skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the west is not really trying to de-escalate the conflict and that feels a bit baffling.

NATO is not only America+GB. It is also, for example, Estonia, Latvia and Poland. All countries that have border common with Russia. It is also Slovakia and Romania - counties that will have border with them if Russia win. These countries don't want to become part of Russia or fall under Russia control again.

And in fact, Germany and France dont want that either, because the would mean having to deal with USSR right there again.
Yes for some. But I still would say you are missing the forest for the trees.
This would require some level of trust, which Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency ecosystem are pathologically avoidant of. Every one of cryptocurrency's problems, from the massive electrical cost to the irreversible transactions to the permanent auditable record of all transactions, could be avoided by the existence of a trusted intermediate.

Societies grow strong on the basis of trustworthy and trusted institutions. Cryptocurrency has neither, and pays the cost of inefficiency with every hash.
It became more regional. Conflict around most of the world continued, but at a steadily reducing rate, and the lack of major conflicts in the developed world meant that from the 1940s global deaths in conflicts never peaked as high as they had previously. These are the stats per population:

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...

Conflict deaths really fall off a Cliff after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So you're right the cold war was only cold in certain regions, but peace in 'the west' did make a difference.
If you look at AI type computer technology in general it tends to get steadily better while human performance remains fairly constant. So in chess or go you can see the computer players steadily get better in the rankings until one year they get better than human. A few years before some people say these things are rubbish they'll never get there but the rate of progress is the thing to look at.

With self driving, things like Teslas can drive from A to B but are a bit rubbish and need interventions to avoid crashing but I think you'll find the level of that keeps increasing year on year till one day they get safer than human.
Formatting is NOT the purely stylistic choice many code formatter authors make it out to be, though.

It can greatly affect readability, lead to/prevent unnecessary merge conflicts, and aid in/stand in the way of using nice VCS features (blame, revert, bisect, cherry-pick, …).

Many automatic code formatters ignore and do not optimize for these metrics.
Aeroflot to halt all international flights starting Mar 8 except to Belarus
There is no hostile military alliance against Russia. There is no alliance in the world that has sought a military conflict with Russia.
or might be that cutting the funding keeps the taxpayers happy as you can announce it but you can always discretely top it up.
while compact and looks elegant...

it is basically trying to group by 11 (divide by 2), if there no match (via backtracking) group by 111 (divide by 3) and so on

not very efficient by any stretch esp with string matches.
this is why I love hackernews
I have 24 keys in andOTP. I have the backed up with password-store and the OTP plugin. I also have my most frequently used ones on profiles in my hardware OnlyKey which can support FIDO2, TOTP, Yubikey's special format, text passwords and more. I have 2 of these keys, the other in a fire safe. I'm not really concerned with losing a single device because of redundancy.

The things I hate about the 2FA process:

1) requiring a phone number, especially only having SMS for 2FA like my foreign bank (I've reported the issue with SIM swapping with them on support and in person, but considering their system still isn't UTF using a very old encoding so I can't even type a comma in a message without errors, I'm not holding my breath)

2) not offering WebAuthn, especially as a big firm

3) Supporting specifically Yubikey and not FIDO2/WebAuthn

4) using some bullshit closed-source wrapper around TOTP like Symantec VIP that doesn't have a Linux client and requires me to use some random Python script to get spoof a Mac system to get a code (thanks Schwab)
> What is the response rate to those postal mails you send? And who do you address them to (do you find the name of the recruiter or just address it to the general company)

I don't do this often, so I'd be wary of reading in too much. In each case, I got an interview and one job, though that took awhile. (The hiring manager did not comment on the letter, but rather on the table at the top—probably because I couldn't find his name.)

I try to find the appropriate person to contact through LinkedIn, ideally a manager in the department of interest; I wrote to a (small) company president once, too. I try to avoid recruiters if I can help it, though my bias against them is perhaps a little uncharitable. The goals are two: to sidestep the usual application process through a little elbow grease and to differentiate myself in the candidate pool. I'm probably a pretty average programmer, and this has been a useful tool for me.

In the past, cover letters were usually a weak point because I would use boilerplate language that comes across as a bit canned. I've had the luxury lately of not having to do this: the letters were all written for companies I thought I really wanted to work for, so the interest was genuine and (hopefully) came across that way.
I use strongbox[1] on iOS and it has a feature to print off your entire database (automatically formats everything). The passwords are stored in a standard kdbx file that you can sync manually or use drive, iCloud, etc. KeepassXC[2] has browser extensions and cross-platform apps and pairs well with strongbox. (No print feature afaik) Both apps are open-source.

