skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how many people ignore this, pretending only a lonely lunatic thinks this is a good idea.

Putin's approval rating is at 70% [0]. From [1] (referring to the invasion of Crimea):

> President Putin's approval rating among the Russian public increased by nearly 10% since the crisis began, up to 71.6%, the highest in three years, according to a poll conducted by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, released on 19 March.[346] Additionally, the same poll showed that more than 90% of Russians supported unification with the Crimean Republic

So it looks to me that most Russians supported the Crimea invasion. Why would it be different now? I find it hard to believe that if Russia hadn't found such a stubborn resistance and would've been able to annex Ucrania quickly, which was what the Russian government thought would happen, in five years all the polls wouldn't show Russians supporting the invasion.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_...
Yes, just give up and let Putin move in his secret police to kill you one at a time, in wholesale.
> like Hussein's Iraq was

Bull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

“The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda. They hailed from four countries; fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one from Egypt.”

Iraq is not mentioned even once in the article.

Do not attempt to shift the goal posts. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was specifically tied to Saddam's possession of WMDs (demonstrably false) and his willingness to use them (therefore also false), and the constant linking of Iraq to 9/11 (fake news).

transcript of US General Wesley Clark on the Iraq Invasion | American War Generals (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs4TFSjrY

00:04 I got called in by an officer on the
00:07 Joint Staff who told me that he said you
00:09 know we're gonna invade Iraq. I said but
00:11 why? And he said I don't know he said I
00:15 guess because we don't know what else to
00:17 do. But in fact the why of it went back a
00:21 decade to the spring of 1991, it went
00:26 back to the argument inside the
00:28 Republican Party about whether or not
00:31 the Gulf War should have ended with the
00:35 capture of Baghdad and the overthrow of
00:37 Saddam Hussein. And in 1991 when I talked
00:40 to secretary Wolfowitz you know he said
00:42 we didn't get rid of Saddam Hussein and
00:44 and we should have, he said we've only
00:47 got five or 10 years to clean up the
00:51 Middle East these old Soviet surrogate
00:54 regimes like Syria and Iraq get rid of
00:56 them before the next superpower comes
00:59 along the challenges

This is the undisputed historical reality. These are not hidden truths, this is public knowledge. Anybody intimating otherwise is either deliberately misconstruing past events to suit their own version of how they want things to be or is a useful idiot[2] oblivious to the nonsense they are spouting.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/de...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
To sort of butcher a great line from Layer Cake: “Only very stupid backend people think that the front end is simple.”

Being a more backend-type person myself I have to remind myself that less equations on the human factors side means that side of things is harder, not easier than the “math-y” stuff.
On the other hand, if you begin the draft the same day as the invasion you are probably going to have a bad time
If they accept in a few years Putin repeats this for the next slice.

They already accepted 2 "cease fire agreements" in Minsk after 2014. Putin used them to plan this invasion.
GitLab's diff or Code Review has an extremely annoying feature for people who fidget with text, especially when dragging text.

In addition to highlighting and "painting" the text, I often click and drag the highlighted text around. If some text is dragged onto the code view in Firefox, the dropped text seems to be treated like URLs, and opened either in new tabs or in the current tab.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/uploads/666d09080e20ea8...
Too right, they did. As a peak-oiler at the time I paid close attention to the run-up to $150 and the financial crisis that followed.

And now fear we're in for a replay.
That is what is insidious about the terms. The suffering--caused by Russia--is so great, that to many Ukranians the terms may seem a reasonable trade-off for a return to normal life.

But I doubt Putin would be content with leaving the current government in power in Ukraine, even if the terms were agreed to.

Update: It appears that the demands may have also included a Russian choice of Prime Minister: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500812687009267712...
For me, I had to go deep into NVidia docs & sample code before it really clicked. And there's still a dearth of online materials for webgl 2.0 compute & webgpu. But it's still early ;)
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That's fair, as always context matters. But I feel it was implied the context of our discussion was infinite scroll pages like twitter (he specifically mentioned that), tiktok, instagram etc.
Right now it is worthless, anything on RT about the "special military operation" is 100% propaganda. It's just fun watching their presenters try to act normal.
I think most rational people know masks are terrible for children and infants, but its good to have documented science to back it up. That wont convince pro maskers but maybe its enough to let the kids see each other smile.
I'm not sure it would be useful to decide if something should be implemented or not (in the sense that you often already know), but it's a great visual tool regardless, and could be used to show users how development decisions are made.

