skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's debunked

Such a bold claim for something that is very new, and isn't simple to test for. It's complex psychological/sociological chains of events that we are struggling to explain.
Your quotes say: at best "we don't want to say because this term has existed for maybe a year and we have no data", at worst "the experts say no because it sounds transphobic".
>this includes anything he’s annexed and claimed as his

Do you have any thoughts on what/whom will be next?
The Caltech course on algorithms is probably focused more on mathematical proofs of correctness and runtime bounds, rather than the implementation details required to pass coding interviews
It seems you completely misunderstand me (or do not want to understand) so whatever.

P.S. I am not your "buddy".
Same thing as always, make better free and non-commercial software.
I think you're giving too much and too little credit here. Martial law only ended on the island on July 15, 1987 with opposition parties being officially outlawed up until 1991. There's a lot still to be done.
Reuter's reporting this abandonment of 1994 Budapest Memorandum as likely to pass/as good as done, given the autocratic government. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/launchpad-russias-assau...

This feels awful. Non-proliferation feels like a basis for ongoing survival of humanity.
>Ukraine would never had joined NATO because it was an active war zone anyways.

It does not prevent NATO from supplying weapons and training the Ukrainian army. The US reconnaissance planes have conducted regular patrols over Ukrainian territory. The British even tried to build naval bases in Berdyansk and Ochakovo. And with active and heated territorial disputes it's easy to see a hypothetical scenario of Ukraine trying to re-capture Donbas and Crimea by force after it felt it's sufficiently strong or Russia is weak enough, like Georgia tried with South Osetia.

>And relations were relatively good

I suggest watching the following videos if you want to learn about alternative points of view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Doubling the L2 cache on an AMD K6-2, 22 years later
> I think you misunderstand how scared everyone around Putin is of him and the KGB.

I suspect more people around Putin are afraid of the FSB than the KGB.
The US is giving Ukraine $600M in weapons on top of the €150M the EU is giving them; they are fighting on their own but they aren’t alone.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukrai...
> In fact in the UK it’s probably hard to pinpoint where real monarchy ended and democracy started.

I would put it more or less around Oliver Cromwell's tenure, even though the monarchy enjoyed some resurgence in power after the monarchy was restored it was short lived and the threat of parliament removing an unruly monarch, as they had done fairly decisively, became a real constraint on their power.

The struggles around that were also significant inspirations to French and American revolutions that followed.
At the risk of being reductive: Make more of our software copyleft? Even weak copyleft?

As a thought experiment, imagine how the modern web might've played out if KHTML was released under the MIT license instead of the LGPL?

Bearing in mind: Google has other ways of controlling the market (search, android, youtube, gmail, "switch to chrome" everywhere... don't call it anti-competitive...), but they've had to work much harder to exert control than they would've -- IMO -- if blink/webkit/khtml had a more "corporate friendly" license.

Maybe I'm off base with my reasoning, but I see it as being about friction. We can't stop the inhuman profit-seeking machine from doing what it does, but we do have some (underutilized) tools to slow it down.
Yeah have to agree there is always a vocal group of non devs who hate when they have to install a 3rd party compat library to run something from 10 years ago. To them this means it's broken when in reality this is bloat for the other 90% of the distro userbase so isn't in a default install for good reason. (Not to mention some clunky apps dropping back to old support when they see qt3 even when they support say qt5 in their UI...)
I wish I could get into that, but apart from poker with friends, gambling and losing isn't fun.
Apple seem to be fighting that trend with their in-house chips being optimized for local processing power.
I think Nim compiles to native code, is orders of magnitude faster than Python without NumPy, and has no GIL unlike Python with NumPy. I'd check out Nim for a project that doesn't require real-time processing without GC (and for real-time audio processing, Nim may be an option but I haven't explored it yet: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8613).
Old age can be many things, and is often far from graceful. I wouldn't romanticize it.
Right, if France takes an oligarch's house and boat in Nice, why not take a French billionaire's assets in Russia and give them to that Oligarch? Stock in a gas company may not make up for the loss of a house and yacht but it is something.
Yep, I don't want to sound like a Putin apologist, but everything seems to point to Western escalation in this respect.
Taleb is the kind of person who tries very hard to have something insightful to say about every situation. Sometimes he nails it, sometimes he's off the mark.

I don't read this and think, "He's right!" I just read this and think, "Looks like he fell into the media well and is trying to post-hoc justify it."

Admittedly it's a safe bet on my part, because if I'm wrong, we'll all be dead!
> But it won't turn into world war.

