skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NKs neighbors are Russia, China and South Korea.

Russia and China tolerate NK, so NK has no reason to fight a much larger, friendly neighbor.

Between North and South Korea is the DMZ, a 4km wide mine field. If your tanks somehow get past that you have 28k US troops waiting for you.

If the border was flat, unguarded wheat fields, I’m sure NK would have tried at some point. They don’t lack the will, just the ability.

In Ukraine, Russia had the will and the ability.
I doubt Chechnya has the opportunity to be outfitted with a drone air force and TOW/MANPADS for any Ukrainian that wants them. Chechnya involved muslims. Ukrainians are far more European, yes that makes a difference.

Chechnya didn't have direct NATO border nations and supply lines.

I don't believe this to be the normal massive asymmetric difference in firepower if NATO arms the Ukrainians enough. IF they are given sufficient drones, I believe Ukraine could actually have a firepower and battlefield advantage.

Now, I don't know for sure NATO is going to commit to such supply. I think they'll be a bit more reserved, but the more weaponry Russia use, the more NATO will supply Ukraine. NATO may decided to supply just enough to bog down Russia but not hand Ukraine a rapid victory.

I 100% believe NATO could equip Ukraine with enough weapons for certain victory. It now comes down to whether NATO does that.

Missiles: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/03/03/ukrain...

Turkey is supplying new drones. I bet there are more on the way. Stingers and Polish MANPADS are being supplied.

These are the publicly announced numbers. Those numbers tell me NATO will supply ample weaponry.

Ukraine is a nation of 40,000,000 people. And they appear spoiling for a fight. How many of those would train to fight? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million? If Ukraine gets 1 million volunteers and full arms support from the West, Russia is doomed.

I'll be interested to see if female fighting units start getting news like in Kurdistan. If that happens, Russia is in deep trouble.
It makes me wonder if there is a Russian information campaign to try to get public opinion in the West for NATO to enter, knowing that the US is not going to enter and then fracture NATO or cause division within NATO.

All the sudden all these Curtis LeMay types are coming out of the woodwork trying to drum up nuclear war.

We know Russia has ran information campaigns on social media in the past so it seems pretty irrational to believe they aren't running campaigns when actually at war.

Everyone should take what they think they know about the situation with a huge grain of salt. It is totally irresponsible to read a news headline that may or may not be correct and then from that headline extrapolate that it is time to go to DEFCON 1.
Oh then it doesn’t really matter. If the reactor is off the concern is very low.
> but I bet its dark and smelly.

I'm going to steal that from you and use it for a rainy day if you don't mind. :)
Or it could just be that Montessori education really isn't that special and for most people a standard education is as good or even superior. If Montessori kids really were obviously more successful public education would change.
China may see US/NATO's stupidity and greed as the reason of this war. The view and lecture by Mearsheimer is popularly discussed these days.
Logitech K380. I can type faster on that thing than any mechanical keyboard. It feels like the old gen MacBook Pro keyboards to me, but more crisp. (The gen before they started doing weird Touch Bar stuff.) It has 3 bluetooth channels so I switch between my work laptop, personal laptop, and desktop with it. Works great between macOS and Windows, too. And I’ve had it for a year and haven’t had to change the batteries yet.

Mechanical keyboards are cool but turns out they aren’t for everybody. I spent a lot of money on them and ultimately discovered I don’t really like any of them. They’re clunky to type on for me. I tried Cherry red, blue, brown, and also Topre, and I still just like my dumb $30 keyboard more.
Yes, this is a generic workflow, but when you start adding in e.g. torch[vision, audio], scipy, or any other "useful" processing library, things get out of hand pretty quickly and you need to start being more intelligent about what is really necessary to have inside the container. So for a model that is even a few mb, you have a surrounding container of a couple of GBs
It's difficult to think of a more textbook example of racketeering.
The bigger problem at SFUSD, and public schools in general, is being unable to expel or suspend kids, mostly due to fear of lawsuits.

