skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of video game footages being used seemingly by unknown actors with various intent, if a gamer like me can be tricked, how gullible is the average user?

I LEGIT thought the whole Ghost of Kiev video was REAL the first time I watched it. It was only when the whole scene did not make sense——why would the Russian jet slow down and slowly ascent with a pursuing Ukranian jet and why would it use AA missile instead of opting for guns at such close range moving slowly?

It was only after this exercise in logic did I take a second look at the video and saw the person holding the camera was moving way too stable without the artifacts you normally get from software stabilization.

Many, many people saw that video and retweeted it thinking it was legitimate. I almost did too until I saw it a second time and realized Twitter's compression algorithms degraded the quality in an authentic manner that hides anti-aliasing and uncanny valley.

Games are increasing becoming photorealistic where I can't tell from preview thumbs (ex. Ride 4) and we are probably witnessing the cusp of a new type of war. Our morales can be influenced by the hour now thanks to social media and advancements in light ray tracing.

Like in 2011 I was certain that photorealism was far off because of the computation difficulties with real-time ray tracing, I had not anticipated the leaps in GPU, AI, Deepfake technologies as well as software advancements like Nanite and Lumen in UE5
Snipers intentionally shoot to not kill sometimes, so they get more targets.
What's the thinking there about the pros and cons? Specifically, is there any concern that this might help people who would exploit vulnerabilities rather than fix them?
It seems that archive.today is down so no archive link from me.

Assuming that you don't have an FT subscription, searching the title on Google and then clicking the article or accessing it through a Google redirect (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/..., has a warning because I've removed the IP-specific hash that allows automatic redirection) should bypass the paywall, assuming that you haven't hit FT's limit of 5ish articles per month.
> Except potentially a desperate Putin.

No. Putin is not crazy; he knows it would be stupid to do so.
If you have floor heating + heat pump, then the manufacturer recommendation is to keep it running 24/7 from October to April. That's for the climate where I live, elsewhere this period may be shorter.
IMO software-filled TLBs is the only thing that makes sense because it's much more flexible than any HW page table walking algorithms. The latter get baked in, or at best microcoded, while the former are infinitely customizable to fit the needs of the day.

About the only improvement I can think of for software-filled TLBs is to have features that allow said software to always be hot, loaded into fast on-die memory, not subject to being pushed out of a cache.
> when people think the problem is purely one of lack of acclimatization or grit.

In most situations, I feel like people talking extensively about grit assume the difficulty level is the same for everyone. And they tend to be antagonistic towards people who try to explain why some things are more difficult and instead double down on pushing grit.
It's not just the wages, it's also the extra cost of handling a considerable part of the mods who will develop PTSD.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52642633

So you now have a situation where you are making thousands ill and in doing so will incur a cost much higher than 1B per year.

But yes, it can be done.
US firms should be wary of destructive malware unleashed on Ukraine
Lots of companies are hiring remote staff currently if consulting is not your thing.
Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29080561 - Nov 2021 (70 comments)
Ukraine is one of the 28 countries with mandatory military service. But regardless, I think anything goes when your country is facing an existential threat.
It's easy to poke fun at Mark because he's mega rich and can come off a little stiff, but he's pretty interesting to listen when he's speaking without a script.

Here's Mark when he was 21 giving a lecture at Harvard's CS50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFs9UgOAlE
I don't understand why they are doing this, Wikipedia states that they have 900 000 citizens that went through military service.
If you can't defend your country with almost a million soldiers No amount of untrained civians will.
There are options. None with even close the mindshare that linux has.
TL/DR: like a group camping trip but with hammocks.

At the time I was a member of hammockforums.net

It's a forum dedicated to hammocks, hammock camping, associated equipment, and discussions that usually relate to hammocks. There have been several "group camping" gatherings (pre-covid) in various parts of the world. At the gatherings that I attended there was 50-75 individuals all sleeping in hammocks. It was over a weekend in Indiana.

The hammock community has a lot of cottage industry involvement, and a very large portion of the group actively contributes to ideas much like the OSS community does. There was a lot community spirit. Several people (and companies) brought equipment/gear/stuff to give-away. I as one of the few Canadians to show up brought Canadian beer, chocolates, and snacks. I won an under-quilt, some hiking chop-sticks (they screw together and have a belt-attachment), and a few other things all at no cost to me ($400+ worth of gear).

So there we were 50+ hammocks all hung in the surrounding forest enjoying fellowship.
The is no international banned weapon, if the international do not willing to sacrifice economic growth to do the right thing.
You might poke around https://armypubs.army.mil/ This kind of thing is scattered all over the place, but it's generally publicly available.

How about https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN18314-ADP_6-...

