skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Written in C++, Pipy is extremely lightweight and fast. It's also programmable by using PipyJS, a tailored version of the standard JavaScript language.
The problem is that, even if you think this is the kind of thing the government should be able to do, they haven't told me which ones are "radioactive". So if someone uses one of those bitcoins to buy something from me, I might have trouble spending it afterwards. Failures of fungibility like that are potentially a big problem for a currency. So far they're only a small problem for Bitcoin, but as these examples show, they have the potential to become significant. That might create pressure to move to a coin like ZCash, Monero, or Mimblewimble which has built-in safeguards against such things.
braided cables? Apple PR is just BS at best
So if I read this correctly, it would seem to suggest that Putin plans to take the entirety of Ukraine?
Of course. You would have to be insane to agree to denuclearize at this point; it's clear that this is the only strategy to avoid being steamrolled by US/Russia/China.
FLAC is about future-proofing.

Opus and MP3 are lossy formats. You can’t transcode them to anything else without losing data.

With how cheap storage is these days there’s really no argument against FLAC because you can also transcode it to whatever. Players like Navidrome use ffmpeg to transcode on the fly.

If I put all this effort into ripping CDs and maintaining backups, it’s not going to be in a lossy format that I can’t convert to anything else.

Use ZFS to prevent bit rot.
You're absolutely dreaming. USA is not a reliable ally.
> You get extra credit points if you're active in visiting other universities and giving talks on the annual job circuit. You tend to do well if you advisors are well-connected. You have to sprinkle a bit of fad-ish topics into your research if even if it's a stretch to do so.

Sounds a bit like any job:

* Cross train in other departments

* Demonstrate your functionality/team’s functionality to other groups through talks, white papers, ‘internal consulting

* You do well when your boss does well, make your boss look good

* Buzzwords and trends make the world go round
> While the meeting was presented as a “live” event, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of the advisors, was wearing a watch showing that the event was recorded five hours before, thus placing it before the “governments” of the regions asked for recognition.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-21-2022
Those are on military bases.
I'm Ukrainian, but I just want to throw a provocative thought in here. Everyone's talking about how bad and evil Putin is and all that. However, nobody's talking about the _why_ Putin is doing what he's doing. For the past 14 years, Russia is trying to find a solution as for the NATO's expansion to the east. The US does NOT want to stop the expansion despite anything. If I place a tent next to your house and start watching your windows daily, what's going to be your reaction? That is EXACTLY what's happening today. Nobody cares about Ukraine. Neither the US nor Putin. Ukraine is poor country. The _core_ of the problem is the US and its desire to place military bases across the world, including Ukraine, hence next to Russia's borders. Who'd like that? The US didn't like it in 60th during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so is Russia today.

Everything started in April of 2008, during the Bucharest Summit Declaration saying that "NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO". Russia immediately said that this is not going to happen because it affects their security - and it DOES make sense, doesn't it? That led to a war in Georgia. Today it's a war in Ukraine, my home country.

Once again, Putin is just a side effect. The core, the _root_ cause is the US's maniacal NATO expansion aspiration.
That was a great read. Thanks for posting. I’ve been dabbling in reverse engineering embedded devices in my spare time. I find these kind of detailed reports on how someone solved a reverse engineering challenge to be fascinating.
Yes, I think you’re right, which is why I added the information about the supplement after the “Edit:” placed in my comment. I should have made that edit more clear to say that I was mistaken with the first piece.

If I understood the supplement to the paper correctly, there were only 205 CS departments investigated and fewer departments for business and history. The 461 would refer to the sum of universities across the CS (205) business (112), and history (143) fields, which is where faculty are currently teaching.

The supplement had a statistic saying 87% of the profs in CS departments had “doctorates in sample.” Which meant 87% of the profs came from those 205 schools. I couldn’t find how many universities made up the remaining 13% of faculty.

The supplement says 50% of CS faculty came from 18 universities. I believe the 25% is referring to the 205 CS programs (which is both where the profs are currently teaching but also where most of them earned their PhDs from - the 87% doctorates in sample statistic) which would be 51 universities producing most of the faculty at the 205 universities in the study. At least I think…

For all I know, I am misunderstanding the supplement, and further muddying the waters with poor explanations.
We live and benefit from nation-states. We didn't choose that structure, but it is "natural" and just the way it is -- until we have some major technological breakthrough that changes that.
I thought this was going to be about replacing the inherently race-ridden Posix file system interface with something that has a well thought out, defensible design and API.

In the old days, that would mean I need to do one myself. But nowadays, you assume somebody else must have done that already, so you go looking for it. If it doesn't exist, it was probably too hard, so you give up.

Or maybe you find some, but all are unsatisfactory in some way. Then you might synthesize what you like from them all, and add some private improvements, and publish that.