Unintended consequence: kids have no fear of repercussions, teachers have no real authority and everyone ends up arguing about vagueries like "equity" and "giftedness" instead the actual work of education (which is increasingly left to parents and tutors).
But it's when grammerly is needed most in Russia
I'm firmly in the Logitech camp - I have a bunch of dongles that pair to multiple mice and keyboards across a number of devices. My favourite Logitech keyboard is the K580 (https://www.logitech.com/en-nz/products/keyboards/k580-multi...) which is small and thin, can connect to two devices, and supports both Bluetooth and dongle connections. I use this with the MX Master 3 mouse, which also supports both Bluetooth and dongles. I do have a couple of nice mechanical keyboards too, but I find that most mechanical keyboards sit way too high off the desk so require an additional wrist rest to be comfy.
It works on iOS
I am Mars made flesh, a glorious warrior brimming with weapons of mass destruction.
I think that's the point. Something will come along to replace it, and that thing does not historically pay better. "Your margin is my opportunity," as Lord Bezos said. It's already kind of happening. I could get $25 per extremely plain HTML page when I was a kid because that was a rare, in-demand skill. Now $20 buys 10 fancy Carrds. Every new framework or language or platform is chasing an efficiency or simplicity that opens it up to people who'll work for less or lets one person do the job of 10. There's always an initiating event, and then the prophecy of the tech adoption curve takes over.

Someone is gunning for the margins behind those salaries, but the people making those sums don't know it yet. If I knew where it was coming from, I would email them about a collaboration, not post it here.

edit to add: It can be a slow boil or a rapid shift. Google swept the search engine space in a few years, but Netflix and Blockbuster traded places over decades. Now Netflix is struggling as third-party content retreats into publisher silos.
It is currently in beta and the stumble button is coming in 1 week.

It performs the both feature of newsletter and Stumbleupon.
>No it doesn't. That's a fantasy held primarily by people that dislike the US, the present world order, and want it all rearranged to their bias. You can instantly spot a person's bias by how quickly they whip out the premise that the USD global reserve is going to be damaged by xyz (it seems to practically be a fetish for some people).

My personal tipoff is how quickly someone mentions "petrodollar".

No, idiot, countries don't use the US dollar to buy and sell oil because the US military points a gun at them. They use the dollar because they, their trading partners, and everyone else prefer having dollars to rubles, renminbi, or bolivars.
I literally said that its a story worth covering and linked to a story from the guardian that confirms this and goes deeper on his business dealings being potentially shady(and brings up how the laptop fits into this, there was potentially damaging evidence on it). My personal belief is not relevant here, I just feel its a story worth examining.

Your not being honest with your motives to deny the guardian stories points or the fact that article even exists, do you not want to admit there is something potentially shady happening?

I don't know with 100% certainty either way honestly, I would have wanted the story to be covered if it was any other politician (and don't like trump, glad he lost tbh) so I am not sure what bone your trying to pick at.
(this comment goes deeper into what was potentially found if you are interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30548675)
I am picking the side I have because I support representative government and liberal democracy, and am against oppression of free peoples. I am against dictatorship and cronyism. I support the rights of free people. I am against unjustified wars of conquest but am in favor of wars that will protect the principles value. I am disappointed that my country isn't doing more and faster.
I don't get it either, but I live on the other side of the world to Silicon Valley, so it has no impact on my work life.
Who gives a shit about a court martial? Like Russia would extradite soldiers to international courts or try them internally…

Or just submit some token soldiers and have them claim to have defied orders and acted on their own, not hard for an autocrat.
There's a telegram channel:

https://t.me/UkraineNowEnglish

https://t.me/UkraineNow
Congratulations Sachin. You truly showed perseverance. Glad to see Requestly take off !!!
I suppose we can dismiss the traditional (public or private) school systems based on their many failures too?

