skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to see paranoid SQL for Postgres, look at the output of pg_dump (with the default text format.) For every strange-looking bit of SQL syntax pg_dump prefers to the "usual", there's a story behind that choice — usually one involving some customization some tenant or DBA could do to the DB that would break the semantics of the regular SQL.
Putin’s committing war crimes yet Germany is blocking or slowing down every effort to stop it.

By dragging the swift ban germany is basically making sure that russia has the money to continue its massive offensive.

Germany would have been quicker to sanction poland or romania over minor disputes than it is to sanction a dictator that they have been happily doing business with.
Are any of them itching to enter a land war with Russia?
This comment is getting down voted pretty hard. Im not pro-Russia by any means, but I did take a minute to imagine what it would be like to live with (more?) missile silos pointing at me at the boarder of my country. I didn't have to think too long, you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

This pushes the justification for Putin's response away from "unprovoked and savage".

IMO I think the US is partially responsible for this crisis. We've never stopped expanding our influence, for better or worse. Perhaps we pushed a little too hard here.

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(edit: changed pro-russia to pro-Putin. E2: Flipped again)
Maybe if they had their own RS-28 Sarmat weapons
They are, indeed
There's a petition that just passed that I understand is a significant step towards a national referendum:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12043017/64-3-56998 (Finnish-language)

- "The citizens' initiative, which calls for a referendum on Finland's NATO membership, has collected more than 50,000 statements of support."

- "This means that the citizens' initiative is being considered by Parliament. The initiative was launched on Monday of this week."

- "The citizens' initiative states that a consultative referendum will be held in Finland on Finland's NATO membership."
Because you are willing to send other, much braver people to their deaths, so that you can feel good about helping people in a war in a country you don’t live in. You admit that you are not willing to put your own life on the line, yet you are willing to carelessly sacrifice the lives of your own countrymen without a second thought. If you want to help the innocent people of Ukraine, be willing to help them yourself. I suggest you read Starship Troopers as a light read to gain some more perspective and that you learn not to be a chickenhawk.

You are the “Fortunate Son” mocked in the famous song: someone privileged who advocates war knowing that they won’t ever be asked to pay a price.
It is possible I am incorrect then. I remember it always taking 5 - 10 minutes before any funds hit my account. I never actually counted the confirmations so it is very possible I am just wrong and they were doing 0 conf. At the same time I am surprised BitPay would have been structured this way and not experience a major attack...
A 2FA bypass would mean you can completely bypass the TFA protections. His attack doesn't allow that - you still need to steal the OTP somehow. It's only notable in situations where you can steal OTPs but for some reason only after they have been used. That does not seem like a likely scenario so I'd say it is low priority.

Still, it's definitely an embarrassing flaw and probably trivial to fix so taking over a year to fix it is not great.
Unless there is video & audio of them being alive, this is most likely just propaganda. And even then, deepfakes are getting pretty good these days.
Give me Sean Carroll then. Lex spends too much of his interviews talking about himself or his feelings on some matter. Seriously, I couldn’t care less about Lex’s feelings on the subject - what makes Joe and Sean so good is the ability to ask questions, listen, empathize, and contextualize information from the guest. Joe’s worst episodes and the things people hate him for are when he strays from that formula and says something dumb, but he’s world class at interviewing otherwise.
During Project Chanology people on 4chan distributed the LoiC DDos software, which led to many kids without any opsec to commit a federal criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and allegedly many of them had unpleasant visits by law enforcement.

But OP is probably confusing these shenanigans with Lulzsec, an supposed anonymous hacker collective but really FBI-led operation ran by their informant Sabu, who supplied hacktivists with targets to hack and later jail them (for example Jeremy Hammond who was sentenced to 10 years in prison because of this).
How does he even get all these people to come on his podcast?
Yes, I write Julia but I didn't use Julia on purpose. It just feels natural syntax, which I guess is an compliment to Julia.
I would be shocked if there isn't a site or PDF that already has this kind of information. Nevertheless, this is good information to have.
Wework for example. Adam Neumann was always about "we".

So what it means at a basic level is speaking on behalf of a group that is united against the opposing "I", basically a team or gang versus an individual.
Thousands of Romanians waiting in their cars to pick up refugees at the border
While I think you are right about devirtualization being used to mean that in the world of compilers, in the realm of code protection/obfuscation, obfuscating code by making in run in an embedded virtual machine is called virtualization, with the reverse being called devirtualization.

It's hard to put a exact date on the origin of "[de]virtualization" being used to refer to code obfuscation, but it's definitely been used since at _least_ 2007 in related academia. [0],

[0]: Kang, Min Gyung, Pongsin Poosankam, and Heng Yin. "Renovo: A hidden code extractor for packed executables." Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Recurring malcode. 2007
...way too long...

