skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to Vietnam and Afghanistan, Russia has the ability to take large swathes of territory early, absorb it, and start moving Russians into that territory while continuously sieging major cities.

The Ukrainians will look bad if they attack the Russian citizens that are now occupying them, and the Russian army doesn’t need to convince the local population to join them but instead they can encourage them to evacuate and give them safe passage into the EU.

Eventually the country will be more and more Russian and most of the world will forget about the Ukrainians. We’re just in the initial “rough” stages where it’s the new news item and countries not actually involved in the conflict aren’t bored yet. Once they reach a stable position, they can just wait them out while occupying the majority of the country.
comparing the switch to the deck is akin to comparing a ps5 to a top of the line pc, in terms of both UX, time / effort required to run games, price, etc. consoles are _always_ underpowered and restricted in terms of graphical capabilities compared to computers, but the minimal amount of effort required, exclusive game library, and significantly lower price point (all of which the switch have over the deck) keep the market incredibly successful at least in north america. keep in mind, a lot of people like to play their switch connected to a television using the dock, a feature which will generally cost you an additional 150 bucks to play on the deck ($100 deck dock, $60 wireless bluetooth controller). not to say the deck isnt a fantastic product, i am absolutely getting one, but there's a reason the console market is still booming and hasnt eradicated the console market despite being the "superior platform". they fill separate needs
If in future you want to force your new vassal state to buy your gas, you disable their nuclear plants.
The Mau Mau rebellion against the British in Kenya wasn’t successful.
Going through the livestream I may have found the missile that hit [1]. Timestamp is in the top left corner. Seems there were other weapons fired though.

Edit: More footage [2]

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/W9WbI4m
[2]: https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1499547760986509315
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To me it seems the problem with Afghanistan in particular was the definition of winning.

Creating a self sustaining Democracy? Hell no crazy that was ever the goal.

But completely obliterating terrorists threats, without worrying about damage or creating a self governed country? i think that could have been achieved. Though at pretty big humanitarian consequences.

Which it seems like Russia doesn't care much about since the first definition of winning seems to have failed already.
> near equivalence of nuclear war

If radiation escapes it would be a "dirty bomb" equivalent event, it will speed up sanctions and nations will urge Russia to allow experts to inspect the damage.

A meltdown/explosion is possible if they damage safety systems/shielding. Still won't be seen serious as a "nuke detonation" event, but countries that receive fallout will be pissed off.

If Russia continues causing more nuclear pollution that affects it neighbors, yes, it could mean war scalation.
Looks like now is the time to stop using those entities.
I think you're taking it to literally. This is a reference to Kant's famous Categorical Imperative, and it's intended as a framework/rule which you can judge the ethicality behind a particular action. IMHO it's really one of the most beautiful and enlightening philosophical ideas out there.
Hmm, and the live stream got truncated, now it doesn't have the whole 3h history, but just 1 minute. Damn.
The game design might be a bit bloated, but dashing and reverse "get over here" is what I always wanted on these sort of games.

It's a damn shame how modern shooters just don't go hard on mobility/melee satisfaction. Being able to dodge opens up a whole new word of combat interactivity.

Maybe I should reinstall that again...
The kind of “data-rich” org file you don’t like would presumably be impossible in markdown. So what are you gaining at all? Just don’t write such data-rich org files. That’s totally under your own control.
> It's no coincidence that some of the most popular youtube geopolitics channels are from that region.

Interesting, I hadn't considered that. Caspian Report is a big one, from an Azeri.
It's not equivalent to nuclear war with Ukraine in either the sense of relative risk (for the reasons I gave) nor in the sense in which the term "nuclear weapons" is actually used. Russia intelligence agents poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium, but this was not called a nuclear attack because that's not what the term means.

One could argue, at most, that this would be equivalent to a radiological weapon ("dirty bomb"). But even then it wouldn't be correct because of the important difference between purposeful radiological dispersal and radiological dispersal as a side-effect of a legitimate military action.
Can you get a job, to give you and your family a financial runway, and then try the side business part-time? I'm not a family man but I imagine your spare time as a dad is quite limited. That said, would you have any bandwidth at all to work on this project on the side?
>> David Graeber in his «Dawn of everything» discussed that

David Graeber is the one who wrote this:

"Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other’s garages"

And I'm guessing his knowledge of what happened 700 years ago is going to be much less accurate than his knowledge of times he lived through.
Technically, it was tsunami that caused trouble.
Well, recall that the Fukushima meltdowns were due to loss of emergency power, resulting in the inability to circulate coolant through the reactor core. Any kind of damage to the power plant that results in such power loss or damage to the coolant system could plausibly result in a meltdown / hydrogen explosion in the reactor core.
Fortunately that kind of not a thing. Pulling fuel out of a reactor without special tools and training would 100% kill you, and trying to build a bomb with a fuel rod assuming you got it out would also kill you. Transporting that bomb without thick concrete or lead shielding would also kill you. Blowing it up would put a bunch of heavy dust in the air that would fall out quickly and could easily be washed off of anyone it got on without significantly endangering them as long as they don't consume it. And after all of that, NATO might get involved.

