skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine isn't a nuclear state. They destroyed their nukes and joined the non-proliferation treaty in 1994.
Demilitarization and not being a NATO member means that the next time Russia gets imperialistic cravings, Ukraine will be utterly helpless and defenseless, with zero bargaining power. And judging by Russia's current behavior, that's a "when", not an "if".
> Emergency shutdown drill is how Chornobyl’ happened

And not being informed of well-known (in higher Soviet echelons) serious reactor flaws, like the grafite on the rods being inserted into the reactor core initially spiking the fission process significantly.
> complete demilitarization and a commitment not to join EU/NATO

These are equivalent to "annexation in a few months" and Ukraine knows it. If they accept those terms, they know they lost and are accepting annexation, but keeping face publically.
No, that would be preposterous.
Sports is different. Sports leagues legally collude with each other when hiring.

Basketball teams have a salary cap for their entire roster.
The only issued trademark is for "google meet". They have filed for 'meet' in 2021 but they cant retroactively enforce that against 8x8 who have been using it since mid 2020
That's just the nuclear salami method. Declare you're only using nukes locally and everyone else better not piss you off. Take that slice. Repeat.
You don't know how they vote on war tho.
In old times, kids would be growing in villages. There will be other kids from the neighborhood and family. Now it's replaced by friend groups in schools. I don't see much difference. They might have interacted more with adults than now, though.
C is sadly filled to the brim of footguns, and C++ inherited them all and added some more of their own. A lot of C shenanigans are very likely to directly stem from B, such as the crazy integer promotion rules.
AMD cannot just take or copy it. But they can indirectly take advantage of techniques that will be leaked.

For example, we know that NVIDIA's SM are split into slice which allows to easily adjust the size of a SM without rewriting the whole code, but we don't know many details about it and in particular we don't know how exactly the interconnect between register banks and operands collectors is built within a slice and between slices.

This does not seem to be patented, and this is only one very specific example
It is. Labor providers are organized and connected in all sort of structures, ranging from golf club memberships and industry associations over questionably-legal wage fixing deals to ~~outright bribing~~ donating to politicians. In contrast, just about 10% of US workers are unionized [1].

This disparity is the reason behind a large part of wage stagnation and other areas where employment conditions are far behind of what has been achieved and fought for in Europe.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
What would stop a follow up invasion once they get fully demilitarized?
Putin only got stronger and bolder after the mild and ineffectual international response to the annexation of Crimea. So you are basally saying, if the West does nothing, Putin gets stronger, if the West strike back against Russia, Putin also gets stronger. So what do you suggest could possibly work?
Don't forget that primary school starts later in Germany than in the Netherlands where children go to primary school from the day of their fourth birthday. In contrast, German primary school starts around the age of 6 (not exactly because all children regardless of birth date start in summer).

That means that the two to three years of primary school without homework mostly equate with the last two years of kindergarten in Germany (which obviously also do not assign any homework)
Non-profit drug maker will provide insulin for no more than $30 a vial
It's not about making it 'free' in the sense of money. The term free often infers money, but in this regards its more about the philosophy of freedom itself, not cost of product.

We as consumers should not be held back from using hardware the way that we intend to use it. Nvidia does not have any right to hinder us from using what we purchased how we see fit. (Provided that we are not infringing upon copyrights and/or I.P.)
I would leave a company if they forced a 2% tax on me to join a union I didn’t want to join after I started working there.
If they do that then the GP's rearing of them has failed already. If one hasn't managed to instill at least that minimum of sense into them by the time they're old enough to even contemplate that, then they'll just do it anyway, as soon as their parents unlock the shackles and let them out into the daylight on their 18th or 21st birthday.
Fair. Mentioned them because apparently I think similarly to you, and I know it's due to these because my color associations match those blocks. :)
A no-fly zone is no justification for nuclear escalation. Internationally, the only justification for a nuclear attack is in retaliation to another nuclear attack. That is it.

Putin has made it clear that he will also launch a nuclear attack in case of an "existential war", which means a war where Russia itself is being attacked with the purpose of conquering or destroying it.

A no-fly zone is not that. There is no reason for Russia to escalate to nuclear, except for Putin's vengeful ego. Because everybody knows that if Russia goes nuclear, it would be the end of Russia. Everybody in the nuclear chain of command knows this. Even if Putin is actually insane enough to order a nuclear attack (he might be, I don't know), anyone of any competence in the military will ignore those orders, because it would end their country and kill their family. (Although you could ask whether there is anyone of competence left in the Russian military; Putin seems to replace competents with loyalists, and the incompetent execution of the attack on Kiev doesn't inspire much confidence here.)

