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> [Apologies for the delay in replying; I am rate-limited on HN due to excessive pacifism.]

Snide comments insinuating that penalties on HN are based on particular views are always a dumb idea, but not nearly as bad as characterizing your apologia for Russian aggression as “excessive pacifism.”

> Perhaps I misunderstood because the idea that Russia has no options remaining is goofy.

I never said Russia has no options remaining. I said that Putin, having setup the propaganda position he did of framing NATO failure to accede to his withdrawal demands as a provocation of war I Ukraine, had no good option to avoid showing weakness from the standpoint of his domestic political position within Russia except invading Ukraine when the threat of force failed to get the West to capitulate.

> You agree that tormenting Russia is unlikely to bring about the political changes many claim to desire

I have neither agreed with that, nor agreed with your ridiculous characterization of Western actions as “tormenting Russia”.
I think we all know that "the west" - whether that be the US, western Europe, Israel, Australia or any other country which is normally included under that moniker is not perfect, especially after having those things you just mentioned dragged up on each and every occasion. Stop doing that, you do not have to constantly mention all "our" sins to make a point, we know.

Putin just invaded a sovereign country, maybe you should mention some of the bad things he and the oligarchs who fund him have been up to? Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, polonium poisonings, journalists falling from windows or being killed on the streets, Alexei Navalny, there's plenty to choose from. Come on, let's hear it. We know "we" are sinners, enough of that - save it for a sunday sermon or something like that.

We Know. Now, it is time to pick up "The Western Burden" - or accept the defeat of what we call liberal democracy. And yes, we know that there are many flaws in what we call liberal democracy. It is still preferable, warts and all, over the alternatives, whether that be some harebrained plan from the World Economic Forum, a kleptocratic oligarchy like Putin's Russia, a dystopic surveillance state like Xi's China or some combination of these.

So, what's it going to be? More self-flagellation or, finally, some clear words on where we stand?
Same here. The house in the beginning looks a bit strange, but nothing that couldn't be caused by a potato camera. I'd fallen for this, too (though the plane does not look like a Russian one).
*Cacao butter diet. Not the delightful as the candy bars but still just as possible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461012
Should they fail a complete takeover they can threaten to blow up the fallout in negotiations.
Athena as well
It's simply the shortest and simplest path from Belarus to Kiev. It has strategic military value.
social media is controlled by a few companies but not completely. If someone uploads X and i search for X i’m not 100% guaranteed but very likely to find what they uploaded. Especially if X is common and popular.

See: alt-right media being widespread on Twitter, Quora, Reddit, Google, and sometimes even YouTube. Not only is that stuff not censored, it’s actively being shown to people who are not alt-right and aren’t looking for alt-right content
I for one have read a lot of code with C89 declare-first style that was subjectively a lot less clear. This applies in particular to assign-once variables that depend on other calculations.

stuff like this: [0]. I mean, what's the point of declaring variables like cp or err at the beginning when they're assigned first only halfway down? What is the point of having path around for the whole function, when it is a super temporary assign-once variable with a scope of 3 lines? I'm having a really hard time coming up with a justification for this, other than "this is the way we've always done it and we like it" (you can find actual rants in defense of this style from about 10 years ago).

For-loop declarations are another instance of this that make the code more fluent IMO. And they help reducing the scope of variables to a strictly smaller block. I would find it hard to argue that this does not remove some bugs or improve readability.

The only thing that declare-first has going for it is that the variables that are in use can be seen at once, a little bit like in a struct declaration. Looking at how optimizers butcher those variables depending on liveness makes this feature seem less valuable, though.

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/2729cfdcfa1cc49bef5a9...
How on Earth can you say with a straight face that they are effective given what's happened now?!

I mean really, that's just gaslighting now.
Most of the land mass is in the northern hemisphere, even back then.
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Kuwait?
Russia has been preparing for some time to be able to disconnect from outside Russia and continue to have internet working within Russia, only with Russian sites.
There is a difference though - you don’t have a query language that makes it easy to do, and the actual technology pushes you to make a different more correct choice.
> Unless things changed in the past year or so, i remember creating a google account without a phone number.

I believe you can create a Google account without a phone number by setting it up on Android's (stock ROM) setup screen. This won't bypass YouTube's nagging though, sadly.
That's what I thought too. Isn't the team disbanded by Mozilla?
Gas is important, but what is more important is the nuclear arsenal.

The US, China, Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea, are effectively untouchable by conventional military means, because they are able and willing to unleash nuclear holocaust in return - no matter what they do.
Russia has already guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in 1994. Oops then helped itself to Crimea and the “people’s republics”.

Now “don’t arm Ukraine and we pinky promise not to attack it further”? Hmm...
Good point!

My main point still stands though.