Taliban weren't friendly with Al-Qaeda, and attempted to surrender in the first week of the war. In the first month of the war, its alleged target ObL decamped to Pakistan. After a decade, someone somewhat resembling ObL who had been living under close Pakistani military supervision a mile from PMA Kakul was allegedly murdered as a campaign event for BHO's reelection, although no corpse was ever examined. After another decade, NATO forces left Afghanistan with tails between legs, while experts assured us that the "government" they had installed would last several years. Realists assumed that meant it would last several months, but even we were surprised when that actually meant several hours.

It seems "way too long" somewhat understates this. There is no sense in which this was a defensive war, and if this were as you say the only thing NATO ever did (perhaps something might have happened in Kosovo?) then that is a complete indictment of NATO.
To paraphrase Charles de Gaulle, Western Europe and the US will fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood (while making sure not to increase their citizens’ gas prices by embargoing Russian gas exports).
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A free press is one that is free from the orders of any “intelligence community”. There is no free press anywhere in the world today.
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Search your «facts» in this little collection of Russian fakes with 13000+ items: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/
The irony is that Telegram is operated by a Russian company, it's linked to your phone number, and it's not end-to-end encrypted by default so everything is plain-text (even p2p messages are not encrypted, unless you enable that option).
it worked for hong kong, guantanamo etc. Sell the whole Ukraine for a $ to be redeemed on par in future. Russia will halt all crap in 0.001 seconds.
It doesn’t though. I need a secure, maintainable, audited, backed-up solution which would pass a SOC2 audit.
I think the main point stands though, and the OP was spinning things quite hard with the whole “they don’t take security seriously.”

I mean okay, when I file a big report and it’s marked as low sev, it makes me salty too, but then I don’t go on forums to spread FUD about the team.
Now that computers connect us all, for better and worse, what’s next?
I've been keeping my house at 55F/13C this winter, not for money reasons, but because of climate change. Last winter I got used to 60F/15.5C, which now feels super warm and unnecessary.

So here's my advice for people:

1. Start today! Don't wait to see what happens in Ukraine. Lower your temperature by 1 degree right now. Just do it. 1 little degree isn't a big deal. Let your body acclimate to that. It'll happen on its own - our bodies constantly adjust to different temperatures throughout the year. Know that a temperature barely lower than you're used to won't give you hypothermia. It's not a threat to you. It's just a slightly different temperature so embrace it. Welcome the change, mentally choosing it. Once you're comfortable, lower the temperature again. Rinse and repeat. If you do this, you'll look back and be shocked at how you once thought a homeostasis temperature was necessary (or even desirable).

2. Eventually you'll feel the need for extra heating. The most efficient ways are directly heating the body through appropriate clothing and direct heat sources. For clothing, if you're cold, just add more. For direct heat, use a hot water bottle. You can also get an electric bed mattress pad. A heated mattress pad is amazing.

3. Warm food and drink: in summer, drink cold things. In winter, drink warm things. Eat warm foods like porridge (oatmeal/grits/cream of wheat/etc.), soup/stew, etc. When drinking, hold the hot mug in your hand. When eating, hold the hot bowl in your hand.

3. Water conservation - a lot of the water we use has been heated, for showers, washing hands, etc. Efficient showerheads and faucet aerators are CHEAP! Some of them have their usage etched into the side, if not, you can measure its flow rate with a measuring cup and a stopwatch. Once you know how much it uses, look into upgrades. When showering, turn the water on, get wet. Turn off the water. Soap your whole body, then wash the soap off. Now you're almost done with ~45 seconds of water use. It's easier in summer, but I'm now doing this in winter also.

Those are the basics and you'll get better with time. Eventually you'll be able to see heat like Dr. Manhattan sees atoms. You'll just see it everywhere, how it moves in and out of the system, and how you can harness and hold on to it, using it multiple times before it's gone.
I get that there is value in censoring propaganda. It is still censorship. I am not convinced that the best action to counter propaganda is to censor it.

(I realize I have a bias towards U.S. style free speech. Maybe censorship is best for other cultures. I am still unconvinced.)
> Nothing in this article really has to do with AI at all, and it's confusing why the author spends so much time trying to draw up so much negative sentiment, in order to deflect from the real underlying issues.

I'm not sure if you're referring to Moshe Vardi or the deleted comment with "the author".

The former recognises that he is in a position of influence in "the" CS society and is instructing them to account for ethics better, even if that leads to uncomfortable discussions (and repercussionsin the form of less sponsor money).

The latter: no clue. That comment was deleted, let's stop the discussion there.
(If for no other reason as to not exclude those who missed the comment. )
It's also prominently displayed in the header.
A lot of other things are also highly addictive though, like social media. So where do you draw the line? Also, why are some people so much more addicted than others?
If you dont understand the impact that wars in east europe affect everyone’s life everywhere you havent paying attention to history since world war 2. Several thousand kilometres are basically next door.
What Haskell did with Monads is nice, but eventually Monads are just tags on what functionality the function uses.

