skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Humans who learn to comprehend language must learn about the underlying statistical structure of language

This comes up a lot, but is the evidence really there for it? Granted, we (humans) have mental models for "this is most likely what this person means", but I don't think that says a lot about the "underlying statistical structure of language". It seems to me like by the time such statistical probing takes place, for instance trying to decipher what someone means, the language learning already took place. Or do you mean something else?

Note: I am not an expert in this field. I studied some papers back in college addressing these topics and the evidence back then (out of the generative grammar school) was fairly convincing in refuting this statistical learning assertion. I wonder what papers or research you had in mind here.
You can blame miners but it's just extremely high demand for these cards - once the merge happens and GPUs stop being super profitable, we'll see that not much has changed in terms of availability - and 40 series cards[0] will be just as hard to get. The only change might be a temporary drop in second-hand prices as the mining GPUs flood eBay for a month.

0: https://twitter.com/greymon55/status/1418795735802425349?s=2...
Reduction in net income at least, but I don’t know their finances well enough to know if it’s useful.
We had no control over the other team. They were already responsible for QA of most of the system, but most of that just consisted of running existing QA test cases and reporting when they failed. As we were implementing new network protocols that they did not have existing test cases for, the work QA was responsible for was rather more complex. The issues were typically of the form "run this test script and tell us what happened for you" => "it failed" and then provided no useful information. Each step was a 24 rtt nightmare until we pushed for conference calls at 11pm local time for us.

At the time we also heard of a horror tales from the offshore team. In one case a new hire had gone through the interview process, accepted the job offer, showed up for the first day, just left and never came back after a better offer came in. Suffice it to say that the offshore QA team was not exactly high quality without the ability to retain employees. It was not like the QA teams I've encountered at other jobs where QA writes a lot of their own testing infrastructure and are on an equal footing with the developers. Sadly they were more like a glorified checklist processing system, and were probably in over their heads.
I see there are 11 T-64 tanks destroyed. I thought Russia phased it out completely for the T-72 and only Ukraine had still the T-64.
I hope this is a joke. It's a failing or at best a quirk of our economic system that Tim Cook's time can be so highly valued when any number of different piles of well educated people could do 10x more useful work for less money. It's not meritocracy. He's winning the game, but he's replaceable.
John Brother Cade was a young academic when he first started assigning his history students to interview former slaves between 1929 and 1935...Unlike the WPA interviews with former slaves, however, which were conducted mostly by white and a few Black adult questioners, these documents have the remarkable characteristic of having been created by Black students...This may have resulted in the fact that there are many more brutal details and complaints evidenced in these interviews than one can see in the WPA narratives which are occasionally warily nostalgic.

Even this piece includes graphic details of torture. I found it somewhat hard to read and I'm somewhat callous. I'm glad I read it. I'm not suggesting you shouldn't. It's important history.
> We got the answer when an immense coal mine in Xinjiang flooded and shut down over the weekend of April 17–18. The blackout halted no less than one-third of all of Bitcoin's global computing power.

Does it matter what country mining moved to if the renewable energy in China wasn't being used for the majority of mining in the first place?

https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-env...
Even more difficult considering a dish only needs to be switched on intermittently to be extremely useful.
> Accusing people of being Anti-Asian or Orientalist is a classic CCP propaganda technique.

Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's not true. Sure the chinese are using it for their propaganda. It's not their fault we make it so laughably easy for them.

> It is certainly true that the COVID tracking and Social Credit mechanisms are no where near as automated as some would believe (and perhaps fetishize), but it is not true that they somehow don't exist or don't have consequences.

There are interviews of chinese people on youtube about the covid tracking and social credit propaganda online. The chinese people laugh at it because the propaganda is so absurd. Here's a clue. If you see propaganda on mainstream media and joe rogan/"alt-right" and they agree, it's most likely absolute absurdity.

> you need to realize that as a foreign citizen your hotel is required to report you to police for each night that you stay, and they will track you down, if they need to, and your host will be held accountable (possibly jailed) for failing to report your location.

You realize that in europe and most other nations ( including taiwan, singapore, korea, etc ) around the world, hotels take your passport from you right when you check-in. It's good that they track foreigners because you don't belong there.

> This is not at all like the rest of Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Signapore etc) and conflating them together is a huge mistake.

You sure about that? You do realize that china studied and modeled much of their society off of singapore, japan, korea, etc. I think you are understating how "authoritarian" these countries are.

> and it can definitely prevent you from buying train or plane tickets or getting a job, passport, university entrance

Every country has had this forever. You do realize that in many countries, if your "social credit" isn't good, you can't buy a house, get a job or even vote.

