skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also find it reminiscent of the Winter War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War), but it should be noted that the Soviet Union ended up winning that war. Finland far outperformed what should have been expected from a nation going up against an invader so much larger than it, but in the end the Soviets learned from their initial stumbles and overwhelmed Finland with sheer numbers.
Is this good or bad? Does it mean that Russia is not the threat that was once thought? Putin still holds nukes, and we don't want him to feel threatened enough to use them.
As he demanded countries meet their NATO obligations and chastised Germany for becoming dependent on Russian energy...right
Yeah so it’s still not first-class in the language and off by default. Thanks for the links.
>As a non-military minded observer, my first thoughts were, "How much resolve does the Russian soldier have in this war?" There must be many personal connections between Ukranian and Russian soldiers and citzens of the other country. Relatives, friends, business colleagues. As a soldier aiming his rifle or firing a barrage of rockets, is he wondering if the person on the other end is a cousin? Or college friend?

This is much more of a factor than what you even say. A significant portion of troops are not interested in killing the enemy. Especially true of conscripts, some conscript platoons were near 100% incapable of shooting at the enemy that the enemy could slaughter them all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall

He discovered that either people wont stick their head out of the hole and instead shoot at tree tops. Hoping to scare them off? Or they simply never shot their rifle even once. People certainly criticize this, but I criticize the critics. This guy is 100% right and a large part why conscription doesnt work.

That changes up with general mobilization, if people are defending their own country like vietnam... it's just that much worse because those people are trying to repel invaders. They will shoot the invaders. Their lives have been interrupted and the interrupters must be killed.

So when non-special forces troops actually enter the cities and come up against general mobilization. Russians will take huge losses because those troops will not shoot back directly at the enemy.

I also have a theory, the huge list of allies of ukraine have special forces deployed in proxy war. We will never know the truth obviously. Russian troops who think they are fighting civilians are coming up against some of the best of the best in the world. Russia can't even tell the troops they might be coming up against other special forces. It would be tremendously demoralizing.
As far as I can tell, Russia is fully prepared for any possible consequences.
Is it possible to accomplish the latter without the former?
Yes, but if you approach it as a toy then "success" doesn't mean "wide usage" it means "I had fun and learned stuff".

I love Crafting Interpreters in part because he's explicit about this being mostly about learning and about play. I love languages (spoken, written, programming) and it was a great introduction that really got me rolling.

Articles like this consistently overwhelmed me, with the result being that I didn't really try it until years after I wanted to. Yeah, languages aren't for everyone, but specifically trying to scare people off of it seems harsh and unnecessary.
The issue is that each country has its own Spotify pricing (eg. Croatia was half the price) and they don't let you select your country, they select it for you based on IP geolocation.

My Spotify's country was set to the Netherlands but after 2 weeks abroad it forced me to change my country to Croatia (maybe due to music copyright laws? No idea).
You can really see this in the wind farms east of LA. You see the initial, less aerodynamic tiny wind turbines and like Russian nesting dolls they get bigger and bigger.
They’ve are paying 5-6% annually maybe more to keep them there. That tells you how much they value cash
That page is what people are using to suggest he is reestablishing USSR which is not my read of it. On the subsequent page which I’m going by memory because it is inaccessible they state that they will neutralize and de-nazify the country. From that I don’t see how people are getting to long term occupation (except for the breakaway regions). Their objectives can be met by demilitarization which is what I assume they mean by neutralization of Ukraine and I think that is something everyone could come to terms with as a reasonable compromise. If Ukraine starts re-arming then Russia would come back and prevent it.
The Israelis knew that if the Arab armies, which greatly outnumbered them, won and conquered the land, then the holocaust would pale in comparison. They had nowhere to go, they had to fight.

The Ukranians are not in the same place (the Russians will not slaughter them), but they are definitely fighting for their home, and they also have nowhere to go.

Fear is a very powerful motivator.

Now in contrast, imagine what the Russian soldiers are thinking. Forced to kill people so similar to them. They don’t even want to be there.

I don’t think it’s unlikely that Russia will lose this one in the long term.
Auto-detecting is good, but I was suggesting a third-party program that just takes arbitrary input, strips the control characters, and produces the resulting output, in case the original app can't do what you need as a user
As best I can tell, Putin thought that Ukraine was about to be admitted to NATO, and didn't want NATO troops on his borders in both the Baltic states and Ukraine, so he invaded to preempt this. It seems to me that the threat of invasion would have worked as well as actually invading, at making NATO uneasy about admitting Ukraine, and would have involved far fewer downsides for Russia.