TL;DR it would take a concerted effort to build such a bomb without killing yourself only to build a worse bomb that would draw in NATO.
Pelosi supports halting Russian oil imports to US: ‘Ban it’
Russian puppet accounts even here at HN.
There's a bunch of flawed assumptions hidden in this. Some examples:

* The distance between the user and the satellite is fixed. With a LEO system, the difference between a satellite being straight overhead at 400km elevation and at 10 degrees elevation over the horizon is a difference of 1000km. Passes at this elevation are minutes long, capping out around 15 minutes.

* The path from the satellite to the groundstation is fixed. Same reasoning above.

* A user in a fixed location's traffic would go through only a single groundstation to the internet. Unless that user is colocated with a groundstation, there's going to be periods of covisibility with different groundstations, so there's going to be wholly separate paths for the traffic to take. This varies even more as you start to look at polar satellites, which SpaceX has outfitted with optical crosslinks. Your traffic could be getting dumped onto the internet at groundsites thousands of kilometers away within the a single pass.

This isn't to say that there's zero chance of latency analysis from an adversary with enough internet presence, but it's many orders of magnitude harder than your simple analysis would suggest.
Sure, but this is neither a nuclear weapon (it would be, at most, a radiological weapon) nor risk-similar to one.
Some of our customers use Requestly on Windows & Mac to test their sites and that too across browsers. I am glad that there's more demand for a universal solution. We are based on top of electron So it was comparatively easier to build cross-platform solution although yes we have to handle the nuances of all different OS and the versions.
One side was unarmed civilians blocking the road to the plant for couple days until Russians started to shoot and wounded several civilians.
Is there any point in standardizing on an industry-wide interconnect when it seems unlikely that there will ever be a multi-chiplet module which includes components from multiple vendors?

It seems like interconnects are something you'd want to make as fast as possible in order to stay competitive. Standardizing on a technology not controlled by your company is likely to slow down your innovation. At best, this seems like a helping hand to smaller companies like Marvell which might not have the resources to design a competitive interconnect solution themselves.
the danger of radiation has been greatly exaggerated and pales in comparison the existential risk of climate change. even accounting for black swan events like getting hit by an airliner, coal plants emit drastically more radiation than nuclear.

it's not a rational risk assessment.

making nuclear energy economically unfeasible by mandating that things be drastically overbuilt has doomed us all to climate catastrophe
Haven't done any codebase spelunking, but their FAQ at the bottom of the page states it pretty clearly:

"Who provides the Brave Talk service?
The Brave Talk service is provided in partnership with 8x8. And the service is built on the open-source Jitsi platform."
Space pictures from the Voyager 1 and 2 missions
I am 100% willing to be corrected.

What should I know from your perspective... I concede.
This is simply because Armenia and Azerbaijan have weak de facto sovereignty, just like Ukraine, by being neighbors with Russian sphere of influence. Russia can tell these countries to knock it off or there will be Ukrainian invasion level of consequences. The west has no hard power or appetite for it in this region. It's only because Putin is a warmonger.
Good sir you appear to have misspelled DOS
I look forward to the deep dive on Yoot Tower itself. I wonder if I’ve still got my original copy around here someplace, after all these years…
Maybe in the next month or so.
This discussion has been very helpful for my understanding of the situation and has been reducing my anxiety, thank you.
My current CEO and COO are exactly like this. Nothing that you say changes the predefined outcome that they've come up with.

Can someone point me to some book or material about how to deal with this kind of people? I don't wanna leave my CTO role, but it's extremely draining to work with them.
We found that homeschooled kids were able to play with kids of a wide range of ages, while kids in formal schools quickly separated themselves into age groups, often to the detriment of the younger kids.
None for Ukrainians. A lot for merchants of death. Example, Germany is increasing it's military budget by 3x. Who will they buy from?
Ukraine is an electricity exporter according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici....

Is targeting electricity production a de-facto attack on EU infrastructure?

Would taking out Ukraine's electricity generation increase its dependence on Russia (who could sell it), and significantly increase the EU's dependence on Russian gas?
Ask HN: Co-Founder Equity Split
Hey all,

Quick question on equity split for a technical co-founder. I was approached by an ex-coworker whom I had great rapport with for joining his startup.

They currently have:

- An idea (It seems like a pretty solid idea. The idea originates from someone with direct working experience with the problem trying to be solved. So this gives me confidence. )

- No revenue

- No outside funding (I believe some things have been self-funded in the amount of maybe a few thousand dollars)

- No MVP

The founder is focused on the business/product/marketing side and his current co-founder (brother) is perhaps a mid level backend engineer.