Actually, in many ways we probably can.
The USSR was far more willing to use extreme violence and collective punishment in Afghanistan than modern Russia seems to be in Ukraine, yet they still ultimately had to pull out and leave their ally to its fate. It's hard for any government to justify to its constituents, whether they be voters or unelected state officials, why so much blood should be shed for the achievement of no real goals.
There’s also the issue that Chechnya is about 2/3 the size of Donetsk, let alone comparing it to Ukraine as a whole.
> I don’t know what would happen to a nuclear power plant operating without a load to take the generated power.

The same as any other power plant: the generator is automatically shut down by its safety systems (if it didn't shut down, the generator would overspeed and violently break apart). Once the generator shuts down, the safety systems for the reactor itself should either automatically shut down the reactor too, or somehow bypass the steam to the generator and reduce power to idle (I thought they would always shut down, but recently there was a failure on the generator of the nuclear power plant near where I live, and the reactor went to idle instead of shutting down, so it seems nuclear power plants have this mode too).

The issue is what happens after a shutdown; as seen at Fukushima, the cooling pumps in the reactor need external power for a couple of days until the decay heat reduces enough that passive cooling is sufficient. Without power from the outside, the emergency generators take over; if these are damaged or out of fuel, and backup generators can't be brought by truck from outside after a couple of hours, disaster happens.
Last Vestiges of Russia’s Free Press Fall Under Kremlin Pressure
The other day I wanted to do something seemingly simple with Shortcuts - set my screen and my 3 external displays brightness to 100%.

I saw an action to set screen brightness, but figuring out how to apply it to a specific display is an exercise left to the reader ugh. Shortcuts so far seems like a very unpolished product.

Do you know if something like this is easily doable in AppleScript (and whether it’s even worth it vs writing these kinds of things in swift with apple libraries)
Turning the decision to fire someone into a hyper-formalized procedure mostly seems to result in environments where terrible people never get fired, like the DMV.
How do the atrocities in this war pale in comparison to those of the war in Georgia or Crimea? A Reuters article from two days ago says there have already been 2,000 deaths of Ukrainian civilians from the invasion alone.
I don't know exactly what "key features" you want, but I use the Microflux app with a self-hosted Miniflux server (they also have hosted service) and it's good enough for my basic needs.
The Economist is quality journalism worth paying for.
Treatment for Tinnitus with Stimulation of Auditory and Non-Auditory Nerves
I often see this being thrown out as something people desire, but I always wonder just what people would themselves cut.

Like, do you want to get rid of social security and Medicare? That's a pretty big part of what's removed from a paycheck.

Pay less towards defense spending?

Whenever I look at where tax dollars actually go, while I do think there's a huge need for better accounting oversight and identifying inefficiencies in spending, it's not like the buckets themselves aren't worth investing in.

Just like with any corporation, you need to invest in order to see a return. Optimizing that ROI is always a good thing, but simply taking all profit as dividends is a terrible investment strategy.

Government is much like a giant corporation where everyone is a customer and (in theory) an equal shareholder.

I don't want my money being spent inefficiently, but it's an incredible idea to be able to just contribute a portion of my money in order to reap returns in ways well beyond what I'd be able to accomplish as an individual investor or in ways I'd be even more fleeced by for profit alternatives.

For example, Medicare pays less than any private insurance for the same treatments to providers, and because of the group size is nearly universally accepted. Everyone I know that's under the age where it kicks in but is close talks regularly about how much they hate their private insurance and how they can't wait to finally be on Medicare.

I completely understand wanting better implementation of taxes, and fairer distribution of taxes based on means, but not so much the idea of not having them at all, or only thinking about their direct reduction.

