skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I actually feel quite bad for the Russian soldiers. Russians view Ukrainians as, well, family. So, to be told that you are going in to kick a few Nazi asses and you will be welcomed as liberators, and then be faced with the reality that your "brothers" are fighting tooth and nail against you must be quite jarring. As you say, losses are mounting, and eventually, it will be noticed. This morning, I saw that Zelensky has requested that the Red Cross help repatriate the bodies of the Russian soldiers. He framed it as a humanitarian act, but doubtlessly, he wants the Russians to see their war dead coming home.
> Since accessing the internet (and sometimes even the Web) is often a part of an IT job

Reading the manual used to be part of an IT job. And for web devs, having a local sandbox is invaluable.
Also it is worthwhile to remember that a big chunk goes to paying salary, pensions and healthcare. Russia has the largest standing army if I remember right.

Larger budget isn't necessarily large gains militarily. It is responsibility for larger upkeep.
How American conservatives turned against the vaccine
> someone who would raise the red flags if they existed

The reason this is so scandalous is that a company whose differentiator is its integrity just demonstrated a gaping hole in that area. There is a conflict of interest in every audit that is sponsored by the organization being audited. How are we now supposed to believe the results of PwC audits that are favorable to the hand that has been feeding them when they've showed a willingness to compromise their principles for their own short term benefit.
I don’t believe that for a second
Ukraine MOD. Total losses in the active phase of 2 Chechnya war were 3500 troops. The rest were due to many years of insurgency.
Kopi Luwak with your Nasi Lemak, then?
Musical complexity is hard to judge, and the relationship between complexity and "sounding good" is evasive. Consider Satie's Gnossienne #1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLFVGwGQcB0

It's ... simple, right? It's just a few really good choices in an unbelievably enormous nearly-Hilbert space. I could listen to that stuff forever.

Most of Nirvana's songs have a similar quality. Judging from where OpenAI Jukebox was a couple years ago, I imagine in a decade we might have AI that sounds as good as Nirvana.

On the other hand, my favorite piece ever is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. We seem to be very far away from any kind of Stravinsky algorithm.
Not what you're looking for but the best summary may be common sense.

If the service is free, *you* are the product.

If the product can't be sufficiently monetized, the "free" service will end.

More people now understand the game and becoming more privacy aware and focused.

Consequently, more and more of the "free" service is either retreating behind a pay wall or being degraded into an ad delivery vehicle (ie web search).

"Google" history is synonymous with privacy invasion and questionable "free" service longevity and/or utility.
I think you're right. Looking at the Home Office website it appears that they have clarified the wording compared to what was quoted in the Independent article. The quoted text in the article was:

> "Ukrainian nationals in Ukraine (who aren’t immediate family members of British nationals normally living in Ukraine, or where the British national is living in the UK), are currently unable to make visa applications to visit, work, study or join family in the UK.”

The Home Office site[0] now says:

> "Ukrainian nationals in Ukraine (who aren’t immediate family members of British nationals normally living in Ukraine, or where the British national is living in the UK), are currently unable to make visa applications to visit, work, study or join family in the UK through a VAC in Ukraine. If you are able to safely travel, you can apply through a VAC in one of the nearby countries."

Which of course is in line with the reality of the consulate being closed in Kyiv.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/support-for-family-members-of-br...
There isn't any difference.
Covid was not serious enough to trigger self-defence. Therefore, politics and economics overruled health. That or basic heartlessness.
> we employ decent and talented people – no jerks.

Seems like a good idea few other businesses have caught on to?
Like TurboTax’s fake progress bars making it look like it’s “trying hard” to get you your maximum refund: https://medium.com/the-billfold/the-progress-bars-in-turbota...
Big 4 can promise guarantees and are already familiar with governments, banks and healthcare

they have connections and clearances other companies can't access
I'm reminded of this story of how the Chicago River ended up being electrified.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965335352/from-electrifying-r...
My minor googling suggest molotov cocktails won't do much against modern tanks except worry the crew.
Probably best to leave the real tanks alone and focus on smaller vehicles.

Edit: unless the hatch of the tank is open!
I think what's more remarkable are the couple of snickerdoodle cookies a few inches to the right of the plant-thing. Someone is leaving a welcome basket with housewarming gifts for Curiousity. I wonder what the coupons for local businesses will be.
I would hope that if any constitution of any country gets a right to bear phones baked into it, they won't take the incredibly confusing wording of the second amendment of the US constitution as their role model.
.... I don't think this is quite true in China. The Chinese political system is complex, but I think it's trying to do right by its people. It just has an extremely non-Western perspective on the concept of "right." The Chinese political establishment doesn't concern itself with the rights and outcomes for individuals, in the way the West does. It concerns itself with the outcome of populations.

