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>Mearsheimer in 2015 in his lecture "Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?"

No, it is not. Putin is responsible for what is happening right now. Putin and his enablers. Nobody forced Putin to invade. It was pretty clear that invading was actually a bad move (compared to the alternative of not invading), so it was a largely emotional decision on Putin's part. Or it was a very calculating one, but one made in a bubble of unreality and disconnection due to his unique position as a hated tyrant.
Testing my (US-centric) understanding here. But I'll argue that the US does suffer for global dollar dominance in that there is necessarily a US trade deficit whose primary results are the exporting of US manufacturing overseas and the creation of the productivity-wage gap that started in the 1970s.
If they buy from Russia / China they will and do.
It's weird, the implicit bias is sometimes an advantage--or at least it sheilds us from knee jerk discrimination. Being white and clean cut in America has always afforded me a status that I did not enjoy until I was able to move away from where I grew up. There everyone knew my circumstances and kids who were from "better families" excluded me because I was just other. And school...I had to leave before high school, it was unbearable. Surviving the years up til that point nearly crushed my soul.

This caused a lot of anxiety in me and it still does. I suppressed the anxiety through abject narcism.

Once I was able to leave school and eventually move away I was assumed to be of the same class as my other white peers. Privileged, university educated etc. There was constant paranoia of being asked about my background and having to see the look on peoples faces when they asked where I got my degree from.

Again, I mostly floated through life benefitting from the implicit bias of my peers and others. Luckily I was smart and gravitated to tech at a very young age.

To this day I'm still wracked with anxiety at the possibility of discussing my financial situation, upbringing, or education.

Seeing this described as a denial of basic human rights in the article shocked me. I had never even thought about the anxiety objectively, until recently.
> And even if we created or found an applicable license, who would enforce it? We are a small team of four software engineers from Switzerland and we have neither the knowledge nor the means to report license violators.

Everyone who goes "just release it under XYZ license" misses this one key part. There are next to zero examples of small companies successfully enforcing their software copyright. It is expensive and takes a team of lawyers to do so.
I'm vaguely familiar with the pay by weight frozen yogurt shops. I can't speak from first hand experience but I would say that if you had 6+ machines and that was all your business did it would be a non issue. A few locations, rotate your cleaning days, could be handled by one individual that services them all.
I appreciate your willingness to engage in good faith.

The argument is simple: people should be free to include or exclude others in their private business/university/home/club as they see fit, and suffer free market consequences for doing so. This freedom was taken away by the civil rights act and the supreme court.
Instead why don't you let us know why you think that position is incorrect rather than resorting to reddit-tier insults?
Not needing a desk to relax and comfortably play Half Life and Bethesda games on Linux seems is pretty valuable to me at least.
The US is "in love with Shock and Awe" because it worked extremely well. Russia doesn't have the air power to pull it off, which is why they are running a version of Deep War, but without a second echelon to prevent their supply lines from getting picked off.

In reality it appears that Russia had a big problem with "ghost units" and rapidly tried to fill their invasion force with conscripts in the weeks before the invasion began. It's why we're seeing so many ill-equipped soldiers and awful tactics where tanks/APCs are driving solo through fields.
> It accurately reflects the original intent as outlined in the whitepaper, that is not an argument or opinion

Sure, but I disagree that that matters. The whitepaper is not an authority, the project is allowed to evolve and that doesn't make it illegitimate. I think sticking to a whitepaper (that was written ages ago, long before any of this tech even gained any traction or real world usage) seems crazy to me, like some sort of religion / cargo cult.

Do you see the original whitepaper as something that's perfect? No room for improvement or change in the ideas presented there?

> Sure, and I think your position and argument is wrong, and I think the fact that it has continued to be attacked after the split whilst BTC has been in a holding pattern

BTC has had tons of development (Lightning, time locks, signature schemes, smart contracts), especially compared to BCH which is pretty close to dead. It may not be the direction you want but don't mischaracterize it as a lack of development.

> "the bad guy won"
> Cheating a win doesn't change the fact it's still a win.

There is no game, there are no rules, there are no "good and bad" guys. Respectfully, that's a pretty naive view of the world.
There actually is/was two standards for this in Linux: GNUStep Application Bundles[0] and ROX-Filer AppDirs. Currently AppImage is trying to keep the dream alive, but it bundles the files in a squashfs image attached to the executable.