A nice additional feature would be a way to bookmark a set of slider values, so that it can be shared with others.
Guessing Russia is not taking a stand against IP or copyright at all. Just making it legal for them to steal from non-Russian owners. Don’t think they will remove copyright for Russian creators.
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It's the absolute opposite. It's insane that this commit wasn't flagged as a patch for a major vulnerability. Why am I finding out about this now? Why is it now my job to comb through commits looking for hidden patches?

It puts me, as a defender, at an insane disadvantage. Attackers have the time, incentives, and skills to look at commits for vulns. I don't. I don't get paid for every commit I look at, I don't get value out of it.

This backwards process pushed by Greg KH and others upstream needs to die ASAP.
These are the owners that were caught. The survivors didn’t get caught, maybe because they didn’t drive after drinking but maybe because they weren’t pulled over.
Tell me of a single country in the world where a part of it does not consider the other lazy and primitive. We have the same exact phenomenon in Italy, the north thinks the south is lazy and primitive. That's ugly indeed and I don't support it, but if you say Russians are racist for this reason than pretty much every country on the planet is culpable of some form of racism.
Because a) they randomly toggle your setting back, and don’t respect it at all on mobile, and b) features are slowly breaking on the old UI as well: gallery links not working, the “report” button taking seconds to load and then having a modal that breaks interoperability and hijacks Esc.
I'm of the opinion that trying it out for yourself is not a waste of time. I'm sure several other commenters share that opinion, and I'm sure several others do not.

The tone of the original question reads to me as though the asker is asking to be convinced by evangelists to give the technology a chance. Ultimately though, just listing technical benefits of the language is unlikely to be as effective as one might rationally expect, given that humans — which certainly includes programmers — are less rational than they would like to admit.
Russia's word is worth less than nothing.

It feels like they'll stop when we stop them, at this point.
It is a very useful question if you do not simply check whether the result is correct, but instead use it as a way to evaluate the candidate's problem-solving skills.
btw. this is how I would make the code more robust: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220225185431.2617232-4-max.ke...

I'm a C++ guy, and the lack of constructors is one of many things that bothers me with C.
Oh, interesting, did not know it could be so fast.
This might initially sound bad but my understanding is that they already do this for "part 15" devices. I assumed they did it for everyone and am a little surprised that, of all things, they weren't doing it for something critical like a flight altimeter. They'll likely be checking that the device continue to function as intended if exposed to radiation outside its band. They're probably not going to block your baofangs or scanners or HF receivers.
>>Sweden delayed locking down nursing homes and then implemented it really poorly.

Canada locked down nursing homes completely yet 98.5% of COVID deaths were in nursing homes.

After a year, a hundred and fifty thousand nursing home patients were still confined in their room in the province of Ontario:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-...

What has been done to so many people, in the name of safety, during this pandemic, is obscene, and an affront to the principles of liberal democracy. This episode in our history demonstrates the utter inhumanity and banal brutality of anti-libertarian ideology.

>>did you take care of her and talked to her everyday, or maybe taken her home? Otherwise at 95 she could end up like this with and without lockdowns.

When you advocate for a forceful intervention, it's your responsibility to anticipate how the target of your intervention may fall short in adjusting to it.

Your argument is reminiscent of neocons blaming the post-invasion chaos in Iraq on the people of Iraq not forming a civil society and functional democracy quickly enough.

>>I find it funny that you bring numbers into this (at her age she had only 3.4 years to live but only 11% chance if dying of COVID). You cannot mix emotional and cold like that in the same post...

You can absolutely mix emotions in with numbers. In fact, you should. Emotional reactions should be informed by facts.
The halting problem hegemony. I can tell if a program would exit eventually or not. At some point there must be a subset of all possible programs we can tell, can stop, and can tell would stop under x,y,z conditions. So the whole problem thing always felt like a strawman.
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You’re seem to me suggesting two things that are both quite wrong:

- you’re implying that communism === Soviet Union

- you are implying that the ideology behind communism was centred on the destruction of an ethnic group (the Ukrainians)
Perhaps. Don’t think you’re improving it by stiffing service workers on tips though.
3) compete with your own product on alibaba

Never trust someone that you don't have a good working relationship with to keep your IP safe.

There was a selfie stick phone case Kickstarter where you could purchase Chinese clones on Amazon before the original project finished funding.
> you need to be either a very fast learner across a lot of subjects, while spending your own money, or hire some consultants who know what they are doing. I used to work for a product development consultancy, but it's a pretty niche market.

