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I think the more ruthless russia is going to act, the more resistance ukraine mount even in defeat via guerrilla groups. So brutally conquering the cities only helps the military objective but not the overall one. It cements western support for the ukraine and sanctions, antagonises russia for the civilians. I think Putin really counts on europe to be weak, dividd and unwilling to act decisively. A brutal conquest will lead to large-scale public pressure on the governments on europe and heavy military support. Also, western europe ist still heavily influencing other parts of the world and can turn public opinion in the most distant places. So I don't think that Putin can establish an authoritarian regime against a united europe in Ukraine. Also, there are large land-borders and we have the much deeper pockets. We could pump NLAWs and Stingers in there like there's no tomorrow. You can't rule a nation using guided missiles.

Even now ukraine experienced a renewed nationalism only fueled by the common enemy russia. It's the first step for failure, he can't win against the people.

This article misses the point. His objective is not to win militarily, but to influence the nation or take it under his control.

I also wonder whether his opinion on the basics is right. He dismisses Ukraine defence of the cities, but they still get a lot of supplies from western nations. If kiev is flooded with anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons the assault will be more brutal.
You may not study it by polling them, but you could by watching them, people exercise their rights hard in Sin City.
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You know how anti-vaxx trolls have certain key words and phrases they apparently can't stop themselves from using, which gives them away?

For their pro-Putler colleagues, one of those phrases is "Ukrainian coup of 2014".
Can I get a refund for it? I had it on Steam but don't really play it anymore. Is such a service degradation a reason for a refund even if I had a lot of fun and countless hours in it? I don't need the money, but I heavily dislike such practices and want them to at least feel that.
> Russia was willing to invade Ukraine, for some land

Where did you even get this idea? Russia is the largest country in the entire world, encompassing 1/8th of the inhabitable land on Earth ALONE. Why would they get in a fight with the entire world to get a few more hundred squared kilometers of dirt? That doesn't make the remotest sense.
> I think a small percentage of people are self-motivated

Why does that matter? We should probably start asking how much does it actually correlate with productivity, before assigning it importance.

I have a hunch that even if there even is such a thing as self-motivation, and even if there is a correlation with production, the effect size is probably not high and is conflated with other factors which explain a much higher proportion of the variability.

An employer which cares about their workers will (a) grant them the freedom to work from home, and (b) provide them with the structure to do so effectively. In the absence of such structure I can see how motivation could replace it and make up the productivity, however that should not be the worker’s responsibility. The loss in productivity is 100% on management for failing to provide to structure to keep the workers productivity while remote.

self motivation seems to me to be a poor excuse to shift the responsibility of management to the worker.
it seem that "completely subservient slave" caused some controversy. it wasn't my intention to demean real slavery, like the factory workers sub-contracted by google and apple.

perhaps "completely subservient." would have been better and less redundant :)
Thanks for sharing, I was considering using them (and I was even in the beta) but the product seemed way lacking and I didn't want to pay the extra fees - so I stayed on my custom implementation.

For small businesses, you probably know better than Stripe what taxes you need to pay (no wonder how complicate they may be).

Besides, your reasoning that you need to charge only canadian VAT is incorrect.
If you sell to EU non business customers you need to charge EU VAT. If you sell over a certain threshold in most US states, you need to charge their sales tax. Australia is also threshold based.

Now, my business is small enough I can ignore safely all the threshold for the foreseeable future (sigh) but I do need to track every damn European penny (and I don't sell to EU customers some services just because of this).
Knowledge yet to Be Stumbled Upon
In 1492 Christopher Columbus essentially stumbled upon America (a whole "new" continent they didn't even know existed) while in search of Asia.

Now we know planets beyond our solar system exist.

Human civilization is amazing.

Yet, how much still lies ahead for us to stumble upon?
> I cannot read the Bloomberg link, but I think fossil fuel usage is a better proxy of total resource consumption than trees.

Replaced it with Substack.

Yearly CO2 emissions are down since 1990 excluding consumption, including that it's a bit up but the recent trend is good. Water and other things are flat including consumption/outsourcing.

But that also shows the issue - transportation emissions aren't caused by having a lot of people! They're caused by land use regulations. More people with sensible density means more close by destinations you don't have to drive to.

(Note the climate change issue is cumulative CO2, not that emissions are actually going up.)
> It would either achieve escape velocity or continue in an arc until it hits the ground again.