Edit:

BTW I wish I could edit my previous comment to rectify my mistake but I can't.
I see three problems with that explanation.

First, I'm not sure there's a strong case that our lifestyles today are any more sedentary than in, say, the 1970s (when obesity rates were around 12% rather than 30%). We had cars, transit, elevators, escalators, school buses, television, keyboards, etc. in the 1970s, while at the same time "going to the gym" was just not something that average people did on a regular basis. Even going jogging was mildly eccentric.

Second, this is looking at resting metabolic rates, not overall calorie expenditure, although there is probably some association between RMR and physical activity.

Which brings me to the third point, which is that you're just shifting the burden of answering question of "why are we fat?" to "why are we sedentary?". If we are in fact increasingly sedentary, it could be that an outside factor is causing both low RMR and sedentary behavior. Anecdotally, I (as a comparatively skinny person) have a lot harder time sitting still than some of my friends and acquaintances that struggle with their weight. They might consider spending a day in bed as a great way to recharge, whereas it is something I would only do if I were pretty miserably ill.
Go send your own children to die first.
It isn't breaking userspace under the definition intended by "we do not break userspace". In that thread, Linus was referring to a kernel change that changed the error returned from an ioctl, which caused a program not just to fail (as it might if it tried to use a feature not compiled into the kernel) but to break (by entering an infinite loop).
It looks like it pretty much has, based on the commit frequency.
It was incredibly surreal last night to be scrolling through `#ukraine` videos of bombings that occurred within the past couple hours, with many of them accompanied by cutesy pop music.

Intermixed with various teenage influencers impotently insulting Putin.
Right, and that's your thesis for the world, but America lives under a different thesis, and some individual rights are protected, _even_ if 95% of people disagree.
Then help me understand how my comment is gaslighting? Do you mean wikipedia is wrong?

Or maybe you can finally answer why sanctions made things worse?
Most of the Russian and Ukraine wheat exports don't go to the EU but Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh and regions there around.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/infographic-russia-...

France exports 15,228,664 tonnes of wheat, not far behind the Ukraine with 17,314,278.

Other significant wheat producers in the EU include Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exp...

What climate change would let crops fail in all corners of the EU, but not Ukraine and Russia?
Brace yourself for Putin “flooding the zone with shit”. Bannon didn’t invent it.
Russia Today is down too: https://www.rt.com/
A couple reasons. One, I believe the reason soybean was chosen for this study was simply its prevalence in US food -- not because it's special or unique. As an oil it shares characteristics with a number of others, and the most notable of these characteristics is its fat profile (>50% PUFA).

Two, a connection between high PUFA oils in general and poor health outcomes is being postulated by other researchers... and, to be fair, many people who probably have no particular expertise and/or hidden associations, such as diet fads. But that's one of the reasons I asked the question initially; even the sources that would normally be trustworthy on other science (government scientists) have proven to be wildly incorrect and untrustworthy when it comes to dietary issues. I was honestly hoping someone that works in the field would pop up to comment.
The problem is that all the data is not the clinical data. Images are fairly well understood for clinical use, it's all the non-imaging things that need to be associated with the images. It's images and a whole bunch of stuff that's associated with them that people want to do with the data that are non-clinical. For example now there's things like BIDS[1] which are basically applying rigid schema to a filesystem. But that's only because so many people got frustrated with everyone doing their own thing and having to spend time restructuring data to different site workflows. But even that only works for neuro, what about cardiac or liver or spectroscopy or... software that doesn't use BIDS etc? And even with BIDS mostly it's just copy rename to the layouts the software you're running actually expects. There's also a huge push for "Vendor Neutral Archives" to augment PACS which will allow things to be sort of structured and managed but that always seems to be uploading and downloading from websites so people still keep copying everything out because everything is so opaque vs filesystem.

> it identifies photos by metadata-excluded hash, so moving the photos around does not break the links

That only solves the problem in one direction. If you run across an image after it's been moved, you know which image it is and can index into the database based on that. But if you want to find an image starting from the metadata after it's been moved, then you're stuck trawling everywhere. The metadata-hash thing exists in medical images DICOM as various GUIDs (in a different format), so you can track things and updates that using that key. But if you have to visit 30 TB of files just to find one that's been renamed or updated, it's basically impossible.

[1] http://fmri.ucsd.edu/pdf/BIDS_Presentation_14NOV2018.pdf
It appears there are two bridges across the pripyat river in the vicinity, next crossing is nearly 100km south inside Kiev city.
> us invaded afganistan to protect itself

... is a very different thing than ...

