skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this amusing too. If anything great to see mozilla keep issues active for so long.
The belief in a threat was manufactured by cherry-picking any weak scraps of intelligence that could be assembled into a believable marketing pitch for an invasion. Your average mouthbreathing intel analyst wouldn’t recommend invading a taco stand based on the shady sources and thin reporting used to justify this war.

Source: Former mouthbreathing analyst
I think China is still pretty neutral about the whole thing. Putin payed respects to China (e.g. at the Olympiads), while (at least afaik) no western nation tried to get China onboard with sanctions -- or at the very least, they didn't send their presidents over to talk to Xi.
It's not hyperbole. There were plenty of political assassinations in the years before 01914 that didn't trigger World War I, too. Hopefully this is another time Article 4 is invoked without triggering World War III. But it may not be.
I'm waiting patiently for mine to arrive, and I just stumbled across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/sngoyh/a6x_can_n...

Slightly worried my utopia of disconnection will be sullied, can I resist "the news"?
+, Russian here. Putin will burn in hell. My thoughts are with Ukraine. Stay safe and fuck the war.
I do wonder, though, if scientific and technological progress (at least on the scale and speed we've seen in recent centuries) does require a higher level of civilization centralization. How do you get enough people to agree to work on a particular avenue of research, and fund that research to a degree that it is likely to bear fruit, when you just have random unaffiliated, unassociated people wandering around hunting for food.

Certainly there was technological progress thousands (and tens of thousands) of years ago: tools for hunting and later farming, making fire, the wheel, and so on. But could a society organized like that eventually progress to discovering how to generate electricity from nuclear fission? Could they ever have built rockets and traveled to the moon? I'm skeptical...

> Even today, many people live in non-nation-state countries like the United States, Bolivia, and India.

For the purposes of this particular discussion, I think "nation-state" and the slightly looser-organized nations you describe can be lumped together in the same category.
I ran into this at work with virtual box. Upgrade to Monterey helpfully tells you that a lot of your apps aren't going to work, after you have upgraded. Then anything using those system extensions fails every few days without explanation so you have to reinstall everything and push the car up the hill again.
The drones also have sizable batteries. If it crashes in high winds and then starts to burn not sure it’s being so helpful. Then who is liable for that?
> We were part of the Soviet Union, so, we replaced one dependence with yet another, even worse, I would say.

Bulgaria was part of the Warsaw Pact, not of the Soviet Union.

Maybe you should bone up a bit on recent history, before so confidently spouting off on it? Your current views seem woefully unfounded in actual reality.
Does Putin care about possible NATO expansion? Probably yes because he can't push NATO countries around so easily. And he really likes to push countries and people around to do what he wants them to do.

Think about it, he likes power so much that he has made himself the de facto dictator of Russia. People opposing him get murdered or jailed, or murdered in jail. He really likes power. He is said to be world's richest man. He loves money and power very much we can tell from his actions. If he can get more power he will take it.
It’s used as a common far-right/neo-fascist dog whistle, and to justify their ideology and actions. It’s vaguely based on the idea of cyclical history (which is of course not true), as presented by Oswald Spengler and others during the 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
I’m glad you’re willing to play armchair general with other people’s blood.

I served, did you? I’m 100% disabled as a result.
If you didn’t wear the uniform, don’t be so quick to volunteer others for what you aren’t willing to do yourself.
I made this to learn more about websockets and because a friend thought it would be funny for some reason. Let me know what you think.
Yes, even in English :-)

https://www.sikkerhverdag.no/en/

Edit:

Just checked your profile and see you live next to where I officially work.

Stay safe in there, and the site is of course available in Norwegian too for anyone who prefers that: https://www.sikkerhverdag.no
What’s strange to me is that Putin is behaving a lot like Saddam did when he invaded Kuwait. So he either must really fear regime change of some sort will happen soon, or thinks the West is OK with this.
You're thinking of all the times the West waged war, while I was thinking of the times that it didn't. First in my mind were the countries joining NATO after the end of the Cold War: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Albania.

Those countries became allies, not through force, but because we were able to devise a mutually beneficial relationship.
There are more than options, as the post that you are replying to explained. This kind of cheap response does not add anything.
Tho, Germans did tried to create local nazi guerillas in northern countries that would support them from inside. It did not really worked out, they never got numbers.
> We are on the knife's edge of disaster here.

Not even remotely true. Demonstrably. The worst thing on the table right now are economic sanctions. Putin knew these were going to happen, and evidently thought the trouble was worth it.

