skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine is in the middle of two "powers" and the proper role would be one of buffer. They could even benefit from that. Unfortunately, the Russian and the USA have both tried to take that part of the board for them and the Ukrainian population is split on their loyalties.

Russian, simply can't allow more of the board, specially one part so close, to be dominated by the opponent.

Anyone that think this conflict in terms of "good" or "bad" have been drinking the kool-aid.

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.
Hope to be right, because other scenarios are really scary.
Twitter is also asking me to signup. Gross.
stardew valley is a rip off harvest moon and still took 4 years to develop.

dwarf fortress has alot of fully original concepts, and has been in development for 20 years.
Why should it be? It's an inflammatory topic and HN users have nothing worthwhile to say on the given topic that can't be said on other more general websites.
Chinese at least care about their material prosperity. Russia seems fine with whatever sanctions fall on their lap.
I meant LineageOS with LOS, not LuneOS. Not familiar with LuneOS.
>Putin has literally made a career out of calling west's bluffs. Would he call that one?

Well that is the point. As I said the west needs to make it clear that an invasion would lead to war. It can't be a bluff. But we all know the west wasn't willing to end civilization over this so here we are. Seems like Putin is going to keep prodding the west until he finds the line he is convinced we won't let him cross. That line was never going to be Georgia, Crimea, or the whole of Ukraine.
The earliest I've seen this sort of idea (that CSS could be a source of security issues) was in: https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/12/notes-about-post-xss-wo... (Reflections on a post XSS world from 2011).

Zalewski acknowledges earlier sources.

EDIT: turns out CSS history sniffing is older than this
I am not aware of Russian / European geopolitics so pardon my ignorance, but isn't NATO reaching Russian borders a threat?

Hypothetically, wouldn't the US would have serious concerns if Mexico decides to join a Chinese alliance.

(I am not justifying a war, just wondering what could have been done on both sides to prevent it)
This is the biggest problem. I don't believe the sanctions imposed on Russia for the previous acts of aggression reached the level which Putin had already calculated into his plans.
We don't close bugs just because they are old.

Priority on fixing bugs is some combination of their severity, the number of users affected, and the difficulty/disruption involved in fixing it. The age is not relevant.
I’m afraid while I support strong action against Russia, I think we should have kicked them off Swift in 2014, sending us troops to Ukraine wouldn’t achieve anything. The Russians would simply ignore them.

If they got hurt during the invasion, the Russians would just claim, possibly entirely legitimately, that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and the US is using it as an excuse for escalation. Which in fact is exactly what you’re suggesting. It would be a serious misstep we can’t afford. We should have acted decisively sooner, but now we’re here we should act decisively now. Close the pipelines completely and shut off Russia from swift. Ban all foreign travel for any Russian government employees. We’re at war with this guy, we need to act like it.
It was originally part of the USSR. Putin has said many times he thinks breaking up the USSR was a huge mistake and wants to re-acquire those territories.

But yeah why does anyone start a war? Power, control, money, distraction, madness, idealism, etc. Probably a little of everything.
You sure those numbers are right bud?
There is a difference between production and distribution, and simply generating lots of feedback.
Oh my gosh! The first link led me to a re-creation[0] of the sheep desktop pet I had on Windows 3.1!

[0] https://esheep.petrucci.ch/
Not Rust, sorry.
Next up is Finland. Also not a NATO member.
I wonder what that reflects. Sanctions would not be very popular among the Russian population, is this just the regime calming down the populace? Or does it genuinely reflect the calculus here?
A p2p internet with no open ports is pretty pointless. And the average p2p application user isn't likely to understand the ramifications of opening ports, even if good tools are provided to do so (which I'm skeptical). So I don't really see how this improves much on the CGNAT world we're headed into.

I think tunneling is a safer and easier approach for most people. They never have to expose their IP or ports, and the application on the private end of the tunnel can run in a sandbox to protect the rest of the user's stuff.
Iran comes to mind as well, for disposing the Shah. A couple of years ago there was the risk of an US invasion of Iran as well.
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It is important to note that the gas exported to China and Europe are exported from different fields, and are not connected with each other. As it stands right now, Russia cannot export the gas it produces for Europe to China.
Putin already believes he shares a border with NATO. Ukraine is not independent in his mind. Foundations of Geopolitics explains in depth what modern Russian foreign policy is aiming for.
You can put external links into e.g. your Github README.md to display badges but yes, Github seem to have some silly policy of not allowing people to inject executable Javascript into their website so you can't embed things using <object> tags, or similar. You have to use <img> which means no JS included in the badge SVG will be executed => no automatic updates.
Sure, because American citizens don't accept USA invading other countries.