> occupying a foreign country for 20 years

When NATO invaded the towers were still smoking, the war-on-terror intelligence apparatus had yet to be built, and we (I) had no idea whether another attack was forthcoming. It felt pretty damn reasonable at the time.
Feels like Android to me.
The cancellation of the NS2 pipeline has been a silver lining, even if it's hard to compare the long-term quanta of brutality a given amount of CO2 leads to vs the short term brutality of war.
I don't think it's subconscious - I think it's an SEO technique. People are checking whether Russia has been removed from SWIFT yet or not, and if your title has that unusual word, bonus points for you.
Nice work! I've been trying to stand up nesper/nephyr, the Nim overlays for ESP32 and Zephyr, but had quite a few issues (not all of which are those library's fault, the ESP-IDF toolchain is horrid in a lot of ways). I wonder how difficult it would be to extend Ratel over to ESP32 if I have a working toolchain already. I might have a crack at it, we're big on Nim at work and are trying to get away from C++ for our firmware development wherever possible.
A nice compact guide of some important topics. Thanks for posting.
Do you have any other resources that might be good?
Russia has no basis for this at all, hence all the pathetic excuses they've been showering the gullible with.

And yes, it's evil, and no, it has nothing to do with their border security, that's a ridiculous suggestion, in the same vein, you would be ok with Russia annexing Poland, Lithuania, Finland or Estonia because they are armed and bordering Russia.

As for the whataboutism, that wasn't the subject.
what if Russia used chemical weapons? doesn't hurt physical infrastructure, provokes shock and fear, kills or incapacitates a lot of people, denies tons of area to the Ukrainians.

I'm not sure Russia has much left to lose politically by stooping to that.
When a nuclear power plant has a failure as catastrophic as that in Chernobyl it is active (radioactive) for a _very_ long time, with no way of shutting it down. The immediate site of the power plant will be uninhabitable for about 20,000 years, however, the wider area might become safe to live in in just a couple of hundred years. While radiation levels decrease in general, there have also been measurements of increasing radiation in 2021.
> Your DNA is the "cookbook", of what your body can make.

> Gene expression is what your body happens to be making (and how much) from the cookbook

Gene expression is what you are making right now, and how much, in a direct and fairly uninformative sense.

But along with recipes for what you can make, your DNA obviously also encodes what you should make, and when, and how much, and how all of that should change in response to various things -- and gene expression is part of that too.
And on the other side we have US BigTech, who will act under the orders of the US. Apart from that, the social media propagandist of the intelligence division of every country will also be involved to sway opinions.
This is laughably false.

Materialism, aka "physicalism", simply posits that all phenomena have an underlying physical basis, i.e., no "spooky" or magic stuff.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/

Quantum mechanics follows from physicalism by demonstrating that the physical nature of reality is incredibly complex and counterintuitive, particularly at quantum scales.

But that in no way implies that quantum mechanics leads to non-materialism or opens the door for materialism to be false. It simply becomes subsumed into materialism itself:

materialism requires that all phenomena be ultimately explainable via physical explanations, and those explanations must account for quantum-mechanical phenomena.
> or Europe

As long as it falls onto Kremlin, I'm OK with that.
them being a foreign company actually puts them at more risk, because they can legally be declared a foreign agent
People here are focusing too much on the "TikTok" in the title. This is not about Tiktok. This is about everyone having a device in their pocket in which they can immediately record video and post it to social media. The platform is irrelevant. If TikTok manipulates content that video can go to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Reddit...
I hereby give you permission to say exactly how much money big companies save by using the newest versions of GCC and Clang.
Something looks sketchy in the video but couldn't point to it exactly. Maybe the light effects when explosions happen, maybe the unnatural velocity of projectiles that enter from the left side of the screen.

But out of context, it could have fooled me too.
I know it's not going to happen, but I'd love to see Servo push back against the Chrome/webkit duopoly.
Why didn't this happen in fairly recent wars in Sudan, Syria, Libya, Egypt, etc?

It seems while those populations have smartphones and the internet, they failed to capture the attention of western media and western populations with their plight.
> Ken Thompson's hack is purely theoretical

Erm. I was always under the impression that he had actually done it, and that his presentation was a historical anecdote. Is that not the case?
Thanks! I'll have to take a look at the Macros section of the book.
I'm not sure how much trust we'd still have in paper agreements after a nuclear winter or two...
> but somebody has to be in control and responsible for this site to ensure, among other things, no terrorists make off with radioactive material

Please… Russians will just use it for their propaganda as a support to the claim that Ukraine was working on nuclear weapons.
I've been looking for years for beef jerky that is less than 10% sugar. It doesn't appear to exist.
I really appreciated the inline ASM in the nightlies when doing a tutorial on working with the RISC-V architecture. Glad it's gone stable.
No, the current structure is from 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
Daaaaaad! You're embarrassing me!
And perpetually tropical in the tropics
Then their bombing of hospitals was a bit silly
At around 29-30 minutes, the speaker says Putin is too smart to actually try to create a 'greater Russia' by conquering Ukraine. This video was recorded in 2015. What is Mearsheimer saying now?
He said he wanting negotiations and then attacked days later. Suggesting we take that statement face value is patently absurd.
Looks like they were predicting that in the beginning of 2021, though for 1H2021, US was still a net exporter. Don’t think they will be for 2022.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49596
He seems to say later in the thread that the trajectory of
the ISS doesn't go over Russia, but could also fall on India or China (I don't have a way to verify this claim)
> Russia has been dislocating extremely threatening weaponry right on NATO doorstep and treating it as its holy right, for a long time.

