skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been wondering if that convoy outside of Kyiv is really stopped because serious thought is being given to the idea of a nuclear attack to save a long bloody insurgency.

I don’t know if NATO would respond to a nuclear attack on Kyiv. Would NATO attack knowing the destruction of London/Paris/NYC/etc would be almost guaranteed?
They've written a version in C++. I doubt they'll ever port it to C#.
Note that for people who are used to and prefer the short travel of laptop keyboards, they should check out mechanical keyboards with choc switches rather than the much longer travel MX switches.
I think the best stance is what we should all know by now: Ukraine is highly propagandistic because their victory scenario involves getting NATO directly involved and escalating a regional conflict into a World War.

So let's treat any information coming out from them as such and wait 1 day for more accurate accounts to come in.
> Like what?

Shelling nuclear power plants, for example [1].

The expensive part of modern warfare is precision. Abandon one's soul, dial up the yield and razing a nation becomes quick work. Ancient armies wiped out civilizations with less firepower than a CVN. They were simply unconcerned with being brutal.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/top-wrap-1-europes-la...
There's a ton of companies out there who have real iPhones, iPads etc you can rent by the minute through a web browser to test your code or web sites.

i.e.

https://www.browserstack.com/test-on-iphone

I'm just trying to find the one I use to test my emoji stuff, since Safari is the only one that displays emoji domains correctly.
War crimes do and should apply to a defender.

The main idea behind a war crime is that it is an act which has limited military utility or in many cases is counter productive from a military standpoint but causes human suffering. That is, it is a clear and unnecessary act of violence. For instance killing prisoners of war since it is often more beneficial for a military to accept a surrender than to offer no quarter.

Most ethical systems argue that human beings have a right to protect their own life with deadly force, but if during a self defense encounter you intentionally go out of your way to execute bystanders you can not use self-defense as a justification. This is because in that case you are just using self-defense as a cover to murder people.
Don't forget about the infectious diseases that the Europeans brought with them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_smallpox#Epidemics_...

> After first contacts with Europeans and Africans, some believe that the death of 90–95% of the native population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases. It is suspected that smallpox was the chief culprit and responsible for killing nearly all of the native inhabitants of the Americas.
Even if ITER finished today and worked - aren't we still AT LEAST 15 years away from Fusion energy being cheaper than solar?

It seems like the current renewable trend will phase out most fossil fuels BEFORE the most optimistic timeline for Fusion energy being a viable alternative.
There is absolutely no justification for Putin's war here. None. But Putin can be wrong AND the US can be wrong AND Ukraine can be ill-prepared all at the same time. These aren't muttually exclusive.

Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, here's what should've happened:

1. The US should've formally and explicitly abandoned the effort to bring Ukraine into NATO;

2. Ukraine should've adopted a policy of official neutrality;

3. Ukraine should've abandoned efforts against minority language rights, a particularly sensitive issue with primarily-Russian speaking people in eastern Ukraine;

4. Ukraine should've restructured its military into a defensive army, which is to say that it should be largely decentralized and trained in insurgency tactics. The idea of this is to make the cost of invasion so high as to dissuade anyone from trying. This is essentially the Swiss model [1]. This would mean acquiring appropriate weapons: small arms, mobile artillery, Stringer missiles, that sort of thing. An advantage of this is that a defensive army is relatively cheap; and

5. Just like Russia performed military exercises every year on Ukraine's borders (as an aside, the media never mentioned that Russia in fact did this every 12-15 months for years), Ukraine should've planned for a Russian invasion with their own exercises. This means training for and practicing things taking out key bridges;

6. Ukraine should've fortified chokepoints that Russia could use to invade. This would particularly include the narrow land bridge to Crimea.

This is part of the sheer recklessness of US foreign policy as we egged Ukraine on with empty promises of standing behind them when there was absolutely no possibility we'd put boots on the ground in the case of a Russian invasion. We didn't start the fire but we sure left a lot of fuel lying around. And Ukraine is paying a bloody price.

The best thing Ukraine could've done post-annexation is brought in Hezbollah as consultants on military organization and insurgency tactics. And no, I'm not even joking when I say that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Resistance_(book)
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Yes. This whole comments section is full of very specific posters.

There's a clear intent to derail and muffle.

Welcome to the world of Russian digital propaganda machine.

They even have puppet accounts arguing with each other, as was discovered by Russian media.
Montessori schools are pretty interesting, another type that flies further under the radar are Sudbury schools

I find the Sudbury model more fascinating because the student bodies I’ve seen came across as motivated, and other education models seemed demotivating except to a few students with a externality of a self motivating gene or environment.

Sudbury specifically makes students part of a democracy for most operations and education. My skepticism was quelled by the outcomes.

