skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always scared of such articles/narratives. Because they are internally consistent and seemingly explain the complex reality, they easily seduce rational readers giving them specious feeling of understaning.

In my opinion, this article has been written by an intelligent pragmatist that clearly has not lived in the Russia vicinity. I'm not arguing ad personam — I'm just stating that the article shows no understanding for the the Russian mentality. It's a common error to treat Russia as a Western country, while it... is not and never has been. Rationalizing the Russian behavior in accordance to their official statements is naive and historically made many countries suffer terrible fate.
Discussion from 2017, 95 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15992151
Ah, no, I believe it's primarily a purely tactical advance. Chernobyl is directly in the Russian army's shortest path of advance on Kyiv.

If it turns out they don't try to take Kyiv, I stand corrected.

But practical necessity has certainly not stopped the Russians from also trying an infowar attack based on Chernobyl's totemic power, as you say.
Times you wish you could double up vote :)
You can do these kinds of changes with clang-tidy, if necessary. Clang-tidy is extensible and you can write your own rules for transforming source code.

Mind you, there are not a ton of people around who have the time to learn how to write custom clang-tidy rules. It might be done for 15,000 changes that potentially fix kernel vulnerabilities, though.
Nothing Non-Obvious to Say
A fair point, although wasn't there a thread on text-only news sites just today? Perhaps they wouldn't look like garbage.

I realize I'm arguing from a semantic-html world, now long lost. However, we _are_ left w/ a situation where straight text is rendered poorly (style du jour & out the control of the user), alongside user interface components that are a huge step backwards from prior models. Maybe in another few decades we'll sort out this pickle.
So you wouldn't add a test case, new example, or fix a typo in the docs to gain access to an MIT equivalent license?
The growth in octopus consumption is being driven largely by the USA. It's super healthy so I see more middle / upper class Americans eating it. Years ago it was a rare delicacy, now I can walk into most poke bowl restaurants in SF and get octopus. Tapas restaurants have become trendy as well.
Prison?

It didn't end well for them IIRC.
Those businesses are also run by people, that was my point. But yes, you're right in that consumers also are an important part of the system.
You mean the new systems? THAAD is re-entry or terminal phase. And decoys still exist in the midcourse phase.

Wikipedia's definitions are what I understand about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_defense#Mid-course_pha...

With boost phase you have around 180 seconds to see it and to react to it.
> Compare the intelligence of a cow or pig or similar mammal to an octopus and the mammal will DESTROY the octopus.

Octopuses are incredible because we've found the opposite. Octopuses are solving pretty complicated puzzles oftentimes for fun the same way people do. Cows don't. Cows do have social bonds closer to humans, though.
Ultimately when mentoring your job is to make sure the mentee is on the right path, not on your path.

We need to make sure there some creative leeway (within reason) when programming, this allow for growth and exploration of solutions. Not all implementations are perfect but your job as mentor is to guide.
It strangely incentivises nuclear proliferation. If Ukraine were nuclear, they would have been safe
One thing to remember in all of these assessments is that Russia has the GDP of Canada, with almost 5x the population. Okay, they have lots of nukes, but maintaining and securing those are very expensive. Russia in 2022 is not the USSR of the '80s. It is not the Germany of the late '30s. They cannot take and hold Ukraine with the forces they've deployed, against an ongoing insurgency. Putin cannot cross the border into a NATO member and hope to survive. He knows this.
They have 100.000 soldiers at the borders, 5x more than the Ukranians 20.000.

But you are right, even with 5x more soldiers, you cannot suppress such a huge country which already tasted democracy and already ousted their corrupt Russian shill president.

With mass strikes you can easily get rid of them. Even if they keep their tanks there. This will be Putin's biggest mistake.

Chernobyl is only for the press, I think. Could be hacker attack into their sensor network. Or they really stirred up the containment. But what Russian soldier would do that?
>This is impossible

Yes. A perfect engineering trade-off is impossible. So flipping what. Do you want someone's best work? Do you want someone who is good at the job of engineering design's best work designing a machine you have to trust? Perfection is impossible as you point out.

Objective reality exists. I find those trying to achieve objectivity in their reporting of that objective reality worthwhile. You don't. Good luck.
Pretext traffic stops should not be allowed. The rest of the world gets by just fine without them (using traffic cameras and “programmatic stops” that focus on cargo trucks, DUI controls around night life areas, etc). And from what I’ve found, research supports the notion that they do more harm than good.
Russia has too few soldiers to occupy Ukraine and maintain the peace. They're taking the population hostage by controlling what it needs to survive.
My original comment was downvoted and is too old for me to edit. But I'm still curious. What do the people who disagree with me think YouTube should do? Is the issue that the ads are too intrusive? Are you uncomfortable with the tracking, but would be happy with the current 'pay to not see ads' if it wasn't for the tracking?