[0] Which of course came from NeXT Application Bundles, which is also where OSX Application Bundles came from.
Windows also does this. Linux doesn't, preferring to KISS because with demand paging there's really no reason you can't just put them in your rodata section.
You're just saying that bad software is bad. That's tautological.

Without SPA you have horrific 10page forms and the challenge of maintaining state as you go back and forth to make edits.

The hard part is managing state, and there is no way to avoid it if your product is not purely readonly. SPA is one strategy, and a pretty good one.
>but it's not like there's a union here

https://nationalownersassociation.com/join/
Can't wait to show off my indie vinyl collection in Fortnite!
Okay.

Oh look, it turns out[0][1] Europeans generally know about GDPR's effects[2] and care about their privacy online. What a shocker. In fact, I bet if you ran a similar poll of "would Americans want privacy laws equivalent to the EU's", with a simple explanation of what that would entail, you'd probably get a pretty positive response to that, too.

The problem here isn't the EU. It's US Congress, and it's insistence on shitty laws like the CLOUD Act that make it legally impossible to comply with any reasonable foreign privacy law by mandating that tech companies break them in lieu of a proper legal treaty. Bonus points to various UK and Australian[3] laws that collectively ban strong encryption in those territories, though I know of no current GDPR court ruling about that yet.

[0] https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2020/how-concerned-are-europea...

[1] https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/14/gdpr-europeans-awa...

[2] Oddly enough this only extends to knowledge of GDPR's effects. Nobody seems to remember that the law that gave them these new privacy rights is called "GDPR".
It used to mean someone who literally destroyed icons— as in statues and things that folks would worship.

Nowadays it mostly refers to “A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions”. [1]

It connotes that someone isn’t afraid to loudly voice a (potentially) minority or unpopular opinion. See also ‘shit-stirrer’, ‘skeptic’.

It’s also in the title of a classic Simpsons episode. [2]

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/iconoclast

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast
This really sucks. Bandcamp has been my go-to store for buying music for a long time. No dark patterns, lightweight site, free previews, good terms for indie artists. I don't think I can ethically shop there anymore given Epic's ownership and business practices.
Mongol horses eat all the food in an area, they have to remain mobile.
They were easily defeated (2nd time around) with area and food denial methods like castles.
Hi all,

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Looking forward to hear your thoughts!
Why are wood shops loaded to the rafters with tools? Because there is no Golden Hammer, only people who think they’ve found one.

You’re saying you’re doubling down on a single solution, which is probably not actually true, but you are surrounded by younger developers who will copy what you seem to be doing rather than what you’re actually doing.

All of these unresolved arguments are about team dynamics, not technology, which is why they never get resolved. Because we talk about our experiences or “objective” things like logic.
I’m a Contractor for New York City’s Wealthiest, Most Secretive Clients
It makes it worse.
You read my mind, I was exactly looking for that!
Oh hey, I know you! Congrats on your new role John!
Online Shopping Is Reshaping Real-World Cities
It depends on how you interpret it, especially "theoretical". I was interpreting it as there being no known theoretical mechanism (in the scope that you need a plausible mechanism of action).

One could say there a theoretical basis for the vaccine causing long term harm. Until there's actually support via an identified mechanism, it doesn't really matter - it's just a guess.

So if there wasn't a factually supported mechanism in July 2020, then there was no theoretical basis, simply a guess that it works similar to some (but not other) viruses.
the US has murdered well over 6 million innocent civilians in the middle east since 2001. so i would say that makes the US just as evil as Hitler, right?
Ask HN: Can I be useful in the Ukraine crisis as software engineer?
If so, how?

I have a fair amount of web-related software engineering experience, I can build tools, automate things. Backend, APIs, frontend frameworks, Linux servers, the typical skills. No real infosec or hardware skills, apart from some playing around with RaspberryPi. That might very well describe the majority of Hacker News visitors.

I assume it's possible to develop tools that would help coordinating some efforts, sharing some specific types of information more efficiently. I can't promise I'll manage to devote myself to this, but I'd like to try, or at least spark a discussion.

I am in Europe, outside Ukraine, if that matters.

