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I thought Putin would not ultimately invade since the cost would be significant for Russia and destroy any favorable views some Ukrainians might have had.

It could be that the order to attack wasn't really planned. Putin doesn't seem to be the impulsive type, but maybe something happened.

Although Russia did warn that it was ready to initiate a war. The real analysts the should get credibility are those that said that war with Russia is becoming more probable for a few decades now. Short term prediction like that he would attack in three month are nothing more than bets in my opinion. It does not infer credibility or knowledge.
As usual correlation don't imply causation. My uncle was a professional national level runner, he was the healtier person that I know: he ran several kilometers every day, ate correctly, no drinking, no smoking, sleep at least 8 hours/day, etc.
He died from cardiovascular problems.

This not means that a correct and healty lifestyle is not going to reduce the risk, but it's not the only factor.
In Poland they give you option for sedation, but advise against it because sedation disables the feedback from patient and that slightly increases the risk of complications. When they do the procedure they ask how you feel and when it gets too uncomfortable they change the angle etc.

I've had like a dozen of colonoscopies (have to be checked every year cause of risk factors), and they were never really painful.
Apparently, it doesn't interest non-activist hackers, who may or may not be the majority on here. Many of us come here for article quality, and some people raving over minute details of some war (of which there are several going on at any given point in time, most of them being ignored) just don't meet the 'interesting' threshold.

That a lot of these uncharacteristically saber-rattling articles come from very new accounts, like yours, doesn't help. It makes them look like orchestrated spam.
> You cannot trust Russia right now

Would you explain why? And can US be "trusted"?

> Only Belarus and Syria

That's very far from reality. China most certainly would, knowing the situation and reasons for invasion.
To expand a bit on what I said, I think if you have a circle of friends that you mostly communicate with online, and they're the ones that send you links and things, that group will be led by whomever has the strongest opinions. That person is likely to be the most extreme member of the group simply because extremists (relatively speaking) are more likely to hold and espouse views. A whole bunch of people don't really have strong views, they just bob along with the tide. So basically you end up being dragged by a lunatic in the direction of more lunatics. Then you end up screaming incoherently at someone who doesn't wear a mask and calling them a murderer and wondering why people think you're a weirdo.
> The self defense claim for Afghanistan is just as flimsy as Russian claim of self defense in ukraine (they harbour our ennemies/nazis/etc).

Aha, so Bin Laden and Al Qaeda weren't hiding in Afghanistan?
NATO was originally created to curb Soviet Union. Then Soviet Union went away, and there was a period of time where it seemed that NATO is no longer needed, because Russia no longer seemed like an offensive and expansionist nation.

That theory was obviously false, and we should have seen in 2014 that it was. Perhaps many people actually did.

If there's a mistake in here, it is that not more countries are in NATO yet.
> I use Safari because of Chrome's memory bloat, Safari's text message MFA auto-fill features, and Safari's cross-platform (iOS/macOS) password manager.

What do you think of Firefox? :)
I do not claim to be enlightened, I am as flawed as my peers ;)
Even things that people don't usually associate with cancer have an impact, such as alcohol consumption, medication, oxidative stress caused by diet etc...
I think economics is a major hurdle for Ukrainian EU membership. Their GDP/capita is less than $4,000. EU average is 8x that.

I'm sure there are many other issues as well.
If it makes you feel any better, the study that claimed that left-handed people have a much shorter life expectancy has been debunked: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23988352. Left handed myself...
Nice idea! I grabbed a couple Dragonlights from Amazon - there are a bunch of knockoff models, but quite a few quality control issues with ones that aren't from the official Dragonlight store, just FYI.
Pretty good summary. Personally, I would have thought that Putin is smarter than this, I really did. Dangerous, deeply undemocratic for sure, but not stupid. He played the West, and NATO, for years as he pleased. He created opportunities for Russia and China that didn't even remotely exist before. And then he threw all that away for a pointless war, one he might very well be loosing, a war that will only drive even more of hos direct neighbors into the arms of NATO. A war that also creates the global climate that those countries can, without any big problems, actually join NATO. All that while isolating his country, destroying his legacy and utterly ruining Russia's economy, to a point where he might very well throw Russia back to the early 90s.

