skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like saying that people with mechanical engineering degrees should be let loose on jet engine repair, or freshly minted doctors should do fellowship with zero ssupervision.

Book knowledge != real world skills
I think this is sarcasm so tentatively upvoting
If it's this video:

https://twitter.com/24UkraineNews/status/1497544977261465603...

The ukrainian twitter account that posted it outright says that it was the army executing alleged chechen soldiers ("dealing with them"). But that story does not even make sense since they are not in an army vehicule, and there is no way to confirm those were soldiers or russians. The only thing we know is who is shooting but not who is getting shot at. Weird video and weird for that account to gloat about a supposed war crime
You must be looking at pre-WW2 borders. Large areas were ceded to USSR in 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Peace_Treaty (and again with some more in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Armistice)
With the Green Party being part of the Government? Hah!
Time for a (drone) Kyiv Airlift? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade#Start_of_the_B...
Perhaps a dumb question, but is there a definitive connection between the outsourcing mentioned here and the MCAS[1] system that has caused the 737-MAX tragedies?

(I have searched the web to try to confirm a link; there are some articles[2][3][4] that mention both MCAS and the outsourcing, but I haven't yet seen anything to indicate that outsourcing was used for development of MCAS-related software)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...

[3] - https://pulse.icdm.com.my/resource/boeing-a-plane-wreck/

[4] - https://simpat.tech/did-boeings-software-development-outsour...
and "my wife left me for bigfoot" stories.

Have you watched the Don Lemon show or the Anderson Cooper Day time show?...you'll see these types of stories.

Also, go to cnn.com and refresh through out the day...constant click bait titles.
But what if I wanted to browse internet at the same time?
They do that anyway. And war crimes are solidly in the class of ‘if you win, it’s not a crime’ unfortunately. For example, the US (as much as it tries) often commits what are clearly war crimes, and it’s crickets.
Indeed, those too. In my mind they were with the intellectuals.
> the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India

This is bullshit. At least, for anything important.

> Bloomberg | Quint is a multiplatform, Indian business and financial news company.

So this is defintely bullshit.

Edit:

I don't even know what the implication they're trying to make is. Are they saying that the airplanes crashed because some incompetent Indians wrote the software?
Putin is crazy = I’m ignorant.

Every country in Russia’s position would do the same, or have already. You already mentioned Cuba, for China it would be Hong Kong.

In case of US, it would be a too long list of attacks of sovereignty whether through war or subversion.
> The funniest unexpected outcome was the classic SQL model of using NULL. Simply, 1 + NULL = NULL, and we expanded that to all expressions.

> It kind of fell apart in something like: IF A = 1 AND B = 2 OR C > 3 THEN...

That is similar to how NaN values are propagated in IEEE 754 floating point standard.

However, a comparison with a NaN would cause an exception (in CPU or programming language, unless you're using a language such as C where FP exceptions are disabled by default).

And then there are several min and max operators that don't cause an exception on every NaN but which have different preferences for propagating NaN or values.
The distinction is that a comparison affects control flow whereas min/max are still considered data flow.
They have an unlimited and uninterrupted supply line back to Belarus and Russia in multiple directions.

It does seem unlikely and I can't confirm specifics but someone posted on another thread that the Ukranians or their allies have apparently disabled all the train lines from Russia to the border to frustrate Russian logistics.
Yes, octopi are smart as well as prolific, with multi seasonal reproduction they would suffer extinction through over population. Even 2 seasons is a lot of new larvae in the seas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#:~:text=Octopuses%20ha....
> He is looking at the west build a fortress around Russia through NATO. Look at US reaction to Cuba and now imagine Cuba having a 100x more tactical and strategic geography in relationship to the US.

Wouldn't it be more similar if the Cuban missile crisis had taken place in Quebec or something? Or would that still have been better tactically and geographically better for D.C., than a NATO Ukraine is for Moscow? Terrain looks a lot easier there.
John B. Cade’s project to document the stories of the formerly enslaved
> Months ago Russia asked that Ukraine and Georgia be excluded from NATO. We ignored him.

