skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly bacause he's evil genius, and a madman or both or none of those why would we consider any word comming out of his mouth to be related in any way to his behavior?

He might use nukes just because he's loosing in Ukraine.

He might use them at any point because he already feels threatened.

He might use them because he had a bad dream.

How can we take any of this into account?

The only thing we can do is to choose the fiction we believe in.

And I think correct fiction to believe in is the one that Putin won't use too many nukes if NATO won't cross Russia borders and clearly advertises that intent.

And if Putin really uses some nukes (probably against military targets in Ukraine) and NATO won't respond with their nukes, just with conventional means, nuclear restraint won't be broken, by anyone except a clear madman
Does Jetbrains have ties with Russia? If so, I see a major blow that Russia could inflict tothe Western world…
Thanks. Yeah, I am aware of the sad realities there. I listened to Brave’s founder on Acquired.fm recently discuss the reason for their Chrome choice.

I want to get more granular and pick the best chromium flavor (distro?), but I am struggling to find the correct metrics to quantify “most secure.”

And if I get that detailed, maybe there is a different answer on each OS.
Any and all escalation goes in this direction. It's not hard to see. Don't be a fool on purpose.
There is no 'destruction of the world' in Muslim eschatology related to the return of Jesus and Mahdi. That has to wait for "the Hour" which is an entirely a different matter and related to 'Resurrection' and the actual Judgement Day (you know, in 'here-after' when the entire material universe is "folded").

As for the Christians, in the Gospel Jesus very clearly commands to "ignore" wars and rumors of wars.

"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come." [Matt 24:6]

> I think this can explain a portion of people who want escalate our current situation. I’m terrified by these people and their motives.

What "terrifies" me are people who form strong opinions and speak from ignorance, and, try to pin great power politics, and geopolitical adjustments on people who believe in God.
Accidental release or not, if they were attempting gain-of-function, which is bio-engineering, and they succeeded, that deserves inquiry. Especially if U.S. leadership, WHO, or NGOs were involved.

To me, the "strength" of the covid-19 is evidence of successful lab experiments, not a fluke contagion. As the pandemic variants showed, natural evolution of viruses tend toward being less lethal. So why did Sars-Cov-2 start overpowered and get weaker?

As viruses can make the jump from one species to another, then it should not be hard to imagine how easy it would be to engineer that same outcome; that is all "gain of function" experiments do: try to emulate a pipeline for viral mutation.
Thanks. Your link shows that the US is above all tracked western countries in terms of abortion rate, which goes against OP's point about the US having a lower abortion rate than comparable countries.
TCO might be more beautiful semantically, but unless you're using a language like Scala where you can say "this recursive function is intended for TCO, and thus throw an error if it's not eligible", a programmer error can blow out your stack.

> I’ve worked in probably 15+ languages of all types throughout my life since Microsoft BASIC in 1984 when I was 12. If this doesn’t give me the right to assert things like this, then what does?

A realisation that opinions are subjective :) I've probably used a similar number of languages, although I started with QBasic, and while I've really enjoyed FP in Scheme, Erlang, and F#, I don't consider it vastly superior, I just consider it a different paradigm that is really good in some problem domains, and an awkward fit in others.

I don't consider any particular paradigm to be superior, each has strengths and weaknesses.
So the evidence linked on the CDC website is compromised because of commercial interests? Please post evidence of this specific example.
Ask HN: Help me brainstorm industrial applications of AR-controlled robots
Very good video, indeed. Explains how Putin and Russian propaganda machine turned Ukrainians into non-humans in perception of many Russian folks.
Confirmation bias aside, thanks for the sanity check.
Thanks! Glad the details are helpful. There's a lot of optimizations to be made on my end, for sure.

I isolate Sidekiq to a separate worker dyno (a shared Standard-2X dyno with 1GB RAM for $50/mo) and typically run just 1, but up it to 2 if I ever notice a backlog of jobs that need done. Most of the main dynos's RAM needs are for the main site outside of the forums, which is way more resource-intensive.

On Heroku: I'm admittedly very terrible with devops and their UI has made it really easy to scale resources for viral shares without the pressure being on me to figure out how to scale properly (and their support has been super helpful in cases where the DB failed, certs expired, etc). Thredded itself hasn't really required much resource scaling, so Heroku's probably overkill for it unless the rest of your app needs it. :)
Grief ( blog post upon leaving Chef Inc)
The Orthodox nobility had the same rights at first. But, as you say yourself, almost all of them have switched to Catholicism over time. And the reason for that was that it was the only way to preserve both the rights and the social standing in the long term.

As for nobles not carrying out religious persecution, I don't even know what to say. Local magnates were the main drivers of the religious persecution of Orthodox Ukrainians and Belarusians. And sure, that persecution was often economic in nature, but it was also very clearly carried out along religious lines.

