skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s old is new again. It’s like, hey, let’s go back to the CGI model and reinvent it. Never mind there are still languages using it! Forget them! /s
Maybe it'll be the guy in this clip.

https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/1496913558138867731

It's quite something, and makes it pretty clear Putin's getting the "no one wants to give bad news" treatment the Soviets were similarly famous for.
> At the point where you are both a voter and paid out of public money, you shouldn’t get to also have a union.

Wtf? Why?

Anyone who isn't living in a cabin in the woods is "paid out of public money" to some extent. Most businesses have some government contract somewhere upstream or downstream of them; almost everyone interacts with the tax system, almost everyone is affected by zoning or law enforcement. Why should the employment relationship be a special case, and what conceivable purpose is served by blocking such an arbitrary class of people from unionizing?
That's because markets are closed. And I am wondering if they will even open today.
Right. Which is below the living standard most US tech workers have.
> Your last paragraph is a new topic. It's true that Si can be as efficient as SiC and GaN, despite what the marketing usually says. But there are other benefits to new materials. They already support higher voltages with planar technology, and 3D will increase that further. Gate driving will get easier and more rugged.

There are 1000V+ silicon switches today which are not as fast, but have for, for example, very good RDSon. 1000V I think is an upper limit one would go for passenger car EV motors.
They can work around swift by making deals with other banks directly.
I know it isn't your article but according to wikipedia the estimated gdp of venezuela is 42B. It was 480 or so in 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela
When is that?
The problem with profit optimising companies like Boing is that they don’t know when to stop. They will keep squeezing every last drop of blood out of their products, and their employees, until the business fail, or a competitor gets competitive enough. Especially when they hire a “General Manager” who’s only expertise is to force a 10% cost reduction on the business every year. Until the business is a dead corpse. But by then of course the CEO has already skipped ship and started the cycle again with another company.
> that terrorists from this region

I'm not trying to argue that Saddam Hussein was a nice man... But that's a stretch to still attempt to justify the US invasion of Iraq with 9/11. That's like saying the US should attack Germany because some the 9/11 hijackers lived here and studied here. And France, because "it's in the region". Or bombing Canada because Mexican narco criminals repeatedly murdered US citizens and Canada happens to be in the region (and supports narco terrorism by buying some of the drugs).

Most of the 9/11 attackers were Saudi nationals, none were Iraqi. The "mastermind", according to US intelligence, was bin Laden, a Saudi national (who was technically stateless after his citizenship was stripped by the Saudis long before 9/11), who resided in Afghanistan and Pakistan (and Sudan and Saudi Arabia before that). The US Senate investigation found that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi nation had no role in 9/11.
Disfigured ex-Ukrainian president reveals his face from Russian poison
Just a nit, really: this is true at smaller companies but many bigger companies have a "batch PERM" system such that individuals essentially skip the wage determination and recruitment steps. See e.g. [1]. In such cases hiring to PERM approval is 7-11 months.

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Which-companies-have-a-BATCH-...
It wouldn't be zero. Strangely enough there really are Russians that want to go back to 'the good old days' and they will vote for Putin in an actual free election.
This websie says "Your browser is no longer supported"

I am using Chrome v1024.999.99 (at least my user-agent says so) why it's not supported?

Devtools -> Disable Javascript, I can load the contents again!
That's why sanctions should affect all the population, not just tiny layers (and I’m not talking about the tycoons or elites). This is an example of great sanction - everyone is affected.
> The oil rig was owned by Transocean, but leased by BP.

Right, but "leased" in this context is closer to "leasing" a taxi than "leasing" a car. Transocean was described as the operator in news reports as well as on wikipedia. Also, most staff on the rig were not BP:

"A total of 126 workers were aboard. Seventy-nine were Transocean workers, six were BP employees and 41 were contracted."

>"In September 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that BP was primarily responsible for the oil spill because of its gross negligence and reckless conduct. In April 2016, BP agreed to pay $20.8 billion in fines, the largest corporate settlement in United States history."

I'm not disputing BP's involvement/responsibility, just that it's at least somewhat justifiable to call it the "deepwater horizon oil spill" rather than the "bp oil spill", especially as the story was developing.

Also, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents, it seems pretty common to call energy accidents based on the plant/ship name, rather than the company name. For instance, we refer to "Three Mile Island accident", not the "EnergySolutions (the operator) nuclear disaster". The Exxon Valdez oil spil was a notable exception, but that's because the oil tanker was literally named "Exxon Valdez".
This is really interesting, but can anyone explain the mechanism behind why this happens[1]:

> At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion

[1] https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0...
Seems you are hinting at the argument that Dogecoin is exposed to special inflationary risk? I thought that was shot down long ago.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1358648653573992450?t=5-...

