skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of why Russia looks so inept is because everyone is comparing against the US.

However, the US military has the finest logistic operations in the world.

Also, there is no substitute for fighting an actual enemy. Part of the reason the US (especial Air Force and Naval Aviation) is so good is that they have actually been fighting. From Libya(Reagan), Gulf War I, Serbia, Gulf War II, Afghanistan, Libya (Obama), the US has been fighting quite a bit.

Whenever you are actually fighting an enemy, there is a learning curve. The big question is whether the sanctions and international isolation combined with the Ukrainian resistance will force Russia to back down, before they navigate that.
Have you tried the Tracing Agent? https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/A...

It will track all uses of reflection during a program's execution. You can then use the resultant config as the starting point for the reflect-config.json.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549604
> How often would people want to run PowerPC-era Mac software on modern hardware natively if they could?

I think some creative people, e.g. writers, might like to be able to continue to run their favorite old word processors if they could. Every so often you'll hear about a writer who's still using Wordstar or WordPerfect or some other old software because they know it inside out and it does what they need.
A combination of 1 & 3 seems highly likely in my uninformed opinion. Economically, losing aircraft will make a war very expensive very quickly. Losing large numbers of top of the line aircraft will severely harm Russian military aircraft exports.

With Europe closing its airspace there aren't many valid approach paths into Ukraine, or ways to get out of Ukraine should things go south. Russia has few stealth aircraft. In the 1991 gulf war, 60's era Soviet SA-2 missiles were able to defend Baghdad against non-stealth aircraft despite weeks of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses(SEAD) strikes.

A MIG-29 costs ~20 million dollars new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_Q_Strike
Absolutely. As someone with a fair level of subject matter expertise in the area, I've spent much of the last two years disgusted with the distortions/exaggerations of the news media, to the point where I basically don't read or listen to the news anymore. Certainly nothing from the ad-driven media, which is almost universally garbage. It's the same pattern the GP describes for Russia: exaggeration of obscure, tail risks and uncertainty. If you speculate, speculate to the negative outcome and ignore the positive or neutral possibilities. Emphasize scary anecdotes and ignore or downplay any facts that would lead a reasonable person away from panic.

I was regular consumer of NPR, NYTimes, WaPo, and many others. Now I just don't read or listen to them. I skim a few international providers, I have some subscriptions (i.e. paid subscriptions to news providers that don't depend on ads) and podcasts, and that's it. Covid eliminated nearly all of my "news" consumption habits.
I think you can go quite far with Qt/QML and the qmetaobject crate. For example https://github.com/gyroflow/gyroflow
At least since HTML5 and CSS3 and ES6 (so many years already) these technologies are made for SPAs. There aren't many better UI frameworks, and WPF isn't that by a long shot.
They're related points, but alright.
Because user interfaces are supposed to be usable, too. Being pretty is not sufficient to make it a good UI. Windows 11 isn't as profoundly misguided as Windows Vista was, but the most notable UI changes in 11 are pretty much all detrimental to usability.

Or to put it another way, a good UI must not ignore the second half of "look and feel".
> China picked up the phone with Putin on day 1 and said peace talks immediately and made comment they respect Ukraines sovereignty as well as the security needs for all involved. China appears to have been sideswipped and used as as shield by putin.

This is just public display. Actions matter: will they continue buying Russian gas and oil?
For me I'd rather it just remain independent. It already does what it does well enough. There aren't any obvious features that would improve the site for me, just a lot of further monetization crap for users who fall for that stuff.
Sounds plausible, but I dunno how prevalent that really is, though. Do that many people write OSS code just to get hired?

I've never once made a contribution or started a project primarily because I thought it would get me a job or other professional recognition. I contribute to projects I think are worthwhile, to those that I benefit from and want to give back to, and to things that "scratch an itch" either personally or professionally.
And it was about NATO forces not led by NATO.

The forces of a NATO member are NATO forces. Or do you think if Russia would attack polish forces it wouldn't be considered as an attack on NATO forces?
> we humans really need to figure out how to improve our ability to converge on models of reality closer to what really happens.

It's a good idea, but people with power and money have an agenda, and their agenda is often not in sync with current reality. They want their agenda to be future reality, and suppress current reality to get there. Just my opinion.
You must see global leaders as a weighted average of their policies, and then place them on a spectrum. As an example, Hitler is more evil than Putin; enough so that there's a large, visible gap between the two.

>he doesn't deserve special credit for Russia's relative success.

You'll need a source for that one. But here's why I think you're wrong [1]. Note that Putin came to power in 1999/2000 as an authoritarian leader. This means he's making more policy decisions for Russia than the US President does for the US. On an economic level, Putin has done a great job. You can see each dip correlates with each time the US interfered in their backyard. [1] What the US does not want is a strong Russia.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/gdp-per-cap...

