skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Truth is important

I love truth with all my heart. Though I'm not flawless, I'm sometimes honest to a fault.

But the question, I think, is whether you save any lives by gathering popular support and foreign political will, if that translates to an extra influx of money and equipment.

Would you lie to save a life? A hundred? Zero?

Consequentialism upsets me very much, because I really wish 'doing the ethical thing' actually meant doing the right thing, every time.

All philosophy has given me is more questions. I would like to be told this is all wrong and propaganda is bad, if you please.
Very true, though the public opinion seems to be overwhelmingly against the Russian government, while being sympathetic to the Russian civilians, recognising they're being lied to, brainwashed, and don't care for this war either.
Awesome! Do you sink heat into it during the summer, or do you also use it for airco?
Coming from a systems background, I might have a higher tolerance for "implicit" actions. They're always there, and almost never covered in code, although your code depends on them to function.

But I think I understand your point. You can ask a neighbor to "run to the market to get bread and milk" and expect reasonable results -- but you'll need to be more explicit with a foreign visitor.

Rails optimizes for neighbors, but in fairness the phrasebook and guidebooks are excellent. :)
2 things here:

1) Russians can own firearms. They can start a rebellion to overthrow the gov. Why haven’t they? There’s some level of comfort the residents are getting that they don’t want to give up.

2) Punishing residents for their govs misdeeds (it is listed as a democracy after all) is a good way to get them to comply and overthrow or vote out this gov.

People in the US pay everyday for Russian misinformation campaigns, while Russian residents sit by and do nothing. What’s that saying from BLM? If you do nothing you’re just as guilty?
As my wise auntie says,”You can’t see clearly through the bottom of a pint glass.”
Are you not drunk on energy? Warm or cool at will, well fed and clothed, able to travel and communicate?
There’s no collecting if you bet on the apocalypse.
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Welcome to capitalism. I am a big fan of open-source but unfortunately, people are ripping off code from others in an attempt to monetize it. This is why obfuscation has become so important as it keeps those toxic people away for a bit.
Obviously for embedded use cases you’d not want to use std. it’s why we have core. If you want a stable ABI, you can also easily offer a repr(C) interface. I don’t know what to tell you, plenty of people use Rust successfully for embedded programming.
Eventually the cars will indeed be good about determining the intentions of other drivers, not by any sort of body language we might be able to instinctively infer, but by learning what people often do and playing out those scenarios, ensuring it can handle either outcome. We aren't looking for 'perfect', even in the advent of human lives being at risk when going 80 mph on the freeway, it just needs to handle events with an outcome of an order of magnitude fewer incidents/deaths than the current paradigm of human drivers.

> It can never scale to adapt to the unknown - even in principle.

But the human will be able to fill in for the inference cars don't have. Even if we get to level 5 where there's no steering wheel, the human can still control the car's destination and what sort of operation modes the car is in; if there is some event and full-scale panic ensues, the AI driver isn't going to hit people in the street - either the human can instruct it to turn around, or they can get out of the car, since even now it's not really safe try to weave between humans in the street to reach your destination.
That’s just semantics at this point. I would encourage you to address the statement being made and ignore the technical definition of the phrase. To restate without the offending phrase:

[T]he idea that the promotion of crypto thus far has existed to allow early adopters to cash out at the apparent expense of later adopters, while bringing essentially no other utility to any of its backers or the public at large, is pretty obvious.
What other hope is there for Russia? If this isn't what forces people out to try and remove Putin what will?
The Ukraine crisis is a major challenge for China
Very pessimistic thinking. We might as well never try anything. Always stay in our comfort zones
Also on every git push, display a message in the users console that condemns Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine.
Only if we can skip right past Windows 95 and have XView/OpenWindows back, thank you in advance.
I think a lot of people, without meaning to be disrespectful of Ukrainian identity and sovereignty, looked at the conflict in the Donbas and Crimea and thought:

"well, this isn't really acceptable in terms of respecting settled borders but the reality is that at least a very substantial percentage of the local population does want to be part of Russia so it isn't the worst thing in the world and probably Putin will move troops into areas he de facto controls or slightly expand borders there".

That doesn't make those things ok but it does put in a long list of other conflicts where the on-the-ground reality is complicated.

Many of us also have mixed feelings of at least partial support about other re-arrangements of sovereignty whether that is ethnic separatism within a country with a quasi-federalist state like Spain (i.e. Basque or Catalan) or other cases like South Sudan or even Kosovo where NATO actively carved out an ethnic statelet by helping an organisation that for all its roots of legitimate popular support was at least... organised-crime adjacent.