I'll grant you that religious intolerance in Poland was primarily between Catholics and Orthodox, rather than Catholics and Protestants as elsewhere in Europe. But that's to be expected from a country where most subjects are either Catholic or Orthodox, no?

EDIT: I suppose our perspectives are so different because we're focusing on different time periods. My take on this is that early Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth inherited many of the political arrangements of GDL, and tolerance was one of them. But as the center of political power shifted over to Poland over time, they were weakened.
It's being disassembled for a full spectrum mod, and according to [0] it helps with precise sensitivity range for IR, UV, low light etcetera photography.

So if there are only pros to this mod, why don't manufacturers do it by default?

[0]: https://kolarivision.com/articles/full_spectrum_conversion/
>> Then they concluded that such an act would be a terrible thing to do, since no virologist would want to work and live in the middle of nowhere.

I mean, this is a solved problem in many fields. In medicine, for example, the way you convince good doctors and nurses to work in rural hospitals is to pay them a lot more.
>If your DB library is inserting the parameters in a text query before sending it off to the server to be parsed as arbitrary SQL, that's not a parametrized query, but just fake smoke and mirrors.

Do you have examples of libraries that's actually a "parametrized query"? The python libraries I encountered (psycopg2, sqlalchemy) both seem to be "fake smoke and mirrors".
I have no idea. It's supposed to be the "nuclear" option of last resort, sociocracy is all about consensus, someone using their veto implies that the issue wasn't sufficiently discussed to reach consensus, so you done goofed.
I hadn’t seen that one before! Very cool plane. Even though it was designed long ago, physics doesn’t change…
Because of a different thread I thought of another subtle, yet similar example. Look at the Wikipedia entry for The Verge. It's a media product, a tech news site, all good. But it's a "left wing" site on the merits. Not a single mention of that in the Wikipedia article. There's a little bit of discussion about tabloid-style content on the Talk page, but it doesn't go anywhere. Even the Vox Media Wikipedia article makes no mention of this being a lefty business. Wild, isn't it?
The main issues I have with the (usually US right-wing talking point of) "All Swiss have arms at home!!1~" argument is that, yes, they do, except:

a) They don't have any ammo. So, i dunno.. throw your gun at an intruder...?

b) Ammo in any case is hard to procure

c) If you do your annual military training, the ammo handed out is checked/counted, and woe is you if you can't explain any missing ammo

d) You're seen as a near-sociopath weirdo if you brag about "weapons and ammo i have at home"

Citation: Spent my first 30 years in CH.
Imagine working on a flight controlller that has functions that produce the wrong values for flight control! "it's ok, something is better than nothing" is not true!
How do we know that shorter sleep causes lower mortality, instead of, say, that better health or some genes cause both?

Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t seen much of that evidence.
That is getting more likely the more time passes. Obviously for biological reasons but also because more and more people are incentivized to make it happen.
I haven't seen people cheering on the idea of nuclear conflict.

What I have seen is large groups of people taking the position that the West should not let Russia use threats of a potential Nuclear war to bully the west around too much. That the West should not back down just because Russia has Nukes and is threatening to use them.

Some of them may offer views that Putin might be bluffing, or that his command structure might not follow the order to launch a large scale strike. Or that Russian Nuclear weapons are probably so poorly maintained that they won't even get off the ground anyway.

But these people seem to generally accept that their position might lead to a full-scale nuclear conflict, and that's a risk that is worth taking.

I personally don't think these views should be descried as "cheering on the idea of a nuclear conflict", but there probably people taking on the position that anything other than avoiding further escalation counts as "pro nuclear conflict". I have absolutely seen Russian diplomats taking this position.
Normally, I'd find your comment amusing, but I know there are policy folks out there with decision-making power that are pushing similar utterly idiotic narratives. That's very scary.
What about your house?

I know it's reductio ad absurdum but people can have ideas about who they want living with them, and that's not bigoted or wrong. Is their desire less valid than the desire of the person wanting to live wit them? I can't see why it would be.

What we can say is that the right to self-determination, that is to have a say in how you are governed, is a fundamental human right. And surely that includes the right to have a country, have borders, and have immigration policies and controls.
Evolution of Sars-COV-2 in 2021 was toward more virulent, not less.
But the software back then couldn't do 1% of what software does today. It's a tradeoff.

You can run that old software in an emulato if that's all you want. And abandonware is free.
It’s an open source library that the author made for free in its free time. You either accept it as it is (check its License file), improve it, or walk away and use something else.
Sorry, that sentence doesn't make much sense as it is, could you please expand on it?
The Optimistic Thought Experiment (2008)
Super cool, they added fluorescent proteins that activate when the neurons fire and did it in a Zebrafish which is transparent so they could literally watch the memories forming. Interesting also they wanted to keep the light as low as possible to not scorch the little guys.
Native iOS dev is pretty easy to get started on these days, there's loads of material for both UIKit and SwiftUI. From my view it's easier than getting started on native Android dev by a good measure.