> Yes, we need to look at our own issues, but that doesn't mean ignoring (or normalizing) those which exist elsewhere.

Even if those issues don't exist? Even if these "issues" are manufactured to attack a country? It's funny how so many people suddenly care about muslims, chinese, etc all of a sudden. But you really care about the chinese people right?
I swear bisquick is my favorite pancake, it has some intangible quality that I can’t replicate with household ingredients. That said I make sourdough pancakes for health, but I totally agree that flavor wise, mixes taste fine.
I (a man) was 4/5 when my kids were small but I'm currently 9/10. Contractually it's yearly, but it ends up weekly. 9/10 tends to be difficult to distinguish from full time, since you get more focused after this mid week break.
that's... not how he thinks. he has a number and it is more.
i never said satya wasn’t an incredible leader. i’ve heard as much from friends who work at microsoft.

i just don’t think it’s fair to look at the stock price of microsoft during ballers tenure at microsoft without applying the lens of the broader market.
Mining rewards and the price of a coin are mostly separate. Coins wouldn't crash, but rewards would be spread across more miners, reducing mining profits per hash rate.
I actually saw a bald eagle try to get a loon chick once. Mom and dad loon knew the eagle was nearby, so they were trying to be vigilant. But the eagle waited until dad loon was underwater looking for food, and it took off from a tree across the pond and came in fast and low. Momma loon raised a huge racket, whooping and trilling, and put herself right between the eagle and the baby, in a display of incredible bravery, because the eagle looked about twice her size. She spread out her wings as far as she could to make herself look bigger. But the eagle swooped in, and she didn’t back down, and the eagle slammed into her, but it came away without the chick. After that, dad loon came up and saw what was going on and they both stayed right next to the chick for the next couple days. As far as I know the chick made it. It was an amazing thing to see. Loons reproduce slowly, laying one or two eggs every year, and only one year out of 2 does a chick make it. So they put a lot of effort into protecting the chick.

You don’t usually think about animals being capable of self sacrifice and bravery, but if that’s not bravery, I don’t know what is..
It’s really just long range weapons. When most weapons had an accurate range of only a hundred metres or two, and masses of troop moved at walking pace, you could spectate relatively safely from a distance.

However conflict tourism is still a thing even today.
>Russia resolves its governmental intemperance first

i see the history of the last 30+ years as clear indication that Russian society is progressively becoming less and less able to manage large issues. As result i think there is high probability that Russia will breakup after that catastrophe of Ukraine war similar to USSR after Afghanistan (the key to such breakup isn't external forces, instead it is clear disillusionment with existing power). For example, the Far East in particular has no good connection to Russia (and Putin was basically trying to buy them up by sending money which will definitely become problematic once the war related bills, like compensation to Ukraine, start to hit the treasure) while say getting high-speed rail Vladivostok-Dalyan/Bejing would include it into the Pacific ring of the future boom of economic development.
depending in your situation, and on the situation it may be possible to ship into ukraine.

https://www.shipping-to.com/ukraine.htm

you need to find out what everyday items may be needed, such as bandages, soap, needles and thread, instant oatmeal, ramen noodles, tarps etc.

things that any human would need regardless of sides, and cant be foreseeably used for war
i'm not doing much/anything.

but the feeling of helplessness comes from not being organized -- with other people, trying to do _something_, anything, that supports a quick end to the fighting.

the best (and only?) option i've seen thus far is make Ukraine a militarily-neutral country -- i.e. _not_ a member of NATO.

that means Ukraine has to buy in (Zelenskyy seems determined to destroy his country), the US (obv), NATO (to the extent they matter), Europe (can we even talk about Europe as an entity anymore?) -- all have to buy in.

i'm american so i should be pushing Biden to accept Ukrainian neutrality (and, by extension, some some small limits to global American dominance and rule). UK people should ping Boris and the Tories - they don't want to give up that Russian money anyways. Germans should pressure their new person to help stop the next/final world war.

right now it's a game of chicken, and most people are losing, but not our rulers.

whether this escalates to nuclear world war and an end of organized human life on earth is still up in the air.

i think each person can and should send care packages, contribute to the red cross (as other commenters have said), etc., but you can really make an impact - imo - by pushing for an expedient political solution, and organizing with others to do so -- probably by pushing for a neutral Ukraine.
The demo video sounds fantastic. Great playing, tone, harmonic balance with both large and small chords, articulation, variety (dynamics, runs, even some overload distortion).

I listened first on my MacBook Pro laptop speakers then pulled out my trusty Grado SR-80 headphones to confirm before commenting. It sounded great on both.
As i said before. The russian army is nukes and propaganda. Look at how well its propaganda works even here on hm - some defend these weapons of war, rt and sputnik, as freedom of speech. However i do dead non government owned russian papers using google translate for intel, and the news are slowly trickling in.

