skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO didn't conquer the Eastern European countries who joined — they applied of their own volition. A Russia that can't accept that and feels the need to brutalize neighbors who turn away just illustrates why those neighbors are absolutely justified in seeking shelter.
They're not common but the right to have one is important and we're nuts about forcing our personal morals on strangers, which is why we talk about it so much. Some very loud, obnoxious, portion of the population believes religious freedom means you're free to believe in whatever version of Cheesus you want and anyone who thinks anything else is encroaching on their rights.
Russia would have thrown similar temper tantrum as Americans when Venezuela brought up joining Russian Security Alliance. IMO, best course of action for Ukraine and the World is for Ukraine to stay independent and Neutral.

I shudder to imagine what would the world look like if Russia loses and Ukraine joins NATO. North Korea will be proven right, only way to prevent US and NATO to bully, invade and destroy your country is to have a nuclear warhead on an ICBM pointed at a close US/NATO ally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia
Richest people in the West aren't politicians even.

Putin is the richest in Russia. I think that says more than what you are claiming ( without proof).
A little off topic, but about calling all super-wealthy people in America "oligarchs". That's just not true - if anything, they're plutocrats.

An oligarch is someone who was given their business by the government by force, often with murder and jail involved to the oppressed. Like Abramovich receiving state owned oil and steel companies. Musk built paypal, helped revive tesla, and built SpaceX using his own money as collateral. He didn't get handed NASA.
That's probably why QRDate has a news headline in the footer of the opening screen.
Here's my setup (for private projects, work stuff is under NDA):

- Android device running Android 10 (generally using older versions is better)
- Magisk for root + Trust User Certificates module
- mitmproxy (sometimes using mitmweb)
- ProxyDroid to connect to mitmproxy
- Frida with a one of a handful open source SSL pinning bypass scripts (and a custom one at work)

When network requests aren't enough, I reach for JADX-GUI for decompilation and Frida (REPL and custom scripts) for extracting data at runtime (taking the necessary "cleanroom" precautions for commercial projects).
8 years of Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk vs 8 days of Russian "liberation" of Kharkiv: https://twitter.com/itswpceo/status/1499791763044966406

Maybe it's time for HN to close new signups for a few weeks.
Rust by Practice
People in bad situations often analyze their own actions to see how it could be avoided. This is sometimes a useful thing to do, but sometimes it just supports an illusion of control, which in turn quickly segues into victims blaming themselves.

On the bright side, Trump did a lot of damage in 4 years but he didn't totally kill us, or the State Department. He demonstrated to our allies that America is not reliable as a principled partner in protecting liberal values, which has the positive effect of spreading the load, and getting others (notably Germany) more involved in common defense.
So the question of effectiveness depends on how easy it is to pump kilowatts of laser energy at a satellite, and how much of that energy reaches the satellite based on dispersion from distance and atmosphere. Needs to be calculated. My guess is that since countries have tried creating laser defenses, someone knows.
”… Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood, said in a statement.”

Isn’t that like asking the head of the NRA their opinion on a gun control law? I mean, of course they hate it.
The Dangerous Allure of the No-Fly Zone
I had the Memopack 16k and it even fitted the "High"Resolution graphics pack on top. But then I also soldered a flat cable to an external keyboard which was much nicer to type on an did not wiggle the whole stack with every key stroke.
Propaganda mostly works by highlighting the convenient facts and omitting the inconvenient. Reading western media, one would get the impression Ukraine is a country inhabited by nothing but immaculate saints and heroes, who would never hurt a fly

In reality, every month of Zelenskyj's rule, the country moved further and further away from democracy and closer to autocracy. This is an annoying feature of western geopolitics - despite all the talk about democracy, we always prefer a western-aligned autocrat to any anti-western democratic outcome

Just an excerpt of Zelenskyj's rule:

* banned opposition's TV channels

* urged Apple and Google to remove apps related to those TV channels from app stores, as well as fairly innocuous Russian apps like Yandex (search engine) and vkontaktu (facebook-alike)

