skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm referring to their atrocious incompetence, mediocre supply lines, exceptionally backwards technology, failure to immediately secure absolute control over the sky, rather shockingly poorly trained soldiers, and the general chaos that seems to indicate the command structure has no idea what it's doing.

That Russia would win ultimately is no surprise at all, at least for the invasion stage of things. They have such overwhelming numbers that it should be an inescapable outcome. If they occupy Ukraine with that force, it'll be a disaster for both Russia and the Ukrainian civilian population.
Please stop telling me why belter's premise is wrong.

You can't debate me about a premise introduced by another person.

You have to resolve the issue with them.

I already made a comment that is based a premise (dudul's) that seems similar to yours, instead of belter's. Here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30494411
On the contrary hurting them will provide a very strong signal to them that something is actually quite wrong. Kremlin is a propaganda machine and while some don't believe what they hear there are others that do. It gets kind of harder and harder to believe you're the good guy when things like that start happening to you. It may prompt you to look at alternative, non-Kremlin news sources and formed a more accurate picture. This may in turn lead to higher and higher numbers of people willing to revolt against Putin.

It's absolutely a last resort, but this is the highest stakes game in existence and there is no time to mess around.
I keep wondering this also. I’ve seen this line trotted out on social media _constantly_, and it’s utterly absent from more reputable publications.

Are there real sources here? Not hypothetical—I’d be interested if you have them-but in their absence, this smells like the sort of thing you want your adversary to believe: “He’s a madman! He could do anything!”

(As a related aside, it’s bizarre and uncomfortable knowing there’s certainly amped-up information wars going on right now, that we’re all likely exposed, and not necessarily being able to differentiate.)
Yup. This.
Thanks, added "content origin".
> They're currently valued the same as the entire rest of the auto industry combined.

How much did you value the Chinese manufactures in that calculation?
The Great Train Robbery (1978)

In which a British gentleman (of a sort) decides to steal the gold being transported to pay British soldiers fighting the Russians in Crimea. Mostly because, eh, it seems like a challenge.

Written and directed by Michael Crichton. Starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/
You are confusing the quantum uncertainty effect with the Brownian motion.

The quantum mechanics effect of the membrane make are real and produce effect like the Zero-energy point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy

But the article is about noise caused by Brownian motion, that is a classic mechanics effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
That’s where they are hosted now unless you mean a different archive site.
thanks for addressing things with far more patience than i would have.
That's true, but... social skills = practice, and introvert = -practice.
Fair, I missed the word inevitable in their prediction. I do personally believe it to be an inevitability, hence my investing my free time, energy and money into being a part of shaping that future. Ultimately any prediction in technology is defined by the whim of the market, so either my belief is correct and I can help in creating that future in a fairer way than some hyper-PaaS which does not impart an ability to earn or be an active part of that market segment (a future where AWS _is_ the core of computing is a terrifying future to me), or I am wrong, but the cryptography and distributed computing research I'm investing my time into will have beneficial uses regardless.
They are "rational" only if operating inside of a certain set of axioms, e.g. "NATO is a threat to Russia". I don't think that's a given, NATO was a threat to the communist regime but they didn't care much about modern Russia, that is, until Putin decided to make "being an enemy of NATO" a raison d'être of his regime and, through massive propaganda campaigns, the Russian Federation as a whole.
3% of the population rising up is enough to make social change. At some point there is a tipping point where even the army can't stop it.
And yet those banks want to retain SWIFT access. My understanding is that even mainland Chinese banks didn't want to hold accounts for sanctioned entities in Hong Kong in 2020.

You really don't want to get cut out of the international banking system. It's not a good time. You lose your correspondent banking relationships and you get rekt.

In fact this happened humorously enough with Bitfinex/Tether and Noble Bank. After they talked Noble into banking them, they lost their correspondent banking relationship in the US and were forced into insolvency. [1]

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
The vocabulary you are using is not the way it’s used typically.

Perhaps you have some point different to mine but I can’t discern it because to me you are speaking a different language.

The important thing to understand is that circuit breakers as used at nyse or cme or cboe or lse are only possible because you aren’t dealing directly with your counterparty. There is an intermediary.

So perhaps we agree?
> the simple reality that there is no doubt a very significant proxy war going on.

Are you saying there are U.S. military combat forces actively engaged on the ground inside Ukraine? I find this extremely difficult to believe. I could believe that there are a handful of U.S. intelligence advisors relaying satellite comms inside Ukrainian military HQ. It's also plausible that there are a small number of private contractors (ala Blackwater) on the ground in Ukraine.