Argument from tea leaves seemingly applies to any future-looking trade into risk.

Projections that don't fit the tea leaves model are probabilities (moving average models for example) and contingency planning (hedging vs other assets you believe in), used by traders every day. It's how technical trading works. Much different from intrinsic value trades. Some part of a portfolio should be exposed to higher risk, and IMO extrinsic models as well.
Not sure how much cash those people think that ATM can hold.
Is he still breathing?
The AGPL does not force you to contribute either.
https://www.tradinghours.com/markets/moex/hours
I thought I was. It's not justifiable to bomb and invade a whole sovereign nation to capture a few criminals. Especially if that nation is willing to negotiate their extradition for a fair trial. Just like it would not be justifiable for Afghanistan to bomb and invade the US now because a few criminals "tortured some folks" and killed 1000s of its citizens who had nothing to do with 9/11.
It'll be interesting to see how this performs vs. the offering in Azure: Azure Functions. AF was very, very slow (especially cold) early on, but it seems much better now. Still not ideal, however, and I wonder if Lambda will be faster.
I'm not saying zero people would vote for Putin in a free and fair election.

I'm saying there hasn't been such a thing, and that means we don't have any good idea what that number would really be.
It would highly surprise me if it didn't. In fact I totally expect that other financial markets will melt down as well. This is going to be a pretty bitter pill to swallow but if that's the worst that comes from this then fine. It feels like it is 1928 or so, or maybe 1939.
There is no such thing as a fx spot market. All fx is done directly with the counterparty.

That said most of those counter parties are closed because they trade in Europe & the US.
It is really next-level. I'm seeing a gigantic full-width ad every 3 or 4 paragraphs, plus a bottom-fixed ad (10 total). That's nuts.
USD => Chinese Yuan => Russian Ruble?
China is not afraid of U.S.
It’s worth noting that there has been a lot of controversy around Sinclair and his work.

> Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, MA that developed therapies for type 2 diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. Conceived in 2004 by Harvard University biologist David Sinclair and serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman, and founded that year by Sinclair and Perlman, along with Christoph Westphal, Richard Aldrich, Richard Pops, and Paul Schimmel, the company was focused on developing Sinclair's research into activators of sirtuins, work that began in the laboratory of Leonard P. Guarente where Sinclair worked as a post-doc before starting his own lab.

> Sirtris went public in 2007 and was subsequently purchased and made a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline in 2008 for $720 million. GSK paid $22.50/share, when Sirtris's stock was trading at $12/share, down 45% from its highest price of the previous year.

> Studies published in 2009 and early 2010 by scientists from Amgen and Pfizer cast doubt on whether SIRT1 was directly activated by resveratrol and showed that the apparent activity was actually due to a fluorescent reagent used in the experiments.

> GSK/Sirtris terminated development of SRT501 in late 2010. GSK said it was terminating SRT501 due to side effects of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea it caused, and because the compound's activity wasn't specific to SIRT1, at some doses it actually inhibited SIRT1, and the compound itself wasn't patentable.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirtris_Pharmaceuticals

> In February 2022, Sinclair raised widespread controversy in the longevity research community by rejecting to communicate in an academic debate in which his resveratrol research was criticized after months of mounting evidence against reseveratrol as a longevity intervention.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Sinclair
Massive, and growing rapidly. The second derivative is debatable (i.e. the growth may be slowing) and it may not be fast enough, but Germany heavily subsidized renewables both through subsidies and minimum prices for renewable energy generation very early (which is one of the reason for the absolutely perverse electricity prices, which ironically make gas heating more attractive).

Random quote I found: "In 2020 renewable energy sources produced more electricity than all fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) together and now provide 45.3 percent of German electricity demand."

Electricity demand is just a part of energy demand though, so getting all heating to e.g. heat pumps will be a major effort.
In WW1 the British upper classes, who made up the officer class, were killed at a substantially higher rate than the largely working class enlisted men.
Probably something between 70% and 80% according to independent polls. Of course after most oppositional candidates where hindered by the government in various ways.

How many of them believed that Putin would start a aggression to erase whole country from the map? Very few. As still the vast majority of the people in Ukraine did not believe it a week ago. And many European leaders either. Such wars have not existed in Europe since Hitler and not many believed they would return any time soon.
The design is also very unique due to requirements that were put for it. Pretty much no one put similar equipment, and it's a wonder that it was "un-mothballed" at all and put itself on map again.

