skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Tough to believe, but Austria-Hungary had the biggest army in the world, at the time.
What? I thought it's pretty common knowledge chess is very popular in India.

Which is why they are in 5th place in world.
https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml
"Putin is only doing this because of NATO missiles" is a Russian propaganda line. It is disheartening to hear it repeated on HN.
No one, and I mean, no one... Wants to ne the first firer of nukes in anger. I could see a State nuking themselves before nuking anyone else to keep that fuse from getting lit.

You don't get to put that one back in the bottle, and you're going to have to have more faith than the Pope to think that no one will respond.

Nuclear War isn't like Civilization. It's a momentary bang followed by a lot of whimper.
Yes you can, but at that point a laptop might be a more convenient solution.
Not to mention the apparent lack of popular support. Russian regimes in the past have fallen in a revolution while waging an unpopular war.
The base concept of "everyone can host their own instance (within a few limitations)" is how most of the internet actually works. HTTPS, Email, DNS, etc. - all of those things allow pretty much everyone to host their own, individual servers.

This kind of openness is very central to the success of the internet. Large corporations (Google, Facebook, etc.) consolidating huge amounts of that into single platforms concentrates a lot of power in a single hand, which does create some very real concerns about the internet becoming less and less open.

PeerTube is *NOT* a video sharing platform like YouTube is. PeerTube is just a piece of software that allows everyone and their grandma to create their own video sharing platform similar to YouTube. So, basically all those many different PeerTube instances are mini-YouTubes each.

Since YouTube is a near-monopoly, it's sort of unavoidable that a lot of PeerTube instances that do crop up, are catering to those who got banned from YouTube - often for very valid reasons. And that's why you end up with a lot of offensive content.

That's not a built-in flaw of the software though. It's rather a problem that's caused by the current situation of YouTube being so extremely dominant, that those people who've been banned from YouTube end up basically being the only niche audience that remains untapped.
Of your list, the ones I know about (the Hebrews, the Persians, the Chinese, and the Greeks) were plurinational (and frequently not states), though sometimes not in exactly the same way as the Romans.

It's true that I'm an extreme liberal! But I think the Wikipedia article gives a neutral point of view.
You are, unfortunately, mistaken. The President has sole authority over launch decisions. There is a requirement that those orders be verified as authentic by the Secretary of Defense, but assuming POTUS gave the orders, it's not within SecDef's authority to countermand them. What would actually happen if an insane POTUS were to give a launch order that made no sense is probably up to chance and the quality of those willing to break the law and refuse the order.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
You are confusing tribes with nations. None of those examples you gave had any nation-states especially greeks, persians and you can add ottomans, ming, mogul so on, they all had empires with tribal ruling with a dynasty and tribes, with extremely diverse ethnicity impossible to form a coherent nation with a common denomination. There is hardly ever a turkish grand-vizier in Ottoman catalogue to give a trivial example contrary to what you would expect from a "national" point of view.

Race exists but not nearly relevant as you claim and has nothing to do with nation-states. I don't claim to side with the parent but you are not nearly correct either. IF there is a footnote to a source, you better read it next time. Wiki is not authoritative but not complete junk either.
I am kind of feeling spooked, because Putin hinted indirectly at launching nukes if there was interference.

We border Ukraine via Black Sea.
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Those two messages are very different from my experience writing (and generally getting) grants in France. Grant reviewers are anonymous, how could you even butter them up ?
>And when those American soldiers are killed by Russian missiles, do you then declare full on war on Russia, and we basically all die?

If we are going by the game theory, mutually assured destruction only works if both sides believe the other is willing to engage. If one side knows the other side will not engage, it becomes easy for the aggressive side to take advantage of the passive side.

Putin also doesn't want to die so the hope would have been that if the west was stronger and made it clear that an invasion would lead to war, there would be no invasion. Putin didn't see that commitment so he attacked.
That's certainly an interesting point.
From Putins interview he does explicitly say that he wouldn't be in this position if the NATO didn't push for Ukraine, as simple as that.
Yes, the US did not get this right. At all.

Russia could have been Germany-fied with a friendlier and supportive hand. Instead it was handed over to evangelical neoliberals, whose imposed economics guaranteed that only the most feral opportunists and violent gangsters would thrive.

Russia could have become a modern social democracy, but now it's a crumbling militaristic dictatorship state run by a raging senile paranoiac with delusions of empire.

It's one of the worst foreign policy failures in all of history.

Ukraine will not be the end of it. If the invasion succeeds Russia will demand a slice of Lithuania to reunite Kalingrad with Belarus. That has huge implications for all Baltic-adjacent states.

