skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My projections so far have been wrong. I did not expect an actual invasion. I suspect, I'm not the only one.

But given that it did happen, I don't think the Russians will back down now. My guess is that they'll occupy Luhansk and Donetsk with minimal losses while severely reducing the Ukraine's ability to do anything about that. Judging from the events last night, the Ukranian air defenses were basically not very effective and they likely suffered a lot of damage to what little offensive capability they might have had.

The question is what the end game is. It's important to consider all the other countries that border Russia. Georgia for example. Or Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. All former Soviet territory with pro-Russian regimes and some domestic anti Russian sentiments. I'd say that this is a not so subtle hint to those countries to fall in line and do as their told. It would be a mistake to assume that this is just about the Ukraine.

As for the West's response; I think we're seeing it and it seems Putin is neither impressed nor surprised by it so far. I don't think there's much else the West can or will do. I think when the dust settles, the EU will end up re-establishing some level of trade with Russia eventually but the relation will be an uncomfortable one for some time to come. But the gas will keep on flowing, for now.

I do think that proposals for e.g. new natural gas power plants are effectively shelved as of now in the EU. Given what just happened, increasing the EUs dependence on Russia for gas even more than it already is seems not advisable. Once that realization sinks in, I think Russian gas imports will start decreasing pretty rapidly over the next decade as countries move ahead with plans to basically stop burning gas on a much more accelerated timeline than what countries were talking about at COP26 just a few months ago.

Economically, we were overdue for a stock market correction and I think we're in the middle of one now; at least judging from my investment portfolio this morning which is looking like most of last years gains have been wiped out as of this morning. A lot of people are going to have a rough year economically. Especially in Russia.
Good idea. Thank you! https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1496761074258952193
Of those two, Russia and NATO, the only expansion since the end of the cold war and the fall of the USSR was done by NATO. That's just a historical fact. Which doesn't justify anything, but explains a lot.

All that is purely academic now so, with people in Ukraine dying over this shit.
Does GitHub let you embed and keep these as smart? (SVG auto-updates for eg?) My understanding was that Github proxies all SVGs and renders them as PNG/JPG at their end.
Hypothetically if someone suffers a seizure... who is responsible? The platform provider or users who switched the light on and off?
It's all identity politics, and it's nothing new. Putin and his clique of oligarchs and criminals require a story that regular folks can identify with. It's the same in any sort of state, but in democracies due to the ability to actually participate, people can see for themselves that this identity is not entirely fiction. The so-called Russian state has not much more to do with average Russians than any other state. We might as well say that a Russian state does not exist. Russians do, but they don't have a state.

I hope that somehow they are someday able to grab their sovereignty into their own hands, and out of the hands of people who only see them as resources for their own gain.
Ukraine Challenge the Russian Federations Seat at the Security Council
I badly want to try it out and see how it fares in practice, together with some integration with open() calls for interoperability. But where to get it?
A six-fold improvement in the Merkle tree storage for Tezos
It’s actually more something that was invented in the treaties of Westphalia and which allowed the idea of the nation-state to scale in a way that prior forms of government could not. (With a few notable exceptions! Ancient Rome was basically a nation state, as was the Islamic empire in its height. Not coincidentally these both became large, stable empires.)
and so did putin say he would not go into ukraine. not everybody says what they would do in advance.
I would think so, Russian geopolitical textbooks have been saying for a long time
that an "independent Ukraine doesn't make sense".
Read here the excerpts what it says about UK, and US. Makes an interesting read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Wow just wow!

I've been building a game for some time now and I've been putting off building the server logic. I had some ideas, and looking at the code examples, it's everything I wanted!

Really nice work here.

A few questions though:

1) It seems that server and frontend logic are tightly coupled into a single project. Is it possible to separate these two and simply have a channel for separately developed frontend application to listen to?

2) The deployment steps only say to start the index file with node, but from the architecture page, this project needs to setup load balancer, multiple instances of the server and a distributed file system. How does running the index file do all this?

3) This appears to be similar to some products offered by photonengine.com, how does it compare?
Maybe what needs to be replaced is the meme that people can't deal with hierarchical filesystems.

That may have been true 20 years ago when the average person didn't use a computer too much. Is that still true today? Will it be true in 10 years?

Is designing a filesystem the product people's equivalent of the developer's game engine?
Unrelated to the world design, but another factor in the success of WoW that I didn't see mentioned is the rich add-on ecosystem that would allow you to deeply customize the UI.

I believe this programability was an important factor in the popularity in the tech circles. High level play almost required you to use various addons (boss mod, threat meter, dps meter, raid frames etc). Spending hours tweaking and coding to make sure my UI was setup to give me and my guild an edge was a big part of what made WoW fun for me.

