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Ukranian president played Ukranian president on TV before actually becoming him. He also used to dance topless in latex pants, and now he's symbol of a true modern wartime leader.

We live in South Park episode now.
This doesn't actually solve the problem, though. What's going on is that more systems are becoming reliant on "secure computing" to work properly, so (e.g.) Netflix won't stream full quality to your Linux PC.

On its own that may not seem like much, but the screws are being turned (albeit slowly). We'll reach a point where the only way to access any proprietary content on the web will also require running proprietary operating systems on DRM enabled hardware using secure boot. Banking sites won't work, video playback won't work, even access to textual content will eventually be restricted. This is because the browser vendors, the OS vendors, and the content distribution platforms are all colluding to create this future.

Linux on the desktop doesn't have enough users to push back in a meaningful way against this trend at this point (and I say that as a Linux user). 10 years ago, maybe, but now it's simply too late. Sure you'll still be able to run open source software on your Linux PC, and write your own code and run it, but you'll be prevented from accessing huge chunks of the Internet.
It helps me to think of my code/systems as livestock, not pets. I don't get emotionally invested in my work, or tie it to my self worth. Highly recommend.
Breathe. It's just software, we're not saving babies here. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/software-and-saving-babies
I think this is ultimately the healthiest balance. Bugs will happen, you shouldn't feel guilty unless you didn't even try your best to avoid them by at least having automated tests.
We need a much stronger indie dev scene. Drop me an e-mail anytime if I might be of help.
I'm guessing “plaything that the maker was amused by thinking about and putting together”.

If that isn't practical enough, maybe they learned/practised/refined something while doing it.
The US doesn't need 10x the number of doctors, nurses and hospitals. It needs to reduce costs in its existing healthcare system by a minimum of 1/3 to match other affluent peers. By doing so it could instantly expand Medicaid at little to no cost to around 40% of the population; it would make it a lot cheaper to backstop people with guaranteed coverage (no job, you're guaranteed Medicaid coverage, etc); it would make Medicare cheaper, which would reduce the deficits (now and in the future); and it would save households a lot of money on their health bills. The US has to shift further to a rationing care model (which is resisted in the US), as with all universal systems, to slash costs.

The US already has by far the world's most expensive healthcare system. Building a lot more hospitals would be a cost nightmare that would further drown the system.

US households are in excellent financial shape in terms of debt at both the median and the average, better than many of its peers (if you want to see horrific household finances, check out Scandinavia). US household monthly debt costs as a share of disposable income remain near the lowest levels in 40-50 years.

You could immediately reduce US military spending by $300 billion and it wouldn't make any consequential difference in the deficits problem the US is facing over the next 30 years, because it's overwhelmingly caused by required entitlement spending. There is no scenario where the US doens't run perpetual trillion dollar deficits, unless entitlements are reformed or taxes go way way up. We could already entirely get rid of the military and we'd still be facing enormous deficits in the coming decades, that's how bad it is.
What if you sell services, not products?

Take the payment in crypto, don’t ask where the customer is located.
I suspect you might be aware of this, but Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota serries takes this idea as a very significant part of its world building, and I highly recommend it if you're willing to sit though 4 doorstops of books for things to pay off. Reading just the first book for the worldbuilding is probably worthwhile on its own even if you're not going to commit to the serries.
If you think Putin and the neocons are the only ones playing chess, I have a bridge in NY to sell you.
Find someone who has done it before for your first idea, unless someone has written a book on all that (has anyone done a hardware development bootcamp?).

When you have a prototype, don't go to a trade show and display it without reviewing UC/FCC labeling guidelines. We were across the isle from a major modem company and the inspector came by, picked up a display prototype and it was unlabeled.

They got a $10 or $20K fine right there.
> I doubt an article like this will survive on HN. But I can't help hope that it will - it lays bare some of the "other side" that most people have no inkling of.

You must be joking. Hacker News is absolutely riddled with "other-side-ism" (whataboutism). To a ridiculous degree.

Look at the comments on this recent submission, "Moscow police officers stop people, request their phones to read their messages"[0]. An incredible number of the comments are comparing the video to American policies like Stop and Frisk and TSA screening, or to London police searches.

Even in the most absurd cases imaginable HN commenters love whataboutism because it's a way of signaling "I know a fact that's tangentially related to this".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578125
To be fair, to achieve the best multi-threaded performance in Azure the Dv2/Dsv2 version provides real cores and not threads.
There's far more to hardware than just designing the logic circuits (open source designs do exist such as Risc V) you also have to fabricate them and the processes for fabricating CPU's, GPU's and similar chips are probably the most advanced of any technology, requiring equipment that costs millions to billions of dollars.
> Visegrad countries have refused for years to help with the inflows from the Southern border

People have this incorrect perception that governments are all powerful.
The government in Poland did agree to take in refugees, but they lost the election a few months later.

