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After brexit EU countries account for 20% of NATO military spending [0]. Granted, it might have increased a bit lately but still it would seem EU army would be a joke compared to NATO.

[0] https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/03/14/what-wou...
Anything that delay pivot to Asia
Bait and switch on employee roles is an obvious indication that Oracle is untrustworthy. GTFO.

On the other hand, as an engineer, expecting to do no Ops work is usually naive, regardless of what you are promised.
> CNN participated in a blatant propaganda - i would want to hold them accountable

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Oh, oh boy.
In War NATO makes sense as command structure. But I can imagine "EU Army" structure for things like equipment procurement, trainings and so on for the economies of scale and better alignment.

It makes little sense for small EU countries to do that by themselves, when the whole of Slovakia will have like 6 fighter planes and 20 IFVs. At the same time, procurement is pretty political, since many countries are deep in weapons trade, so maybe it wouldn't work.
I have this strong memory of playing tons of SimCity on my dad’s mac and then it stopped working when he upgraded his computer from 16 to 256 colors. It was a sad day.
Who are those "very few"? I'd be interested to read about it
Not every step has a meaningful name. And usually you already have the name of the function. For example:

let batter = mix(water, flour)
let saltedBatter = add(salt, batter)
let risenSaltedBatter = letToRise(saltedBatter)
let bread = bake(batter)

on the other hand:

let bread = bake(letToRise(add(salt, mix(water, flour)))

The first example leads to awkward names and useless variables. The second example feels cleaner to me. Interesting that you take cooking as an example: recipes usually don't name most of the intermediate steps, they describe the actions you take and the ingredients you use. Most recipes also use composition a lot. You start with your actions/functions (cut, cook, bake, dice, etc) and you do a recipe out of them. You don't create new "functions" (actions) specifically for each recipe.
No, we cannot. It seems the war will continue, which given current influx it will result in 12mln refugees, about 5mln in Poland. We don't have housing, schools, hospitals for 5mln people. This is not SF o Syria where you can live in a tent. What is more, there are trolls spreading misinformation trying to destabilise the country e.g. Ukrainians have a priority in hospitals.

With all the love and support, we need to be frank with ourselves. Just sending some aid won't cut it.
No, simply abstain from celebrating death.

Sympathy for their families. Acknowledgment you don’t know all the circumstances in their life, and we all have varying levels of susceptibility to disinformation.
Why not both?

Russia employed a bunch of trolls, who helped create and amplify the memes.

I think reality is a lot more complicated and humans just look for the simplest possible explanation, like “Russia did it!” Or “Meme’s did it!” Or “Racists did it!” When it was all of them and many other reasons. See Dan Olson’s “In Search of a Flat Earth” video for a genuinely brilliant breakdown of this idea and how it relates to Flat Earthere and other nonsense.
U-Space: The Airspace of the Future
I've lived in the US all my life and am still confused about when tips are expected and part of the wage structure. Sit-down restaurants with an assigned waiter are the easy part, it's all the other cases that quickly become confusing.

It's not helped by the fact that every order-at-the-counter restaurant now asks for tips as you pay. It's almost to the point where I assume that a tip is needed if and only if I'm not asked for one. No wonder it's confusing to visitors.
That's not the reason for this.

The reason for this is that it makes it far more difficult for NATO to not carry out it's defensive obligations when you get invaded, and US forces are automatically involved in the fight.

US presence on the DMZ if why it would immediately be involved in a restarted Korean war, and the lack thereof is why it will think long and hard before getting involved in a China-Taiwan conflict.
Heh, now imagine that knowledge is not in README files, but in a certain popular slow WYSIWYG SaaS document product.
> The crazy first day of the IPO of VA Software (+698% above initial price!!!)

VA made F&F shares available to anyone who could document an open-source contribution to Linux. I think my addition of the "-e" switch to chpasswd was sufficient.

I recall that I purchased 140 shares at $30. I held on to those shares the first day all the way up to $300/share or whatever it was, and then kept holding the shares in the coming days and weeks all the way back down. I eventually sold a few years later for maybe $1/share. At least the loss was able to offset some LTGC.

I purchased some wisdom with that experience.

Edit: I left the same comment on this story in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925266

(I must be really boring at parties.)
I'm confused. The U.S. is broke?
Casualties of the Syrian Civil War
Since the early 90s.

The Rise of popular sentiment, and realisation that it was possible to blame poor services on immigration(from 2010 onwards) meant that this was a logical outcome.

Before that the UK was off and on reasonably good. (before the 70s anyone in the "empire" could live and work in the UK, something that the home secretary's parents used to escape persecution)
Have the Russians proven they are weak? Certainly the war in the northeast has proven incompetent, but the war in the south seems like a far more solid military operation. It's also the more important operation, Odessa for example is a major logistical point for foreign military aid.
No, its because people run around screaming about "problems" where there are known engineering solutions. Instead they choose to remain willfully ignorant, or ignore those solutions.

