skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is greatly in favour of Countries losing their sovereignty and isn't a fan of historical claims to territory.
Ukrainian military is not exactly weak but Russia severely out-mans and outguns them. It will likely turn into a guerilla war like the US faced in Afghanistan.

> What will Western governments actually do?

Nothing really.

> Does the West actually have the balls to put real, biting sanctions on the regime?

No. Boris Johnson in the UK is already being insulted for his nothing sanctions. I highly doubt the West will go after the assets of Putin and the rest of his oligarchs.

> And will this crash the economy?

Possibly?
> at the same time they could have done a lot more to prevent it.

I'm skeptical. Russia has been harrying and undermining Ukraine for many years. Remember Viktor Yanukovych and all the turmoil of that era? It's not like Ukraine has been through a period of decadence where they slacked off — they've never caught a break.

And now the full force of Russian imperialism is crashing down on them.
This requires a very specific version of peace, where it's still peaceful for those in power to use violence against those who don't.
Russia is a openly currupt oligarchy dictator state and China runs slave camps and genocides. It seems to pretty much just be helping the US or the EU at this point. Honestly I would say EU over us in a ideal world, probably.
I say this with much affection and no presumption: I think Russian nationals on HackerNews are probably not a representative sample of Russian nationals generally speaking.
This makes some sense, thank you. I still do not know why the original commenter was flagged, it does not sound like his theory is completely ridiculous.
It's the first sentence in the first article of the constitution of Germany:

(1) Human dignity is inviolable. It is the duty of all state authorities to respect and protect it.
> Well I'm curious what you're doing to help Ukraine?

Seeing if I can get my parents out. Thanks for asking. Good to see someone cares.
That sounds like a mix of DF and Crusader Kings.
> Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet.

And because of the large population, even a small percentage would still be a large number.

But individual Indians do that on their own independent will though.

There's no central authority that declares to Indians "Ooh here's a new content about India. Go go go!"
"abject suffering" And what about some of the most peaceful decades in human history? That means nothing, eh?

"only thing" Not the only thing by any stretch... but definitely a major reason and a hugely stabilizing force.
That's the thing that people don't understand about propaganda: the reason it's bad and scary is that _it works_.
Doorbell that doesn't need an internet connection – or power supply
You won’t age faster. The exercise will train your body to become more resistant to oxidation and you will delay morbidity right up until the day you actually die.

Cartilage wear and tear is the only thing that will really slow you down and put you on a spiral of being unable to exercise effectively and thus getting frailer. But maybe we will discover ways to regrow cartilage.

I’d say the fasting method is just another alternative for people to combat aging if they don’t feel like working out, but you can’t mix the two methods. Choose one path or the other.
I can only vouch so much, I agree with you. The post may be insightful or irrelevant, but I see no reason it should be flagged. I suppose some view message boards as an information battleground and find it's their duty to maintain a single narrative.
Totally agree, love listening to him, and I still wonder how he is doing it (beside the hard work). With some it is easy to see, with him I struggle.
Is what Russia is doing in Ukraine right now too different from the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan?
What "moderation failure"?
This whole action makes no sense to me. I do not understand Putin's motivation here. I can't see an economic or political justification.

The only reason I can think of is that he just yearns for more power regardless of the costs.

Can anyone provide any possible reasons Putin would have for doing this?
I wouldn't expect many people here to know who John Mearsheimer is and honestly the conversation appears to be that you must unequivocally support what the U.S. and West in general have done or else you're some kind of Russian propagandist/puppet.
And, although not a junior, Eric Hansen aka one of the chessbrah also beat Magnus this tournament!
I would do something like this, should work for any type of image.

Original -> Upscale and Downscale.

Alter the frame sizes ie 4:3, 1080p, 4K

Encode all video formats in all video codex's.

Make stills for timelines which are likely to be interesting.

Use a variety of background filters like those seen in Zoom calls to obscure backgrounds and then use all the stills with and without backgrounds, and also alter the colouring/whitebalance.

Hash Stills and you will have loads of stills!

Train an AI to look for the stills allowing for colour changes like a slight filter to alter the colouring, or maybe do it in black and white.

When still is suspected, hash the AI found stills against known stills

Obviously different websites allow uploading of different formats/codexes which is a filter in itself and frame sizes

Because of editing, an AI needs to scan the film, when a still is found, make a copy and hash it to see if there is a match.

At least thats how I would do it.

I think you can spend too much time looking at other stuff AI & training data and sometimes its the background objects which are more important, like clothing, jewellery & furniture, but these new background filters seen on Zoom calls also makes it harder for the AI stills recognition.

Expensive in terms of cpu processing, but probably a better way to spend money than on human wages going through stuff/moderating.
I mean, per capita, India is terrible at everything. We are much better at chess than say soccer or Basketball.
It says caloric restriction without malnutrition. Eating 15% less carb and fat calories won't make you loose any more muscle mass than you would have otherwise.