Native Mac dev on the other hand is another matter. The situation has improved some since then, but it's not too different from when I picked up Objective-C + Cocoa/AppKit back in the early-mid 00s, where nearly all instructional material came in the form of print or random tidbits scattered across various developer blogs.
I didn't say the US started it, my point is both countries made poor decisions which led to this outcome, not just Russia.

So instead of trying to assign blame, lets try to resolve this situation to all parties' benefit, rather than lionizing one side, and demonizing the other. Which ultimately means taking Russia's security concerns and legitimate grievances seriously, because if this gets out of hand, then it will be to the whole world's sorrow.
If Russia economy would be still locked out of advanced components we'd be buying their newly manufactured crap tanks at prices we dictate, which would be the price of recycled steel and smelt them back to raw material once they leave Russia. Since customer always buys those new tanks would be crappier and crappier.

Eventually we might offer them more money for ore than for tanks so making tanks to sell them is uneconomical for them.
We had a candidate with 'wrote dynamic sql' listed under a job he held previously. They also couldn't answer the question 'how do you prevent a sql injection attack'. He had something like 5 years of experience.

I don't understand how anyone but the greenest of devs doesn't comprehend the importance of these kind of things. But alas, I see it everywhere, including the comment you are responding to.
On the other hand Causcescu, and Milosevic ended up in a coup/mass revolt, and both dead.... (one by his own people, the other awaiting sentencing on a criminal tribunal)

So, plenty of counterexamples as well.
An argument can be biased, an American who never had to live under Putin's regime or in the social/economic context of Russia might not be able to understand that people don't choose to be born in such countries, or not see the wrongdoing of their own country.
Visa and Mastercard banned international payments with Russia.
> Previously you were all saying we're hysterical and there will be no invasion.

Who "we? US intelligence knew about the build-up and Putin has allegedly suggested the possibility to Biden ad well.

> I've had enough of Russian propaganda.

How is US professor a russian propaganda? He was saying in 2015 that it's not a good idea for nato to meddle in Ukraine and that would lead to invasion. No one heard.

> It's well known that it wants access to our (Romania's) mountains.

Well known by whom? Maybe by Romanians but definitely not Russians because it's the first time I hear that.

> Putin has already revealed that we want's the Republic of Moldova.

Source?
One could, yes. As far as I'm aware, even a matter of collective guilt (which is related but different from causation) is not exactly unanimously agreed upon between renown philosophers.

And just to be clear - I'm not saying it's true or false (heck, I have very mixed feelings), I'm saying it's arguable.
Just like Cuba, North Korea and Iran. Sanctions work and it doesn’t take long.
The next obvious question is, why is tooling so bad then? And would it have been so bad if we invested as much into RDBMS as we did into Node.js web-frameworks-of-the-day.
> researchers found a genetic sequence in SARS-CoV-2 virus which was patented by Moderna three years prior to pandemic

Tangential questions:

- Does the natural presence of a patented genetic sequence nullify the patent?

- If not, can a company that doesn't hold or pay for the patent 'copy' the naturally occurring genetic sequence and not be liable for patent infringement?

- Whether or not it occurred naturally, does the fact that it's "out there" in such a large way, not nullify the patent so much, but nullify the chances of being liable for patent infringement?
People are being told that they are fighting a just war. It will be very difficult for people to go against their leaders when they think the government is working for their own good. They will fight harder and longer against their enemy because in their mind they are doing the heroic thing.
If NATO fails to respond in kind or to escalate, then the deterrence policy has failed and everyone will be free to blackmail the West. NATO cannot show weakness in this regard. Please, think it through.
Why does an oven need this? Is the idea that everything will be connect to the internet and need the manufacturers permission to use? Will I need American Standard's permission to flush my toilet one day? Where does this end?

After reading this, I'd be pissed off: "Smart ovens require a WiFi connection for the best experience."

After reading this, I'd be absolutely besides myself: "Please connect to unlock the latest features and receive important software updates."

Of course all of this is just to collect data on you. Sooner or later, all these devices will have cameras and voice recorders to better "serve"/observe you with voice/face recognition/etc. "Smart" devices, "smart" homes, "smart" cars, etc. When will we get "smart" clothes. That'll be nice. Your zipper won't work unless it has a wifi connection to Gap.
I am reminded of the excellent "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" talk by Jonathan Blow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Soon: mysqljs.connection.real_query()
A lot of people with family in Russia will be able to tell you that their Russian side of the family supports Putin so much that they will not even believe their Ukrainian family members when they're telling them that they are getting bombed. I've seen it in my own extended family, heard it from others and there's also an article about it from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60600487

We should really not underestimate how much support there is for Putin in Russia.
Nonsense :)
A lot of stores in Russia are currently not accepting many credit cards, including domestic ones.

