skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was advisory and non-binding. I for one am happy that we get to express our opinions in this way, but the communication around it could've been better. At the time I recall also not knowing that it was non-binding. Calling it a referendum probably set incorrect expectations.
HPE Taps Ayar Labs to Add Silicon Photonics to Slingshot Interconnect
Drivers - also not great. Left up to the manufacturers, no commitment to code quality, closed source, and often comes with bloatware.
> I know nothing about ARM, but I think it's time to learn

Is it? Unless you’re routinely working with assembly it’s essentially irrelevant, unless you’re writing low-level multithreaded native code (aka you’re directly working with atomics and barriers).

Though obviously if you assume customers are or may be switching hardware, it can be useful to test or bench on ARM to get some inkling as to their eventual experience, or make sure you’re not relying on ISA details.

Don't get me wrong, ARM is neat and all, but your comment’s assertion that “it’s time to learn” doesn’t seem motivated by anything real, any more than “it’s time to learn” about RISCV or PPC.

> Am I right in saying you need to compile the OS and all applications to run on ARM?

Technically you could run emulated, although that has a non-trivial cost.

> If so, I bet at least one thing I use daily wont work, and I don't want to commit to a laptop like this unless I know it will be a full replacement for my Intel machine.

You could always get an ARM-based devboard (e.g. a raspberry pi or similar) to play around, that’s hardly a major investment, although obviously it is what it is.

An other alternative is to use ARM-based “cloud” systems.
This is actually a very fundamental question of nature or nurture. You, and the movement of LGBT people, believe that it is nurture, and innate. Perhaps wrong brain in the wrong body, perhaps hormones, perhaps chemicals. However my position is that it's a mixture of the two, which doesn't make anyone's feelings less valid, but just means we should think twice before pumping children full of hormones (or blockers) and make sure it is something that cannot be treated with social/psychological care. If there is an element of social contagion (remember how cool anorexia used to be? Emo adjacent things?) then we have a disaster on our hands, so we should exercise precaution first.
It doesn't matter how you exchange ownership. You still need to obey the law.

Have you tried taking more than 10k € across an airport?

And just because you normally can't move money to north Korea, if you do this with P2P you are equally breaking the law. Same for Iran and Venezuela I believe
I hope it is enough.

And I hope the Ukraine issue will lead to more and not switching back to nuclear again.

But with the Greens in the government, chances are good.
Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is 4xX1 + 4xA78, with no A55s.
I agree; the keyboards are fine. I do dislike the layout changes they've made compared to the "classic" keyboards, but it's still better than most layouts out there (and they fixed some design mistakes in the first iterations of it).
I really don't understand what I'm missing here: How the fuck are cryptos useful to Russian or Ukranian people right now? I mean, they can't buy stuff with it (you know, like food), and if you exchange it to Ruble, why not start with Ruble in the first place?

I know that Ruble will be in a free fall, but cryptos are not stable either. So it's like buying Ruble, but with extra steps.
I’m glad they are now offering a childcare and spousecare package while daddy tinkers on his machine again ;)
> Can we think of some way to estimate how many nations we think would be bribable?

Start at 100% and subtract for each of the nations that will not act in the best interests of themselves.

Rounding to the nearest meaningful number - 100%

Foreign aid, trade deals, trade, soverign debt, technology exchange, defence contracts, visas, student exchange, sanctions, tourism, visits by heads of state, state dinners, world bank, imf, un missions, peace keepers the list goes on and on - all bribery, some with extra steps, some literally writing a cheque in exchange for something on the world stage.
>USA-ruled bloc .. is absurd

From which bases have the US and its allies been launching countless bombing campaigns all over the Middle East, resulting in literally millions of peoples lives being utterly ruined? From which bases is America prosecuting its heinously racist, vile wars? MILLIONS of people have been murdered by NATO-aligned forces in the last twenty years. Is this not clear to you?

So .. It is not absurd at all. NATO has been an aggressive, murderous entity for twenty years and has not demonstrated, in the slightest bit, the willingness or even ability to prosecute its own war criminals.

>They joined because

NATO protects nobody, and has in fact been the worlds #1 aggressor for the last twenty years. Nations join it now because their politicians are corrupt and want the rewards that the CIA confers on its assets... if you can't see that fact, you're simply not looking hard enough, or indeed with any honesty at all.

NATO is not the protective organization that Western propaganda leads us to believe it is. If it were, it wouldn't be hiding its war crimes and massive, massive crimes against humanity, from its own people.

