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Happy new year from Kyiv :-) 00:30, air raid sirens went off, and more explosions. Looks like a country-wide alarm is in place right now.

ginja 4y ago
Happy new year! I hope 2023 brings peace to your country.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  Peace, and not "the peace of the graveyards". May there be peace on just terms.
AnimalMuppet 4y ago
Happy new year! Stay safe! I wish you didn't have to go through all of this...
jacquesm 4y ago
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- phtrivier 4y ago
  Always hard to wish for anyone's death... But I guess, even playing the "devils you know, devil's you don't" game, it's hard not to wish for Putin to _at least_ loose its job soon... Good luck to everyone in between !
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    For Putin I'll make an exception. I've looked at lots of media from Ukraine and I have zero compassion with him, he knows full well what he's doing and not a day goes by or innocent people are murdered in his name.
    - phtrivier 4y ago
      And yet I still have to believe that, deep down - even if it's a manifestation of a deranged mind, and even if I wish there were people to reason with him - deep down, I hope he's not doing all this purely out of ego, but in _some_ form of twisted "it's what is best for my people" train of thought. I understand that's giving him a lot of credit, but, hey, it's new year's eve, right ? We already got the "tyrant being held back by actual clown" narrative this year - why not have a "tyrant gets back to his senses", for once ?
      - jacquesm 4y ago
        Because mad dogs don't suddenly become good dogs, especially not when they are going to be in the same environment. Mad dogs get taken out back. Obviously that leaves the question who/what will replace him, it may well be worse rather than better. But that chance is one we will have to deal with sooner or later anyway so it might as well be sooner. Putin has done enough damage for one person.
PuffinBlue 4y ago
Slava Ukraini! Best wishes and Good Hunting from a Brit looking for revenge for the attack on my local town (Salisbury). Good people here are working night and day to support the fight against Russia and I hope we see continued progress in 2023. Victory can't come soon enough!
- Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
  You're not wrong - I've actually been coding all day and now for my first Amazon Redshift management product, to get it out to the first two test customers in the next two or so days; all the money it makes is going to the Ukrainian military. Just posted a screenshot on Masto of per-database blocks, rows and i/o info. https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726 https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726 That info is going to be available for databases, nodes, slices, groups, and users, on a per-cluster and per-database basis level (with two exceptions - no blocks/rows info for cluster-level groups or users, because you can't know at the cluster level which users own which table).
thatwasunusual 4y ago
Some people have to go through hell for the rest of us to hope for a good new year. I hope you are able to make the best of it, and that we can greet each other in a peaceful setting one year from now. "This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren." - Zelensky Slava Ukraini!
jterrys 4y ago
Russia hellbent on giving you guys free spicy fireworks
- Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
  Actually, I did see one firework - a little red flare, someone hand threw it out from their apartment window, about 20 floors up :-) About 10 minutes after midnight, there were broad, flicking flashes of light from the north, which were in the dark lighting the clouds up, and you can see the light from pretty far away. I'm guessing it was related to the incoming volley of drones. This was about 20 minutes before the air raid warnings went off.
echelon 4y ago
If there's anyone that deserves a better year, it's the people of Ukraine. Stay safe! All the best wishes for the New Year.
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tpmx 4y ago
Happy new year! I think that the most impactful thing HN:ers outside of Ukraine/Russia can do is to politically push for more and better weapons to be sent to Ukraine, from whatever country you live in. Please do that. I think we often underestimate our political influence.
- D_Alex 4y ago
  I don't want weapons. I want a stop to weapons and a start to peace negotiations.
  - tpmx 4y ago
    From your profile: > Oil and gas industry, Perth, Western Australia. Oh. Wonder why that is. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil
    - D_Alex 4y ago
      You are trying to make a point, but it escapes me. Can you be more direct?
      - tpmx 4y ago
        I think you want a "peace" so that your business area can rebound.
        D_Alex 4y ago
        Wow... I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Apart from your absolutely incredible take on my character - my business area has really profited from the war: https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd33a https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd... "Woodside said that its revenue increased to $5.9bn in the September quarter, up 70 per cent from the previous quarter and a significant jump from the $1.6bn that the Perth-based company reported in the same quarter last year... ...Oil and gas companies have enjoyed a streak of record profits thanks to soaring energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
2.10am, couple more explosions going off. Time to put the ear-plugs in and get some sleep. Night all!
- Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
  Or not. Spent the last 30 minutes watching searchlights play on the clouds and surface-to-air missiles rising into the night sky. Got a little footage, but have learned I need to set infinite focus at night (the points of light in shot are blurry, as the camera cannot focus). I saw four shots fired in total, after the third there was a white flash in the sky, where I would think they hit their mark.

ginja 4y ago

Happy new year! I hope 2023 brings peace to your country.