And if Putin's vengeful ego will make him order a nuclear attack, then losing this war will probably do that anyway, whether or not NATO or EU had anything to do with it. And there is no way Putin can win this war. Ukrainians have made clear that they will continue to fight, no matter what. If Kiev falls, they will continue to fight. Any city that Russia takes, will be Ukrainian again the moment they leave. For Ukrainians, there is no surrender possible to a man who wants to enslave them. If this war continues, it can only become a massacre. Putin would have to kill every single Ukrainian, and I'm starting to believe that he would. It would be another holocaust.

I think a no-fly zone is the only option.
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This is an oft proclaimed bad take, because there is no point of reference for this comparison.

Humans are 95% identical with dogs, are we mostly dog? We're 60% identical with bananas, are we really all just part of the banana family?

Clearly the answer is no. Broad genetic similarity is just a bad metric.
What’s wrong with synology at home? Seems built for that, offering freenas features.
Why? Going to a music festival to see a single act is pretty common and seems analogous to me.
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How would a union have helped?
Were it not for bank regulation, banks could create unlimited amount of credit, as long as they can cover all net outflows
Given the company's colorful history of mishandling data and abusing user trust, it also seems like a general scapegoat CYA for their own use, too.
It really depends where exactly you were. And quite a lot of people did in fact seen their lives being improved in the long term.
C is simple in the sense that it is very possible to have the whole language "in your head" and at one point in my career I did. Something I would never claim about C++. Yes, you can write atrociously bad C code that is hard to parse and hard to predict, as the webpage demonstrates. All this can be trivially avoided by having the most basic coding standards. And yes I'm sure that some of the modern alternatives to C are better. But all in all, C is simple.
Probably a stupid question, but even if the hackers release everything, wouldn't be illegal for competitors to use that information since NVIDIA most likely has already patented that?
> In this case, Nintendo would cease to exist.

Nintendo's hardware business would cease to exist, and the world would have a little less e-waste in it. How would that be a bad thing?
How are these things not a civilization ending threat? Nukes can literally kill everything and global warming, if unchecked, will probably do the same long term.
DocBook has served me very well. For my books I put together an automated publishing workflow that starts with DocBook and produces output for both print and digital (in my case, PDF, EPUB, and HTML). For context, I wrote and published two books (4 editions) with more than a 1,000 pages combined. My goal was always continuous writing and publishing where everything is fully automated.

Conceptually, XML is an excellent choice for this sort of thing. If you want to produce a good quality book, you need many features and markup that can support them. For a technically minded person, being able to programmatically inspect and modify the manuscript is awesome.

Unfortunately, the tooling, although very capable and very well documented (via Bob's free book http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/), is very difficult to use unless you're an XML expert already. XSLT really isn't a good choice for this sort of thing. That's what I had to use because CSS-styling wasn't mature enough. These days I'd start with CSS instead of XSLT.

Crucially, I would use a commercial FO processor. I spent a lot of time with Apache FOP and, even though it's a great tool, it lacked a number of features that one needed for a professional use. (It may have improved by now, my experience is from a decade ago.) I eventually purchased a licence for Antenna Formatter, https://www.antennahouse.com/, which has saved me so much time.

You're not meant to write XML by hand, but there aren't that many great editors out there. I use OxygenXML, which is all right. It's expensive. The best thing about OxygenXML is that it supports change tracking. My copyeditor also uses OxygenXML and we have a great workflow that would be impossible to implement in any other way. For me this is the killer feature. A good copyeditor will make thousands of edits to your manuscript. Having an easy way to handle those, respond, and communicate... is key.

There are some other interesting tools out there, for example DocBook Compare, which we use to show exactly what changed between two editions. I have some screenshots of what that looks like in this blog post: https://blog.ivanristic.com/2022/02/bulletproof-tls-and-pki-...

To sum up: Do use DocBook. Use OxygenXML to write your books and collaborate with your coauthors and editors. Use Antenna Formatter and CSS for styling. It's going to cost you about $2,000 in software licences, but it's worth it and it will pay back loads in time saved. I understand that no one will spend this much money for a hobby, but for any sort of professional activity, it's a no-brainer.
See also the Charles Csuri website[1] for some examples of his artwork.

[1] - https://www.charlescsuri.com/
Uh, because you can inflate MSRP into the stratosphere and blame it on crypto miners?

Cryptocurrencies give NVIDIA the perfect bullshit excuse that people won't ponder too hard over, because the story of modern media is simplistic... every story must have a "good guy" and a "bad guy". It has to be dumbed down for all the idiotic plebs like us.
So china banning western media is not censorship and if Russia bans all western media it's not censorship too.
Or does it work only one way?

Not really surprised by the double standard but it's pretty obvious this time.

If it's western it's "news" and if it's non western it's "propaganda".
This is the modern equivalent of Stalin's iron curtain
> In Germany there is a big after school business with homework help that parents have to pay. There are old disilusioned teachers that has quit school and started homework help instead, making more money and actually helping the kids.