There are untold piles of designs that have never been built due to fear. Many of them solve problems with proliferation, or are fail safe with regards to meltdowns, but they never see the light of day because people run around fearmongering about issues which are basically nonexistent, or solved. Now granted, for example, pebble beds (which tend to be quite robust to both proliferation as well as meltdowns) have other issues with respect to how uneaven the fuel burns and how hard it is to reprocess. But that in many ways is by design. I mean we don't have "problems" with current reactors where we take ~95% of the fuel out and call it "waste".

And so much of modern reactor design is basically building a giant bomb shelter around the plant, that even in the face of full blown wars its hard to see how the reactors are any more dangerous than many other heavy industries we take for granted (aka do you know what your local mega fab is storing onsite?)
> Can't blame them, but Europe needs an EU Army so working with the US is a matter of choice, not necessity.
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Unless the EU gets a tier one strategic nuclear power as a member (which, short of radical regime change in Russia, a radical expansion of the EU’s geographic focus, or the emergence of a new major nuclear power doesn't seem likely), the motivation for wanting a permanent US tripwire force doesn't go away with an EU army.
I kind of agree with you on "garbage in - garbage out" .. majority eats up garbage and therefore approve putin. Decision to eat garbage still lays with them.

On the other hand, I have a limited amount of empathy and at the moment it is being consumed by people who are actually being bombed by not their own government.
Yes, also remember a meetup in London, was ... interesting.

(used 'The Alchemist' as a username - probably because I was into reading about it at the time. Unfortunately most people probably thought I liked that book of the same name).
Using a minicomputer as a dev environment for micros was particularly popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. See Infocom

https://www.filfre.net/2013/03/the-top-of-its-game/

which used virtual machine technology to deliver games developed on a Decsystem 20 to many different kinds of Micro.

When Microsoft BASIC came out in 1976 it was rare for a micro to fill out the 16-bit address space with a full 64k. I had a TRS-80 Color Computer which ran a multitasking operating system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

With 64k of RAM I wrote a FORTH interpreter that ran under OS-9 with a good standard library in about 3000 lines of assembly. OS-9 looked a lot like UNIX or VMS. Dev tools in 1984 were good enough that writing a BASIC interpreter on a micro in assembly would have been straightforward, I'm sure you could on a C-64.

No way you could do that on the base configuration Altair that Microsoft BASIC originally targeted.

The first time I used emulation was circa 1987 when I developed a BASIC program for a high school teacher who had a Z-80 based CP/M system on my generic 286 machine... Even then there was a CP/M emulator for the 286 which could destroy any Z-80 machine on the market -- even though the protected mode of the 286 was as "brain damaged" as Bill Gates said it was, the raw performance of the 286 was the beginning of the end for the 6502, 68--, 68---, Z80 and all the other architectures.
Well, his next performance review will be self made and fortified by yes men approval. In that universe he has weakened NATO, weakened the dollar, improved the Russian economy and bravely won the war against Nazis even in a limbo or a withdrawal of troops situation.

Russian support hasn't changed much, the ones who detested him detest him more but the army of zombies he has built with the propaganda playbook is hard to sway. They'll turn in their own or even themselves if they start having doubts about Putin.

I could see Russians becoming extremely upset with themselves for having doubts in Putin and yet continue fully support their leader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucified_boy

i will argue for censoring that shit during war. i understand your position, but i disagree.
The assertion that Russia expected Ukraine to fall in 1-3 days seems like propaganda. In order for Ukraine to stand a chance, it needs allies and reinforcement from the West.

No rational actor throws its weight behind an entity doomed to failure. So, we need a narrative that Ukraine is not doomed to failure despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The most optimistic thing we can say is that the people have fought valiantly and Russia did not sweep across the nation at historically unprecedented speed. By claiming that Putin's inner circle expected to win the war in 1-3 days, we can claim that Ukraine is actually winning. And if Ukraine is winning, then everybody who can sanction Russia in any way should do it right now to accelerate Ukraine's now inevitable victory.

In some sense, it is a necessary narrative. If Ukraine doesn't get global support it will fall. Recasting them as the inevitable victor, therefore can be seen as an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And it might work (hopefully!)

Society doesn't demand triple-confirmation proof to retell stories that comport with our ideology. This case has some weak concrete evidence in its favor, but that's not the _point_. This is an active war, which means that most of the public information coming from authoritative sources is closely managed to suit the authority's goals.

The supermajority of power in the West wants Putin's conquest to fail. So the narratives we hear will be angled in whatever way to maximize the possibility of that outcome.
So, because Saddam was bad, the death and suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people was justified?