But I am wondering my self too, what's the effect when you combine CR with exercise. 15% out of 2000 calories is 300 cal or about 30 mins jogging. So instead of eating less, will the effect be similar if I spend 300 cal more everyday through exercise?
Intermittent fasting is not caloric restriction though.
Ukraine did not have the ability to launch a single nuke. They didn't give up anything.
s/pet/over/
Definitely, once I add support for C#/C++/GDScript as language targets that is the next step
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was looking for a little while like the West might make peace with Russia. In the post collapse of the Soviet Union, Billionaire Oligarchs emerged that controlled most of the business and finance while the Russian population was extremely poor.

When the Russian judicial system went after a few of them, and specifically Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the US immediately started to sanction Russia.

Since then I've lived through years of the West accusing Russia of interfering in democracy, and just endless nonsense propaganda, like blaming Putin for Trump winning the election. Zero self reflection on them interfering in Russia.

While I support Ukrainian independence, I understand why Putin would freak out about having a hostile neighbour backed by the West and capable of installing weapon systems within close Range of Moscow.
Depends on where people live, how much do they make etc.

The general sentiment in this country for the past few decades is "it's not for me to decide".

Many people do agree however that while this kind of solution is not really a great one and likely not in our best interest - something has to be done regarding the NATO problem.
The US has a major security advantage in terms of mutually assured destruction in that its home to many people from around the world. There are like tens of thousands of Americans living in all of Russia or China. Meanwhile, there are millions of both Russian and Chinese Americans in the U.S.. This provides safety. Good luck finding morale in your military after you've just told them to nuke millions of their own people.
It is too dangerous to get out now, you must wait for an opportunity.
That's good and I'm sorry they are in that situation. But most of us have no ties to Ukraine and buying some shares is going to have exactly zero impact on you or anyone else
Sincere thanks for the comprehensive response free of vitriol. It certainly helps paint a more complete picture.

It sounds like the there was a major disagreement between the federal and provincial governments about how to handle the illegal protest, and perhaps more importantly, who will take the heat for breaking it up.

I'm not sure if that makes the outcome more or less of a travesty. It seems the capability do disband the protest was there all along, but prevented by political disfunction and lack of leadership.
You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to help communicate your perspective!
I'm not convinced. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan again, Syria, Peru, Mali, ...

When you say "world peace", do you mean European peace? California peace? Where is your world?
They can, but they will not. If they have any direct dealings with the Russian government then they should probably stop (which they probably already have to due to sanctions), but otherwise it's best for large corporations to stay out of geopolitics.
Nobody likes seeing Realpolitik in action. When you have been drip fed ideology about the LIO your whole life, it is very difficult to accept anything else. Unfortunately, today Thucydides wakes. It is unfortunate that international relations is not a part of the engineering curriculum of your typical HN user. Through the lens of realism, Ukraine is but another Cuban missile event. Pretending that joining NATO is a strictly defensive alliance and therefore more morally "right" will not change geopolitical realities. This is a failure of leadership on every side. Media soundbites and cool reprimands were chosen over recognising the harsh truth of Great Power politics. When it becomes more important to be an ardent defender of ideology on tiktok and television than to negotiate and compromise, this is what happens.
I recommend https://vancedapp.com/
A few years ago, I set up a water carbonation system in my fridge consisting of a tank, two mini kegs, and a beer tap fixed to one of the shelves. It worked a treat, because I could just open the fridge, pull the tap lever, and carbonated water came out. When one keg ran out, I switched the tap to the other keg, then filled the empty one from the sink. The 20lb CO2 canister would feed into both kegs at the same time. While one keg was recharging (takes 2-3 days), the other was providing carbonated water. One canister lasted 6 months to a year depending on use, and cost $30 to refill.

When I moved to Europe I couldn't take it with me, so I just bought a Sodastream. Now that the mini CO2 tanks are standardized, you can just take your empties to the supermarket and swap them for filled ones at dirt cheap prices.
All of that seems sensible, but I am not sure it clears up my confusion: if Putin never would have allowed an independent Ukraine, why would NATO reject his demands to reject Ukraine's NATO application? If Russia was going to invade anyway, why not at least try to de-escalate and negotiate for a sovereign Ukraine?

I think that this is the primary argument of people claiming that the USA MIC is partly to blame here. I do not have a good response to it.
Civilian donations to a state military? I don't really think that's a thing...pretty sure this is a scam.
But isn't having things positioned half-off the screen one of the traditional overlapping-window manager patterns that tiling window managers are meant to avoid?
Ukraine won't exist in 48 hours; the fact that the Azov battalion exists should be an indicator that very few will fight for the government.
Everything depends on definition how else was slavery possible on the US.
"Ukraine did not behave reasonably"
UH ?
> right-wing

Ask a few self-professed conservatives if they agree with the Economist and see what they say.
Reality? We’ll see if there will be any demonstrations in Russia against the war in this reality.
> "abject suffering" And what about some of the most peaceful decades in human history? That means nothing, eh?