Two week of 24 hours news with the proper perspective and the people would be asking in the streets for the invasion of Canada.
I don't think it's at all true that the current United States is more loosely organized than nation-states like Poland and Lebanon, and if you want to lump nation-states together with their diametrical opposites like Belgium I have no idea what distinction between categories of polities you are trying to discuss. "Random unaffiliated, unassociated people wandering around hunting for food" is not a fair description of any state of human existence that has ever been documented by anthropologists or, to my knowledge, suggested by archaeologists. Certainly it isn't a fair description of the Holy Roman Empire.

Moreover, the particular way in which the United States discovered how to generate electricity from nuclear fission and traveled to the moon with rockets crucially depended on it not being a nation-state: it was consequently able to assimilate foreign immigrants like Fermi, von Braun, von Neumann, and Einstein.

Certainly it's possible for a nation-state to make such advances in theory, but in practice they seem to depend on the kind of diversity of intellectual and cultural traditions that is anathema to nation-states. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States nor the countries of the European Space Agency were or are nation-states.
That's downright rapid by Mozilla standards.
The most difficult part is probably the enrichment so a rearming these nukes could be manageable.
All the variations of "Click yes if you are over 18" were probably enough to get most people used to the idea that enforcement by software is a joke and that lying to software in order to get what you want is easy and profitable.
To be fair, the first "tech" Unicorn was I.Net in year 2000. At the time of IPO it was worth ~€1.5B.

The term "Unicorn" hasn't been coined yet back then.

Source: my business partner was the co-founder of I.Net.
> People regularly use this one as argument or to imply inferiority of those they look down at. Therefore, it is 100% alright to not that idiom stand.

Hmm, I disagree. I've seen it used as a statement of dysfunction in our society.
And in the short and medium turn, Europe cannot get to renewables. Re-doing an continent's energy grid takes time. Also, remember that many water heaters and house heating systems run on gas. Switching these to electric will also take time.
The trick isn't so much about looping the sine/cosine. It's about setting synchronizing the maximum time value passed to a shader, with maximum precision of an arbitrary multiplicand used in the shader.

> How do we ensure that, easily, in a way that people don't have to think about?

The relation is that the time should switch from 10^x to 0, and in the shader the number of digits after a dot should be no more than x.
The downvotes are because your opinions are despicable, not because it isn't literally true that Ukraine stance changed in the last decades.
> But I don’t see either country launching their full nuke arsenal unprovoked with their homeland not under any immediate danger. That’s just a death wish. And at that point there’s no one left to brag to about how great your country is.

"I won" regardless of having someone to brag to, is still a motivating force I fear.
I don’t see how it’s bluffing to say “yes, there’s bad stuff, you don’t have to like it.”

“Bluffing” means faking something to get an advantage. So you think the company was filled with sadists who were trying to appear to be sympathetic to make hiring easier?

It’s pretty easy to say “full disclosure, some stuff sucks. It’s ok to hate it, we all hate it. Just hold your nose and do it anyway.”

Why fake that attitude? What advantage does the alternative present?
France as well. Poland was never a intended to stay local by the Nazis, it was the beginning. Not that France and Britain did a lot between the invasions of Poland and the low countries / France so.
The German green party had made it part of their program to stop all research into all kinds of "nuclear" technologies, explicitly listing fusion research as something to be stopped. I think that this passage has been removed again, but the whole thing still serves as a good indicator for the sentiments here.
Solar is probably not the right technology for the UK. That said, on a cool sunny spring day I'm often amazed by the amount of solar energy we are generating, 2-4GW of power. Nearly 10% of the normal demand. Compared to its impact, virtual none, I think that is quite impressive.

There is also a reasonable chance that solar panel efficiency could practically double. That would definitely make things interesting.
On top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW).

NO THANKS.

I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years. The web was a symbol of freedom, decentralization, and so forth. Now we have major websites that you can count on one hand that makes up the Internet. Along with their fucking shitty, severely restricting or limiting systems.

On the other hand, they might be successful in reducing my Internet consumption. :)
Yes it can, it just takes longer to put it in ships or trains. Transport by ship from where NordStream would leave the land to China is becoming feasible now that the north pole is melting, and Russia is really interested in that. A good, seemingly unbiased video on the subject is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy9usF7ohE
It is. IF should be combined with a diet richer in protein and fat, and poorer in carbs. In the case of OMAD it's also harder to reach the full caloric budget of a day in a single setting.
Tibia. Nothing comes close it's quests or lore.
EPILEPSY WARNING. Extreme strobe upon opening OP link.

while (true) { websocket.send(JSON.stringify({ action: 'plus' })); }

Really messed with my vision and crashed chrome. Fun experiment!
Is this a "shears in the meet-me room" scenario or do you have the cooperation of DE-CIX? If the former, how do you know which of the numerous unlabeled little yellow wires to snip?
This keeps getting repeated but both parties having nuclear weapons means a nuclear exchange is possible. You just need one crazy party.
I was really surprised at how lightweight the first wave of sanction was. They sanctioned some Russian politicians who were proud of it and the invaded areas only.
I do the same. This is the only way to organize things, by date.

