skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We already have armies at the country level

I say the following as a former officer in the French army, which I'm sure you'll agree is one of the more active armies in the EU. We nominally have country-level armies. Their funding is consistently reduced and their numbers regularly downsized, and this trend exists across Europe. One might nitpick by pointing to specific budget increases, but the trend is undeniable if you look at it on any reasonable time-scale.

I can think of no European country that has an autonomous standing army, capable of deploying itself to the theater of operations, resupplying and sustaining combat efforts without the support of US logistics. To point at the mere existence of national armies is to play word games. The EU members have outsourced their defense to the United States, and are now paying the price.

EDIT: to be clear, I am quite skeptical of an EU strategic command.
Yes, this is an extremely well written and to the point writeup.
Because the only meaningful NATO troops are US, and then far away UK and maybe France.
I've never been able to understand how matrices like 3D transformations relate back to the idea that a matrix represents a set of linear equations. What set of 4 equations are 3D matrices representing?
I doubt an article like this will survive on HN. But I can't help hope that it will - it lays bare some of the "other side" that most people have no inkling of. We're so used to see the world in black and white, us against them, that we have not yet realized that peace is in everyone's best interest - a new arms race is not.

That said, if and when these viewpoints serve to minimize the Russian atrocities as it has on several of these alternate news sites that I follow then it crosses a red line.
There is a visa scheme for these cases, please see my other comment.
Games already use virtual file systems for storing assets to reduce load times. Otherwise they have to load a bunch of tiny files with filesystem and OS overhead for each. I'm sure some would appreciate not having to invent their own.
We keep hearing this assertion. Where is the evidence?
The primary emotion I feel when reading this is pure exhaustion. I mean, there's plenty of things wrong with this, and it sounds like a terrible way to organize society in general, but first and foremost it just feels… exhausting. I wouldn't have the stamina for it.
Meduza is generally a credible source, and this article has an important nuance - there is huge support among older population _who watched government TV daily_. That is, interested in & highly aligned with the Kremlin's propaganda.

The same article say it's a ~50/50 split among people who are young, educated, or live in large cities.
who is transmitting? receiving doesn't need scrambling.
Lack of government would have allowed slavery indefinitely.
I couldn't agree more - and think it is asinine to tell developers to not comment code; most of the comments I write, are for me as much as for the next person who works on it. I find them invaluable.

Recent contract at a big Fortune50 company, and they forbid developers from using comments - "any code that you think needs some explanation should be put in a separate readme file in a 'docs' directory off of the root" - how can that be better, or more useful, than a couple of lines of comments right above the code in question?

They didn't want us to use comments, because they were afraid the code would change, and the comments would become out of date - so put those comments in a separate file, that almost nobody will remember to read, much less update, and that would solve the problem.

You can't make this stuff up, utter insanity.
How Russia will spin it: yet another example of US imperialism where they force another country to accept their troops so that NATO can get closer to our borders and threaten us.
If not 99.999%

I’ve worked with (and been) a dev for several decades, and I can count on one hand the number of folks who would have a chance of figuring this out, and 2 fingers the number of folks who WOULD.

Of course, most never try to optimize or go so deep like this that they would ever need to, so there is that!
Nuclear Power Phase-Out
Better yet. Buy from a company that won't charge you for the Windows licence you don't want.

I'm a developer. I am also exclusively a nix/BSD user for about the past decade; my machines, servers, my wife's laptop, my work laptop etc, all nix/bsd.

When I bought my personal XPS 13 I contacted DELL customer support to buy a "Developer" version, it took 3 weeks to ship because they had to build it, rather than provide an off-the-shelf box with Windows pre-installed, but I saved something like £43.

It's not about the money, but I would rather have it in my pocket than give it to Microsoft for some software I _really_ don't want (or need).

Side note, I'm planning on buying a Framework next.
Who Is DDoSing Russia?
Technically it’s a front-light, shining on the front of the screen from the side. But the nature of the eInk is such that you don’t have to use the built in light, you could just turn in your normal lamp.
This is a visa scheme, you have to apply and stuff at a centre, and the centre in Ukraine is closed!
They have a frontlight rather than a backlight. And there's quite a bit of evidence that colour temperature and brightness both have a big effect. But I broadly agree that it will still have an effect. I use my kindle without the backlight and with a warm coloured lamp.
What should they do instead? You have to rush to patch in any case. If the maintainers start to label commits with "security patch" the logical step is that it doesn't require immediate action when the label is not there. Never mind that the bug might actually be exploitable but undiscovered by white hats.