You got this exactly backwards. NATO has been expanding towards Russia and is seen as aggressive by Russia. NATO/US "graze" Russian and Chinese airspace aswell - whats your point? This is just military tactics 101.

>But Ukraine thinks about joining NATO and Russia has no choice but carve out some of its territory? And it’s the west’s fault?

Ukraine is a buffer state. When your buffer state is being armed and funded by your political enemies, you draw a red line. When you cross a red line and you fail a diplomatic negotiations, what do you expect to happen?
There is also https://ukrstream.tv/en/liveuamap which seems like a clone. Sonce I often get errors from liveumap, I use that instead. I didn't find any differences apart from less funtionality. But I didn't check that throughoutly, though.
Instead it’s up to the social media companies, who we know are invested in controlling content on their platforms. And [what I perceive as] a majority of HN users have been arguing all along that it’s wholly their prerogative to censor whatever they choose to. What kind of “change” is that? These behemoths are the new establishment, are they not?

I checked the #ukraine tag on TikTok and found zero raw on the ground videos of conflict. Looks totally sanitized to me. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough. Maybe it’s merely hard to find. Maybe it isn’t allowed.
Sure. But companies are inherently political. They survive because of guarantees from the political system in which they live, and different political systems produce different kinds of businesses.

I don't say that the OP produced an unmeaningful sentence. I say OP is incorrect.
I've used this, was trying to make a Rust wrapper that could host a Chrome, WebKit, Servo and Firefox renderer - but I didn't get far.

Servo seems like such a good idea and it's pretty far along...why did Mozilla kill it? It seems it could have been a contender for embedded render in all kinds of apps - perhaps an alternative to Electron.
Sure, but real time info about military conflicts has been shared on the internet since the 1991 Gulf War, and perhaps earlier. TikTok is just the latest in a long series of platforms where such info has been shared, and as you say there's nothing really special about it, it's just the most popular right now.
> Then he can gradually extend control over other encircled states to the north of belarus.

Except those countries are actually in NATO, so the circumstances will be quite different. Won't stop him from influencing pressure though.
> Same as the infamous PHP mysql_real_escape_string (don't make the mistake of using mysql_escape_string!) [2][3] or whole host of C stdlib footguns like strcpy/strncpy

In all of those, the enhanced function takes more paramaters. Switching the existing name to require a new parameter will break existing code, and people will not want to update. Making the new parameter optional is possible, but IMHO is messier than a new function that has required parameters and then deprecating the old function (and eventually removing it).
Kind of, but you can also use clang. On the other other hand, that's clang with GNU extensions, so /shrug
What? Trump had an anti-war platform. That’s why his response to Iran was so weak (and why he allowed them to return fire to save face).

Also, he let Erdogan do whatever he wanted. And the Saudis. He didn’t care!

And even if you don’t believe that, Trump is currently okay with the invasion.
I assume the model would be to build the same kinds of supportive housing facilities but to do so in markets where the same budget buys more units.
I'll admit, I'm very fond of PocketCasts, so it'll take rather a lot to get me to switch. But tipping is a feature I'd consider it for.
There are two pieces to this.

First, past wars involved journalists directly embedded into forward units. If they said 7 rockets were fired into City X because they were present and witnessed it, then what they were reporting was correct. It doesn't require expertise in anything to correctly report that. The vetting was on the part of the news organizations themselves, not hiring war correspondents who were blatantly making things up. Now that everyone has access to publish their claims to directly witness something, there is no longer any sort of filter on whether they're even actually there.

So if you're watching video taken by a professional reporter sent to a theater of combat by a reputable news organization, you can at least be reasonably sure they're not fabricating the video. If your source of videos is TikTok, you no longer have much in the way of assurance that what you're seeing is even real video footage.

The second part is what you're talking about, whether the "expert" opinions of pundits writing in professional news outlets are any better at interpreting events than a layperson. This is much more of an open question.
Is it supposed to be a big thing in Asian grocery stores? If you walk into a grocery store in China it will quickly become apparent that you're expected to do your cooking with corn oil.