There are also

https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/
All their other missiles have worked.....
I don't know why gas heating is so prevalent in parts of Europe historically, I guess fossil fuels were just the cheapest way of heating compared to electricity. Google says that in Canada also much heating is gas or oil based, so perhaps the prevalence of electric heating is a feature of your particular residential area?

In any case, I think electric heating will become much more prevalent anyway since it's necessary for the clean energy transition. But that will take far longer than the current Russia crisis, so it's unfortunately no short term fix.
Spot on.. also many Nordic cities also have district heating, which can utilize surplus heat from power production.
Look at bittorrent. While it's impossible to kill it, targeting agregation platforms definitely made the protocol immensely less relevant than it was 20 years ago.
Is that #expatlife or #donotusegmail ?
My first thought when starting to read about this was xkcd's Thing Explainer.

But will this carry all the meanings (including cultural ones) of those words to the translations to other languages ?
Very condescending advice. Refrain from giving more in the future.
Related:

Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16673526 - March 2018 (29 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
An appeasement-style solution like this is predicated on the assumption that the expansion of NATO is the actual reason behind this war, and not just a convenient pretext. There's no consensus about that. Putin has a history of meddling in neighbouring states, and could use a distraction from domestic problems.
The amount of heat in the atmosphere at any point doesn't really matter all that much for global warming. What matters is the break-even point between the amount of energy we gain from and lose to space. Since the earth emits more energy if it's warmer (black body radiation), the break-even point relates to the temperature of the earth. If we change something about the earth's in or output of energy, the earth's temperature will naturally rise until the break even point is reached again.

By introducing greenhouse gasses, we are affecting earth's ability to radiate energy to space and thus the temperature at which we have our break-even point. Should all greenhouse gasses disappear, the earth would rapidly start cooling until it reaches its new break-even point.
Original headline: "in Human Liver Cell Line"

Submitted HN headline: "in human cells"

Abstract: "we investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7"

huh7.com: "Huh-7 is an immortal cell line composed of epithelial-like, tumorigenic cells. The majority of Huh-7 cells show a chromosome number between 55 and 63 (mode 60) and are highly heterogeneous."

@dang: This headline does not match the source, and the change introduces a substantial lie.
dude has a wonderful habit of blocking anyone he deems remotely "negative" on Twitter
No, I do not. But I detest the dehumanizing tactic wildly used by both sides. You can easily verify how the Russian army acts on the ground in respect to civilians using a ton of videos shot by Ukrainian citizens.
Furthermore, the ban on anti-personnel mines are not signed by Russia, China, and USA as well. Although, Ukraine did sign that [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
Flattening Kyiv is Putin's last resort: he can't retire and he can't drag things for too long, but should he give the order to level the city and reports would slip under the censorship to Russian people and the rest of the world, that would surely be the first day of his demise.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This isn't that.
I'd be first to condemn - if true - but given the current state of propaganda masquerading as journalism that we see on every side of many high-stakes issues, I will lean toward skepticism until indisputable evidence is presented. The question to ask is "who benefits from this report?"
The EU membership includes it's own defense pact.

EU membership but NATO non-membership gives security to Finland, without hosting US military weapons aimed at Russia. In this way, it gives defensive security without making it a strategic threat to Russia.
We basically can not accelerate the process. Almost all the resistance to heat movement is on layers we can not reach at all.
I doubt it. Even fully “neutral” Ukraine, if modern, democratic, prosperous, would have been extremely dangerous to any corrupt autocrat in Russia. This is appeasement approach that WWII should have taught us not to take. Russian official are literally complaining about weak West response. Instead the NATO membership should have been accelerated, with the path for Russia to enter it in the future. Even Putin mentioned he asked Clinton about it. But he is obviously the sticking point.
Many anti-aircraft missiles self-destruct (by triggering the warhead) if they lose their target or run out of range. I believe this is a standard feature for most modern implementations. This minimizes the possibility of collateral damage, especially if you are using it over your own soil.

Even some air-dropped munitions you might not expect, like the bomblets from cluster bombs, will self-destruct before they hit the ground if their sensors don't detect a target within their damage radius. Modern weapons go to considerable lengths to proactively auto-disable/self-destruct after deployment.
That's what you get when you do a lot of publicity for a movie that is not good.
> Can you explain why those terms are unacceptable?

It's obvious. The people want to be free to control their own destiny.
If integration of RNA into the DNA integration is expected with viral infections, then shouldn't we expect that with vaccines as well? This isn't coming from a place of fear or rejecting the value of vaccines, I'm just curious.
How do you say SUSE?
What excellent fakes are you talking about? A lot of claims by each side are just that, claims. For example, Ukraine claims to shot down two huge Russian IL-76 planes, but I haven’t seen any photos or videos of these yet, fake or real. In this case, I think we’ll find out if it’s true soon enough. Similarly, Russia claims that the high-rise in Kiev has been hit by Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile. That’s also just a claim, with no evidence as of yet.
> Do we need to reach magma?