“I believe the perception caused by civilian casualties is one of the most dangerous enemies we face.” U.S. General Stanley A. McCrystal in his inaugural speech as ISAF Commander in June 2009

Undisputed UN figures show that 1.7 million Iraqi civilians died due to the West’s brutal sanctions regime, half of whom were children. In his paper for the Association of Genocide Scholars at the University of Manitoba, Professor Nagi explained that the DIA document revealed “minute details of a fully workable method to ‘fully degrade the water treatment system’ of an entire nation” over a period of a decade. The sanctions policy would create “the conditions for widespread disease, including full scale epidemics,” thus “liquidating a significant portion of the population of Iraq”.

The Russians read these reports, even if the American people do not. The people of Iraq know how many lives were lost because of aggression launched from NATO bases, even if Americans don't.
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is ‘Aware’ He Will Die Someday,Discusses Meaning of Life
The companies buying need to make it transparent and if there is not enough criminal energy there is no way they would do this.
>It reminds me of German civil servants who ran the numbers and advised Hitler that the country was going to lose. Recommendations are worthless when politicians ignore them and declare war anyway.

Source on this? Sounds interesting.
> Use less and pay the same is an hypocritical and outrageous way to raise prices

That's what taxes are there for: encourage purchases that serve the general interest.
While I am mildly skeptical as well... There sure are a lot of videos of tanks blown up and of wreckages and of immobile vehicles. And recently Putin removed the head of the armed forces. I doubt things are going as planned for the Russians.
"consequences of the cooling system failing were known"

So the problem isn't unknown unknowns, but people simply don't caring enough about potential consequences?

That just makes it worse and nuclear an even less of an option.
The author distinguishes solarpunk from 'cozy futurism' but I think both fit largely into a box you'd call 'human scale' sci-fi. It seems like Jane Jacobs urbanism with a science fiction twist.

One thing it reminded me of is how science fiction visions seem to have diverged between cultures. I recently stumbled over a series of digital art called China 2098 by Fan Wennan, a Chinese (nationalist) artist (https://www.artstation.com/nangesfg), the difference to 'cozy scifi' is pretty stark.

It's also a trend when it comes to writers. 'Hopepunk' novelists like Becky Chambers which seem to become more popular strike a different tone compared to something like the Three Body Problem.
The COCK is the AN-22 and has four engines, which iirc are the same as used on the bear bombers. The NATO name for the An-2 biplane is COLT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-22
> Let me throw one more gripe into the mix: with all of the mentioned above, a lot of us don’t want to, or can’t work full-time. None of us even work full-time as it is, considering that most engineers only have about 4 hours of productive energy each day, unless they’re utterly obsessed with a project or pumped full of stimulants. Even then, going over that limit often causes more problems than it fixes.

This is a hard pill to swallow for managers, but maybe this is what being a full time developer really is all about? 4 hours of real work and 4 hours of just loafing around?

Forcing oneself to write more code just leads to bloated software. And not doing it while fretting over not giving the employer their money's worth for the last 4 hours is only going to increase stress and hurt performance for the first 4. Maybe instead going for a walk, taking a nap or chatting with other developers is just as much part of what's "real work" for a developer.

> When I’m building my own projects, this is great. I simply stop and pick it up again the next day. By being disciplined in putting in the work each day, and not overdoing it, I end up architecting solutions that are simple and elegant.

This is exactly what the industry needs. Paying for 40 hours and only getting 20 quality hours in front of the computer is probably more profitable for the company in the long run than demanding the full 40 and getting a lot of convoluted garbage.
> I've actually considered running everything off of (multliple instances of) SQLite so that I don't have to manage Postgres.

If you considered SQLite, then you might want to just run a local Postgres instance on your Application's VPS and connect with a unix socket. The DSN is as simple as postgresql://dbname while still providing all features like replication
You probably wouldn't get downvoted if you added some context, but the description of the video is apt. NATO doesn't want to go into Ukraine because NATO directly getting involved could cause escalation to WWIII. Putin seems crazy enough to want to use the nuclear option.
https://www.thunderclient.com/

This one's great. Like postman, but a vscode extension.

Although my muscle memory still automatically goes to postman when I want to make requests
It's very unfortunate that the An-225 is now reported as destroyed in the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#2022_Russ...
Elon Musk says Starlink has expanded its internet service to Ukraine
> In contrast, cozy futurism, as in the original tweet, starts not with technology but with current problems and human needs and looking at how those could be solved and met.

This should be the definition of futurism period but I get the point the author is making.

Having come back from Dubai I spent a few days walking around the country pavilions. There was a number of technology ideas and demonstrations that you could classify as 'cozy futurism'. Curious if others visited the Expo and what they thought of it.
That's why a lot of sanctions go against oligarchs in a person. It is more discriminate and does not matter what kind of property they have.

For example, oligarchs Italian villas

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/uk-target...