I tuned in to radio sputnik once and there were americans speaking some very disturbing anti american crap. It was the most weird comedy i listened to until i realised they are dead serious. Propaganda is a weapon.
It depends on what "part-time" means. If part-time means I'll take Fridays off (which are often low meeting days anyway) and will (flexibly) not work 8 hours most days, it may be fine. If it means I'll take several one to two month-long vacations a year, that's something very different.

The manner in which you're working less absolutely matters.
I agree with you; the whole interview process is broken.

But looking at the bright sight, teaching young people how to “work the system” is not a bad thing. Again, we should fix interview. But in the meantime, a class specializes on “how to beat the man”, looks like a fun class where you can learn more than just CS.
Memory has a limit. I'm about 90% sure I have dyspraxia which is an ADD/Dyslexia/etc type condition, and have essentially never been able to learn.... anything to a 100% reliable level.

At the moment I'm using a custom app called Drayer Journal which is designed to solve the permanence and search issue with P2P sync, Heirachal organization, and exporting subtrees as shareable documents. Unfortunately it's a KivyMD prototype and I'm not sure I want to rewrite it in something less buggy.

It does seem that for whatever reason, most artistic fields were doing better without present day tech though.
Actuary?
Using laws. Russia has not germ entirely cut off from international trade, and the UK government will back up BPs interests. Nothings been gifted to anyone, the headline is highly misleading.
No matter the outcome of the current war in Europe, the military-industrial complex wins.
I don't think that you understand what "change in accounting treatment" means.

Usually, when a company owns AAPL shares, for example, they do not include in their revenue or net income their "share" of Apple's revenue or net income. They just consider the value of the shares and the dividends they get.

But when some conditions are met they do. From their annual report:

Significant judgement: investment in Rosneft

Judgement is required in assessing the level of control or influence over another entity in which the group holds an interest. For bp, the judgement that the group has significant influence over Rosneft Oil Company (Rosneft), a Russian oil and gas company is significant. As a consequence of this judgement, bp uses the equity method of accounting for its investment and bp's share of Rosneft's oil and natural gas reserves is included in the group's estimated net proved reserves of equity-accounted entities. If significant influence was not present, the investment would be accounted for as an investment in an equity instrument measured at fair value as described under 'Financial assets' below and no share of Rosneft's oil and natural gas reserves would be reported.

Significant influence is defined in IFRS as the power to participate in the financial and operating policy decisions of the investee but is not control or joint control of those policies. Significant influence is presumed when an entity owns 20% or more of the voting power of the investee. Significant influence is presumed not to be present when an entity owns less than 20% of the voting power of the investee.

bp owns 19.75% of the voting shares of Rosneft. Rosneft’s largest shareholder is Rosneftegaz JSC (Rosneftegaz), which is wholly owned by the Russian government. At 31 December 2020, Rosneftegaz held 40.4% (2019 50% plus one share) of the voting shares of Rosneft . IFRS identifies several indicators that may provide evidence of significant influence, including representation on the board of directors of the investee and participation in policy-making processes. bp’s group chief executive, Bernard Looney, was approved as a member of the board of directors of Rosneft in June 2020 as one of bp’s two nominated directors. bp’s other nominated director, Bob Dudley, has been a member of the Rosneft board since 2013. He is also chairman of the Rosneft board’s Strategic and Sustainable Development Committee. bp also holds the voting rights at general meetings of shareholders conferred by its 19.75% stake in Rosneft. Transactions by Rosneft in its own shares during the year have increased bp’s economic interest in Rosneft to 22.03% (2019 19.75%). bp's management considers, therefore, that the group has significant influence over Rosneft, as defined by IFRS.
They were also available to buy before the scalpers bought them - that's how they bought them. The scalpers injecting themselves as middle men didn't change anything except the price.
I mean, there was no tradition of democracy in Korea or China, but South Korea and Taiwan transitioned reasonably successfully to democracy in the 80s and 90s respectively. It has been done.

For that matter, a number of Soviet successor states are successfully functioning democracies.
What are the effects of doing it now versus later?
That’s the point: if you use a credit card, the tax agency gets the chargeback cost immediately and they’re always paying an overhead fee based on that risk (low but non-zero). With cryptocurrency, that cost is shifted to the victims and other departments and they don’t have to give the money back until a judge orders it.
That surprises me. If this happened where I live (Scandinavia) I would just ignore them, walk past and go about my business.
Well that is a problem of the API, but at least it can recommend what the best string to put in the source tag's type attribute.