Correct. IDK about impacts, but for rocket exhausts, the surprising result is that some of the kicked-up dust can achieve escape velocity, and "where it hits the ground" is "anywhere on the moon" - denser nearby, obviously, but there's no 100% safe distance anywhere on the lunar surface.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/18663203/apollo-11-annive...
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And DC avoids problems caused by induced currents due to geomagnetic storms (you get a voltage shift, but that's no big deal, compared to what happens to transformers.)
You are never entirely without external input. Even if you try to ignore all the stimulation you receive it’ll still have an effect on random thoughts popping into your head.
I remember this article! So great!
Incorrect, this is out of date.

It's your responsibility but only over a threshold (and the rules / amount are different in every US state)
the online knitting community is incredibly toxic, and many knitters just avoid it these days.
> Well...they are, for companies that have decided to be primarily office oriented, and have invested a lot in making that work.

This is awfully close to sunken cost fallacy - we have invested so much in it, therefore we have to use it no matter what circumstances.

> I believe most organisation working in "hybrid" model will impose fixed days at the office - so they can get the full benefits of the "in-office" time. And let other days at home, so that people working better remotely can enjoy that as well.

This is the worst option for many people because it would force them still live within reasonable commuting distance, resulting them not being able to move to lcol area or closer to their parents/communities/etc. What's the point then of allowing them to go remote when it's not really remote, but rather "not here, but still close"? Yea, it will work with some pople, but for others it makes things worse.
Er, Moscow surrounded by subservient states seems an awful lot like the later iterations of the USSR and the route they're using to get there is demonstrably more dangerous than anything NATO would do. The more violent Russia is, the greater the call for NATO and missile shields on its doorstep.

And again, allowing Putin to subsume a new democracy doesn't make the world safer. It shows him he can dictate over his neighbours while the West does nothing.
Ask HN: Do you participate in UX studies or product research?
I was recently invited for a UX research survey from one of the cloud providers, it was a 45 mins interview about the product I use and was paid 75$.

Was wondering if you participate in such similar surveys or research for some beer money.
Resistance heavily depends on supplies (ammo, weapons etc). With virtually unlimited supplies from EU, I wouldn't be so sure about "a few weeks".
That's also the only time (closing time and weekends) for anyone with a job to buy stuff, no?

Assuming normal closing hours of 18:00-20:00 o'clock of course.
As an IDS/IPS software architect with a mind to use my private cloud for a checkout on security, I did the following on iPhone FIREFOX.

1. read the main page (noted accessibility issue in other comment)

2. Read the footer

3. Chooses and read FAQ

4. Choose and read Features

Almost went to Feature as first click. Probably wish I did.

It did feel that it was targeted toward enterprise and smartly so. I am inclined to contact but it’s a private cloud with propensity for walled garden (nearly airgapped).

If I were a real enterprise with private clouds, I too be curious about this functional set and whether they can be applied toward the airgapped cloud.

Nicely and tersely written for the target SEIM, CCIT and cloud-owner audience.

No bite here as my private cloud isn’t up for peerage, external, that is. And my customers have private clouds too.

Again, very nice from this angle.
Properly read, Plato's allegory of the cave in the Republic is a response to the question you've articulated. Kant noted as much, and when not resolved with dualism (which flowed from Plato through Descartes to the modern day), this allegory offers powerful insights. I love these topics, have been swimming in them recently, so happy to talk more, just email me (info in profile).
You wouldn't be living five to an apartment or wishing you weren't if London had sensible housing policy like Tokyo does. Doesn't every single building in the UK need individual planning approval?

Also, London is expensive but the rest of the UK isn't, which by the cheap immigrant logic should mean the rural areas would outcompete them for everything, surely?
I'm surprised that this is now possible with .NET. It's amazing what Microsoft can achieve in 20 years if they put their hearts and souls into it.
You're actually the majority, the people wanting to go back to the office are the minority. You'll see in the fine print Google allowed certain employee's the ability to go remote. Basically, the high performers and talent they can't afford to lose to their competition.

People have had a taste of not having to spend time getting ready in the morning, can take their kids to school, and forget an hour commute. You would be hard pressed to find many banging on the door to go back to the office. I know of one person in my circle out of about 30 who want to go back. His reason is lack of boundaries with his family about when he's at work.

I personally would never go back to an office, it's not worth my finite time.
> The only reason for software to be existing is to NOT mandate users to check stuff manually.

Software exists so users don't have to do stuff manually. But people should absolutely check on things periodically. That doesn't mean it's always necessary to check every single transaction, but spot and sanity checking is mandatory diligence, IMO. I pay my CPA to do my taxes so I don't have to do them myself, but of course I sanity-check the end result before signing off on it.

And OP made a huge change to how he was invoicing/taxing his customers, and then didn't verify that things were working properly after making the change? That's just irresponsible.