[1] https://strongboxsafe.com/
[2] https://keepassxc.org//
For English speaking audience, Japanese publisher still probably has the broadest catalog (both in classic books and new releases). The new book by Shibano is fairly good. There was only a couple of Korean books translated and released more than 10 years ago, and Chinese Go Books are in the similar situations
Would you rather all western civilization face a nuclear winter?
Hetzner has very cheap cloud servers with generous traffic allowance.

See https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Last time I asked they were officially OK with users running bridge and exit nodes.

Consider doing that if you'd rather not expose your home IP to scrutiny.
Going directly to the iframe link works too: https://snowflake.torproject.org/embed.html
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Fractal Interpolation
Yeah, you can lock your LastPass with it in the same way I do mine.

Knowing my passwords and 2FA are protected and backed up is a huge relief.
> - Ukraine has enlisted openly white supremacist neo-nazi's in their national guard to fight Russia in the east.

While they continue to fight for the sovereignty of a nation headed by a Jewish president I can see how they could be useful. Soldiers often aren't nice people. Most countries have at least a few hundred of these types of neo-Nazis.
> any interpreted languages that have seriously implemented fat pointers

Have a look at PicoLisp. It has less than a handful of data types but i uses "Tag Bits". Julia is not really interpreted but it uses pointer tags for union types to save on boxing?
Two instances of species jump would certainly make an accidental lab leak seem less likely.
It's a decent idea!

One problem though is all of the non-code elements, aka comments and how they intentionally align up with the code (mixed with spaces and tabs), so the ideal format is the one the original programmer wrote it in, and the second programmer using a different stylesheet can't edit comments and have them end up pretty for the first programmer. (The solution, obviously, is to not comment any code >_< )
this sucks :(
Ukraine is actively asking for those boots. You dont know where the person you responded to is. They might just desperately hope for military support to Ukraine.
> "buffer state" which means you are free to be destroyed by both the NATO and Russia, see Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia

Can you elaborate on former Yugoslavia ? Who has destroyed it ?
I don't think their overlords can approve that they never see. That's the issue with bad private cert security. The system is as strong as its weakest link.
While I think it is dangerous to close the air space, I doubt WW3 is guaranteed. Russia would probably back down at some point, since they are in a much much weaker spot than they would like.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220305123858/https://www.econo...
To be fair, NATO was initially opposed to expansion but the ex-Warsaw pact countries really pushed for it. They were afraid of Russia.
Huh? There were Napoleon's Grande Armee composed of allied/subjected Germans, Italians, Spanish, and assorted nationalities invading Moscow in 1812. The Iron Pact was also an alliance. And NATO was founded to compete with the Warsaw Pact, it's their raison d'etre.
Stop eastward expansion of NATO and make it clear Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO.

Just visualize what would American response would be if Mexico or Canada considered joining a non-American Security Alliance. We already know how America will respond, when Venezuela brought up joining Russian security alliance, few years ago.

NATO is a relic of Cold War and should have been disbanded when Cold War ended, instead it became a tool for American imperialism expansion, 19 members to 30 members. And, now we are seeing the poisoned fruits of how it is threatening world peace. Ukraine has become an American pawn in geo-political chess.
You're assuming that Russia would feel like it needed to conquer its neighbors in a peaceful world. Again, analysts argue that we propped up the imperialist ideologues of Russia and created the current climate

Edit: I think most of you aren't really engaging with the substance of my comment. The idea being that all this bloodthirst that Russia currently has is due to conditions that we knew about and could have avoided.

Also, Russian government of 1991 =/= Stalin
Ukraine will never be brought into NATO proper, particularly now. This kind of saber-rattling is giving Ukrainians false hope and (from Putin's POV) justifying the invasion. Of course, the invasion is not justified.

There's so much naivete and ego here. It reminds me of people who are more concerned with being right than winning. Many define winning as one or more of:

- Ukraine has the right to self-determination (a principle applied extremely selectively);

- We can't reward Putin for his unjustified aggression;

- "Appeasement"; and

- We (the West in general and the US in particular) have done nothing wrong so why should we give anything up?

None of this matters. What matters is ending this war. It's the best outcome for pretty much everyone who isn't Lockheed, Boeing or Northrop. Or I guess the hawks in Washington who see the strategic value in Russia being mired in Afghanistan 2.0.

There are only three likely outcomes here:

1. Russia conquers Ukraine and rules it directly or through a puppet regime. This seems... unlikely, at least without massive loss of life;

2. Russia is mired in another decades-long insurgency before collapsing. Despite Lindsey Graham's cavalier comments, Putin dying or his regime getting toppled is going to create a huge power vacuum, lots of instability and is probably not going to be good for anyone; or

3. Through diplomacy.

NATO won't enter this war. Put that out of your head.