In fact, over the past few weeks, the major powers have confirmed over and over and over again that there would be no military response at all.
Ran into this very thing writing software for customer support teams. There's a Data/ML team within the company and there was a lot of talk about getting them to help plan the software to add abilities to "learn" what customers wanted with their support requests. The reality of the situation is that you can just take a step back and look at the pain points for the CSRs, the highest cost calls and where the time is spent servicing the customer. In the end, it's pretty clear that we can just do a few queries up front to realize that "oh, this person ordered 2 items of the same size in their last order and haven't returned one yet, it's very likely that they want to return one" or any number of other common scenarios that were found and then prioritized based on a simple cost/benefit analysis.

Could the Data/ML team have done something cool and likely complex to show clearer patterns and maybe get something in place to continually refine that data? Probably. Would it have saved more money for the company eventually?
Unknown. Would it have cost substantially more money to design and implement? Pretty sure.
Instead of buzzwords and trends, more accurate to say:

"Communicate all your ideas using narrative form. Embed your ideas in motifs, illustrate them with visual icons. Explain their worth by using existing context."

The reason buzzwords and zeitgeist terminology works is because they're a shorthand to understanding a topic, and a linker to existing context.

It's important to consciously understand how that works though.
part of this may be what a great bug tracking tool bugzilla is.
I think you can call the bluff. Putin wants to build an empire not have Russia leveled. Of course you are playing a high stakes game in actually doing this though.
That is not understandable. "I don't like nato at the border, therefore I will push my border toward nato". Russian "nato is ennemy" exists, because Russia wants nato be ennemy. It prevents further expansion.
If things that require client side software other than a standard browser count, then there is the Yagdrasil network and Hamachi.
That is a fairly simplistic view and this certainly wouldn't have helped anyone.
Otherwise you let Putin have Ukraine and basically show your ass. We’re all afraid of nukes, but that fear can’t make us allow for everything.

I am a Pole as well and also very uncomfortable. I also believe Nato should intervene in Ukraine. Otherwise, we just wait until it’s our turn.
Whatever advantage in HR skills and corporate culture might help a company to hire and retain more talented employees, it's unlikely to be significant relative to mostly random factors that cannot be learned or imitated: mere coincidence, good employees recommending a place to good candidates, high expectations for the company (i.e. money) or its products and services and technology (i.e. interesting work), fit between jobs and job seekers... Identifying talent that doesn't want to work for you isn't useful.
Those numbers seems to come from this CNN poll[0] with 1000 people of each country being asked the questions

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-uk...
That’s a really good idea
If history is anything to go by, it is not entirely unlikely that this will end in some form of genocide on the Ukrainian people.
Youtube is such a platform, odysee and that sort of things are, peertube is not.

Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on the web a few years back

For the federated part, peertube is part of the fediverse through activitypub.

some real world example of peertube usage:
KDE https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels
PINE64: https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels
Krita: https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels
Free Software Foundation: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels
I believe you're a good father since you're concerned. As time goes you'll teach them focus and they'll teach themselves. Focus is a general problem and it has to be solved as such. More and more distractions will be born as years go by so you need a general solution. That's my suggestion.
It's entirely different than using uBlock for youtube ads which reduces the amount of ad views for the youtuber which definitely reduces their revenue.

I presume these sponsorships are just part of the creator's video, no different than the regular content, and not like those 'real' advertisements where your video gets paused and the ad is embedded into different video player.

This is literally skipping by hand but just automated, I don't see a difference.
NATO did not go to war in Iraq as an organization. That was done by an independent coalition. After Saddam's fall, they did however take part in training the new Iraqi military.
> so that is why you are so willing to sacrifice others for your well being.

are you really suggesting that threatening Putin with NATO nukes servers your wellbeing better than giving him a part of East Ukraine for a time being? Are you suggesting that your government won't be capable of negotiating a peaceful gradual transition of the region back to Ukraine in the post-Putin era? Such cases were possible in the past, if you read history. But it required skilled statesmanship and diplomacy instead of quick emotional reactions to intimidate and retaliate.
Of course they would be neutral, if not covertly supporting this action. This is testing the waters for China to invade Taiwan.
Chomsky literally said that the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was US/NATO's fault. He's not an ideologue, he's just an old asshat way too many naive leftists put on a pedestal. Nothing positive about the west can get into his head.
It's because I'm the hottest thing around! (Except for the oven, the microwave, the air fryer ...)
It was the only way to tell Putin to stop and to prevent an invasion; you send troops at the border, we will do the same on our side and they will stay as long as yours stay there.
You are absolutely right. However, consider now that USA invades Canada as a result of this. This is infinity worse and always unacceptable. Nobody—not even American citizens—would tolerate that.
Cool project. You may want to include an epilepsy warning to this. I don't suffer from it, but it definitely messed with my vision a bit.
I'm curious, do folks here think Putin would have still invaded if Ukraine didn't consider joining NATO?