But worse, Putin has claimed the RF has a number of nuclear superweapons, including a strategic nuclear-tipped torpedo and smart hypersonic warhead delivery systems. He also completely renovated Moscow's civil defences.

The US has failed to keep pace, and its weapons systems are either old and outdated or over-designed, high maintenance, and relatively fragile.

Putin also been running a very successful program of subversion and political interference. And building up cyberwarfare capabilities.

Even allowing for hyperbole the worry is that Russia is capable of a zero-warning decapitation strike, combined with remote mass infrastructure attacks and internal terrorism. Any response would be relatively ineffective.

This completely undermines MAD as a doctrine.

No mistake - the US is in very, very serious danger now, from both internal and external threats.
Russia also has separatists supporting them and they can move relatively freely withing the country.

The US did sanction Russia, but is actually more of a sanction against Germany. China might even like an invasion for different reasons, although they probably will call them out on it officially.

You are probably correct that western countries won't do much.
This is the difference between strategy and grand strategy. Russia is planning not only for 2025 or 2030 but also for 2050 and beyond. Who knows what the world will be then and whether nuclear weapons continue being an effective deterrent. They are falling back to the rules of thumb empires have used for ages. Having a potential enemy at your doorstep can be a bad thing, while having some space between you and potential enemies is probably a good thing.
SS13 is hampered by the awful BYOND software it was made for. It lags bad on high population servers. Unfortunately numerous from-scratch rewrite attempts have stalled out so we're stuck with it
And version control... ideally.
Yes absolutely, this was not an issue when it was just me and some friends using it.
What's your recommendation for email.
Ah. I just heard it in my circle. It makes sense that it could be propaganda.
Can I shout "Plumber invoice 2021" at that pile and the right document will come flying out? Or just "invoices 2021"? A pile that could do this would probably be fine for me.
Ooh, you have a designer I see, neat!

Also, the API looks nice. Lots of image manipulation functionality. I've been thinking that the next step for Supershields would be some kind of lower level SVG creation API that lets people build their own SVGs from the ground up. This would also give them the ability to do more advanced stuff with images like your API can do (flipping and skewing etc.)
It's funny that you bring up the Crimea referendum, which didn't even offer a choice for the status quo prior to the Russian invasion.

Not to mention the idea of holding a referendum with Russian troops occupying the area and no real outside observers is fundamentally off.
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Can I suggest to please write what the bug was about in the title as it happens often that old bugs are closed years later.
Personally, I'd attribute that more to the European Union. But yes, NATO certainly helped. Only shows that there are no simple answers. I only want to point out that NATO, and the EU for that matter, despite all the good the did in Europe are by no means the "good" benefactors in other countries. Also, just because I think some of Russia's actions are understandable, I don't think they are even remotely justified or acceptable. Same goes for the war on terror, the EUs handling of refugees, basically all NATO interventions with the possible exception of Yugoslavia (not the Kosovo) when they tried, and kind of failed, to prevent genocide.
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Yah. One can't really let Russia make NATO promise to never let a certain country in. But NATO wasn't really eager to admit Ukraine.

Of course, Ukraine really wanted to be in NATO, for obvious reasons...

Here's the deal, from my standpoint. Russia is declining in relevance.

* Demographically, they're shrinking and aging.

* Economically, post-Crimea sanctions have blunted any growth.

* Trade / exchange--- petroleum becomes less relevant with time.

* Diplomatically, they're already pariahs from many past misdeeds.

* Culturally/socially, they've stagnated as well.

Clawing for land around them-- through proxy conflicts in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, etc-- offers them a small chance of continued relevance. It's probably not a winning strategy, but it's at least one which could be winning. When you're in a bad situation, if you want to keep playing the game, you need to make the moves that at least could lead to a win.
Money quote:

> People seem to think that if the software requires some document, then surely the rules require the document in question. That is, human beings believe that the software must be an accurate embodiment of the law.
> Russia is also a European democracy.

Muahahahaa! Wow, man, you're funny!

> Surprise

Yes, indeed: I am surprised anyone with more than a vacuum between their ears could think that.
You're missing a small thing - NATO had had various plans for antimissile defences in countries in Central and Eastern Europe ( Poland, Czechia, Romania if memory serves me right). Those defences would potentially invalidate Russia nukes, and that's scary. ( Which is why there was a treaty limiting antimissile defences during the Cold War, to avoid one side thinking they can win a nuclear exchange). So Russia has plenty to be scared of, and then there's the imperialism, exporting problems, having a cause for the people to rally around, etc.