That being said, I like that Nim and Koka did exactly that. You just tag the functions (IO, Async, Whatever) and it works.

In Haskell, you need monad transformers (which have a runtime costs) or whatever else was made to allow you to work with multiple different effects.
Opinion: Welcome to the new age of the 'Big Lie'
The grandparent of this sub-thread was talking about "cheering for one side". That is a far far long way from "stifling debate".

I agree with your sentiments totally but no debate is being stifled. HN on the whole is supporting the side that the vast vast majority of the world is siding with. There are good reasons to in most people's minds.

Supporting one side and allowing others to disagree is compatible with no censorship.

We are seeing, however, that Russia is doing what China is doing and enacting stronger censorship. Is that a positive sign or not? I would say that it is a sign of a repressive regime.

A discussion is also different from a debate. Its an important difference in how you approach conversations online.
The operative word here is “could”. There are a number of pie in the sky benefits of crypto that may be supported by small handfuls of anecdotes that don’t and never will generalize to the public at large. When comparing the potential pros to the existing cons, crypto is a gigantic net negative that is being pushed in order to make small pockets of investors very wealthy, nothing more. And yes, I understand the data structures, protocols, and most of the ideological rationalizations used to promote the fantasy.
Joe Rogan's fame. And Eric Weinstein before Eric went crazy
I'm not sure that's the play. They don't need land, they need balls (i.e. if the Russians continue then fundamentally detach them from the modern world).

On a tactical level they probably already have more than enough breathing room to be able to mobilize (which I would imagine the US has already done) every information gathering asset in the region to provide Intel to the Ukrainian troops. As far as I'm aware there are already publicly documented AWACS aircraft on patrol as you'd expect.

I have family by a few RAF bases with some saucy planes but it would be foolish to comment on it in a time like this so gossip will stay as such.
Common User Access – A consistent and usable human-computer interface
Too high of a percentage of Lex’s podcasts are his feelings and when be starts to get ranty. I also hate when Joe does that but it’s WAY less often. Lex needs to learn the shut up and let his amazing guests direct the discussion.

If knowledge is a barrier, then give me Sean Carroll with this guest list.
> If the concept is "decentralized payments are resistant to government intervention", then wouldn't the government killing crypto be proof that the concept failed?

Anything can be physically destroyed and anybody can be physically jailed or killed, so I suppose there will never be a currency that is 100% immune to punitive government action.

But it seems like a vindication of the concept if some government felt threatened enough by crypto to have to forcibly go after it. Harmless bad ideas are generally not targeted (see furries for example) the only things that are forcibly banned are things that pose some kind of threat to the power structure.
If my calculations are correct, only ~21% of gas used in europe is used for electricity, so halving the dependency. If combined power and heat plants can't be shut down (because they can't be replaced that based and still need to produce heat), this results in 12.6% of gas used only in electricity only power plants. The latter isn't really that useful.

Source for all numbers: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/sankey/energy/sankey.htm...

16.03e6 TJ gas total

2.03e6 TJ used for electricity only

2.30e6 TJ used for electricity & heat, 60% of resulting (usable) energy is electricity

-> 1.37TJ

-> 3.40TJ of gas used for electricity, around 21%
For anyone interested in the bug and fix:

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/7e991c8c7e59291296fecd...
One Weird Trick / Dictators Hate Him!

C'mon man, do you actually think that this will work?
I am not confusing anything. The system I describe was used, for instance, in several BMW models from the 1990s. It’s sucks and it disappeared fairly quickly, in lieu of the other much better systems you list.

See: http://www.eatsleeptinker.com/2014/06/02/asc-throttle-body-d...
> is it really worth throwing away so your elite rules instead of your neighbors' elite?

When the difference is between your elected government and an invading regime that's well known for being violently oppressive even against their own people - yes. Also, the Ukrainian people can easily see the how life goes for people who stayed in DNR/LNR.

You either fight totalitarianism or flee it; accepting it is a really lousy option.
Holy cow, good find. Thanks for posting this - this is darned interesting.
What's going on now in Ukraine is not brief.

You could call brief when Russia invaded the eastern parts of it in 2014.

Putin 3 days ago warned that any Western "interference" would have "consequences you never experienced in your history". Is Poland/Germany sending anti-tank and anti-air missiles in Ukraine now an "interference"?
Some details about this accusation are provided in this video (which appears to be a piece of Russian propaganda, with both interviewer and interviewee being writers for RT) starting about 4 minutes into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GkmdCaBECs&t=273s
> However, transparency is not a silver bullet

That isn't a claim. The claim is that a team with full transparency is more effective (in terms of work done) than one with a limited transparency.

