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Yes, but different people will care more or less about different things and thus vote for different parties which all have to work together to form coalitions, which in theory then have to reflect a negotiated compromise among the different things that different people care about.

It’s not perfectly efficient, and it can suffer from the problem you’re describing, but far less severely than the US system does.
Israelis will be in for a very bad after backing and helping russia. They forgot too quickly how jews have been treated there.
Android phone could have stalkerware
This is important and horrifying, and the BBC live coverage was one outrage after another.

But HN is still feeling the previous few days of HN outrages (which involve tech).

Are we going to have outrage fatigue, and let even more injustices slide? How do we manage that, and what is HN's place?
This is a summery by a right-wing influencer who clearly has a massive bias. Do with that information what you will.
Oh? How about being held 18 months on remand if you don't automatically plead guilty? Perhaps read the sentencing guidelines for s127.
Sometimes the collection of headlines and links tells a story "US Intel shows Russia and China trying to recruit disgruntled federal employees" from another post in /new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211000
If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots. Several European leaders visited this week bending the knee to try and stave off tariffs. Time to stand up, realise the US is no longer a reliable ally, and start building (on all fronts - military, manufacturing, tech, etc). Given the American people voted for this guy twice - the second time in spite of Jan 6th and multiple indictments against him - there's no reason to believe the next person they vote in won't be worse.
For the love of god could you engage with a single argument anywhere in this entire thread?
Russia had both a navy base and an air base in Syria. They used the navy base to project power into the Mediterranean Sea and the air base to protect power into Africa (Wagner Group logistics, and air cargo transport of cash bribes and conflict minerals).
I don’t think Trump has the sophistication to be a Russian agent. The sad truth is just that he’s wannabe dictator who admires Putin as a role model. Russia is as surprised at their luck as anyone else.
> One way to avoid a two-continent war is to lend money to our European ally to buy weapons from us.

I agree and prefer this method, but certain European states (looking at you Germany) will also have to drastically increase military spending as well.

The pot of military financial aid also needs to go to Asian allies like Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Philippines along with aligned states like Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and India.

> Another way is to sacrifice one continent

Which I dislike but is something the Trump admin has appeared to have chosen.
Unfortunately it's an old site, and the deeper links within are broken. There aren't any court rulings yet that are directly on point with respect to the question of access. However, if the Government is conditioning press access based on viewpoint, that's immediately suspect, and I would expect the courts to apply strict scrutiny to it.
Because we have the 1st Amendment. It's (correctly) very hard to combat people just saying stupid shit in the US.
If Ukraine falls - it’ll absolutely get sanctioned. It’ll be Russia in all but name.

Same with Afganistan - the government the US set up fell and the Taliban took over - of course they get sanctioned.
but that says nothing about what Fisher was thinking, so while your opinion is valid, it's not more valid than the comment you replied to, especially when your comment mimics the structure of his comment in the way I pointed out.
I bet this is all a part of Trump's strategy into pushing Europe into geopolitical irrelevance. And if it counts for anything, the Europeans did this to themselves by relying on the goodwill of America for their own security.
The refugees started coming months before Russia's involvement, after the organized campaign with the pictures of a dead young boy on the shore.
> Einstein was famously a pacifist, opposed to the concept of war.

And then his mind changed when confronted with WWII. “I am a pacifist in principle, but I am not an absolute pacifist.”

>“it’s okay to let this go on forever because technically Russia is the invader”?

There is no "technically". Russia is the invader. Russia can leave at any time and there will be peace very quickly.
I’m not saying you’re wrong because I have no idea how to rigorously evaluate the merit of your financial advice. That’s why I have a financial planner instead of going by the most credible sounding comments on the internet.
I'm pretty sure that's what Trump wants if the mineral deal isn't signed. And now the mineral deal seems more and more unlikely.
They have, but they need to double it. You can't count on the US anymore, and Ukraine needs a lot more than it's getting.

And let's face it, the EU can easily afford it. Sure it hurts a bit. But more war with Russia hurts a lot more. The cheapest way out is to stop Russia in Ukraine, and not give him the opportunity to try again in a few years.
The U.N vote is a good point but doesn't negate which countries did or didn't do things in relation to this war in the last three years.

And after all Ukraine is far away for a lot of the world (but Russia maybe not so much).
Simple. If I'm Russia, I would do everything I could to directly fund every pacifist academic possible, and literally anything that bogs things down, especially if it gives moral fuzzies on paper. Nothing is more useful than something that wastes time, increases complexity, while being tied into morals and worldview, causing it to be impossible to question why or where the push is coming from.

"Put your guard down, there's no credible threat."

"Gender equality in the military? Expensive, complicated - do it!"

"Additional rules for soldiers? Expensive, complicated - do it!"

"Do we really need a military this large? Nah, downsize!"

