skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement is so counter to what I'd normally expect a defence minister to say that I wonder if it's being setup as a cover for British troops to be in Ukraine without bringing forth all the issues around Brits and Russians killing each other.

I wouldn't be surprised if special operations groups were already in country but this would let them be a lot more liberal with showing themselves.
I’ve been spending a lot of time myself designing and prototyping my “ideal” language (mainly to address gripes with other languages) and I totally agree with the OP about it being a near total waste of time. But at the same time, albeit being a gargantuan amount of work it helps you learn alot about programming up and down the stack. Good language design requires lots of thought, devotion, trial and error and self moderation to come down to something consistent and coherent that’s not a mess of all the cool little features you thought it would be a good idea to put in.
Yep, you're correct on all counts. I rescind my devils-advocate hypothetical. Thanks for laying that out so clearly.
There are an awful lot of videos of burned out columns of Russian military vehicles. https://twitter.com/RALee85

Current Ukrainian claims of Russian losses may be inflated, but it’s hard to tell from outside: 27 Planes, 26 Helicopters, 146 Tanks,
706 Armoured vehicles, 49 Cannons, 1 Buk missile launcher, 4 Grad missile launchers, 30 Cars, 60 Cysterns, 2 UAVs, 2 Ships/boats, 4300 Personnel. Source: https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1497882874053341185
There is plenty of Uranium elsewhere, plus if you build the right reactors, you can use Uranium much more efficiently.
I.have one in my house, it is going to be removed in the near future. It works good some days, but modern ac is still better. When we use the ac it lets hot air from the attic in, and worse all winter it is letting cold air from the attic in. The thing can really be insulated.

There is a lot about this house that needs to be updated to modern energy standards and getting rid of that fan is on the list. Overall it costs far more than it saves.
I find your rationale too simple. It is reasonable to assume that it would have been at the same time unacceptable for the population and perceived as a threat by other nations, should that have been done proactively.
Can the death penalty constitute a punishment in your view?
Fixed values don't mean much of anything if you're a big economy like Germany. The reason the percentage is of GDP is, to put it very bluntly, because 'money needs protection'.Becoming an economic force without spending properly on defence is just stupid.And we're not talking about money spent being a measurement of effectiveness: defense spending is mostly investing and protecting the economy itself, that's one simplistic view of why it's measured as a percentage of gdp.(Alongside with the fact that more members spending 2% means Europe becomes less reliant on US)

I don't know the details of the politics, but i believe this (outdated) article has good explanations about it: https://carnegieeurope.eu/2015/09/02/politics-of-2-percent-n...
Would that really make a difference? Europe gets about 10% of its total energy (ie not just electricity) from Russian gas. I find it hard to believe Germany’s 17 reactors provided that much.
Remembering and adoring the idea of this device as a teenager (and realizing the impracticality), it's insanely irksome to me year after year going to Defcon and seeing #badgelife that totally outclass this thing from a hardware design and creativity perspective but completely fall flat on the software/usability front.

I can guarandamntee that any team putting together a badge with these features would have everyone in the damn con playing with the thing all weekend and onward...
I hate word "conflict" here. It's a war.
We are already taxing the rich though?
>How is it even possible for Russian to outspend the EU in defence? The Russian economy isn’t that much bigger than Spain.

That's not what the OP said.
Like most illegal things it’s only a risk if there is willingness to prosecute.
During Cold War France considered using tactical nuclear warheads to make Germany impassible to a Russian advance, that was one reason they refused to put their nukes under NATO control (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/terrifying-why-fran...)
Combine with wind, which often blows more strongly at night (look at the curves at ercot.com for Texas, for example), and use storage (both short term efficient storage for diurnal leveling and lower capital cost storage like hydrogen for long term leveling/rare outage backup). The estimated cost of getting to 100% renewables this way is higher than the levelized cost, but still looks like it will be cheaper than nuclear.
I started to avoid tools dumping excessive color output, especially with emoji. This is ridiculous and extremely untasteful. Good tool must produce zero output.
Wow, this ATC comms video really made my morning. I love reading HN to get the latest hot takes on improbably large objects.
Only tangentially relevant nitpick: shouldn't that first graph have a sigmoid shape since it represents chance of dying as a function of age. At age 130 is should top out at 100% but it shouldn't increase exponentially.
It has $5M in ether alone, plus over $1M in USD stablecoins.
Go watch Jorbs play (the author). In particular his "over-explained" runs on YouTube are good for getting in-depth breakdowns.

