skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of troops to put in extremely well known locations which aren't that useful to overall control of the land mass though.
FAIDEPRO is one of the strongest applications for online B2B and B2C marketplace which gives various services to their users and helps them in business.
If GPT-3 et al. are producing results on par with "underpaid freelance (ESL) writer farm" then wouldn’t the next step be to focus only on better writing? i.e. books, newspapers, magazines, etc.

Obviously the corpus (perhaps 1 trillion to to 10 trillion words?) will be exhausted by a sufficiently large model so there’s an upper bound.
“Whataboutism” is not helpful. Focus on the problem at hand.
Could Mars have developed chemosynthtic life? Sure, it happened ridiculously fast on Earth and I'm quite prepared to believe it happened on Mars before it lost its liquid water.

Photosynthetic bacteria? That's a stretch but I could imagine it happening.

Plants? Not just the prokaryotic to eukaryote transition but differentiated multicellular organisms? No, it would take an incredible amount of evidence to convince me that that happened on Mars and this does no in any way count.
The US have done much worse over the years.
Meanwhile the UK has done the opposite and suspended visas[0] for Ukrainians stuck in the UK. What the hell...

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukraine-war-...

[Edit: see my response further down, this looks to have been addressed by a change in the Home Office's wording]
i think i recall seeing some fancy I2C microphone array parts that advertised source locating as part of their built in firmware. 8 microphones in a ring on a board. Sony, iirc.
And we have nothing but respect for them. Some 15 years ago, one of the plumbers who renovated our house was Ukranian. He came over here with a college degree in economics and no compunction about doing hard work.

He kept in touch with my in-laws, eventually started his own business and has since brought his family over. Last we heard one of his kids graduated from college here.
Negotiate what exactly? It's a war of aggression.
As an aside, an interesting concept of the book 1984 was that people could be prevented from thinking against the state by removing the concepts themselves from the language.

One could conceivably be unable to develop a rational full perspective on events of any kind if they are never made aware of a subset of information.
In regards to the deeper drilling... wasn't there an article recently that the core is cooling faster than previously thought? Do we know how it could affect the earth if we are doing this at a large scale? Are we going to cause problems further down the road because we don't know enough.
Ukraine Urges Apple to Halt Russian Product Sales, App Store
“Whataboutism” is not helpful. We are discussing the specific actions of Russia vs Ukraine in this thread.
We buy oil from Saudi Arabia too.
That's an efficient short term solution to their war on information control, but it's really just a delay. The problem for them is the sheer ubiquity of devices which can still record without access to the internet, and then be taken to regions where they can reconnect to the world and spill their secrets. People have come to expect the basic ability to communicate on a level that our forbears scarcely dreamed of.

"A well connected Community, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Phones, shall not be infringed."
I think the West expects you to stay to work stop and generally burden and disrupt the regime internally.
Targeted attacks on water- , civilian energy-supply or civilian communications infrastructure is a war crime.
Gradients would have looked bad with 8-bit color, which was still very much in use in the 1990s. Solid color was the reasonable choice back then.
You are incorrect. I work with malware professionally, defeating a VM obfuscator is often called devirtualizing. There is also the compiler optimization term as you say, but terms can mean more than one thing...
> There is over 100 cars long queue at a border willing to transport Ukrainians escaping war where they want. They can travel by train for free in Poland.

That's fantastic. A person I know is in Ukraine (currently at the border with Poland, AFAIK) and he reports multiple-kilometer long queues of people on foot trying to cross the border. It sounds like they'll need all the help they can get.
Something that this angle shows (and that other footage I've seen hints at) is that the second plane would have missed the tower without a pretty serious turn in the last few seconds. That plane is screaming (we're used to a jet that size flying with it's flaps and landing gear down if (roughly) level at that altitude. This turn would have been higher than normal G forces!
It seems by the time they have to end the Ukrainian war, there won't be much Russian army left to go up against NATO. Especially since China seems to withhold itself from Putin's decisions.
The issue here is that infectious disease epidemiologists don't think anything of a large effect size because they're all about models that constantly mis-predict huge effect sizes. They should be surprised by a large effect, but because they never update their beliefs in response to model failure, they think (predicted but unreal) effect sizes are no big deal.
The dictator's playbook is always the same...
A VM based obfuscation scheme is known as virtualized. Defeating the VM and restoring the original code is called devirtualizing
There are economic sanctions aimed at discriminating against the whole nation of Russia. The core mechanism of sanctions is to damage the people on the ground so much that the risk of regime instability becomes a story.
The USA never had a problem delivering troops and supplies to Vietnam and Iraq. They just docked cargo ships at secure deep-water ports and unloaded.