The speech that Putin gave though was not about border adjustment but about a denial of any kind of Ukrainian nation identity or nationhood. He wasn't saying, "the Russia / Ukraine border should be 10 or 20 km West of where it is" which might be unacceptable to a hardline territorial integrist or to Ukraine but is within the normal bounds of nation state conflict, he was saying "there is no Ukraine at all, it's not a real nation, they have no right to any kind of state" and that crosses many, many lines that are not crossed by taking territory here or there.

Not trying to make taking "taking a province or two" look like acceptable behaviour but I think that it's important to put previous and current EU/NATO positions in the context of the full horror of what he is now proposing to do which is to permanently destroy a nation state. Even the Ukrainian government didn't really believe this was how it was going to go.
Thanks for adding your edit. Yes, she (and others) said they didn't trust Trump's word alone on a vaccine. The CDC and independent agencies (including from other countries) came out with a positive review of the vaccine before the election.
First, those who had modern life are not going to want to lose it by getting murdered in an attempted violent uprising. Second, Russia will just keep using Chinese tech which has always been more popular than Apple tech. A generation grows up without iPhones and there isn't anyone left to miss them or empathize with Western democracy.
The ‘head’ function is an unfortunate historical artifact and not the norm these days. In practice there are libraries that expose a head function that returns a value… but better still, well typed programs can avoid the need for it altogether: there are non-empty lists to consider in which head is trivially safe to use, provided one can construct such a value.

One error handling strategy not often employed is to prefer code that is correct by construction. It can’t always be done but it’s nice when you can do it.

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> If crypto fails because it's effectively legislated out of existence, that would be hard to see that as anything but a vindication of the concept.

If the concept is "decentralized payments are resistant to government intervention", then wouldn't the government killing crypto be proof that the concept failed?
Ah yes, a nice reliable Russian link.

That's not what Facebook said in their statement:

"Sir Nick Clegg, vice-president of global affairs at Meta, said Russian authorities "ordered us to stop the independent fact-checking and labelling" the outlets' content."

"We refused," he said.
Ukraine conflict: Scotland stands ready to offer refuge
> Putin mentioned nuclear weapons specifically when publicly warning specifically against the type of interference you describe

Can you provide a reference for that? I wasn't aware of this
This was submitted/posted 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453374
> Maybe wars are different than protests

You think?
NASA's Mars rovers use several orbital probes to relay communications back to Earth. They do have radios that can talk directly to Earth up to 32kbps but primarily use the relays. The UHF uplink to the Mars Recon Orbiter is up to 2Mbps and it's visible to the rover for about eight minutes a day. The orbiter's uplink to Earth is can hit up to 6Mbps.

The Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have a fair amount of on-board storage (for an interplanetary probe). So they can spool a lot of data and then send a batch to the orbiters and then go about their next tasks. The orbiters also have a lot of storage (for interplanetary probes) and can themselves spool a lot of data until they're in a transmit window to Earth.
Yes, and it's almost always used as a vague catch-all
>> If you withdraw it in cash, then the bank will have to give you some of the Federal Reserve Notes it has in its vault

And while that is indeed technically true, it only applies to money withdrawn as banknotes. Given that most of the economy is electronic transactions, that loan is to all extents and purposes real money created by the bank out of thin air (modulo capital requirements to back debt).
Well that's just chauvinism.
You're missing the whole point. The conflicts are not even remotely the same.

If Poland invade the Ukraine, most people wouldn't be 1/10th as interested.

It is almost like you have no grasp of the history of NATO, the USSR, two world wars, nuclear weapons, and the power to deploy military might.

Can rebels in Syria destroy the entire planet with nukes? Can a conflict in Syria cause all NATO nations to be pulled into mutual defense agreements?

Quite literally, this single act of Russia's could have the potential result of turning entire planet into ash, or dragging 100 countries to war, or seeing a new empire carved out.

And I haven't even discussed China's role in all of this, current and future.

This invasion, this single act, could result in billions dying.

But sure, it's all just about race.
Done.

I posted this given the current state of affairs and the context :)
This article is incoherent. Say what you like about Bitcoin but fraudulent payments are not possible. And yes Gabe is right that people in crypto are criminals running scam projects
I enjoyed the target paper in question that Gelman was posting about (as is common with Gelman, you have to wade through his comments to find the work of others buried in it). It was interesting and makes a strong case for use of more interesting controls in behavioral research.

After I thought about it for a bit though, I had some concerns. I read another paper on a totally different topic where they generated a sort of negative control, and although that paper was interesting too, a problem with it was that it was really easy to argue that the negative control wasn't actually a control, that it was set up in such a way as to inadvertently induce the thing they were trying to eliminate.