Saddam was terrible. But do you know who was worse? Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
And Leave Means Leave was a Russian funded operation who are now deleting all their online accounts and likely burning paper trails.
NATO does it's thing in the MAD game... but it's involvement in any European regional conflict can only be problematic or ineffective.

Eg. a non-NATO EU army could get more involved in Ukraine, and maybe other wars int the Middle East and Africa to, if it weren't tied down to the big heavy NATO that would always go "but muh, can't do that, because global nuclear war".
The application is made online, then you book and attend an appointment at a Visa Application Centre in one of the following locations:
Budapest, Hungary
Chisinau, Moldova
Warsaw, Poland
Bucharest, Romania
Paris, France

Flights in Ukraine have been suspended, you will have to travel through one of these cities anyway.
No you absolutely cannot increase the capacity tenfold. DAB takes ten times the bandwidth (1536kHz vs 150kHz for an FM channel, albeit without gaps).

There is no conspiracy, it is done completely openly, while almost nobody really wants it.
This is why intact culture, and a moral imperative, are far more important than ideology. It's why "spreading democracy" by destroying culture and people results in worse outcomes.
> NATO members don't have any obligation to defend or even really aid an attacked member.

"The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all"

Every country has an obligation to defend itself when attacked. Article 5 makes an attack on any member an attack on all of them.

Short of going "fuck y'all this agreement means nothing to us" every member country has to defend against the attack as if it were on their own soil.
There’s a fun GW-BASIC emulator written in Python that even has cassette tape audio file read access:

http://pc-basic.org
First of all, Game of Thrones isn't real.

> Actual human beings dreaming to join a society with low corruption and big prospects(In contrast to Russian sphere of influence) is irrelevant for them

I encourage you to look into who actually came into power following Ukraine's 2014 coup (hint: look up the founders and accomplices of the "Yalta European Strategy") and what its economy has looked before and after.
The word you're looking for is "annex". The US wanted to occupy Iraq until a puppet government could stand on its own. This is strictly identical to Russian goals in Ukraine. Neither want to annex, they want to occupy until a self-sustaining puppet government can be installed.
I must admit we did a similar thing without BASIC.

The local super groceries-and-more store had a bank of demo PCs running DOS, Geoworks or early Windows, and a screen saver. We used to type "format c: /autotest", the later being an undocumented MS-DOS parameter that skipped the "are you sure?" question, and left it standing on screen like that.

The sales personnel would occasionally terminate the screen saver by pressing "enter". Hilarity ensued (for us! Not for the poor sales person trying to give a demo to a customer) :)

As for programs and the clock, my school (which had HORRIBLE IT courses at the time) had caught a virus (not from me, just like that!).

I removed it for them (using F-PROT and McAfee for DOS back in the days), but they didn't trust that and called an "expert" business (the local typewriter guy), who ran exactly the same virus scanners, and changed them dearly. But they didn't trust him either (ahoy computer virus craze!), so they made me reinstall nine school machines, with Windows 3.1, Word 6, Excel 5, Access 2.0, from floppy disks, because I was apparently the only one capable of installing Windows.

I was so angry about the fact they didn't even properly thank me, I made a Turbo Pascal program that would also check the system clock, and do interesting things. I couldn't get a TSR working properly at the time, so I ended with an exe in the search path called " .exe" (the blank being ascii 255, not ascii 20, which wasn't allowed), and autoexec.bat would have loads of empty lines at the end, and then finally, the call to the program named with "ascii 255", which was invisible in the editor even if someone scrolled all the way down and was looking right at that particular line.

The program was reportedly still there many years thereafter. Figures :)
It would also be a path for abysmally inefficient defense departments like Germany's to make sweeping changes while still keeping face.
Europe and the USA simply have no alternative to Russian oil and natural gas. They may have in 20 or 30 years from now if they start investing in it several billion dollars per year right now. That's why gas prices in Europe and oil prices in the USA are skyrocketing these days.
Hardly anyone with some nuance thinks of religions and related beliefs as exclusively bad, I think. That doesn't mean that there is not plenty of surface area for people to be overexposed to the negative aspects of these beliefs, leading to cynical takes and the perceived need to shoot down any semblance of it. Regardless of the side one is on, those comments rarely add something of substance to a given conversation, though.
I think there are cultural-political affinities that make people who want an absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment vote together with people who might prefer something like an assault weapons ban or less “carry,” but still want to prevent the government from controlling their gun ownership.

They share a basket of political goals and within that basket, the more extreme version of each tends to win out, at least for those goals that are not broad, cross-party American priorities.
Look for series B+ startups in the U.S. that are aggressively scaling their teams. There is a shortage of good senior software engineers, and these startups are desperate and have the money, so many are offering base salaries that are around $200k
It also, interestingly, digs the hole deeper. Small developers will almost certainly stop selling into Russia. It's probably collateral damage in the grand scheme of things, but a real side effect nonetheless.
Island people are weird.
HN in general has taken a hard lurch to the libertarian right as of late. In this highly upvoted value system, there is no higher principle than free speech and no greater sin than censorship. Except censoring the censors, which is viewed more harshly than censorship itself.