War crimes and abhorrent nonetheless. I hope at least this time the responsible end up in The Hague.
All reasoning is by analogy. The map you have in your head, is not the territory my friend.
The idea that universities or other public services should be profitable in any way is bewildering to me
If a war against communications facilities were to break out, the scope of disruption would be such as to put us not far out of the Stone Age. The fragile glass network must seem very exposed to military planners; one imagines that contingency plans are always being drawn up and gamed out - likely at this very moment.
He didn't sing Putin's praises, he pointed out that Putin's methods are, to quote, "savvy". War is confusing and Trump may turn out to be wrong but so far Russia seems to have come up with a plan then executed the plan. While facing no organised opposition. It does look like a well organised operation.

In short, it is entirely possible that Trump is correct. The political discourse can't keep shutting down in emergencies, there are too many emergencies these days for that to be an option. People have to talk calmly about what they think is happening.
> Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.

Finland gets the next worst treatment, simply saying it should be “absorbed”.

Interesting that it says military action is to be avoided and that Russia should use it’s natural resource dominance to extract concessions from other countries.
>>You are assuming here that Russia would be willing to cause a World War by attacking those American soldiers.

I think Russia has been "calling the bluff" of the west for a long time. Attacking American soldiers on Ukrainian soil to send a message "look what I can do, you aren't going to attack me back because you know what it will cost you" would be entirely within the standard Russian strategy. And it would place US and NATO into an extremely uncomfortable position - attack back = world war 3, don't attack back = send a message that you can kill American troops without punishment. That's not a position anyone wants to be in.

>>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.

I don't think I'm naive, I fully realize that this is what will happen in the future. But again, there's having a nicely formed opinion on the internet, and then there's receiving a letter stating you are to report to your nearest military base for training and deployment. We should do something. I don't want to leave my wife and kid and go fight in Ukraine. Those aren't contradictory statements.
I think he thinks the liberal western world has shown it will do everything to avoid midnight, including letting Russia do whatever the hell it damned well likes.

They have UNSC allies. Cryptocurrency makes it near impossible to sanction them, or stop them funding whatever they like.

Short of the war we're too afraid to wage, there's little we can do. Seize assets? Great. That might make it uncomfortable for Putin's allies but it's soft power when you consider that Putin can reimburse any losses. Don't get me wrong, I'm not cheerleading for a world war, but at this point, it's hard to see the advantage of avoiding it. Sacrificing Ukraine only shows the world how powerless we are if you're holding nukes, which is obviously a dangerous statement given the long-running conflicts around the world.
> And Russia would've been scared and retreated.

Yes. Without sarcasm.

This happened several times with Trump, who despite all his faults, was a master bullshitter and master at seeing through other bullshitters. A notable episode was an attack by Russian Wagner group on a small outpost held by 30-something US special forces soldiers guarding a gas plant in Syria. Signals intelligence was later able to capture a few phone calls of survivors describing what had happened[1]. Russians were used to fighting poorly trained rebels, but now fell under combined arms fire from a modern army and it was a total massacre. They got hit from drones, artillery, Apaches and F-22s. Russian casualties: some 300 dead out of 600, American losses: 0.

After that, Russians were much less eager to provoke the US. They test every president like this. Obama failed ("red lines" in Syria), Trump succeeded, Biden... depends on what he does next.

[1] https://www.polygraph.info/a/29044452.html
The nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed ~200k people. Any target worth nuking, (say Nato HQ) will result in millions of casualties. Urbanization & increased population density have many benefits, but they make for mind-bogglingly disastrous targets of nukes.

If there's a choice between nukes raining down and between Putin ruling the world, I'll happily choose the latter. No matter the cost, there cannot be a nuclear war.
Gotta hand that small remark to Putin, he upheld the tradition of no war during Olympics.
Olympics were actually created to act as a pressure release valve in ancient Greece, which constantly fought wars between the Greeks, Spartans and Persians.
For example: a man records a video of his girlfriend performing a solo sex act. Before the recording, they discussed the matter via text and it was clear from the written record that the video was only for their own use and would never be shared with anyone else. Later, he uploads the video to PornHub, in direct contravention of her wishes and their previous understanding.

Should there be consequences?
Few months ago:

> Firefox Mac feature implemented 21 years after report

> Top reply to the bug report is from Mike Pinkerton and reads: "i can't argue, but it's a time thing."

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/msl1ra/firefox_mac_f...
Joining any organization usually comes with strings attached. Maybe they didn't like the strings...
There's no need to imagine, look at the treatment of Cuba, including the Cuban Missile crisis for daring to join "the other side". It's still under sanctions, decades later, for that..
I thought this is about access to the biggest port in the region, which is in Ukraine.
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if you have space in your kitchen an easier solution would be to buy an adapter for the large CO2 tank directly to the sodastream input, 20lbs would last a long time.
Why does Putin try to invade parts of Ukraine ? What's its interest ? Is it economical ? is it for interior politics ? is it to destabilize Europe ? does someone can conjecture a bit ?
> Plus, this is how we organise [0] stuff in real life.