I am a sr. mobile engineer with full-stack capabilities and I have full confidence I could realize their MVP. I'd be coming on to the team with the most technical experience and perhaps the most important skillset for implementing the MVP.

Their first offer was 5%-10% equity without the title of a co-founder. After expressing my hesitancy toward that they have moved to 15% equity and co-founder title. I mentioned that I would be most comfortable with a split closer to equal, but I would pull the trigger on 25%. I would not be taking a paycheck.

Is this strange? They mentioned that their council told them that "cash is king" - in which the founder's existing and planned financial contributions outweigh my equity grant. Though I mentioned that I wouldn't be opposed to helping with financial contributions early on as well.

These seem like red-flags, but I honestly don't know. A big draw for me towards joining is just having some fun and getting the experience, but I want to look out for myself in the non-zero chance that the company becomes a financial success.
I'm not here to take the piss out of your laptop of choice, but I'm also not here to write an exhaustive list of the uses for your Mac. The point that I'm working towards is that it's always a game of give and take. There's some people who a Macbook would be the perfect device for, who I will readily admit cannot use Linux or alt-systems to be as productive as they are now. Conversely though, there are a number of things that MacOS is laughably bad at, likewise there are a number of people who quite literally cannot use it as a daily driver.

The whole "this machine is more stable" and "my anecdotal opinion is x/y/z" nonsense is a non-starter for productive conversation comparing the systems. The upthread comment was warranted to call them out on Apple fanboyism; their statement was nonsense and exclusively backed by their personal experience. I've talked to enough "serious developers" to know that there are no perfect operating systems, and pretending like any one of them is king is just hubris incarnate.
>Binaries built on Ubuntu 20.04 can only support Ubuntu 20.04 and newer

So? Who are those people building for servers they don't control and arbitrary old versions of OSes?
Breaking: Firefighters gain access to nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an administrative building is on fire.
No, you're still better off having clearly defined boundaries. I will grant that multiple systems can have emergent effects that are more painful to debug, but to the degree that things can actually be made independent I think it helps.
Right, that's what I mean. I wish they only did DMCA rather than the bullshit they do now.
OP argued this is risk-equivalent to nuclear war. it's not even close
Good discussion. Brings some clarity to this and so far it doesn’t sound quite as serious as you might be led to believe given the headlines.
Whoever wants to get in the fight can do so right now.

The Ukrainian government looks to have created its own foreign legion, so you'll even technically be fighting under the Ukrainian flag as a uniformed soldier.

Enlistment period is indefinite: until the "state of emergency" ends.
https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1499546302786510853 more recent firing, from about 15minutes ago as well.
Wow! These scenario role players are incredible. I'm getting so much training value! They fall down, cry, bleed out, and die just like somebody would in real life!
Firefighter have access now:

https://twitter.com/bnonews/status/1499555239351005194?s=21

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499555095817728023?s=21

"According to Andrey Tuz, spokesman of the press service of the nuclear power plant, there is no threat of radiation spread."
Which has a different release model than Centos, so it's not a replacement for the business cases Centos was used (basically: long term stability and support).
It's not semantics, it's constitutional law. Literally the founding principles of the country.
> Ukrainians who started firing at a Russian convoy with RPGs.

The way this is phrased makes it sound like the Russian convoy was minding its own business and suddenly Ukrainians started picking a fight -- which is clearly not the case.
Just to clarify - I used the argument that they're a regional power as an establishing fact for my further statements. This is HN and most arguments are made in good faith, you don't need to be so suspicious of the fallacies here - sometimes your sensors will go off incorrectly, as is the case here.
> Note that this "spreading radioactive particles around" is probably more dangerous to health than a meltdown.

Put in different terms: We're basically talking about the equivalent of a dirty bomb.
Combat and fires could kill power supply that is actively cooling cores. Unless you have a detailed, up to date design diagram of the entire facility that proves the on-site and/or off-site power supply is not in jeopardy then you don't know what you're talking about.
> Try a plain text description of an electronic circuit vs a circuit diagram.

It’s called a Hardware Description Language. According to my textbooks, they’re the industry standard. My personal experience certainly prefers them to unusable “diagram” drawing GUIs.

> Try a mathematical plot vs plain text tables.

You can do plots in unicode. And more importantly, the code that produces the plot is plain text.

Pretty much anything regular can be done better with a plain text source that subsequently compiles to more visual mediums.
It’s not comparable because the type of damage is totally different.
Got one of those Lisa's on my own dime so I could run Smalltalk-80. It was years before anything else caught up :-)
Soviet era plants don’t have containment shells. I don’t know about this one though.
I think the crypto is quite interesting. I'm fascinated to see the sites that have opted in to receive "tips" from me in the form of their BAT token.