Stripe's documentation and API could probably stand to improve here, but that's the nature of products and API UX: never perfect. I do think it's pretty lame that Stripe's support and product people were evasive and did a bad job of admitting that the product had some rough edges that need to be improved.

But... c'mon. Not checking something as basic as "are my customer's payments being processed properly" after making a large change to the payment processing pipeline, and only finding out something was wrong, three months later, after an honest customer asked why they weren't being billed? That's pretty bad.
Don't try to diverge my words. Here's an American company refusing to provide a service to Russians outside of Russia. I blame American company for their decision.

The right analogy with WW2 is Australian company refusing to provide a service to Germans living in America. WTF?
Russia already lost half of the casualties than much bigger USSR had in Afghanistan.
For sure. But Russians now have an important mission to speak up. They share the language with those soldiers going into war. They share the language with those Putin supporters. Do not accept this norm.
All the "western media" that give a quick 5+ minutes overview about the conflict also talk about Russias objections of NATO expansion and the history of Ukraine.
But also how the people of Ukraine fought to get closer to the EU.

I can't see how that makes it gray all the way through. There are nuances that we can't ignore, but it seems the people of Ukraine don't want to be under Russian control. Seems clear to me the attack was not .. gray.
The lies and bias that the mainstream media continues to spread. Never trust only one source - Even the BBC.
‘Whitegoods’ is commonly used in Australia too.
The space shuttle's crawler transporter managed 42 feet per gallon or 126 gallons per mile, which is 0.008 MPG :)
Russia Must Be Stopped Help Ukraine Win
I don’t think a bigger ecosystem equates to more complexity as directly as the author implies.

Ie suddenly having the option of two different databases doesn’t mean using one becomes twice as hard
Yes, you can enforce a lot through SQL triggers/stored procedures etc. But you often end up abusing your DB/SQL as a business logic layer, where your business logic is encoded in a huge set of row/column permission and custom SQL triggers . This tightly couples your database into your whole business application stack.

Especially in Oracle PL/SQL, I've seen this often abused to an extend where no one ever understood the whole business logic anymore (as logic was spread out in frontend, middle-layer services, and DB mumbojumo), and the database became a fragile core-piece (with a significant vendor login) and hindered all sort of future development.

Seriously, your business logic should be modelled in code, ideally in some sort of service layer (which does not necessarily mean microservices!).
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It's not just documentation btw. Sometimes the value is "used", but only in conditionally compiled code. Like assert(!unused). Then you need the variable there, but want to tell the compiler not to bug you about it being unused.
Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)
I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers.

tl;dr

$ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode "

$ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug'

DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions.

It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN, StackOverflow, programmer Reddit, and a few others. Page content comes mostly from the Common Crawl project.

The limited, but awesome, features in this first release are:

- Expressions! Experience the power of Elasticsearch’s Simple Query Strings.

- REST API. Just change 'text/plain' to `application/json` in the above alias.

- CLI. Just use curl in the terminal. Simple as.

HackerNews, StackOverflow, Arxiv abstracts, 2M Github repos, and programmer Reddit (up to 2020) are being indexed right now. There's much more to come in the next few months.

I'd love to hear your questions, comments and suggestions in the comments below.
Why is this spam on HN?
because a database should not hold your business logic. It should hold your data, and that it can do well. See also my other post on parent for more reasoning.
> The real rivalry will likely be something most Americans aren't even thinking of: India.

You might enjoy this story then, if you haven't read it already ("2034: A Novel of the Next World War", co-authored by James Stavridis, a former supreme NATO commander):

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54211065-2034
What if the person has more skills to where it takes less time to perform the same task?

I.E a junior that is just learning terraform vs. a staff that has used it 3 years?
That feels weird to me. If some dashboard is telling me "nice, your revenue is growing!", but the money actually flowing into the bank account doesn't look right, I'm going to investigate. Immediately. I'm not going to just trust those metrics when the actual real-world measure doesn't match.
I concur. I also happen to run a business and although I employ almost a hundred people I have never let my eyes of the "tape". I trust my team and owe a great amount to them for helping run the business. But if they make a mistake that directly affects my bottom line, it's ultimately my fault.
I did my first hour of therapy this week and while I couldn't say anything unusual happened, I'm still in shock.
> Last I checked the there were enough free parameters in these calculations to make the calculations of less than convincing. For example those 'hadronic observables' make up such a big part of the actual results that what is left over is within the error bounds anyway.