Do you have any evidence to support active combat engagement of U.S. military forces?
Yes, to me this incentivizes customers to use your software as little as possible, which seems like the opposite of what you would want to encourage: lock in.
I’ve been working on an IDE for music composition. Launching soon https://ngrid.io
>Absolutely and Americans are waking up to this fact now with a terrorist faction taking power in the Republican party.

They're terrorists because they don't want to give the government absolute power? You're doing the same thing Republicans did to Middle Eastern countries in past decades, abuse the shit out of them then call them terrorists when they try to defend themselves.
Nope, that’s the one. I didn’t click through to see you were linking directly to the item links at the IA. Thank you!
I like the people I work with, they’re very talented and we all get along exceedingly well where we lift each other up by bouncing ideas and having discussions, the job is complex and energizing, the mission is strong and exciting, and I have a ton of autonomy to choose the path forward. I think I make about 85% of market for my job anecdotally, but I wouldn’t leave the above even for 120% market for simply jump ship and “level-up.”

My point is that despite what others in the comment chain state, there are reasons to stay at a place other than simply a little more money, especially when you consider that at our level already puts us deep into the 1% overall.
Do you remember the mass hysteria and people running out and buying generators and flashlights and survival supplies? My aunt thought it would be the end of the world and bought a bunch of supplies in case everything stopped working.
> But the truth is also that the interviews are tough, leetcoding and system design is not easy without alot of study

Very true. There is also the fact that when you are in a company, you know the pitfalls and areas to avoid (or at least you might have a chance to do so). When you are moving to a newco, you have less insight (hence the power of the backchannel reference check; good for candidates as well as employers).

That said, the issue of comp not changing without job hopping seems to be a big one. There've been several good discussions here and elsewhere about it. Here's a favorite twitter convo: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1484071572314804224
Thanks for the clips. I'm a bassist, so "acoustic vs electric" is a familiar set of tradeoffs.

One minor note: Watch out with the talkbox -- there are rumors that it can cause hearing damage.
I think your entire argument boils down to "there's no such thing as a NOBUS backdoor because practical quantum computing breaks Dual EC". OK. Super interesting point.
true. I guess the unbridled success of the Crimea still took a little over a month.
The stinger [1] is and some have been sent to Ukraine [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger

[2] https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/germ...
Of course for decades schools considered home equity a form of cash that they could simply tax or confiscate as desired.

Citation needed.
China wouldn't want to buy Russian gold, because China doesn't particularly need money.

But agreeing to buy Russian gold if Russia also offered non-monetary concessions...? Well, there's a lot Russia has that China would want.
> You might as well just use a 64 bit int if you're going to be changing code anyways

That’s such a waste though. We could the current Unix time as is, and use a single additional bit to indicate if it’s the original epoch, or the new one. Imagine the net savings worldwide by using only 33 bits rather than 64 for the next 68 years.
You can install iOS and iPad apps on MacOS straight from the App Store (with the caveat that developers can choose not to allow it)

https://developer.apple.com/macos/iphone-and-ipad-apps/
https://support.apple.com/guide/app-store/iphone-ipad-apps-m...
Don't they use Mitsubishi engines across the board?
I've seen many many people (even on this site!) romanticize death.
Yes, as 1 + 1 = 3, the Milky Way and Andromeda are already merging, for sufficiently large definitions of the Milky Way and Andromeda.
This was a common war game scenario in the Cold War. NATO semi-intentionally adopted the strategy that they would have enough troops in western Europe to fight an invasion, but that they would need tactical nukes to block the invasion. NATO war games were then focused on how the conflict escalates, with the general conclusion that both sides would engage in tit for tat strikes until some threshold was triggered and a full nuclear war broke out (Use it or lose it scenario).

A close example to your scenario was South Africa's nuclear arsenal as well as (potentially) Israel's. The game theory somewhat works out if the belligerent party only has a few nukes and would be unable to escalate to full nuclear war due to lack of weapons. It's considered a dangerous and unstable scenario as such parties could actually use nukes without fear of MAD.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_theory#Coercive_cre...
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“Ti Ehmid Rabbi!”: On Why Gratitude is Pointless When It Is Forced
Proxy war means no boots on the ground. The two of you agree.
Do you think unqlite would be a better fit?