* an already atrocious state of minority rights turned even worse in many aspects

* refused Russian COVID vaccines despite having no alternative (this plummeted his approval ratings)

* after seeing Russia-aligned parties leading in the polls, he bypassed the judicial system and froze assets of his main political opponent by a presidential decree, and put him under house arrest

* casually throwing people to jail with accusations of treason, including previous president of Ukraine (democratically elected ethnic Ukrainian), opposition politicians, as well as diplomatic negotiators

and there's much more. As a citizen of a Western country, it's really difficult to get a good picture of the situation. Putin is lying lunatic directly responsible for this war. Zelenskyi is a lying lunatic indirectly responsible for this war. Why are we acting like one of them is a saint?
Hopefully China gets the same treatment soon. They are a much bigger problem and threat to the West.
That helpless perception you feel against the US Government is likely the same thing the average decent-minded Russian is feeling right now? At least it's unlikely you'd get 15 years protesting in the West.
Ah, that's clever. Though the bulk of the typing was the "DATA" lines that got POKEd.
Having a common goal is a better one -- Even if it is less dramatic. War and destruction are still bad even if they make for more attention-grabbing stories.

This remains true even if an unwillingness to risk war means that a people cannot stand up for itself.
I see the mirror of NATO interventionism and US exceptionalism deeply marked in your words.

Putin was too proud to enter NATO the bureaucratic way, he was asked to fill out the form. A big mistake hurting everyone.
Could you tell the linux kernel devs to stop pouring tons of extensions and non C89 (with benign bits of c99/c11) code everywhere?

For instance in the whole network stack, some "agents of the planned obsolescence" did not use constant expressions in switch/case statements or initializers.
Also tell those who are using that toxic c11 "Generic" keyword to use explicit code instead.
I think, the main issue for C now is the standard body trying to obsolete stable in time C code and forcing upon devs/integrators the usage of the only few compilers which are able to follow fast enough their tantrums (latest gcc/latest clang).
Results: all attempts to provide "working" alternative C compilers is beyond reasonable.
This is becoming so accute, it is more likely to be a worldwide scam than anything else.

Yep, open source software is not enough anymore, it needs to be lean, simple but able to do reasonably "the job", and ofc very stable in time hence C89 only with benign bits of c99/c11, or "standard assembly".
Why are you two speaking past each other? Russia has no proxy. NATO has begun treating Ukraine like a proxy, with them being frustrated by the delay. It can be a spectrum. Was the Vietnam war a proxy war against the ussr? One of independence? Are they mutually exclusive?
Oh my god so much. One learned a weird technique of sort of wiping ones finger tip firmly across the keypad.

Slightly ameliorated by the fact that one usually used a single keypress to enter Basic keywords (e.g. J, symbol shift, P P for LOAD "" to put it into cassette loading mode).

It made the notorious ZX Spectrum "dead flesh" keyboard seem quite luxurious in comparison.
They still do. It's taking longer and being more difficult than they wanted or expected but it's still very unlikely that Ukraine will prevail in the short term.

People on the internet are just getting waaaay ahead of themselves. It's been a week and they haven't conquered the whole country yet so they must be losing the war or something.
So argument must be dismissed/accepted not based on its merit but based on who is making it?
Iraq was ruled by a dictator, invading saved more lives than letting him be.

And go look what happens when military was withdrawn from Afghanistan. And see how that country looked in 1960s before the Taliban.
> The "west" has been trying to de-escalate the actions of Russia for the last two decades.

We are now living in truly post-truth world.

We can condemn the Russia invasion without resorting to what is a complete inversion of the facts.