I would pay a premium for Montessori or Sudbury schooling. How about an article from people that can comfortably afford it? I would alternatively consider having my future child(ren) schooled in a non-US developed country. The public option isnt in the running.
Great game! My family calls it nerts.
The why it was possible in Chechnya is that the rebels have started fighting between themselves; specifically, the (older) Chechen traditionalist / nationalist faction was unhappy with the growing power of the (newer) Salafi fundamentalist faction.

Thus, Kadyrov - except back then it was Ahmad Kadyrov; Ramzan is his son and successor. As the Chief Mufti of Chechnya, he was one of the most powerful figures in the traditionalist camp, and one with the most to lose from Salafism gaining ground (traditional Chechen Islam is Sufi).

Ahmad Kadyrov was all in with the rebels during the first Chechen war, officially declaring it a jihad in his capacity as a mufti. Ramzan boasted of "killing his first Russian at 16" at the time. But by 1999, the Kadyrov clan decided that Salafis are more dangerous than Russians, and switched allegiance.

That is why Russia could install that puppet government relatively easily - because they had considerable local support: not just the Kadyrov clan, but numerous others aligned with it. Ukraine also has many potential collaborators, but mostly in the East, and they are already mostly in the separatist militias. I expect that Russia will recruit from those for its occupation administration.
If keeping the "how to" videos off the internet is their survival strategy, they've already lost. IMO this is not a threat to Nintendo, and those who want to emulate will figure it out no matter how many YouTube videos get taken down.
From the wikipedia article
"The original expedition had only excavated "5 percent" of the ship"
So the majority of the gold has not been recovered yet.

It seems that some small part of the gold was recovered, some of it was sold/auctioned. 92% of the gold was awarded to the discovery team.

But the instead of divining the god he had (500 gold coins), he went into hiding.
The value of the 500 gold coins seems to be about $19.4 millions.
DocBook 5.1: The Definitive Guide (2020)
Anyone who does will have Apple users complaining in no time.
Various sites are reporting that it's under control now.
I'd recommend reading the classics - Plato, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Homer, etc. Reading enough classics will challenge your mind in many ways and give you broad historical and cultural understanding that will help you improve your thought processes, regardless of the field.
> If the plant melts down and explodes sending nuclear material for 100s of miles that wouldn’t be nuclear war?

No. Because, again, if you detonated a thermonuclear weapon above that same space, the difference would be night and day.
... I hope that low pressure isn't from a vacuum bomb.

I think any monitoring system close enough to see 0 mm Hg pressure will have been destroyed by the shockwave before it could report that complete vacuum.
Has TikTok’s parent invaded anyones sovereign country and is currently murdering innocent civilians in that sovereign country??
Thanks for the response. I’m surprised that managers generally aren’t allowed in unions. But then I guess that’s probably a case by case thing with different criteria for different unions. Still, there are 20+ million “managers” according to the AFLCIO, excluding professionals who manage staff, e.g. some engineers, doctors, etc. Probably 10–20% of all workers.

https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-te...
This touches on why I think humanity will not survive for much longer. Global warming continues to be a civilization-ending level threat, and yet it continues to be more or less ignored. Vast swathes of the population believe that their egos can determine reality, no matter the actual physical reality they so hubristically ignore.

> we’re not capable of

I don’t think so, either. This sentiment tends to be met by the techno-futurists on this site with swift downvotes, though, so is not a popular one to espouse here. Nevertheless I believe it to be true based on the evidence at hand: humanity is too short-sighted to prevent its own doom.

I believe nuclear power is essential to the survival of humanity. I also think you are likely correct: humanity cannot be trusted with nuclear power. If true, this is yet another data point against our survival.
Looking Upon a Hypochondriac
I don't know if I'm seeing a paywalled version or something, but this article is only 2 paragraphs.

Why would this person go check out a school before even doing basic research like finding out how much it costs?
> - Culturally, at least in the west, there is a desire to make it look like the dead person is asleep (although things always end up looking a bit off because, well, they're dead.

This is not true for most of the West, open caskets are a bizarre North American thing.
> A good rule to live by is to ask "what would happen if everyone did X?" In this case, Nintendo would cease to exist. Maybe you'd be happy about this. Plenty of people wouldn't.

You can apply this to literally anything to make it bad.

What would happen if everyone only ever emulated pirated Switch games? Nintendo would cease to exist. What would happen if everyone just stopped buying consoles and only played games on PC? Nintendo would cease to exist, Sony and Microsoft would take a massive hit. What would happen if everyone just... stopped playing games at all, ever? The entire video game industry would die.

Does that mean I can never decide games are a waste of my time and money? Obviously not. People are different and make different decisions.
> If you need to persist past a reload then a few lines can save to localstorage.

Sure, and pretty soon you've got a dozen random little copies of bits and pieces of your state, all out of sync with each other.

> Anything more requires server-side calls anyway.

