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It always surprises me that most of the discussion on nuclear Armageddon is about sudden push of big red button.

I think in conflicts like this, each side tries to be the one to make the big, unanswerable bluff. "I'll escalate so high they won't dare follow". But there's a lot between guns and even thermobaric missiles and cluster bombs, and global thermonuclear annihilation.

My assumption is that the intervening, enabling step is tactical nukes.

Somebody somewhere decides that a kilotone-range tactical nuke (as opposed to megaton range ICBM) is justifiable on the battlefield, will bring swift victory, and other side won't dare escalate further.

So now you're breached the "nuclear" threshold in a way you tell yourself is "limited" and "tactical" and "justifiable", but other side certainly doesn't perceive it as such, and brings "proportional response" otherwise you'll just go ahead and do it again, and off we go from there.

So yes, it 100% could happen. I'm hoping it doesn't.

edit: A bit of a read, but basically, Tactical Nukes have historically been a more practical aspect of Russian Military Doctrone.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep12088.8?seq=1#metadata_in...
Just to be clear the Budapest Memorandum doesn't say anybody needs to nuke anybody. It only says that the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan must be respected. One can respect those borders without going to war and just keep protesting in the UN.
> We need to find a variant of (a) that allows Putin to save face

Recognize the annexation of Crimea and promise immediate sanctions rollbacks the moment the last Russian troop leaves Ukraine (other than Donbas and Luhansk, that ship has sailed).
That sucks for both the workers and the customers. I really enjoyed being able to go in and discover a book and then get a good discount based on my prime membership.
> And why do we assume that the tech is sufficiently advanced to e.g. take out every major city at the push of a button?

I guess you didn't grow up under the cold war? Typical nuclear weapons are 10-20 megatons of explosive force and can destroy everything within a city-wide radius or more. There is the capability to deliver 100-200 megaton mega weapons too (they have been tested in the 60's, look up Tsar Bomba).

Delivery devices like ICBMs include dozens of these warheads in independently target-able munitions--the idea is that one big missile can be shot down, but a shower of dozens and dozens of warheads is impossible to stop when only one needs to hit. These missiles can launch from undetectable nuclear-powered submarines laying in wait anywhere on 70% of the globe (even under a sheet of arctic ice).

As far as numbers go they were vastly reduced in the 90s, but both the US and Russia have enough nuclear munitions left to destroy every major city in the world.
It wouldn't be unhelpful to increase the sortie rate of Baltic air policing missions and extend them over the Finnish border (with Finnish permission).

Potentially hostile assets require matching defensive stationing, even if they aren't doing anything aggressive. Fighters in Murmansk / Severomorsk aren't in Ukraine.

"Fleet in being" works for air forces too.
Even scarier is the idea that he might have shorted the button with a dead man's switch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
The Amazon Go and Fresh stores are a lot more successful and they serve as distribution centers for Amazon Fresh online orders. It's unlikely they'll close them down
Once someone who’s authorized to order a strike, e.g. Putin, gives the command (“presses the button”) - what else would Putin need to do for his command to be carried out?

My guess would be he doesn’t need to do much, and that the “risk” would be someone down the chain of command refuses to carry out the order.
Ask HN: How do you burn calories while on working?
Hey HackerNews!

I've been trying to figure out ways to add a bit more calorie burn into my busy days. I know the real answer is to go outside more and get a gym membership, but I've noticed mental benefits to working while moving.

I had been using a Treadly 2 for about a year, but after having it break within 6 months, get replaced, and then having the replacement break 1 month outside of the 1 year warranty, to which they demanded I pay $500 for the shipping / repairs while it retails for $749, I've decided to give up on them and let everyone know how bad of a company they are.

Let us know how you've stayed fit while having a busy life! Especially interested in lower cost ways or more reliable equipment to use to accomplish this goal!
I can see WebExtensions breaking it (as it's a completely new set of APIs for extensions, and the losses do definitely still hurt)... but quantum/xul? How is that related, aside from "it happened around the same time"?
Buyer’s remorse is a thing.
I started from the other side of that fence, and I remember feeling jealous of how smooth the GUI editor was in Visual Studio. Even in 2022, I still don't think I've seen any Java GUI builders that are as easy to use as Visual Studio circa 2001/2.
SceneBuilder is nice though.
The Theology of Chocolate
Because I abandoned it thinking it was terrible. Then I spent a decade finding out how bad everything else was.
That common misconception is explored in this fine piece of satire from the Onion:
"Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All U.S. Nuclear Weapons At Once"
https://www.theonion.com/obama-makes-it-through-another-day-...
That's a typo, where did you find it? The BBAI announcement was February of 2019, and shipped in September of that year.
> Then you have a shitty app.