The rationale is that you cannot do both support a dictator and plunder your own people, and then enjoy the benefits of European lifestyle without European rule of law based justice.
https://archive.md/eTE1g
I only wish they can provide a self-hosting step.
Researchers create largest ever human family tree
Man, you have got some idealistic, naive thoughts that don't work irl. What if the poor country has it's lifelines supplied by the bad actor? They will act accordingly for their self interests.

I highly suggest you read up on corruption in other countries and even on the IMF.
It is not solved. Let me go into a bit of details: the current state of the art is using two-tower like models that create dense embeddings both for users and items. These towers are, in essence, two models that need to keep into account histories, reviews, pictures, color, material, ... . So this problem is as solved as the models that can handle these problems are.

Currently, I would expect that teams are experimenting with repurposing Attention-like architectures in some way to get better embeddings, especially from sequence like features.
Then after all those 'problems' I should be seeing tons of users choosing a Linux Desktop distro (which one out of millions) mass migrating out of Windows by now. Why is that still not the case yet after 20 years?

It seems that after 20 years, these users still do not care enough to do any of that and WSL2 has only given a reason to make backing up / migrating / wiping / installing a Linux Desktop distro even less worth it these days.
To give a more neutral context than the paper:

Causality, identification and counterfactual analysis is an increasingly important topic in "all things statistics". For example, it is crucial in AB testing, "lifting" approaches and so on. Furthermore, however, it likely offers the correct theoretical background for understanding which Machine Learning models "generalize", and why.

Given its importance, the spotlight has fallen on researchers engaged with this question. Pearl is a computer scientist, and outspoken "enfant terrible", who developed the DAG approach and do calculus on it. It is a reasonable general approach (see, however, this paper) which however requires "large models" in terms of distributional assumptions. It has proven very useful to understand causality mechanisms, for instance (e.g. front-door and back-door criterion), but I don't know many instances of someone using a full on DAG estimate in, say, an academic paper.

Statistics, of course, also treats this topic. Here, much lingo comes from experiments, because experiments offer simple restrictions on the the DGP that allow us to identify causality. But experiments are restrictive. For instance, AB testing in websites is rarely a good pure experiment. Statistics has therefore developed further approaches - for instance in Biology, Medicine and also Marketing - to treat such cases. As champion I am going to nominate Andrew Gelman, who writes prominently and well from the Stats perspective. Gelman has debated with Pearl and his sphere several times.

Finally, there is a field that has been - since at least the 1940s - concerned with counterfactuals and causality, and never really had experimental data to begin with: Economics. Here, Heckman (Nobel price - econ - winner) is an equally abrasive personality as is Pearl.
Econometrics has - perhaps secretly to other fields - developed a lot of the tools we use today. It's impact in causal analysis, structural modeling, time series, natural experiments etc. is clear.

On the backdrop of these streams of the literature, Heckman writes this rather uncompromising paper. On the surface, it is adressed to economists, but we an be sure both Pearl and Gelman will fashion a response.

To see why, let me quote the article in question: "Recent work in computer science has begun to reinvent the logic of econometric forecasting using its own
colorful private language but without any fresh insights or acknowledgement of a large body of econometric
thought"
I assume you mean "seizing people's savings"? And although they're (probably) all puppets, it's still significant that this opinion came from "deputy from the Communist Party Nikolai Arefiev", and not from a member of Putin's own "United Russia" party, which is significantly more capital- (and oligarch-) friendly...
I think there's room for creating new technology that makes building houses easier and cheaper -- in every sense of the word: not just cheaper to buy, but require fewer resources and time to build.

It's crazy that you need to basically be a millionaire to afford a decent house in a decent city.

Sure, part of the problem might be social/political/economic, but surely if the technology experiences a dramatic (10x) improvement, there's no way that the average person will not feel the effect of that.
Why the CDC for the last two year informed folks not to wear a n95 mask. Yet n95 mask is one of three disposable masks that can filter droplets that are 10,000 smaller then one piece of hair. And 5,000 times smaller then one red blood cell. CDC is a joke. They only saying this now because they were caught withholding data that already supports this. Yet what happened to trusting the science? If you go to the readingroom at cia.gov and type in CDC you see that our own intelligence agencies have disclosed more then once that the CDC is weaponized by politics. Anytime someone shows legitimate sources from dot government sources. It’s misinformation. NPR is a joke. Did NPR disclose that both Pfizer and Moderna paid them in 2021 9.5mil to play damage control? Didn’t think so. But that’s the science you want to trust?
FWIW: It didn't come across as bitter to me. More like a general warning from a hardened battle hero.

A warning that many naive young recruits ought to give credence to, before it's too late (when the cost has been sunk, and you're knee deep in it).
Dairy products are an important part of any diet, as they provide calcium and other nutrients that are crucial to overall health and wellness.
For BP, their Rosneft stake goes to zero in one way or another. The local oligarchs will take over the operation, like factories and employees, and kick out any foreigners that still have boots on the ground. They are not going to ask or call BP.