So I'm curious - when you look at the budget, what would you cut, by how much, and what would that proportionally save you per year?
It is, but I guess it's a good sign of neutrality that they did report on this.
Shit, thanks for reminding me I have migrate before they lock me out
And so did I!
PEP 405 [1], which added virtual environment support to the Python standard library, documents how the python binary attempts to determine sys.prefix, which is the key thing that has to be set to the virtual environment directory in a virtual environment. See the "Specification" section.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0405/
I appreciate a guy who knows his NaNs!
> Global warming thankfully grows on 1 degree per decade kind of time scales which sucks ecologically but isn’t faster than we can grow the grid.

I live in BC, which saw all-time record temperatures which killed about 400 people last year. Temperatures were about 10°C higher than a typical year. While average temperatures might grow slowly, peak temperatures are a different story.
I like the 96% layouts (100 keys) - similar size to a TKL, but still has the option of using the number pad. I much prefer typing lots of numbers with the number pad, and I'm no accountant or mathematician.
> is it immoral for me to have no kids because it means the extinction of the human race?

Yes!

> Is it immoral for me to have 3 kids because it means exponential growth, overpopulation, famine and destruction of the Earth? If we follow the logic to its end, the only moral choice is for everyone to have not 1, not 3 but exactly 2 kids.

Limiting to 2 would cause the extinction of the human race. Some people should have 3 so that we get a sustainable level of population growth - especially people in countries where the population is declining.

(I'm not anti-emulator, I'm not even a huge fan of the categorical imperative, but this is an astonishingly weak counterargument)
Yes, we can. The traditional system is a disservice for many people.

Just like with any mass solution from the industrial age, the traditional system is not meant to suit your needs, but the needs of a hypotetical average person.
The New York Times had a nice article about this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30550572
Darn, for some reason I thought this would be a super rad, interactive, synced-to-music thing; waves of magenta, webGL powered ripples, etc....

But this is also a cool demo :)
Montessori for 5 years, myself. I mostly learned how to learn, and the struggles later were that my education was well beyond that of my public school peers when I switched. I found learning by rote to be a waste of time, and continued to learn in my own ways.

As a result, I had amazing test scores in public school, but bad grades overall because I felt that the homework was a waste of my time.

I still appreciate my time on a Montessori school though.
I do this with poetry:

cd my_program
poetry install
echo alias my_program=\"$(poetry run which python) $(pwd)/my_program.py\" >> ~/.bashrc

Then restart my shell. This way I can run my_program from anywhere, and I don't need to activate any environments.
Can newer plants be bombed? Can they be abandoned?
Balance of Power (80's Geopolitical Video Game)
We thought that about Belarus, and Syria. All that happens is the regime becomes as brutal and oppressive as necessary to stay in power. The USSR broke up because it was held together by an ideology and political structure which fragmented. Putin doesn’t have or need an ideology, any more than Assad or Lukashenko do.
Why is it bad to be forced to generate revenue for the union as a condition of employment, but ok to be forced to generate revenue for the company as a condition of employment?
> Many things that have happened historically did because leaders felt some grand moral imperative

I agree, actually. For example, the original Islamic expansion, and later the crusades that were a response to it, were both explained in moral terms. (these demonstrate how manipulating consensus reality is a core competency for rulers). And the people who fought in these wars genuinely honestly believed they were acting morally and serving a higher purpose.

Or, a more recent example: part of the reason NATO intervened in Kosovo in 1999 was that they were ashamed they hadn't done so in Bosnia a few years earlier.
It appears you opted into Brave Rewards. There would've been a screen which very explicitly asked you if this is what you want as Brave Rewards is off by default.
It's somewhat strident rhetoric but interesting to read a mainland take on the power outage, and Pompeo in Taiwan
Just for anyone curious, the way computer engineers / processor architects deal with the above is to measure the effective Instructions Per Cycle on a battery of benchmarks, captured traces/samples, synthetic workloads etc.

The P4 was a design that reached higher cycle rates, but at the cost of a lower IPC such that the net performance was a regression. In particular the pipeline depth was such that any dependency stalls or flushes eroded CPI severely.

