skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment about junior staff:
This is not part of some sinister scheme but indeed the number of juniors is quite pronounced because the low level work involves a lot of small work off someone else's prior work. You dont need any technical knowledge to do it. We are talking about check the signature is there, the number in the excel agrees with the pdf etc. Im sure it can be time consuming but it needs to be done.

Naturally , there are poeple setting the guidance on the work itself i.e. which signature should be found, and where you should document it. But those jobs are very limited.

Thats why their project teams are so tilted towards juniors. Simply put, most of the work available is grunt work. A construction job needs 1 architect, 1 engineer, and many laborers. Its not very different here.
There is a mixed bag of talent in those ranks.

There is nothing wrong with staffing projects accordingly. The blame on juniors, when it hapoens, is a escapism which should be easily disarmed by anyone knowing what they are doing.

This hierarchy is true for most audit firms. This may not apply to the consulting arms.

The product sold is not a miracle drug. People understand those with talent are setting the steps to be performed and are the sleuths with the hound nose for fraud. Clients are paying paying for that talent and the experience.
This, and also Russian troops are now in enemy territory where a couple RPGs that costs a fraction of a fraction of a tank can score a win against it.
30% of Europe's gas and also a significant portion of Europe's oil (40%?) comes from Russia.

So we're talking significant economic and social disruption to European countries.

This would also be the consequence of cutting off Russia from SWIFT since it would then not be possible to pay for Russian imports, which would stop. You'll notice that the most vocal supporter of cutting off Russia from SWIFT is the UK, which just happens not to use Russian gas... And of course the US would not be impacted and would even probably benefit. Countries look after themselves first.
A long time ago I noticed that Internet cafe/computer lab users did not conceptualize things like “which operating system is being used” and simply looked for “familiar way to open a browser”

So any home screen+icon+square application representation was fine for them

at a certain point Ubuntu with just a browser icon reduced user error and friction
> it’s very hard to tell them to retaliate when their lives are on stake

I think the general concept is that the pain to continue their lives must be bigger than the pain to try and dethrone the corrupt leader.

Not taking either side here, but I can see why it can work.
https://bellard.org/lte/
Is it realistic though?

Hacking into Nvidias corp network, infiltrating their git server, disabling security scans and then injecting a backdoor undetected in complex code?

In a process which is highly controlled due to it being a very central peace of software.

Very unrealistic.

It's easier to find or buy zero days in the wild for the same goal
Is Angola currently under Russian Invasion?

Angola standards of living improved remarkably in the last few years, has oil reserves as big as Saudi Arabia. Oil production from Angola has increased so significantly that Angola now is China's biggest supplier of oil.
I don't get this.

The challenge (which the authors don't actually name, and which they take a long time to even describe) is key distribution. Apparently their solution is for Alice and Bob to each have a quantum object that is entangled with the other.

But now they have the same problem, but harder: how to distribute entangled quantum objects.

What have I missed?
Education, higher prices on hard liquor.
The population of Ukraine is 40 million.

The Russian invasion force is 200,000.

If every Ukrainian had a gun and instructions for a Molotov Cocktail, Ukraine would be unconquerable without general genocide.

I'm not sure how close they'll get, but that's what the Ukrainian leadership is aiming for.
That’s fair. A touch indelicate, but fair.
Well done. https://i.imgur.com/HUdEzrK.png
Evolution of JavaScript and Its Versions
The will to defend your country proved to be a strong factor to be considered in many modern wars.
I don't know. Is it necessary to shower if you can sustain yourself without it?

I'm asking because your comment is about the meaning of the word "necessary" but the same meaning should apply to every other human activity, not just food. But the discussion about necessity crops up about food, in particular.

Also, I understand that the comparison to showers might sound irrelevant to the discussion about the ethics of eating meat, but it turns out it is anything but. I don't want to preempt your opinion, so I'll leave it at that, but I'm not just making a glib riposte to your comment. Despite appearances, this is an important question: how necessary is it to shower?
A war criminal that the EU keeps funding by continuing to buy gas. It used to be illegal to fund terrorist organizations but Germans and other EU countries dependent on Russian gas keep funding a terrorist country.