Afghanistan being landlocked was more difficult to sustain a large mechanized military force.
No, you do not "have" to use the internet. Internet is very much unlike eating (unless we're talking about eating habit forming trash foods)

The best way to deal with the 'internet' is to have a seperate device - call it an "internet terminal" - connected to the internet - preferably in another room, or completely opposite side of the building.

And thus when a necessity to access a particular piece of information arises, you specifically get up and GO TO the 'terminal' to do that specific information retrieval action.

Sort of like going to a library to pick up a particular book.

Kind of like RMS does when he asks people to email/print him out webpages.

Certianly harder to pull of for people who do web-development related thigns.
Can't wait until we get fast enough computers to simulate this interactively. Biology education would be so much more accessible for everyone.
EU Edges Toward Supporting Expulsion of Russia from Swift System
> the website (distribution channel) was the only part they are concerned about, which wouldn't be classed as major

By whom? I'd certainly class it as major if their website could distribute malware instead of the real drivers, as that impacts everyone. Stealing nvidia's proprietary designs impacts only them.

I visited that page a few days ago to setup a new system which is, at the same time, supposed to be very secure (the proprietary drivers being one of the weak points indeed, but can't quite get around that if the GPU is to be fully functional). If this was compromised then I can start over and have a bunch of passwords and private keys to rotate.
The streets of Iraq were full of cars during the invasion and subsequent occupation, which caused a lot of incidents when skittish coalition forces shot at them for driving suspiciously, especially near checkpoints. https://www.channel4.com/news/iraq-war-files-death-at-checkp...

WW2 and Vietnam featured absolutely huge levels of mass area bombing that cannot be achieved now. The entire Russian air force is only about 1,000 aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_Air_For... ; difficult to get figures for the buildup, but this https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-air-force-is-joining... suggests that a few hundred are within range of Ukraine (makes sense, they're not going to leave the rest of the country undefended)

By comparison in WW2:

> On the morning of March 18, 1,329 bombers and 733 fighters of the US Eighth Air Force formed up over England and set a course for northern Germany. The target for 1,221 of the bombers was Berlin

> More than half of the bombers, 714 planes, sustained damage from German anti-aircraft fire. 16 suffered hits so severe that they had to crash land behind Soviet lines. In total, 24 bombers and six fighters were lost on the mission. 178 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured in the raid. The German Luftwaffe lost just three pilots.

Also, it's like day 3 of the war, there simply hasn't been time for attrition against civilian vehicles and fuel supplies to empty the streets.
The question has to be asked if Russian State friendly media (like RT.com) which keeps disseminating RU propaganda on twitter, and has been influential in pushing "alternative narratives" needs to be made harder to access for people. There is certainly an asymmetry when RT gets to continue shaping the narrative in the West, while Russians at home are unable to access that same service. The least that should be done is disallowing them from broadcasting as long as Russians are also unable to access services.

Twitter labels all tweets as state sponsored already but they should do more. Not giving them a platform in the first place would be a good idea. Requiring the viewing of each and every tweet of these outfits by having to consent would be another hurdle. Make it so hard to engage that users simply won't be bothered to interact or share.

I don't have answers other than immediately shutting down these companies posing as journalistic outfits because they aren't journalists when they blatantly do Putin's bidding.
There are multiple pro European parties, but only one pro Russian party.

Here is the map that shows the support for the pro Russian party.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/%D0%95%D...

There are very few districts, that have more than 50% support for the pro-Russian party. You also can't assume that the voters that voted for a pro Russian party want to be part of Russia and support the invasion.
NATO Prepares for Russian Cyberwarfare
Truly unprecedented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssturm

Berlin was defended by children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children_in_Wo...
xpaint is the MS-Paint lookalike, much lighter than Gimp or Krita.
> Bragging about how you put in your broken fix and somebody else didn't tends to attract what may be unwelcome attention.

The specific thing being fixed here was a TOCTOU race and thus the fix is just to hold on to the thing being checked so you can use the same thing and eliminate the race. Well, of course I say "just" but it was a lot of work.
These are all pretty poor solutions to the problem. I also prefer native controls but when they don't fit your use case I think it is better to make your own than use non-fitting input types.

I do agree that most users don't know how to use multi-selects though. For that a list with checkboxes works well and allows rich content.
Andrew Gelman's blog is fantastic and always happy to see it on HN. I don't have the link handy, but the HN crowd would love his critiques of Why We Sleep.
The bigger gap is between the size of Ukraines fighting age population, their motivation and the 'home court advantage' for want of a better term.

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.

