skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it makes more sense to break this question down into a few specific ones:

1. How likely is it that Putin will want to use nuclear weapons?

- I don't think he is that mad, but who knows? If the pressure inside Russia starts to rise, protests expand and a win in Ukraine starts to get more and more unlikely.. Cornered animals start to lash out. If he thinks it's his last chance to save himself or his legacy, he may go that far. Do I think he would attack a NATO country? No. But maybe he would attack Ukraine and hope that would somehow save him.

2. How likely is it, that his orders will be followed?

- He seems to have surrounded himself with yes-man, so I don't think some higher up would stop him. But just like with Stanislav Petrov it's often people down the line who, when faced with the actual consequences of their actions, choose to do the right thing.

3. How likely is it, that they will hit/explode?

- I have no sources, and it's just a personal feeling: I think the U.S. and probably even China have technologies to shoot down any Russian nuclear missile attacks. Looking at some UFO videos, which have popped up, and my belief that those aren't alien but advanced military aircraft, I think this would be a good bet to make.
Whether they would use it to save Ukraine and show their (technological) hand is another question. But I would say the chance of a Russian nuclear missile hitting a NATO country and exploding is pretty low.

4. How likely is it, that it will trigger a response?

- If it explodes in Ukraine, who knows. The war in Ukraine would be over at that point, I think it would more likely trigger an (extreme) non-nuclear response, which would result in Russia being made unable to further attack and Putin and his inner-circle being obliterated. If they attack a NATO country, all bets are off.
Of course a quick web search answers your question. The fable is that all the mice would like to have the cat wear a bell, but despite the obvious benefits, there are no volunteers for the dangerous task.
I can’t decide if the people here in the comments spend too much time watching action movies or too little.

Obviously the first thing that pops to mind when you hear “air superiority” and “40 mile convoy of enemy tanks” is “bomb that convoy to dust”. The second thing that should pop is “ambush”. Losing 5 aircraft to surface to air missiles to take out 5 tanks would be a poor tradeoff.

Doubtless bombing the convoy is something Ukraine has considered. Also doubtless they are aware that the convoy isn’t guaranteed to be a parade of sitting ducks.
What are the golang- packages about in OpenSUSE? Go doesn‘t support dynamic linking (except for non-go-pieces like glibc or via cgo). Do they contain source-code? Or pre-built .a‘s? Both would have a hard time not conflicting with go‘s own build tooling, right?
The approximate way I've been thinking about decisions like this so far is:

- Shutting down the means for people to communicate is not OK

- Deciding to be selective about who you do business with is OK

The former seems to affect indiscriminate groups; the latter is about personal agency.

Where are the gaps/limitations in my thinking there and what are some other situations or guidelines worth considering?
I’m using this Chrome extension for formatting inline code in Google Docs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backtick/gfollmknb...
One of the ultimate plaintext champions is (unsurprisingly) John Gruber, the "inventor" of Markdown.

One of my favorite facts about his site, daringfireball.com: You can add the extension .text to any permalink and it will render that page as markdown:

- HTML: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/03/01/mozilla-on-tind...

- Markdown: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/03/01/mozilla-on-tind...
You make a good point, but I wonder what the real world business equivalent of this is? Is it the destiny of every successful café to become acquired by Starbucks one day? (assuming there's not a better comparison I should be thinking of)
> The rationale (if you can call it that) is that no country would want to continue with sanctions against Russia after that point, for fear of the same happening to them.

I see the complete opposite.

Broad sanctions to Russia (think complete embargo like Cuba) and any country not enforcing said embargo. Immediate seizure of any Russian or Russian-aligned assets owned in the west by anyone with allegiance to such. Passports becoming instantly worthless.
If one style of writing applications is far more prone to having “bad software”, consider that this is a valuable signal about the difficulty of using that style effectively. SPAs require you to take on ownership of more hard to debug challenges and that's an important factor to consider when selecting tools.
That, too, would be most welcome :)
I'm teaching in an ABET accredited program using MIT textbooks and I'm not impressed. If engineers want to avoid learning how to integrate by parts or use the chain rule it seems like a great idea. Arubis' comment above seems on point.
The FileDialog is the only AWT widget I still use regularly. It gives you the native file chooser. Unfortunately it isn't terribly flexible when it comes to, for example, only selecting directories. In those cases, I have been known to use JNI to use the truly native dialog.
Thanks for explaining this. When I noticed the URL change I was surprised but this makes sense. It would be great if we could pin the original source link as the top comment though. Frustratingly Variety doesn’t seem to link to it anywhere in their article and it’s nice to have the official release along with the commentary.
with Ukraine arming anyone who wants to be armed and conscripting all males between 18 and 60 the lines between civilian and soldier are becoming blurred. I saw a video of some kids in a car driving by a tank and throwing a molotov cocktail out the window. To me, they are no longer "civilians" and a legitimate target. It's surprising they lived long long enough to upload the video to social media.
Relevant context: Abramovich answered a call from Ukraine to "mediate" in the initial round of talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Previously, he's spent the last couple of decades acquiring assets, passports and friends in Western countries, so whilst there's definitely a lot of self-interest in his actions (he's avoided the main wave of sanctions) I imagine the war came as a massive shock to him and was the very last thing he wanted to happen. He has Ukranian ancestors and a daughter being outspokenly anti-Putin on social media. But he also spent time in Russian politics and was directly involved in Putin's rise to power.