I find this rather hard to believe. A German teacher makes way more money teaching in a school than whatever they could make with a homework help business. An entry-level high school teacher earns between 40K and 60K, depending on the region.
At this point, I believe a lot of "economic warfare" the West is engaging in is just optics, populist measures, just for the memes, and very hypocritical and shallow, especially given that in a post globalised World, almost every other major business is connected to other major businesses.

Diplomacy is the need of the hour. The US/NATO really botched this, or purposefully enraged Russia, for avoidable reasons. Ukraine is facing the brunt, just like Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen continue to. The warfare (both on-ground and the economic one) is so destructive that I fail to understand people who prefer it, at all, over any number of available compromises.

I have lived through war, sanctions, and rioting all under the pretense of freedom, nationalism, pride, religion, democracy, righteousness and what not, and I don't prefer it one bit.
Yes, AMD is fine. Intel works well if you get a computer with an iGPU, but the last time I looked, AMD's iGPUs were a bit more powerful. You'll want a Nvidia card for ML, unfortunately.
Can you really keep all instances of undefined behaviour in C in your head?
Hmm, if there's no health effects, looking to similar practices humans do, it may well be an arcane religious ritual that is performed. Even more profound. /s
Ukraine is already winning the war in all domains except air. Air support is all we need to have a clear win here. At this point NATO has a choice of engaging Russia at Ukrainian territory now, or at NATO territory later.
Thanks a lot. The position of the US is clear. And I was amused by the "explanations" of the Lithuania's foreign minister in the second link.
I was about to mention that reactors often have fuel generators but I remember that the invading force is famous for selling the gas from their tanks to pocket the money…
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Does our life pass before our eyes before we die?
The most K&R have to say is that "C is not a big language, [and it is not well served by a big book]".

A big problem for the analysis this old project attempts is that C makes no effort to clearly define any circumstances it doesn't care about and yet many such circumstances are likely to arise in real world programs. I would consider this a defect in a modern language, but of course its proponents disagree.
This is incorrect.

The layoffs also affect staff employed within the Workspace and GCP Support organisations.
“And now that you can use JavaScript instead of AppleScript”

You really can’t. JXA is garbage, crippled, incompetent, and long since abandoned to pine for the fjords. Its only actual function is to impede any re-development of ES6 as a useful scripting platform within Apple, and probably hinders 3rd-party alternatives such as Scriptable and ScriptKit, because what 3rd-party dev wants to be pre-emptively Sherlocked by garbage like that?

Apple abandoned AppleScript and AppleEvent-based automation after they gave the Mac Automation team multiple opportunities to make it successful—and they failed every one. Thus Apple fairly concludes it is a failed product on a legacy platform, ceases work on it because what’s the point on throwing more good money after bad, and looks elsewere for something new and more promising to try next.

Hence Shortcuts, which started out as a 3rd-party iOS app, Workflow. As a technology it is at best mediocre; as a polished, well-presented, and properly-sold product it was already moving up on iOS with positive customer response. Instantly far more promising than the inept, lethargic, and generally couldn’t-sell-icecones-in-a-desert Mac Automation team, where the critical failure was never the technology itself but purely PEBKAC; but an organization the size of Apple doesn’t care about that distinction, only about its results.

Thus, not too long after finally shitcanning the Mac Automation team in 2016, Apple bought up @WorkflowHQ outright, and have been positioning Shortcuts, née Workflow, for its true purpose: to provide their Siri UI with a reasonably granular, accessible, plugin backend so that Siri can actually make itself useful.

…

Lesson here for y’all: It does not matter one whit how good (or not) your technology is. (Apple themselves taught me that.) What matters is how good you are at selling product, i.e. putting bums on seats, and keeping them there.

That’s why AppleEvent technology (which is in many ways far superior) now rots in history’s dustbin, while Apple gives the [Siri-backed and Siri-backing] Shortcuts its opportunity to prove itself a successful product and future of Apple Automation.

Could a successful merging of the two produce a product 100× better? Sure. But if you’re asking that and not understanding why most likely won’t/can’t happen, you’re not understanding how successful big business works. My personal work (github.com/hhas/) testifies to hard lessons learned. (Though if you wish to have a crack, fill your boots. Perhaps you’ll do a better job n’me.)
No, capitulation would be irrational, because it would mean they would be controlled and enslaved by Putin. Ukraine has lived under that yoke before, and will do everything possible to prevent it from happening again. There is no surrender possible for them, and that's why Putin cannot possibly win this war.
Yes, and now Windows 10 is slow even with an SSD boot drive.
As a climber, I don't think it's comparable. The death rate among notorious soloists (as compared to rate among people who bike in traffic every day) agrees here.