It was crucial for both commercial and humanitarian efforts, but no bean counter would approve building such design normally.
That's the price for standing and watching Putin take more and more power.
Not my experience at all. Unity is super fast compiling script changes (sub-second).
> consumer engagement skyrockets the closer you get to violating community standards

"Violation of community standards" often simply consists of having signal, i.e. talking plainly about objectively existent measurable artifacts. That's what Rogan tends to do, so he is providing signal, which his audience is hungry for, because they're sick of the noise endlessly blasted out by the mainstream. "Community standards" being "violated" doesn't necessarily mean anything bad happened. If something bad actually happened, be specific about what it is. If you can't be specific, _what exactly is your real issue_?
Obviously if it as a question it didn't point out anything. That you think it does indicates it looked like a rhetorical question, not a real one.
Operative words there 'foreigners' and 'securities', not 'Russians' and 'Rubles'.
The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)
I really don't understand how numbers in computer systems are affected by real world events.

At-least stocks have assets and cash flows linked to them.

What does crypto have?

Crypto is pure pricing.
From my US perspective the average Russians are enabling their government by allowing them to wage war. If average Russians leveraged consequences on your leaders that reflected your 8% approval rate; then the conflict would end.

Also, from a US perspective and ignoring the news media... from a former webmaster... Russia is literally the Brotherhood of Nod from the CNC game series. Your leader is Kane. By all appearances; Russia has no organic traffic. Just spiders and saboteurs. I have never seen a large organization that did not unilaterally geoblock any and all requests specifically from Russia and Belarus. Do you know why? Because there are no legitimate users from those countries. Just the worst kind of spam; the worst kind of fraud; basically the bane of the internet. Probably about 3/4 of the crap in the honey pots is Russian sponsored. It would be great if Russian citizens would demand accountability from their government for harboring and promoting international cybercrime. I can't speak for the rest of the world but from where I'm sitting; Russia gets a lot more value from being part of the internet than the rest of the world gets from Russia being a part of the internet.
Graphene buckles, that is in theory its lowest energy state is not flat as a sheet. This is part of the original thermodynamic arguments against graphene's existence that were disproved by finding it. I think the Mermin-Wagner theorem used to be invoked.
When I right click and select open in new tab (browser is FF), I still get the ball in a cup picture. This is annoying because I thought that would get me the same behavior as copying the URL and pasting it in a new tab.
If your government makes a bad decision, it affects you. That's just how it works.

I'm not too familiar with history but IIRC most empires fall when they lose internal cohesion or get invaded by a bigger empire. The only alternative to an internal revolution is an invasion (AFAIK). That's not feasible with MAD. Alternatively you can just give them what they want. For how long you can keep that up is the question tho.
The Bering strait isn't that wide, come on.
Nothing that comes out of Kremlin can be believed
Yeah. Sure. And apple will let you out of the walled garden. And Google will get rid of their ad network.
I'm pretty sure you can make your code so bad that it being available is hardly a 'contribution'. All the AGPL does is force you to make it available, that doesn't mean that anyone is going to be better off for it.
I'd imagine our night sky is tranquil compared to what will be in some billions of years from now.

Be a sight to behold.
Whether Kimball was fired from there depends on who you ask -- Kimball says he was fired, ATK's board claims he refused to continue to be involved, etc. Not a pretty situation; Wikipedia has more about it:

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

With that said, I highly recommend Milk Street. I've cooked hundreds of their recipes at this point and it's incredibly rare that I don't enjoy one of them. They have a great staff and guest appearances from many of the people (Alex, Kenji, et al.) referenced in the comments on this story.

Also yes, sorry, I had watched an episode recently where Kimball mentioned Kenji used to work for/with him and assumed that was Milk Street but it looks more likely it was Cook's Illustrated.
Who’s Afraid of Bill Gates?
The Microsoft C# compiler team is actually quite small. And the Microsoft C# compiler doesn’t support consoles so no comparison.
Such a pretentious comment.
Your words were “misleading people”.

Just stop.
In chess, what can look like a blunder in the short term can be a brilliant move longer term.

I want to believe you're right, but it's too easy to say they're performing comically badly. Putin and his cronies aren't idiots. I can't shake this feeling that there's a longer term play at hand and this is a part of it.
Given that the latest version of Chrome is 98.0.4758, if yours is reporting a strange version number like that then it could well fall outside the bounds of whatever check they put in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome
Their 'can only use one project in the open source version' limit is extremely annoying though. They think people have only a single environment to deal with?
I wonder why Russia didn’t dump its foreign reserves before invading Ukraine. I wonder how much more than $600 billion is Ukraine worth to Russia.
That project is moving quicker than the "5 billion years in the future" timeframe I had thought we were working to.
It does however contribute to that, tbh.

Especially with current govt. track record.
Ukraine won the war of perceptions.

Putin is absolutely come out as weak and pathetic from this step. Sure, he may get some with negotiations and the nukes threat, but everyone now knows that if he has to cry about my nukes in a strategic land war, orchestrated with months of planning, then he has already lost the war.

I would not be surprised if he will be deposed in less than a decade from now on.
Looks like a very good option, thanks for the tip!