From a game theory perspective, you lose absolutely nothing pursuing a diplomatic end to this. If such efforts fail, you're in exactly the same situation you are now. There's no downside.

Putin is bad. This war is wrong. But US foreign policy here has been abysmal and is a significant contributing factor in precipitating this war. I'm amazed at how many people can't (or refuse to) wrap their heads around the simple concept that this isn't victim-blaming or apologism for Russia to point say both sides can be wrong even if one side (Russia) is way more wrong than the other.
I am sure there is a greater correlation between antivax and pro-Putin stance (except in Ukraine). Pro-vax people are majority and will have more divergent views about other issues so that doesn't mean much.
Or a bit of blu-tack, in the shape of a runner bean...
In reality that is the case. They are all basically quasi suiciding when they go out.

They are straight up heroes.

I hope they bring the surviving winners to national capitols so they can have parade. They deserve 'Ending of Star Wars' kind of hero status.
>TL;DR: we had a west-friendly Russian government at the fall of the wall - but pushing east allowed hawks/imperialists to rise to power

I guess I would like some source arguments as to how it was the pushing east, i.e. allowing Nato membership in former eastern bloc countries, that allowed hawks/imperialists to rise to power.
It's not the maintainers - rustfmt has an official style guide it's not allowed to break without an RFC: https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/fmt-rfcs/blob/master/guide...
This is definitely revisionist history. At the height of the pandemic this would absolutely get you accused of misinformation. Then two very different possibilities were conflated - that it was leaked from a lab or that it was engineered in a lab - and the much lower likelihood of the latter was used to dismiss the former.
So what’s your suggestion to stop the war and find a peaceful solution? I’m genuinely curious because I cant think of one that will not require more bloodshed or complete surrender and trust in your invaders goodwill and decency.
The locally produced engines you mentioned elsewhere are barely past testing phase with single deployments in 2020/2021. The plans for this year were to produce 10 planes and that was assuming fully functioning economy and government grants. I'd be honestly impressed if they actually pulled off those 10.
Oh well. They should be revoked ASAP anyway. Old releases can be re-signed then re-downloaded.

Any situation where certs cannot be revoked for any reason is bad.
Putin has no right to conquer free nations. You are wrong to say that nobody wants to talk with him and understand his perspective, that somehow drinking a glass with Putin you will understand that he just wants to make URSS great again and some millions of free people don't want to get sacrificed for it.

Putin is not some new piece on the table and this is not his first move, he done many moves so far and somewhere a line must be drawn.

I understand though that some people far away from this region would be happy to sacrifice Ukraine,Moldova maybe some Nordic countries just to keep Putin happy a few more years, but when do we say: enough, we don't want to do business with war criminals, we don't want to kiss killers asses anymore. Sure the innocent Russian citizens will suffer but that is preferable.

What is your solution though? And what countries would you sacrifice? How many people would be enough for you to say "I won't send our kids to fight but maybe I could be OK not to do business with this criminals" ?
> What are you getting out of your high level go playing specifically?

Not the GP nor a particularly high-level player, but as a game develops there are opportunities to choose from several strong moves, the more skilled one is at go, the more able they are to follow a game and understand what the choices a player makes says about their style. e.g. when given a choice, do they make more offensive or defensive moves? Where is their focus? What might that communicate about their mindset that could perhaps be leveraged in the game?

It's like language, where at a certain level you may be capable of following basic vocabulary and grammar, but with experience you learn to pick up on idioms, double-meanings, and so on, which adds another layer to what's being communicated. Even at professional-level play, where openings and patterns are the basic vocabulary, there's still room for stylistic variation.
“Unfortunately, any time there is an emergency or a disaster, we saw this with COVID, people start thinking of ways they can take advantage of the situation,” said Rasor. “It's horrible to think of, but it happens every time there's a disaster.”

To help ensure you’re not giving money to a criminal, don’t click on links from people you don’t know.

You may get a legitimate-sounding solicitation over the phone or via text. Keep in mind, that person may not be who they say they are.

Independently go to that nonprofit’s website to confirm who you’re giving your money to.

Don’t let someone talk you into donating through gift cards or wire transfers.

If you can, use a credit card. It carries some additional protections.

“What I would recommend is that you give with your heart, but you also give with your head,” Scally said.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/nbc-5-responds/how-to-donate-to-...
> And Ukrainans believe there's a "ghost plane" in the sky that destroyed half russian air force.