(I did not forget about donating money to the right organizations)
You might be able to identify transmissions by looking for similar spectrums here: https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Signal_Identification_Guide
He was a butcher of sacred cows.
1) Bundling dependencies into a blob is a disaster for security and maintainability.

The blob might be a statically-linked executable, a flatpak, a docker container and so on.

All this methods go against OS-based packages and prevent end users to update vulnerable libraries.

It is well proven that things like containers on docker hub age like fish, leaving many unpatched images around.

This is why dynamic linking and Linux distributions exist! Stop reinventing the wheel in worse way.

2) Network bandwidth for updates is far from abundant for less wealthy 4 billion people on the planet.

3) Same for drive space. A lot of phones/SBC/IoT devices have limited storage.

4) Same for I/O bandwidth. (E.g. even on a new PinePhone bulky applications take many seconds to start.)
Until your bundled version of Tensorflow isn't compatible with your installed version of CUDA.
they are slowly ramping up, hoping the west will start to negotiate without having to bomb too much. I guess they might have to in the end
It's an apple pi
With the potential for contextual menu, and some stored local data, mhmm.

It's really a UX thing.

So glad it's getting more attention.
West is not pushing further east. Countries further east are seeking protection from Russia.
Those are two separate videos.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-molo...
Have you tried to use a site that reloads all the data on every click, from a slow, distant (high latency), or metered connection? Same problem.
An alternative take would be that the West is more okay with 3rd-world country violence rather than 1st-world country violence (like Ukraine). It happens to be the case that all countries that have recently seen conflict without significant US intervention were both brown and 3rd-world.

I would assume that if the Saudis, Indians, Israelis, or others were to see this same type of conflict, you'd see a much greater US commitment. If we instead jump on every conflict that arises, we'd be stuck in regional conflicts in 3rd-world countries forever.
The Japanese surrender in WWII due to sustained strategic bombing of civilian cities without a single troop landing in mainland Japan is a clear contradiction to this take.
The GOP is not Libertarian on policy. Classical liberals are. You almost definitely prefer the CL stance to the GOP stance on almost every issue, and would therefore be well-served to encourage this movement.

Your reaction to it springs from a lack of knowledge about it. Calling the difference "1 or 2 policies" is reductive and ignorant.
I completely agree.. it's really interesting to have the limitation and have to work around them.

Personally, I feel I can make a nice of-the-era game on an old console like the gameboy and feel accomplished. Anything simplistic, or rather, games made with a low artistic skill (at least that I try to make) on newer hardware just feels cheap/tacky to me.

Not sure if I'm getting across what I mean, but having 8x8 sprites and limited colour palette means I don't have _as_ much to worry about, so trying to design a semi-alright looking player sprite doesn't take much effort (not that some people don't put in a lot of time and do incredible things with it)
Meanwhile, Apple has gone through two deprecations of CPU architectures: first PowerPC and then Intel. Macs are nice, but I wish they had the same commitment to backwards compatibility.
For people who cannot afford internet access now, and for perhaps more in the future if times get more difficult, I believe this is a very important use-case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30529780
Oh I know that McD is at the top when it comes to controlling franchisees.

But if 13% of restaurants have the ice cream machine non-functional at any given time, that means half or more of them are having the problem at some time in the last month.

If you're going to ignore a problem at that scale... well, that's just terrible.
They've been independent forever I don't understand why they need to take a side on this one.

We all know dirty money go there eventually
This is really cool, I'm excited to see more ML applied to design like this.

One project I wish someone would build is an ML-powered algorithm for perceptually even saturation, drawing on crowdsourced data to help pick colors that most people would perceive as being equally colorful
We've got a sample size of one for "conflicts ended via nuclear explosions", though.
Yeah, I was trying to avoid the word rape so dang didn't come after me, but you're exactly right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games#Acquisitions

This appears to be the first company they are acquiring that is outside of the video game industry. This may start a new era for Epic Games. I wonder what direction they are going to take? I'd guess a new player in the multi-media field, but I really dont know.
They are also a gaming tools company.
I spent my tween years reading an assortment of his work. Absolutely brilliant, and didn't think what he was told to. He was a formative influence on me, and I appreciate the impact he had on the world. Rest in peace, you glorious troll.
Thanks, I'll look up image tracing.
Thanks, we’ll fix that.
This feels like a major blow, as someone who just semi recently (probably around pandemic start) started getting into purchasing flac music from indie artists, Bandcamp was a great source of music. I understand nothing will change in the short term, but long term I am very concerned. Especially as streaming becomes more dominant and companies are less willing to provide flac based music and physical discs (where I can rip my own) continue to disappear.