They're swiss based and this is their website:

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail/
I was thinking of the same and also that this is just a glimpse of what's possible and possibly just intended this way to raise the interest in those genuinely curious. Unfortunately I don't fully understand from just glancing over the article (sorry, my bad), but I understand the implications. And these are incredibly fascinating to me. I was always thinking of living-code (just like DNA) living through the packet-state.

Anyway I think abstracting away variables+lexer via sed and indexing is hot!

My mind is so rusty, but I can imagine constructing an elegant & expressive language using "category theory + lambda calculus" and oh my god... instead of computing a single result using binary encoding we can compute all results in parallel (array-based) by using a lossless compressor (similar to data-fusion).

A Finite State Entropy Encoder (FSE) with a multi-symbol alphabet (>2) can be used for this purpose. FSE is a very interesting development in ANS encoding (Asymmetric numeral systems). I need to put all these pieces together + self-modifying code. Because I don't have the feeling that this is a dumb idea at all.

Maybe infecting any device like the skynet code isn't that far of a stretch away? Disregarding any malicious intent, this is simply inspiring. Maybe I'm just too much of a nerd though to enjoy this a bit too much.. idk.
> but Russians know that they can get back their money if they elect a less corrupt / aggressive leader.

I don't think there are any clear opposition candidates in Russia. They have been silenced, imprisoned, nearly poisoned. So even if there were an election without massive fraud I doubt many Russians would know whom to vote for.
Sad indeed.

Do you see any creative options?

I wonder if the Ukrainians could try to make it super easy and somewhat attractive for Russian soldiers to defect.

Maybe the EU could fund desertion bonuses for Russian soldiers and make a deal with remote countries like Paraguay to temporarily resettle them? Could be a very cost efficient and humane way to tilt the military power balance. It would also put economic pressure on the Russian military apparatus to increase soliers' wages, and Ukraine would get hold of some much needed gear.
> I am attempting to correct something.

No, you don't even know what you're correcting is objectively there to correct. "You wouldn't otherwise do X" is not a fact, it's an assumption:

> that you wouldn't be saying this had they received dollars via PayPal or something

That's not logic. It's a guess. A guessumption.

I think it would be easier to correct someone by being polite, asking questions, and even if failing that, being logical.

Your reasoning is nonsensical, based on guesswork, and leaves out very important details.
Sweden to send 5000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine
If you feel that the risks associated with evading these sanctions are worth the gain then you are a lot braver than I am, and besides that I would not want to profit of all this misery anyway.
Step-by-step visualization of C/Java/Python programs execution state
Please be kind. The topic is worth debate but your comments are crossing a line and come across rather hostile. I’m not a mod, but as a friendly reminder regarding site rules:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Well if you have someone that thinks their money in RUB might go way down they might want to exit into a cryptocurrency which isn't controlled by fiat.

Demand goes up, supply stays the same, price goes up.
I am not sure what the price of ruble has to do with the Moscow market. These days forex is pretty much traded 24/7. If they are pulling these cheap tricks, there's even more reason for uncertainties surrounding their currency.
Very curious to learn more about the underlying research. My understanding is that this would be the first example device which can extract thermal energy from Brownian motion without a temperature gradient.

That this is even thermodynamically possible is an exciting development, would be interesting to see if it's possible to scale up the results at all.
Please remember that Russia has a different definition for 'nazi' compared to most Western countries. In Russian's narratives it means anyone against them.
'AB'
It’s always humbling to look into the dark night sky and wonder about the significance of our existence on a pale blue dot dusty planet floating in a humongous space with giants such as our Sun and other magnificent beasts-black holes, extremely large stars, and the vast emptiness of space filled with dark matter. Truly humbling. Maybe if everyone just looked up in the sky for 5 minutes every night, there would be no war or conflict anymore.
I think the challenge is more related to extracting ever-changing encryption keys and trust models.
Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe, did you expect a full occupation in 5 days?
Or you can do what we're currently attempting and aim to hurt those in power.

Will the common people be affected? Yes. But that shouldn't be the goal.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29879243
With .net core (aka .NET 5+), there is no specific need for serverless to migrate to cloud.

It is easy to deploy .net apps on linux in EC2.
Interesting! I hadn’t come across this. Thank you!
5 millions unarmed protesting people can do nothing to dictatorship. You need military to stand against Putin.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30299223
True, but even GaN will eventually exceed that, and there are other applications that will benefit.
They literally ignored all of the guidance on safely operating a nuclear reactor and many who told them so. Fukushima was a tragedy, but it also would not have passed inspection in the US or Europe due to blatant disregard for safeguards.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-p... here is an unbiased source on this and how it was utterly preventable.
China is indeed afraid of U.S.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/chinese-stat...