Nope. Over the last ~20 years the drilling industry has gotten good at: angle drilling (not slant drilling but turning the drill angle at the bottom) and fracking, or pumping fluid through rock to break it up. This means conventional methods can dig far down, turn the drill and make a reserve with fracking. The heat is much less but it's conventional technology.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_c_beard_the_untapped_energy_...
You're not supposed to be using an exchange for payments, you are meant to have a wallet, ideally a non-custodial one.
From my point of view, PostgreSQL development is quite conservative. Every small change may become a subject of heated debates, nothing to say about big changes. This approach to the development have advantages and disadvantages.
But if we imagine OrioleDB accepted to the upstream, that would be most dramatical changes since PostgreSQL was released to Open Source. This is why I decided to make a fork and then merge it to upstream step-by-step.

It's not that bad to use a fork during 2-3 release cycles give that:
1) It's not highly divergent fork (the patchset is small).
2) They patchset will be smoothly decrease over that period of time.
Also, even 2-3 release cycles isn't that bad in comparison with decades while we have small progress in wicked problems.
What you're talking about is sometimes referred to as "exercising covert agency" and IMHO it's absolutely essential for the well-being of creative folks in heavily project-managed corporate workplaces.

"Not keeping secrets" effectively ends up meaning that you need "permission" or at least consent for everything you work on. Depending on how tight things are this can be a recipe for misery because it's common in managerial ranks for people to be change-averse to the point of absurdity.
>bonus Q: Imagine Taiwan were to apply to join NATO...

I imagine you would see a very similar response from China, probably a more swift and harsh than that of Russia.
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The military endgame sadly is somewhere between a destroyed Ukraine in perpetual conflict and regime change, depending on the efficacy of Ukrainian resistance.

Sorry to say, autocrats do not withdraw from a conflict like this regardless of attrition. Their power is their legitimacy and defeat is a threat to both their rule and probably their life. I mean look at how much flak Biden took withdrawing from Afghanistan despite being able to say that it was a horrible idea and someone else's fault.

This is a little different from Afghanistan and Iraq though, Russia's security concerns are valid and probably ameliorated by Ukraine as a failed state (as opposed to a NATO aligned state) so conquering and pacifying the country is not necessary.

The only real humanitarian solution is a diplomatic solution. I wonder if written guarantees that Ukraine and Georgia will never join NATO would be enough now honestly.
The only thing that really matters is how much work has been built up on top of the transaction. Shorter block times doesn't change that function at all. In a version of bitcoin with 1 minute block times, the security guarantee of 60 blocks is identical to the current security guarantee of 6 blocks, because it would be exactly the same amount of energy going into mining to create immutability.

The amount of work (hashes) represents a real world cost (electricity and mining chips) that can't be undone without massive commitment of these real world resources.

This is the foundation of why bitcoin works.

So basically, people who say their blockchain with shorter block times is "faster" are either fools who don't understand what's going on or conmen trying to pump and dump their bags. Layer one transaction confirmation is about settlement finality, not how fast you can pay for coffee.
It's certainly not ideal, but their only other choice at this point is to surrender to Russian occupation. The Russian military greatly outnumbers that of Ukraine, so without civilians joining the defense, they'd really have no chance. Of course these people are at high risk, but obviously they feel it's worth it to defend their freedom.
Covid the result of two zoonotic events, Huanan market was epicenter
Aren’t the private assets held at book value (historical purchase price less goodwill and depreciation) and so likely dramatically understate market value?
> this will be is a logistical nightmare

Stingers are manufactured in Germany. Logistically, they need to load some crates into a few trucks and drive about thirteen hours. The logistics of limited warfare in modern Europe is frighteningly straightforward.

Is there some doubt that the Polish authorities will be more than happy to provide them with a police escort?
I don't think it's currently scheduled: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/30672
yes and experience/maturity, which is kinda knowing how to deal with finite immediate memory in the face of larger conceptual and unknown domains.
The the majority of the US Army’s (and most other DoD branches and agencies) regulations and doctrine are unclassified and available to the public. You can probably search most of the relevant publications you want at armypubs.army.mil.

I don’t believe it is behind an authentication wall.
I love the enormity of your sarcasm!
Please, see this thread of comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30466322
palm-sized PFM-1--style landmine, reacts to physical pressure on its body, designed to maim. soviet ripoff of US BLU-43 mine used in vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43
There's a few possible endgames for Ukraine.