I don't think this holds up to scrutiny for a few reasons. Ukraine was not invited to join NATO, Zelensky's government fearing the escalation of Russia's incursions into the East started the process of asking for admission last June. Russian units have been operating in the East for years, and they took Crimea. If you read Putin's speech from early this week he laid out a revanchist case for recapturing old Soviet/Russian Imperial territory. He even laid claim to the whole of Ukraine, failing to note that the western portion only became part of the USSR because of WWII and had previously been part of other political entities. He's been carving up neighbors for years, so it's no wonder that the neighboring state might want to join NATO.
If I started my own aerospace company I would try to put in a legally binding rule that the majority of management and the executive team has to be engineers. But I don't know if an executive team can tie its successors hands like that. Unless the majority of voting shares remain in the hands of the family of the founder and successive generations commit to keep the company run by professional engineers.

That, or a federal law.
>just to reduce wear-and-tear on my SSD

SSDs can handle a lot of writes. That is not necessary to do.
Is it irrational, or merely mean, to take something that is not yours because you know you can get away with it?
The sun will run out of hydrogen in ~5 billion years, solar isn't renewable either!
Russia won't annex Ukraine outright. The most likely scenario is establishment of a puppet state after ripping off some territories - Donetsk and Lugansk, almost certainly, and likely also a land corridor to Crimea.

The fact that Belarus is onboard makes me think that there might also be some plans of some kind of "East Slavic Union" faux-confederation into which the new Ukraine puppet state would be forced, perhaps within the already-existing framework of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
One think I really, really hope will come out of this, regardless of the outcome - to cut back dependence on any Russian import including gas and oil to ideally 0 across whole Europe. It doesn't make sense to cut one's branch off by paying him to build & maintain his army.

If it costs more, well damn that's the price for freedom I guess right now, still acceptable given circumstances.

I've been saying it for years, also here repeatedly - Russia and its current 'leader' is by far the biggest threat to European free western society we value so much here. Even the most stubborn and russia-invested ones are getting the memo now.
Yeah, I wish the story gave a more precise explanation about her medical diagnosis. Even being able to walk with help doesn't fit my understanding of coma.
Many literature writers recommend using only the word `said` or `says`, depending on tense, to describe characters speaking. A few of them go as far as to recommend this quite strongly, even when words like 'gushed' or 'shouted' may more clearly reflect what the author is intending to say.

This, I think, forces the writer to rely more on the semantics and subtext of what they are saying. A reader could infer, for example, that after waiting for hours in the queue, a customer at the DMV would be frustrated; using `they said in frustration` is redundant and telling rather than showing.

It also forces the writer to describe some physical behaviour of their character that reflects emotion.

Example:

> "Please," Paul whimpered, "I don't want a fight."

VS

> "Please," Paul said, burying his shaking hands in his pockets, "I don't want a fight."

The second sentence is better, because it allowed me to communicate that not only is Paul scared, but he is trying to hide it. He is acting brave-- which reveals something about how our character handles situations. Much of what good fiction writing hopes to achieve is illuminating a character's attributes in a way that seems to blend in with prose.

---

My point is, by forcing a minimal style of writing, it actually forces the writer to think creatively. I have observed that creativity thrives with structure and rules, and rarely in absence of them.
Totally agreed, but you can't just throw the netlist at a fpga and expect the synthesizer to be happy is all I'm saying.
Have fun with in-memory columnar databases or SQL engines and see how fast they are (the ones that use CPU-efficient data structures and data element access, plus SIMD processing). For example Apache Arrow datafusion [1]

Edit: Also, run a cluster of anything (in VMs or containers) and muck around killing individual cluster nodes or just suspending them/throttling them to be extremely slow to simulate a brownout/straggling cluster node.