I would rather be cold than see Russians at the end of my street.
It was the same during those other conflicts

People aren’t just huddled in a subway station for 5 years

Everyone has stuff to do, and react when necessary
> If you're reviewing a pull request, you only need the Github page, and not the rest of the pages on the WWW.

In Firefox, you can set browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a large number in about:config, so that fewer open tabs are visible at once, which may reduce distractions.

Or (slightly more complicated) you can keep a fixed number of tabs visible irrespective of window width, by using userChrome.css to apply a style like `tab:not([pinned=true]) {min-width: calc((100vw - 12em) / 3) !important;}`
And Portugal should cancel Abramovich citizenship, who is one of the closest to Putin oligarchs. My guess is at the time when he applied for citizenship he knew about what was going to happen, at least in general. Now as a citizen of EU member state he is exempt from yesterday's EU sanctions and probably any future sanctions. I'm afraid EU will not be able to impose personalized sections on him while he has this citizenship.
BTW one of the coolest things is the way that MIPs (and other) systems do 2 level page tables - essentially they map the page tables into their virtual address space (mapped by TLBs just like anything else) and then when they get a miss on a TLB fetch from a PTE they take a recursive trap and fill the TLB entry that matches the upper level PDE

A long time ago I worked on an x86 clone built on top of a 64-bit RISC core (pre amd64) we used this trick (and more) to do segmentation as well (to get around the then somewhat bogus Intel paging patents)
Russia turning more and more into North Korea.
Doctors Were Able to Study a Man's Brain Activity as He Died
I am still amazed that going out and buying a morning coffee is a thing (that can seriously compete with home-brewing it).
NATO can change the rules anytime, from the russian perspective you can't trust them. That is why russia wanted an official stance of not admitting them. If they were not going to admit them then why not say so out loud. Clearly their was a way to solve this matter peacefully but the west choose to ignore any demands for neutrality
Ask HN: Public and free-to-use APIs to play with?
I'm trying to learn a bit more about Rust by playing with Telegram bots and some well known public APIs.

I've been using weather APIs for 10y when I try to approach a new language but that is getting boring, so I though about asking here to see if someone could suggest something new and a bit more challenging to use.
Weapons industry stock is performing well
Maybe they need to hire one of the other firms to do an audit of their certification process.
Sometimes, you just don’t want to know how they make the sausage.
> Is anyone else completely shocked that our Ukrainian friends seem to have stable high speed internet?

Not really.

I mean, its clear they have good reason for a deep-seated mistrust of their Russian neighbours. So clearly when establishing international IP transit links they have opted time and time again to connect in a Western direction, and evidently this has paid off.

Achieving in-country resilience is then not particularly difficult as long as you have geographically dispersed datacentres and nobody starts cutting fibres or toppling 4G masts.

I think it speaks more of what the Russian goal here is. Its clear the Russians planned this as a "shock & awe" blitzkrieg, basically hoping for a rapid "victory". So their priority has evidently been to capture as many high-value targets as possible in the shortest period of time. Let's face it, the Russians are not stupid, if they wanted to make the Ukranians suffer they would have targeted all their resources at Odessa (70% of Ukraine's imports and exports) and they would have disrupted communications.

Indeed, the Russians could have disrupted communications early on if they wanted to. No bombs required, just a few special forces types.

Edit to add: To support the above, take a look at the Arelion (a.k.a Telia Carrier) network map[1]. Shows two international connections to Kyiv from Hamburg and Vienna (and nothing in an Eastern direction). No doubt the map story would be similar with other Tier 1 carriers.

[1] https://www.arelion.com/our-network.html
Most "consulting companies" are like that too. They bring in the great team to win you over, and then when they secured the contract, they replace them with the cheap team.
No, that draft resolution was rejected, 3 votes in favour and 12 against.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090301043917/http://www.un.org...
I'm reasonably certain that the German government would not let citizens freeze to death because of a gas shortage. Otherwise, we agree.
Ukraine supplies 90% high grade semiconductor global neon from it's iron ore mines.
https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-supplies-90-perce...

Key iron ore mine locations have been ''annexed'' by recent Russian invasion - Crimea, etc. in a pincer like strategic configuration. Please see map

https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/shymanivske-iron-...