The best scenario for Ukraine is that they're able to check the Russian invasion, and prevent troops from reaching and occupying Kyiv and other major cities, causing the war to drag on in a stalemate. If it goes well for them, the Russian will to press the invasion collapses, and they withdraw without winning any concessions. Note that I do not think this is at all likely.

The more likely scenario (that ends "well" for Ukraine) is that Russia successfully pushes its invasion to completion and installs a new government, but the invasion shifts to a phase of intense resistance (see, e.g., Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan) that ultimately collapses the moment Russian troops pull out, perhaps with similar speed as the Afghani government collapsed after the US's withdrawal.

Both of those scenarios assume that a combination of economic sanctions and unpopularity of the war are sufficient to prevent Russia from maintaining troops in Ukraine indefinitely, which is an assumption that may or may not be true (and I think there are very few people who are qualified enough to credibly opine on its truth!). If the assumption is wrong, then the conflict might stabilize in a conflict that looks like Nargano-Karabakh (~30 years), Cyprus (~50 years), or Korea (~70 years).

It's possible to theorize about a scenario in which Ukraine does so well that they're able to counterattack and retake control of Crimea and the Donbass, or even punch into Russia, but such a scenario is so unlikely that I think it should rightly be considered fantasy.
Oh, please, since 1990 there were multiple wars in Europe and literally next door nobody gave a fuck about. Serbia/Kosovo, Bosnia, Moldova, Libya, Syria.

Putin is a madman that should have been deposed long time ago, but current media hysteria is on the next level.
That's really amusing. Did it have any positive effect (aside from solving the AC control war). Wondering if it improved cross pollination of ideas between teams.
Serious question: That’s it? Is this a supply and logistics issue, or tactical?

Why not 50,000? That would send a clear message of German support for Ukraine; they are already showing that with the initial delivery but…

Just curious ..why not send more?
The Discrete Cosine Transform, and Derivatives
Not to mention https://gajitz.com/1950s-radioactive-science-kit-most-danger...
Curious honest question, has there ever been a successful urban attack in the past, say, 30 years, where the urban population by-and-large really doesn't want the attackers to be there?

I mean, when I look at urban warfare, I think of the following possible outcomes:

1. Total annihilation, e.g. Warsaw at the end of WWII.

2. Splitting the city up into factional neighborhoods. Possible but given the situation in Kiev, there don't seem to be many Russian supporters there anong the native population (this is not true in Eastern Ukrainian cities)

3. Subduing the defenders and installing a puppet government. I think the best model here appears to be the Soviet Union crushing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

#3 seems like the most obvious intention of Putin, but I just don't really see how that is possible in modern Kyiv. In 1956 Budapest there were plenty of Communist supporters - indeed, they were the ones in power before the revolution.

The "best" outcome I can see from this war is that Putin completes the annexation of Luhansk and Donetsk, with possibly some other eastern regions e.g. a full land bridge from Crimea to Donetsk, as well as Kharkiv, but I just don't understand the attack on all of Ukraine. If anything you'll just get a further sorting of the country where everyone who despises Russia moves to the west and everyone else decides to stay/move to Russian-occupied areas.
Feel free to contact me at alexander@orioledb.com
Another difficulty for Sweden and Finland is that all need to agree.

"NATO Enlargement & Open Door"

"...NATO’s “open door policy” is based on Article 10 of the Alliance’s founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty (1949). The Treaty states that NATO membership is open to any “European state in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area”. It states that any decision on enlargement must be made “by unanimous agreement”. .."

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2016_...
Probably the Nobel will come first...
How is it in any way significant that the sequence of letters “ethi” is not present in a Wikipedia article?
Kent Bye and others are doing great work around building an XR Ethics framework [1]

XR will soon not only include eye tracking, but full brain computer interfaces with very rich data on how you are reacting to stimuli. [2]

If you think only gamers will strap a box to their head, XR includes augmented reality such as more socially acceptable lightweight glasses. Facebook is working with Ray Ban sunglasses to avoid the Google Glass social rejection factor.

Another Facebook / Cambridge Analytica level manipulation of population could be so much more effective and wide spread. It will be very hard for us to detect how our decisions are being influenced. Wild stuff!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrdqp8zHdAU

[2] https://www.roadtovr.com/valve-brain-computer-interfaces-vr-...
Rogan might not ask technical questions, but he's more skilled at probing the topics many have concerns about. Such as "fact checking" and censorship.

Sure, and that's why I said I think Zuck would be a good guest for Rogan. What I'm objecting to is the idea that the entirety of Fridman's guest list would be better interviewed by Rogan. Some, perhaps. All? I am very skeptical of that position. That's all I'm saying.