[1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion
Bingo. This is the answer. Putin’s speech was pretty unhinged but his tactics are the smartest maneuvers he could have made outside of full capitulation to the incorrigible Western liberal consensus. Yes, he may fail in the end. But the other options are absolutely miserable. As with all war, the ultimate losers are the working people of every nation involved, and the US has considered them no less than Putin has.
Exactly. Many are missing the point that Russia is not trying to annexe Ukraine, but have 2 goals - ideally do a regime change that favours Russia's security concerns or destabilise the country and make it such a shit hole that even the west avoids it. The west on the other hand want to prolong this conflict because it knows that the longer the people are in a state of warfare, the more the people will turn against the Russian invaders (provided ofcourse, their local support and propaganda weakens).
no. just no.
please take yourself far far away.
Western lenses doesn’t help, that’s a fair point.

Ma’s case is not a good example though. The guy was alone and his empire didn’t vanish, just changed ownership.

I’m not an expert on Russia, but I’m sure that they’re not self sufficient and that to be able to trade with anybody, they’ll need to exchange their currency. Alone, they might end up like Jack Ma
Anyone remember cuban crisis during the cold war? In fact, even today US is still sanctioning Cuba despite it no longer have USSR backing or any ability to threaten US.

You underestimate how much threat a hostile neighbor poses.
The importance of geography in Eastern Europe [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
Same throttle opening delay system could be present in a fully drive-by-wire system. Keeping it partially mechanical allows for instant, not computer altered, closing of the valve.
>the Russians see relative prosperity in Ukraine

Russia is wealthier than Ukraine whether you go by total GDP or GDP per capita and whether you go by nominal GDP or GDP adjusted for purchasing power. Just looking at the maps at the tops of these next 2 pages was enough to verify that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Where I live in the middle of the usa McDonald's is paying $19/hr
Natalie Jeremijenko hosted the seminar, but was not the artist who played the video. Yes, I saw the video. IIRC, it showed the plane passing low over the Potomac seconds before it hit the Pentagon, just out of frame. I don't see how that could have been a hoax.
> Baffling you'd assume Africans, who unilaterally despise American and Western colonialism and primarily align with China, would also be on your side.

Yes, but this doesn't mean that they'd therefore side with Russia attempting to reinstate a colonialist empire. That really, really doesn't make sense (and indeed, everything coming from Africa has been condemnation of Russia's invasion).

And keep in mind that China seems to not really be a fan of Russia's aggression here, while they really dislike NATO, they seem to be signaling that they didn't expect an invasion of the scale that happened, and would have preferred less. I mean China is participating, to a limited extent, in sanctions against Russia.
The CIA dronestrikes sounds made-up, but a US combat surveillance aircraft had its transponder on and was publicly announcing its flight path as it patrolled south of Crimea.
>has EU by the balls in winter via energy

The worst of winter seems to have already passed. Also, it’s bold to assume China will align themselves with an economically and morally dead Russia. Even China knows you’re not supposed to get caught killing innocent civilians on video.
> Nationality is also not a reason of high quality/sloppy work.

In some ways it can be, though. Poor countries tend to be poor for a myriad of reasons, but among these reasons should be the lack of a quality education system. Wealthy countries tend to have excellent school systems and universities, and a better trained student body, than poor countries. If poor countries had the education systems of wealthy countries, they wouldn't be poor, but the reason that can't sustain a system like that is precisely because they are poor.
Yeah, they're really putting up an impressive fight. Ukrainians should feel really proud right now. I hope the incoming weapons make a difference, and I'm hoping we're getting them good intelligence.
I see you mentioned running an OS off a ramdisk. I recommend this, just to see how incredibly fast it can be.

And also how incredibly not-fast. The fact is that most applications are memory bandwidth bound, once you eliminate the disk as a bottleneck. Not CPU bound. So when you run off a ramdisk, it's not actually helping as much as I thought it would.