I kinda wondered about this paper too. They seem to assume you'll go along with the idea that how you imagine a video game character to act will induce the most extreme effect size you could imagine. But is how you report you'll act even remotely comparable to how you imagine a video game character will react? I'm not really sure. I could imagine some people being like "WTH? I have no idea" and blowing the task off, or seeing the video game character as incoherent and having any kind of behavior consistent with it. People's own behavior can be difficult to predict from what they say, so it seems like a step even further removed to put any weight into what they say a videogame character would do.

I guess it's an interesting idea that deserves more attention, but in my experience, psychological controls are notoriously difficult to implement, which is why you don't see it used more often.
Have they? It isn’t clear to me if they’ve seen it or just heard that it exists
What these critics don't tell you is that the transactions of these cryptocurrencies are traceable and transparent making the majority of many cryptocurrencies pointless to use for 'committing financial crimes'.

Otherwise, why do you think that these criminals are turning to privacy coins like Monero and MobileCoin, etc?
That is why it is only being contemplated in response for a brutal and unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country. It wasn't contemplated lightly. And Putin flagrantly leverages this power over Europe... paying for the privilege of enriching a neighbor that has now made it clear is your determined enemy is less unpopular than you may realize.
What you are running into is the pureness of Haskell. The `head` function in Haskell is only partially defined. What you see as an exception is a case where a function is not defined. This is all by intent.

defining a `head :: [a] -> Maybe a` is a very simple matter and definitely something a developer should be encouraged instead of using the prelude.

exceptions in Haskell are not meant to be used as a first class thing, but is the way to ensure a full Turing complete language where it is possible to define non-terminating behavior. Hence it really is by design.
It's not partisan to think that the brazen conman in the White House might undermine our traditional public health institutions to try and make himself look good, as was in line with the rest of his behavior.

We can "both sides" all day long, and as a libertarian I in fact often do. But there are many topics where Trump irrefutably harmed our society to stroke his own ego, in a way that a status quo politician would not have.
This sounds like a great way to encourage the development of a parallel economy and criminal network.

Anyway, this should surely be good for Bitcoin, right?
Yeah for a family home that seems about right. 250ft is not very deep at all, and you need to store a lot of energy to past a whole winter/summer.
I guess I must be an idiot. I frequently can't tell what turn the navigation system expects me to take and I am never sure if it's really 100ft or more-or-less 100ft, maybe 60, maybe 140. When the navigator tells me I can be in the leftmost 3 lanes for the turn, I usually can't see whether I should be ready to turn left or right. If I can't see the turn, because there is a truck in my way, I will often miss it. But I must be in a subpopulation that doesn't need any support because we're so rare.
~It can definitely work, see for instance Nazi Germany -> Poland.~

Edit: Nevermind. I am very wrong on this. What I understood to be a "quick" victory from my vague memory of history lessons was a month. I also never considered that Poland never surrendered but _lost_ the invasion. There was no surrender.

If Putin believes he had the means to capture Kyiv within a really short time AND he believes his own propaganda that Ukrainians are idiots and cowards and drug addicts and whatever then yeah. I do see how you could logically conclude that they would surrender quickly.

But Ukraine turned out to have an extremely strong leader, raising morale to levels far beyond Russia's. Turns out the folk is nationalistic, proud and doesn't want to take shit from Russia.

So many civilians in Kyiv are joining the fight because they want to and they have to.

Is that what Putin was expecting? I don't know.

Do want to note that on Dutch television a historian stated that he believes Russia believes they will have Kyiv captured before early March, since airports near the Ukrainian border have been closed until then. So while 3 days is long for Kyiv to hold out, the reality might be they'll have to hold out for at least 2 weeks before it starts really mattering in the eyes of Putin.
MobileCoin whitepaper didn't make any claims about untraceability, AFAIK.
If the CIA/FBI wanted to make people think a plane had hit the pentagon, why wouldn't they just use a plane? This conspiracy theory is one of the dumbest.
This was revised by NATO in 2021 and more substantial commitments were made.

NATO reaffirmed that “Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance with the Membership Action Plan (MAP)", which is the most traction on the topic since 2008.

In 2016, Ukraine was granted the Comprehensive Assistance Package (CAP), comprising the advisory mission at the NATO Representation to Ukraine as well as 16 capacity-building programmes and Trust Funds. And in 2018, Ukraine was officially given an aspiring member status.

I found this article to be informative:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/06/15/the-2021-brussels-nat...
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-eur...
desktop Linux always looked like windows 95 to me
Thankfully there is no distributed ledger keeping track of every little thing so we don’t have to worry about that.
At this point is BTC a good idea? Does it actually provide any damn value at all at a macro level?
What's Up with Russia's Internet
> Most PAKE systems nowadays use Diffie-Hellman assumptions, which can be broken by a quantum computer. There are some ideas on how to transition their underlying algorithms to the post-quantum world; but these seem to be so inefficient as to render their deployment infeasible.