When you just screech about YouTube being unnacceptable without actually explaining your issues in detail it just sounds to me like you want google to host a (very expensive for them) video sharing service without monetizing it at all, which is obviously an unrealistic demand (also, you should promote peertube - p2p seems like the way to make this happen).
Yes, lets talk DM on twitter @motyar
MongoDB to Couchbase for Developers: Part 1: Architecture
It's possible to point out contradictions of beliefs without having those beliefs yourself.
Wait until you learn about hog farms then.
One of the things that annoys me about default vim (nvim more exactly) behavior is that it shifts the cursor left when exiting Insert mode. I use this to disable it:

au InsertLeave * :normal `^

That goes along with this:

set virtualedit=block,onemore
Are there study's to back up the lack of octopus intelligence? Because if we are comparing octopus to other farm animals, most farm animals are dumb as a box of rocks compared to wild cousins or ancestors. We bred most farm animals to be dumb in process of domestication in order to keep them contained, the smart ones can escape, while the dumb ones get easily bred. Ive never seen anything to make me believe my cows are even remotely as intelligent as a wild animal and consider them the extremely dull mutant cousins of their ancestors.
It seems like a fine place to practice.
Saudi funded the Pakistan nuclear program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Saudi_Arabi....
> We don't even have a string library in C.

What prevents us from having one?
And what do you suppose this "spirit" to be? And what do you base it on? What should the U..S./Europe have done differently?

Meanwhile, I'll just note that it seems perverse, to say the least, to focus on hand wavy, alleged U.S./European violations of the "spirit" of the memorandum while Russia is literally dropping bombs on Kiev.
There are definitely people in situations where the burden of a vegan or vegetarian diet would cause much more harm to them personally than the harm an omnivore diet would cause. I don't blame people for the uncontrollable, and I don't know that anyone who holds a well-thought out position on animal suffering would either. Suffering is the superset of all suffering. My ethical heuristic is to make choices with an eye toward reducing that set.
I'm not joining in on the ethics of meat eating debate at all, but as someone who's lived around chickens a good chunk of life, calling them extremely intelligent would be...a stretch.

Pigs though, definitely. Highly underrated animal.
Sure, but what’s stopping you from holding that belief then?
You'd think being able to lay eggs twice would be a massive advantage for a individual set of genes.
That's the deal with backwards compatibility. Even third parties may depend on that name, it's not safe to go and change it.

On userspace that's the time when you deprecate an entire module and switch everything into a new name. The kernel does that once in a long while, but it's a bit harder for them.
So for you, is that something that extends to all farmed animals then?

Its not possible for me to tell if thats been your stance on everything like farming chickens and salmon, or if you were one of the people that just found out Octopus' are smart and made a line there, or another group or individual with a unique opinion

there are some observations and personal dietary choices I can be sympathetic towards, I just don't know which one I'm hearing at the time and when it comes to Octopus or the animal-of-the-month I find people not being able to articulate their new opinion at all, but being shocked that the listener (me) isn't automatically on board or making a line at sentience.
Ah, the days of 4chan LOIC threads…
Well, C++ templates happen on the preprocessor too.
Ukraine has warm water ports in the Black sea, huge oil pipeline capacity from Russia, and farmland, all of which are valuable to Russia. I won't claim to understand the reasoning but I believe Russia intends to control all three of those either directly or through a puppet state.
Ukraine could also be as costly to Putin as Afghanistan was to the USSR.
I think we can do something, I think these research are good, and we can try and reduce harm. Personally I just try and reduce food wastage, I've kept a journal and boy do I waste a lot...
We also grow plants to burn in F150s. OTOH you also cannot convert all the pastoral land into agricultural land. In fact its probably pastoral land in the first place because the land is not that possible to farm on otherwise (e.g. hilly/narrow/rock laden pastures which are quite common across hilly areas like appalachia).

The fact is there are good ways to grow animals and plants, and bad ways, and we should just focus on eliminating the bad ways and allowing the market to set prices on what the good practices are. It honestly wound't be too expensive; grassfed pastured beef isn't too much of a premium, neither is soybean that came from an ohio field instead of a Brazilian rainforest. If subsidizes were eliminated for the mass market operations that damage the environment, and introduced for these sustainable operations, you'd see a lot of self correction in the market to fit these more sustainable practices.
Am I the only one who thinks this is well intentioned but kind of silly?

I don’t know a lot about this space, but I don’t know especially how many skills translate from offense to defense.