The war on terror politics were amplified by misinformation campaigns. It was impossible for politicians to solve this problem.

> Maybe it's the time for everyone to grow up and accept that we need a new set of agreements on cross-continent

Sure, but how? People cannot even agree who is a refugee. Is it a person from Ukraine in Romania? What about next country? Is it still a refugee or a migrant?

It's extremely complex problem to solve with a lot of moral dilemmas (helping people in Mediterranean Sea means more people will try to cross, which results in more death)
I think of it like heat in a room.

In a normal room, the hottest air goes to the top of the room and the coldest air settles to the bottom, right?

However, if the room were to keep expanding, then there is more room at the top for the warmer particles to escape to. Since you stay the same height, the room will feel colder and colder to you even though the total amount of heat in the room stays the same.

As time goes on, unless the room's expansion is stopped or reversed, or temperature treated air is blown into the room to compensate for the difference or, failing that, platforms are provided that will raise you up from the colder areas into the warmer areas, you will eventually freeze to death as the ceiling steals all of the heat of the room, all because you cannot grow with the room.
Would Biden?
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1500505674991779842
I was curious whether they talked about the practicality of the whole setup, and they do, e.g.

> Electric kettles that run on grid power are often very powerful and boil water in a matter of minutes or even seconds. Boiling water using a bicycle generator will take a lot more time, but it’s perfectly possible. We acquired a commercial 12V electric kettle with a vacuum insulated reservoir of one litre. During a test, boiling water for one cup of tea took slightly more than one hour at an average power production of 60W.

To be honest, although I realize it would be ridiculous, but if inverters were small and cheap, I would personally prefer having an exercise bike plugged into the grid. That way my exercise energy would at least be useful to someone, somewhere.
" a customer recently complain about a bug, which we fixed in a few hours, but the next week they had to complain about the bug again because it was back."

Don't feel bad about the bug. Bugs happen. But the company should feel bad about the process that let it come back.

Can the process be fixed? That should be top priority.
Feeling guilty about bugs sounds appropriate.

In the sense that you care about the product.

Some people don't, they're there for the paycheck and don't uphold their end of the employment bargain. Or justify it by saying they're "too busy".

Some people might not litter on purpose, but occasionally something falls out of their car or bag, and they say, "Oops. Can't be bothered. It goes against the principle of leaving things better than how you found it.
It's true, and deeply unfair, that the Russian people will suffer for the mistakes of their leaders. That's always the way.

I disagree, though, that the sanctions aren't about principle, even though they certainly serve a strategic interest as well. The sanctions are the only way, short of direct war, to influence a foreign nation.
> Therefore his only option is to carry on in the hopes of getting to the point where he can claim some kind of victory

Just to add, he already moved his demands from "Surrender all of Ukraine" to "Surrender those two territories". The one horrible thing here is that there is no demand that he can "win" without harming a lot of innocent people, so he will keep pushing it, no matter how bad things get.
> Russia was promised no NATO expansion when the Warsaw Pact was terminated

This never happened, if it did please provide a link to the treaty text which proves it did.
LBMA bars six Russian gold refineries from the London market
> To help address that need, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity have committed under the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project to offer a broad suite of our products for free for at least the next four months to any United States-based hospital, or energy or water utility.

This just sounds like a glorified free trial.
I think what the OP is implying that the intelligence we find in nature is not isolated computation but is physically situated - it can sense and manipulate it's environment.

The current DNN based approach do not do that. Sure you can create an autonomous vehicle that uses NN to help navigate - but it does not update it's inference if it is incorrect. That immediate feedback doesn't exist or rather it is not accessible to the system itself. One has to collect the data, retrain the network and deploy it again to close the loop.
If I copy a digital object, I'm not taking anything at all: I'm making a brand new instance, identical to the original. I pay for the computer hardware and electrical power necessary to make the copy, and for the storage space it lives in.
Most of their civilian planes are Boeing and Airbus, then much further down in numbers Tupolev et al. While there had been efforts to revive civilian aircraft industry, the only recent model is the Sukhoi Superjet 100, which is relatively small and limited to regional flights.
See, why I prefer mine is; storage is (effectively) free, focused attention is not.

Inbox Zero requires you to seriously think and evaluate every single email, but my way allows me to subconsciously triage.