> Russia apologists always suggest that Putin has to be a belligerent because his neighbours are joining NATO, but they never seem to ask whether Putin's neighbours have to join NATO because of Putin's belligerence

I'm not a Putin apologist (I changed Russia to Putin because he's a dictator). All I do is try to look at the situation rationally. Putin has gone on public record stating he does not want NATO in his backyard. And yet the US/NATO keeps pushing the boundaries eastward. Russia invaded Georgia _because_ we dangled membership over their heads. Russia invaded Ukraine (twice) _because_ we dangled membership over their heads. Ukraine is also an interesting country because the eastern half predominantly speak Russian.

> It seems rich to me so suggest that countries such as Latvia and Estonia should have to remain in Russia's orbit just because Russia feels threatened

Those countries were introduced much closer to after the fall of the USSR, and they are tiny. So Russia let it go.

>Even in the worst case scenario in which a hostile NATO is on Russia's doorstep what is Putin afraid of? That NATO will invade? This is ridiculous. This is about empire.

How would you feel if Russia constructed a bunch of missile silos pointed at us (USA) in Mexico, Cuba, and Canada?

>The US did not invade Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis a

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

We did, even though they were not our soldiers. And we would have put our own troops on their soil if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated.
> China has 75 years of foreign policy showing no expansion

How could you type this with a straight face?
It seems like you're trying to shoe-horn in an entirely different point? How does maintaining air supremacy as a military tactic relate to mass casualties?
I don't think RU has that many precision guided (cruise) missiles. The tech for those, small GPS/GLONASS/TERCOM, is post Soviet. My impression is that RU military capability kinda froze after the Soviet Union collapsed, and what "modern" stuff they do have is in very limited quantity.
This is a really thorough book. I think most people working in this area can learn a lot from it.
Without minimizing the awfulness of this invasion and the fact that it must be condemned, it is not nearly as brutal as Russian operations in Chechnya and Syria or the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq, likely because Ukranians are not nearly as much of a racial or cultural other to Russians as Chechens or Syrians. The greater ability of Ukrainians to gain coverage in both traditional and social media may also be a factor.
I concur with @ghostpepper. Buyer beware! I too purchased a keyboard over a year ago. I got suckered into the home page message indicating that orders have to be in by a certain date. Lo and behold, the dates are updated with the same message, indicating its BS. I never thought the wait would be this long. Thankfully the owner, whoever this guy is, is receptive and quick to reply. He always assures that I have not been scammed and that my order will be delivered. But as to when is ambiguous. For all I know, it may take another year or two to finally receive my VERY expensive keyboard. Or maybe never — who knows. I advise anyone here to refrain from handing over their money to this mysterious individual unless you are ok with having your money taken and order status staying in limbo for years.
> if anyone knows of any place to buy flacs of music with great selection would love to know

https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v12/ (scroll down).
I don't know, there are a few companies I've seen around lately that have an open source "core" with proprietary business add-ons. Teleport and Tailscale for example. The Tailscale CEO wrote a post about it recently that got traction on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29736369
I switched from Hugo to Zola. Happy as Larry.
Oh, you're talking about using the forward gradient method. This still does not make much sense because if the projection of the gradient in that direction is zero or near zero, that is a very weak step in reducing the loss.
I'm living proof that it is possible to simultaneously hate SPAs and understand why they are popular. I've built and worked on a number of them, I don't have a better alternative to recommend, and yet I still hate them because I think they are a clunky solution to the problem. We need something better, but I'm not smart enough to come up with what that should be.
So is the kernel…

Once you have root just do whatever you want. replace the binary, install another version, upgrade the kernel, and then run your app.
>People forget the trump white house tried to disuade Ukraine from joining the EU

I liked Trump in many ways but...

The day of the invasion... everything the democrats ever said were proven true. Trump was clearly starting shit with China because he's team Putin. Made the USA fear China and China became defensive and threatened by the USA. Meanwhile it was all just a play by Russia.
A fan works by speeding up the rate of evaporation from your skin, which cools you off. At these wet bulb temperatures the ratio of heat/humidity is so high that blowing hot air over your skin just heats you up faster. Kind of like turning on the convection feature in an oven.
Rapidly increasing climate change poses a rising threat to mental health
> Zelenskyy was elected president in 2019 with 73.2% of the votes.

I was talking about before the coup where the ukranian population voted for a pro-russia president. Not 5 years after the coup. Lets see what the election results will be 5 years after russia takes control over ukraine and propagandize nonstop for 5 years.