The US, in a brief moment of national clarify, participated in exactly two just wars in the last century. The outcome of one of those wars was the establishment of liberal democracies across Western Europe, which is indeed a tremendous stabilizing force. But it's not clear to me that the US gets to claim outsized credit for the subsequent years of peacemaking under those nations.
Well yes, if you "starve" cells, you also starve things like cancerous cells.

Good luck getting modern society to "calorie restrict" beyond single digit percentage of population.

But there are even lower hanging fruit on the "health and longevity" tree.

Go read about protein glycosylation (where sugar attached to proteins) vs aging and chronic inflammation.

Most animal proteins do not have (enough) glycine in them.

Dunno which source to link on this as there are thousands but maybe start here as a more layperson explainer and check google scholar for more if interested

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150526085138.h...
I can't imagine anyone excited over warring with so near a place where so many families are connected. Also the two accounts above you are new.
This would be news even if you, spoonjim, beat Carlsen :D
I think he was characterizing the US as the nuclear powered thug.
Russia wouldn’t have attacked then, that’s all.
And NATO could just as easily have said no. The issue isn't Ukraine's interest, but NATO's posture towards accepting Ukraine's application.
Any missiles there have historically grown up with the CCP. Japan had an SDF --so the US's presence was added deterrent. In Korea we have the excuse of N Korea being a menace. As part of the negotiations during the collapse of the USSR, US officials acknowledged the Russian request that there be no NATO missiles in proximity of the RU border. GW Bush laughed it off and so did Obama.
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Stop spreading Russian propaganda that is 60 years out of date.
Many people in Russia know how to root their android phone or has a relative\friend who knows.

Also this will mostly affect relatively poor people who will just carry on with their factory jobs or whatever. They will just use landline.
they must be welded together with mm precision to achieve the required radiation protection.
Does anyone wish for or expect that? We saw people go up against tanks during the fall of the soviet union, but it's rare. If Russian people have such a mindset it should be entirely their own decision. Let's not speculate.
It’s possible to perform the rendering of the font itself on the GPU (e.g. Pathfinder) instead of rendering an atlas on the CPU and sending it over to the GPU, but I’m not sure of any text editors that do so.
This is only partially true, even in California. In Southern California, there is far less fuel than in prehistoric times, because there are more fires, and more high-severity fires from more ignition sources. In NorCal, the biggest blocker is often the local air quality district refusing permits for a controlled burn in the wildland, because it would cause unhealthful air. Which it would. So instead we wait for PG&E to accidentally a power line and make dangerous air quality.

None of this invalidates your argument, but adds IC engines to the list of tech debt. Long unsolved policy problems are usually unsolved for a reason :frown:.
Programs that use the native OS's APIs are "GPU accelerated", too. "GPU accelerated" editors and terminal programs are snake-oil, just another spin on "minimalist" text editors.

Instead, buy a high-refresh-rate monitor with good pixel response time and input latency. Probably 90% of the people reading this post are on a 60hz display, and many of those monitors may have noticeable input delay (Microsoft found that people can notice even just a few ms input/display delay.) Even just 75 hz or 100hz will feel noticeably nicer.

There are a couple of pretty inexpensive ~95hz monitors aimed at office users, but 2.7k ~150hz gaming monitors aren't that expensive if you shop carefully. Even nice ones with IPS and good color gamut/calibration.

Everything is nicer with higher refresh rates. Scrolling through web pages, file listings, editing text files, terminal sessions. Same is true of gaming mice; if you do a lot of mousework, a quality "gaming" wireless mouse is durable, has virtually zero input lag, great tracking, very accurate response to quick "flicks" letting you move windows and such around, and high polling rates. Default on most mice is around 120hz. Yes, you can tell the difference - though I have my mouse set to either 250hz or 500hz when not gaming, I forget which.

Edit: just to note that someone pointed out keyboards matter, too, and they're right Some keyboards can have over 50ms input delay, which when you think about it, is fucking nuts in the year 2022.

RTINGs tests for keyboard latency and their idea of "high latency" for a gaming keyboard can be 10ms. The difference between that and the fastest (1-2ms) keyboards is probably not worth selecting for over features like ergonomics and daily use factors.
Yes, the "NATO problem". The "problem" that is actually defending countries from invasions instead of letting their people, in a country that is not even close to being in NATO, die at the hands of tyrants.
People really fear war and economic sanctions, everyone around me are watching live currency exchange quotes and stock markets. Noboby around me supports the invasion or even understands why it's happening. It's like an abbyss between the head of the state and the people. Can't say for everyone of course.
what is the NATO problem
Hmm try west end caleb that's gotta work
On desktop: https://freetubeapp.io/
> Funny how people want content but don’t want to support content creators via ads or paying for YouTube Premium.