And I just realized why it's so effective and feels so effortless -- it uses a mental mechanism that we all must use everyday, unfortunately; it's the same filter that lets us ignore advertising (e.g. billboards), which we've all had to practice anyway.
Bugs are a part of life and I think it's safe to say that we don't intentionally put Bugs on our code. Therefore, while your guilt is justified, I don't think you should let yourself be overwhelmed from it. The best thing you can do is to double, and triple check that you don't lose data because even if users face down-times, they'll be mostly fine. But the same thing can't be said for data loss.

Apart from ensuring that all parts of the code are covered via appropriate tests, and being responsive to the customers' complaints, there isn't much you can do.
Let's hope "money makes might" is higher on the list than "might makes right" heh
Thats your opinion and you have zero evidence for it.
While I have the official statement from the Swiss gov + the timeline of their actions.
BTW they declined sanctions and only after the EU sanction where in place and they reviews them they decided to join (most) sanctions. There reason for the change were the actions of others (and not a 180° switch in foreign politics) its obvious and well documented.

Also sanctions are not "for" picking sides but for punishing wrongdoings (in this case breaking international law) they could easily put sanction on "both" sides if appropriate, in fact there are already sanction in place because of the Swiss neutrality, Swiss companies can not sell/export military equipment to Ukraine (or Russia).

The fact that other counties can be used to circumvent sanction is false argument.
Switzerland is the financial hub of Europa and could diminish the effect the sanction have. Beside that the sanctions are designed to have an effect despite possible circumvention.
thanks, that's good to know
Finland, Romania, and pretty much every eastern European country in WW2.
I don't think that I suggested not to focus on larger things.

My argument is actually about focusing on the larger and important things instead of being a device in the fight of the political class.

Oh and understanding how society works is definitely of great value, what I find great waste of human life and resources is to participate in the fight of sociopaths who try to interfere with the workings of the society to skew it in their favour.
FWIW, if it in any way comes off like I'm blaming Max for this, I'm not. Anyone blaming Max for how vulnerabilities are disclosed is completely ignorant of the kernel reporting process.
How about this: customers, as you put it yourself, begged their bosses to sign up for an expensive plan. That tells me that your software is still better than whatever they had before, even with the (occasional) bugs.
You're confusing Autopilot with FSD.

Also, we don't know yet if the Tesla crash is due to the auto braking, do we?
The three special cases are unnecessary (see my top-level comment).

Implementations that terminate early might seem faster at fist glance, but they can actually be slower: they only save 1 iteration on average*, and they require up to 2 branches in each iteration instead of 1. The cost of doubling the number of branches can outweigh the savings (1 iteration out of log2(n)). A possible exception is if the comparison function is expensive and returns a rich comparison (less/equal/greater), in which case it might make sense to perform the 2 branches.

But a much more significant disadvantage of terminating early is that when the target element appears multiple times, there is no guarantee which occurrence will be found.

*Incomplete proof that the saving is only 1 iteration on average: n/2 cases will not terminate early, n/4 will terminate 1 iteration early, n/8 will terminate 2 iterations early, n/16 will terminate 3 iterations early, etc. So the total saving is n/4*1 + n/8*2 + n/16*3 + ... which is at most n (the proof is the same as for the time complexity of the "heapify" operation).
They are not going to hit a city of course but a piece of the military infrastructure should NATO forces get involved. (And the target will not be in one of the Baltic states, I am sure.)
The cloud is so much more expensive than dedicated that you need far greater than 2x spikes in usage to make it worthwhile. For instance a video game that suddenly goes viral and you need to scale up 1000x overnight.

All cloud providers have pretty poor uptime records. Unless you set up multiple geo zones (extra complexity) your app will go down when aws-east does.
JS naming conflicts: How existing code can force proposed features to be renamed
Because access to foreign currencies is quite limited in Russia right now.

$1 in cash is worth more than $1 in your Russian bank account.
I'm past the edit period, but:

> if I recall correctly, you just chop off the GZIP header.

...to get the raw DEFLATE stream, that is. You still need to attach any necessary metadata for PKZIP, which Max mentions. Their approach for converting between the two is pretty clever: it's so elegant and simple that it seems obvious, but I never would have thought of it. Very nifty, @max_k!
>give him welfare and a system to blame, and he'll happily and loyally stay down forever.

So.....farmers?

The welfare tropes are so exhaustingly played out, especially when all data shows that red voters get far more welfare.

https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...

This applies in most states at the local level too:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/why-are-w...

Also, you're ignoring the voters who explicitly tell us why they're voting that way: "he's not hurting the people he needs to be": https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...
Blameless company culture can help on this a lot. FB had “move fast and break things” so people would not feel bad about breaking things and instead would focus on fixing them. Other companies may have improved versions of this culture.