The issue isn't whether you need server-side calls (ultimately every webapp needs server-side calls, otherwise why would it be a webapp at all?), the issue is whether your framework can manage client-side state between those server-side calls. In theory you could create a server-side-rendering framework that was good at this. In practice, none of the big names has succeeded, and certainly not without significant costs. (I'd argue that Wicket does this well to a certain extent, but it comes at the cost of both relatively heavy server-side session state and significantly more network roundtrips than SPA style).

> This magical state that can only be managed on the client-side with a heavy SPA is a myth for 99.9% of sites.

On the contrary, 99.9% of sites have or could benefit from having some amount of client-side state. Any time you have a stateful UI, there's a usability benefit from persisting that. Any time you have so much as a form field - like the text box I'm typing in right now - there's a usability benefit from having that as managed state (I've lost comments because I closed the wrong tab or accidentally pasted over with something else), and in cases like this there would actually be a privacy concern with doing that on the server side.

In theory you don't need an SPA framework to do that. But in practice SPA frameworks are the only ones that do it well.
> "I also use a lot of "classic" websites where they fall over because of bad server-side state.

An example, a train reservation site, where I choose dates + a destination. The next page, it shows me some results. I decide to change the date. I hit the back button, and it falls over, cuz the state management on the server is messed up."

any idea to not fall into a pit making an website/app/whatever?
This is an old power plant. Do your concerns hold true for newer designs?
If you need a keyboard NOW, take a severe look at the Kinesis Advantage 2. It has a learning curve, but it's a small price to pay to have a very comfortable typing experience AND incredible customizability it offers (e.g., macros & hardware-defined key re-mapping). However, don't bother downloading the software as it's not great.

BUT, if you can wait a few months... they have a modern version slated to release this summer.

https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/

IMO it fixes most if not all issues I have with it.

- Wireless via Bluetooth
- Ditching USB-A for USB-C
- Split keyboard while retaining its finger ergonomics
- Update styling, which will (hopefully) be much easier to
transport and less of an eye-sore
- Ability to change 'tenting' which should increase
ergonomics

If you end up getting either one, you won't be disappointed. I went from needing to take off work due to wrist pain to no pain at all regardless of time. It was well worth the $350.
In other conflicts those are known as human shields.
What makes you think that what they're doing has significant risk of making the land uninhabitable? All we know is that there's a fire at the perimeter. That's it. It could be that what they're doing has little risk. From reading the twitter threads, seen elsewhere in this comment section, that seems to be the case. Not surprisingly, nuclear power plants are made pretty well.

I don't think there's any evidence that they're acting irrationally, from within their context. Making the land uninhabitable would be irrational, for everything we know of their context.
someone elsewhere in this thread wrote that bombing a nuclear plant was considered a war crime, if this is on video, will it likely be used in the current UN investigation of Russian war crimes?
Well.. Do not underestimate the incompetence blighting this world and the potentials and ingenuity in people that want to change. That's what I like to remind myself in uncertain times.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Oligarc

Seems they've been popular since the early 2000s - as far back as Google trends goes.
Boba U4's are fantastic MX style switches. They've beaten out all of the others that I've tried on my hot-swappable Corne.
If you are manager of developers and it isn't clear to you who the core developers are and what each member of the team contribute (or not) then you should be fired for incompetency. Talking to developers, and keeping an eye on who does what and knowing the skills of each developer, is the minimum I would expect from a manager. If you can't do that then stop being a manager.
I think people miss the point when they try to make the case that Ukraine can win, NOW.

The thing is, if the Ukrainian is really again a Russian regime, and it sounds like they do (if because I'm not them can't speak for them), then Russia has already lost. In time, whatever puppet state that it creates, will fall. America learnt this lesson too many times, most recently in Afghanistan.

The name John Mearsheimer has come up recently and I think one of the key points in his theory is solid: nationalism triumphs everything else, be it America branded liberalism, or communism.

When he says "nationalism", it's actually not what we often think, in his theory it's used in the narrow sense that is the need to determine one's own country's destiny, as opposed to having to obey a foreign power.
We already have the open source nouveau drivers, but the hacking of nvidia isn't going to improve them and isn't welcomed by the nouveau developers.

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
https://twitter.com/_Lyude/status/1498811646697000961
It sounds like you're rationalizing racism. What does "mostly Christian" and not exporting oil have to do with anything?

>Cultures that are alike tend to by sympathetic to each other. That's it.

So Saudi Arabia is like the US and that's why it is supported by them?

It is abhorrent what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Thankfully the international community is reacting appropriately. It is also equally abhorrent what is going on in Yemen (which the US has a part in). Unfortunately, the international community is not reacting appropriately here. It was also abhorrent when the US invaded Iraq (on false pretenses).
A nuclear would most likely mean the end of the world.