No, not a ghost plane. Just a nickname given to a pilot (though it could be multiple pilots) who allegedly shot down a handful of Russian planes in the first days of the war. "Ghost of Kyiv." There's uncertainty and a lot of speculation going on about this pilot's accomplishments (and identity), but that doesn't mean the Ukrainians are being told lies.

It doesn't have to be myth or lies and propaganda to be given a nickname. See also The White Death.
Wow, an early deployment of the Racism card.
Bold move, congratulation.

But then again, do you really think anybody is still reading this deep in the thread?
They're already bored, no shiny tech, just endless babble.

But okay, your next move, Godwin’s law.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%E2%80%99s_law

Game over.
The source preprint, for anyone else who doesn't have an Economist subscription or who wants to read the original:

https://zenodo.org/record/6299116/files/2020.02.26_worobey_p...
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Perl the wise?
I did this during their last recruitment drive. My bridge sat there unused for 3 weeks. Then I stopped cause I didn't see the point.
It doesn't seem to have FAQ, so does anyone know if it supports JVM-languages e.g. Kotlin and Scala?
I'm very late to this thread but want to mention OfferZen[1]. They are massive in the dev job seeking space in South Africa, and I think as of recently a country or two in Europe. The company was conceived in SiValley but the founders opted to come back home to RSA to try it out[2].

The gist of how it works as a dev is that you do an automated entrance test (if you're a junior - and it was quite easy IME), and once you are in you set up your profile and wait for companies to contact you about positions they want to fill. You then decide (with input from your assigned 'career coach' if you wish) whether you want to go forward with an interview etc. For myself and everyone I've spoken to who has used the service, it was a great experience. Infinitely better than trawling through Indeed and such.

More reading here[3]

[1] https://www.offerzen.com/

[2] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/328018

[3] http://docs.offerzen.com/en/articles/5977855-what-makes-job-...
I had no trouble with CICS because I wrote COBOL on a Tandem.
This has been a lie propagated by Putin's apologists for decades already, this should stop.

NATO exists to deal with the problems Russia is creating.

We in Estonia wouldn't need NATO if Russia wasn't such a pain in the ass all the time, attacking it's neighbours, bullying with random stuff.

For example - they randomly start "repairs" of a railway line on their border that.. maybe haven't finished after a decade, to mess with our logistics sector.

They suddenly want to "inspect" (and stop imports from) all meat producers here that exported to Russia after our government made some decision they didn't like.

If Russia was a nice and friendly neighbour, then we could be friends and have good trade relationships etc. Instead they have been bullying it's neighbours for decades and complained that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a disaster that needs to be fixed and so on.

And now you tell us that we should not be in NATO?
I don't know where you live but it's astonishing to see how quickly people in the west criticize those fleeing war or economic collapse for minor comments or actions - do you think you would always say the right thing if you were in that situation? Cut the guy some slack. He's obviously desperate, even if he's not in a warzone
>>>Good enough against whom? Russian tanks are getting absolutely shredded by antitank personnel if reports are true.

That's due more to shit tactics (exacerbated by the early spring thaw that has limited off-road movement) than to any specific limitations of their hardware. There is VERY little footage of dismounted infantry screening Russian tanks, or competent employment of other recon assets. Look up some ANNA News footage embedded with the Syrian Arab Army in Jhobar, a Damascus suburb. It took the Syrians years of errors/casualties, but they eventually learned to storm dug-in fanatical enemies in urban environments, and they did it with crappier T-72s than the Russians are fielding now. There is a plethora of modern ATGMs dumped into Syrian insurgent hands too.

>>>Against M1 Abrams it isn’t even going to be a battle

That's a crew quality issue as well. A T-90 or T-72B3 is absolutely a threat to an Abrams.

>>>I question the use of tanks for anything beyond a support / artillery role at this point.

Increasing urbanization/population densities worldwide make sweeping wars of maneuver across open terrain less viable. Tanks are useful in urban environments, but require well-trained soldiers experienced in combined arms (German Kampfgruppe in Stalingrad, US Army-Marine teams in Fallujah).

>>>All tanks seem highly vulnerable to both air and Javelin-like AT.

As my sister comment touches on, this is changing as tank protection moves away from thick slabs of passive armor, to every tank fielding active protection systems such as the Israeli Trophy ( https://youtu.be/6aA9HsmLHBQ ). <-- also some of the coolest footage of shaped charge warheads detonating.

Combine an APS with a laser air-defense system either on another vehicle (current tech: https://www.armyrecognition.com/weapons_defence_industry_mil... ) or on the tank's turret (future tech), and these threats are moderately neutralized.

Then the advantages of the main battle tank will be retained: mobility, protection, and firepower.
Being from outside of USA, can someone explain me why abortions are so common. Are regular birth control measures not available to a lot of people ?