In that context, the absence of direct criticism of Russia in statements put out by him and the club's press office is also notable. Only if his role in "mediation" turns out to be a significant one can we judge the absence of anything stronger to say on the matter as more than an attempt to reputation launder both sides
Bummer! The bookstores are pretty nice, and the 4-star shops were so useful for the bizarre, algorithmically curated collection of product they contained. I remember pre-pandemic, I needed a ir thermometer and a gift wrapped coffee table book, randomly popped into my local 4-star (soho) and it had everything.
Ukrainians shot about 30 Russian planes, so 30 experienced Russian pilots are gone

This is exactly the metric. Unlike their other assets, planes are expensive to replace and pilots take a long time to train.

Russia needs to maintain their air assets in order to defend themselves in case they get challenged that way. And they have tons of warm bodies and old hardware to throw at the situation.

Another perspective is that Russian air assets are very vulnerable to MANPADS style air-defense systems. Ukraine has received a ton of these systems from the west and are able to engage targets up to about 3 miles out. They're also vulnerable to the S300 systems the Ukrainians inherited, although its not clear how many of those remain.
I agree, and it might be the case that since they lost any element of surprise due to their moves being telegraphed by Western intelligence, it greatly undermined any speed they were hoping to make use of.
Why worry about it? It either won't happen, in which case you worried for nothing, or it will, and it won't be your problem anymore.
Someone read too many John Titor stories? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
From an article on Sky News:

>It is not clear if his reference to "all victims" means just Ukrainians, or Russians as well.

I don't want to be cynical but this could be donated to "victims" in Russia. The Aggressor. Also the elephant in the room is why does he have 30 days to sell assets before sanctions. It should be frozen immediately.
The tips weren't made of graphite!
Like, who exactly?

If you mean Russia, they had years of internal violence behind them. They had well established revolutionary movements and terror groups acting inside on top of it even before WWI. And the regime was weak and forced to do concessions already in run up to WWI and even weaker by end of it. They were doing reforms, too little too late, but they were doing them because internal pressure was strong for years.

That revolution did not came out of nowhere. Plus, the population was literally hungry and desperate to large extend. And plus, it was followed by major civil war of like 5 sides competing for power.
> The trick is to try to find incentives for the providers that also align with positive results for the patients.

That part is easy.

The hard part is aligning providers, patients, and the payers, since the patients cannot afford to align the providers with themselves. Enter politics, because you are now distributing limited healthcare resources with demand far greater than supply, meaning you have to either pony up more from the payers and/or ration various quality of healthcare to various populations, per their political power.
That's not Bandcamp's fault. Whoever listed the album configured it that way. There are settings for artists (or labels or whoever) to allow people to purchase single songs, or require that they buy the entire album.

I've bought plenty of single tracks from albums. A few of them as recently as this past weekend.
> I think it's more plausible that Russia would use mini-nukes on certain strategic targets.

Yep. Plus a noisy, demonstrative test explosion somewhere in the North Sea to make a point.

Strong chance of both, I think. Particularly what you suggest.

At this point it's insane to think otherwise, because he's already telegraphing that he'll use battlefield nukes if pushed. Everything else of any significance that he's telegraphed so far, he's done.

He's a psychopath, telling us in advance, to prolong his enjoyment and make us responsible for what he does.

And he's losing in every significant way; he won't be able to cope with that.
Broken fibres bounce light back. The time it takes for a pulse to return can be used to estimate the location of the break pretty accurately.
Brazil’s move to legalize sports gambling is fueling a digital gold rush
You cannot compare those numbers. Cost of living is very different in Germany and the UK compared to Russia. Personnel costs make up for most of the German budget and a Russian soldier earns only a fraction of a German soldier.
Full Archival with the standards required by the Internet Archive require that full unmodified headers are required, and unmodified content. This tends not to work well with modern browsers. Chrome and Firefox both fail at this currently. Someone is looking into a kind of modified Firefox to help with this. but its just not that how this system works. Now the Archive.org does have a API of sorts to say hay archive this URL, and a little working on the backend goes and does it..