This feels a lot like you're making a “No True Scotsman” argument. The behaviour you're saying doesn't / shouldn't happen has been the defining characteristic of SPAs since the beginning and it's still immediately visible on most of them as soon as you have a less than perfect high-speed internet connection. If statistically nobody except the Wordle developer can make something which handles crappy WiFi the problem requires more than just saying someone is a bad developer.
OTOH we don’t have any evidence of Russia having any beef with either Georgia or Ukraine, up to 2008 NATO Bucharest summit, where NATO announced that Ukraine and Georgia would be accepted as members. Georgia was wrecked in half a year after that, and Ukraine since 2014, since the Orange Revolution.

The annexation argument came after the fact.
"Rich white/asian kid from NYC"

I've seen this sort of characterization a lot here. I can understand it, but it doesn't really reflect reality. I don't know a lot about other areas, but in NYC, most asians are not "wealthy". Far from it, Asians in NYC have a substantially lower median income ($53k household, $25k per capita) than whites ($69k household, $50k per capita ).

More importantly, the asian kids being discriminated against are not from wealthy families. Those that come from well off families tend to have all the extra-curriculars that white kids from wealthier families do. It's the ones from poor families. The ones who have to work after school and weekends to help out... and still study hard. Their parents cannot afford music/dance/arts lessons. The kid can't spend hours a day volunteering. Etc. It's these kids who get shafted when universities seek "well rounded".

Many of the lower income asian kids are from recent immigrant families. Their parents who barely speak english, working low paying jobs. They sacrifice everything to try to give their kids a chance to get ahead. And push their kids crazy hard to do well in school as they see it as their only way up. Imagine the feeling when -- after years of sacrifice and hard work -- after your kid did great in school, got great SAT scores, did everything he's supposed to do... he still gets denied by every good school..
Although, oddly, I do have one album which is no longer available for streaming in the web client, but remains intact in the Android app.
A reasonable human being would renounce counterattack to prevent mankind's annihilation.

So the first one would be the winner.
Yes, they're definitely self-sustaining at a pre-1980 or so level. They have raw materials, abundant energy, the ability to feed themselves, and a decent IQ pool to pull from to design and manage what they need.

But they still need precision machine tooling, optics, semiconductors, etc to exist as a post-1980 economy.
Not that much more.

It's some phone calls to get the ball rolling. Whether or not various operators of nuclear ICBMs follow through, only one nuke is all it'd take to really massively change the world.
the inversion may be necessary but not sufficient condition. I don't think you've exposed a logic flaw in OP statement (we can still discuss whether we grant them the premise)
No, the documentation stated that Go was designed for reading without backtracking. That results in single pass compilation being possible and thus being faster, but that was never a limitation that was imposed. The reading without backtracking is still valid: go generate DOESN'T work on .go files, only on any other tool that generates .go files.

About the second part, you seem to mix up goroutines and channels. In a concurrent system, you would need locks for your example, and channels fix this. Goroutines are just the representation of independent processes and can be implemented and ARE implemented differently per compiler, check e.g. how tinygo and gopherjs do this.

Your example point 2 doesn't make any sense, check fan in and fan out patterns with channels. Go supports message passing, that is what channels are. You really didn't try Go and it shows.
HN is a lot more jaded towards startups and founders’ games these days. Back in late 2019 there was this thread about a Garry Tan video where the tone of the discussion was fiercely against working for startups, saying it was better to join FAANG or start your own company instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
UX != UI != GUI
The scale of modern nuclear weapons make Hiroshima look like a toy.

Every potential position of a nuclear second strike would be hit with a warhead.

That's huge swaths of land converted to nothing for 2-5km in every direction.

Humans might survive, but not in places with nuclear weapons.

South America and Africa looking pretty safe right now.
Ukraine wouldn't be putting 70 year olds in tanks if it wasn't being invaded in an unprovoked war by a much larger neighbor (and no, the goal of punishing NATO for not giving Russia a blank check to invade Ukraine by invading Ukraine is not a valid provocation).
> I can never capture in an image what I'm seeing with my eyes. Either the enormous mountain is a tiny feature off in the distance, or it fills the frame and all context is lost

Try adding a sense of depth by having a foreground, middle and back.

Look at good landscape photos of mountains or other large features and you’ll see they almost always do this. By having near, mid and far elements of interest you add a sense of scale to the photo.
> All of these unresolved arguments are about team dynamics, not technology

No, it's definitely about technology. Let me simplify this for you. Technology A can do thing 1 very well, and thing 2 decently. Technology B can do thing 2 well, but can't do thing 1 at all.