There's a bit of an unavoidable learning curve initially in learning the cards in each deck, because so much of the strategy comes down to analysing what your deck can currently do, and what adding (or not adding) a card to it will change.
Elementary Number Theory by David Burton. I started reading this book in 8th grade to get a bit better at math competitions. Oh boy did it open my eyes.

As an adult, it’s Shannon’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication. I read it at least once a year. It’s the most intellectually powerful paper I’ve ever read.
It's a different philosophy.

German is trying to be diplomatic and logical about it and not a military bully like the USA.

All your trump stuff doesn't matter, we are not the USA. We do not want to be proud Germans having dead relatives dying in useless wars.

Putin's attack on kiev is not just a bad day because of the death but also because the hopes of having proper diplomatic talks with Putin failed.

It's still a good thing that we tried.
That makes sense. It's all just pretext for aggression, and to provide a fig leaf for some idiots (like me) to see if they want to see if that way.
Let's hope the people lower in the chain of command will do the reasonable thing and refuse the order.
That’s kind of a brittle take. Germany has suffered an embarrassment and is back peddling over the course of only a few days.

- From helmets to actual military aid to Ukraine.

- large increase in military expenditure instead of woeful inadequacy.

- reversal of Swift decision.

Why wouldn’t there be a change in energy policy if Russia continues its war in Ukraine? This huge reliance on Russian gas has Europe, and especially Germany, in this strange conflict of interest.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands are moving away from gas and are planning to build new nuclear reactors. Belgium has postponed the planned closure of their nuclear plants. France has decided to build new nuclear reactors.

It doesn't seem to be so impossible as you think.
Note well the qualification of the "#1-rank":

Around twenty years ago, as a teenager, I was building decks for Magic: the
Gathering pro tours, and proudly reached #1 in the world in constructed rank and
#3 in the world in limited rank on Magic: the Gathering Online.

So that's world number 1 in M:tG Online. From experience, M:tG Online is (was?) a less competitive game than the physical-cardboard game and I'm not even sure that even in the cardboard game DCI rankings (the "rank" in the article) is exactly correlated with being one of the top players at sanctioned tournaments, like Pro-Tours and World Championships, or their qualifying events. I think it's possible, oddly enough, to have a high rank in DCI points without being a pro. For example I seem to remember Friday Night Magic tournaments conferring DCI points for wins (and taking them away for losses). But it seems the whole system has been discontinued by Wizards of the Coast so I can't easily check how it works anymore (or check my own rank...).
Poland comes to mind.. Don't know about the population, but their current government really does not like us.

Although they're geographically between Russia and us, so there's that.
The largest, and essentially only, anti-nuclear movement that exists is it's own economics. Blaming "environmentalists" is a cop-out instead of facing the reality: If it was profitable private capital would build it, if not in Germany then in other countries, further reducing cost. As have been seen since the 1950s that is not the case, nuclear has never been economical to build.

Nuclear has a place to do what the French did, massive subsidies to achieve a national security motivated energy independence. With renewables at the fore front that argument does not exist anymore. Now nuclear only exists to share an industry base with naval reactors in submarines.
Just read the comment I answered to. Any many others here. Every time Germany does something or proposes something, they are called Nazis in some other countries media. Poland and Hungary have explicitly anti-liberal leaders. The Hungarian guy openly states "the end of liberal democracy". There is blatant anti Muslim racism in many European countries. The same people who now are so proud of helping the Ukrainian refugees were acting very differently towards the Syrian war refugees.

Orban is Hungary for example is a despot quite similar to Putin and has been spending years of stealing EU money for him and his friends.

I don't feel like fighting in drenches for this guy. I would for many Hungarian people, but not really for the ones that are fostering hate against my Muslim neighbors or the ones that steal the EU money that is meant to prop up the Hungarian economy.
What on earth were you doing for 30 minutes
I've never been megalomaniac enough to think I could design a new language. But I did once write a Pascal source-level debugger; I think the compiler was Intel Pascal (long time ago). It taught me a lot about how the compiler worked, and how the language worked.

I've used to suffer quite badly from Impostor Syndrome, and that project did a lot to alleviate my symptoms.

I never shared the project with anyone else; it was never completely finished.
I see it as a violation of WET principle[1]. I have a long history of violating it myself, and with scripts it is basically the same: do not write script for any task, before you solved this task at least once. Moreover writing a program to do something oftentimes longer that just doing it. But I constantly fall into this trap and writing programs to run them once when it would be faster to do just the task at hand without any complications.

[1] https://dev.to/wuz/stop-trying-to-be-so-dry-instead-write-ev...
Not even USA is cutting out russian oil, why should europe?
Journey before destination, Radiant!
"Simpler" is a weasel word that can either mean "easier" or "more primitive", and in this case it's the latter.