Or maybe you find one you really like, and you download and try it. Then you write an article, something like "The Time Has Come to Replace File Systems" or "File Systems are Racist" on your blog. Somebody posts that to HN, and it generates passionate interest. Shortly after, it appears as a module for Linux, or maybe for some popular embedded kernel used to implement USB keys. And, it's off to the races. Or, off to no more races. Or something.
so the bottom line is that russia (or more correctly, putin) is unable to accept that their state cannot and would not be allowed by the west to become a superpower.

I think the inevitable result is war. I think the west should've decisively defeated the soviets when they broke apart, and prevented this, but instead, the optimism that an autocratic state would not do so is the true reality. But of course, it doesn't have good optics at the time to do this. I guess the future will tell if this war escalates.
If the west fails to act effectively, I bet China will invade Taiwan in the following years.
The premise is not just that nukes are a deterrent against nuclear warfare, but also that nukes are a deterrent against conventional warfare. I'm not sure any country except israel is super explicit about this (cf Samson Option) but presumably the implicit or quietly explicit threat is there.
I don’t think this is the full picture.

Post-Vietnam the US hasn’t engaged in large scale active combat against communism or Russian-backed forces. It has instead favored selling weapons to Eastern European states and building the NATO alliance.

Putin has been clear about the breakup of the USSR being a mistake in his eyes. He’s been annexing territories (or in his eyes, re-annexing) since 1999. He looks for countries with strong Russian cultural and linguistic backgrounds and props up allies that will take over. If that doesn’t work he ratchets up the pressure until he feels comfortable using military force. See: Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea and now Ukraine.

The US is far stronger militarily than Russia, but with nuclear weapons in the equation, no one wins.

It’s easy to be an arm chair hawk and say we should go fight, but it’s another thing to look you kids in the eye and explain they’re going to die from radiation fallout.

Instead, the US will likely prop up the resistance once Ukraine falls and try to make occupation as costly as possible just like we did in Afghanistan.
> What we see happening in #Ukraine right now is, to put it bluntly, Russian (or more precisely, the Kremlin's) imperialism.

I read that thread and found it very persuasive. I took his advice and read some of the translations of Putin's rhetoric, and I found his characterizations accurate.
Very, very few Americans support Putin. Less than 5%.
Definitely within the nature of Russia seeing as how much they are involved in everything cyber: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/23/ukraine_ddos_russia_m...
Nodirbek was also a teenager when he first defeated him (and no, his last win wasn't the first, but first on a tournament of this level.) Norwegian supercomputer is still a human, and he has bad days.
I haven't really cared about them since they predicted a huge win for Hillary, right up on the night of the election.
A couple notes:

- As mentioned by several people, your math is a little off, and indirects are not a flat tax, there's a calculation for what is eligible for being charged indirect costs and at what rate.

- The CAREER award is prestigious because it is a signaling mechanism - it's directly funding a particular PI more than it is a project. It's...sort of like being picked for a YC round in that respect.

- NSF funding is designed, philosophically, around smaller awards by and large, compared to say the NIH. The average "Oh, this'll make sure you get tenure" award for NIH-funded fields is an R01, which has a direct budget of about $1.25 million.
> but then the PS3 required a 20 minute updates whenever I turned it on

I have the same experience with Steam. After not using for a few days, it begins downloading hundreds of megabytes of updates and has to restart itself before you can do anything with it.
Bitcoin does solve it (or, rather, people holding their savings themselves instead of lending them to a centralized
intermediary does solve it). When everyone's savings are in the bank, you only have to use the $5 wrench on a single bank executive to take a million people's money. When everyone's savings are in their own possession, you have to use a million $5 wrenches on a million people, one at a time, to take their money, and you don't initially know which of those people has how much money.

I mean, yes, the government can still probably take your money, or for that matter kill you with impunity. But it's a good idea to put some obstacles in their way that aren't merely procedural.
Learning, as it reads on the page. GPU programming is hard, and splitting work between CPU and GPU is too, at least if you try to make the program go faster.
It is by no means clear that Russian military/state will “win” long-term in Ukraine. When there is significant local opposition to military occupation, it is indeed hard to maintain control.

But in the mean time, they’ll be able to kill a whole lot of people and destroy a whole lot of lives, and wreck Ukrainian democracy and economic prosperity for years if not decades.
Will Ukraine do any sort of fighting back? I ask because it seems to me that the Western politicans are constrained by public opinion. They will not issue major sanctions if they don't have to, they'd rather keep the markets afloat. In my view only real visceral footage of the horror of war could compel the Western publics to actually get mad to the point where the politicians impose serious sanctions on Russian gas exports and banking.
putin is not entirely to be blamed for the decline, but the signs of covert manipulations is all there. The very election of trump, and his poor foreign policies, are all smoking guns.
I really hope the world comes down hard on Russia with sanctions and support for Ukraine, but I’m afraid that so much of Europe depends on Russian gas that they won’t risk getting cut off. Which begs the question: how did Europe allow itself to come to depend so heavily on Russian energy? And how quickly can Russia pivot to buy energy from elsewhere (for a reasonable price)?
MIT is 55%
Stanford is 58%

The only place I've ever encountered with an overhead rate above 100% was Scripps, and that's because they have to maintain research vessels.
You're right.

Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine is much more equivalent to America's unprovoked attack on Iraq.
You should see at least a little bit of GPU usage for desktop composition. Try watching Task Manager while moving a window around or scrolling.
because of indian spam. happy 4 pragg though
This war is far from over.
HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09Intermittent+fasting

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=intermittent+fasting+hacker+...
There’s no sure thing in geopolitics.
It's sports accomplishments in general. Like in most developing countries, sports has very low priority in the Indian society, so it becomes big news when an Indian excels in any sport because it's assumed he/she had very little institutional support.
This.

A mentor of mine is able to fund most of her students, save for maybe their final year, on TA-shps.

I'm in a purely research department - if I don't have funding for the full time, I don't have students.
Interesting, that's two obvious mistake revealing staging communications. And either rushed or voluntary carelessness.

How much was being prepared behind curtains during previous weeks ..
> those with single initiating events occurred under very high wind conditions (> 100kph sustained)

Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean by "single initiating events"...is PG&E negligence or arson counted?

I can name a number of local fires here in rural NorCal that would have been benefitted by drones with this tech. In each case a minimum of 4 aircraft were dispatched after an officer visited the scene. I have to wonder how the situation might be different with a new idea like this. Would it be so bad to keep trying and improving on such concepts?
I live in Montenegro. The country was part of Yugoslavia.

I spoke with a guy who fought that war. I asked him "do you think the war would have ended without American intervention?" and he responded "no, I don't think it would".

I wouldn't describe the country as a blooming economy, but it's peace here, for more than 20 years and counting.
This simplifies:

https://boringproxy.io/

Written by the same guy that wrote awesome-proxy list in the original post.
Same way that I (who left industry to pursue an academic career because I wasn't happy) cope with the feeling I am missing out on a giant FAANG salary: mostly, I just don't think about it.

Like, I have enough money to afford a house and take my kids on vacation from time to time. So having lots of money is something I idly wonder about sometimes, but no critical need is going unmet by its lack.

Conversely, if you have a prestigious position, most likely everyone around you does too. For example, I'm a professor, and yes, it makes my mom proud. But all of my colleagues and many of my friends are professors, too. So in terms of day-to-day life, it just doesn't matter much.

I think everyone wonders about what might have been. But you can really only make one choice at a time, and so even if you had chosen differently you will still wonder what might have been.
> This thing looks as if will be very expensive and work only some of the time.

Can you identify a technology that didn't have that quality initially? Even a simple thing like a pencil - what a waste of money cutting a precision tube inside a stick and somehow installing a carbon rod, which wears out so fast you can't even finish a book without having to build a whole new one. Oh, and it randomly breaks while you're using it and requires special metal sharpening tools.

If it was obviously cheap and reliable from a quick glance, it would have already been invented at a time before it was so obvious!
This is something EVE online deliberately leans into. Time to travel between star systems adds up really quickly and promotes a feeling of living in a particular part of the galaxy. Where going to a city to use the auction house has enough friction to be an annoyance in WoW, in EVE there’s so much more friction that it becomes a whole logistics game within the game. There’s money to be made hauling cargo because of this, and hauler ships offer the trade off of bigger cargo holds with fewer defences.
Sigh. India, Pakistan, Falkland Islands, Tibet, Israel, ...

And yes, in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Afghanistan again, Iraq, Syria, and others, one or more parties in the conflicts had nukes.
How have I never heard of the Piper Alpha tragedy? Its mention follows the smartphone segment in this posted video. Truly horrific.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha
It's like he was just waiting for Merkel to leave the office. Really weak response from NATO. Not even advanced arms supply apart from some token donation. Afghanistan withdrawal seem to have emboldened a lot of global players.
> Don't hold your breath waiting for that UN "peacekeeping force" anytime soon. The head of the UN Security Council is Russia.

Does that even matter? Isn't the more significant fact that Russia has veto on the Security Council?
The last time you posted this it was down voted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449994
So do I understand this right? There is a gene (PLA2G7) that when turned off in mice, mimiced the immune / other improvements that they saw in humans who were dieting - in other words turn off this gene and get some of the (life extension) benefits of dieting?