No idea why he thought any of that was worth the risk...
You can find it elsewhere. It’s likely to be good, considering they seem well-informed and wealthy enough to take advantage of that information. In any case, here we go: (the husband, but likely also the wife)

> Nithin starts off his day with coffee just before his workout, and then has oats and whey protein. Then for his breakfast he has egg whites and vegetables with the water of a tender coconut. Around noon, he has a glass of fruit juice along with the fiber in it, without straining it. For his lunch, he usually has some dal and some quinoa as he switched from rice to quinoa a while back because his gut feels much better with that. In the evening, he snacks on some healthy cheese and crackers. Dinner for him is usually non-vegetarian, and since he loves fish, it's mostly fish and some vegetables.

https://www.mensxp.com/health/celebrity-fitness/99836-zerodh...

Honestly, seems pretty good and they’re clearly in good shape.
Build better houses? Bay Area has nice weather and sunlight. Still so dark inside most apartments.
This was flagged and it’s not clear why?
Also healthy isn't universal. What is healthy for one person and not be for another!
You are probably very right, I agree with all of your points. However, this is what I meant by "rational within his ideology". He created this situation by surrounding himself with bootlickers and punishing any differing opinions. He effectively built an information bubble for himself and he may act rational within that bubble but totally irrational for anyone outside of it - even players like China who won't publicly state that. After all, their benefit is breathtaking.
> 1. He incorrectly assumed that he'd only be facing minor sanctions for starting a war of aggression

Russia's biggest source of income is their export of gas and oil. These are not sanctioned, the West is buying as much as ever and the profits are flowing straight into Putin's war chest.

> 2. He incorrectly assumed that Ukraine would fold in less than a week.

How do you know this? Russia has fought wars before, e.g. in Chechnya. They eventually won after bombing the whole country to ruins, but it took several years.
Processes that take ages are never "easy to write" nor "easy to troubleshoot". This turns into shitty code, because you won't get any sane person to spend weeks instead of days on that. It's bad for morale.

It's the same narrative people use for many complexity or slow things
That's how urban warfare goes. Either prolonged Sarajevo-style siege waiting for surrender, or brutal block by block demolition until there's no place where defenders can fire from. The logic of urban warfare hasn't really changed since Stalingrad or Berlin

It's also likely the reason the Russian advance stalled. Neither party really wants to go through that hell
The point about regretting not spending more time with family makes me really sad. Slaving away in a high pressure cooperate job is a sure way to miss out on what’s really important.
How healthy was the average diet a) historically and b) since the advent of colonoscopies?
That #10 step isn't on Fiji, Fiji isn't 1ms away from .au
This was jokingly called the “graduate student algorithm” in the context of fractal image compression. http://mcs.csueastbay.edu/~grewe/CS6825/Mat/Compression/Frac...
test262 is a conformance test and as such mostly runs small test-snippets once to verify, what counts here is setup, parsing and first-run execution.

While V8 has added a fast first-stage interpreter there are probably a ton of other overheads when starting a V8 context as well as "inefficiencies" related to preparing code for later JIT optimizations.

So for more CPU intensive code written in JS where the JIT activates the tables shifts radically, compare QuickJS with V8 (JIT-less) and V8 (JIT) on benchmarks, particularly Raytrace, Crypto and NavierStokes that should be pushing the computation performance. https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
Even besides the literal crimes against humanity, the .io domain really doesn't need to exist - what with the British Indian Ocean Territory having no permanent population and really not being a country at all.
Check your machines, issue is fixed in 5.16.11, 5.15.25, and 5.10.102
Well yes. Artillery bombardment is THE Russian military doctrine. Any uncertainty on the headline would mean assuming Russia had developed some unusual qualms on the subject. And why would they?