In the US, the needs of the individual outweigh the needs of the many. In China, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. If an individual or a group is disrupting the collective good, they need to be managed.

China has done amazingly well for improving the general welfare. It was a very poor country until just a few decades ago. Extreme poverty is on-track to being eliminated, if it hasn't been already (depending on where you place the threshold). Thing like access to housing, food, and medicine are improving. Schools are excellent.

Once you have those basic needs met by everyone, China seems to be moving onto handling issues like stress; the human load of the progress, in terms of work weeks, was tremendous, and China is trying to curtail that, perhaps not to Western standards, but to something manageable.

China has increasingly started cracking down on corruption too.

It has problems, and I'm not trying to downplay those, but it's not Russia, where an oligarchy is draining and bankrupting the general population for their own betterment.
> Scared Russian kids are fighting for crappy pay 1000's of km from their home against far more numerous people that are defending their families and their home country against an invader.

I noticed following in POW reels: there are no Russian POWs from Moscow, and central regions seemingly at all.
That's not how VLSI chip design works. You can't just take the RTL designed for 5 - 8 nm, zoom it up to 65nm and expect it to still work.

When you design a CPU or GPU, the RTL, like the core pipelines, schedulers, and various buses, are designed from the start on a certain manufacturing process where they're expected to work correctly at specific frequencies that are fast enough to feed the pipelines at the right timings, in order to get the top expected performance. Failure to meet the fabrication process expectations means the RTL design will perform much worse than expected in practice.

That's why many of Intel's past designs sucked so bad in the performance and efficiency category as their 10nm manufacturing process fell behind, so they had to scale their newer designs back on the aging 14+++++ process, which caused those CPUs to flop big time.
It has only been 3 days. I would give it 30 days for them to destroy (or more likely take control) of critical Ukrainian infrastructure.

Make no mistake. This is a seizure of Ukrainian land, sovereignty, resources and infrastructure.
Are you able to find the comment, screengrab, and put it on imgur? I had a quick scan but couldn't spot it. You're absolutely right that it makes a massive difference.
I won't use the blur or fake backgrounds normally, I find them goofy. I just let people see what is behind me. If it not appropriate for video I'll leave it off. My background has been, the living room, kitchen pantry, bedroom, forest behind my house, patio, whatever. We are real people, in real locations just show it.
Yeah, big ones.

And the right music.

Effectively put you in another room. Later the separation becomes a learned response.
they make nice PowerPoints though!
I feel bad for the Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian ones are well aware that they are in a war of aggression, and they have the option to desert.
Women are not vulnerable.
It's also quite incredible to see how _everyone_ has rallied around him, regardless of their political preferences in normal times.
It was clear to me that the original comment's purpose was to associate North Korea's interest's with that of the Soviet's.

It wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the original commenter was trying to associate Putin's actions with those of North Korea and therefore the Soviet Union.
> GHG reduction

The fixation on GHG reduction is, as a friend of mine puts it, a suicide pact, simply reducing the second derivative. Unfortunately it's easy to understand and discuss, so that's where all the attention goes.

The issue of climate repair (and long term curation, unfortunately) seems to frighten lots of people. There are people working on it, but they are a small community.
We push commits on Friday afternoons and take down entire infrastructures.
Yes, noticed that too. All kids from the far East of Russia.
I don't think crypto is a ponzi scheme, but I DO think storing your crypto on third party servers is dangerous.

Although whenever I hear claims of "guaranteed returns" or "proprietary investment technologies" I do think it may be a ponzi scheme lol
The article seems to hint that the block is made by Russian government, not from Twitter themselves, is there any way of confirming this either way? The title here on HN is a bit unclear as well if the block is made by Twitter or if the block is made by Russia.
Office Chair According to the Wirecutter
I think there's a little momentum in that direction. I've noticed one of the "cool" startup stacks right now is typescript, serverless functions, postgres, and some places do a lot with sql functions, stored procedures, and pg/pl languages.

Overall I agree with you but the process/tooling is really the issue. Not inherently, it's just less developed and less standardized than for other kinds of code. DBAs aren't necessarily a silver bullet here either. They have a different, somewhat overlapping focus and while they have tools for managing changes to SQL-as-code, they're usually not built around the assumption that devs are shipping diffs to SQL as part of their normal day-to-day work.

Not insurmountable complexities by any means but unless you are or work closely with an expert in your chosen DB, it might be difficult to accurately estimate what you're getting into.

