skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are talking about check the signature is there, the number in the excel agrees with the pdf etc. Im sure it can be time consuming but it needs to be done.

No, it not needs to be done. This kind of job is literally what was defined as a "bullshit job" - any decent computer-first designed workflow would not need a human be involved for such crap at all.

The problem is that minimum wages are too low, so companies don't have an incentive to spend money on introducing efficient, fully IT-centered processes... after all, why spend millions of dollars on a risky IT project when you can hire people for that?
I see in your other comments you are towing the Russian propaganda line. Your comment here didn't age well.
Which websites are these exactly? And who is this "west"? Which country has blocked what?

Russia objected to Facebook fact checking and labelling (not removing) Russian state media posts. The Russian regulator (Roskomnadzor) has said it has "restricted" Facebook access in retaliation.
I bought a North Face backpack from the outlet on Palo Alto in 1988. I still have it today.

The internal coating is failing in spots. But the worst damage was to the foam padding in the back. Gone. Turned to dust.

Unfortunately, because I bought the bag from the outlet, it’s not eligible for warranty repair.

I bought a motorcycle last year to take on trips. Not sure what luggage system I want to use, so I turned to the ol North Face and I took a razor to the backing, removed the padding materials, shoulder straps and hip belt.

Now it’s improvised moto luggage for clothes, tent, sleeping pad, tent pole.

Let’s see how google images hosts for HN:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AMvqmTHYxTqnPJrR8
>If Russia blocks access to twitter then shall RT be allowed to continue posting for their Western audience?

Unquestionably yes.

Why is HN becoming more and more in favor of China style restrictions on information?
Now I want to know what the effect size for 'men are taller than women' is.
Crypto may well be the biggest solution looking for a problem I've ever seen.

Apart from the obvious issues (eg energy expenditure) the one myth that needs to die about crypto is that it is extragovernmental and indictments such as this and the Bitfinex laundering case recently should underline that.

The simple fact is that the developed world could shut down what little utility cryptocurrencies (and NFTs) have tomorrow if they chose to. China banned mining and mining was gone immediately (largely moving to Kyrgystan it seems). Defenders will say you can't shut down the network and that might be true but it's irrelevant.

The threat of legal action will be enough to keep th evast majority of people away. And the weakness of any crypto is that at some point it has to interface with the real world or it's completely useless. Obvious example: the traditional financial system. Access to the US financial system is what allows the US government to exercise influence over European financial institutions to stop them, for example, dealing with sanctioned countries like Iran.
> Is desertion truly a reasonable option?

Likely the orders will be to shoot deserters. Even so the first desertions have already happened.

> Where are they going to go?

POW separate from the other POWs.
There's been plenty of calls within the EU to ban trade of goods made in Israeli settlements. AFAIK the latest news it that the EU courts ruled in favor of a ban.
This is no ordinary political disagreement, however. Russia is committing a crime, plain and simply. I doubt you would want murderers advertise for their cause on Facebook.
> The psychology behind successful political slogans is that people are generally in favour of positive things.

Are there any examples of negative political slogans? "Don't vote for us, we're losers"?

I don't think it's very informative to point out that these slogans are positive. What's more informative is that the messaging came with an idea of an insidious enemy, and of betrayal, and a desire to return to a former, previously great, and deserved status.

For what it's worth, I don't think "Black Lives Matter" had those same connotations.
> The hubris syndrome has great appeal to psychiatrists, partly because it is a new concept.

New? That's hard to believe that its taken this long to construct such a syndrome.

In any case, while hubris might be an issue for some (minority?), being generally disconnected from those they serve seems to be the current state of leadership.

Look at Congress, all or nearly all are millionaires. CEOs and other C Level executives are paid record amounts (as a ratio of what staff compensation). Those in charge of The Fed? When was the last time any of them rubbed elbows with the victims of their system?

Hubris is a problem, and evidently a new one. But ignorance is more common and far more damaging.
In some me places it is hard to discharge even 1.1x brine. In the future it might be necessary to concentrate it all the way to solid salt crystals and then truck them away.
This properly looks good.
>especially since it ought to increase the visibility

No, writing paragraphs of irrelevance (you didn't genuinely interpret DQ to mean Dairy Queen so the large comment you wrote about that misinterpretation was just sheer noise) doesn't increase the visibility of what you're trying to obfuscate, it shifts the signal/noise ratio downwards. It pollutes and derails the discussion.
From Wikipedia:

A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[1] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are purported to own.
Who thinks Corona was handled well? Compare how Europe handled it to China or even Australia or New Zealand.
Also he lived his first 38 years under the Soviets, working in one of their most emblematic institutions, the KGB.