It seems to me that among the moral outrage people kind of lost touch with reality. There is some basic facts, take it here from the German public broadcast

>According to its president, Russia is seeking the "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine. However the government in Kiev sharply rejects the demand for neutral status.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/russland-ukraine-ge...

There is an actual war. Russia wants something that the Ukrainian government sharply rejects. They are in range of multiple cities and gave evacuation notices days ago. What do you think will happen next? Why wouldnt the next step be Grozny? Because the western public is outraged and appalled? Because those things dont happen in todays day and age? There can be no NATO intervention without triggering WW3. Any sanctions left would be oil which the economy of most western countries likely cant stomach.

If Ukraine continues to resist the very likely result is that it will burn. Feelings and stories dont change any of that. Russian artillery will likely turn house after house, street after street and city after city into rubble. Not some individual shelters, not some tv stations. Everything.
That's one option. Another option is that Russia would have swallowed the Baltics like they did to Belarussia and are currently trying to do to Ukraine. In which case the world would not be more peaceful. We would have the exact same problems as before, just with a larger Russia.

If Russia wants peace, perhaps it should start by allowing peaceful protests inside its own borders.
> This is precisely the approach being followed by Russia in Ukraine

I don't see anything wrong with Russia's goals per se... only in how they choose to pursue them: everybody was playing an economic and psychological game for the `minds & wallets` of Ukrainians, and Russia got mad because they were loosing and strolled in with tanks...

Russia is like that kid on the playground that always got mad when he lost at a game and went violent on everyone smashing the toys and swinging fists around...

The only thing this turn is that the unruly kid actually did get cheated on (wrt. the promises to limit NATO expansion after '89), so you can't just tell him to put down... you'd need to appease him with something to make up for it. But Europe has the (understandable) "never appease expansionist tyrants again" stance, so we're stuck in this bloody mess...
Potential cause of Covid-19-induced loss of smell identified
Memory-management bugs like use-after-free and double-free? Both cause undefined behaviour.
(author here)

> I was thinking about Simple Dynamic Strings but I like this better.

Oh! here's my chance to plug https://github.com/alcover/stricks ! It follows the same principle as SDS (i.e user-facing type is char*) but is much faster (see bench) and frankly nicer to read through.

Not as feature complete, though.*
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In my experience, the entire process takes up about 3 days: 2 for the colon cleansing, 1 for the process and recovery from sedation and possible biopsies.
I mean, it isn't like Hadoop wasn't used to parse text files. Also, it is all fun and games until you need a join.
Oh come on, there are plenty of people in history who are willing to sacrifice their family for fame or fortune.

You might not think it’s rational but it’s fairly common. Saying it’s irrational is explaining away pretty common behaviour with “they aren’t like me so they’re idiots”.

Except it’s more your own empathy that’s lacking for understanding another perspective.
And then what? Is Europe and the USA expecting that he will just stop the invasion afterwards?
HN is also flagging posts that critique Putin's approach to Ukraine's problem, Scholz's approach to Ukraine's problem, Zelensky's approach to Ukraine's problems, Macron's approach to Ukraine's problem, ...

HN is for tech focused news and sometimes other noteworthy things, but the war is now old news and the little tidbits here and there aren't interesting enough to make the grade.
I think it depends. It doesn't hurt for you but it does for me. I had to take some pain killers during mine. The doctor told me that having a bigger belly would help, though I should not become fat for the next time.
If a project supports cmake, this is the best package manager to fetch it https://github.com/cpm-cmake/CPM.cmake
> This is where I did a spit take. I was really underestimating the capacity for these "mini" reactors. Being able to power so many homes (and being more centralized than I thought) means these reactors would still require huge infrastructure investment in order to spread the power.

AFAIK the initial plan is to place them in locations that had nuclear plants already (many being decommissioned)

One advantage of this is the power distribution infrastructure from there is already in place (plus UK has a national power distribution grid anyway)
I'm late to the party, but https://fiji.gov.fj/ worked for me, although it was rather slow to load.