Is this basically just a call for folks to turn in their 0days and access or something? Seems wt least marginally more useful than trying to train up a bunch of script kiddies to fight GRU…
NATO has not authorized direct action, but seeing as how NATO states border Russia and Ukraine, and given the alliance's founding principle of deterrence of the historical USSR, it has an obvious concern. And NATO signatories have more than likely engaged in cyber-offensives against Russia already (e.g. [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command#Op...
Many thought he was just bluffing. There are reports that even some in his inner circle thought so.
Don't you need to be a democracy to really integrate with the west and they are scored squarely as authoritarian in the democracy index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
No, space-based.. Like Brilliant Pebbles. It's why Space Force is a big deal.
That's surprising. I have no first hand experience, but I have been told by people who keep them as pets that chickens and cows are pretty much in the same league. Both can have distinct personalities.
by the way love the lab food concept due to this, don't really trust big Ag/Pharma would leave us alone though; there're profits to be made damnit.
> If you have to ask

> Only if you’re an amateur
Ask HN: What’s the second most civilized place on the web?
We all know that HN is has the most civilized discourse. What I’d like to know is, no matter what the area of interest, you think the second most civilized place is.
Another perspective: people are not indifferent to the set of ethics their community subscribes to. Ethics help form a common understanding about what it means to be a part of a community. Sure, morality is constructed and observable choices matter more. But morality is an aspect that separates humans from "beasts". Ditch morality and some get that much closer to considering atrocities -- e.g. enslavement of weaker groups, authoritarianism over entire populations -- because after all, "the universe is indifferent to your ethics [...]".

> why not a draw a line here, or over there, or instead way out there?

Do people who are sensitive to/ take into consideration the pains of weaker beings sound/feel like a pleasant group to be a part of? And yes, there are trade-offs.
Rattlerake: Meditations on Avatar: The Last Airbender
>The state-run media can't put a spin on your child's empty belly.

It can, however convince that your child's empty belly is caused by evil westerners, and the country needs to stand behind Dear Leader to fight against them.
Kurzgesagt has a great video explaining how grass fed beef isn’t really very viable at all. I suggest you watch it. It came out a couple months ago and talks about this at length. Give it a google.
The only substance I can extract from this article is that the author really dislikes Google. If there is any other signal it's buried in the noise of the preachy and verbose writing style. At least the links to $90 books don't include an affiliate tracker :).

Google is a company that has built things which have changed the world (whether this tends to the good / bad / neutral will take a much longer time to sus out - and it'll certainly vary on the perspective of the person looking back). Any undertaking that results in the impact the size that Google has would find itself in a very similar space.

(I am an xoogler fwiw)
I spoke imprecisely. It is sequential iteration applied to each of the elements of an array, in parallel. That maps very well to compute shaders, but is hard to express in numpy because it's a higher-order operator, the right hand side is a function.
Be careful when going outside. A cyber attack might be in progress!

But what actually would be good cyber warfare is hacking Putin’s family. Notoriously private and says his family is off limits and he never talks about them. I’m sure his kids aren’t normal like he claims.
Yes! I believe being able to figure this out qualifies you as ⊢>+⌿÷≢
Is this safe though? (Aren't chargers the way they are for a reason?)
I don't know if there's a word for it besides the adjacent "speciesm" but the clumsy word "desentientize" popped up in my head as an ethical corollary to "dehumanization".
In my book the US stopped being a democracy in the 1930ies. It's a "fascist" system in constant war since then. The modern term would be cooperatist.

Even moderate political scientists rank the US below the democracy line. And calling Australia a liberal democracy is also a stretch.

Independence of the 3 government powers plus press and education would be needed for a modern democracy.

Looks like a CIA puff piece.
> But anybody can plug a new container type into a for each statement and get new behavior that silently breaks the assumptions of the original code.

How would it be "silent"? You're changing the container at the point where you're making any assumptions about it. This would just fall under normal code review purview, just like code reviews are how Linux enforces that anyone even used this linked list macro in the first place. C certainly doesn't care if you use list_for_each_entry for your container iteration, after all.

But it'd be a lot easier to replace these linked lists with a vector that has the same observable contract if C++ was used, just would be way faster to iterate on.
Let's not pretend we can just torment Russia until a "good Russian leader" emerges...

. . . .

Let's not invent ridiculous strawmen to argue against.

. . . .

You agree that tormenting Russia is unlikely to bring about the political changes...

. . . .

I have neither agreed with that, nor...

Either you agree with it or you don't? Perhaps I should leave this argument, as you seem capable of continuing it all by yourself. Anyway, those who have a clue about sanctions agree that they harm innocents most of all. [0]

[0] https://sanctionskill.org/2021/10/06/sanctions-punish-childr...
[intel jingle]
This is a great reply! The greatest difficulty I face is convincing my data engineers to stop reinventing the wheel and leverage existing (and appropriate!) tools. Writing code to directly manage events and batch jobs should be a thing of the past by now. Pick a tool. Configure your jobs, retry policy, etc. and be done with it.
Russian propaganda of the past ~decade has become extremely skilled at sounding reasonable to contrarian thinkers, and at fitting in to the broader Western zeitgeist.