> If the browser is not aware of any of these

In my case the browser is playing the file, so it should know what info is there. But ideally it would at least make a best-effort attempt.
Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?
Russia has invaded Ukraine, and four days on I feel powerless to both do anything (in a country that is neither of those two!) and to look away from the news and social media coverage of it. It's an abhorrent waste of human life.

News and reports today of Russian ICBMs and other nuclear forces being placed on high alert (and moved further towards the west of the country) [1] frankly scares me. While some observers think that this is "overplaying" his hand [2] I know that all of this is deeply concerning. The world does _not_ need another cuban missile crisis; it also does _not_ need to vanish in a pile of radioactive smoke.

I live in Europe. My father sent me a message to essentially ask if I'd had a thought about where my nearest "shelter" would be -- and I had. My partner's family have too. It feels awful, but I can't concentrate effectively -- I'm glued to the news and I need to put it down, convince myself that the world won't end tomorrow, and get back to work.

Am I the only person affected similarly by events? How else have you been coping with it all?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-puts-russia-nuclear-deterrence-forces-on-high-alert-ukraine

[2] https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/02/25/is-putin-overplaying-his-hand-by-moving-icbms-into-western-russia/
I wonder if anyone will resurrect the classic tonewheel organ. AFAIK Hammond Suzuki is currently focusing exclusively on digital emulations and the only mechanical devices they still produce are rotary speakers under the Leslie brand.
I feel that it's mostly a certain part of the tech scene. FAANG companies, startups, and those cargo-culting those. I've actually been to dev. interviews that were 1-2 interviews long, almost zero technical questions.

Now, those places were in now way "prestigious", or paying $250k starting salaries. Just your garden variety F500 companies / gov. agencies / non-tech companies.

Also, my experience with "traditional" engineering companies have been similar, 1/10th duration of tech interviews, some fundamental questions related to your trade, then mostly questions on personality, you experience, etc.

The closest I've been to tech, was finance. It's very much a predictable process - you know what kind of questions you'll be asked, what the next round will include, and all that...but still not anywhere near the rigor of prestigious or trendy tech firms.
Not because it'd be any good, but because it'd be cheaper for Microsoft.
I proved you wrong. I rest my case.
Russia mistakenly posted post-war article about Ukraine joining Russia
Ask HN: Has the conflict made you realize yr problems are nothing in comparison
Has the conflict made you realize your problems are a nothing-burger in comparison?
Everyone was already fully aware of that.
A cynical person might say Putin is purposefully beginning with their worst equipment.
The article has been immediately deleted, however webarchive caught it.
This sounds a bit like you went from a low calorie diet that triggered various metabolic shutdowns to a high calorie diet that made your body work again.

Sounds like you went from hypogonadism ( which is associated with all of your listed issues) to something healthier.

Quite impressive if diet solved it, although it might be the calories, not the content.
To prevent exactly what’s happening now.
OS/2 Warp was a day late and a dollar short. It had a weird multitasking thing where misbehaving apps could lock up the OS like Windows 3.11, even though they claimed it was better. I found the interface to be somewhat unintuitive as well.
When you're too insane to deal with even for oil companies...
You get all the failures of static linking, too. Security in underlying statically compiled libs, for example.
I bought a PS5 in October because I was really excited for BF 2042. That game was a crushing disappointment. What's worse is the fact that it's pulled a lot of my friends from BF4 and they're still playing it, hoping it'll get better.

That's left single player games, and honestly single player games take a lot of time to get started. There have been weeks now where I start my playstation, look at who's playing. Look through my library to find a game I'm willing to sink hours into, find nothing and power off the machine.
Yes, I enjoyed my commute and did things personally useful to me like read. A commute doesn’t require me to think about or organize that time where as consciously fitting reading into my schedule is a pain.
I guess it depends on what your goal is. If it is simply your own personal learning, then no, it cannot possibly be a waste of time. But if not…
The deep irony is Windows has achieved its herculean backwards compatibility through dynamic linking.
Yep, I remember a war that was clearly decided in advance but maintained a pretence of negotiability, on a bed of lies and manufactured fear of WMDs, supported in general by a compliant media with plenty of military embeds, glee over "shock and awe" and dropping of a lot more ordinance, and an almost complete absence of reporting of the victims of it. That war was Iraq.

Nothing forgives Putin for what he's doing, or the laughable propaganda it rests on and Russian media promulgation of the same, but let's not pretend our media aren't also dancing to a political tune, filtering, ignoring, misrepresenting. And precisely because we claim to live in a free society we should hold our media to higher standards of independence, verifiability and circumspection.
In Switzerland jobs are usually advertised in %, where 40h-45h/week is 100%. From that it is also usual to talk about 80% or 4/5days/week (and so on for other percentages).