I have long thought Putin to be a mean but smart individual, but even if Russia eventually accomplishes the conquest of Ukraine, this looks like a blunder on his part, not only a moral error (although certainly also that).
That's one weird exchange. It seems that the Russian soldiers weren't expecting the car to be armed. There are also videos where cars are moving past Russian tanks without any confrontation.
I never said they shouldn’t have the freedom to choose. Never mind that they didn’t- the US literally just sponsored a color revolution there in 2014. But don’t expect Russia to not react if their security is threatened.
On Jan. 6 I saw it first in r/publicfreakout. The past couple days I've been seeing it first on r/combatfootage.

It's quite surreal to have a zillion camera operators all over the countryside feeding to war to us in near-real time, as a collage of context-free video snippets.
If the wife wakes up soon after the husband dies you have to ask if there’s a causative relationship there- e.g., Munchausen by proxy
I actually think this is not a bad analogy.
A diet change (specifically a high-fat diet or HFD, thinking "keto" here) led to a doubling in size of the pancreas, but it wasn't clear to me what that means as far as obesity or prediabetic implications (is a doubled-up pancreas conducive, or unfavorable, to fat retention?)

They then took the resulting gut microflora and transplanted them to another organism and observed similar effects on the pancreas

That's about all I got out of it, not sure what it broadly means though other than that the gut microflora keep having a seemingly greater effect on our overall health than we think
If you listen to a lot of his podcasts, this is actually his way of willing the circumstance into being, or that's been my interpretation. He used to talk about it as something he aspires to, but more recently has been referencing as something like an inevitable intersection along his trajectory.
They already can do that.
Nukes are what would keep NATO out of Russia, even if they got militarily involved. They basically guarantee that the country's leader must be deposed of internally.
Well, it wasn't to invade Taiwan, as I recall?
Wouldn't a white supremacist need to kill those of a different skin color to qualify?
I was an intern at Apple right around the time of the beta. The performance was bad. They had a program where the best performance improvement for the week would net a top of the line Mac development machine.

They did a whole bunch of tuning over the years, including parallelizing the startup sequence and optimizing linking to make startup faster that really made a difference.
HN is a polite platform so I will just leave if up to others to imagine the string of curse words running through my head right now.

This is so bad. And worst of all, it was so predictable.
I'm not an expert but I can't imagine it's worth it for that, factoring in sanctions, increased militarisation of surrounding countries + potential spread of NATO, casualties, Russian equipment being destroyed, equipment that doesn't fit their ammo/can't be supported/etc., and the probability that many of these weapons don't get seized and instead are used against them for years by rebels (the west has even implied they will support this with more - and the weapons we have sent are suited to this and not hugely valuable).
Mach was slow, disk access (the spinning beachball Mac OS inherited was supposed to be a CD originally) was very slow. Using a Turing complete language for drawing was scary.

> BeOS was a very different operating system and -- let's be clear -- would have been a terrible, terrible choice.

Oh, sure. But it sure was snappy. And gorgeous. And that file system was awesome.
Ukraine's warming to the ways of the west makes Russia nervous. Access to the black sea is a strategic issue. Reservoirs in Crimea drying up because their source is in Ukraine proper. I don't defend any of this aggression in the least, but if mexico and Canada started warming up to China, you could imagine how the US would react. Once again, I don't support or defend Russia in this situation, but at the same time I don't think it's the work of a madman.
How do you define an autocrat as "irrational" if not as one that's "lost sanity"? I interpreted your comment as meaning that, as well as this quote of being "deranged".

Sanity (Oxfod, 2nd def) :

>the state of being sensible and reasonable

Morality is indeed besides the point, I just added it as I feel dirty suggesting he's rationale 3 days after invading Ukraine without amending the idea.

As for mistake, I think speaking of a political mistake is relevant if we should consider your explanation wrong, i.e. he's sane/rational autocrat whose invasion backfired more than expected, should that be the case.
So that’s why Ukraine couldn’t honor the ceasefire for eight years?
I was in a dead ass coma for a month. When I awoke I couldn't talk or move my arms and legs. After 3 months of daily in hospital rehab I could walk maybe 50 yards at a time and get up from a sitting position without aid and went home. It was a year before I felt I was normal. I was not overweight or in bad health before this. It's amazing how fast your body just quits if you don't move at all.
It's easy to just call it Putin's whim but from a strategic point of view and to help see stuff like this in the future is probably worth at least reviewing some issues from the Russian point of view.

A few things that contribute to Russian goals here:

A. "paypack" for the overthrow of the long standing pro Russian Ukrainian government in 2013. Putin would like the status quo returned to 2012 - weak buffer state reliant on Russia (Belarus 2.0)

B. historical significance of Ukraine joining the old western cold war army (nato) would be devastating. Russia may have calculated this is the last chance to stop that or at least delay it for a generation

C. finish the 2014 war. Get the land bridge to Crimea and unify the Russian speaking west and south western Ukrainian regions (imho this is goal number 1 since it give massive economic and political benefits.)