The US, for unexplained reasons, against the opposition of Germany and France has been stoking this fire since the age of the great neocons: Clinton and Bush Júnior and even after then it never really tried to de-escalate the situation or not try to isolate Russia from Europe. This is widely agreed between scholars and diplomats both from the right and from the left.
It is not everyday when Chomsky and Kissinger agreed about something like this.
This site has more comprehensive stats, but a bit useless without background on legislation. Mexico for instance has only recently decriminalised it.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-...
Why complain?
> their president wasn't overthrown, because he has left the country himself

So it would only count as a regime change if he stayed to get killed by an angry mob?

> that doesn't give Russia a right to annex territories

But states and their parliaments very much have a right not to acknowledge a new central government that came to power trough violence.

The Crimean state parliament did not recognize the new Ukrainian government, thus held a referendum what to do about the situation [0]

Said state parliament was voted in power by the people of Crimea before anything in Kyiv even escalated.

You acting like that doesn't matter, so you can regurgitate "Russian annexation!" does not only deny the Crimean state parliament agency, it very casually denies the Crimean people, as represented by the state parliament, their own representation.

So unless you have evidence how Russia replaced the whole state parliament, how Russia actually meddled in the referendum, that long you are spreading disinformation when you keep calling the situation as annexation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum
Or... you know... Don't use small displays with 4k resolution and tiny fonts.
Your comment suggests the best outcome of any situation is the least violence. But it's not what I believe or I imagine what most people believe, I would rather fight for certain values to be upheld - in this case the freedom to agree as a collective rather than bow to the person with the most force. If someone comes to your house and takes it by force you should let him because it's the path to least violence right?
Are they "so common"? Citation needed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy#Epidemiol...

Unintended pregnancies (UPs) per 1000 women ages 15–44 years old by year and region:

- 1990-1994: 66 European average vs. 50 in North America

- 2010-2014: 41 European average vs. 47 in North America

Specific countries report numbers differently:

- Britain 2013 "16% of British pregnancies are unplanned, 29% are ambivalent, and are 55% planned"

- France 2008 "33% of pregnancies are unintended"

- Sweden 2013 "12% of pregnancies were fairly or very unplanned"

- USA "slightly less than half (45%) of U.S. pregnancies in 2011 were unintended".

Of course, UPs are not the same as abortions. Many abortions are due to an UP (USA: "Over 92% of abortions are the result of unintended pregnancy"), but not all UPs result in abortions (USA: "In 2001, 44% of unintended pregnancies resulted in births, 42% resulted in induced abortion, and the rest in miscarriage.").

Looking just at abortions, Estonia has the fourth-highest* rate with 33.3 whereas Belgium has the lowest at 7.3. Europe is all over the place (and it's not as if abortions are illegal or deemed immoral in Belgium, quite the opposite). USA is at 20.8. These figures are per 1000 women from https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-...

So are abortions "so common"? Dunno, it seems quite high when looking at a the area I'm from (max(NL/BE/DE)=10) but it's also not through the roof.

* Most countries don't have a known value for abortions though, like most of Africa/Latam/Southeast Asia and all of South America, so take "fourth highest" with a huge grain of salt.
Indeed. I'm curious if the same sanctions/parts and maintenance issues effectively ground domestic air travel too.
Please explain a bit further what you mean with arbitrary graph modeling? From experience, I find graph models a good natural fit for entity-relational data, whereas traditional relational models start to feel arbitrary and burdensome.

Many graph databases can aggregate on nodes and edges much easier than in RDBs, so I don’t really buy your second point either.
>>forced Texans to travel extraordinary distances

>forcing anyone to get abortions

Bzzzt.
What Is ‘Bigorexia’?
They used to call this the 'Salami Game', we are fighting over a slice of Salami - why fight, I just want one and a single slice of Salami is not worth fighting over
... after a while, there is just the string the Salami hung by - that is not worth fighting over either.
As to Russia and NATO cyber defence group - Russia will take this badly and may well use it to cease the humanitarian corridors, so the people leave and Russia gets well working infrastructure = let them fight to the end = rubble infrastructure.
Recall the USSR was crooked and venally corrupt at all levels - this klepto-culture eventually killed the USSR.
Think of economic growth as rolling a snowball, each turn it get a little thicker
- but not the USSR, every turn they steal what it grew plus more = Russian snowballs do not grow.
The freed parts of the USSR inherited the klepto culture - after the fall = big grab and the first wave of crooked kleptocrats - then came Putin - he allied with the crime gangs who killed off the first wave of kleptocrats and became them. We have all seen the excesses of these kleptos. China has the same problem, but has tried to reform with klepto prison/education/killing.