RT, less official media - perhaps the FSB itself - now cultivate native intellectuals (hard not to scare-quote that...) with opinions variously: genuinely pro-Putin, generally anti-liberal-world-order, chaotically damaging to the US polity in their demagoguery, or simply convenient for Russia's current goals. Folks like Tucker Carlson and Rep. Steve King.

I mention this because I suspect most of your and mine (I see this too) encounters with Putin's latest obsequious bullshit on American internet fora are not actual progandists, or even consciously anti-democratic folks. They are simply ideological fellow travellers, perhaps devotees of one of Russia's special friends.

In any case, I find this more likely than a secret American underground of RIA Novosti fans, or a vast human farm of cheap enough, yet still impeccably Englished, trolls.
This type of moral relativism is what leads to world wars, at which point people come back to their senses and proceed to behave, until the next generation comes along to repeat the same mistakes.
Compiler tech and hardware will improve drastically in the next 100 years. Linux can either evolve with it, or be put in a museum while something else takes it's place. Likely losing a lot of the development that's been done in the past 30 years.

It would be like running OS/8 (for the PDP-8, popular in 1965) on a modern machine. No time sharing for processes, no network stack, only a TTY for I/O... what would you even do with it if you could compile it?
> or avoid being standardized in particular years.

That's a very "legacy code" way of avoiding the problem, it's just a great option for a centenary frozen language.

"Oh, no, look, C98 is from 2198. Do not confuse it with C97 that was settled in 2097."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%E2%80%93instability_...

I found this thread on twitter helpful for explaining this issue with MAD

https://twitter.com/ProfTalmadge/status/1496837475901362180
> … vary not just by language but by expertise…

When you wrote "always flawed" perhaps you meant inevitably flawed ?

If not, then perhaps you could suggest a practical approach that would not exhibit that variation.
> I ran Rails in production years back and swore it off then. We had constant memory leaks that seemingly came from Rails itself

Curious - were these actual memory leaks or Rails memory bloat due to how ruby allocates memory and holds on to them?
Somebody was smart and made a research proposal that included a trip on the vomit-comet.

Modular robotics are happening! I figure battery weight/strength issues are the bottleneck?
Stability–instability paradox – where MAD breaks down
I looked up the Letterman video expecting to see someone confidently dismissive about the Internet.

Letterman came across as fine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk

The radio quote is taken out of context.

Letterman doesn't come across as well as Bowie though: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCC9yxUIdw
If you are a member of a NATO signatory, that's associated with a lot of formal cyber rules and leaders who won't look well on cyber activism. I took it as a rule of thumb, not direct cause/effect.
I found this thread to be a helpful breakdown
https://twitter.com/ProfTalmadge/status/1496837475901362180
isn't anonymous just a loose affiliation of people on 4chan though? Kind of strange to claim that the whole collective is doing something.
I really like the idea of converting this from a problem of quality to a problem of quantity! I'm sure that in amongst a sea of terrible ideas you're bound to stumble upon some good ones, even if by accident
I had this argument with some of my management. There was a push to upgrade all of our libraries that were deemed "old" with no other criteria than "it's outdated." I can appreciate shiny new toys, but if you're not hitting bugs and things are stable, I'd rather put my effort into adding features to our codebase and not chasing down library bugs.
I've recently begun thinking that Google can't, in fact, improve their search results. They've forced the algorithmic landscape of available data onto a local optima because of seo and financial incentives. The only way they could improve results would be the cooperation of all players - website owners would have to agree to not try to game the algorithm, which will never happen. Everything is so oriented around gaming the Google algorithms that the game is deadlocked.

There's a clear opportunity right now for an awesome search engine to usurp Google's throne. Bing and Microsoft are too conservative to be a serious threat, but would happily acquire an engine better then Google. Nobody wants to be David on purpose when Goliath is a terrifyingly huge and scary as Google, but I think it's gonna happen soon.
I would argue you need set a bar for intelligence and then prove a creature meets or exceeds it. Trying to come at it from the other end leaves you in impossible situations where extremes like, "trees are connected and therefore are sentient," become an acceptable motivation.
Yes, Temple Grandin’s work to reduce animal distress is very important.

Grandin also developed an objective, numerical scoring system for assessing animal welfare at slaughtering plants. The use of this scoring system resulted in significant improvements in animal stunning and handling during slaughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

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You don’t think individuals collective buying habits influence macro trends in supply?