I'm in England, for what that's worth.
To back that up - the Chagosian claim is backed by the UK and rulings at the International Court of Justice. The UN supports Mauritius' claim to the territory.
After being diagnosed with colon cancer when I was 26, I'd say start even earlier. Don't settle for "it's probably just hemorrhoid's". That's the reason my kids will start when they are 16.

Does anyone know why I got cancer? No. Does it really matter? Honestly, no.

Just to re-iterate the point: Go through all the screening you can, cancer (of any form) is easer treated when caught early. Or even prevented.
> red line

Only relevant red line is border of sovereign nation. No NATO member was forced to join - they actually asked to join in order to prevent invasion like the one which is in Ukraine now.

> expansion of the West

Isn't is cynical to call it expansion of the West while no-one except Russia expanded beyond borders of Russia? It is just expansion of Russia.
No, they were caused by people not wanting to go to restaurants or travel when they were constantly hearing ambulance sirens outside their window. Also, if your grandparents are dead or you don't want your children exposed you're still incapacitated (via depression, providing childcare, etc) even if personally safe.

Hong Kong is currently providing an example of what happens when you keep society running (via incoming travel bans) so well that nobody bothers getting vaccinated for when it does break through. But since that's omicron, which is a bit milder, they're still doing better than we would've done.
> Would buying an option be less risky for the broker? Even when they enable "risk management" do you think they would halt option trading?

With the caveat that whilst I'm familiar with the financial sector, I'm no expert in structured products...

My understanding is that if the broker has sufficient internal volume, then what will happen is they will just Net-Net internally.

By that I mean match trades, i.e. Alice puts on a Buy for 10 and Bob puts on a Sell for 10 (or <10). By definition its not possible for both of them to "win", so the "loser" will pay the other person's winnings as well as the broker's commission.

If there is insufficient volume whether due to lack of clients or a particular product is particularly volatile / illiquid, then the broker may then take steps to hedge externally. In that case yes, they may use options, futures, swaps or any other derivative products (typically they only use derivatives to hedge, but sometimes they might use physical trades).

Regarding halting trading, typically this is only done in extreme circumstances where they themselves cannot get a handle on what's going on (see the unexpected unpegging of the Swiss Franc for a good example).

Otherwise in most cases, what will normally happen is they will ramp up the margin requirements which will (a) discourage most traders (b) provide them with enough breathing space for the traders that still wish to participate.
We're so suddenly becoming bureaucratic? Even the term is centuries-old French, suggesting it's not such a sudden phenomenon. And formal rules for concepts which didn't exist before are documented at least as far back as Hammurabi's Code.

The piece has a myopic view of the past.

And the obvious result of rules and scrutiny of conversations? That results in echo chambers.

The piece also has a myopic view of the future.
An active CCTV feed does not a verifiable source in and of itself make.
I have a colleague who insists that that docker is the C++ package manager. I dunno, I've tried to see his point of view but as a usability issue it seems like far too much complexity to just use Docker as a package manager. Compared to something like Cargo for Rust, Docker is incredibly complicated and nags you all the time about installing upgrades. And my understanding is that Docker has non-zero performance impact, right?
I've had good experience with this Chinese model from Amazon [0].

It's 60W, and it's been working fine for 10h a day for more than two years.

[0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B078YC481V/
> How can this war ever be "worth it" for Putin? Ukrainians will never accept the occupation force

You're assuming an occupation of all of Ukraine is the endgame.
MH370: Aviation’s Unsolved Mystery
I wish the government published statistics on healthy-years-of-life-lost-per-year-covered for each private insurance agency.
Do you sincerely believe crypto won't be regulated if it would become widely used?

And yes, regulation, done right, is a good thing.
thick and heavy are generally counterproductive to flying.
I raise you a whole VM.