Have you looked at unqlite?
It's because the subscription service model Microsoft is transitioning to doesn't value backwards compatibility.
Perhaps they have adjusted their plans a bit:

Germany to push ahead with two LNG terminals to reduce Russian gas dependence: Scholz
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...
>but i don't see how to feel less against a state that so polarizes, that so pushes agendas, that so suppresses.

this is how i feel about the US
> It’s always humbling to look into the dark night sky and wonder about the significance of our existence

I don't find it humbling, quit the reverse. When I look into the night sky I note that human brains are the most intricately complex things we know of or have evidence for. It's shocking how lifeless and brainless and beneath humble the rest of the universe appears to be. We live and thrive in a hydrogen scrapheap, and as far as we know, we are all that is going on.
The countries that make those payments also get hit with sanctions. There are very few countries in the world right now willing to defy USA, UK, Canada, and EU for the sake of buying some stuff from crippled Russia with gold bars.
Ok, so you'd end up flat at best and the whole thing would be a wash dollar wise while still putting you on a bunch of watch lists. Is that what I'm getting out of this?
Better to be prepared and not need it than…well, you saw the last two years.
I absolutely agree! I love my job, I love my colleagues, and I love being able to work on open source. It’s just really unfortunate that most companies make you “play the game”, instead of just retaining people with actual market comp.
Squillions of them. Microchip, Silicon Labs, Infineon, and Maxim all produce such µCs, like the Silicon Labs EFM8BB - up to 50MHz, a small handful of kb of program space, a smaller on-die RAM, off you go. Or pick a more specialised IC like the Cypress FX2LP family of USB controllers - they embed an 8051 core so you can apply firmware using cheap, widely available tools.
It sounds like there were some other people involved:

> He consulted experts, but no one could help her.

> After two years of physical therapy, he finally got her to the point where she could set up and walk, assisted on either side.

> She had cataract surgery, a hysterectomy and a hip replacement.

> a retirement community in Florida

> Dr Glenn Englander, who was treating her for high blood pressure the day before she awakened from her coma
Self-plug but I think I have an answer

https://haig.io/post/most-underrated-software-skillset/
I could retire on $300k. But I live in Ohio and have nothing to prove.
Scroll down.

Yes, of course I tried it, my browser is javascript-off-by-default. You'd be amazed how many websites not only still work, but actually work better.

A lot of news sites have this glitch where turning off javascript results in a mis-scaled hero image. Just flip on reader mode, which scales all images to page-width. Problem solved.

Key bindings for javascript-opt-in and reader-mode are highly recommended. Very easy to add to qutebrowser.
Tactic 0, smile and say hi to yourself in the mirror 100x to build up the confidence to do it to someone else
I love recipes that are written in grams specifically because I don't have to be precise: just shake in some flour til I hit roughly the requisite grams. Eyeball a quarter cup of oil by just watching the scale til it hits 50 or 60g. And at the end of the day, I don't have to wash a half dozen measuring utensils.

As for the onion comment, I actually appreciate grams rather than recipes that call for "one large onion" - usually the onions I have are small, so then I just have no idea - could be equivalent to 3 small onions, could be 6. With grams, I can just chuck a couple on the scale to see how many I should dice up to get roughly the right amount.
I’ve switched from my Gmail domain to CloudFlare + iCloud. Initially, I set MX records and the txt record to iCloud for verification, and then added the CloudFlare MX records at a higher priority. So far, the setup seems to be working well.
How is it hard to comprehend?

German government decided to shut down nuclear power plant in response to protests after Fukushima disaster.
excuse me but where did you get this extra ordinary intelligence from?
I had an interview a few weeks ago that ended in an offer and was basically a verbatim Spiral Matrix problem from LeetCode (they had changed the starting direction of the spiral but that's it). Didn't run it once because we ran out of time, and when I pasted it into LC after the interview, noticed several errors to the point where it's honestly probably better we didn't run it. The interviewer was super engaged the whole time.

When I'm conducting interviews, I'll do LC easies or mediums depending on the role we're hiring for - basically a couple easies for a new grad or someone with just a couple years of experience. One medium for a mid-level. If you're a senior we're not doing a coding exercise, we're having you teach us a system you've designed in the past, then we're going to change some of the core assumptions/requirements and see how your design changes. This has worked super well for us in the past, especially at the senior level. I would say most of the mid-levels we've hired since I've started doing this did not have a working solution at the end of the interview.
I think you're overestimating hoe many companies use GPUs to train models, I highly doubt there are enough to drive prices up the way crypto had.
If they could, they would have already. The energy crisis next winter is going to be apocalyptic.
The Digital Twin: key component of IoT (2017)
Good for them. The Italian government fought tooth and nail to get an exception for luxury goods in the EU's Russia sanctions package. So clearly Gucci and Prada are not interested in getting ahead of the game. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/Barnes_Joe/status/1497194009038626842
When it would have fallen into the other gravity or magnetic well instead?
Divert military resources away from nato countries so another invasion could begin with a split focus... china -> taiwan?
This is useful info - I didn't know that they'd eased up now, and assumed they were still playing the locked-down game with at least their own arm devices.