Also, the fact that you could record and export detailed combat log data was another unique feature of the game that made it appealing to number crunching geeks.
Out of curiosity, what backdoors are you referring to?
Can anyone recommend any books to understand this conflict?
Basically it wasn't a bug but a request to add some capability like security to extensions - useful for more powerful extensions like GreaseMonkey or in this case the one I was using Chickenfoot https://www.sitepoint.com/rewrite-web-chickenfoot/ which allowed you to do all sorts of things in scripts running inside an extension in the browser which might end up being dangerous. Basically extensions have changed a lot in those 15 years so not really surprising it was closed, just amusing that hey, that thing is still around I'd forgotten all about it!
How so? Hitler got away with it. The Allies declared war on him only nine months later when he also invaded Poland.

And even then, they only did it half-heartedly, and the French pretty much threw away their weapons when the first German panzers arrived. Hitler knew that he had the stronger will to fight. Had it not been for a few other factors (Churchill, Russian winter, and the Hitler's obsession with the jews), he could have taken the whole of Europe.
Realistically we’d need to do it faster than switching to renewables allowed.
Look at the long history of authoritarian leaders thinking they could act without triggering escalation, e.g. Taliban, Saddam, and consider again if you want to take the risk that Putin will be rational enough to avoid further escalation and the consequences of doing so given the failure to defeat even the Taliban.
No part of what you just said is true.
I don't think its at all reasonable to suppose that the US simply saying they would oppose Ukraine joining NATO would have in any universe enough to avert war when merely preventing the expansion of NATO can seemingly be obtained far easier with their influence on NATO members who must be unanimous to induct a new member.

That is to say they have every reason to believe that they could without invasion keep Ukraine out of NATO for the foreseeable future so the invasion isn't about that issue.
Putin's opinion is that the eastern regions of Ukraine that have been controlled by Russian troops for years now and have separatists there vying for annexation by Russia belong to Russia, not Ukraine (after all, they once did).

Ukraine doesn't agree. It's also widely theorized (basically fact) that Putin has fomented revolution and supports separatist movements to gin up trouble and incite problems in those areas to further make his case.

It's a land grab, and possibly a precursor to something much more. But only time will tell.
@SecEvangelism (Chris Kubecka, the computer security researcher) has been reporting on Twitter[1] about her escape from Kiev to the Romanian border since the early morning hours (EEST).

This is also where I learned about Project Dynamo[2]. It apparently is the organization that assisted her evacuation.

[1] https://twitter.com/secevangelism/status/1496759814575243266...

[2] https://www.projectdynamo.org/
I knew this was about Firefox without looking at the url.
Show HN: toy Spark framework based on Parapet
I'd argue precisely because they are so important, is why I'm so sure the government should have its hand out of it.
That is precisely the same idea I ended up on, that feels like the best option. Basically, as a caretaker, nowadays it is most important to curate 100% the kind of media your kids have access to, as otherwise it is impossible for them not to be consumed by the algorithm and end up with a lot of psichological damage. Kudos for taking on such a hard job, hope you find a way to share your projects and results in the end, hope they work out well.
Even China isn’t happy.
Perhaps I should have given OP the benefit of the doubt , maybe if he had elaborated more it would have helped.

Online forums even here has made me jaded with these subtle what about it arguments you see constantly.
I don't think file systems will be replaced anytime soon because of psychology. The human mind remembers things best by attaching them to a real or virtual location. That's how all the memory experts do it, they construct a virtual house in their mind. Virtual rooms, shelves, boxes, and folders are no different. So if anything, I'd give the Filesystem different folder icons based on their depth to reinforce this similarity with the real world.

Also, the article seems to use strawman arguments. Nobody needs to remember the exact image file extensions. You just click on the "search for images group" in windows and it'll search all image file extensions for you.

In effect, tags are already there. It's just that they are automatically generated.
Ask HN: What can tech companies/people do for helping Ukraine?
>consult

Comments in this submission say that consult is a light word for what's happening
Like Russia cares. They have a growing, energy-hungering neighbor (China) buying their gas in the east, and a Europe committed to reduce their gas and oil usage in the next 10 years in the west.
On the main, "voice of the state", the 1st channel of Russian TV they have just discussed that the West would introduce more sanctions, yet half a year down the road the West would just get used to the situation.
It would have changed the course but not the objective.

The Kremlin apologists in American politics are really disturbing.

Putin's objective is to re-integrate Ukraine into the 'Russian Empire', he's taking the 500-year view and so 'Nord Stream 2' is irrelevant.