What the Archive Team does is on a much more massive scale. Like SETI at home scale of scraping data across the internet. At almost every point we have had to make custom tools to ensure it meets our needs in our archival efforts.
The standard trick is to have something in the foreground. Several of the pictures on Mount Rainier's Wikipedia page do this.

For example, trees in the foreground:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Rainier_panorama_2....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nisqually_Glacier_0902.JP...

A settlement in the foreground:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Rainier_over_Tacoma...

Whereas, something like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Rainier_sunset.jpg
is more abstract and doesn't give the same sense of scale.
Historically, Epic's aquisitions are given freedom to do whatever they were doing beforehand, so I wouldn't be worried. Quixel now just gives out tons of free materials and assets, Sketchfab is untouched, Artstation forums don't behave any differently, Hypersense's tech was likely leveraged and used in Metahuman.

People concerned over the "Exclusivity deals" on the game store end aren't looking at the "Developer" acquisitions which have rarely lead to the kinds of ends that, say, Google's Aquisitions have.
Hiroshima was a fart compared to the average yield of a warhead. Hiroshima was hit by a 13kT TNT equivalent. The average modern warhead is about 300-500kT -- dialble, but assume the max. if it's all in.
(That doesn't change that Hiroshima was a tradegy.)
A rocket with multiple warheads often enough carries 5*1MT -- all major cities would be rubble.

Ca. 100 modern warheads mean a multi year nuclear winter -- more will be fired, right know more than 1000 active on either side.
Even with a small scale catastrophe:
if you don't have enough food in your basement, prep. for cannibalism.
The civilization would be horrible.
Thermobarics are standard issue fuel/air bombs correct? I thought they were specifically designed for anti-personnel use, are they banned or somehow out of the ordinary? I don't understand why it would be notable if they were used.
Thank you for this documentary link, it’s amazing
Russia's claim is that they must liberate Ukraine because its government is being run by nazis that are executing Russians. That claim is entirely false. Maybe my fault for saying "Ukrainians" instead of "the Ukrainian government" but that was my point. Anything outside of that is needlessly pedantic and creates no interesting dialogue.
Thanks. Still browsing your photo galleries, just beautiful.
But if you compare the outrage about what was happening in Syria (or Iraq or Afghanistan) to the outrage now, we clearly are at a very different level. It can't be because the Russian are acting so much more ruthlessly now.
Yep, we drew them with Paper. Great app.
Conversely, if Sweeney saw users as participants, for lack of a better word, this might be for ... the good?

For whatever you have in mind, the question was basically whether you see the users as the owners. I thought it is a misleading question because it is riffing on a legal notion of property and possession, without clearly characterising that property, leaving open any illegal aspect to be pointed out if that was your moral basis of the argument. And indeed, one could attempt a hyperbolic retort in which it should be definitely illegal, say, to change a running system. Or how is leninist marxism for a debatable mindset. Understandably you have rejected that debate. Of course the users are an integral part of the platform, and it's a consequential facet of the culture that some are already feeling sold-out.

Eventually it's kind of subjective, when everyone values the entity differently.
That sounds about right to me. AJAX - or more broadly, what we call HTML5 could have been the gamechanger.
I get you, but this is not the experience they are trying to recreate, they are trying to recreate the very experience you said the website is lacking by using the algorithm and data from there online sales to decide what it should sell in the first place.
Oracle certainly wasn't good for Java.

But Java-on-the-desktop had been struggling for years before that. You either bundled a complete JVM with your application (fine if you're making a 500MB IDE, not so good for anything smaller) or you had the embarrassment of directing your users to an installer that bundled the Ask toolbar. They might even end up with the security-hole-riddled java browser plugin. And even once the user has java installed, you can't just double-click a jar file to run it. And the performance isn't anything to write home about either, if Eclipse is anything to go by.

Java remains a fine choice for use on the server, of course.
So, UV-C?
That's a good point. I hope that Russia doesn't fall into civil war and instead just gets a new government and new leader.
> 1. How likely is it that Putin will want to use nuclear weapons?

Fiona Hill -- absolutely the smartest person in the room on this topic in a generation -- thinks he absolutely would:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-...

> But just like with Stanislav Petrov it's often people down the line who, when faced with the actual consequences of their actions, choose to do the right thing.