While yes, Putin very much wants his old USSR back, it seems he's doing this in response to potentially having more NATO missiles on his borders.

He's basically been saying "fuck around and find out" since 2008 when we said Ukraine would have the option of joining NATO.
...why? Just for the giggles?
Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number.

This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.
That's probably overstating the degree of security Bitcoin gives you in practice, but it's likely better than having a centralized list of names and account numbers.
Talking before this; hey what's our plan if Russia invades? Ok, what about if Russia does a "small" invasion? Etc. "Informal" in that they're not producing anything that requires a vote or action from member parties - it's meeting of established joint committees, distribution of memoranda, back and forth on policy.

Talking now: which of the plans we have discussed before are we going to enact? Formal meeting, in that a member state has declared it's intent to bring a topic to the table and that the body is obligated to discuss and determine a course of action - which is allowed to be "no action".

Basically, before now everyone figured out what to do on paper, now the Treaty Organization has to make a decision about next steps.
Indians are also insensitive to critics and get outraged very quickly.

I'm french and if I read any comments section of any english article about France, I'll find tons of negative comments like "cheese eating surrender monkey", "their tanks have 1 forward and 7 reverse gear" and so on.
And I only speak about the comments section, the worse are article from Murdoch's empire which plainly insult us, generating tons of money along the way because it sells well.

This type of comments is also found on indian based website, and that is super strange because India and France have not been involved together, we do not share a common history which would allow the introduction of jokes making fun of one another.
I have to admit that this video made me extremely sad and angry. I grew up in one of those countries occupied by Russians that later joined NATO and what upsets me in this kind of argumentation is that it talks about countries like us as if we had no agency, no say in the matter, no right to decide about ourselves. Mr. Mearsheimer uses the same language ("expansion") as if there is no substantial difference between a country asking to join NATO and a country attacked and annexed by Russia. It seems to me that the logic he uses to argue that Ukraine is the West's fault is indistinguishable from "it is your fault that bully beats you up because you refuse to give him your lunch when he wants it".
Strobe warning in case someone might be susceptible to it. You got a chuckle out of me.
I love the dactyl manuform. There is a learning curve but it was worth it because I type faster and completely without any pain I had in my hands with regular keyboards.
I have build a customized clone of this one couple years back but I'm sure there are even newer forks: https://github.com/tshort/dactyl-keyboard
I agree, Article 4 is nothing more than a consultation request. The real big thing is Article 5, which means if any ally is attacked, the others will help. Blinken confirmed US commitment to this is "ironclad".
For some reason it is.
Fundraising during an invasion – what it’s like for startups in Ukraine
I find pair programming very good for transmitting workflow improvements. It's not the kind of thing that makes it to blogs
Sure. That military alliance was just recently kicked out out Afghanistan, in a very embarrassing way. That Alliance's most powerful member, the US, aren't as strong as they were in the past neither for various reasons. And Putin, it seems, wants to find out when that block is willing to go to war against a peer (or near-peer) aggressor. Because I wouldn't take it for granted that NATO would actually start a shooting war with Russia over the almost indefensible Baltics (beyond some honor saving measures) or that the US would actually got to war with China over Taiwan. What prevented those scenarios was, IMHO, the perception of the Wests power, and the real soft power backing that perception up. Now a lot of that soft power is gone, and the perceived power decreased considerably. At the same time the perceived, and soft, power of countries like Russia and China increased a lot. The balance changed, and naturally people want to gauge, actively, by how much exactly that balance changed. Ukraine will just be the beginning if it isn't stopped.
Complete tweaking guide for Windows 7 SP2 ESU
Just sharing my Windows 7 knowledge with all of you.
When globally nations lose influence, they tend to slowly devolve into authoritarian regimes. The reason for both is usually the same: Civil society becoming extremely averse of risk to life in general. So they won't come to the aid of their allies and also push heavy measures on their populace that try to minimise crime. Eventually the same measures are used to control the populace when they aren't happy with the direction their country is taking.
Not so long ago they tested disconnecting the entire country from the Internet.
Ask HN: Why is there peace?
micropython derived from lua, as well as potion, which started those microlang movement and which I am the current maintainer of, as well as microruby and p2. And a few others.
russian military never been in direct full scale fight with Ukrainian forces before till this morning, they have no idea where they got themselves into and what is coming to them - we will bury them all! every single one of them

Our time to fight back has come - Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні!!!

update: dont get me wrong, true Russians are against this war, I have alot of friends in Russia and they ALL sending me messages of support - мы поможем вам стать свободными, братья!
> And when those American soldiers are killed by Russian missiles, do you then declare full on war on Russia

You are assuming here that Russia would be willing to cause a World War by attacking those American soldiers.