There's probably loads of other goals, but they are the first to come to mind.

Note: I'm not agreeing with any of them, just pointing out they are likely there and we would probably be aware of them.
Volkssturm
No, "mentally what we'd call a coma" would involve being unconscious. Remembering anything is well beyond the bounds of a coma.
Not really. The “I guess we’re not shipping that phone” quote was about not shipping the Blackberry-clone Sooner device, but the full-screen touch-first “dream” prototype was already on the drawing board.

Android source code is publicly available, with time stamps. You can read it and see how little had to change to make it a touch first ux.

Android had to add multi-touch events, make the default controls bigger, and add inertial scrolling to the list views. They didn’t even have to add a soft keyboard, because the first few gens of phones had physical keyboards.
Given the circumstances, this is the definition of escalation. Obviously they will have Putin fire all first shots. If there’s anything NATO is best at, it’s evading responsibility.
To really get into the mood start bumpin those PwC jams: https://youtube.com/watch?v=itWiTKU4nCo
Honestly cutting out Russia as a gas supplier is one of the most interesting considerations.

- It would probably be what hurts Russia most

- It might have pretty good long-term effects

- But it also would hurt the EU a lot, especially eastern EU countries, like the _huge_ majority of heating (both rooms and water) in Germany is done by Gas (through also by house-central gas powered heating units in many cases). Also gas-powered ovens and stoves are still pretty common, too. This is not something which can be easily migrated, even less until next winter. So doing this decision will lead to quite a bit of civil hardship and even death next winter... It might still be the right thing to do. I just don't see it happen tbh.
https://archive.is/5P11x
Why would US troops risk their lives in the middle of Iraq to simply send a message to the world that the US can invade any country it likes, even for made up reasons, and nobody can stop them?

Clearly nobody actually thinks about it that way. They are professionals and they carry out their legal orders, given to them by a properly constituted government, to the best of their ability.

Yes, even if the orders are to conduct criminal was of aggression. Because at this stage of human history, the rules based international order is a hopeful fantasy.
This website is the Institute for the Study of War [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_W...
As a c++/java guy, my side project is in typescript (as it was meant to be a web app).

I.. don't love it. I often am using the ! operater to say "yes, I'm sure there will be an object here" in an array and having to get too particular with type specification (i.e. for keys in a map). I'm not sure it adds all that much value to my project.
Sim City 2000 I think. Yeah, getting it back here is not great. And would defeat the purpose of lowering amount of solar radiation...
Atm it looks like it might be Micheal Baker.
NATO members have been directly bordering Russia through Estonia and Latvia for literally 18 years at this point with no harm or even the threat of harm to Russia.

NATO members, as stable democracies, have zero interest in going into war with a nuclear power like Russia. Even now at the peak of tensions, every NATO member has repeatedly publicly pledged that no NATO troops will be involved in conflict.

The idea that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is Russia acting to protect itself is the height of silliness.

The better explanation for this war is much simpler: Putin has traditionally received a bump in approval ratings after his prior wars and was desperate for another boost after a long and harsh two years dealing with COVID-19.
That's for keeping air safe for humans, not using passive ventilation as a replacement for HVAC equipment.
There is almost no chance that Putin will pull off a Grozny that would have no support of the Russian population or the troops and would drag NATO into the conflict directly.

Unless Putin has decided that 2022 would be the last year of record of the Gregorian calendar at least for a while he isn’t going to bring on the apocalypse.

As horrible as this conflict is it’s pretty much the death knell of Russia as a superpower and probably for good.

It almost lost in Georgia in 08 which brought it a lot of army reforms and its performance in Syria has emboldened them to think that they can play in the big leagues again but it seems that they aren’t able to perform on the modern battlefield at all.

I have a feeling that a lot of people in the pentagon that have been concerned about Russia becoming a near peer to the US are now sighing in relief.

I almost want that once this conflict is over for the pentagon to release a statement in jest that it officially downgrades Russia from near peer to junk like the credit agencies did.
> There are no troops coming to Ukraine, but arms are streaming across the Polish border from NATO countries.

I don't understand why the Western governments are openly anouncing their supply of weapons to Ukraine. Why not just do it stealthily?
This is not entirely true anymore. Many aerospace organizations attempted to move to less rigid/structured development process (e.g. wishing to become more agile) to attempt to "move fast and break things".

This trend actually has lead to an decrease in software quality and more quality escapes.

The larger aerospace manufacturers have mostly stuck with more structured process for safety/mission critical process, but around the edges (e.g. other systems running on aircraft), less structure and faster turnaround/more "testing in the field" is happening.