In reality, people who only do technology B claim technology B is necessary to do thing 2 and go to great extents to write blog posts claiming such, while people who only do technology A get on with doing things 1 and 2 without feeling the need to rant.
Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021
Yeah, being able to return products at physical locations like their stores and Kohl's without having to pay a shipping fee has been a godsend
Wasmer will soon support sockets, which will allow running networking in packages server-side.

On the client-side of things, browsers don't currently support arbitrary socket connections it so that might be a bit tricky! But still feasible, for example you can proxy the socket packets through websockets and a main server that handles the outside connections
Good. The one at Westfield was a shit show of nothing useful.
Within the webperf folks at Google, we've certainly debated if CLS is a performance metric. The loose consensus is that it's not... it's a predictability and UX metric.
Also "Core Web Vitals" is deliberately not scoped to just performance.

That said, it's kinda _easier_ to just simplify and say CLS is a webperf thing and CWV are webperf metrics, because going into the nuance just dilutes the entire framing.
I'm no fan of Amazon, but I did walk through the 4-star shop in Mall of America while Christmas shopping last year, and I liked it. I thought it was a cool space, filled to the brim with various interesting oddities. There was a long line to get in (partially due to COVID reasons), but it seemed very popular.
> I assumed that was probably exaggerated for the sake of drama

Communist countries were full of blatant incompetence, lying about what actually happens, mismanagement, stealing and strategic deliberate incompetence.

Just look at state of economy of communist block and why USSR failed.
Get up and walk around. Take frequent "think breaks"
> Which of course is completely untrue. You still want VPNs to connect sites or even client/network and any security expert worth their salt will surely recommend you to have layered security. Opening up your internal network to the internet and rely on every app to do security correctly is a ridiculously bad strategy.

Having done FedRAMP and also running Tor servers, I'm also at the conclusion that using IP in any sort of rules is a bad practice. You should be identifying/verifying/authorizing/logging the connection regardless how it came to you. Consistently doing that means you now can control user access at a chokepoint (usually an IdP or similar token passing credentialled login).

If you have a malicious entry, you do not want lateral transfer to end up hitting less secure stuff on the network because of implicit network trust. Zero-Trust is about removing those implicit things. And if everything has service-level IdP token checks, not even replay attacks will work. As a malicious hacker, you're stuck there. Less scope of damage.

Same with Tor. For anyone running a Tor client or operating a Onionserver, all connections are actually an IPv6 overlay with routers that only support TCP (not UDP/ICMP). And since those absolutely will be randomized every 10m on average, you absolutely must verify the connection AND NOT the source/destination.
Does anyone know Bandcamps funding situation? Did they need an exit like this? Or can people not run businesses long term for profit anymore?? Such a shame. If you think Epic will just leave them alone you just need to read the corporate speak in the first paragraph of the announcement:

“I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and _champions for a fair and open Internet._”
This isn't interesting. This is political virtue signaling.
The more something behaves like an actual application and the higher the number of user interactions per visit, the more sense the SPA approach makes IMO. This is because the initial load overhead of an SPA gets amortized over subsequent interactions.

Blog or corporate/news website on one end and an interactive game or video editor in the other, with a site like FB somewhere in the middle.

It’s not a hard rule and I can already think of counter-examples but this line of thinking is useful when architecting a new project.
Thank you! I've been looking for this for a while, nice to see someone finally did it!
Also, while he grew up in Russia and made his fortune there, he's lived in the West for almost 20 years now. The amount of influence he has over war-peace decisions in Russia is zero. He's not Timchenko or Rotenberg.
Looks cool! A question--your tag line says:

"Apps, libraries, and native executables that run on Linux, macOS, and even Windows."

The 'even Windows' makes me wonder whether Windows support is fragile or not fully baked? I don't know a lot about WASM--does it generally not work well on Windows? If it's working smoothly, I'd consider taking that 'even' out.
I mean, the other example of not all art can be accessible to everyone is film and people who are blind.
> tech book shelf, which is something indie bookstores never really do well.

RIP the Powell's technical book store. It was a very large book store with only technical books. I spent many a happy hour poking around and finding interesting books.
When German POWs were taken to American South in WWII, they were considered 'white' and treated better than black US Army soldiers on leave.
If you check out the generation-codec table in that wikipedia article [1], under Broadwell (I believe that's the 5200U's generation name), it says there is support for AVC (which I believe is H264, I'm not a codec wiz), so that's a really good point. I'm not sure why I've consistently had issues with this on my machine then. I wonder if this is something with a configuration on Linux then?

Thanks for pointing that out. I've looked at this table before and payed attention to HEVC, not AVC, so I believe that's where my mistake came from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardwar...
There is no "data", let alone primary data about these things.

The authoritarian nature of the governing system in Russia makes it nearly impossible to gather such data.