What's interesting is there's talk about one-on-ones like they are an acknowledged best practice, but nothing about established payscales (or open salaries).
He talks too much about what he thinks about a topic. Listen to literally any episode of the podcast, happens all the time. Worst thing to do as an interviewer.
Correction: You are wary of taking the advice. The advice itself seems useful and accurate. Given you are willing to actively fight for your land, here are the steps to be as effective as possible.

And HN philosophy table aside, I find it offensive you throw the word "terrorist" in the conversation of Ukrainians defending their homes from an active invasion by a foreign power. Terrorist would be a Ukrainian bombing a grocery store in Moscow, not fighting back at a tank in their street.
Not if they're instances related to critical infrastructure, like utility software vendors. Or just generally trying to sabotage their economy through hurting commercial entities
> Some of my intelligent colleagues mucked up error handling. Not only were they failing, they were failing WRONG 1. This frustrates me because doing failing correctly in Haskell is quite easy

Leaving aside that publicly shitting on your colleagues is an extremely bad look and makes you come across incredibly arrogant, isn’t the fact that the intelligent colleagues didn’t get it pretty strong evidence that error handling in Haskell in fact isn’t easy?
indeed. my point was that diplomacy has seriously failed here, all sides share in that responsibility. yes russia is inside ukraine, but there are broader answers to the question "what else can we do"
> Our organization has a historical track record of certain technical efforts being a complete dumpster fire […]

I think your urge to hide things until ready is clearly a symptom of other (root) problems within the organization. I have never seen what you describe in a healthy organization, and many seemingly “healthy” places are not. It sounds like the organization fears failure and refuses to learn from mistakes or believes it’s impossible. This is a cultural issue that needs to be fixed by senior leadership but, if I had to guess, is probably caused by senior leadership being unwilling to trust.

I’d encourage you to look to solving roots and not symptoms or go somewhere else where you’re allowed to. Good luck.
Russians are not exactly going to care either way....

They literally are calling Ukrainians Nazis, and claiming they are committing genocide on unarmed Russian civilians... They are dehumanizing Ukrainians so the Russian soldiers can justify killing Ukrainians...

Either flee, or fight/resist/help... Don't think that you and your family can just hide peacefully in your home -- with no weapons -- and not be raped, abused, murdered, or otherwise harmed. It's war. Military tactics have made them view you as less than human (or monsters) so they can rationalize not treating you as such. You might not encounter such mistreatment by the first group that finds you, but eventually someone will take out their pain and suffering on you.

Run for your life, or fight/resist/help, as your personal ethics and situation will allow.
I enjoy Lex, but I doubt he's going to ask and stick to tough questions (I haven't watched this one yet). 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.
If language is just a means of communication. Then everything has one. Plants, animals, even a piece of rock. A rock may appear dead. But its atoms behave a certain way, following certain laws. As such it may communicate in some level as well.
Another way to look at it is that you are getting the other assets of BRK for $419bn. 713-(150(apple)+144(cash)). Which I think is a steal.
i suppose an apt analogy would be to ask saddam hussein to "give up his weapons of mass destruction"
Got any other shitty ideas that have basically zero upsides but almost infinite downsides? A nation of five million people and zero nukes starting an armed conflict with the biggest nuclear power in the world? And for what, a patch of land that basically no one thinks about?
"...In a shift from its longstanding policy of banning weapons exports to conflict zones, Berlin is opening up its Bundeswehr store, pledging to transfer 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 "Stinger" class surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine.

It also finally approved the deliveries of 400 anti-tank rocket launchers via the Netherlands to Ukraine on Saturday.

The anti-tank launchers had been purchased by the Netherlands from Berlin, and the Hague had therefore required Germany's green light to hand them to Kyiv.

Likewise, a weeks-long request from Estonia for the transfer to Ukraine of eight old Howitzers purchased from ex-communist East Germany won approval.

Besides the weapons, 14 armoured vehicles will be handed over to Ukraine, and "will serve for the protection of personnel, possibly for evacuation purposes", said a government source.

Up to 10,000 tonnes of fuel will also be sent through Poland to Ukraine, said the source, adding that other "possible support services is now being examined"...."

https://www.barrons.com/news/germany-to-send-weapons-to-ukra...
Well... wasn't numpy, at least initially, a Python wrapper around Fortran libraries? Sure, that made them accessible to a bunch more people, but it wasn't some Python-only wonder. Someone could probably write the same bindings for Haskell, if they haven't already.
> Can you provide examples of him being a terrible interviewer?

https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman
"What is love?"
Computer networks are rarely hacked. I'm sure exposing millions of computerized drivetrains to remote upgrade will seem like a great idea in retrospect.