Russia's core interest should be preventing the end of the world. If Putin is rational, he will never initiate a nuclear war. If he is irrational, he will not stop with Ukraine.
I've spent a lot of time finding the perfect keyboard. I started with a Das Keyboard Model S with CherryMx Blue [1], then got the Code Keyboard with CherryMx Brown [2]. I stuck with this keyboard for years. Then I found Ten-Keyless keyboards, and this is where I got very picky. I wanted:
- RGB Backlight
- Dedicated Media Keys(or Knob)
- TKL

After some time I found Drevo BladeMaster with CherryMx Silent Red, this was it, small, RGB backlight, media Knob. The software is kinda janky, but I was really happy with this... Then I realized I had another requirement: I prefer 75% keyboard, this is a TKL, but smaller, with the "delete, page up, page down.." keys closer to the rest of the keyboard, and still have all the Function keys. I had to sacrifice the dedicated media keys for the size, but I'm extremely happy with my Keychron K2 with Gateron Red

[1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional/

[2] https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/code-v3-104-key-mechanical-key...

[3] https://www.drevo.net/product/keyboard/blademaster-pro

[4] https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mecha...
I get your point, but that was 30 years ago. When I played basketball, we used to say "two buckets is luck, three is a streak" - we've been in favorable markets, with a few temporary dips, for 20 years. I'd call that a streak, more so than magical thinking.
> For example, cloud run can't run docker containers that doesn't listen to a port. Just run it once and shut down like Fargate does in AWS.

I believe the Cloud Run team is working on it and it is in a private beta.
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Google new premium search beta feature – interesting, scary and a game changer
What if it's not em related and is just that the cables are warm?
Humanity is fine, just some parts are quite far ahead of others. We just have to get rid of autocrats and authoritarianism. There will be some slides backwards as people in difficult situations value their opinions and risk aversion more than others’ freedoms, and there are plenty of places where people are just fine with their autocrats continuing to rule.

Progress, for the most part, can’t be given.

It is hopeful that Ukraine is having some real success fighting back and for the most part without an external force coming in and trying to do it for them.
To be fair, I'm certain that the Ukraine does not want to spark a world war, but they certainly would appreciate some direct support from NATO, even just air support. (which is likely to lead to a world war, but that's not Ukraine's intention, they are just trying to preserve their country).

Despite any inaccuracies due to the "fog of war" or even propaganda, the basic facts of this unprovoked invasion are more than enough to justify NATO intervention.
If Ukraine's NATO member neighbors aren't sending their own armies to attack Putin or defend Ukraine, why do you think a neighboring country would let the Ukrainian military attack from their soil? I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it's far from clear this is an option.
Why facebook like political, opensource is more and more like a weapon, boring and irritating.
This has always been my fear about nuclear. We don't think on the timescales to make it work well, nor with the engineering consistency and quality to keep it maintained.

However, abandoned oil refineries and other chemical plants are also toxic nasty messes for potentially hundreds of years, too.
You write "compensated to 'opt-out'" like it's a bad thing.

Unions are a tool, not a goal.
I would guess they're in a sweet spot of demand outpacing supply, but demand not being high enough for economy of scale to enable increased supply.
How were they right? the story has been confirmed to be legitimate by organizations like politico and the guardian. Hunter Biden himself admitted the laptop may have been his.

"Rotten" because it looks bad and goes against your bias doesn't make it worthy of censorship. Social media censoring a NY post journalist over this was censorship. Period.
Hmmm... I think there is an implicit "most" in these sentences. Most people like ice cream, so I agree it is pedantic to argue that "people like ice cream" is false.

When writing my comment, I guess I had an assumption that most software costs more than $0. After thinking about more, I'm not sure that is true. It think it is probably the case that most software is free to use. Interesting to think about.

However, there is a wrinkle in your analogy, which I think may be a driver of some of the intense debate in this comment thread. It's rare for someone to "hate" ice cream -- I actually can't think of anyone I know who does.

But it's very common to find software that costs A LOT more than $0. So, in a sense, "software costs $0" is much less true than "people like ice cream". As of right now, I think I'm still on the side of it being more false than true. But I'll admit it is more nuanced than I thought.

Regardless, I recant the harshness from my previous comment. Thanks for thoughtfully explaining yourself.

I do agree with another sibling commenter that you could have been clearer in your original statement :)
As of February 26-28, roughly 50% of the Russian population believed it to be a justified war, according to this poll (which is as independent as it gets in Russia):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ym9e7ot4t-JVBDqtK0m4n6iYPqd...
You can get it down another 10% again, or so if you dig straight through.
This is super interesting. I'd imagine there's a pretty good reason that you picked this over something like an array of arrays of values or something like { "row1": [...], "row2": [...] }, but the only reason I can think of is if there was some of external constraint that made CSV necessary. Was it that simple, or was there something else?