Begs two questions - 1. why is the gene there? 2. turn off the gene, do people lose weight?
What does getting YouTube Premium add to that plan? Wouldn't it work just as well without that step?
This player is obviously a really good chess player, but I wouldn't get too focused on his exact age - families in India and Pakistan often register their children's age as younger than their true age, for girls because they think it will give them a few more years to find a good "match" for marriage once they are adults, and also sometimes for boys if they are small for their true age, to prevent bullying and help them do better academically.
Source: personal family members who have done this - you ask the kids what their date of birth is, they ask "the real one or the paper one"?

Other sources:
https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/age-fraud-i...

https://thewire.in/sport/why-age-fraud-in-indian-sports-is-s...

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-the-ho...
53% is both not particularly that high and not unusual. Keep in mind that in private industry, that stuff is built into the price. I've also seen the indirect rates for several private research firms - they're higher.

I think the telling thing is that, even at that rate, companies often find working with us to be cheaper than working with another industry partner. Our pricing just tends to spook people because it comes in a big chunk just labeled "Indirects" rather than snuck into all the other budget lines.
> you have already admitted.

I admitted that the Simula doesn't compete against the Quest, but they're not in competition with one another and they never were. So I'm not sure what you think you've gotten here, other than intentionally misinterpreting me in bad faith to fit a bad argument.

> Also, where are the sources to that 12 million and 20% year over year figures that you just brought up?

Here are some sources,

https://www.pcgamer.com/meta-quest-store-revenue-quadrupled-...
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/16/22785469/meta-oculus-que...
https://www.protocol.com/vr-growth-forecast-pwc
https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/industry-reports/vir...

Each one of them actually deeply exceeds my quoted growth number, both for hardware and software. The only one to note is it was 10million units back in November of last year based on statements from QUALCOMM, which from how you've been going so far, I'm going to assume you're going to interpret in the worst light possible.

VR is used by a lot of people for chatting, watching movies, fitness, some people work in it pretty regularly for development it's pretty varied and you'd know that if you actually knew anything about the space which is why I really can't take your arguments seriously.

You're so confidently negative without actually having used any of it, not a great look, but that's your choice I guess.
Stay strong
I think this is highly likely to happen.
> which part of your own country are you willing to risk to be hit by nukes first?

I hope to avoid a nuclear war. If we get bombed I hope to be in the middle of the first blast or far away. (I'm actually not sure which I'd prefer.)

If it comes to the nuclear option it is that simple.

I've tried to live a good life and asked God to forgive me what I either have misunderstood or haven't been able to do right.

So for now I'll just try to focus on my assigned tasks:

- take care of my family

- take care of my customer

- take care of my neighbors and everyone else

- answer if my home country wants me back in uniform

There's some wisdom in this even if one forgets who wrote it: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%3A2...
Its beyond me now, I'm on a different more explosive short lived path, but the idea is out there for someone else to have a stab at.
The territory is relatively easy to overrun with speed - the defensible choke point is on the wrong side of Ukraine (for the Ukrainians). It is only occupation that can prove to be difficult, or even intractable.
I see a huge difference using Kitty, it's much faster than other terminals.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/chinese-media-accidentally-posts...
Wow, this is super helpful. How do you know if you're getting an older Sodastream tank?

How many refills of the 60 liter tank is the 20lb tank good for? Are there any safety concerns, or steps to take to make sure you don't overfill or have an accident?
> At least thats how I would do it.
Counting calories in, calories out.
I should make it clear, that these are not just any random nazi idiots which we could find existing in any country, but that this logo and the military division are official and endorsed part of the forces there.

It does appear that they recently removed the sunwheel part from the logo, but the wolfsangel is still there. How much of it is just image management vs actually booting the nazis is better answered by someone else.
Excellent news, we need this so badly, especially now in Europe with Germany shutting down its nuclear (fission) plants and NS2 being cancelled. It's astonishing to me that the world isn't pulling out all the stops on fusion development, something like the space race or Manhattan project.

Unfortunately, last I heard ITER building has halted: http://news.newenergytimes.net/2022/02/21/french-regulator-h...
Yeah, idk if it would end the conflict exactly. But making more of the citizens there mad about it could help. Let's cut their cable feeds and internet services. I know they have some of their own, but imagine not being able to Google stuff.
To make the metaphor correct, what would the US do if Mexico or Cuba asked Russia to build a military base just after the US took some of their territory and Russia continually said no.

Because Russia just took Crimea a few years ago and NATO refused to allow them to join. And Russia has agreed Crimea was part of Ukraine as recently as 1994.
It's 69%, so you were...close I guess?

https://osp.finance.harvard.edu/files/univ_july_2021_signed_...
Recent times were largely the result of an unusually unipolar (read: US) world after the USSR collapsed.

In more normal bi- or multi- polar periods (50s - 90s), international order often submitted to great power politics. What was right or legal was less important than who wanted what.
are you willing to put your region at stake to try to discover whether he meant it?