Think of this in contrast to working at a place where, if there is a production bug the lead’s first instinct once finding said bug is to git blame who did it.

Leadership should be encouraging breakages as long as there is a review of the bug, remediation, and a fix put in place to prevent it from happening again. That should be rewarded in any performance reviews.
From a nerdy standpoint, SPL competition is AMAZING.

The amount of math that goes into a proper enclosure design and to fit it properly in a vehicle is really fun. It's not going too much further than geometry, but theory can go far further. The differences that exist in rounded vs square ports vs flared ports, sealed vs ported vs bandpass box design, standard vs inverted vs isobaric mounting... the list keeps going.

To get the loudest, it's not always about adding the most power possible. The enclosure, capabilities of the subwoofers, power delivery, even the acoustic properties of the shape of the vehicle itself are all factors. Adding the weight of all the components usually means the vehicle's suspension needs upgraded. Higher output (or multiple) alternators need to be able to produce enough power. Extra batteries are added to support peak power for longer periods. Gaining DBs at high levels is exponentially more work as you continue to go higher.

The DB Drag events really showcase the hobby best. Much like how people tinker with their engine's performance and test it at a drag strip to see just how fast they can go, others tinker with how loud they can get their bass to go.

As noted by other commenters, these systems can be annoyingly loud when used at late hours, busy locations, or residential areas. The exact same can be said of people driving their cars way too fast / aggressively. Any hobby needs to have situational awareness to be respectful of its surroundings.

Anyone interested, https://www.diymobileaudio.com/ is likely one of the best information sources, both for current and historical SPL information.
This is an amazing argument considering what the US is going through right now.

Also, considering how many of these 'conservative' countries were created by US & European regime change policy. Your elected officials shoved these fuckers on us.
Unless Russia decides to completely move off of "petrodollar"...they've already started to back RUBLE with gold and one of their largest oil suppliers, Rosneft, has moved to EURO as their default currency.
How about a translator like this: translate (tr) [word, from, to]
That was my question too... to get practical use out of it in terms of transferring value, 9/10 it goes back to fiat - and that's going to be centralized in a majority of the cases.

I can buy some hosting services with crypto, but pretty much everything else I'm involved with requires USD or equivalent.

I also like to make my purchases at a whim - crypto jumping up/down with the moment means one payment today could've been two tomorrow. I try to spend it well but this is unnecessary calculus
How is it disingenuous to compare?

According to Russia they are fighting neo-nazis, which is same as the US saying that they are fighting terrorists.

It's only disingenuous to compare if you fully believe one side, if you look at it critically, you would be hard pressed to not see them as the same thing.

You have to be quite naive to believe that the US spends money attacking countries out of the kindness of their hearts and not to protect their interests(not other's), which sometimes means killing a "few" civilians or wrecking a country or two. Just look at all the horrible stuff China did and the Myanmar mass killings where the US didn't even bat an eye, because there was nothing to be gained.
or maybe there is an advantage to not cover your own invasions as it makes claiming moral high ground more difficult.
Could this help nouveau?
Alright - this is mostly off topic, but I see this website pop up here fairly frequently, and I really really hate the battery level indicator.

I find it makes reading the actual content far more difficult than it should be.

I get that it's intentionally drawing attention to the fact that this site is solar powered, but it pulls my eye to the line literally every time I scroll.

I end up closing the tab out without finishing the article - it bothers me so much.

Personally - I'd really love to have an option to hide it. I'm completely down for showing it by default - but after a minute or two on the site, the novelty has worn off and I'd really rather focus on reading your content.
The nationalist Orthodox Church leaders are quasi-government employees. An intelligent officer is attached to their office and write their sensitive speeches for them. Kinda of open secret among the Orthodox faithful (who, at least in America) ignore these kinda of things.
It is, isn't it?

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...
> maybe some of those conventions are outdated

If you want to make this case, you have to make it on a case-by-case basis. It isn’t sufficient to say something is outdated, you have to make the case as to why it is worth changing now.

They got a lot right in the original Macintosh, and they refined what they had a lot throughout the entire Classic and Mac OS X eras.
This may be the weirdest suggestion you'll get today, but if you like plants at all, try bonsai.

That is one of the most concrete lessons I've had on the consequences of continuing to fiddle with something instead of leaving it alone, observing, and planning for the next time it's appropriate to touch it. Most beginners end up loving their plants to death.

Since software is made by people, it has characteristics that could be seen as organic. You can kill it like a tree, or help it become what it wants to become with minor suggestions from you.