Ninety per cent of neon production is in Russia and Ukraine.[43] As of 2020, the company Iceblick, with plants in Odessa and Moscow, supplies 65 per cent of the world's production of neon, as well as 15% of the krypton and xenon.[44][45]

Neon gas is extracted as a byproduct of iron smelting from neon rich iron ore.
I'm very sorry for the damage that your leader is causing. I personally know Russians and they are very warm-hearthed.

But in the end the Russian military is funded by the Russian economy. It is of course true that the ones most impacted by a bad economy are ordinary people, but none the less its up to the rest of the world to decide if they want to deal with a country that uses it's funds in this way.
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Ha ha ha. If they would suspend Russian trolls, that would be more worthy...

And yet they suspend pro Ukrainian YT accounts ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384
Not only that but in close combat and urban environments being well supplied and locally supported takes priority.

Sadly, this means unfortunately, that refugees have a short time window to get to safety. I see Russian troops getting to control border points of Ukraine so as to restrict incoming arms supplies.
>maybe lower clock speed

That is an understatement. 65nm is ten times larger than what NVidia is currently using. That means the area would be 100 times larger and any signal distances 10 times larger. And keep in mind that NVidia GPU designs already take up quite a bit of area on modern nodes.

So you'd likely have to cut it down to a 100th of modules which would run at 10th speed.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431711
>>MUMPS will never be replaced ...

Never is a very long time. Things change.
There's pros and cons to that.
Some of the cons could be (not always, but definitely sometimes) the creation of parallel societies, high unemployment and crime rate and a possible decline of the welfare state (due to people not wanting to pay a lot of taxes to support people who are less "like them").
Success depends a lot on the host society, on the immigrants themselves and the values they grew up with and a whole bunch of other factors. And in general in times of economic hardships (which we are very fast heading into) it's hard to assimilate immigrants.

Also we need to talk about volume and skills - the current Ukrianian diaspora in the EU is highly skilled, young and relatively small. What happens when you inject millions more (Ukraine has a population of 40+ million) including the elderly and the unskilled? It's a different ballgame.

I think the best we can hope for is for the situation there to relax and for the poor Ukranians to be able to live peacefully in their home country. For most people - living in a foreign country is hard and not a blessing.
You may not have voted but did u condemn those actions just like as you are doing now or were u silent because the people killed were not White European people
I wish languages would make it easier to decouple the "name" from the "code".

The unison language offers an interesting take on the problem of code evolution backward compatibility. https://www.unisonweb.org/
Hmm I don't get this question... Why do the same for Angola, if Angola is in a completely different situation, plus it has it's own relationship with Portugal?

There are plenty of protocols between Portugal and Angola, including visas, access to education, etc.

Do you realize that by asking that question, you're undermining the situation in Ukraine, right?
I think people believe that you need complex/expensive equipment for good coffee, but that's not true. Get yourself a grinder and a chemex and be happy!
Why use video as the default in the first place?
There’s something to this. I’ve noticed an increase in heart rate, possibly a sympathetic reaction with the effect of pumping more blood to the brain? In any case it is not long before beat fatigue sets in and my mind is worse off.
Yes I've also heard the paper filter removes some toxin from the bean (which has very small amounts). Is this related?
When Covid started, Portugal told everyone with temporary visas that they can stay and not worry about their visa being expired for the time being.

Now this..

They seem to have their priorities right
Just wanted to note it’s “Ukraine”, not “the Ukraine”.
It’s worth bringing up the case of the Chechen war, where Russia eventually prevailed, but at enormous human cost of to all sides and, as usual, civilians.
to_string uses the locale.
Then we shouldn't be okay with sanctions either, because effective sanctions are about damaging the economy so badly that the current regime feels the risk of instability. Sanctions rely on popular suffering to achieve this instability. Damage to the people is not a side effect but the core mechanism.

There's little difference between IP blocking and economic sanctions. They both damage the economy (and thus the people) by virtue of isolation.
Wow, either that was it, or one of its precursors by a different company, Beat 2000 (I found a review on Future Beat 3D that mentions it): https://archive.org/details/beat-2000

I've been looking for it for quite a long time now, thanks!
“prevailed”
Already being discussed:
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-02-24/golden-visas...