In essence Putin is surrounded with a group of thieves. The people in general hate this and try to defend against it as best they can. In Russia when the USSR was running, they were very good at cash sale fleamarketing - which was allowed as it helped people to exist. Now the next wave of ologarchic kleptocracy has matured. They have grabbed all oil/gas/mineral/wood assets and sell and grab the cash.
The military is filled with klepto = theft of all manner of portable goods, metals etc - whatever they can get away with - usually by sharing up the line by giving a cut to the hierarchy. The 2 year conscript military means they have no capable soldiers - even the special forces are goof-offs, display soldiers. The paratroops proved also to be useless floating targets because they suffered huge losses when dropped into groups of well armed soldiers and public. They worked only when dropped onto a surprised soft civilian target.

Poland is training pilots for a few squadrons of A10 Warthogs. When word of the 60Km isolated convoy leaked the instructors who were skilled USA battle hardened pilots wanted to have a few Thunder Runs - they would have wrecked that convoy chapter and verse - wiser heads prevailed, as a debacle like that might have been the tipping point if a few USA people were shot down - always a risk with Soviet Air defences = quite good.
Do you honestly think anyone wants to invade Russia? I have never seen any western politician, no matter how hawkish or anything, even slightly indicate something like that. Who would want that!?
An absolutely unnecessary escalation towards the full involvement of NATO. We all lose, doesn't hurt Putin a bit.
Watches are also about style, and in this case accuracy to a character.

Which is exactly the same as shrunken sneakers as far as I can tell
I've always liked Obsidians design or/and haven't thought of it as bad. We've all seen way worse looking applications.
LOL, just because you don't agree with how a country is ruled, managed and run doesn't give you right to invade and occupy a country.
I mean the average is around 15 and the US is 21.

That said, it probably has a lot to do with pregnancy rates. Singapore has a very low rate yet access is pretty wide open. Most of that a legacy due to fear of overpopulation (they had a “stop at 2” policy for quite and while and like China, are now panicking about low birth rates).
It's insane how much Kremlin apologia there is on HN.

Some comments are saying we shouldn't put sanctions on Russia or support the Ukrainian resistance because it will prolong the war and civilian casualties.

Putin and Lavrov have said that Ukraine is a historical mistake that should be undone. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia. Commit cultural genocide. How is the very existence of a nation and people not worth supporting?
Ask HN: What does your mid-size company use to manage apps/services?
For small projects/teams, things like Heroku and Fly.io seem to work great.

For enormous teams staffed with DevOps engineers, AWS and GCP offer an enormous suite of low level tools to build with.

What is happening in the middle ground here? Maybe for teams of 30 to 200 engineers, where you need to deploy multiple services/apps, manage APIs, s2s discovery and communication, etc but don't have dedicated DevOps teams?
Migrate your Elasticsearch client to OpenSearch
That's optimised for short-form videos, isn't it? It's also extremely addictive, so it doesn't speak well of the market if the main competition to the #1 player comes at the price of addiction.
Oversimplifying, but hopefully not too much.

For simplicity, let's assume that it's the wave function of an electron, but this applies to any particle.

The first problem is the question. What does "detection" means?

The technical term is "measurement", and the most important idea is that you can measure different things, for example the position of the electron, or the speed of the electron, or the energy of the electron, or ...

If you measure the exact position of an electron, the wave function collapses to a point.

But you can measure other thing, for example if it's inside a box or outside the box. In this case the wave function that initially is spread perhaps in all the universe, will collapse to a smaller wave function. In some cases to one that is completely inside the box, and in other cases one that is completely outside the box.