Isogeny based PAKEs exist! (e.g. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/886) Their weakness is not infeasible performance, but rather the lack of a totally satisfactory security proof based on previous assumptions.
Ask HN: How does your company deal with governance?
Do you have formally documented processes for all things? Or is there a pseudo system where experienced folks know how to get things done? Like buying new services on Aws/gcp, new products, changes to products, payments, expenses, hiring, etc.

Curious to learn how this differs between scale-ups and larger corporates, also, how different is it for software/tech people in across industries.
Thanks!
I see what you're saying. My son got the vaccine because he had no prior exposure as far as we know. The other one is too young and my understanding (from NYT) is that the companies are really struggling to show effectiveness below age 5. Personally we experienced little pressure to get our kids vaxxed but I don't know what your experience was like.
There's no connection between your link and an argument that the minimum wage is a bad idea. Also, the article doesn't make an ethical argument.

I firmly believe in a minimum wage.
Further reading on Russia and its beloved Internet: https://vicki.substack.com/p/whats-up-with-russias-internet
> the Russians are not stupid

Arrogance is one hell of a drug. It's entirely possible that Russia believed its own propaganda and thought they would be welcomed as liberators by the Ukrainian people. The US literally did the same thing in the war in Iraq.

With the number of lies the Russian state throws out on a daily basis I'm sure it's hard to keep things straight.
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> decent terrain for a mechanical warfare rush, and local support from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

This applies to Russia in Ukraine as well. It's mostly flat plains, Russia has support from Belarus and is a direct neighbour itself.
Like with proposals to regulate "journalists", what exactly constitutes a politician? For example, I've run for public office before (city council) and I'm involved in a few politically active organizations. Am I a politician? If I am, was it still political advocacy when I talked about the idiotic redudant school built in my ward, as I was not campaigning then? (Just a thought experiment. In practice, Twitter should of course be scourged from the planet.)
I don't believe it for a second. Energy prices in Europe have become extremely high and will continue to climb as Russian gas exports are sanctioned more and more. A full embargo would make it financially impossible for many European homes to get heat. Chemical processes and installations that take advantage of the generation of both CO2 and heat, like greenhouses, will be forced to either close down or increase prices, with a direct impact on the availability of affordable foods, chemicals and products.

With a full gas embargo, we're one polar vortex anomaly away from protests that will only favour politicians with Russian friends who are already calling for lower sanctions. In the short term this will have an effect, but unless American gas producers artificially lower their gas prices, the long term will only see more Russia-aligned politicians gaining prominence.

Europe's reliance on America and Russia has been a problem for a while and we're seeing the impact of it as we speak.

However, I do believe that "the economy" will be fine, but "the economy" mostly benefits the richest layers of society. That wealth doesn't trickle down.
Oh, that is hilarious! Partially, it's due to the low bandwidth required, but I often used it in the 2010s to gauge whether I had any western secure connectivity (e.g. VPN not working in central China) so I'm glad it's still true.
Yeah I’m a long term investor in GE and the low interest rate is actually painful for them cause of their massive pension liabilities. When the rates are so low, GE has to keep shoring up the pension funds with their own money to make up for the shortfalls. Interest on the pension’s assets just aren’t paying enough to keep up with predicted expenses.
It works. Russian commenter on HN used those exact same terms, so people really start to think in them.
My interpretation is they're pushing and (sadly) making progress, though much slower than they'd like.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-ukraine...

Judging by the many videos of interrogations of Russian POWs, many of them are just kids who barely know where they are, are unmotivated and poorly equipped. Hardly a professional and well-equipped army. There are also indications of logistical challenges (videos of Russian military vehicles running out of fuel, that sort of thing).
If cash could tell you whether it was illegally acquired then I'm sure many businesses would refuse to accept illegal cash.
Related and interesting: What is a (fountain pen) music nib? https://unsharpen.com/fountain-pen-help-what-is-a-music-nib/
Opinion: Our world's chilling return to authoritarianism
And of the 50% that were legit, what percentage was with stolen or fraudulently obtained bitcoins?
Ask HN: Is GitHub still a desirable place to work?
Now that the dust has settled from the acquisition, has the culture held up? How's morale, work life balance, growth opportunity, etc.?
Eastern Europe: Every Year
This is absolutely correct! I've been watching Putin's public briefings for over 10 years and have to say that when he expressed his concern over NATO Allies invoking Article 5 to the reporters, he was out of his normal character (calm, collected, and thoughtful)...meaning that he was NOT KIDDING about using his hypersonic nuclear arsenal on anyone that wanted to interfere!