If you do not want to rush to patch more than you have to, use a LTS kernel and know that updates matter and should be applied asap regardless of the reason for the patch.
> you have no frigging idea what versions of that random NPM crap library were you running 5 weeks ago.

The most telling part of this screed is that you don’t appear to know you can tell exactly what version you were using at any version-controlled point in time by looking at the lock file for NPM.
NATO members don't have any obligation to defend or even really aid an attacked member. The article 5 is ridiculously vague. I think sacrificing the member state to avoid nuclear war is what would happen. It won't be any different than with Ukraine.
I've updated the post as auriplane has gotten me quite close to a solution. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30583307. They are able to run it after building, but I'm still running in to issues, which is probably just a small configuration issue on my end. I've added a Github Issue to track the progress of this: https://github.com/adamjberg/i_solated/issues/4 . Finally hopeful that there's a solution to be found!
I wonder if the newness of kerning in a computer interface threw those few people off.

It was after all a monospace world for computers (and typewriters, for that matter — the other keyboard people likely sat down in front of at that time).

Or we can blame the Chicago 12 font.
When I first read this and a few replies it made me think that Stadia had been shutdown, but a quick Google search shows this is not the case. Am I missing something and perhaps it’s planed to be shut down? (Or is it just not as successful as was anticipated)
Sad. The 200th anniversary didn't get a lot of enthusiasm because it came in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate. I hate to think of the 250th being spoiled by M̵e̵t̵a̵ Facebook.
> If there is a relatively big EU military, we in the US have a chance of reforming and shrinking our monster.

Our military's size and capabilities seem to be more a function of job-creation, rather than actual military need.
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person [pdf]
"How do elementary schools determine whether someone is gifted?"

Public schools in SF? They don't.

Private gifted schools? Using psychologist-administered tests.

"If it isn't the student body or budget, what makes Rooftop better?"

During the most recent year for which data are available (2019) half of Rooftop 3rd graders were not meeting state standards in math. 45% were not meeting state standards in ELA (English Language Arts).

So I'm not sure what you mean by 'better'?
Well, nuclear is supposed to alleviate the need for emitting greenhouse gases, and they are currently emitted globally. Hard to see how nuclear represents the solution if it's only built in the current nuclear powers...
Unless you have a secure mechanism to forbid containers from running with `--privileged` (which does not come with container runtimes that I'm aware of), or unless your container runtime launches a VM to run the containers in, then the conception of containers being a security mechanism is a pretty thin one, indeed.

Containers can be part of a secure application runtime environment, but much like sugary cereal can be a part of a balanced breakfast, more is required.
Communities with higher levels of racial prejudice have worse health outcomes
> most of us only have direct experience with the problems created by the solution, but not the problems the solution solved.

The US copyrights regime was mostly imposed on my country in 1994. What do you mean we have no experience with the problems it solves?

(Any honest discussion at that time would at a minimum bring shorter terms.)
Too many years of everybody and their grandma being called “literally Nazi”.
Yep ... us "Muricans" generally spend more than we earn and are not very good at choosing what exactly we spend all that money on. To be a bit more serious, we've made a lot of promises to other countries that, unless we cancel treaties, we should stand by (I actually believe in keeping your word). On the other side of that coin, just because you've got to have a huge military doesn't mean you're allowed to invade arbitrary countries (Iraq, Afghanistan). It's theoretically possible to be a super-power without being imperial but think about the type of people that enter politics.
Surely if you're a pirate, selling a US ship to the Russians is worth more money than the other way round?
Ignoring the economic aspects Trump is foolish as well. Trump either due to action or circumstance also directly lead to better conditions for the Working Class via low inflation low employment, and reducing environmental regulations that allowed increasing in many blue collar jobs.

to be clear these effects are likely not a result of anything trump did directly but mere circumstance of timing, however is credited by the very people you are calling "values voters" with improving their economic position while at the same time supporting their values

In contrast, again correctly or not, the Actions of Democrats led by Joe Biden are seen as directly increasing inflation, gas prices, and worsing their economic situation.

I still firmly believes elections are always about economics, if you believe person A will make you better off economically you vote for them, or if you believe Person A will make you worse off economically you vote against them..

2020 was probably the first election in a long time that upends that mold where it was not about economics...
NATO goes way beyond "working together with allies".
Hi, I’m the OP. I shared this because from a practical perspective it seems that filling a car’s fuel tank is one of the most volatile and essential line items in a typical household budget, and when expensive housing (owned or rented) stretches household budgets, prolonged increases in gas prices could feasibly be a “straw that breaks the camel’s back”, as another commenter mentioned. I appreciate the far more educated perspectives available on HN, so given some of the current parallels (expensive housing, rising prices) and some of the much more unfortunate new variables (war, inflation, supply chain), I wanted to raise the topic for discussion.