It does not matter what paper agreements say, as most of legal frameworks will throw out from the window during the time of a war.
One negative (and intended) side-effect: USA as usual will reap all benefits from this war. Probably it is the reason why it pumped so much weapons into Ukraine and refused to discuss security questions with Russia prior to February 24.

Sanctions announced by EU will immensely weaken EU economy and enrich USA by forcing EU to buy more expensive US oil and gas. Also, US sanctions are laughable compared to EU. E.g. EU cannot sell Airbus produced in Europe to Russia. USA can sell their Boeings. US jets fly over Russia, EU - cannot. Etc, etc.

All in all, this looks like an attempt to plunder the biggest economy after they teared USSR apart.
>If it uses a nuclear weapon then it cannot be treated as if Russians used it directly.

What!? Of course it can, and would be. This isn't a game. Nobody cares about tissue thin fig leaves when it comes to nukes. Belarus has zero ability to make its own. Any nukes it uses that came from Russia would be completely Russian responsibility. If it cooperated that might earn it a few nukes back amongst the thousands aimed at Russia but that's it.
Let me rephrase. They were supposed to close by 2022, Merkel delayed this by 12 years in 2010 but had to backpedal because of Fukushima. So the decision to close the plants was not a kneejerk reaction to Fukushima, it simply reverted back to the original decision.
If they're encrypted blobs, then from your point of view it's just random bits being stored right?
> Could also be talking about boot time maybe - isn't SystemD supposed to boot faster than OpenRC much of the time?

The first time I switched to systemd, years ago (when Debian moved to systemd), I noticed the boot becoming much faster. So, yup, it was a thing. But now, years later, I got rid of systemd and honestly I don't see my system booting much slower. I mean: if Debian takes, say, 0.3s to show me the login prompt while Devuan (the Debian fork with all the systemd stuff stripped away) takes 0.4s, who cares...

(fwiw I always boot into text console, log in there, then manually launch the graphical display)

I don't think that the "faster boot time" is an argument in favor of systemd anymore, at least not on a modern system. And in case you need to spin a container in a heartbeat, you may be using some ultra minimal Linux distro like Alpine anyway.
I honestly don't know what Putin hopes to achieve here. Day one, every other country in europe joins NATO and wants nukes too to point at Russia. How does that help him? He's gained the Ukraine and lost the whole rest of the continent...
I use this approach on bare metal and backup the cluster using Velero to S3 compatible backend.

Took me roughly 2 months to feel confident in entire setup. And because I used bare metal the journey was much harder than it would be if I used any cloud provider. There definitely is some learning curve, but if all you want to do is host postgres with some read replicas, then it should be straightforward.
Books or writing on negotiation generally and appreciating that when it comes to management, negotiation is everywhere.
A businessperson probably not, but let's say, a software developer with a relatively good salary? Not sure if they would have any other options than Russian banks (or banks that would be affected by such a confiscation, even if they're not based in Russia)...
What I'm saying is, FB is amazingly bad at handling news content. Everything they do in this directions backfires badly, becoming a cesspool of misinformation leading to riots etc. I mean if people link content anyway, why don't people just visit it directly?

I mean with the inception of Google News, people thought News has little value because it is so repetitive and many news outlets went bankrupt leading to less and less reflected news to what we have now. I think if people would go for (Online) Newspaper subscriptions instead of just clicking on the most flashy FB post, this would surely make the world a better place and would be quite contrary to China where Newspapers are censored
I am so glad i did not post my comment - you put it much better than I could have had. I am really annoyed by this rhetoric false choice as well because I am always feeling like I need to justify not "helping the homeless".

It always baffles me that people seriously bring it up against space exploration instead of at least argue against something sensible like by mail advertisements thats is completely useless and inarguably damaging.
I guess I’ll be the dissenting voice here. While there are definitely historical instances of technology advancement bordering on being a goal unto itself (moon landing as a Cold War propaganda weapon), a useful/advanced engineering dichotomy is patently false. Nanofabrication and fusion reactors are both “cool” and “cozy”, and I don’t see why they should be in separate categories.

As for Bernie’s tweet, I’m not sure he’d really want Musk to use his resources for political purposes. Does he really want him getting involved in tax laws?
"The “very beautiful” idea is still beautiful, but it is also bureaucratic, inefficient, slow—and very expensive."
It's funny how the UI gets unnecessarily translated into German for me :)
It can be useful and simple to use!
Resistance to defence and military investment should be intrinsic, it should always met with resistance. We don't need war for R&D.. We don't need war period.