There's a lot that went into this mistake. Having a high Ghz number for marketing purposes was part of it, but also in this era Intel Labs had demonstrators of 10 Ghz ALUs running, so there was some reason to think this architecture might prevail eventually. In any case, by the time it launched retail, Intel knew they had a lemon, but couldn't change course without building up a new microarchitecture.

Back in the early 2000's several of the P4 architects were quite active on comp.arch, and quite forthright about the mistakes they made. There were lots of interesting and insightful posts, but sadly I think you'd have to do some considerable digging in the deja archives or whatever it's called now to find the subthreads.

If you're interested in this sort of stuff, Hennessy and Patterson's Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach is the go to textbook.
Does it matter if it was sanctioned by UN? It was still an offensive action and not peace keeping one.

I believe that Russia made a big mistake by invading Ukraine but that doesn't mean they did not have something to fear from NATO.

Maybe things would have been different today if NATO gave Russia a guarantee they will not accept Ukraine as a member. Maybe it wouldn't matter. We won't know for a long time but I think it would have been worth a try.
> One is fighting to survive an attack by the other.

This statement, while true, changes denotation depending on the scale at which you view this conflict. If you view it as a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the existential threat is to Ukraine. If you view it as a conflict between Russia and NATO, the existential threat is to Russia.
I can't speak for this situation, but before I moved to tech I worked in a heavily union industry, and all the union shops had in their bargaining contract that the employer could not hire anyone who wasn't in the union.

For people in the union it was great. For people not in the union, it sucked. And before somebody says, "well just join the union" (do you really think I'm that stupid not to have thought about that?) joining the union was really, really hard. You basically had to wait for somebody to either retire or die, because nobody ever left for other reasons, and because employees were super expensive and impossible to fire, union shops were extremely conservative with hiring. Union employees got paid double what non-union did and had 1/4 of the work to do, plus they slacked off like crazy and never got in trouble for it. The union was (or at least looked to us) like it was great for the employees. I'd hate to be the employer though.
I mean, I'm thinking it's that chasm between "whoa, genuinely cool new internet things" and then "using the internet to sell the snake oil and marketing." which is driving the sentiment.
> Well it's definetly "niche" in that it's not sold in general stores

Is that a good definition?

> and you have to order it 6 months in advance since Valve can't make them in large quantities at the moment

Switches were, and other consoles still are, in short supply for a number of reasons the past two years. The deck was released a week ago amid a historic shortage of the key component and general supply chain issues. The PS5 is hard to get at MSRP, to say nothing of GPUs, something like a year and change after release. I wouldn't call those niche products.

> Best case scenario it is plug and play for Deck verified games bought on Steam.

Yes, this is the best case scenario. It's also the baseline use case that most people will go through and a revolutionary value add in the market. Steam is the most popular platform for PC games and the vast majority of peoples' libraries are on their platform, not Epic's or GOG's. People without much investment in the platform are probably not going to buy a product named the *Steam Deck*. And even for the minority of users that are heavily invested in smaller platforms, it's a step up from whatever other obscure options they have now. That Epic doesn't want their games to run on a competitor's hardware is unfortunate but it's not like the Switch games I payed out the behind for are ever going to run on Sony or Microsoft hardware.

All of this seems like a strange set of criticism to target it with - all other plug-and-play consoles on the market basically require buying new games in a locked ecosystem with no/little crossplatform capabilities and all other PC handhelds either suck or cost roughly three times as much.
"outcomes"?
Has anyone tried to extract the Touch ID module from a magic keyboard so that it can be used with another keyboard? I can’t imagine not having Touch ID when laptop closed.
Ukraine Viasat terminals were rendered permanently unusable by CyberAttack
Oh! Thank you! that's incredibly helpful.

So, does this mean my understanding of "activate" setting PYTHONHOME (and thus being required for using a virtualenv) was true before this PEP was accepted? Looks like python3.3?