Would it possible to learn this stuff by getting a job in one of these consultancies somehow? And if so, how might one go about doing this?
> Indeed, in some cases, people bought software they pirated in college because by that point, they were used to it.

This reminds me of some old reasoning for why many software vendors would often tacitly go easy on those copying their software, as it was often seen as a wide pipe to eventual revenue down the road. Rather than letting those (potential) eventual customers go to the competition early on (often much less expensive to purchase, or perhaps even "free"), they would get comfortable with the proprietary features of a certain piece of software and be "locked in" that way. Of course, this practice would be unlikely to ever be officially acknowledged by the software vendor(s), but the people who understood this made "business sense" knew what they were doing.
> (3) Once LPL shows how to open that lock, one might want to swap it for a better one. Is that possible?

Looks like a disc detainer lock. Possibly needs "A pick Bosnian Bill and He made", but as we all know, there are disc detainer locks and disc detainer locks.

I'm not sure it's a top of the line, high security cylinder. Hope it's replaceable.
Ukraine (and the world) can only make the price of the war unacceptable to Russia.

There will be a treaty in the end. Hopefully sooner rather than latter.
Not a book, but The History of English Podcast is excellent: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
Thanks for the suggestion, I will def take that into consideration. With SERIALIZABLE currently the transaction and lock with it is harmless, but perhaps the design will change at some point in future.
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Quick question, most countries have laws on how media should work, like what can you put on public TV at what hours, how to mark certain content, rules that demand to always provide both sides perspective and punishments if you don't follow the rules, like removing your TV license. Did we allow this new media to just ignore our laws and publish one sided fabricated news? Maybe is finally the time to block stuff that is not media, or force them to label their content as "fiction/fabrication"

And someone will say "what about XYZ?", yes label Xyz fiction too if it does not follow the rules. With national media that exists physically here you can have the justice system give them big fines if they for example fabricate bullshit about a person/company but if this media is some freelancers far away the justice will never reach them so we should do something before we reach the scenario in Idicracy
> We need less war not more.

Of course. But what do you propose to do when war is brought to you? The only way to avoid it in that case is just to surrender, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.
Ask HN: What are dynamical scope advantages?
What actually are dynamical scope advantages over lexical/statical one with respect to compilation, runtime and others low-level efficiencies ?

a direct, easily seen edge to us as coders is the better readability, being less fussy argument/parameter passing
If a creator doesn't want their creation used by people who they don't agree with, dont make or share the thing. It's really that simple. What we have instead is creators appropriating the legal system to enforce their wishes. It doesn't take a genius to see the negative ramifications of that level of overreach.
> Of course it's analogous to theft, because someone very literally ends up with less money in their pocket

Err, nope. If I steal a bicycle from the shop around the corner there is one less bicycle the owner can sell.

If I copy a digital asset the loss is hypothetical. It only exists if the condition holds true that I would have purchased the item if I hadn't been able to just copy it.

This condition is simply not true in the majority of cases of piracy of digital items.

I worked in third world countries, I have a friend who is a single mother on a low wage job.

These are just /some/ examples where a sale of many digital items, software, media, etc. would provably not happen.
There is no 'theft' because there was no income withheld from the creator. [1]

Proof: https://www.techdirt.com/2017/09/21/eu-buried-own-400000-stu...

[1] Whether they should be allowed to do that is a different matter – one detached from theft/economy.
It's a philosophical/ethical issue and I agree with parent that the view we hold on these things is recent and shaped by conditions that frequently no longer apply (physical item vs digital one resp. cost of making a copy).
Pirated software is okay for home users, but in a mission critical business context, you need constant support and security updates. Pirated software, by its nature, will not be as secure as official software, and it will not be as up to date. Also who do you call when you need support?

Basically pirated software is not a solution for mission critical businesses.

Also who do you think is cracking the software? The same people who would find it very easy to put in malware into the software.

If Russia is running on pirated software, it will be a nightmare.