Each bad move on a solo is death. For driving, biking in traffic, it has to be a series of bad circumstances to mean death.
My understanding is that the main benefit here is speed. Other techniques can help guarantee accuracy already, but they currently can only do this by slowing down the rate the DNA is modified
> distinct from the public

The sad thing is that a large chunk of people in Russia actually support him.
Even educated ones. I saw a shocking interview with an academic (who even lectured on western unis) - he said, that on personal level destruction of Ukrainian cities is a sad thing, but Moscow just executes the law/privilege of the empires.
> Also worthless, because they just keep printing them and giving them away to VCs

You literally just described what's happened with fiat currencies in the past decade.

Endless printing of money and giving it away to big banks.

I guess you'll see it eventually randomhodler84.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30547057
Probably a stupid question, but, I've been using Thunderbird to d/l my gmail for ten years with POP3, leaving nothing on the server. I don't store a password on my device, I remember it and enter it. I don't use 2FA, because I consider simjacking a risk; my personal email server is my backup address if I get locked out of gmail.

I suppose this means that no part of this strategy viz-a-viz gmail, Thunderbird and POP3 is going to work for me anymore..? The good news, I guess, is I won't lose any mail. The bad news is, gmail users have recently started to get email from my private server to their spam, occasionally, even though my IP's nowhere near a blacklist and hasn't been for years; thus, being able to send gmail-to-gmail has been helpful sometimes.
>> Yup. And now the Prime Minister has pre-emptively declared that for refugees from a geographically, culturally, and politically much closer country, the gates will be closed. So how does that not support the thesis that Sweden's (Social Democratic / Left / Green / Centre Party) government prefers its asylum seekers to be MENA and Muslim?

> You are drawing conclusions out of thin air here.

No. My hypothesis fits the available facts. The only thing drawn out of thin air here is your claim that mine is.

You "forgot" to answer how the available facts wouldn't fit with my hypothesis. But, we all know why you skipped that: Because you can't, because they do.
> My "proof" is that everyone I know in Germany has been forced to change their kids school or use homework help or other way of paying for help in school because the parents either aren't educated enough to help by themselves

Welcome to the truth: the main determinant of a child’s education success is the socioeconomic background of their family.

> or just don't have the time to help them due to working two jobs to keep up.

This is a real problem in the English speaking world, where rents are higher than the average salary and where a kindergarten cost 2000£ per month. In Germany, where you can live pretty much everywhere on minimum wage, this is much much less prevalent.
But that's not what happens. It never happens. No company has ever gone under as a result of everyone moving to piracy. Even during the heights of music piracy (emule, grooveshark, limewire, napster), this industry posted record profits every year. People pirate because they otherwise can't access it, or your product isn't worth the money to them.

That's a very nice strawman you're putting in the middle of that field. I can do the same too. What if everyone in the video game industry opened its games to mods and gave out tools? An unbelievable breadth of quality content and a new generation of excellent designers. What if everyone stopped buying video games because we now all own rubles? What if we all became blue?

Is piracy selfish? Yeah. I'll be the first one to admit it. I pirate it because I don't want to pay for it, or I can't.
Is piracy wrong? No. Data wants to be free, and we collectively thrive when ideas, plays, music, creations of the mind flows freely. And if it causes a company to make a tiny bit less on the billions it makes, I won't be crying for them.
> all that ERPs are generally garbage

I'd argue most ERP's are fine, it's the implementations that are garbage.
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Ye but if you get downvoted enough your post is effectively censored (greyed out, collapsed and at the buttom).

Seems like the initial anger is being replaced with fear among people, which gives room for cold reasoning. A good thing I guess ...

That is what I meant with I was glad I was not downvoted.
>> Which potentially makes their knowledge, in this specific case, greater than ours.

> Why? Might just be placebo.

I'm not GP but I believe the word "potentially" in their sentence means exactly that: it might just be placebo, but it also might be that they know something we don't.
Well, technically that's Reddit and not HN.
You have to judge how much involvement to have. Just signing up and forgetting about it is a pretty bad idea. But not getting insurance at all because you've heard some insurance sucks and doesn't pay out is an even worse one.

Most kinds of disaster preparedness are thankless, seemingly pointless work until the disaster in question happens.
Will it be a lasting peace, though? Doesn't demilitarization mean that if another "people's republic" appears, let's say near Transnistria, Ukraine will be unable to do anything about it?
Hi Felix! Sorry I’m a jerk who never responds to PRs, although I know py3-appscript* is in its best hands with you so just keep rolling as you see fit.

(*I am currently dragging nodeautomation back up to operational status so I can use it in new customer work, but that’s as much appscript-ing as my poor brain can cope with now.)
OSS terrorists blackmailing a corp into opening their code under threat of releasing IP/trade secrets - cyberpunk future here we come :)
>surefire way to get banned or something

No, but people like to self-censor sometimes ;)