I personally think that trends like increased EV/hybrid ownership and WFH could mitigate this issue in particular, but I don’t think these are trends that apply to all Americans equally (especially those with more precarious finances).
Yes, you need to try to get elected. But getting elected is often connected with credibility in substance.
And France is only a kinda-member
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I think more visual weight should be given to the action you expect/wish the user to take.

Also I always put the happy path on the right, but I can't articulate a reason for this.
>I write this with true love for your effort, but do I read your 2021 annual retrospective correctly stating that you made $13K on $477K in revenue? Maybe some of your expenses are paying yourself for software development, and that's just your corporate income?

Thanks for reading!

No, that doesn't include paying myself. But it's also worth mentioning I also had $59k in raw materials at year-end. If I had to liquidate everything, it would cost about $5k to assemble the raw materials into ~$200k of product and ship them to customers, so I'd theoretically walk away with $195k.

I've always had a hard time assessing the financial health of the business because I'm investing a lot into future growth. Because of the supply shortage, I have to stockpile a lot more raw materials, so as sales grow, I'm also buying more materials to meet the new scale. And a lot of my costs are one-time events that I expect to pay dividends over time (e.g., hiring EE vendors to design a new product, hiring a design firm to overhaul the website, paying developers to add features).

>I would really consider raising your prices. I found that when I first started my business, I had a subconscious desire to replicate my income at my previous job, which caused me to irrationally underprice my products. After 2 years, I got over it, and it transformed my life. You've done an amazing amount of work. You should get paid for it (or, if people won't pay for it, get out). My dad used to say, "I don't do work for practice."

Thanks! This is something I have trouble with because it's hard for me to measure the optimal price. My volumes are too small to really A/B test different prices effectively. Over the course of the business, I keep raising the $50 thinking the new price is crazy, and then people continue buying anyway.
I'm genuinely shocked that all of this goes straight over your head. I suppose that your desperate need for yes-men and sympathy lead you to pulling false equivalence out of thin air. Perhaps that also confirms the name-calling, it must be frustrating to you.
> Also, it might have to see with the level of blue light that is emitted by those devices

In my experience backlit screens contain a lot of blue. I have been able remove the waking effect of my screen entirely using a heavy red filter provided by f.lux. But with the default settings, and even Apple's night shift implementation it's very blue. It is slightly less bad on newer devices that support "TrueTone".
So you want the EU to be a US satellite for ever?

There is no sovereignty without some ability to defend oneself on ones own. And personally, I think a major problem with the EU is too much intergovernmentalism, and not enough direct EU parliament power. Putting a military under their control can help that.

"We don't need a Military" is the same happy go lucky thinking as "we'll just close all the nukes, do more renewables, and worry about storage later". It's just blatantly irresponsible, and undermines genuinely good things (less war, more renewables) into mere virtue signalling.
According to various sites and videos, it flashed a white target box per frame. It makes sense for duck hunt, because it had a limited amount of targets.
While were at it, why should anybody trust “the profession” either way?
Saying you looked into it but don’t know what to do works wonders.
ITT "Russia cannot be trusted" yet putin has been a man of his word from the start .. he warned of consequences for eastward nato expansion.

We knew locking ukraine out of nato was always the goal. No reason to think this isn't genuine. War is expensive and messy, we know it's not going well for Russia. They want to achieve their goals fast and get out.

I'm sure Ukraine will reject at first, and Russia will respond with more destruction. "We'll keep wrecking you until you submit". We may see the 40 mile long convoy start moving again.

Honestly I'm not sure what's the best option here. Should Ukrainians keep resisting and dying in hopes they can outlast putin? Or should they submit, saving lives in the short term but validating the invasion?

Edit: I think the west is going to pressure Ukraine into zero tolerance resistance. It's very bad for "world order" if putin gets away with this, lest other nations start getting funny ideas..

In which case Ukraine may become perpetually war torn. Russia sits and holds eastern regions and just keeps bombarding the rest of Ukraine in a game of chicken with western intervention.
> If I steal from you, you no longer have what I've stolen. If I copy your software, you still have it; I might just have deprived you of profits (if I had otherwise bought the software).

Okay, so what is your suggestion here? Make it legal to make the copies? You know that that will only make more companies implement more aggressive DRM, right? Because, if you can't legally stop people from copying your software, you have to stop those who copy it from being able to run it.