Is she suggesting that there is no conflict in Donbas for the last 8 years?

That is very clearly is not what she's saying.

She didn't accept that academics can have opinions.

Opinions are one thing. Her concern seems to be with the fact that otherwise intelligent and articulate colleagues can be so naïve -- and to some extent, willingly self-deluded -- about the utter insanity their government is currently perpetrating on a neighboring country.
Are there any fantasy consoles with CPU limits?
My first reaction was, "He lost it anyway, so why not make it look like a charitable donation that makes him look like one of the good guys?"
> to some degree
> What is a mystery is the exact way things are wired up

You don't think that's a lot of hand waving?
Can you explain why the details wouldn't matter?
I'm more worried about us being wiped out by the universe realizing it forgot a constant somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay#Existential...
And if you don't, you're probably going to open in a new tab. Too many webapps are designed with complete disregards to the fact that browsers have tabs.
Ah yes, all of those (aside from two) bombs exploding in the middle of nowhere make me feel so much better about the possibility of one or more exploding over the big city 10 miles away from me.
> Ironic that he got the club to avoid seizure by Putin but it got seized in the end anyway.

What's ironic is the claims Abramovich used Chelsea for sports washing his image. I don't think it is any but speculation.
“...I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination toward spirituality out of people’s souls when they are still very young, and this will happen in a roundabout way through the living body. Today, bodies are vaccinated against one thing and another; in future, children will be vaccinated with a substance which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will make them immune, so that they do not develop foolish inclinations connected with spiritual life – ‘foolish’ here, of course, in the eyes of materialists."

- R. Steiner, 27 October 1917

Safe and EFFECTIVE!
Yes, my impression is that 7digital does the absolute minimum. This is the case with basically all streaming services that try to compete with Spotify. I've tried all the big ones except Tidal, which has its own problems for which I refuse to touch it.

Want an example? Here's Deezer:

https://www.deezer.com/search/%22Arrows%20in%20the%20Gale%22...

Here's 7digital:

https://no.7digital.com/search?q=Arrows%20in%20the%20Gale

I probably can't post more links without getting auto-hidden by HN, but just try the search elsewhere too. Also try the album titles "Fresh Fruit", "I'm Looking for an Angel", "Day Dawn" or "My Car Sounds".

That is one spammer. He releases 300+ albums at once, several times per months, to virtually all streaming services. They all have the same title, and the same generic album art, often a filtered stock image. They're officially "compilation albums". He has been doing this for about a decade as far as I can tell. He uses a different made-up label each time. If you blindly search up any song by one of the classic artists he targets, likely you will get one of his "compilations", and he will get money for every play.

But Spotify is different. Those Echo Nest people have a special hatred of spammers, they kicked him out ages ago.
Rented games, rented music, rented health, rented lives but hey at least you got your own misery!

As the lyrics of a contemporary classic goes,
"20,000 years of this... 7 more to go."
> I can't help but think Putin's guise of "denazifying Ukraine" was a poorly understood attempt to gain some favor with those in Western societies that see themselves as fighting fascism and right-wing extremism.

> As a westerner, I've definitely noticed my more left leaning friends agree with actions that seemingly contradict classical liberal ideals (free speech, free association) as long as such actions seem to be in service of fighting fascism...

Nah, this is targeted at Russians. I think that as a westerner you underestimate the power of the myth of Russians saving the world from fascism. This is the very core of their identity. You can find some interesting details here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497306746330697738.html

Personal experience: I grew up during cold war in one of east-european satelites of the Soviet union. That myth was probably weaker here than in the Soviet union itself, yet it felt ever-present; kind of representation of the mythical struggle of good versus evil. When me and my friends were playing "soldiers" as kids, we were always Russians shooting at fascists. And I remember loving books for kids where some Russian paratrooper befriends local boy and together fight fascism... This was during the latest stages of the communist regime, when almost everyone here hated communists and especially Russians. The idealized memory of their heroic struggle against fascism was the only positive thing that survived in the minds of people.

Obviously, no mention of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact etc. in history books.
I can think in a few solid reasons explaining why a very rich could want to keep a non profitable company in a foreign country. Making valuable personal contacts for example. Some companies aim to earn money. The purpose of other is to burn money at a fast pace when needed. Maybe to support the first ones.

The interesting part in this is not that will sell a club, is that will announced that will sell all his properties in UK, in a context of big economic sanctions.
They have mentioned that you don't really need it as an explanation after they already said for a long time that they do consider it, from the start. They never strayed from that POV.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

> Belling the Cat is a fable ... In the story, a group of mice agree to attach a bell to a cat's neck to warn of its approach in the future, but they fail to find a volunteer to perform the job. The term has become an idiom describing a group agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task.