Seriously, the reproducibility and ability to share a vm is amazing, especially with gzip.
But sovereignty is a matter of perspective too. Just frame it in a way that Ukraine belonged to Russia in the first place and the contradiction vanishes. This position is even more harmonic in relation to politics towards Taiwan.
They spent 100 billion pounds on lateral flow tests alone. I enjoyed the free test kits as much as everyone else, but think of the infrastructure that could have paid for.
A column of atmosphere 1m^2 in area weighs about 10 metric tonnes.

The thin Al skin of an aeroplane might as well be nothing at all by comparison.
I am not an energy expert but isn't 50 gigawatts extremely low? Whats the path forward for replacing our energy consumption on a larger scale?
Also she mentioned working primarily in cities. You know, the location on our lovely planet where pollution is highest. It's a rather understated cause when searching for "why I got cancer", but pollution will do changes to your body that are still researched and still much not understood.
Physics will always heavily favor the attacker here. It's like a difference between throwing a stone at a target vs. throwing a stone to hit a flying stone mid-air with enough momentum to meaningfully change the trajectory. The second task is orders of magnitude more difficult to carry out
Make an exception for gasifier furnaces.
Don't call it a nuclear reactor, but sustainable salt energy
This is completely out of context. In 2010 Yanukovych won the vote and flat out declared that he would be halting all efforts to join the EU/NATO etc. This is what eventually triggered the EuroMaidan protests.

It's also not so difficult to imagine that this was a response within a larger picture of two-way communication at the time. All the above says is 'welcoming aspirations' - basically 'we're happy that you want to join the club, you will be allowed in in the future if you stay on track'.
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/evacuation-rou...

Mined by whom?

> However looking at your other activity, I would have to present article from Russia Today

Mainstream western media now is heavily biased for the simple fact that it most of the time even don't report what the Russians are saying on the same matter.

I'm checking al jazeera which at least reports both sides.
this is a terrible philosophy, and one of the reasons everything sucks
> Isn't is cynical to call it expansion of the West while no-one except Russia expanded beyond borders of Russia? It is just expansion of Russia.

Nope, no one is denying Russia's expansion, nor China or the next superpower.

The only hypocrisy would be recognizing Russia's expansion and not the West.

The conservative argument is that the world should be kept as is, and whoever makes the first move is to blame for breaking that balance. Putin thinks the West did it first, before this Ukrainian invasion. The West thinks the Ukrainian invasion is the first move of any party, and its done nothing this whole time
There are people in Eastern Europe who call [1] the arrogance statement like yours.

[1]: https://www-capital-bg.translate.goog/politika_i_ikonomika/v...
I can't understand the sentence : "Each night, a different company would try to outdo the others with a lavish party designed for frat boys that would fall feebly at the feet of a Dungeons & Dragons crowd."
can someone explain it ? What is the implied link between big parties and 'Dungeons & Dragons crowd' ?
From the NYT article:

>Ukrainian forces were engaged in clashes nearby, but not at the site where civilians were moving along the street. Outgoing mortar rounds could be heard from a Ukrainian position about 200 yards away.

>The shelling suggested either targeting of the evacuation routes from Irpin, something of which the Ukrainian authorities have accused the Russian army after a railroad track used for evacuations was hit on Saturday, or disregard for the risk of civilian casualties.

So the ukrainians were launching mortars from the area and civilians got caught in the crossfire ... it's not exactly russians blackmailing civilians. Still their fault I guess for invading in the first place but this is not exactly a war crime, the ukrainians knew they were also firing from a civilian position.

Edit: there's also evidence of Ukrainian soldiers being in the same street, because keep in mind all the videos of the aftermath don't match always the videos of the shooting either. In some of the videos in which we don't see any Ukrainian soldiers, the russians seem to be shooting warning shots in the air, while in those with confirmed casualties there seem to be Ukrainian soldiers in the same street (meaning there was probably a crossfire situation)
Or if you get brain damage too. To be honest and perhaps we will never know, discussion on the topic made me believe that brain damage was just as endemic as Covid now is.