Reassuringly it does seem to be something of a Stanislav Petrov war, doesn't it. Russian soldiers pretty routinely abandoning their vehicles, seemingly even sabotaging them.

But this doesn't apply to Putin. It's important to understand that he does not have a functioning conscience, and he's very comfortable with cruelty.
Did bandcamp raise a lot of money from venture capital? The last round listed on crunchbase was a series A in 2010. It looks like management were fine running it more like a lifestyle business.
partly relevant for aftermath: https://sgs.princeton.edu/the-lab/plan-a

I remember on Turkish TV they have mentioned that in theory if more than 5 nukes drops in the same area that would affect the integrity of earth crust(lithosphere?). No matter wha if its simulation or vr I am definitely asking refund.
I really liked the one in northern Chicago mostly because it had a nice coffee shop inside. But otherwise it seemed like a novelty and something I wouldn't use for actual shopping. Amazon Go on the other hand...
Ride bike to work, move 50-100 lb JBOD's around, ride bike home.
It's so surprising that nobody ever talks about the active nuclear policies the countries have. For example Russia states the following:

> With regard to nuclear weapons specifically, Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons:
> - in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also
> - in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened.

As long as NATO doesn't nuke something first or the very existence of Russia is not threatened, they should not use nukes.

From this part on I am speculating only, but I believe if Putin would press the red button the officers would have the right to refuse to execute the order.
It has nothing to do with Hegel and Marx in this case, if you read the article. Around the time of the Cultural Revolution, Xi was banished to "a miserably poor mountain village", where the only book available was Goethe's Faust, which he reread until he knew it by heart.
That doesn't matter, someone will pay it. They won't struggly to find a buyer.

Owning one of the greatest teams in the world in the most fashionable part of one of the world's major city is basically just worth it as a vanity asset to a certain kind of billionaire.
I've just installed `golang-github-burntsushi-toml` that should be the well known Go TOML library; asking `rpm -q -l` shows mainly `*.go` files, thus I assume they are mainly used as build dependencies?
And this scenario on steroids when America finally disintegrates, though that may or may not happen in our lifetimes. America has over twice as many people, our population is more geographically dispersed, and we're all being pushed to hate each other.

I think the "California nukes Texas in 2093" (or vice versa) version of nuclear armageddon is way more plausible than the "Putin goes insane and nukes Ukraine/other targets 2022" version of nuclear armageddon.
There seem to also be natural gas reserves in the sea west of Crimea.

If Ukrain joins NATO Russia would not be able to hold onto Crimea and
could become a Petrol state.

With renewables replacing part of the Gas energy demand long term (10/15y) this
could mean that Ukrain could replace all Gas imports previously done from
Russia. At the same time a modern and well-working Ukrain could influence Russia
(as a unintended side-effect) in a destabilizing way (anti-authoritarian Government movements).

So if my info is correct a stable NATO Ukrain could, in a decade or so, lead to a situation where Russia is making very little money, no longer being able to afford
much military besides for self-defense usage. That there is also a shrinking populating constantly reducing the amount of "potential soldiers" isn't helping. Neither is helping that a lot of middle tier and upper middle tier Russians have left Russia in the last many years (I think, not 100% sure), this reduces the chance for economical growth through new businesses.

If all of this is true (I'm not sure) then Putin might believe that they have to either take over or majorly destabilize Ukrain if Russia like it's currently is want to continue to exists. (This doesn't mean it would disappear, but it would need to change likely at the cost of the current oligarchs.)
Anyone with basic understanding of DNS infrastructure knows that Bill is wrong.

You do not need to query the root nameservers often, a slight increase in latency makes no difference whatsoever for queries which occur once every 10 minutes or so and can be performed in the background.
Possible, yes. Hard to find a better take on “how to respond” than Feynman:

“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless.

But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”

-Richard Feynman
> Rich client development is always hard—on any platform—, and you always make concessions for the platform you're on. I certainly have to when I'm building iOS apps. But I see no reason for this to dissuade you if you can push a better UX to the user.

I think the difference is how much you as a developer have to "fight" the platform. Having to implement history management yourself very much qualifies as "fighting" to some extent in my eyes… continuing with native platforms as an example, that sort of thing just isn't necessary in most cases – like with iOS, 99% of your "history" management comes for free with some combination of UINavigationController and view controller presentation, assuming the use of UIKit.
The top floor of Powell's now has a large technical section, but it's not quite a replacement.
It may be right to say that in HN-like circles nowadays you should keep to a smaller weirdness budget if you don't want to alienate other hackers. I think that's sad, though. Feeling tempted to start following Kragen on this point just out of orneriness.