NATO acquiescence to his demands would have just changed maybe the nature of Putins' actions, or not but he would have continued.

The big issue is obviously now Taiwan.

In hindsight, I actually kind of blame the Germans a lot for this. Germany has been very successfully sucking in business and talent from the rest of Europe, building their economy while completely avoiding the 'responsibility' that comes along with that power. Partly military, but definitely geostrategic issues of security.

Their, and European energy dependence on Europe is a giant lever that Russia has - we are talking about nulling 'Nord Stream 2' - it means nothing in the big picture. Laughably, nobody is even talking about Nord Stream 1 - i.e. the pipeline already in place.

If Merkel were to have re-invigorated in Nuclear investment with a strong commitment to both reducing dependence on Russia and ironically CO2 at the same time, and, made serious improvements to military capabilities with a keen eye to the kinds of activities necessary to actually support fledgeling Belarus, Georgia, and Ukraine, and possibly better more serious coordination with UK, France, Sweden etc. then we may not be in this situation.

Ukraine may have regiments of UK, French and Germany units 'training' there at any given time, with support from the US, which really changes the equation a lot.

Putin pretty much telegraphed all of his moves years in advanced. Nobody did anything about it. The US could have done more, but this is more directly a European issue and there's a serious lack of leadership over there as well.
The default in QML used to be atlases, you can revert back to them with the following:

renderType: Text.NativeRendering

or:

QQuickWindow::setTextRenderType
I used 4mm thick, black anodized aluminum plates. I'm not a machinist and do not know the specifics of your CNC machine, but you will most probably have no problems machining these plates.
China benefits most from the electrical energy economy. Let that sink in. The reason why we arrived at today is people not thinking through the effects of their actions and desires.
Didn’t the British get involved the second Germany invaded Poland?
> substantial risk of full scale thermonuclear exchange.

To what end?

If Russia wants more territory they presumably care about the future. Why conquer all this territory just to blow up the world? Sounds like a waste of time.

The scariest situation is one nuke. How do you respond? One nuke back or two? Then things escalate quickly.

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.
Cyberattacks accompany Russian military assault on Ukraine
I use the version from the github page. They are updated much faster. So when I realized something broke there is usually already a fixed version up on github.
It is easier to come up to that conclusion when you don't have skin in the game.

Poor Ukranians are the ones thinking they shouldn't have given up their nuclear warheads.
I think the concern is a gigantic flood of refugees.
> Your analogy is a great demonstration why reasoning-by-analogy fails, by the way.

I hate reasoning-by-analogy in general but in this case it sounds fine to me. Boeing are grazing their cattle on someone else's land - they don't get squatters rights because no one else was using it at the time when they built their fences. Because it was contractors that built the fences and Boeing didn't perhaps know they were using someone else's land then they should get a little time to move the cattle - or the FAA/FCC can arrange a deal and give the telecom companies some new land - but it's Boeings problem.
There is a big discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336
It's basically a Mexican standoff, right? In the timeframe of months to years, Europe needs to buy Russian oil and gas as much as Russia needs to sell them. Neither side can unilaterally break off the relationship without suffering massive harm. Getting to full energy independence with renewables is a project that will take a decade or more, not something that you can do in the timeframe of the current conflict.
> Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 to "enforce peace". Same with Crimea in 2014. Then Luhansk and Donetsk a few days ago. Now the rest of Ukraine. Discussion with Putin is futile.

Just remember that the USA played the same kind of playbook (maybe worse) in Syria and Iraq. It's equally condamnable, but it can give you some perspective to see through media portrayal.
Way to miss the mark. This is about privacy, not ads.
War in Europe or a lightly amusing bug report closed off after 15 years?
Yeah, the service itself is kinda hard to use on a tiny screen so I haven't put a lot of effort into providing a good mobile user experience. I guess it would be useful to have a mobile-friendly version for people just checking out the service though.
> Of course, you can achieve the same result with bureaucracy. You just change the forms and the rules. But it takes much effort. Changing software is comparatively easier. There is no need to document the change very much. There is no need to train the staff.

Herein lies the central value proposition of our B2B product stack. With enough validations and required inputs throughout, it is possible to put very complex business processes 100% on-rails.

The value to our customers come from the fact that they can basically hire people directly out of high school and have them accurately manage complex financial transactions for customers on the front line while having virtually zero domain knowledge.

If you are stuck wondering "well how far could we take this?", look to semiconductor manufacturing. I've worked in facilities that are nearly 100% automated. If we can make an entire building that keeps people from doing the wrong thing, there isn't a whole lot that is off the table.