But! One really neat thing you can do is to save VM checkpoints, so that backing up your computer is as simple as checkpointing the VM. So there are other advantages.

Doing some video editing is fun too, and 3D modeling. Ever want to dabble with ZBrush? Now's your chance. Get yourself a nice big monitor and Wacom tablet. Yum.

(And then, y'know, set the hobby down and never touch it again, just like the rest of us. But it's fun while it lasts.)
Estonia and Latvia are closer and already in NATO
That’s becoming hard to fathom when you can now get hired as a React developer with about 3 years experience for $170k without any understanding of how things work under the hood.
Russia doesn't have the resources for it. Their soldiers in Ukraine have resorted to dressing as civilians to scrounge up food and trying to steal fuel for their tank from Ukrainian gas stations.

Their soldiers aren't even properly trained, experienced soldiers: they're just 18-19-year-old conscripts fresh out of basic training. There are videos of Russian soldiers breaking down and crying in the middle of the street when Ukrainians make it clear they're not wanted here. There are reports that Russia had to resort to beatings and even deception to even get them to go to Ukraine; supposedly a few of them were put on a plane and told they were going to a training field for mock battle.

I don't expect Russia to be able to be able to sustain a war on a second front against countries with even larger militaries and economies.
I don't buy it. That didn't need an invasion prepared for many months. It's spending billions to do something that could be done for millions.
The comparison of Facebook and Apple is a weird one. Apple is good at innovation. Facebook is good at acquisitions.
It can, though has limits to how hot/wet it can help with - see figure [0] for Celcius and [1] for Farenheit which show the accepted climate-science approach mapping appropriate techniques for achieving comfort at various temperatures/humidity.

Ventilation is actually best for hot-wet climates where hot-dry climates (common through much of the US) are usually better dealt with through thermal-mass/thermal-lag as typically the nights are cold (in hot-wet usually the nights are hot).

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kiyan-Vadoudi/publicati...

[1] https://leetammy.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/blue-psycho.jpg
Putin's Nato card is a ruse. The European part of Russia was actually mostly surrounded by neutral states, only sharing border with Nato in Norway and the Baltics before the war. Now Putin might be even turning formerly neutral Nordic countries towards Nato - any sovereign state will always choose alliance over Russian occupation at a moment's notice. Ukraine was not even close to Nato membership and still very connected to the Russian sphere of influence before the Crimean occupation. Now the only way out of this mess is for Ukraine to either integrate more tightly to West or Russia to completely annex them, thus gaining four new Nato members on its border.

The Cold War is simply over, but the Putin regime does not really seem to have understood it. International commerce despite of military-political differences is the only sustainable way forward. China knows this, and Russia should take a hint.
Many of those 44 million will become refugees in Europe. And some - not many, but probably at least a couple million more - will support the occupying forces.

Authoritarian regimes manage to keep their population in check with forces smaller than that.
Russia stated a lot of things over the past week that were bold faced lies. They lose all credibility. Who cares what they say?
I guess I feel like Russia strategic choices being against Russian interests generally but being for the interests of a handful of oligarchs is pretty on brand.
Dan Carlin's Hard Core History has an AMAZING history of Russia... I cant find which cast, but check out his site, as he has free episodes, but in addition - he puts some of the other eps in his shop on sale, for free!

I just got these:

https://imgur.com/a/XkgvjQf

https://www.dancarlin.com
Cut Russia off the Internet. DO IT NOW!!
I did say "can lead to". And Experian is a special case because they can offer "Credit Monitoring" for free. There's quite a difference between a giant company and a small/mid-sized company.
If they wanted to just cause death, Kiev would be a whole lot flatter by now. It looks like the war crimes and murdered civilians are not part of the plan for now.
What's the point of being a technologist if you don't waste money on things you don't need? At least in this one area of life. :)

You're not wrong though.
I mean, aside from the question of whether fpgas can truly accurately simulate everything at the transistor level, the truth is that most fpga emulation cores for this sort of thing don't. They are, afaik, still mostly 'just' cycle-level accurate emulations built off the same reverse engineering that accurate software emulators are. They can do it more efficiently for sure, but that doesn't mean it's worth it for them to go much farther.