Yes, as if NATO countries literally being nuked somehow isn't world war already.
This is great but also really weird to see in a time where many of Mozilla’s own projects are being moved into a closed JIRA instance where collaboration with the community is not possible.
I have been prepping for another a disaster or war most of my adult life. It's always good to be prepared. Can't count on the US being a superpower forever. This is why I'm happy I guns and ammo where I was born. I have MRE's for a long, an extended time. The ability and knowledge to garden & hunt for food. As well as trapping. I have a bunker, and an isolated cabin available to me and my family. There wouldn't be many if any survivors in a nuclear war between superpowers. If we are ever invaded, at least I can give myself and family a fighting chance of staying alive for a bit. I would rather die fighting than to be a prisoner of any sorts. I know a land invasion of the US is a very slim chance, but there's always a chance in life. I should also have no problems surviving more or less forever without internet (laugh at this one but our world runs on the Internet at this point as most of you should know.) or power. I can survive without running water, sewer. I am able to garden and hunt if it were to come to it. Likewise, I feel bad for those in cities. You're the ones that are going to have the toughest go at it if anything major were to happen. Hope nothing happens, I hope the Ukraine survives this. I feel horrible for any of the people that have no training that were forced to be canon fodder for their government. It's a shit situation. I'm not a praying man, but my thoughts go out to all their families. I hope there's something NATO can do to step in and stop this soon. Standing by shouldn't be an option. Just to be clear, I do not believe in war, I also don't believe in being bullied either. Sometimes it may be the only option left. I may have prepared more than others, but I seriously hope nothing happens. Putin is a dangerous man, and I'm not sure Joe Biden has the mental capacity left at this stage in his life to make the right decisions. I have no issues with the man, just worried. I would Kamala Harris in power over Biden in this situation. He's aging quick. Peace & Love to everyone, except for Putin!
So just go with it and multiply the risk further? It's like saying, my partner smokes cigarettes, so me also doing so, will not raise my cancer risk.
>I can’t say that I wouldn’t support a regime change here.

We allow that every 4 years.
> There's hubris in the belief that one 'knows' always and every time what good and evil are.

Oh, come on. You don't need to invoke existential certainty to know that unilateral military invasion of peaceful nations is "evil" inasmuch as that word has any meaning at all.
As my sibling comment describes, this wasn't unknown. TEPCO (the company operating Fukushima) themselves commissioned a report into the suitability of their emergency systems, came to the conclusion that a generator and switchgear room in the basement of a building next to the sea was a bad idea, and then did nothing about it for several years. They were also told this repeatedly by other agencies.
> Back in the 90s and early 2000s, the interview problems I got were often the actual problem I was meant to solve on the job.

Really? In the early 2000s, half the questions I got for dev jobs were completely irrelevant riddles and nonsense like "which US state would you remove?"
> But they're offering this course, and that makes me think that no, the worst student from these schools in the US, at least cannot nail any algorithm interview with minimal prep!

My take on this is that the problem is misaligned expectations. I failed Google's algorithmic interview round twice under the assumption that when the interviewer asked me a question, the point was to see if I could come up with the answer.

But that isn't true. The interview questions are chosen with the expectation that candidates cannot come up with the answer themselves. Instead, the point is for the candidate to cold-read the answer from the interviewer.

When a test -- or a computer -- asks you how to do something, it won't care or even realize that you spent ten minutes thinking about the problem before starting to write a solution down. But an interviewer will fail you for doing that.

That insight was enough to pass the interview round. And it also suggests that a course in "how to pass an interview" should boost CalTech grads' passing rates to nearly 100%, because all they need is to be informed of the "proper" technique.
Ask HN: Ukraine Help
Below the original request for help.

Everyone who's willing to support, individual or organization, please contact me morphle at ziggo dot nl and I'll invite you to the chat groups (please mention which messenger you'd like to use).

There were discussion groups created on WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. IT and network experts are being sought for on a volunteer basis. REMOTE tasks (mostly).

Original request by a contractor of the Ukrainian government:
"In view of the recent developments and military invasion, we would like to consolidate an international cyber resilience expert team to support Ukrainian critical infrastructure, including nuclear powerplants, and governmental systems. Due to the fact that Chernobyl seized by the aggressor is already giving some increase in the background, the risks are imminent and prompt reaction is needed. We need experienced cybersecurity teams, IT experts, possibly - computation powers, and data analysis. The contribution shall be on a volunteer basis."

Please feel free to tell your befriended IT, security, network people about this.
This is seizure in all but name. By 'freezing' US dollars indefinitely, you effectively take them out of circulation, allowing you to print the same number of new dollars for yourself without causing inflation.
It's a large stepping stone to corporate control and management of cities which is right next door to fascism. Baby steps.

Disney board members shareholders and staff should have no input anywhere on how people live. This is wrong, deeply so, as is all the google and other companies "connected cities" that they so happen to control and run.