I don't support Google.
"Yes/No" support is a bit of an over-simplifaction of the situation.

There's two major axes, here.

The government is pushing the 'Ukranian neo-nazis' propaganda, because it's a convenient bullshit excuse (as is all the spilled ink in Putin's essay about long-dead history). Some soft-headed people obviously believe that wholesale. What isn't an excuse, though, is that Ukraine did take steps to restrict its Russian minority. Many Russians who don't swallow the neo-nazi nonsense are sympathetic to that view on the situation (for, uh, obvious nationalistic reasons).

Now, whether or not sympathy for that is sufficient grounds to do nothing and respect Ukrainian sovereignty, to prosecute a proxy war, a limited war, or a full war all depends on how much of a warhawk you personally are.

My highly unscientific feeling is that public support rests somewhere north of 'most Russians believe that Ukraine has been repressing Russians, and would support a proxy war', and somewhere short of 'drive the fascist swine out - prosecute a full war and occupation of Kiev'.
Russia is a state that actively dissapears dissenters. I'm not sure how much you can trust polls.
It suffices that exceptional situations are possible and must be checked for.

It is true that in C++, as in Rust, it is much more common than in C to have very short functions that call other very short functions that, all composed together, do a job that, absent abstraction, might all be coded in a single larger function tailored to the specific use case; and the compiler squeezes out most of the calls and generates object code as if for that single, longer function. Therefore, there are many more places where an error return report would need to bubble up through, and that would cripple performance to handle the naive way, without exceptions.

It might be that some languages that have a native "result" type, and automatically generate checking code at the call site, can squeeze out most of the intermediate-level checks when composing inline functions together, e.g. if actual errors mostly occur at leaf nodes of the call tree. That could mitigate the heavy overhead cost of the method. But I don't know if any compilers do such an optimization, or if they do, how well it really works. Coding an optimizer is hard.
Good times breed bad times.

PS: I agree about the feeling of infaillible institution and international order..
> why a supposedly-3D-optimized GPU for a 2D task […] 3D-adapted graphics facility is what you shall use.

Modern GPUs & so-called 3D APIs don’t really do all that much that is 3D specific. @greggman likes to talk about WebGL as a fundamentally 2D API https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-2d-vs-3d-l...

The bulk of the 3D work is still 2D, filling all the pixels, rasterizing 2D triangles after they’ve been transformed, projected to 2D, and clipped. Shaders might have lots of 3D math, but that’s really just pure math and no different from 2D math as far as the GPU is concerned.

> Do people know how to do analytic or even just AGG-quality 2D rasterization on a GPU? Or anything but simple oversampling.

Yes, I think so - if you mean quads & triangles.

The problem, of course, is analytic filtering (even 2D) usually isn’t worth the cost, and that oversampling is cheap and effective and high enough quality for most tasks. (Still, adaptive oversampling and things like DLSS are popular ways to reduce the costs of oversampling.) The path rendering people think carefully about 2d path rendering though:

https://hhoppe.com/ravg.pdf

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-accelerated-path-rendering

And don’t forget mipmapped texture sampling, even in 2D, is better than oversampled.

A very common shader trick for 2d antialiasing that’s better than oversampling (not analytic, but sometimes damn close) is to use the pixel derivatives to compute the edges of a mask that blends from opaque to transparent in ~1-pixel. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ssSRl
cico?
thanks, I suppose the NATO problem is that as the sole purpose of the forming of NATO was to act as a deterrent and implicit threat to the Soviet Union having a possible NATO country next to Russia itself, as opposed to having some buffer is seen as aggressive in itself?
I think you're just repeating what the parent comment said. Some big tech companies refuse to work with the American military.

I don't know if that's a good idea or not. I'm conflicted by my own hatred of the American government. At the same time, the obvious consequences of big tech refusing to work with the American military is a relative loss of power compared to countries like Russia.
Dumb question: why stop at 128? Why not go directly to 512, or even 1024 bits?
In Windows, when replacing a file with another using ReplaceFile the replacement inherits the original file's NTFS OBJECTID.

I would expect that a similar operation would be supported.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/russia-and-chin...

For and article showing their cooperation. I would imagine China is. Wry curious about the actions and resolve of the West in this situation.
TF2 does not look great today still. Its artistic stylized look has been ruined by pay-to-win and cosmetic collectables.
It's certainly different from Afghanistan. The invasion of Afghanistan by the United States was preceded by an attack by Al Qaeda on New York City. The attack by Russia on Ukraine is completely unprovoked.
I flagged it because that person copy-pasted several their comments from another thread into one rambling comment here.