AnimalMuppet 4y ago
Peace, and not "the peace of the graveyards". May there be peace on just terms.

AnimalMuppet 4y ago

Happy new year! Stay safe! I wish you didn't have to go through all of this...

jacquesm 4y ago

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phtrivier 4y ago
Always hard to wish for anyone's death... But I guess, even playing the "devils you know, devil's you don't" game, it's hard not to wish for Putin to _at least_ loose its job soon... Good luck to everyone in between !
- jacquesm 4y ago
  For Putin I'll make an exception. I've looked at lots of media from Ukraine and I have zero compassion with him, he knows full well what he's doing and not a day goes by or innocent people are murdered in his name.
  - phtrivier 4y ago
    And yet I still have to believe that, deep down - even if it's a manifestation of a deranged mind, and even if I wish there were people to reason with him - deep down, I hope he's not doing all this purely out of ego, but in _some_ form of twisted "it's what is best for my people" train of thought. I understand that's giving him a lot of credit, but, hey, it's new year's eve, right ? We already got the "tyrant being held back by actual clown" narrative this year - why not have a "tyrant gets back to his senses", for once ?
    - jacquesm 4y ago
      Because mad dogs don't suddenly become good dogs, especially not when they are going to be in the same environment. Mad dogs get taken out back. Obviously that leaves the question who/what will replace him, it may well be worse rather than better. But that chance is one we will have to deal with sooner or later anyway so it might as well be sooner. Putin has done enough damage for one person.

PuffinBlue 4y ago

Slava Ukraini! Best wishes and Good Hunting from a Brit looking for revenge for the attack on my local town (Salisbury). Good people here are working night and day to support the fight against Russia and I hope we see continued progress in 2023. Victory can't come soon enough!

Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
You're not wrong - I've actually been coding all day and now for my first Amazon Redshift management product, to get it out to the first two test customers in the next two or so days; all the money it makes is going to the Ukrainian military. Just posted a screenshot on Masto of per-database blocks, rows and i/o info. https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726 https://data-folks.masto.host/@maxganz/109610845679613726 That info is going to be available for databases, nodes, slices, groups, and users, on a per-cluster and per-database basis level (with two exceptions - no blocks/rows info for cluster-level groups or users, because you can't know at the cluster level which users own which table).

thatwasunusual 4y ago

Some people have to go through hell for the rest of us to hope for a good new year. I hope you are able to make the best of it, and that we can greet each other in a peaceful setting one year from now. "This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live, and then their children and grandchildren." - Zelensky Slava Ukraini!

jterrys 4y ago

Russia hellbent on giving you guys free spicy fireworks

Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
Actually, I did see one firework - a little red flare, someone hand threw it out from their apartment window, about 20 floors up :-) About 10 minutes after midnight, there were broad, flicking flashes of light from the north, which were in the dark lighting the clouds up, and you can see the light from pretty far away. I'm guessing it was related to the incoming volley of drones. This was about 20 minutes before the air raid warnings went off.

echelon 4y ago

If there's anyone that deserves a better year, it's the people of Ukraine. Stay safe! All the best wishes for the New Year.

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tpmx 4y ago

Happy new year! I think that the most impactful thing HN:ers outside of Ukraine/Russia can do is to politically push for more and better weapons to be sent to Ukraine, from whatever country you live in. Please do that. I think we often underestimate our political influence.

D_Alex 4y ago
I don't want weapons. I want a stop to weapons and a start to peace negotiations.
- tpmx 4y ago
  From your profile: > Oil and gas industry, Perth, Western Australia. Oh. Wonder why that is. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil
  - D_Alex 4y ago
    You are trying to make a point, but it escapes me. Can you be more direct?
    - tpmx 4y ago
      I think you want a "peace" so that your business area can rebound.
      - D_Alex 4y ago
        Wow... I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Apart from your absolutely incredible take on my character - my business area has really profited from the war: https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd33a https://www.ft.com/content/7a70cee3-2891-4012-a22d-36363fadd... "Woodside said that its revenue increased to $5.9bn in the September quarter, up 70 per cent from the previous quarter and a significant jump from the $1.6bn that the Perth-based company reported in the same quarter last year... ...Oil and gas companies have enjoyed a streak of record profits thanks to soaring energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

Max-Ganz-II 4y ago

2.10am, couple more explosions going off. Time to put the ear-plugs in and get some sleep. Night all!

Max-Ganz-II 4y ago
Or not. Spent the last 30 minutes watching searchlights play on the clouds and surface-to-air missiles rising into the night sky. Got a little footage, but have learned I need to set infinite focus at night (the points of light in shot are blurry, as the camera cannot focus). I saw four shots fired in total, after the third there was a white flash in the sky, where I would think they hit their mark.