I do see dark patterns that can emerge from this style of software, but at the same time it is impossible to argue with the standardization of outcomes you can achieve if you are willing to go to the ends of the earth in detailing your particular theme park rides.

The biggest complaint is usually from power users, but they typically get to retain some access to more powerful legacy tools anyways.
Thanks for trying.

Yes, I thing they should add a design editor too.
Well, there were Danzig (a free city state) and Königsberg. Not that I would consider that being a reason to invade anyone so. Unless you are a crazed war monger in search of an excuse.
HN employs algorithms to automatically downrank sensitive political topics (flamewar detector).
We know Putin by now. What you are proposing did not work since he's in power. He kept escalating. MAD worked on dictators just like him before. Actual power is the only language his ilk understands.

Or in 10 year you'll see the entire Europe in his hands while the rest of the world is being carved between him and Xi.
What would have been the difference to what Ukranians have now? More material support.

I understand for politicians in other countries that would have been very expensive
The biggest problem I've seen that keeps code from becoming simple is the fear of deleting it. Instead of understanding what a piece of code does and whether it could be pruned, people opt to extend it instead.

Another one is bad/thoughtless interface design; everything you add to a codebase can become a dependency for some other part, so give at least a minute or two of thought towards what the interface is and how widely it's exposed. If it's local, it matters less than some core abstraction used everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_Munich

"Although appeasement, which is conventionally defined as the act of satisfying grievances by concessions with the aim of avoiding war, was once regarded as an effective and even honourable strategy of foreign policy, the term has since the Munich Conference symbolised cowardice, failure and weakness. Winston Churchill described appeasement as "one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last".
Said the great software engineers who have never sat through a single geopolitics class.
From his wikipedia page, copy/paste the section "Exile in Russia". Nothing added or deleted:

According to Russian politician Oleg Mitvol, Yanukovych bought a house in Barvikha for $52 million on 26 February 2014.[215]

On 27 February, a report stated that Yanukovych had asked the authorities of the Russian Federation to guarantee his personal security in the territory of Russia, a request that they accepted.[216] Yanukovych claimed that the decisions of the Rada adopted "in the atmosphere of extremist threats" are unlawful and he remains the "legal president of Ukraine". He accused the opposition of violation of the 21 February agreements and asked the armed forces of Ukraine not to intervene in the crisis. The exact whereabouts of Yanukovych when he made this statement remains unclear.[217][218] He later thanked Vladimir Putin for "saving his life".

On 3 October 2014, several news agencies reported that according to a Facebook post made by the aide to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Anton Gerashchenko, Viktor Yanukovych had been granted Russian citizenship by a "secret decree" of Vladimir Putin.[219] On the same day, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he didn't know anything about this.[220]

In 2017, Russian media suggested that Yanukovych is apparently living in Bakovka near Moscow, in a residence owned by Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.[221][222]

On 26 November 2015, Yanukovych received a temporary asylum certificate in Russia for one year; later extended until November 2017.[223] In October 2017, this was extended to another year.[224] According to his lawyer Yanukovych did not consider acquiring Russian citizenship or a permanent residence permits but "Only a temporary shelter for returning to the territory of Ukraine".[224]
"From Putins interview he does explicitly say that he wouldn't be in this position if the NATO didn't push for Ukraine, as simple as that."

No, it's definitely not that. Taking Putin's word at face value is completely irrational.

His actions and other policy objectives have made it clear that he and the Russian State do not view Ukraine as a legit country and have literally been invading it for the last decade wile the West twiddled their thumbs.

Taking Ukraine is a primary objective of the Russian State under Putin - that's the more 'simple' thing to understand.

Anything he says on the news is a 'game'. It's not even really a complicated game, we have all of their books, their doctrine, we know exactly how they think it's just a matter of applying it.

In hindsight it will be hard for anyone to fathom how we didn't see all of this coming. We're literally watching it happen in real-time, from a very well established playbook.

FYI have a read [1]

This is Putin's grand thesis. He basically narrates a history in which Ukraine is just part of Russia.

This has nothing to do with NATO.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
It was also around that time that i think the Blizzard's internal policy changed.

Before to that they were creating a game, and balancing it in vacuum. Afterwards they went for designing metagame - picking how player should play. It was more egregious in their newer games though - especially in diablo3(where Blizzard literally makes builds in form of armor sets) and overwatch.
This might be of interest for people posting on youtube and wondering about peertube:

PeerTube Guide for YouTubers Made Easy
https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2020/05/peertube-guide-for-youtub...
Russia cares in the short and medium term, while their gas setup is nearer to and pointed towards Europe.