This feels like a potential last step of true music ownership and that makes me incredibly sad.

That being said if anyone knows of any place to buy flacs of music with great selection would love to know (especially for Japanese music which I generally have to import, thankfully they love CDs).
Please don't use Discord as an example. They are proprietary and quite hostile to its users through its data and metadata hoarding practices.
Honestly, this sounds more like disbelieve that non Americans can do major movements that are not centered around America and still affect it a lot.
And yet being illegal doesn't stop people from constantly trying it. They do try to be more clever about hiding it as time goes on.
That's terrible. Your website will disappear and your executables will be useless.
This reads like a Reddit comment. Let's try to be better than that here.
I look forward to not being able to download my purchases :(
Not to mention that H264 can take quite a bit of horsepower to decode and play as well (assuming your machine doesnt have a hardware chip specifically for doing just that)
For a lot of indie games, it's not uncommon to see the game soundtracks available for download on Bandcamp. Part of me wonders if they could potentially integrate soundtrack bundle downloads with the Epic Store a little better.
I'm disgusted that the Ukrainian government didn't relocate the AN-225 to another country prior to the war.

Now the only item has been lost and Ukraine will not have the financial or technical means to build another one.

They claim they will, but believe me, they won't.
I'm building a tool for people have a personal archive to their digital life so that 30 years from now they can revisit content they enjoyed in their younger years.

https://github.com/sergiotapia/ekeko

This is awesome! I would love to integrate this somehow into my project to "singlefile" bookmarks as people make them.

@gildas do you have any recommendation on how to approach this with your extension? Could I run a headless chrome and trigger this extension?
Solvespace (CAD program) comes as a single executable for windows:
https://solvespace.com/index.pl

I dread the day we have to put together an installer for it. If we ever decide to use GTK on all platforms we'll have to since the GTK developers don't seem to think static linking is a useful thing for them to support.
Great video - thank you for posting.

This video as well from Feb 26 2022 - Why Russia is Invading Ukraine(30mins explanation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
Putin is a corrupt murderer but I've seen very little to suggest that he's deranged or otherwise insane. And depending on how firm the west is about sticking to sanctions (i.e. will Europe quietly roll them back after gas prices spike?) his choice to invade Ukraine may even be a smart move for him from a geopolitical perspective.
The notion of 'active' wars has been all too fluid over here. We had been involved in the Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention as recently as the mid-90s so nothing really got a proper chance to cool down.
I am not so sure if the average Russian citizen thinks Putin is that bad. From the outside it looks like life has massively improved during Putin’s reign. We shouldn’t forget how things were in Russia before Putin.

Maybe the Ukrainian situation is the turning point. If the sanctions cause pain in Russia people’s view of Putin may change.
[ insert obligatory comment about epic games hating linux ]
How come these issues aren't existent in McDonald's in Europe?
Actually it's very likely that Git is exposing a failing or unreliable underlying storage medium (or memory?). I can't find the reference for it, but b/c git is so aggressive about actually checking hashes, it sometimes exposes unreliability that gets attributed to git, but is actually the hardware.

Check for "memtester", "smartctl", and "badblocks" ... understand what they do and see if they turn up anything.
People legitimately like and consume music that is 60 years old, cars that are 50, movies that are 40, Nintendo games that are 30. Why not an operating system?
Have You Tried Rubbing a Database on It?
In my opinion, UWP/WPF/aodaf makes it easy because it just doesn't implement the things a user is used to in a browser (bookmarkability, back button, ...).

If you ignore those things in your SPA, much of the "cruft" is negligible.
Is there a specific part of this forty-page article you're referring to? If you have a case to make, make it; don't make everyone else do your work for you.
I don't know. I'm not very familiar with Next.js (I'd heard about it but never really looked into it much). Your response inspired me to investigate, and I found an article by a Remix founder about the differences [1]. It's obviously biased, but maybe still interesting. It looks like there was an HN submission and a bit of discussion, too.

There's a bunch of other comparisons out there, too.

[1]: https://remix.run/blog/remix-vs-next
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29983950