Like, for an extreme example there's no world in which the in-development PSX mister core, running on a de10 nano, is particularly more accurate than a software emulator. The chips involved have too many transistors to completely simulate. But this will be true to some degree for everything above some complexity threshold. Maybe the Atari 2600 core is perfectly accurate.

I wouldn't be surprised if the most accurate software emulators are more accurate than the most accurate fpga cores, especially for anything newer than the NES, just because that's where most of the original work involved happens.

This idea that FPGAs are inherently more accurate seems to be rooted in marketing FUD from a company called Analogue.
Weird approach to the subject. If you didn't have an application in mind, why did you upgrade the computer at all?
Compared to Americans, sure.

But they're fighting Ukrainians, not Americans.
He probably expected harsh sanctions and nothing more. Russia has a pretty massive war chest, and the US will suffer from shutting out Russian oil.

But Putin was exactly right that NATO will not respond militarily. And he is exactly right to think NATO was delusional and did not expect him to invade.
Starting to feel like this is going to spiral into something horrific.
Beware that this might count as circumventing US sanctions by the time they're done writing these new regulations.
Not applicable here, that was to replace slavic people with germanic. It simply is a power grab, Putin wants another Lukashenko in power in Ukraine.
These are still impotent sanctions. Only select Russian banks are excluded from SWIFT with many carveouts: oil, gas, wheat, fertilizer companies all excluded for example. Sanctions on Russian banks will go into effect in 30 days. The world, especially Europe, is still dependent on Russian natural resources.

Putin knows this. His enemies are weak and fighting runaway inflation. They do not have the appetite for war.

Putin will not tolerate having another enemy on his border. I presume he also expected for Ukrainians to capitulate faster. He has been demanding for Ukraine to remain Kremlin friendly or at least neutral since 2014.

As far as geopolitical YOLOs go, it was a decent bet. He took Crimea with little pushback, I presume he expected he could oust Zelenskyy swiftly or at least return Ukraine to a state of neutrality with little meaningful fallout from a weak West.

A video you should watch which elucidates why Putin is hostile towards a potential EU/NATO candidate being right at his doorstep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Ask HN: How well do your front end and back end teams work together?
After working across the stack, it seems to be a rare find when you see front end + back end teams functioning together well. What tools / processes / rules does your company (2+ person eng team) use to communicate between front & back end teams?
The medical business works this way, fwiw.
It was 20 years ago. Maybe someone documented that seminar, and can look up who the presenting artist was, but I sure didn't.
Because the work of an anesthetist is one of the most technical ones a physician can do.
I just hope it is actually gonna be more than just empty promises, unlike the last 2 times (saving children from a cave and making ventilators)
1. Russia's economic growth has mirrored Germany, UK and has surpassed Brazil for nearly 2 decades despite a constant barrage of sanctions. But sure, Russia is the one who will flop

2. Brazil and Japan being allies do not make them Western states, much less NATO states. Saudi Arabia is technically an ally as well. India, our "ally", isn't denouncing Russia and has extreme anti-liberal Hindu nationalist political forces running the country.

You think Brazil will go to war against China supporting the US? That's delusional.

3. Even according to this particular report, the US is the only Western/NATO country in the top 9

The fact you think this comment somehow disputed me is a joke. Western Europe/America's dominance over the last several hundred years has come to an end. The balance of power in the world has shifted back to the East. People on this comment thread are like Brits in the 30s - not the slightest clue the world they grew up in doesn't exist anymore.

Americans aren't ready for a world which China (and subsequently, it's allies, like Russia, Iran, etc.) dominates.