Indeed, this is more like a fifteen-year-old understanding. For example in 2008 , the authors of https://inspirehep.net/literature/804184 tuned to reproduce the pion and kaon masses (to fix the quark masses) and then predict ~ a dozen further masses, and in 2015 they computed the proton/neutron mass splitting https://inspirehep.net/literature/1300659 . In https://inspirehep.net/literature/1675748 we reproduced the nucleon axial coupling to ~1%.
Agreed that Stripe has some product & UX issues here, but if I'm going to make big changes to how my customers are billed and taxed, I'm going to very carefully watch the result of those changes for a while to make sure it's working properly. Seems like OP didn't do that, and that's pretty irresponsible, IMO.
Only global position Russia has is nuclear weapons. Also attacking other countries is not improving global position any more than attacking a person with such statement. At least soviets had some innovations. A failed country that China will buy now that all that is left is cheap.
$500 for a 4-5 year old phones... yeah... but no, thanks.
And the wire transfers between the bank accounts and the exchange?
In a Transformer, the most expensive op is the self attention. So when you have more layers, this will be more expensive.

You could also share e.g. all the parameters in every layer (like Universal Transformer), and thus reduce the number of params drastically, but without any change in computing time, and only negligible difference in memory consumption because the hidden activations take most of the memory, not the params.
The ida that the brain models something "outside" is just another thought.
Turtles all the way down.

Also, meditation is a vehicle, not the destination, at one point you're gonna have to go further.
Buddhism says that an end of suffering is possible, so it predicates a different idea.
The existence of software does not abolish your audit & compliance responsibilities.
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It has nothing to do with cost of living; it’s market rates which are set by supply and demand. London is super expensive but the pay is much lower than even the rural American pay scale since UK engineers don’t get paid well anywhere and will work for Google even if they’re getting half of what they’d get in the US. They could move to the US—Google would support the transfer—but they don’t, so there remains a supply of people who are willing to work for that rate in London.

As others mentioned, if Google ignored supply and demand and paid for quality of work only, why would they pay everyone the high rates that were originally set by supply and demand in Silicon Valley? They’d pay a normal living wage for someone in India.
I refer the gentleman to my (amicus curiae) reply in the matter of Arkell vs Pressdr-- eh, avgcorrect vs mise_en_place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30539581
Integration is for instance not having to use QString(View) is the first place, like one doesnt with many of the bindings, including Qts own Python binding.

If you can show me a codebase that you think is modern C++ and uses Qt, it would be much appreaciated. I keep running into walls and havng to go back to coding like it's 98 basically, but hey, love to be shown it's me.
I'm actually amazed the Netherlands found anything to give. It was generally assumed that war was over because Europeans had become civilized. Unfortunately the Russians never got that memo and remained barbarian.
A few years ago Dutch soldiers had to yell "bang bang" at exercises for lack of ammunition.

Dutch politicians have noticed this is looking a lot like 1940.
> Russia can sustain itself if it wants because it is so large, so it appears they are attempting to build some sort of enclave at any cost.

Likely, though not like they are not dependant from outside world, i.e. they can become soviet union 2.0 with iron curtain 2.0.

Their commercial aviation is dependant on boeing and airbus - no parts for foreseeable future. Big portion of shipping containers will stop coming, banks are restricted and foreign money is pulling out (moscow exchange is closed for the 4th day), etc.

Good writeup here: https://twitter.com/dmitryopines/status/1499157917399977987?...

They maybe take Ukraine, but russian economy is on borderline collapse I think.
There can be different kinds of slavery. Let's not get bogged down by details shall we?

If a situation fits for 80% and there is no other single word that better describes it, i see you would just do nothing and leave a clearly wrong situation in confusion and undefined. People need a word and a clarity of meaning to rally behind it. Slavery fits really well, even if some things don't fit the historical original definition of it. If you can come up with a better fitting word, be my guest, otherwise please don't stand in the way while people are trying to raise awareness for the tragic lack of freedom that so many of us experience.
There's a lot of comments and obviously I've not read all of them, but I find this comment nails it in every paragraph.
Hmm, I think another reason for this to happen now, is that the border between Belorussia and the Ukraine is covered by the Pripet Marches, that are neary impassible by heavy equipment when not frozen. Without access that way, Russia would have to fight their way from the east, and forced to cross the Dneipr river, which forms a very significant obstacle. This could delay an invasion by a month or more.
Anyone who has had a panic attack or suffered from a social anxiety will tell you that you cannot always choose behaviour. Sometimes you simply cannot get your body to do what you will it to.
The left wasn't pro immigration back when they were the party of workers.
> There has to be a good majority of us here that has worked on something complex that required SPAs here, no?

You can still create a something complex without using any of the common SPA techniques, instead you can use things like Hotwire, Livewire, htmx instead.
You can achieve that using Handshake, which is a blockchain based replacement for DNS + PKI.