Webauthn doesn't require separate keys per site and user vigilance to stay secure, because it has a-not-so-simple challenge-response protocol that is site-specific. For end users Webauthn is easier to use: just press a foolproof button.

I don't want to sound too negative. ed25519 keys are neat, and have fun implementing software using them. Let's just be realistic that a practical cryptographic system needs many more features, and Webauthn has them for a reason.
Heating and insulation need to be a system. You can't install the heat pump first as it needs to be sized to fit the energy loss of the house.
4.5 trillion. Not billion. ;-) Agree with what you're trying to say.
It will be ironic if after all Putin's complaints about NATO the response to this is to strengthen NATO's capabilities in Europe.
Thanks mate. I was honestly hoping for some F# resources as I'd started learning it a bit. But would mind glancing over this. Cheers.
This is certainly a reasonable hypothesis. Tell SAS guys they have a 3 month expenses paid holiday as civilians in Eastern Europe. Job done.

”don’t get yourselves into trouble. Wink wink”
Unable to access the website from Taiwan (Error 16 Access Denied). VPN via other countries works. Why block Taiwan?
It’s great to see Europe waking up to taking action although I think EUR 100B could be spent more constructively than buying guns and bullets.

Watching the crisis from afar (I’m based in Asia, but born in Europe), I can’t help but think how hypocritical Europe and US are right now.

1) Most EU countries right now open their borders with arms wide open to provide for Ukrainian refugees, help them find a job, and send food and clothes. We show basic human decency. Yet, when there was genocide in Syria, which forces 1000s of Syrian refugees to seek shelter in Europe, few countries (apart from Germany) wanted to help. In Denmark, my country of birth, locals were spitting at the refugees from the bridges crossing the highways where the refugees were walking. They were treated, by and large, in a hugely inhumane way. Nobody wanted them. The former Danish right wing government forces refugees to sleep in cold tents with very little space.

2) The US, UK, EU and the NATO allies have been swift and decisive (mostly) at imposing sanctions against Russia. Within days after the invasions, they will now be blocked from the global financial system. Don’t get me wrong, this is the right thing to do. But when the US decide to invade Iraq without a clear UN mandate (and later find out there were actually never any WMDs without any political repercussions) or when Israel conduct another carpet bombing of Gaza followed by further tightening of apartheid policies against Palestinian civilians, the West turn their back on the problem and dare not say a word.

3) The glorification of war and honour. Over the last few days, I’ve seen this photo circulate on social media of a famous Ukrainian boxer who is now out serving his country at the frontline, proud with a rifle in his hand. Yet at Ukrainian-Polish border, families are being split in two by border control so fathers and young men don’t leave the country, they have to stay and fight the enemy.

We are humane when it is convenient (Russia), idolise war heroes even thought 1000s will likely get killed in this country (have we never learned from the psychological damage to civilians and soldiers from the US atrocities, war crimes and aggression against civilians in Vietnam?), and turn a blind eye to breach of basic human rights in our own backyard when things get tough. I don’t want to troll, but it really bugs me how simple and utterly hypocritical we are in facing the tough questions. Putin is a madman and the invasion of Ukraine is awful. Yet I wish our politicians and we, citizens of the world’s richest and safest countries, could face some of the other real issues at stake.
I think that a big tenant of any modern language should be interoperability, such that you can easily import/export code from another popular language. That not only clears up the issue around libraries, but also makes it a safer bet for usage by people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to use a niche language
Huh? You were using megaupload for legitimate reasons? I would counter that I don't recall any instance of using it for non illegal downloads.
One of these concerns was dual purpose rocket systems deployed next to Russian border. These systems could be refitted with nuclear heads.

That's one of things I remember, you may find other.
To keep diplomatic solutions open as long as possible of course.
These crises have all increased cooperation within the EU to some extent:

- The Greek economy is not dead thanks to an EU debt jubilee that could not be called that way.

- The migrant crisis has increased the role of Frontex and other EU level instruments by an extent unimaginable before.

- My significant other is Latvian, lives in Belgium, got her first and second covid shot in France, and her third one in Germany.

- In this crisis, even - hm, let's call them "less cooperative" politicians- like Matteo Salvini, Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban got behind several common EU policies at political light speed.

- Did you see the recent flurry of NATO moving east announcements?
It is now very popular to see the good ol' times of alliances as dead.