This is also why cloud applications with web interfaces are on the rise. They don't have to worry about piracy because it's literally impossible unless people break into their servers, which I'm sure no one is going to argue isn't a crime.
"Opening the borders" means visa-less (or at the least, automatically granted visas)

Having to apply for a visa is the literal contradiciton to this.
> Our financial regulatory system still hasn’t fully figured out how to address the risks of the derivatives, securitizations, and money market mutual funds that comprised Shadow Banking 1.0, but we’re already facing the prospect of Shadow Banking 2.0 in the form of decentralized finance, or “DeFi.”

>The stakes are much higher when money is involved, and if DeFi is permitted to develop without any regulatory intervention, it will magnify the tendencies towards heightened leverage, rigidity, and runs that characterized Shadow Banking 1.0.
Assembly language isn't that hard. I wrote a FORTH interpreter with a pretty good standard library in 3000 lines of 6809 assembly that pretty much worked right the first time.

Today you could spend as much time getting the build to work with npm or maven for something very simple.

Macro assemblers are nowhere near as much fun on the x86 (and other 80's era micros) as they are on something like the IBM 360 or AVR8 with a big register file... If you've got 32 registers you can write macros where the register names are parameters and avoid a lot of the meaningless activity involved in "calling conventions" in programming languages like C.
Tamamo-no-Mae is already a popular anime character due to the Fate franchise
Interop 2022 web-platform-tests Dashboard
Indeed, looks like Russian propaganda: https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-iss-breaking-video
The average electric car transaction was $63k in January, compared to $26k for a compact car and $34k for a crossover.

Americans already tend to buy way too much car, financing them over 60 or even 72 months, and that was happening before the incredible price increases over the past 2 years. Only the (increasingly small) upper middle class and above can responsibly afford an electric car.

Even expecting the general public to be forced to switch to hybrids and more fuel efficient gas cars is unrealistic in the short to mid term as the supply simply isn't there. Letting gas prices be higher than they used to be to incentivize electric car adoption could be a logical step, but likely in 3-10 years when prices are comparable to existing technology.

Source: https://mediaroom.kbb.com/2022-02-09-New-Vehicle-Prices-Retr...
In that case aren't you talking about read-only asset packs? Those have been around for years and aren't very complex to implement. Big studios already have their own implementations. There are plenty of "free as in beer" implementations out there to use.
Angela Duckworth on Character [video]
Same, it’s obvious the West has a narrative that is being pushed.
I'm pretty sure Natruto is literally "about" (about in the sense that it's what starts the story) this. I've only seen a handful of episodes though and it was a while ago so I'm not sure.
implicitly drawing an equivalence between Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad and the government of Ukraine is an absurd place to start an analogy, regardless of your thesis.
It's because Ukraine means borderlands. So it's literally "the borderlands" which makes sense.

This appears in lots of languages. In Germany Iran is "the Iran".
Sentiment Analysis, Part 4 – A survey of Sentiment Analysis methods
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> And he didn't call for violence but for response from international community

> I would very much like international community to get involved and vaporize putin and entire russian army with entire government and elites.

You're a living contradiction, man.
State of Equity and Ownership Report 2022
Microsoft is using Xbox Series X. Nvidia is using their own GPUs.
> would a bedside lamp with cold light provoke the same effects

Almost certainly from my own anecdotal experience. There's a reason why bedroom lights tend to be warm (even though they're often now leds)
there is no "enormous nazi problem in ukraine", that is literally russian propaganda. there is much larger nazi problem in russia in fact, from existence of radical far-right groups all the way up to concentration camps for gays in
Chechnya. i suggest you re-evaluate your sources.

russian invasion can't be called anything other than fascist - military glorious leader annexing a chunk of neighbour's territory under justification that people there are compatriots that need saving. you can't make that shit up.
Indeed, the problem in the analogy seems to be that software is infinitely able to duplicate. But what’s overlooked is that software also needs maintenance, lots of it.

Tomorrow will be an Apple Event and I’m already expecting some new hardware I’ll have to support or some breaking change to an internal API (because controlling monitors isn’t possible with public APIs).

When a bike is bought, the owner is done with it. While the software developer is bound to keep the software running and compatible with new technologies.

Of course, I could just forget about it and leave the users that bought it with an unusable app when the next MacBook comes out. If piracy is accepted, why wouldn’t this be accepted too.
How far Scientific American has fallen, catching its own culture war virus.
I don't know enough about Windows / NTFS to be an authority here. But from what you're saying it sounds like the block storage now massively outperforms the filesystem (NTFS). So in that aspect NTFS hasn't gotten slower, but it has failed to keep up. So cutting it out would in fact provide a massive performance boost.
Germany used to be Achilles' heel and saboteur due to close ties with russia.
not really an answer but for one Russian military also seems to have expected and even planned for that (e.g. sending recon units first)