"The US would never not follow their promises, real or implied."

"The UN is a powerful and effective safeguarding body; trust them."

"International law is a powerful and effective deterrent against invasions."

"Maybe the military should be focused on more civilian improvement activities."

"Can we start researching whether we could be a post-militarized society?"
Interesting. I haven’t seen an infinite loop either, but I can imagine one if a comparator tries to be too “clever” for example if it bases its comparison logic on some external state.

Another common source of comparator bugs is when people compare floats or doubles and they don’t account for NaN, which is unequal to everything, including itself!

In Java, the usual symptom of comparator bugs is that sort throws the infamous “Comparison method violates its general contract!” exception.
The EU member states have their own foreign policy and extensive veto rights within the federation. It is not so strange that the EU itself has been slow, if anything I think we have pulled together better than expected.

Individual member countries range from having done a lot fairly quickly to active sabotage. We have member countries like Hungary and Slovakia, who are firmly aligned with the Russian side, as if 1956 and 1968 and the entire iron-curtaint-thing never happened.
Unless the EU can substantially step up its military aid, that's the outcome they're going to get. There is one card that Zelensky and Europe could play, and that's European peacekeepers guaranteeing security. But that's boots-on-the-ground, and I'm not sure Europe has the stomach for that.
Absolutely correct, huge blunder on Zelensky's part, even though many here are angry with Trump
There have been many enormous protests against him in Israel, where a large part of the country regards him as corrupt and ineffectual (though not everyone agrees on why, eg left and right would like him to be less and more militaristic). But these protests get little coverage in US news media. Mind you I don't think this is peculiar to Israel, foreign affairs coverage in the US is just generally dreadful, partly because many Americans just do not care about the rest of the world.
> Wake up America before it's too late.

The time to wake up was 2016. It is already too late.

33% of Americans have their heads in the sand and are believing the establishment talking points and amplifying them.

33% know what is going on and are cheering it on.

33% don’t care either way.

Hard to say which group is doing more damage to the country tbh.
The only people who should be in charge of deciding when it's time to stop fighting are the Ukrainian people and their elected leaders. That's how democracy works. You should continue to support Ukraine with weapons together with the numerous allies you have, seek further alliance continue to pressure Russia with sanctions and isolation. Russian embassies should be closed, by the way.

Why? Because it's the morally right thing to do. It's as simple as that.
> Trump's flights on the same plane were pre-Presidency. (As was their friendship, and their being close neighbors.)

Their friendship was over when Trump banned him from mar-a-lago 2007 and then worked with prosecutors and provided information against Epstein in 2008.
Just because I didn't vote does not mean my vote was "suppressed".
Ooof. The core collections in Java are well understood to not be thread-safe by design, and this should have been noticed.

OP should go through the rest of the code and see if there are other places where collections are potentially operated by multiple threads.

>The easiest way to fix this was to wrap the TreeMap with Collections.synchronizedMap or switch to ConcurrentHashMap and sort on demand.

That will make the individual map operations thread-safe, but given that nobody thought of concurrency, are you sure series of operations are thread-safe? That is, are you sure the object that owns the tree-map is thread-safe. I wouldn't bet on it.

>Controversial Fix: Track visited nodes

Don't do that! The collection will still not be thread-safe and you'll just fail in some other more subtle way .. either now, or in the future (if/when the implementation changes in the next Java release).

>Sometimes, a detail oriented developer will notice the combination of threads and TreeMap, or even suggest to not use a TreeMap if ordered elements are not needed. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen in this case.

That's not a good take-away! OP, the problem is you violating the contract of the collection, which is clear that it isn't thread-safe. The problem ISN'T the side-effect of what happens when you violate the contract. If you change TreeMap to HashMap, it's still wrong (!!!), even though you may not get the side-effect of a high CPU utilization.

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When working with code that is operated on by multiple threads, the only surefire strategy I found was to to make every possible object immutable and limiting any object that could not be made immutable to small, self-contained and highly controlled sections. We rewrote one of the core modules following these principles, and it went from being a constant source of issues, to one of the most resilient sections of our codebase. Having these guidelines in place, also made code reviews much easier.
I empathize with your opinion Dig1t. War is horrible and meat grinders are especially so.

But when a victimized population like Ukraine decides it wants to keep fighting. Especially given:

> Ukraine should be opposed to depopulating itself.

Then you gotta ask yourself:

Given they would rather die than suffer the consequences of a compromise.

