Is this really the human experience we are passing on?
We hear you.
Because it's better.

Simple question, simple answer. Using C is purely an act of risk-aversion, contrarianism, and fashion.
I think you are still assuming some context to understand your comment that I'm still missing. By "directly using gpu" you probably mean without Vulkan and without any operating-system-level graphics driver, right? I.e. writing to GPU registers directly.

Does this project assume any other operating system level infrastructure? If so, which OS -- Linux, Windows, BSD, ...?
related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461038

edit: the tweet provides Patreon's comment re their decision
> The existence of an adaptive mechanism in an organism doesn't mean that any organisms that have such mechanisms are sentient to similar degrees.

If there is an intelligence behind such mechanism, it still would not fit your definition of sentiency correct?

How are you so certain that there isn't an intelligence to all living things, plant, trees, insects and animals? How can such intelligence not adapt to its environment and instruct its physical medium to change its behavior or rearrange itself spatial temporally to maximize survivability?

Is that not the definition of a lifeform? the drive to survive?

really bizarre you would limit your horizon here, is it to double down on your original argument that is in alignment with what the article is proposing and the rest of us are commenting at the irony of deciding what is ethically edible or not in a country where industrial scale farming of all things sentient?
Depends on who you want to put the burden on?

It's relatively easy to do the mass replace in master. You leave the burden of the replacement in the other branches to people who own those branches.

Set up an automated script, to keep the 'unreplaced' version out of master (and people can also use that script to check their own branches).

Not sure if that counts as non-trivial, yet?

There are probably some other trade-offs involved. The people running kernel development ain't idiots.
> Same as in a poker game, you can't fold every time someone raises big

As Samy Farha put it excellently "in order to live you must be willing to die". Because poker is war and life :)
None of countries which depend on gas/oil from Russia would like it, included Ukraine, Baltic states, Poland and so on who pay them everyday.

Blocking Russia from SWIFT would kill half of EU economy.
Ah yeah good old floats. It was all about knowing the clear tricks, not sure I could still do it these days haha. Agree, it was a lot harder. But even that was a lot easier then making layouts with tables, or frames haha, so I didn’t mind, it already felt like a massive improvement. But yeah flex is great, I also really enjoy grid. Similar tricky to get started with but insanely powerful.

You describe it very well; that expressiveness is what’s really enjoyable, and pretty much impossible to find elsewhere.

I think it’s maybe just a professional tool, hard to start with but once you get over the initial hurtle it becomes very powerful. In that sense it’s not that different from learning any programming language. It’s a good question if it could be easier, I’ve also done that exercise of “how else” I think the problem might be the complexity and messiness of ui and layout, it’s not css, it’s the layout. I think it could and will be easier though, not as something totally different, but simply improving what’s there; basically continuing the path it’s already been on for the past decades. I’m truly enjoying it today and excited for what’s to come!
Tell that the Afghans. NATO could have easily deployed there, or just EU forces. I think people in charge still had hopes to avoid an escalation. And to not get their own troops into the firing line immediately. Deploying troops to Ukraine also limits your options, because it means full, and preemptive, commitment to war. At place and time where the opponent had much more time to properly prepare.
There was no talk of Ukraine joining NATO heating up. Russia started deploying troops to the Ukraine border in March 2021. The excuse back then wasn't about Ukraine joining NATO; the excuse was that it was mobilizing troops to protect itself from a NATO attack during the DEFENDER-21 annual exercise.
I don't see how Perforce makes this easier than Git?
That is one of the saddest parts, and one that a lot of people ignore.
I guess the tricky thing about a military, as german history shows, is its cultural impact. Would the Nazi regime have been possible without Hindenburg? Would Hitler have become prominent without Ludendorf? Ludendorf and Hindenburg essentially created the stab-in-the-back idea. The outsize respect given to military figures, the allure of uniforms, the outsize rights and trust given to ex-soldiers - all these things made the nazis and their precursors very hard to push back on. When you think of organizations like the Freikorps, it's hard to avoid noticing the radicalizing effect of military service.

I would be more of a fan of a pan-EU force than a return to traditional national militaries.
That might be technically true, but most types of therapy seem to depend on some sort of theory of mind. Something like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on the idea that thoughts can control emotions & behavior.

A p-zombie might change their behavior under any given therapy, but it may be more due to behavioral feedback, the degree of change may be lesser, without thoughts acting to multiply the change.

So therapies that focus more on just behavioral feedback might be overall more effective for people that don't have much thought in their head. Such as p-zombie challenged folks.
There is 6 major organizations which one accept your donations right now.
http://www.helpukraine.xyz

And Bank of Ukraine accept wire transfers as well.
But I just donated to Come Back Alive cause I don't trust the bank of Ukraine effectively using the money.

Donate and help Ukraine!
If you’re going to the Big Island, there is a little place where they let you play with octopuses. They’re figuring out how to farm that species there.

You can feed them and stuff and you can play with them and they’ll touch you with their tentacles.

Anyway, I found the whole operation quite interesting. They were trying to farm them to prevent them from being over fished in the wild. Interesting objective.
directly using gpu == using vulkan shader

this paper explains it well

https://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/

Or the OP's earlier blog post

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/graphics/gpu/2019/05/08/mod...
It is, anyway, a bigger problem in the US than in some other places, and, in the US, a bigger problem in public projects than in private projects. So, we see it operating today on NASA's SLS rocket, but not on SpaceX's Starship.

But there has never been a privately financed nuke plant.
Which is why it makes sense to simply not eat any of them. It seems to be the healthiest option too, as long as you have access to enough healthy calories from plants.
>Why Didn’t We See This Coming?

Actually, we did. NATO – and especially US intelligence – was remarkably effective at predicting what Putin had planned before he did it, down to predicting the day the assault would begin.<

After Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, there was no reason to trust western intelligence just for 1 second.
Also you have a type system. And even in C function pointers have types.

So you can exclude many things that would in-principle be possible.
Here are some details from Patreon. Though "we are investigating" during an evolving emergency situation is the least helpful of approaches.

https://twitter.com/patreonsupport/status/149700257340388557...