The Russian losses are already mounting, but obviously you won't hear about that inside Russia.
Any decision with political ramifications surely needs to go through the highest echelons.
I have a friend who is "against Ukraine" so I asked them to explain to me because this is unthinkable for me, especially at this point. He said that Ukrainians were shelling Russian civilians since 2014. And this is true to a point - there have been a few cases of civilian casualties admitted by Ukraine (and of course there was a lot more by the Russian thugs). The point is, none of this would have happened if Putin hadn't decided to incite the war in Donbas.

Now, the mother of my friend lived there in Donbas in 2014. Since Russians took over the territory, at some point Ukrainians became unable to maintain the infrastructure, they effectively lost this land. But my friend had a lot of spite against the Ukrainian government for not providing basic amenities there anymore. Also no longer sending money like pension to people there. Which is debatable: since Russians took over the responsibility, why should Ukrainians be involved? But I understand the tragedy of individual people, without water, electricity and money, with constant fear of being shelled by either side and no refuge anywhere.

So this is how at least some Russians living in Ukraine see the situation. Maybe today a bit less, but still.
The Russian navy was heavily involved early in the war by launching cruise missiles and then conducting an amphibious assault. Less useful for an ongoing occupation, though.
If Ukrainian statistics are to believed [1], Russia has lost 3500 troops in the past 2 days. That's almost as many as the US lost in Iraq since 2003. Let that sink in.

Another thing, is that reports from Washington Post [2] suggest most of the 102 Russian tanks popped by Ukraine have been T-72's: although modernised, the T-72 is a 48 year old design (!!). What does this say about Putin's plans for soaking up Javelin fire - perhaps he's not wasting his best tanks. Possibly militarily sound, but wow - the human cost..

If this information is correct, it's no wonder Russia is shutting down social media to stem the flow of info back home.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60517447?pinned_p...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/24/...
Publisher retracts 350 papers at once
Please enlighten us on your opinion on what otherwise happened..
Yeah yeah. What forces Putin throws against the Ukraine he always had at his disposal in Russia, and he wouldn't hesitate to open fire on unarmed civilians.

So far stopping giving us visas is quite like how European countries were turning away jews fleeing the Nazi Germany. Jews should have stayed and 'disrupted the regime internally'.
Start from simple, take some scikit-learn tutorials and start building predictive models. Look for some real problems, maybe from area that interests you. Sports, weather, stock market. Set a goal for what you want to predict, look for data and then Google and go with trial and error.

You don’t really need academic degree on the topic to do productive work with these tools.

Also spend time with learning the related non-ml tools like Pandas and some Numpy. Understanding Pandas is (IMHO) key to get anything done and unfortunately it is not too simple to get around.
While the fact that Ukrainians belong to the same ethnicity as Poles definitely makes a difference in how people react, another fact that counts is that the Middle Eastern refugees did not get to Poland directly from a war zone, and they did not intend to seek asylum in Poland, they were flown into a peaceful country, Belarus, and were seeking to reach the richer countries of Europe like Germany, Sweden and the UK... Poland was just their second transit country after Belarus. I think that even discounting race, this is a big difference that we cannot simply forget about.
I think the Soviets wrote the handbook NK uses.
Dialogue & militarization isn't a mutually exclusive choice as in some video game either

Ukraine needs to be able to threaten a costly conquest for Russia, as other countries are showing they won't intervene with their own military. Only when they can demonstrate that cost will there be incentive for dialogue from an attacking force
> One could conceivably be unable to develop a rational full perspective on events of any kind if they are never made aware of a subset of information.

This is true but very uninteresting (of course if you're denied crucial information you can't build a holistic view). What's more interesting is: is it actually the case that information is being systemically and totally suppressed, for which there seems to be little evidence.

It also seems like you're trying to use this trivial truth to stealthily support an anti-ukraine position.
> make my UI look as primitive as possible rather than aiming for perfection.

Yeah i like i3 too :)
> I know I have some pictures I never want to look at again, although nothing on this scale.

Much like photos the U.S. soldiers took in Europe while liberating the death camps. Most of them just went into their attics until they died and their kids were cleaning out their stuff.
Translation: meta to take unlimited advertising revenue from Russian state sponsored proxies.
I think I should point out that you are talking about preventing ongoing war. It is just not possible to prevent harm that was and is being done.

I politely withdraw myself from answering your second question. It is too inflammatory.

I still think that it is possible for governments to learn - they are people, just like us, - and I think it is not only Russian government who can learn from this situation.

I should thank you - (non-)answering your questions made me think by standing in your shoes. It is interesting and important experience.
Censorship doesn’t win hearts and minds. If that’s the best we can come up with, we are no better than China - don’t tell me what I’m allowed to see or read online, or make it deliberately unpleasant - those amount to the same. That’s how you get me to antagonize you for the rest of my life.