Then maybe they know something about the consequences of that compromise that you and I can’t? and if so, maybe we should continue trusting the victims to not compromise ?
Well, usually the story told to counter this is that he said that Israel wouldn’t get one bullet until Egypt blockaded Straits of Tiran. Kissinger didn’t exactly have a track record of saying philo-Semitic things.
there is still to much corruption in the Ukraine, that Europe will never accept.
Some of the stuff I've had to deal with building business to $100MM++++++ revenue give me stress and anxiety. I've been through so much shit at this point I think it's hard to stress me out. Watching that interaction between the 3 of them invoked a feeling I've not felt in a very long time, it was incredibly stressful. That was neither politics nor business, personally I'd have accepted either, but that was not those.
Those of us truly anti-war realize that allowing Ukraine to be punished/Ukrainians to be kidnapped for giving up their nuclear weapons will only lead to future wars and future nuclear proliferation, not less war..
But the world is not a game where you "win" by intelligence; very far from it. Just look at who is currently in the White House.
But if you can't stop Russia from getting some of Ukraine, how do you stop it from getting all of Ukraine? That to me is the key problem.

Russia knows that time is on its side. It can just pause enough to rearm and then attack again. What will we do differently then?
Absolutely could!

However, management felt kinda burned because that was a bunch of time and unsurprisingly nobody was measurably more productive afterwards (it turns out those are just shitty code tidbits, but not highly correlated with areas which where it is miserable to make changes. Some of the over-refactorings probably made things harder.

It was a lovely measurable metric, making it an easy sell in advance. Which maybe was the problem idk.
We're not giving away all our resources lmao. Support for Ukraine is a relatively small part of our budget and gdp. In return for this we get to significantly weaken and discourage our enemies. For every dollar that we pour in, Russia is losing many more. Iran and China's imperialist ambitions are crushed. And none of our people even needed to die for it. You're either a fool or an enemy if you don't see why we should support Ukraine.
They cannot have normal elections anyway, a bunch of people in occupied territories, not to mention soldiers in active duty who cannot leave their posts to vote. Whilst Putin is ruling since 2020 (except Medvedev term).
How does footing the bill for a futile war in a country that the US has nothing to do with meet the needs of Americans?
"Russian agent" != trusted collaborator. It means they can use you. He's perfectly predictable/controllable using just flattery and greed, which petro terrorist states like Russia can utilize quite generously.
Supporting peace?! That's a right wing cause now?
This isn’t pulling out. It’s embarassing an ally on the world stage while acting like the spoiled toddler and Putin asset that he is. This is not normal. This isn’t even bad. This is outside politics and just flat out treasonous.
i'd completely forgotten about this video, i think it's high time to go rewatch it... thanks for the reminder.
Neither did Ukraine, and here they are.

But Europe is not at war. It is Ukraine that is. But they need help with equipment, and balancing their budget. This is what they are asking for, nothing else.

Much fewer than 500k soldiers are needed for training Ukrainians.
I wonder if the book features anything on medieval pigs

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/whats-wrong-w...
> The series of near misses at Citi highlights how the Wall Street bank is struggling to repair its operational troubles nearly five years after it mistakenly sent $900mn to creditors engaged in a contentious battle over the debt of cosmetics group Revlon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045 - Citibank's $900M Blunder (2020-08-20, 296 comments)
Not sure he noticed? I think in his mind he came off strong.
> European defense spending has, for decades now, suggested that they don't particularly care about NATO.

I'd argue the opposite: Western European countries' low defense spending was exactly because they they believed NATO (in particular the US) would intervene if needed. They don't believe this anymore now, hence will increase defense spending, hence making NATO less relevant. They will now be able to rely on the EU alone.
Eh. A lot will disagree with what I am about to type and, tbh, I am hesitant to point out the obvious, but I will do this just in case:

1. None of it should be a surprise. Policy-wise, Trump's position was very much well known at this point.
2. For Zelensky, this is actually the least bad political option at this point, which is presumably why is doing it this way
3. Note the amount of astroturfing surrounding anything related to Ukraine. It used to be that you couldn't comment on anything about Ukraine without being given 'you talk like Ukraine has no autonomy' speech. Yes. On HN too.
4. To all the hyperbolic, hyperventilating accounts out there, please stop. You are not helping your cause. If anything, you are making it worse.
Unfortunately, if we do not want to have a direct conflict with Russia, the next best thing is giving Ukraine massive amounts of weapons, arms, etc., and enabling them to retake their country.

Any alternative that allows Russian gains will only further cement the idea that wars of aggression can be worthwhile in the modern world, and this is the most horrendous conclusion possible for anyone actually anti-war.
A tale as old as man, might makes right.
What good are rules if you don't have the power to enforce them?
Former integrity?

He got his start cosplaying as a former downtrodden redneck from the holler, when he’s from suburban Ohio.
> We want peace. Full stop. No more dead men, women, and children. THAT IS THE GOAL.

If that was the goal, why is Trump asking for Ukraine's natural resources? Maybe his goals are different than yours.

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Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, which is why Ukraine was seeking protection.

From Ukraine's point of view, if they make peace now, and give up territory... Russia will do the same thing again in a couple of years. Many more people will die.