They need to get off Western software and push open source alternatives. they are massively inferior, especially in the B2B software side of things, but so be it. This is what Russia needs to do now.
No later than a few days ago, as I was refining my exploit, this is the detection rate I could get too:

https://i65.servimg.com/u/f65/15/63/53/97/pasted10.png

I often end up not being able to bypass ESET32, although bypassing Bitdefender and others, is much easier.
One of the large beasts killed the other large beast. Flash was actively hostile to anything open, it undid any advancements of the internet that empowered people and put the control back in the content publishers' hands, so I'm not shedding tears. (Neither would I if Apple got bankrupt)
Finland like solution would have been the best option (demilitarization? have your army renamed self defense force! denazification? heck, outlaw Nazi symbolic doing humanity a favor)

I mean implementing the damn Minsk deal now seems like fantasy, but no sane person needs this hell to continue!
Ah thanks for explaining. I misunderstood the root cause and didn't read the patch. Rust definitely would have helped here. Or even just enforcing modern C practices such as overwriting the whole struct so that non-specified values would have been set to zero (although explicit is better than zero).
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Just for clarity, It's really when you pay, not every drink. So if you open a tab, then pay at the end, you only tip once. If you're paying cash after every drink, then you're expected to tip every drink.
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Agreed, HN has value. That's why I'm cautious about the flood of green usernames. But I could see how you or even I could wind up with new green accounts all things considered. I'd love a link to a comment that in your opinion led to a user being banned, for curiosity's sake.
Yep, Ukraine has already been neutral before and then Russians took Crimea. And now they don’t mind committing war crimes and terrorizing civilians to achieve the annexation of Ukraine so why would they care about any new agreements. They would just wait until pro-Russian figures take over the Western governments and attack again.
Sure they will stop everything. Russia has never lied in the past and always kept its promises. This is beyond laughable if it wasn't such a grim matter.
Removing or decreasing access to porn would increase societal sexual violence.

Which would make Russia much worse off, but I'm not sure a more violent and dystopian Russia is what we want.

This is different to the voluntary don't watch porn which is quite self disciplined.

But I'm pretty sure Russia has the whole porn/internet thing sorted out and doesn't need the West.

It's exciting to see what else they might do when cut off, could they hack out gaming servers? Now it's a retributionary attack on the West to kill their copyright and possibly make some money. USSR with a pipeline of free (digital) goods coming in might be a different place. Fight Piracy with Piracy. The West has more to lose there.
Well yes, I was one of the haters back then because it was too verbose (for me). IMHO Go is less verbose than early Java.

It could be less verbose without loosing readability. My two top picks would be to add a ternary expression and a real while loop so that you could write better iterators.

while next := some.Next(); next != nil {
// ...
}

Such a while loop would be consistent with the if statement support for an assignment and following check.
I’m not sure how true this is. I think in general thieves steal things they can easily sell rather than things that are expensive. I would guess one could more easily sell an ordinary looking bike than a fancy looking one but maybe it can be converted into valuable easily sold parts or it just isn’t that hard to sell.
The live-news feeds on BBC News aren't as straightforward to link to and archive as they could be - this content also appears at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60635927?pinned...
I noticed I was doing this with Facebook. Decided never to install it on a phone. I did install Instagram on a phone. Noticed I was doing this. Uninstalled Instagram. I installed Reddit on a phone. Noticed I was doing this. Uninstalled Reddit.

My biggest problem then is that I can't uninstall the stupid Google news feed, so that still gets me pretty often. They've made the scroll longer, but at least it is currently finite.

Only slightly related is the way I use my phone for other things. I notice that I'll compulsively unlock my phone and check certain apps that might have something for me (Slack message in a channel that doesn't notify, Chess move to make). And the problem with that is I know I don't need to, and that nothing has likely changed since I last checked. And it's still darn difficult to avoid.
Every media is propaganda. RT is directly financed by the Kremlin just like CNN is at the behest of the current American administration. It's absurd to think any of these channels will not try to manipulate their audience.

What is certain on the other hand is that it is Russia which invaded Ukraine, a free country, at first place. What is also certain is that any news organization in Russia that doesn't follow the Kremlin's narrative is deemed criminal by Russian authorities.
A police officer has a little more leverage over you than an underpaid waiter. So not really the same at all.
Russia is demanding Ukraine become a vassal state like Belarus. They don't want them forming even economic trading agreements with the EU. Russia is demanding Ukraine remain poor and cut off from the West. For tens of millions of Ukrainians who were born under Soviet occupation, this prospect scares them to the core. This means secret executions, torture, indefinite prison sentences for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person, state controlled communication and propaganda, hunger, and abject poverty. They're much more afraid of this life than dying. That's why they're fighting so hard to keep their freedom and independence. I think a lot of the West just doesn't really understand that there are fates worse than death.
He's started trying to undermine the Baltic states a few years ago. If we capitulate now, this is eventually going to happen again in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania too.
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That use of “otherwise” implies a belief that Putin would actually leave them in peace. Past behaviour suggests that he won’t.