So ... theoretically I could put a linux distro or android build on a Surface Pro X?
My words included two options, one of which includes those words — and I disowned the first option. Please read it again and then read his comment again. Selective quoting won’t change that I was providing a reflection of two possible reads of his comments, and I endorsed the latter in good faith. If you think my first option is unreasonable as a characterization to write down, I’m not sure how I can more clearly express that this is a reading that someone can fairly arrive at - I just think it’s wrong. I provided these two options because he could rephrase his comments to avoid the first one entirely to sharpen his argument. If the parent hadn’t expressed that it was “hard to get a bead” I wouldn’t have provided the first option as feedback to try to express the possible “beads” in question.

If you don’t think there are people who are actively misleading people on this topic or that a comment can’t be read that way, I think we should agree to disagree. People will read a lot of things in this area in bad faith and they are also often wrong because there is intentional obfuscation by large-scale adversaries.
I didn't delete anything. What are you talking about?
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-step-up-plan...

They plan to..
Of course, the one interesting sky on the set is a simulation of a completely chaotic system well beyond our prediction horizon.
While it's handled in XFS (the filesystem/kernel aspect), to this day you have to opt into it when formatting:

mkfs.xfs -m bigtime=1 ...

I have filesystems from ~2002 still in use - I have a feeling I'm going to run into this when I inevitably forget how they're dragging their feet, lol.
What beauty, then, would be underrated?
Meanwhile Finland's Red-Green government oppose military aid to Ukraine. They send tent poles and slightly used underwear instead.

"We have none to spare", says the foreign minister from the Green Party. https://www-aamulehti-fi.translate.goog/uutiset/art-20000086...
It actually covered that in the article

“According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.

That’s an important distinction, said Thibado, because a temperature difference between the graphene and circuit, in a circuit producing power, would contradict the second law of thermodynamics. “This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, nor is there any need to argue that ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ is separating hot and cold electrons,” Thibado said.”
That's funny because I was watching some Joshua Weissman video for a few minutes and my wife said "I never want to see that guy again" and I agree that he is pretty aggravating.
This happened to me with EndJunk and it was absolutely devastating trying to recover and reset the email address on all of my accounts. Some were straight-up locked out after too many failed password attempts and required email access on the original email address (which I no longer had access to as EndJunk had gone silently under), so I just lost those. Some let me change email addrs if I remembered the password, others required verification at the original and new addr, which again was impossible as EndJunk was just gone.

I guess I got what I paid for.
Ask HN: Whats your ToDo's setup/apps/strategies?
Almost everyone here would have some personal setup/apps/strategies for managing todos for both work and personal items.
> That's why the author used the AGPL, which requires you make source code available to users who interact with your service.

It doesn't, though. That's just the PR the FSF wants you to believe. What it actually does is require you to add a feature to the app to serve or link to its source code if you modify it. If you don't want to actually give your users the source, you can just stick a reverse proxy in front that removes the source code offer. The AGPL is powerless against that.

Conversely, it means every time someone forks an AGPL project on GitHub and pushes a commit, they are in violation of the license unless they first change or add the source code offer feature and point it at their repo. The AGPL is extremely difficult to comply with for normal Free Software developers, and doesn't actually protect your rights since it can be worked around. It's a horrible license and nobody should use it. I linked a deeper analysis of it in a top-level comment.
In this example, had the company complied with the license, Dutch speakers could still use the software along with any other modifications made, and the original author could have reintegrated those changes with his version.
This is why you have a preprogrammed unstoppable retaliatory doomsday counter weapon. Just remember to inform the other side about it before first strike.
And the AGPL does not limit commercial use, commercial development, or commercial distribution any more than the plain GPL (either v2 or v3) does. It just increases virality a bit, but personally I am of the opinion that that is an essential ingredient of allowing free software to remain free.

I also do not understand why "you need to share the source when you expose" is apparently so much worse than "you need to share the source when you distribute".
> It’s time to stop futzing around and build housing at the rate of population growth.

We could start by taxing the vacant space above the SF supervisors' large single family homes, which could hold many apartments...
They were largely dismissed by "the public" --- and dismissive themselves --- because nobody believed anybody would actually use an expensive, janky PKRNG when far simpler, more performant CSPRNGs were already universally available in operating systems and standard C libraries. The revelation in the BULLRUN leaks wasn't that Dual EC was suspicious --- it had always been suspicious --- but rather that companies were actually using it, because NSA suborned RSA Security into making BSAFE use it.

(Prior to BULLRUN, I'd have been equally dismissive of the idea that people were still using BSAFE, either, but, no, as it turns out, the industry is a whole lot dumber than any of us expected it is).

NSA does actually try to help; it's ostensibly half of their mission (nobody seriously believes the IAD mission gets anything close to 50% of the resources).
Everybody has a slack channel...even our vendors. It's rampant.