... And, as the cherry on top, ATM withdrawals have been blocked.

Presumably, this will all be figured out over the next week, but it's not great.
It's often framed as that, but Ukraine didn't really have nuclear weapons at the dissolution of USSR. There were nuclear weapons located on its territory, but they were all controlled by military units that regarded themselves as answerable to Moscow, not Kyiv. What Ukraine really agreed to was to agree that they didn't own them, and allow them to be physically removed, in exchange for the security guarantee.

This podcast is well worth a listen: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1215097/deterrence-i...
It would be insane to agree to any Russians promises given that they don't respect their current agreements. The only solution is for Russians to retreat from the occupied territories or have endless guerrilla war.
He shot down a passenger airliner and got away with it. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't give two fucks about shooting down NATO war planes. Just so we're clear on that.
Is there somehow more evidence of natural origin than lab leak? By common sense, this is what I mean: the strain of coronavirus that caused covid-19 was very strong, much stronger than any previous strain, and we have seen many. Common sense says we have seen all the strains Nature could throw at us already, and none have been that deadly. So common sense leads to looking for evidence i new light, in new places.

Also, evidence is not fact. Evidence is anything. Evidence was O.J. Simpson's hand didn't fit the glove. That was weak evidence, but that turned into "proof", via not-guilty verdict. Even proof is not fact (there are no facts lol). Evidence is anything you can find to solve the crime. After you collect evidence, you go through it at piece together the story. Read a book yo.
What if step 2 is Russia declaring that, as a sanction against economic sanctions, Yandex is nationalized? Can it avoid duty to existing stockholders?
But approaching NATO membership is a huge factor in causing the invasion to happen (not to excuse Putin's aggression and other war crimes, but it is true, this was a foreseeable consequence, and many foresaw it). You can read Russia's public statements and Wikileaks' US diplomatic cables from 2007/2008 giving credit to this position, and the trail of evidence carries all the way to the present and to policy thinkers like Mearsheimer (who I don't agree with at all philosophically, but he's one of the "realists" who is excellent at analyzing where the pressure points lie and what are the degrees of freedom). Abkhazia and South Ossetia should also be taken as further evidence that leaning too heavily towards NATO membership is what spurs invasion in the first place.

As for foreseeing things, I have to admit that I got several things horribly wrong in the lead up to the invasion. I was far too focused on criticizing NATO powers for ignoring the diplomatic track (where was the pressure to implement Minsk 2?) and for only shouting about invasion. The reason this deserved criticism is that such errant focus meant that eventually there might be an invasion. But my rhetoric and even train of thought focused almost exclusively on criticizing NATO on the basis of warnings that turned out to be quite accurate.
> Does not wanting to not die in a nuclear hellstorm put me on the fringe?

I didn't say it did (in fact, no one here did). If you want to make a point it will probably be listened to more without the ridiculous straw man.
Not really. Nothing is moving faster than the _local_ speed of light in the Schwarzchild metric.
Everyone hops on when the train is in station.
20 years ago our builder let us have any appliances from any source we wanted. My wife's company was doing a cross-promotion with GE at the time, and we got a decent discount on GE appliances so we loaded up. That turned out to be a mistake in hindsight.

I know there are builders that place a lot more restrictions on your choices so that they're always dealing with something familiar. I don't know how prevalent this is compared to my own experience, nor do I know how it has changed over the years.
Surely it's the ruling class and the war profiteers who owe that. The common person in the US has not wanted war or has been deceived and lied to by the aforementioned in order to get their support. And the common American has suffered as well, the loss of their sons and trillions of dollars.

Then they get told again by the very elites who started and profited from those wars in the first place that they are now bad people who have a responsibility to make amends for it! It's really sickening.

The idea that the common people "owe" anything for a war that has already stolen immeasurable value from them is class war propaganda. It's the same old privatization of war profits and the socialization of costs.
No, I think it clarifies the meaning quite substantially. Behave outside of the bounds of accepted civilized discourse, get 'canceled'.
When the Mac market was much smaller in decades past, there were several extremely high quality developers keeping their lights on by focusing on Mac only software.

Sure, the average developer will target the bigger slice of the pie. But as a user, I don't give a damn about the average developer, I only care about the very best software I can get. And the few developers that targeted MacOS benefitted from having very loyal customers that appreciated high quality software.
Frameworks are more valuable if you have to work with junior developers.