He is not only a product of the inhumane ideology that drove the USSR, he embodies it. You can see it in his disregard of human life, in his placing of the crushing powers of the state over individual freedoms.

It's also the ideology of the PRC, and NK indeed. It's simple: communism needs dictatorship to survive and it attracts and enables the most powerful dictators: madmen and psychopaths.
Tell your political leaders that you favor sanctions against Russia and arming Ukraine. Putin will retreat only if the pain inflicted on Russia threatens his hold on power.
Do you need to crack it if the government can be a majority hashrate of the miner pool? One need not crack it to control it. You'd be able to double spend, mine empty blocks, orphan blocks from other miners, etc. Just need to get to and sustain 51% of the hash pool, which sounds trivial considering nation state compute resources.
Ask not what HN can do for you, but what you can do for HN!
We’ve had slow growth in Western Europe since the 1980s, basically, that is if you ignore the financial-industry-led growth of the UK (London, mostly) and the Chinese-supported industrial revival of Germany starting with the mid-2000s. Japan has been a stagnant economy for 30 years now. All these political entities are free of despots (thankfully so). All I’m trying to say is that tying economic performance with the nature of the political regime might be very dangerous for the political regime, because what happens if a democracy cannot provide for sustained economic growth?

Going back to Putin, I was trying to say that there is not only one person that is behind the recent events, a “despot”, apparently there’s an entire Russian administration apparatus that thinks the same (hence why I linked to that Wikipedia page).
I've always found it very funny that their first link is a GEICO ad. I think he sees the humor in that too, he's no stoic.

Edit: Just finished the letter and he sure is ever the salesman, closing the letter with "cousin" Jimmy Buffett's pontoon party boat, exclusive 10% discount for shareholders!
But if we get to temperatures that destory metals, isn't it enough?

Why don't we drill to whatever is the termal limit, make a big cavity there, install radiators there and just heat the watter to that temperature and take it out to surface where we can heat homes.

I know this is done in Bucharest for a water park (to much lesser depths because apparently we have hot springs near Bucharest).

Do we need to reach magma?
fact check! please refer here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

your rewritten response is appreciated, for the record
There are a few reasons I say this. At first, I wasn't sure whether it was just propaganda or reality.

The reality is, Russia has failed to take any objectives. It does take time to move through urban centers -- but that's exactly the wrong thing to do. The correct decision would be to destroy Ukraine's air force, and then move in. That didn't happen.

So when the Russians moved in, they discovered that their supply lines were extraordinarily vulnerable. There are several videos circulating of Russian convoys being out of gas. Again, I was suspicious it was propaganda.

What changed my mind is the fact that even Ukraine's internet is still up. Not only is Russia failing to take objectives, but they're failing to even damage Ukrainian infrastructure.

Combine that with a Ukrainian leader who is a hero (in the classic Greek sense), and Putin is facing a stiff headwind.

It's too early to tell. The next several days will be key. But it no longer feels impossible for Ukraine to win -- which implies that Russia would therefore be in the process of losing.

Some references:

https://twitter.com/IntuitMachine/status/1497328895577796618 A column of destroyed Russian vehicles

https://twitter.com/ThreshedThought/status/14973041438364549... An analysis of why victory isn't out of the question
There is no such thing as sustainable growth.

Eventually, one day, sooner or later a very unsustainable chunk of high speed space rock will hit the planet and wipe us out, or some other completely natural and “green” disaster, like a supervolcanic eruption, as has happened repeatedly in history. The only thing that will matter is if we advance our technology to a point to divert the problem or make ourselves sufficiently resilient from the problem. There is no “if” here, it’s statistically guaranteed.

As far as I know, the best way for humanity to advance technology is with growth. More people with a higher standard of living means more teachers, scientists, artists, engineers, and leaders. We need those people because hiding in a cave is exactly the wrong thing to do.
> the promise given to Ukraine that it will enter NATO and the EU

Your comment history approaches deliberate misinformation. This is an example. NATO admission was never promised. The consultation process was all but abandoned over a decade ago, before Putin rolled into Crimea.
Show HN: Mutton Editor – A Meme Editor for Developers – Feedback Needed
> a farm of Nvidia racks for several months

Ok so what my phone GPU will do in a day less than ten years from now.
Hi HN! Just wanna share a little project I made these days.
A meme maker for developers: Mutton-editor.

https://mike-zheng.github.io/mutton-editor

I spent about 2 months on this side project every night after work.
There's nothing special about it, just a graphic editor for createing memes,
but I had a hard time to deal with the serverless architecture.

My original concept was making fun memes without any desktop design software like photoshop.
I’ve had to draw memes to explain something to peers in previous small technical meetings,
and I always felt drawing diagrams wasting too much time.
That led me to creating this meme maker that allows me to create funny memes easily.