I do the same with documents. I don't even want to think about categories, ontologies are always wrong. But today is 2022-02-24, no two ways about it. It's automatic, there's no need to think or decide anything, so it's not a big deal, you just do it. You can't make a mistake.

The thought of needing to properly tag every document I file is enough to make that a task I want to postpone. So it wont get done. That's a worse filesystem right there, because it doesn't exist.
We have systems, but they don’t need to be “files”.

On development environments: we manage all our code under version control, our IDE index all the sources and most of us navigate by pretty unusual ways. I guess we would be fine without any direct access to the fs as long as we had a layer that gave back streams of files we look for and a way to commit changes to git. For a lot of devs I think everything is already abstracted by their IDE.

A lot of people work the same. For instance navigating exclusively through links sent to them, their office app’s “recent documents” and the “open” dialogue with the folder they stored all their docs and might not completely understand where it is exactly (except if it’s straight their “Desktop” folder). I think a ton of adults get by with that on their everyday job.
Came here to post this. Thanks for your service. Sabine explains clearly the problems while still advocating for Fusion research to continue.
One immediate action would be to cancel closing the nuclear plants.
Except it’s just Russia (and Russian puppet state Belarus) vs. NATO.

I don’t see why China would jump in over Russia’s European adventures. If they do then yeah that drags in all of Asia (and maybe Africa due to large Chinese and European influence).

I guess South and Central America could escape it though.
> (what's with "the"? are you Russian?)

Not necessarily. Until quite recently, that's how it was called everywhere. Us oldsters don't always find changing the way we talk about things particularly easy.
I see it like a combination of the 90-90 rule with Zeno's paradox of the arrow.

> The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

This rule applies to that remaining 10% as well, so the work can theoretically continue forever trying to reach 100% done.
That's actually a pretty good idea. So basically login with Google/GitHub and then have access to anything being tunneled through the server?
Sorry if it sounded flippant. The point I wanted to make, and which was not clear from the comment above without opening the link, was that this statement comes from someone with a clear conflict of interest.

I think the burden of proof should be on the scientist, it just doesn't seem plausible to me that fusion progress is so fungible, especially not at timescales less than what it takes to train a fusion researcher.
Do you know what issue exactly you were having with the certs? I've been meaning to try NixOS one of these days.
He has given credence to the vaccine-autism link early in the 2016 debates and in tweets.

He was also instrumental in pushing early treatments that didn't pan out as hoped. These often became the subject of conspiracy theories about a whole slew of medical professionals avoiding real treatment, and the pandemic being some authoritarian plot. Trump was there sowing doubt in medical professionals. He may have encouraged vaccination itself, but his actions on the whole produced distrust so that there is a pronounced deficit of vaccination in his electorate.
You’re assuming killing those troops would cause a world war. The US might just say, hey we’re not going to sacrifice more folks over this.
In this case they closed the bug because a competing browser launched with the "bug fix" as one of its most touted features, and Mozilla spent several years rearchitecting Firefox in order to support the requested feature. This is a triumph.
Sometimes, compromise and diplomacy are a wonderful thing. But sometimes, there is no real compromise and the can just gets kicked down the road with what feels like compromise but really is just festering. I’ve seen many a historian posit that the 3/5 compromise was a compromise that ultimately germinated the civil war. They kicked the can down the road til its very rotten contents spilled over.

Part of me wonders if we’re not approaching that moment with Russia on the world stage. This sense of aggravation has been going on since Stalin, and while the 90s were a nice respite, it honestly just begins to feel like there is no win win compromise between Russia and the western world.

Maybe this is just the heat of the moment talking, and this’ll just be another uncomfortable “border skirmish” in a year from now. Anxiously frustrated and angry.

Some of my favorite programmer friends are ex pat Russians. They have great culture, art, science.
Putin says a lot of things. Like “we’re not going to invade Ukraine”.

He’s always advocated for a return to USSR borders.
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> I'm curious, do folks here think Putin would have still invaded if Ukraine didn't consider joining NATO?