Micropayments in lieu of ads has been a dream of many for a long time. Brave is doing that, and the crypto part seems like a rare appropriate use case.
For some more clarity:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499552483655528454
Your premise that it it is unlikely that there will be multi-vendor chiplets on a single chip is undermined by the industry coming together and creating a standard to use each other’s chiplets in a single chip.
I noticed it was editable, changed the data, didn't notice the slider, then all hell broke loose
The 'training mission' trope is as old as the Red Army and it's bullshit.

They pulled the same shit in 1956 when they got captured by the Hungarians and in 1968 when they invaded Czechoslovakia: 'We were told it was a training mission'. This is straight-up a survival tactic for the prisoners. They're playing dumb and acting innocent. It's impossible not to know by now where, what and why you are doing in a foreign country, in a fucking military convoy.
> I didn’t single them out; I highlighted this instance in my reply.

Sorry, you're right. My reading wasn't as good as it could have been.
I have seen Inav earlier but never used it. Does it also provide response modification capabilities?
This powers 1/4 of Ukraine. Holding the plant will give them a lot of leverage.
I’ve yet to see anyone distributing music only in Ogg Vorbis save for some backdoored Spotify thing.
Pulsars: The Key to Secure Encryption
It is war, and it involves nuclear things. That’s what he meant by “literal sense,” I think.
Why not just use Retro68? https://github.com/autc04/Retro68
Eh, thanks for calling me out on this. As I reflect a bit more, really what it comes down to is:

- Yes, dev work. I generally always need to be testing against Chromium where FF has such a small userbase that code regressions aren't costly. Keeping two browsers open all the time isn't a big deal, but feels like a hassle for some reason.

- There's a barrier to transitioning away from Google Chrome, but I have to overcome that for either transition. Exporting/importing passwords, hunting down extensions, etc. There's likely replacements for everything on Firefox, but there's absolutely everything on Brave as it's compatible with the Chrome Web Store.

- I don't give bonus points to Firefox for its approach to open source. Yes, it's better to be open source, but compelling, interesting features are where it's at for me.

- I don't give bonus points to Brave for being pro-crypto, but I'm not anti-crypto, either. It does seem like Brave has a faster pace of development these days, and I think it would be more interesting in conversations to discuss that I'm on Brave, and those facts, while relatively trivial, cause me to lean more towards it.

So I suppose it's not so much about staying within the Chromium ecosystem. It's mostly that Brave feels more alive and doesn't have such a bad reputation (IMO) to dissuade me from using it.
There are 8 RBMK reactors still operating, though all are in Russia.
The best containment domes won't survive persistent shelling. I can't conceive of a valid reason for shelling a nuclear power plant.
I've not seen a credible sourcing to МІНІСТЕРСТВО ЕНЕРГЕТИКИ УКРАЇНИ anywhere.

edit: posts from head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Alexander Starukh - looks like for 20m firefighters were not let through. Is that because they were fired upon? I don't know. He writes they are there working now though.

https://www.facebook.com/starukholexander

https://twitter.com/badc0fee/status/1499569060291481601
Money serves two purposes, rewarding people and putting control of resources in the hands of people and institutions most able to invest them wisely. Billionaires are not necessary for the first but they are for the second.

If you think that a billion-dollar company can exist, then combining what we know about the inefficiency of committees with that fact we arrive at the conclusion that perhaps some people can reasonably be given control of billions as well.

Billionaires spend a small fraction of their money on superyachts and keep most of it invested which is the system working if you believe in it.
completed in 1989, with a 6th reactor added in 1995.

For what it's worth, the russian convoy is firing on the administrative building, not the power units themselves, but I don't know specifically what is in said admin bldg or what the ramifications for operation/shutdown of the power units/cooling systems works if the admin building burns down and/or gets shot up.
It makes you able to resale!
The plant on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

And Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5124275,34.5850663,1549m/dat...
Could entire PCBs be replaced by on-wafer designs in certain applications?
Yeah, I am skeptical, but not totally dismissive. I would love to see those micropayments in lieu of ads work — but I have never seen a site that takes Brave tips.

(Admittedly, I only use Brave for a small subset of websites.)
A lot of what people believe about what's happening at the plant is based on the statements of Ukrainian officials, who by some accounts are using it to call for NATO to impose a no-fly zone. A disaster at this plant would cause huge problems for DNR/LNR/Crimea, which Russia does not want. Amid the fog of war it's often a good idea to take a step back and wait for more evidence to present itself.
I don't disagree that nuclear energy is good; I'm pointing out that you're strawmanning. A solar farm doesn't have to be protected from missiles, because if it gets hit with missiles, only it is destroyed. It harms nothing around it, if it gets destroyed or fails in some fashion.

If you want to represent nuclear, do it honestly; there are a million reasons why it's a good thing, a weak strawman doesn't help your case.