Mutton-editor is completely free to use. It is just for fun.
If you have any suggestion, feel free to contact me.
Dusty Flight 19 Completed and Looking Ahead to Flight 20
> Is this ridiculous? Is this blasphemy? Is this… wonderful?

I was thinking of a use-case here, and blending in at the Starbucks wifi whilst you do your clandestine Linux activities is one good use-case. Reminds me of Kali Linux's Windows 10 theme that you can enable if you don't want to be judged as a 'hacker type' in public areas (or arouse suspicion).
In the UK the only people backing Russia publiclly were obviously Nigel 'Oswald' Farage, but also Corbyn and co.

Corbyn (who led the main opposition party from 2015-2019, nearly becoming PM in 2017, and then falling to a massive wipeout in 2019) has already been fired from Labour, but his "gang" were all there queueing up to worship Putin until they were bluntly told they'd be sacked.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-labour...

The Stop The War coalition was formed to stop the west attacking Afghanistan and reached its height with Iraq, a reasonable view point.

Turns out that it's not Putin's fault Russia invaded, it's all America's fault. Probably Tony Blair too for some reason.
Both the PRC and NK are the (ideological) children of USSR.
Tracks very well with my read of the situation. Yeltsin believed that NATO expanding towards Russia[1] was a bad thing. His successor Putin has been warning for a long time that this was not acceptable to Russia.

There is an interesting color map that shows the global reaction to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This map is also, essentially, a map of US client states.[2]

Small countries that fall within the sphere of influence of Great powers need to be mindful of the sentiments of those powers towards them as well as economic and military repercussions of any perceived slights. The tragedy of Ukraine is that it tried to become a client state of Washington without verifying whether Washington had any intention of securing its borders against its neighbor.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Adriatic_C...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_reactions_t...

[3] Blinken: Ukraine has all tools to move towards NATO membership (https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/blinken-ukraine-ha...)
For me it’s funny to see twitter comments now asking can we impose crypto sanctions on Russia. It’s like all these institutions and mechanisms we have are there are for a reason
Do you have sources that this is an actual (modern army) doctrine anywhere?

Russia has a demographic crisis. Their population of young men (20-34) will go from 14M to 11M in 5 years. Around a 20% reduction. They won’t have enough men to man their massive borders or maintain their massive infrastructure. Every soldier lost in this war cannot be replaced. Throwing men into the meat-grinder would be the most retarded strategy ever.
Reporting for duty...
This would be another exciting area to explore... https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/sound-maker/view/

I especially love trombone+thunder
Reportedly it’s a bit warmer than they anticipated. Tanks have an easier time on frozen ground, or they get stuck.
> write deep learning models around these areas of interests

I've read tons of articles on how to assemble models using PyTorch etc, but very little on how to design them.

Like overall architecture to use for what problems, conditioning of input data, number of layers, width of layers at each depth.

I haven't read this book yet, so maybe this has some on that, but are there any other decent resources that go a bit into this? At least something that gives some overall pointers, I'm guessing this can get quite involved quite fast.
> Is anyone else completely shocked that our Ukrainian friends seem to have stable high speed internet?

The only reason Ukraine continues to have Internet access is because the Russian Army hasn't chosen to cut it. That's literally it. Internet infrastructure is incredibly fragile. A couple of well-placed missiles is all it would take.

There's no excuse for Putin's invasion. None. There are underlying reasons but they are in absolutely no way a justification. We can and should ask how we could've avoided this. It may well inform how we end it.

That being said, Russia is clearly pursuing a strategy of minimizing civilian casualties (for now at least). Targets have been military installations, key geographic points, bridges, airports and command-and-control infrastructure. I suspect that if Russian casulaties continue (and it seems like they've been reasonably high) then images and video of downed Russian aircraft and helicopters and the remains of Russian convoys may well cause Russia to cut off that Internet. It could get much, much worse.
List of SOE Establishments
Facebook is engaging in vigilantism. Let them coordinate with the White House. Banks don’t get to unilaterally pull this stunt.
While I was initially confused by the terminology, I think it kinda makes sense. As an example of other people using the term in this way, see the Tigress obfuscator:

https://tigress.wtf/introduction.html
And then what? They can never go home again. You said, yourself, that they are "scared kids."

Edit: I have no doubt that there have been some desertions and I am sure that there will be more, but I am not sure that it is reasonable to expect that any given "scared kid" will do so even if they believe they are on the wrong side.
The problem is climate change.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/can-the-world-...