People will respond and say that HN isn't a monolith, and thats true. At the same time, these extreme takes are dominating the top posts of every thread thats even slightly tangential. One of the top posts on the thread about wifi ovens was about how the government was installing killswitches into smart devices.

The view from nowhere [1] is especially relevant nowadays.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity#View_...
Ukraine had a third of the Soviet Union's nukes when it declared independence and the USSR dissolved.[1] Maybe they should have kept a few?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
Just make sure us Germans don’t run procurement, or we’ll start outspending the USA for less equipment.
I wish someone could tell me why Russia and the U.S. are not allies. Like, don't they largely share a similar cultural and religious heritage?

Seems like Russia and all countries that share similar cultures would be allies against China, with her 1.5 billion people . . . ???
I'm not that pessimistic. If you notice, when structured properly, the previously blood shedding monarchs cease to exist as the time goes.The USA and Europe were once battlegrounds just like most countries that once had smaller warlords that kept machiavelling all the times.

The the USA has many horrible sins but Pax Americana is a huge win in my opinion. I guess, local sociopaths are fighting their wars much more civilly when they don't dare to challenge higher powers, thus leaving people like artists, scientists, musicians, writers, kids, fathers, mothers etc. alone.

I'm usually very worried when someone challenges the position of the US instead of the methods and wrongdoings of the US. It usually means a local warlord will rally huge amount of human resources(which are actually individuals, but not this time) in a bid for power.
The OP has months of experience working for oracle and you have apparently none but you feel compelled to tell them to leave based on rumors of what working there is like.

Don't you think they might have a little more insight, or, at the very least, have already heard the rumors? What information do you think you're giving them that they wouldn't already have?
The French do have an expeditionary force, and they are not even shy about using it - they deploy to African states as a matter of routine, in practice, without any US involvement or say in the matter (afaik). But it has become increasingly clear that effective conventional warfare is now reserved, in practice, to superpowers - and even them have trouble with it, as seen in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine - because of the scale of the challenge.
I like the idea. Some corner-cases yield odd results, however, e.g. 1,10,10,1,1
It's still a thing in Poland. They are either sold as heatballs or workshop light (doesn't have strobe effect which could be potentially dangerous around saws). That was mostly when fluorescent lightbulbs were the only alternative. These days people go for LED lightbulbs instead.
Just ask Jack Ma
There is certainly room to hear from different perspectives on hacker news. If you're getting downvoted, your version of "the other view" might include whataboutism, false equivalence, propagandized history, and turning a blind eye to the fact that dear leader's magic hands seem to pass through solid objects.
I think that the value of IP protection makes sense for health & safety, and also for small/growing businesses that don't want to be shut-out from bad actors.

Where it gets worse is when it gets enforced by some giant behemoth as just another tool to maintain dominance and essentially forbid competition. It's just extracting money for the sake of having more money.

For example, Lay's (owned by PepsiCo) forbidding farmers in India from growing the same potatoes that Lay's uses for chips because PepsiCo owns a patent on the seeds. There's basically no other rationale behind doing stuff like this besides "but my money!". Like, the rest of the world should just cave to a $227B US conglomerate on everything they want?

At that point, IP isn't even about up keeping freedom or justice or whatever, it's just another way to enforce a colonialism-esque class hierarchy via capitalism.
Is that true though? I was under the impression that two surfaces with the same perceived brightness would bombard your eyeballs with the same amount of photons. Regardless of whether or not the surface is emitting or reflecting light.

On the other hand, maybe there is some filtering taking place when light is bounced off materials. I.e. blue wavelengths being absorbed by the paper.
If your are interested, the Swiss federation just launch a call for startup / company to express interest for use of U-Space.
As I understand it, an authorization to use Swiss U-Space will allow a company to automatically be eligible for whole UE airspace in the future.
They are neo-National Socialists but don't seem to have a problem with the Jews serving in the battalion, being funded and directed by prominent Jews, and serving under a Jewish president.

I'm not a fan of National Socialism, to say the least, but they sound significantly different than German Nazis. A few hundred neo-Nazis can be found in most Western countries. Might as well let them fight for now. At least that is useful.
Reduce Whitepoint? Seems to have that effect but not sure if that's the one you are thinking.
According to the FAQ, at the 16$/hr bundle rate, tutors are only seeing about 10. Italki takes about a 15% cut, so I'm curious what the justification for the over double commission rate is, especially given the vulnerable population.
Except for the fact that filecoin advertises the ability to use DRM to protect NFTs ... or something. I have no idea what this post says except for a lot of buzzwords and something related to DRM

https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-news-37/