> Do you actually believe yourself or do you know you are lying?

Do you really think I was referring to zelensky? Do you really think I would lie about such a trivial thing that anyone could google within a second? Or do you think you misunderstood what I was talking about. What I wrote "More than half the country voted to align with russia. That's why the West staged a coup."

Why did you cut out the "That's why the West staged a coup" part?
Massive spending as people flock in to get healthcare. It's (sadly) not financially feasible.
I always wonder how they developed things like that in the 70s. Right now I don’t know a single engineer that could even know how to begin to develop a system like that. I feel like most of them would try and throw a neural net at the problem and call it a day.
Why not sell Ukraine some of these nice B52 planes to seek and destroy convoys on the ground ?
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1498359087184109572

Translated: "We offer Russian soldiers a choice: to die in an unjust war or a full amnesty and 5 million rubles in compensation. If they lay down their arms and surrender voluntarily"

My Thoughts: Pay all Russian POWs $20k or something.

If you happen to surrender a tank, your tank crew gets an extra $200k.

Happen to surrender a destroyer, your boat crew gets an extra $300 mil.

Disincentives fighting to death, and strongly encourages getting into unwinnable situations while giving plausible deniability to being a traitor.
Arguably, a large motivation for this war isn't about economics. The Russian government seems to have determined that the economic pain and pariah status is worth it if autocracy makes gains against democracy, the Western alliance is destabilized (that may have backfired), and the Soviet sphere of influence is restored. However deplorable, the invasion has historical motivations.
As written it seems to me the intent of the article is to publicly shame the open source devs who contribute their time and effort into doing more work for free.

It's typical open source toxicity.
Haha, fair, guess I should have checked.

But anyway, corporate wears the pants is the dynamic. It's a very very tightly managed and top-down "franchise".
Yes. This situation is dangerous. It's moving quickly and getting out of hand. The comparison to the Cuban Missile Crisis is apt.

The US and Russia have already been fighting hot proxy wars for a decade. US arms have already been killing Russian soldiers. A lot of weapons were pumped into Syria. In turn Russia ramped up tactics used. No one won. The Syrian people lost, badly.

If this doesn't end quickly, best case is another Syria or Iraq.. Just horrible mass devastation. Worst case is the end of the world.

I was glad to see the Americans finally put in a red line on escalation. They didn't agree to a "no fly zone" (what perfect Orwellian doublespeak), or ratchet up rhetoric in response to Putin mentioning nukes.
Has it? It’s pretty much been a gold-backed currency making gold the defacto reserve currency. Curious whether the USD has been the only fiat reserve currency.
I believe we also discussed Hugo here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142558
Is this less true for commercial licenses, though?

If someone's going to violate your licensing terms, they don't really care which license they violate, and it's not like it's hard to find pirated software.
Qobuz offers both streamed music and flac purchases from their store.
You know that isn't an argument against what I said, right? Like, at all. It completely supports what I said.
I'd prefer seeing Bandcamp continue to grow and prosper as its own company
> Canadian solar is top notch

Can you give examples, because from my limited view all Canada has in terms of renewables is hyrdo.

All of our automotive industry is owned by foreign manufacturers and relationships with Detroit are strained [1]. Plants have been shut down [2]. Canada has only just started to adopt EV, Europe is way ahead [3]. I will concede that both Europe and Canada aim to phase out IC engines by 2035.

In my opinion the stupid investment in that pipeline the government bought from the Americans after they backed out was a huge mis-step. That money could have been spent investing in solar.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/car-plants-bridge-1.6346556
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-closing-oshawa-fac...
[3] https://www.canadianmetalworking.com/canadianmetalworking/ar...
I'm not aware of any other country outside of Europe that competes in the tech space and doesn't have laws similar to the CLOUD act. There's been a ruling on the conflict with American law, yes, but I doubt most other jurisdictions would pass the requirements.

Everybody wants full control over the data stored in their jurisdiction but nobody wants their citizens' data to leak to other governments.
Listen to the Changelog podcast featuring OP and focused on Socket, https://changelog.com/podcast/482.
Reminds me of qomp by Stuffed Wombat (“You are the Ball. Escape.”).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066900/qomp/

https://twitter.com/wombatstuff
> No dark patterns, lightweight site, free previews, good terms for indie artists

I am with you. One of the biggest draws for me was these what you have described. Their website experience was straightforward and honest.

They are now being acquired by a company that is the complete opposite. We won't have to wait long for Epic's dark patterns and policies to creep into a once great marketplace.
I'm still bullish on the potential for Web Assembly apps to overtake mobile binaries.

And instead of Single Page Apps, we'll have just plain Apps that run in browsers.
Tidal pays better than most other streaming services afaik.