Yes. The trigger for current events was the possibility of closer cooperation with the EU, not anything NATO-related. Putin can't have a successful alternative to his regime. He can write off Finns and Lithuanians as being of different culture, but if their ethnic brothers Ukrainians built a successful country with wages multiple times higher than in Russia, then it would fatally undermine Putin's legitimacy. He doesn't want to end up like Saddam or Gaddafi.
There is no going around it: any sanctions which don't even inconvenience the West don't hurt Putin and are already calculated into his plans.
the President can order nukes to launch. there's no law curtailing that power, and military orders are the purview of the Executive under the Constitution, so it's doubtful Congress could even prevent that.

the nuclear football is basically a fancy sat phone though, so it's less clear if the generals who get the war order would actually obey.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Kinesis Advantage, there is nothing that comes close. I've tried others but the Advantage is truly a work of art.

Edit, sorry you said build. This is not a build your own.
I used to do something like that on Gnome, except the touchpad gestures. I used Super-Alt-Left and Right.

Then I realized that I grouped windows in one desktop per customer. So I assigned a hotkey to each desktop and I switch by Super-letter. I don't have to cycle through multiple desktops to reach the one I need. That would be useless.
yeah, he is what is called a "putin versteher"

someone who gets why putin would act like he does

im just saying that it is in nobodies interest to only accept western views as valid

i can totally see how NATO's continuance and the veto against russia joining might be perceived as a persistent middle finger towards russia.

My opinion: the only reason why the NATO persists to this day, is to bully russia.

The west could have changed their tone along the way, but no. there needs to be a threat, otherwise nobody would need antimissile shields around russias borders. there needs to be someone to point all those weapons at.

Apparently humanity needs a common aggressor, I hope there will be an alien invasion of world ending proportions, otherwise I doubt we will ever get our shit together and overcome our differences.
Some active bugs on my github repo are 9 years old. Pretty common with long lived OS projects.
I don't wish ill to the Ukrainian people.

I'm sorry this is happening. And they haven't done anything to deserve what's happening to them.

But their opinions only changed after aggression. Back in 2005 or so they were still pining after the Soviet Union.

But yes, truth hurts.
What you are describing is “easy” if it’s something you practice regularly. It would easily take me, an advanced SWE an hour to learn the process from scratch or re-learn after not thinking about the system for 18 months. $120/year pays for itself very quickly.

For anyone doing this as a hobby sure, but if this is your business then it’s nuts not to just pay the cheap toll.
> If the U.S. intervenes, a retaliatory cyber op from Russia against critical infrastructure would make america amish again.

Cyber crimes with significant impact are still in the realm of fiction. Scare mongering about it does not help.

That said, one should not make stupid decision how to connect and control such infrastructure and you should prepare with working backups instead of another security product.
Not necessarily true. What do you make of pax romana? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana
BTW with Firefox for android and ublock origin as well as background video extension installed I can play YouTube videos in the background without ads, very convenient.
Some question that nobody is asking is, "what's the role of NATO?"
The historical original reason for its existence have disappeared, so what is it for now?
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Hard to do with cooked retinas, acute radiation poisoning, and the prospects of living beyond 20 cancer free are minimal.

Also, the world's a big place, even though the internet has made it seem small.

Yes, I understand it'd be nice to watch a good fee choice chunks burn... But I really don't think anyone is prepared for the hell on Earth of a full strategic nuclear exchange.
I remember reading G.H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology that mathematics is young man's game. Can same be said for chess? Is chess a young man's game?
Putin views Ukraine as part of Russia.

It goes much further back than 'The USSR'.

Read his words [1]

That, plus the giant hubris of the 'Empire' mindset that he has, and frankly exists in Russian culture and there you have it.

Russian Imperialism is of the fairly classical kind. 'We are Great, and Strong, Superior, and those around us are lesser, weaker, and naturally our vassals' kind of thing.

It's entirely fair to be cynical about the West, and to use some degree of moral relativism, but in reality, it's very different in North America / Angloshphere + Europe than in Russia. And China.

If we don't 'do something' then we can assume Taiwan is next for much the same reason.

[1] http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
Yeah but the US is doing the opposite, extracting huge amounts of gas and shipping it around the world.
Yeah, and send a message that says "you can kill American troops without consequences"? And if that's your strategy - why send them there in the first place?
That's not how I would describe it and not how it was described at that time. It was deemed necessary to discontinue legacy extensions to improve the browser.
Yeah, that seems close. The main difference would be that it would be a co-evolutionary sandbox instead of zero sum.
Latvia and Estonia are already in NATO and they border Russia.
Frontline Ukraine by Richard Sakwa.
But also a country with a history of coming to terms with the USSR, and notably one that didn't receive a NATO membership invitation guarantee (working of Wikipedia). Ukraine and Georgia did, both also want to join NATO. Finland has no such plans (again, working of Wikipedia).
Well let's just switch to 32bit unicode characters and drop all this UTF8 stuff. But even then we would addressing 32 bit words with a 64bit machine.