I don’t need corporations or the state to filter data before it gets to me in any way shape or form. They can’t possibly do a good job at it anyway.
> some really bad ones (every datatype is basically just a string >_>).

Tcl says hello. :)

* https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377517
I'm in the US, we remember vietnam.
Cynicism is good for building a startup. You really have to understand how the world works in order to deliver something of value which people will accept and you can’t ride on optimism alone.
Most of the tech startups you see have one happy consumer facing side and then a messy and sometimes ugly underbelly where they really make their money.
Poland has ties to Ukraine (especially western part) stretching for more than a thousand years. Recent decades the relationship was quite positive. It is almost same people.

Poland has bitter painful recent memory of aggression from Soviet Union just recently. Now there is a real risk obliteration of whole Ukraine, who just recently got independence after hundreds of years of invasion.
It depends exactly what you mean by textarea. If you need rich text you need something custom. (Although you can use contenteditable as a base)

There are sites like GitHub that slightly enhance a regular textarea (IIRC it is a textarea, haven't thought about it too much)
You're rationale is based on a cause that as far as I can tell is just a meme from US media.

> There is a massive shortage of labour in large parts of Europe

Citation needed?
Yes, this is pretty accurate. 3:1 to 5:1 against entrenched defenders on home turf.

Very frustrating all this. Just one of Putin's entourage showing some courage would deal with this.
There are a lot of chip designers and similar figures on stackoverflow, you can still do it, albeit it's not as conversational.
When America Invaded China
Indeed horizontal (pipe network, like underfloor heating in reverse) is the most efficient solution, digging deep is for when the plot is too small or otherwise encumbered (or if one sits on top of a volcano).
>Those people were from the middle east, pakistan, afghanistan and so on no? A big difference when it's your neighbor.

There are many people from the Middle East living, studying and working in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechia, etc. without any issues. One for them is my dentist and another in engaged to one of my cousins and is studying medicine to become a doctor.

The big difference is they came here legally and with money, studies, jobs or skills to support themselves, so the locals only have an issues with the illegal economic chancers trying to game the asylum and welfare systems, and nothing against people from the Middle East.

Those welfare migrants usually end up in countries like Sweden or Germany anyway, where whatever is left of the middle class taxpayer, is "happy" to give away half their income to support them indefinitely, with the wishful thinking that they will eventually contribute to their economy, pension system, and reverse the declining birthrates. At least they were right about the latter.
As I mentioned in another thread, when leaders no longer ride alongside their officers into the battlefield, this kid of human cost is what happens, decided between a couple of tea cups.
My 9-Bit CPU project, part 3: Timing Woes
I'm highly skeptical about these numbers. I think it will be some time before we get a realistic picture of what is happening.
I haven't dug especially deep on this, but I thought what was actually happening here is that visas are no longer being processed in kyiv or further east (due to consulate staff have been evacuated). However they are still being processed in e.g lviv (or in, say, poland).
> every datatype is basically just a string

Wow! Like they invented nosql ahead of its time
They will keep selling pro-fascist ads to anyone who doesn't overtly present as part of the Russian government. This is another total dodge from the blue site.
A human life is inconsequential in an authoritarian regime. The only thing that counts is that the dictator stays in power, trumping all other concerns.

This holds in both China and Russia.
To be fair Google Docs is a bit different here. To a large extent their goal is to display what is going to be printed (this is changing a bit with the new pageless mode and things like checkboxes but still is the core). So doing all of the rendering themselves actually makes sense.

That being said I would love to see a rich-text input with some default controls available.
They probably use it in part because it reduces fraying on cut fabric. Given how slippery nylon fibers are compared to natural fibers, I can see this being a huge benefit. I sewed a couple of duffel bags out of nylon and got no fraying at all on the raw edges as I was cutting and sewing.

That said, I'm guessing mostly it looks good to people who don't know better.
I have the minority opinion here: I thought the music was interesting, and love the hierarchy of models for generating music given latent random seed vectors and adding the extra layer of models to simulate DJs, under a layer of a human DJ. I once built and worked on a model to generate spreadsheet data given example data using a GAN (generated spreadsheet data could be used to train models that were accurate when tested against real data - that whole experience was an eye opener for me). The architecture of this system is more complex and much cooler than what I did.

I also look at this system as a solid indicator of how humans will interact with AI systems in the future: we will lightly affect and guide automated systems with an internal complexity way beyond what we can understand. There used to be an expression “a human in the loop” and I don’t think this expression really describes future AI/human interactions.