There was always the "skunk works" type of teams in aerospace organizations who worked with a lot less guardrails as well.

Source: worked for an avionics company previously.
> Seems to me totally isolating Russia from the world financial system means they have nothing left to lose and might lead to the war expanding.

I find it odd to describe this as "nothing left to lose". More countries could actively support Ukraine or possibly enter the war directly. Of possibly they could confiscate Russian property in other countries. Or they could attack the Russian homeland. Things could certainly course get mush worse for Russia than losing access to SWIFT.
> I can't even imagine what sort of project it would be to even control a fire in grid-scale installation...

You don't need to imagine it. Such a fire already happened. It was brought under control.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/tesla-megapack-fire-highligh...
Kremlin website down and Russian TV 'hacked by Anonymous'
When the room is full of Yes Men, that room is not a truthful room.

Also applies to tech industry - big lesson for management that cannot work with people who disagree.
Who is he going to nuke? No one is threatening Russia. Tactical nukes seem pointless in the Ukrainian campaign, and strategic nuking Kiev when he wants it intact seems an odd thing to do.
Conservation of energy. You could collect the energy that gravity generates, but then you end up with water/mass at the bottom and need to figure out how to bring it back up... Leading to net zero or negative gain due to other losses.
Pretty far fetched
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How to explore ethical non-monogamy
Not the english my product manager needs, but the english they deserve.

(Edit: Also, the english my code comments deserve)
(Edit 2: and my commit messages)
When has "because it would be bad for the West" not been enough of a reason for China to do something?
I don't think it's really possible to hide the fact that US and UK military hardware is arriving by the bucket-load into Ukraine.

Javelins in particular are quite distinctive when used in the field.
People lived before 1902 and the invention of compressor-based air conditioning.
A metric ton(ne), by the way, is the same quantity as the unambiguous and compositional, but rarely used, "megagram". (Oh, but kilotons and megatons are usually units of energy as shorthand for burning TNT.)
What will he do as he realizes he can't hold Kyiv. When he realizes his plan of quick conquest failed, that the Russian military has been revealed to be an embarrassing mess on the global stage.

I worry that he'll use increasingly vicious attacks on population centers, bombings, as an offset to cover up the ineptitude. He can't afford the loss of face, the show of weakness, that the present circumstances represent. His military is weak, poorly organized, incapable of pinpoint strategy, and he'll make up for it by brute force (which will get a lot of civilians killed).

The US and Europe so far are pulling together (with Germany finally coming around more), so Ukraine appears that they'll have a supply of weapons to fight an occupation. The Ukrainians will hate any pro-Russian regime that gets installed and will topple it; the Ukrainian army will not align with Russia. It's hard to see a glorious winning outcome for Putin from here.
Why isn't approval of team changes in your contract, then? This is standard language in our consulting contracts.

You want to change the team? Send the resume, let us meet the proposed staff and run the bullshit detector over them, and then maybe negotiate changes in cost if they've downgraded or reject the change if its unnacceptable.

If they insist, they're in breach and we go after their performance bond and let the insurer go after the dishonest consultant.
It’s probably about the same experience as US troops would have if they were ordered to invade Canada.

Also they were probably told not to treat the local population as hostile and even if they weren’t it’s usually not the default disposition of people soldiers or not.

These guys have no fucking idea where they are or where they are headed or what their mission actually is and they probably can’t even call anyone up the chain of command to get new orders and they don’t seem to even want to do that.
Yes, I remember this well.

I put an unpatched Windows 2000 machine on the network, and the system logs were littered with intrusion attempts—more than 500—after being online for a few minutes.
I expect a negotiated peace where the world gives away the eastern third of Ukraine and the west goes home patting themselves on the back but Ukraine is left with losing Crimea and it's eastern third. It's then just a matter of time before we repeat this whole mess and Ukraine is chipped away at until it's gone.
> Yeah, languages aren't for everyone, but specifically trying to scare people off of it seems harsh and unnecessary.

That depends. It's really hard to articulate just how much work is involved in writing a programming language. It's one of the classic infinite time sinks that exists in the CS field; no matter how much work you put into it, there's more to be done. It's very hard to ever call it "finished". I've seen a lot of language projects start as "I was working on this other thing and then I thought to myself, gee, here's a great opportunity for a programming language to make this easier." 8 years later they're still working on that programming language, the original project a distant memory.

Programming languages have a way of sucking in developers without them realizing it until it's too late. So while I wouldn't dissuade anyone from writing a PL per se, I would warn them that writing a PL is a *huge* undertaking in its own right, and should really never be undertaken to help you solve your own problems. If you want to go this route, then you need to abandon your problem and focus on the PL instead.
> Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.

Hearing "the best" there really bugs me for some reason.