This stuff should be banned so heavily no corporation will want to broach the topic ever again.
What does it have to do with the article? Permanent members are the victors of WWII, that's all. USSR won WWII, so they were part of it. Russia is the successor of the USSR so they got their seat. Nothing to do with India.

We can discuss changing the composition of the council, or even getting rid of the "permanent member" status, but that has nothing to do with why Russia is a member today.
Alrigt, alright, I stand corrected. Here's your upvote.
The point of frequent pricing like subscription is to create stability in the business, probably once a month for software is based off of the financial cycles.

Maybe in some decentralized world lol.
Whats the status of KDE & underlying Qt? Hasnt Qt changed hands, fallen under new management?
Nobody is a "competent engineer" fresh out of university.
100x civilians died because of the war in Afghanistan, which was mainly planned in the US. Looking forward to disagreeing with your Afghani twin about the justification for invading and occupying the US for 20 years.
Gravity is relative, not subjective.
I never said he was a calm strategist. He is a gambler. It has worked for him in the past, but eventually when you gamble you lose. I associate gambling with a problem, not with strategic genius.

Clearly a calm strategist would never have put themselves in such a disadvantaged situation.
It might make sense if ReactOS's software compatibility was higher, but alas, it's a lot better on the Linux+Wine side of things than direct ReactOS.
An incompetent system there 100% for claim making asshole jerks. Absolutely zero standards. Anything can be made into a nivel claim if you pervert the words enough.
If the prices are right, there's bound to be buyers. If you can get some of BP's stake in Rosneft for kopeks on the ruble, why not throw some cash at it?
Are you sure? I see many reporting their personal balances frozen by foreign institutions, and outright refused to return.

All sanctions mostly hurt regular people.

I'm sure the sudden drop in the FX rate will hurt those living paycheck to paycheck the most, instead of the rich who don't even hold any currency, just valuable assets.

Seizure of central bank foreign reserves on this scale (600 BILLION), I believe, is entirely unprecedented?

All it's going to do it hurt the poor. Oligarchs are going to be A-OK.
I don't have enough context to know what he means. How did he call it wrong?
Then it will be like the Bell Companies all over again, but with data/processing instead of voice.
Well I guess now BP can't exit its Rosneft position based on that other thread on the front page.

For individual investors, I wonder how many shares are held on foreign exchanges where this won't effect them. And for institutional investors, I wonder how many are held a western clearinghouse where this also won't an effect.
Ask HN: How do you start your own tech consulting company
Hello HN,
This is more of a vague question but I would like to narrow it down to three things.

1. Things required for in order to start your own consulting firm specific to US.

2. How do you form a team or find people to work with you

3. How do you find clients for your company
The answer to your question is "yes", but I hope (and expect) that there is a lot happening that we don't know about.

Note that, even if Putin achieves a quick military victory in Ukraine and decides to keep the gas flowing (big "if"s), it could also get shut off by a prolonged guerilla war, if the gas is perceived as propping up Russian interests. Oil from Iraq and Libya had a hard time maintaining reliable supply while there's an insurgency going on. So it wouldn't even have to be Putin who decides to shut it off.
> If you just go through a bachelors CS curriculum, designed to give a survey of all topics in academic computer science, that wouldn't make you a competent engineer.

True, but it's probably not a worse predictor than most interviews.
I'd suggest that a wet market is a lab for replicating a zoonotic transfer.

Put a lot of immune compromised animals together with humans, and nature will find a way
In Canada CRA’s (our IRS) pension plan uses offshore accounts and other avoidance strategies to not pay Canadian taxes. It’s not a good look.

Obviously this is a different issue but it’s important for govts to be consistent. It’s like during WW2 when the Royal family obeyed rationing.
> But Zelenskyy was serious in cleaning up the Ukraine, he is not fleeing and he is uniting the nation.

Totally ridiculous. Zelensky was selected as president for his acting skills, not management skills. He's as compromised as it gets.

No responsible leader of a civilized nation would goad/force his people into picking up AKs in the face of a vastly superior professional military force. He would accept the loss, surrender, and save as many lives as possible. But Zelensky is not a responsible leader, he is a mad sociopath trying to save his own skin, because he knows he has no place in the world should his regime fall.
> What actual work worth 9500 EUR (plus whatever they get from subscriptions, because until everyone goes open access there will still be subscriptions) do those publishers do nowadays?