The way I organize people I know and places and all sorts of other entities I cannot physically place into boxes and folders is a lot more like the tag approach, though.
It doesn't matter.

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, etc. turned around in 1991.

Ukraine didn't. Its people didn't want it.

Downvote all you want, that's just fact.
This aged like a pile of pork, typical for the noobs at the New Yorker I suppose

>Both the Ukrainian and Russian governments keep downplaying the probability of war and reprimanding journalists for fanning the fear. A prominent Ukrainian think tank run by the former Defense Minister has issued two reports, three weeks apart, arguing that a successful large-scale Russian invasion is not yet feasible. Everyone understands that the war would be both bloody and senseless—surely Russia doesn’t really want to occupy one of the poorest countries in Europe, inhabited by forty-four million people, most of whom have come to hate Russia. And in peacetime—even in fragile, relative peacetime—it’s always hard to imagine war.
lamp:51 Uncaught DOMException: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable

FF97 on Ubuntu

ETA: I see it working now
Like I said above - Putin has literally made a career out of calling west's bluffs. Would he call that one? Would he literally attack American/NATO troops to see if we'll really end the world over it?

I really don't want to find out. It's one hell of a gamble.
Its not that people consciously choose bad soldering irons, its more of an awareness problem and flood of chinese hakko 936 clones. Nobody knows why 60 year old technology (heater behind separate tip) is bad until they meet their first ground plane on modern multilayer board.
Good shout. I felt AO was too mature for me back then. The writing itself was much more advanced than wow.
Since you cannot change infrastructure over night, gas was the much cleaner alternative to lignite. If Russia stops supplying Europe, they will look for other gas suppliers.
Apple responded to a 9 year old bug report saying “much has changed since this was filed” https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1356681590915682305?s=21.
Disappointed article never mentioned WinFS which indicates to me that the article didn’t actually have much research put into it.
It is FOSS, so you can contribute to the project in principle...
After all, it is free, so I cannot complain.
What’s the state-of-the-art of command line file searching? I have a macOS machine and mdfind is awesome but something similar for Linux is not yet in my toolbox.
This response only makes sense if you are not into DevOps, which I think you should as a developer. Take a random server exposed to the internet, use caddy or treafik to setup a reverse proxy. It takes like 20 seconds to create a reverse proxy to a random host connected via ssh.

Even easier, create predefined ports in caddy and connect to those via ssh. Assign domains to them like proxy<1-1000>.example.com. Connect to one via ssh that is free. Done. That's 2 seconds once it is setup.

Even easier and cheaper if you do not have a "random server exposed to the internet", take one of the alternatives shown by op which allows to deploy a digital ocean or Hetzner vm automatically. Done, like a few seconds from the command line.

10$ a month for something like this is over priced but I guess you prove that it is a valid business.
Not sure what you criteria for "real community" is, but AFAIK there are already communities using this technology.

The micro-payment as opposed to ads model already exists on third party services such as utip, tipee, onlyfans, etc. and is the main source of revenue for most video content creators.
When peertube aware content creators explains why they choose youtube as their main platform the given answer is the large userbase and visibility a.k.a. The network effect and dominant position youtube has. Though twitch and tiktok seems to putting a serious dent as many youtubers turn to twitch for live content and interacting with their communities in a healthier way than youtube where toxicity prevails, and with tiktok for engaging with their communities with shorter videos requirient less effort and escaping the youtube algorithm.
That was always my impression. WoW and other MMOs aren't like normal games in being something you do for fun. As a solo experience, the gameplay quickly becomes something you'd do your best to avoid.

The point of WoW is the chat window; the rest of the game is there to give you something to do while you're hanging out.
"Original" ones seem to be 7-8 EUR and the off-brand I've been buying is 6 EUR, yeah.

Guess I'm not using it enough, I use about one per month, so not even worth having ANY refilling equipment handy, takes up too much space.
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus

Russia’s exports are >50% oil and gas products.

The biggest retaliation the West can make right now is a commitment to a rapid exit at unprecedented speed from the oil economy, in favor of renewables.
Closed because it became irrelevant in Nov 2017. I guess that's resolved.
> It was build by Russia through Gazprom in collaboration with few German companies, that care about their profits not Russian tanks in Ukraine.

And with the despicable traitor not only to Germany but to Europe and arguably civilisation itself, ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, fronting the whole enterprise.