The lack of reliability regarding the relationships between nations is truly the most significant sign of a changing (changed?), unstable, world.
Gas fired combined cycle plants are more efficient than that (best are 62%, HHV based).
That seems interesting. - Thank you so much!
But there's no tool to keep track of updates and notify me about any abnormal change. e.g.: sudden drop in website traffic. I'd have to build this myself, right?
He didn't need to - the US became energy independent in 2019 and 2020 and became a net exporter, not importer, for the first time in decades.
Very good point. I just want there to be a simple answer to stop the bloodshed, but there isn't one. The alternative, the reality, is just so gruesome I wished there was a way out of this for all involved.
Sure but you just set the heating to 12C or something. There's no need to leave it fully on at 20C.
It's also funny how truckloads of arms are sometimes dropped off in the night with no apparent owners. /shrug
Sure, USA created these groups in order to undermine Afghanistan's existing government that was sympathetic to Moscow. Astute observers note the similarity to USA creation of e.g. "Right Sector" in Ukraine.

Taliban did offer to turn over ObL, and this was known by the public at the time. [0] This may not have been such a realistic offer, given the hiding-in-caves-with-lots-of-guns aspect mentioned above, but they tried to do exactly what you advise and it didn't work. Maybe they learned a lesson about how USA policy is entirely controlled by the military-industrial complex through the sockpuppet war media?

Let's ignore mistakes made over twenty years ago. We could have withdrawn at any time over that twenty years, so I'm more complaining about the mistake made every minute since then.

The point of the thread is that NATO is not "defensive". You offered as a counterexample, NATO's war in Afghanistan. If that's all you've got, we can conclude that NATO is indeed not defensive in nature.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...
It wasn't just the first half of the 20th century, either. The various German states were warmongers for much of the 19th century as well. Bismarck was a monster; people look far too kindly upon his history, he was an outright war criminal that was obsessed with conquering.
I get your point but “elementary school teachers, psychologists, and systemic change for the people who care for the old, sick and weak” won’t mean much when Russia takes Poland and has troops at the Eastern border of Germany.
While we do have money, I don’t agree with this move.
In the end, the german tax payer will need to pay more for gas, since we are importing very expensive fracking gas from the US now, instead of getting cheap gas via nordstream 2.

Germany has so many social issues, we honestly should spend more money to get people off the street and have affordable housing. Not spending another 100bn on weapons and destructive activities.
> There’s mass protesting happening there.

Like a couple of thousands out of 145 millions?

The vast majority of the population has only access to state controlled propaganda. Even if they have learned for generations that their leaders and their media can generally not be believed, the vast majority believes that NATO is threatening Russia and they have to defend themselves.
There is no chance Ukraine will join NATO in the short term (and possibly ever), let alone immediately. This would trigger an Article 5 invocation that would compel NATO members to send troops to Ukraine, escalate the conflict even more, possibly leading to a global war, which no one wants to do.
Liz Truss is not exactly known for her intelligence.

But US and UK with their increased deployment on NATO borders might use it as a cover to put special forces in, but since the fighting is far from the NATO borders right now, I don't know how much it will help Ukraine.
Well that just sounds like a badly designed heating system then.
This link is redirecting me to some scam congratulating me for winning and asking me to sign in with Google.
I came up with this method a few years ago and have used it ever since. I’ve never looked back; I’m no less comfortable now than before, and I enjoy using less energy even though my hot water use is included in the rent.

I’ve had little luck converting friends and family to it, though.
Cost of a single Javelin Missile: $174,000(FY19. Launcher device is 126k extra)
I know the west have been sending some stinger missiles and it wouldn't surprise me if some more serious stuff follows.
We do have the psychologists. What we are lacking off are the „kassenärztliche Zulassungen“.

The personnel is there, they are just not getting the license to open an office.
The successor, mega.nz, is genuinely a great service. I know doctors who use it for (legally) sending patient scans, with the key sent OOB, for example. It has a nice linux CLI, mega-cmd, and is intelligently made, cheap, and widely available.
Help the civilians, don't help the military as it's only going to generate further violence and death. You won't make any difference in the conflict anyway.

If you really care about civilian's lives, you should hope for the invasion to end as quickly as possible, not to drag along in the cities streets for weeks. There is no point in dragging the resistance for long as Ukraine has no chance of winning and the guerrilla will hit civilians hard.
Most of western Europe (the part most in Europe reading this are from ) have mild climates compared to the US. Of course the US is a large country, and so there are more climates in discussion. What works well in Europe often doesn't in the US.

Of course one size fits all codes don't help. What works well in Europe will work someplace in the US, just not everywhere
He has his position for how long?

Exactly.

He already mentioned his timeline.

Let's start critisis him when the time is right and not just a few month after the election.

And yes corona and Ukraine conflict adds additional burden on everyone.
This shouldn't be allowed, especially here.
He stopped it a week before it would've ended anyway. And energy prices were going up before he got into office.
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