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This probably is overall more secure but not in a magical way. There's nothing really special about a user here, something will eventually have to have a role that can read that column. For example a classic trap that has caused plenty of security breaches is needing to write a function as `security definer` to account for RLS policies but not remembering to exclude user-writeable schemas from search_path. No users necessary for that leak.
Will they investigate more? Maybe drill into it or use some of the other onboard instruments?
Didn't a bunch of Linux distro s get infected with a "Ken Thompson Hack" a while back?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1848...
But they already do by letting more money win with more ads.
To be expected, the West has already started doing the same thing right now to websites that are seen as “promoting Russian propaganda” or such. There’s an Internet Wall that is being hastily put in place right at this moment, it’s quite interesting if you try to look at it from a neutral position.
I would find a few things that you are interested in, write deep learning models around these areas of interests (it is OK to clone similar Keras or PyTorch examples and modify/extend them).

Then, bravely apply for deep learning jobs, admit to no professional experience but point to your models on GitHub and be ready to be able to carefully explain what you did, how you worked around problems, etc.

Be willing to take an entry level position.

Also, learn to be flexible about spending a lot of effort learning whatever domain your future employers work in. Learn their businesses, how they operate, what data they have, etc.
In Crimea, it’s true that the local population was more willing to cooperate. A large fraction were ethnic Russians.

In Ukraine, it seems there are more volunteers to fight than weapons.
So when are economic sanctions appropriate? Never? Because economic sanctions are meant to hurt people so much that regime instability becomes a story.
You can inflict mass casualities with convential means, case in point, the Dresden bombing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...), in the second world war.
Wounded POWs are included as POW
I guess it's now even more ironic that there are no restrictions on Twitter accounts from Russian officials, yet Donald Trump is still banned.
A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv
Yep, it's funny how well things work when they are designed to solve a problem rather than to create profit for a company.
Show me one cryptocurrency that has driven real world industry more than financial speculation and scamming.
Your family and friends have personally witnessed 3500 killings themselves? In that case, the total number over Ukraine has to be a lot larger. Or, you misunderstand how much information your family and friends can confirm.

I hope everything will end up OK with your friends and relatives, may they experience peace as soon as possible.
I live in "the Americas." The discrimination isn't based on an abstract ethnicity. If you say you're Ukrainian, Russian, or Belarussian, no one will care. The discrimination is based on culture, communication style, accents, and a slew of other things.

Next time you're watching your favorite TV show, have a look at the person with the Slavic accent, and see what stereotype they play.

Are they the evil villain? The awkward nerdy pervert? The village crazy?

Pay attention for a few months. In my experience, 100% of the portrayals are based on stereotypes. Those stereotypes show up in schools, workplaces, and courts.
> I personally find more modern (like MacOS 10) styles to look the best, and flat designs to be just as usable as more skeumorphic ones.

Shouldn’t we separate looks from usability? KDE’s multifunctional search bar (similar to Spotlight on OSX) was a game changer for me. Every time I booted back into Windows (to play Anno 1602) I felt crippled.

Never cared much about looks, but functionality like that is what separates a great UI from an OK one. For me at least.
I compete with 'the big four' on a small slice of their activities and have seen some of their work product. It is incredible to me that they manage to sell it, but they do and at exorbitant prices. The strength of those brands is quite amazing.
Books to Live By
It will take time. Upsetting technologies attract conartists like flies to honey. Critics will deliberately conflate the cons with the rest until then, as it's a very convenient argument (though obviously fallacious.)
Ironic that this may be the only somewhat reasonable set of sanctions to come from the corpo side yet.
> The problem is it has only been practical in volcanic regions or near the edges of tectonic plates, where cracks in the Earth's crust allow steam to form close to the surface like in Iceland or the geysers in California.

Incredibly, California has managed to kill its geysers. Apparently when Geyserville was settled there were puffs of steam coming out all over the place. Now the geothermal plant there injects wastewater into the rock and then drives its turbine with the steam that comes back.
The puppet government will need support from military/Russia police, control of cities, transport links and so on.

Look how quickly the US-backed Afghan government fell when US troops retreated.

Another sad possibility is that Russia just wants to cause as much death, havoc and destruction, then retreat. But that seems a lot less like an achievement.
I pray for Ukraine. This one more sign that morale of Russian troops is low.

There were also reports of Donbass males being forcibly conscripted to a military service prior to the invasion.
> they’re just going about it in the most half assed way possible that drags this out and increases their own casualties

You're saying that they purposefully as dragging this out and purposefully want as many casualties on their own side? What purpose could that serve?

Putin wants Ukraine to be a part of Russia again, I'm sure he'd want it to be as little damaged as possible and aims to replace the government first and foremost. Anything else is collateral damage.
Indeed, those were excellent times. I can confirm that the same was happening in Romania until the mid- to late-2000s.
The really fascinating bit isn't that they're currently programmed to think that crypto is doubleplusungood, it's the 180 narrative flip they'll do the second that their chosen media entities tells them to view crypto as doubleplusgood. You're going to see hordes of former crypto detractors rewrite history in their minds and come out with a new viewpoint without an inkling of self-awareness.
(2016) only, not now
Let's assume for the faith of your argument that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. Who is at the top that gains from all of this? And how are you gonna indict "them" when seemingly no one knows who they are?
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

> - Upton Sinclair
Thank you for your civil response, and my apologies for my rude response.