> as a Pole the risk of actually being involved in military operations is making me extremely uncomfortable right now.

But the alternative, to let Russia have Ukraine, will become very uncomfortable in the long term. It's naïve to assume that by giving Putin what he wants he will be satisfied and not invade any other countries in the future.
The analogy with 1938 is striking.
You are agreeing with OP here.

OP's point is that an act can seem small on the surface ("a guy got assassinated") but triggered a larger war because there are greater tensions and forces at play ("Austria-Hungary had been thinking about invading Serbia for decades").
Ask HN: Anybody in Ukraine or Russia?
There is no need to reiterate the news, but I was looking for some discussion on Hacker News. Therefore I'm going to ask, what is the atmosphere like, and wish strength to anybody directly affected by war.

Here in Estonia, a country bordering Russia, there just so happens to be independence day, and some people are feeling quite spooked, but of course, there is no war anywhere near here.
In 2009 Ukraine was under the control of Yanukovych, a Russian stooge installed through repression and rigged elections. He was Putin’s pawn and his posturing against NATO or Romania can hardly be used as criticism of the current Ukrainian government or the will of the Ukrainian people.

You’re implying that Ukraine didn’t try to make any friends before the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea. In fact it was Ukraines improving relationship with the west (including Eastern Europe, so not really even ‘the west’ anymore, really just Non-Russia and China the axis of autocracy) that lead to the Russian annexation.
They're reasonable points, and I'm not trying to start a war. Specifically for youtube I guess I find it weird because the people I watch on there at least are regular folks, not big faceless marketing machines, I want to support them. Or at least shaft them by hand rather than automatically :P. As to why I think you're supporting them by watching the sponsored bits:

1. As I mentioned in another comment, if nobody's watching then the sponsors won't sponsor. You can argue that this isn't tracked, or whatever, but that's a bit like the free rider problem - "ok" if a few people do it but if everyone did it the system doesn't work.

2. Like it or not, ads aren't just about you buying things. They're about making consumers aware. Six months later you won't even know how you knew it when you mention it to someone. I hate this so I don't watch ads; I give one of my most-hated companies money so I don't see ads. I don't watch free to air tv, either.

3. Maybe you will buy the thing! Can't always tell, if you have a modicum of trust for the creator you might pay attention to how they describe the features and use their links. Bit optimistic but eh.

Just my opinion obviously :)
It's historically accurate, but also entirely irrelevant. All that history is just an excuse.

The reason the Russian government is prosecuting this war is because it is afraid of encirclement. Ukraine's politics shifted westward, which is what prompted it to act.

The changes in language laws, the history, and all the other baggage is just an incredibly convenient excuse that justifies the action. None of it, as an end itself, is enough for most right-thinking people to start a war over.
No surprise, given Putin's training.
Is there a way to also arrange windows vertically or is every window auto maxed out in vertical space?
The formality had to be done. But the Article 4 invocation is not (I claim) itself a significant event.

To extend your analogy, this is like creating a JIRA ticket when your website with 100 million daily users suddenly goes offline. The shit has already hit the fan and it’s already all hands on deck.
Could a VM be used as a workaround? Assumably VMs are still going to support Ethernet. Maybe someone could write a super-lightweight VM (maybe using a unikernel) which just gets forwards Ethernet packets to/from a virtual socket?
Thank you! Yes, brakes are important and I have 203mm discs front and rear.

After building this, I'm dreaming of building something very elegant - a 50W to 100W torque generator that is tiny in size and very lightweight, and it fits within the hub of the wheel. Maybe not using batteries at all, but supercapacitors the are charged when you brake and discharged when you accelerate.
I think %anycountry nationals% on HackerNews are probably not a representative sample of %anycountry nationals% generally speaking.
I resent the implication that the US military is the only reason the world is at peace, and I bet plenty of NGOs feel the same - if anything, the US military is the one that has been pushing for new conflicts. And while it's true that all superpowers have done terrible things, the difference with the US is that plenty of them have stopped doing terrible things since.

I was not born yet when Germany started WWII, but I was alive to see the US declare torture as a valid means of interrogation and bomb civilians with no repercusions. And my living relatives who suffered under a US-backed military coup may not be as quick to forgive either. Maybe your children will live in a peaceful world, but for many of us that's cold comfort.
Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania are all NATO members. If Putin takes Ukraine, and redraws his borders, he's just adding 4 NATO members. Wouldn't make much sense.