It’s sad to see Bandcamp go. Because in tech an acquisition means loss of that independence.
...if your customers believe that maintaining your code can be done more cost-effectively than the rates you're currently charging them.

(and note that cost-effectiveness != cost -- they're correlated, but not the same)
Well, they do want Taiwan back.
Apple Photos and I’m sure many other photo clients has a caption feature that lets you type notes for a picture. I haven’t hit into any character limits so you could presumably write a journal entry for each image.
Relevant 'awesome' list for web archiving: https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

There are many similar tools there, from archiving to rendering.
The "scheme" a) draws from gamification b) prevents the sometimes hostile reception of the use of metrics c) reinforces the feedback loop. Positive perception leads to positive behavior.
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Do you mean the text in the "What's In The Book" section? I adapted that bit from the preface and it was actually written late last year. I'll look into rewording it to read better. Thanks!
Although Windows has gone backwards on that a little with the current recommendation being to use the *A APIs with a UTF-8 code page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globali...
Right, but applications can treat win32.dll as essentially a system-call layer. Windows also gives you a strong compatibility guarantee with those libraries.

Userspace Linux is different in that not only are these libraries typically installed separately, they all have varying degrees of compatibility between versions.
there's a more reliable Italian machine that is also available to franchisees. most (all) american locations use the Taylor. I assume the opposite is true in europe
Russia's only possible 'winning' outcome at this point is to subjugate and murder huge numbers of Ukrainians under a brutal police state, if Putin wants to hold most of the population centers. It'll take a very long time before they'll stop fighting back, Russia will have to debase the culture (they might try it China style, bring in a lot Russian citizens to live in those cities and begin a full, forced transformation, while you violently try to strip away Ukrainian culture).

It sure seems like Putin expected them to capitulate quickly and become largely docile before the occupying Russian soldiers while a new government is installed. Not much else explains their approach thus far other than that (their supply provisioning was clearly built for a very short conflict).

If Russia doesn't go for the full brutal police state approach, they'll hemorrhage with any typical occupation and will have to leave, and any new system they attempt to install and leave behind will be toppled rapidly (the Russians will have to keep sending forces in).
A foreign affairs article had this to say before the conflict began:

>Airstrikes would not go entirely uncontested. Russia’s air force lacks experience in suppressing or destroying enemy air defenses, and it rarely uses missiles that are designed to destroy radar. As a result, Ukraine’s meager air defenses could still pose a challenge. But Ukrainian air defenses are in short supply, and they would be unlikely to provide effective cover for most of the country’s ground troops. They would be quickly overwhelmed.

>The opening air campaign would probably be short. Unlike Western militaries, which concentrate firepower in their air forces, Russia puts the bulk of its firepower in its ground forces, so it would quickly proceed to a ground campaign.
TELL ME MORE.

I think I basically get the idea, what kind of database are you using? Recoll sounds like a good idea, but I'm also thinking about how I might also make this public-ish.

(i.e. I teach in college and would love to have a centralized way to store and search all my assigned readings, which are most often webpages)
"I think one of the unsolved problems of client-side interactivity on websites is how difficult it is to add it just a little bit of extra client-side functionality to a traditional server rendered website. " I've started using django-unicorn lately and I'm hopeful that it may solve that problem for many use-cases.
>that's a bit questionable, don't you think?

Yeah, if you can't just live with your parents, then your emergency fund should be in highly liquid, stable assets. Your country's currency is pretty good as far as that goes.

But in terms of leveraging that money to make it big, frankly, 100k Euros is nothing. It's enough money to live off for a few years, so if you have something really good to do with that time besides work, there's that.
Change the world, yes. End it, no.

If the Ukraine invasion is any indication of the might of Russia's military, it has demonstrated that Russia's might is largely tanks and mobile missile launchers. The US has assets in the air, on the ground and off the coast of Russia right now that are ready to redefine the meaning of "shock and awe" at the first sign of nuclear use. Putin has one chance to get his missiles off the ground before complete annihilation in a matter of minutes.
Ideally I (and I'd assume other commenters) would have preferred to see bandcamp remain independent. It's not like there's a huge need to scale up quickly or provide large partnerships. Bandcamp was an effective way of paying small independent musicians with a good overall website which should have given bandcamp a reliable revenue source. Acquisition likely means the website will get worse, artists will be driven of onto other platforms (i.e. harder to discover ones), and if there's alternative financial incentives then small artists will likely end up making less (e.g. track streaming revenue).

I'd be disappointed if apple had made the purchase, though it would be less out of left field.
I can't remember the last time I went to a McDonald's and they didn't tell me "sorry, our ice cream machine isn't working right now."