Gatekeeping, degrading the quality of research and keeping the reproducability crisis going aren't cheap you know.
> The arts sector has a higher proportion of people with wealth because it doesn't pay very much, not the other way around

Yes this is obviously true. If the pay is low and you’re poor you’ll go elsewhere if you can. But my point is those rich people stay in that field even tho the pay is low, because they like the work. I suspect most CEOs would stay in their job if you cut all CEO pay by 1/10th, not that doing that would make their job low paid. As long as you did it across the board, instead of just at one company. My evidence for this? In 1985 ceo pay was 30x the average worker. In 2015 it was 271x. That’s a 9x increase. And yet in the entire period from 1985 to 2015 there were plenty of people seeking the job of CEOs.

You’re telling yourself a free market capitalism just-so-story. This is the way it is, therefor this is the way it must be. But there are plenty of non-free-market forces that push ceo salaries higher. Monopolization is a big one. Tax code is another one (stock grants as pay pushed rates up), etc.
This was not only talked about but there are now draft laws in the EU about exactly that

Article 1c 1. It shall be prohibited for Union central securities depositories to provide any services as defined in the Annex of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council\* for transferable securities issued after 12 April 2022 to any Russian national or natural person residing in Russia or any legal person, entity or body established in Russia. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to natural persons who are nationals of a Member State or having a temporary or permanent residence permit in a Member State

Article 1d 1. It shall be prohibited to sell euro denominated transferable securities issued after 12 April 2022 or units in collective investment undertakings providing exposure to such securities, to any Russian national or natural person residing in Russia or any legal person, entity or body established in Russia. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to nationals of a Member State or natural persons having a temporary or permanent residence permit in a Member State

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Show HN: No-code tool to set up utility/membership NFT collections
Hey sillysaurus, thanks for the ideas. Incidentally i did recently go on a little Procreate drawing kick so Zbrush sounds perfect. BTW i really appreciate your writing and community building online.
I get some downloaders of my trial software from Russia on my website. Would it be helpful to pop a message to them and what should it say? I already use an API to get the downloader's country via IP address so it would be easy to do this. One issue is I have no way to know if downloader is with the Russian government because the trial does not require registration of any kind, or even an email. The software is business related. I have a few sales from Russian IT consultants.
> we should probably remove a couple of countries from the UN

The United Nations is essentially a diplomatic forum. Once you remove Russia and the United States as non-peaceful countries, any feeble hope of a diplomatic solution is completely gone.

There's little to lose, but nothing to gain.
>Both were managed incompetently.

That won't change even with modern reactors.
Ah, whoops. Smalltalk and Forth are two languages that I have written a bit of code in and studied extensively. I did say that I was probably missing some.

Oh, and Go. I've written some Go.
Yeah, the ideal is to get customers (business or consumer) on a monthly subscription regardless of how much they use the software. There's just no advantage to this in the vast majority of cases.
> unilateral military invasion of peaceful nations is "evil"

America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan on flimsy pretexts and then continued to occupy the latter for what, 20 years?

Why wasn’t there similar international pushback against that?
Meh. Even if the transition to a 128 bit time value takes a billion years to roll out, it's no big deal. There's no reason to think it would be drastically more challenging for whatever intelligence to deal with it then than it is now.
Sorry for misstating you. It does seem bad if only some have the tech. Maybe in the worst case, rich nations lock others out? That just seems implausible to me, I think any such medicine tech would be shared without delay. With general AI, I think that’s a tech that would not be fully shared and would stay concentrated.
What's the alternative? I think the USAs operations in the Afghanistan showed that you simply cannot just come in, fight a countries battles for them and leave. Ukraine has proven to want to stand up to Russia and now the West is putting it's full weight behind them.

What I don't quite get is why even still pretend to not engage? Surely arming Ukraine with fighter jets is basically the same as flying missions yourself as far as Russia is concerned. If I where Putin at this point I would consider NATO to have started actively participating in the war.
Even if I'am far from understand your paper in deep, I like the way you explore new ways in lambda-calculus, mainly I think following John Tromp's works. I'm exploring lambda-calculus with binary numbers of any size using a home-made language, http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks, in this wiki page, http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=oops6, and it's funny.
Your work is inspiring. Thank you.
I posted this in a different thread (on BP's divestment), but I think it applies here: this technique seems likely to backfire, since companies may view Russia as indeterminately risky and simply choose to value their holdings at $0.

I'm not sure what their end game is here, but buying back foreign interests in your country for pennies on the dollar seems like a much smarter move than triggering a crisis in faith. But maybe that's why I don't run the Kremlin!
Natural gas is a major source of electricity in many European countries (and in some countries, the biggest source). Natural gas is considered preferable to burning coal because it creates significantly less air pollution and CO2 emissions for each unit of electricity.

Here's a neat map where you can view the current electricity generation mix for countries in real-time:

https://app.electricitymap.org/map
Good idea, ill try that thanks.
Sure, but they only had 127 characters to play with