Russia doesn't care about killing off its population, they have lots of poor and non-ethnic-Russian citizens, and they think nothing of having them die to get some more land.
I remember Ruzzia in Syria too not only USA
in fact how many wars was Ruzzia involved sicne USSR fall? Also count special operations as wars?

I blame both USA and Ruzzia for the migrants problem.
I find it difficult to comprehend if the billionaires do not know this. That if the Government slowly turns into an oligarchy with their help, the Government will eventually turns against them too. They cannot escape the punishment.

Humans (our leaders) have behavior that shows up when under stress or things do not go per their plan. Other countries are already noticing this about USA leaders and will not hesitate to exploit.

My prediction for the future, with a heavy heart.

- Feb/2026: China becomes #1 in technological progress. And America's relationship with former allies is irreversibly bad.

- 2027-29: Russia continues to pamper President Trump for another term. Their goal is to create anarchy in America. They succeed.
No, unfortunately you're not shutting up. Your government is currently pursuing a crazy pro Russia agenda.
The primary thing which the US has given Ukraine is weapons designed and built during the Cold War for the explicit purpose of defending Europe against a Russian invasion.
Overall, Zelensky miscalculated when he challenged the VP like that. Nothing good was gonna come from that in that setting.

But I dont know why Vance even jumped in like that. It both undercut Trump and forced Zelensky to voice his disagreement.

But then they both attacked him for some perceived lack of gratitude which just spiraled out of control.
You are confusing the principle and western liberal value of freedom of speech with the first amendment, which is an implementation of the value.
Chamberlain had a reason - UK army wasn't really ready for a fight. He tried to buy some time to rearm. Misguided or not, you could say there was a reason for that.
How? If all support for Ukraine crumbles and russia just plows ahead, do you think the ukranian population would be safer?

The only "less lives" approach would be if russia retreats in an agreement to keep the previous separatist regions they annexed while accepting some sort of buffer inside Ukraine from them on, which Zelensky would agree in the form of bases or nato membership. Which Russia will never go for.
> I think that the median US voter likely did not want this.

I can't speak to the level of public support for Ukraine, though it seems most Trump supporters don't really care about Ukraine and want the US to stop spending money on foreign wars. Despite anecdotes about Trump voters being upset by executive branch cuts, polling suggests ~95% of Trump voters are ok with or actively pleased with his gutting of the government.

The median US voter does want this.

> Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for either of the presidential candidates.

Then you voted for Trump, in that case. If you can vote, and don't, then that's tacit approval of what voters choose.
At this point that sounds like a good deal.

Also pull everything out of Europe and make NATO worthless.
Not make it political… you’re joking right?
>If you are held back by a lack of artistic creativity, then you should simply expend the effort to do a journey of self-improvement in the name of acquiring artistic creativity. Life is that simple, yes?

Not with bills to pay, and family to care for. It's not something I can do on the snap od a whim. I plan to take art classes to understand the fundamentals, but I'm not sure I can just "gain artistic creativity" the way I can "just learn 3d modeling and color theory". At this stage in life it's probably easier to help out other inspired creators with objective hoops.

>Making tools for nobody or nobody in particular is aimless unproductivity.

Sure, that's why evangelism has to be a part of this type of marketing. Help those who remain so far and have them inspire. If you get to advertise your tools on the way, it's 2 birds.

And yes, I worked at Unity at one point. I've seen firsthand the consequences of not dog fooding your own tools to make sure the pipeline fits with what an actual dev would do in production. I will still make games with such tools just to make sure I'm not disconnected from the audience. Something more than just a fancy tech demo with horribly mangled code that no one can learn from. A sub-goal is to encourage best practices and make sure my documentation is well covered (I'd say "better than Unreal/Unity", but that's a very low bar).

>What is more ambitious would be something like incubating or founding a small province of dedicated developers who aim to fulfill your wish.

I won't lie, I've thought about it. You're essentially saying to either found up a small studio or to make soke form of masterclass. To mold future students or employees to that vision. I'm not going to actively pursue such a dream, but steps in that direction does help with that mentality.

I need at least a decade more experience and a lot more capital before I could really pull thst off, though. So yes, that will still be a decade of me proving I can launch useful tools and well-made (not necessary profitable) games to gain that trust. I gotta do one to accomplish the other.

>Caring one bit about the ontological time of today and its youth, a mere phenomenological axiom which leads to concerns about some content creator crisis, is the tendency you need to abandon, if you want to start your theoretical project and see its successful completion.

Perhaps. I'm not claiming I can change an entire generation's mindset on what to pursue in life. I simply want to show the path for those may have been interested but are put off by entire avoidable factors of the industry. I was simply rejecting a notion thst somehow the industry of devs is becoming bloated.
Europe has no say in the matter, short of France using its nukes.