I will ask another more genuine question (it's a real question that I have). If Russia would have a more democratically elected leader (let's just say Navalny for the sake of argument). Would the ties between EU and Russia be more collaborative, or do you still think this would have ended with a war?

In other words, is NATO really out to destroy a democratic Russia (Soviet Union is already long gone)?
Let's analyse the chemical composition.

If it's is made of fused quartz, it's likely to be a fulgurite.

If it's made of calcium carbonate, it's likely to be a coral.

If it's made of something else, that's even more exciting!
Monero because its untraceable(real world industry - underground drug markets)

IRS wants to crack it and awarded $1.25 million contract: https://cointelegraph.com/news/chainalysis-and-texas-firm-wi...
wasso wasso wasso wasso
Ok I think it was Delphi now, but my brain remembered debian. lol.

There is a double cross compilation method to detect if you are infected.

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
Watch "Don't look up"
The 1963 movie "55 days at Peking" with Charlton Heston depicts this period. It is appallingly racist, though, not least I suspect because the international climate of the time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Days_at_Peking
It's not an exact science, 3:1, 5:1, highly dependent on morale, local conditions and so on. But defenders have an advantage assuming equal weaponry.

Russia has air superiority so that definitely upsets the balance, but so far they have not been able to use that very effectively. They did not even manage to protect their troop transport airplanes all that well, two of which got downed, and that really adds up in casualties.
Thanks a lot for reading this buried post.

Since I've written it, Putin threatened with nukes to Finland and Sweden in case they join NATO. I don’t believe in my predicting ability anymore, so I can only hope it's a bluff.
When the inner Ballmer takes over
To be fair, hundreds of years of invasion kind of describes every country on the planet. Maybe you mean occupation, here?

But also, most countries have had endlessly shifting borders, with endlessly shifting immigration, emigration, and cultures are a result.

All current states, are at best a few hundred years old, really.
Maybe should consider doing the rotation already... Better safe than sorry in such cases.
I'm pretty proud of having created some good-sounding AI music. https://soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-generated-videogame...

I tried to make it in as many styles as possible. "Crossing The Channel" is a favorite, because the tempo is so unique. I think the GPT made a mistake early on, and then completed the most likely "not-mistake," which caused the piece to have some pretty unique timing.

Maybe someday I'll dig up the model off my old laptop. I thought everyone would be making nice-sounding AI music, but I guess nobody can match a Gwern-trained model. He's the Hattori Hanzo of ML.
this has to be one of my favorite bitcoin scam meme of all time
Turrets blown off is usually because the ammo inside the tank explodes after a hit pierces armor.
Hmm... The interview in [2] starts out with them seemingly taking different sides, but about 6 minutes in Scott Ritter starts arguing that the invasion was a reasonable response to problems with right-wing extremists in the Ukrainian military (which I've heard is a problem in many countries, not only in Ukraine).

The interviewer appears to be a writer for RT. Is this interview some kind of good cop/bad cop routine to make the propaganda go down easier?
I'm very sympathetic with many of the "anti"-crypto arguments but to say there is no difference between BitConnect and Bitcoin/Ethereum is just wrong. You might believe their value is based on a similar concept, pyramid scheme type construct, but they still have massive differences. Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc actually do /something/ (even if you ultimately come to the conclusion that that something is bad).
While progress has been made in computer vision, that progress has been relatively narrow up until now, and I think the activation energy required to produce this level of quality would be more than it's worth. As others have mentioned, new footage comes out all the time.

However, I agree with the sentiment. Someday, we will have a massive foundation model capable of producing any video with a little conditioning on text. But we don't currently have such a model. In some sense, we're still in the era of easily verifiable video, and this era might end someday soon.
Yeah, IMHO they should just get rid of all political content altogether
There must be a Latin name for “plant-like” that could have been used. Maybe “anomalous herbiform entity”. But, I’m poor at crosswords.
>This looks like forum sliding to me. Everybody knows what was meant by DQ, the context made it obvious.

I guess I'm not a member of the group "Everybody" then.

Does that mean I'm stupid?

Or does it mean that folks shouldn't assume that others know everything they do. IIRC, that usually comes around age four or five.
I don't think making bigger countries is a good idea.

(But then, I like my adopted city state home. So I might be biased.)

Tear down the borders between countries instead as much as possible. Like eg the EU does (despite all its other faults).