Smart contracts are the best shot we have of doing carbon, methane etc. tracking, managing offsetting payments and everything else required to start getting a grip on the CO2 emissions of the consumer economy.
The wind force on Mars is not very strong, the surface pressures is only 0.6% of Earth's and the top windspeed is around 100 km/h or 62 mph.
Unfortunately I've met people who think RT is more trustworthy than CNN. Not a lot but I've also had people send me links from there to prove some argument etc.

Still not sure if banning it is the right answer.

I wonder if a solution is to iframe these sites with a warning about disinformation at the top of every page.

Maybe browsers will eventually have fact checkers analyzing content and guiding the reader but still letting them read if they choose?
And $13/hour will leave you in a shared rental in a dodgy part of todays London.
The handful of independent media that are still allowed to exist in Russia all got a written warning this morning requiring them to use the term "special operation" and not "war", "attack" or "invasion".

[1] https://www.rosbalt.ru/russia/2022/02/26/1946076.html
The road patterns were different back then (they changed them specifically because of 9/11), but if you've ever been near the Pentagon, it's pretty obvious: it's a low building, nestled in a bowl-like land formation, there aren't many good places to sit and "observe" it, and it's surrounded by highways. Most of the time, if you are looking at the Pentagon, you are probably also driving.
I'm not sure it's the same software but your comment made me remember Dance eJay ( https://youtu.be/b1PpXcC8Ik0 ). It was distributed in Sweden in the 90s by a radio channel called NRJ, and I guess it was made like that in a few other countries in the EU. It was so much fun and those samples still bring back a lot of memories.
Doesn’t make it false. Don’t have to like it. I don’t.
Meta Platforms, absolute scum. They're giving a platform for far-right political groups across the EU, therefore aiding their operation. We have reported several popular Facebook groups, pages and profiles that spread hateful content, some of them the official pages of far-right politicians. Absolutely nothing is taken down if the content is not in English, and the influence of these entities are growing by the day on Facebook.

Facebook rarely takes down non-English content that breaks their terms of service. Meta Platforms simply does not care. The attention of the media is focused on English content, and Meta only reacts in a meaningful way when they're called out in major news stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jtFqWq5iU

Meta Platforms was fine with aiding the radicalization of the Russian population in the past decade, and it will continue to do nothing, except offer token concessions to insert itself in the news cycle for cheap PR wins.
Personal politics is bickering about the tax rate, not defending war crimes. It is insane that people are pretending that these issues are equivalent.
> And when you have multiple countries now refusing to take Russia out of SWIFT

Not anymore. It takes a little bit to organize independently run republics, but once things get rolling…

Also, there was this 1994 accord called the Budapest Memorandum…

Mr P bit off more than he can chew, this time.

There will be more NATO…

Just when we thought it was all getting rather irrelevant and dated…

Nothing like a “master strategist “ to galvanize the entire world against him suddenly when he had a substantial reserve of social capital in the leadup to this…
This is a pretty extreme form of amoral nihilism given the situation in Ukraine.
>We have reported

>the official pages of far-right politicians

That seems anti-democratic of you. Don't you believe in people being able to vote for things you don't agree with?
nasa puts all the images from their space probes up at pds.jpl.nasa.gov
it's a learning curve to navigate, but once you know about it, it's addictive
I particularly like the capitalization of WEB, like it is an acronym.
Well.. that's exactly what happened to Solarwinds last year, didn't it?

Actually smarter than that - they got into the build system and added the malicious code in the build process so you couldn't see it in the repository.

Do you think it's that difficult for a state sponsored body to infiltrate into a commercial company?
That’s fair, I have read that and he is pretty explicit so that analogy is appropriate. I still think Minsk 2 had a decent chance of success though.

And my experience has been that when people make allusions to Hitler, even if giving specific time ranges before his worst actions, they are making the analogy in order to say that “whatever has happened so far, it is only the beginning”. I still don’t think it will develop into “lebensraum”. Maybe you didn’t imply that, but that was largely what I thought I was responding to.
Given personal experience working at large ad companies, this is not close to true. Many research projects exist that are not directly tied to revenue generation.
No official info from Roscomnadzor, and I wouldn't expect them to be shy about announcing it (in fact they already throttled twitter a few months ago).
That is what is happening in the non-free world.
My guess is that only a small fraction of HN users are going to be able to figure out what this is for without spending a significant amount of time doing a deep dive into 5G (I don't belong to that fraction, btw).
That’s why the vast majority of L1s are not proof of work.
I'm sad to read this. As someone who is dyslexic, it's a necessary evil I have to use. Unless there is alternatives?

Infact I use Hemingway App and then Grammarly to write content.
It saddens me that human lives, war crimes and families losing loved ones is somehow equated to ‘my personal politics’.
Meanwhile in other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, Putin is a tyrant with blood on his hands, and I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find that GAMBLING is going on in here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Salt is just a depleted battery from the future