Knowing the initial wave function it's possible to know how the wave functions inside or outside the box will be, but the details are quite technical.

What is not possible to know if after the measurement you will get the wave function that is inside or outside the box. As fas as we know this is a random choice. Nobody likes it, some people thing there are not random rules, but most people think it's sadly random.

Note that the probability to get the wave function that is inside or outside the box are not equal. It may be la loaded "dice". The exact numbers can be calculated if you know the initial wave functions, but the details are quite technical.

Very informally, if the box is small, the probability of getting the wave function that is inside is small. If you have an electron inside the box and open it for a very short time and close it, then the probability of getting the wave function that is inside is big. To get a formal definition, you must read all the nasty technical details.

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The idea is that you can somehow detect that the electron is inside or outside the box, but it does not collapse the wave function completely. You still have a complicated wave function inside or outside the box. And you can make this wave function colide with other wave functions and get some weird quantum mechanics results that are impossible if you assume that the wave function has collapsed for a very short time to a single point inside or outside the box.

Or you can generalize this with two boxes and the rest of the universe. It's possible to measure if the electron is in box A, box B or outside. It's also possible to measure if the electron is in any box or outside. In this case you get entangled boxes that are even weirder.

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The experiment in the link use photon in a one or two slits experiment. The physical details are very different but the calculations and the idea is very similar. The box is the slide, and outside the box is the screen.
Yeah, nobody liked keying in the DATA lines!
I agree with the decency of the ide

But isn't this the nearest argument why we should start publishing negative results papers?

The most important thing that I have ever learned was a announcement made by Google about how their industry consortium seeking to trade print magazine advertising inventory, failed with reference to the nature of this failure. No matter how lacking in detail this notice was, no matter that I was sent down a seven years solitary and very lonely path of mercifully ultimate discovery, on the heels of my startups exit collapse due to my cofounder tragically dying but we'd have been sunk by the problems indirectly revealed in that Advertising Age news item. However painful, and I'm talking about therapy for years after I emerged from reclusion, and real health issues giving up running and my diet turning to junk energy hits...I have learned more from being told "no can do Z because of y" and I seriously think that we /seriously have to start already getting over the reasons why we don't talk about our failures/. I mean holy smoke wouldn't we ever run out of good conversation ever again if we could have a good old banter and brew over our cockups? I'm thinking that this is how women are so much more successful in reproduction if they actually want to. What could we do if we tried?
The Architect Who Mastered Low-Rise, High-Density Housing
Are sprouted potatoes safe?
Anthropogenic influence on the changing risk of heat waves over India
GraphQL is the natural choice at this point, everything else needs boilerplate between frontend and backend.
Looking at people willing to get abortions shows ordinary rates relative to other developed countries, demonstrating that demand for abortions is inelastic among those willing to consider the option. The problem is that the US also has disproportionately high rates of teen pregnancy:

"Despite considerable declines in recent decades, the U.S. adolescent pregnancy rate, at 57 per 1,000 in 2010, is the highest in the developed world outside the former Soviet Bloc. The next highest rate is in New Zealand (51 in 2010)."

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/adolescent-pregnancy-a...
> So you throw the underdog the pistol and grab the madman's wallet

That’s the American way!
Oh my, the memories!

I remember sitting on a big swivel chair late into the night in front of a 13" black and white TV writing programs and attempting, mostly in vain, to save them to a cassette tape.

At 15 I should have been out chasing girls instead but what can ya do...
The history of civil rights in the United States is strong evidence that doesn't work in all cases.
Poland is NATO, other ballpark.

>> They can want whatever they want, doesn't mean they are going to get it.

They won't.

>> This sort of thing doesn't really work.

They somehow missed that.

They will pay.
Rule number One: always support noscript/basic (x)html browsers where it is "enough" to provide some services to users.
Imagine trying to pay for fuel with a cargo hold full of Rubles.