The UK government has in that domain a lot of work to do.
Ukraine’s Gay Combat Volunteers Are Ready to Fight Against Anti-LGBTQ Putin
Nah.
There is math behind it.

3 to 1 attack ratio rule says there should be three times more attackers.
There's OpenBTS, but it is GSM only afaik.
Ukraine (and everyone else on this planet) needs to counter Putin’s constant barrage of misinformation. There are lessons here for all of us.

‘I need ammunition, not a ride’: Zelensky declines US evacuation offer, while Russian media announces he left the country:
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497257833095733252?s=20...

And tell the story of how the war is actually being conducted:
https://twitter.com/aletweetsnews/status/1497008826201124870...
It's also a visual indicator of where you are on the page. How far through you are, and how much is "left" to go.
Thank you for pointing those out. I'll have a look when I can. I have to say, given that I grew up on a Mediterrannean diet and I still eat this way I don't have a strong motivation to cut down on the amount of animal products I consume. I think this may be a nuance that is ofetn lost in discussions about eating meat between people from different cultures.
Oh, yeah thats is quite something important I would like to have disproved or verified.
Or how much of the budget is actually being pocketed by politicians & generals. (although both countries are very high on the corruption index, so might be a tie there)
The 34th Rule of Acquisition.. War is good for business
Thanks. Noted and corrected.
So what do our governments need to do to prevent a war? Go back to the Soviet years and let Russia claim all of it's former territory?
"Cyberwarfare" is massively over hyped by the media and Hollywood. Stoltenberg seems out of touch with reality if he takes what he is saying seriously.

For one thing not all critical infrastructure is connected to the internet or "hackable." Nor should it be.

EMPs might do massive damage to modern electrical based infrastructure but I doubt anybody would consider an EMP attack "cyber."
I believe a lot of the media is getting taken down - the bot/partisan armies are reporting it as offensive, and a large enough volume of reports inevitably gets things removed. There was an article on here yesterday about "banned from youtube for watching a livestream of the conflict".
> the EU keeps funding by continuing to buy gas.

That is a bit of a broad generalization. The baltic countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Austria and Germany are the main dependents on Russian gas, most of the EU27 are not energy dependent on Russia.
The least they could do was nothing… this is just a little better than that. This isn’t 2 million of useful cash money, it’s -2 million of revenue. It sort of feels “cheap” to me.

And I’m wondering how senior the management chain has to be to approve something this large? Are we talking C suite? Or like Vice President of AdWords European business marketing division ?
I don't think that's true.

Even skilled immigration depresses wages of skilled workers. There's an analysis from the Dutch government Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis on this, which shows essentially this, which can be found in English translation on https://www.cpb.nl/sites/default/files/publicaties/download/....

One thing that I think is neglected even in this study however, is that bringing in even a very productive person increases things like housing competition, and even just bringing in a few people can cause prices to balloon, just as a tiny shortage can cause prices to balloon.

It would therefore almost certainly be better to have Ukraine functioning and for Europe to trade with an ever more integrated and ever more well-functioning Ukraine.

Letting these people in isn't something is good for the economy, it's a matter of protecting people from war-- i.e. they're refugees.
Whilst I hope this is true, it's still the case that the Russian army is a lot larger than Ukraine's, and they have a lot of "creative" weaponry in reserve, like the absolutely abhorrent thermobaric weapons reported (by the Guardian, following twitter pictures) to be moving towards the region.
It is big, but military budgets alone don't mean everything.

Ukraine inflicted as much casualties on Russia in 3.5 days as total Russian losses in Second Chechnya war (excluding later insurgency)

And remember, Russia did not lose much advanced military hardware back then, but it did now.
I think that their leaders should sit down and negotiate, rather than stick weapons in the hands of ordinary people and deter Russia with the threat of causing genocide. Nobody wins in that scenario, unless Russia backs down which seems unlikely at this point in time. Dialogue is the way forward, not improvised video game weapons.
How about granting visas for Russian refugees??! We've been under Putin's heel far longer. :(
What's the "against Ukraine" viewpoint then? That what's Russia is saying is true and the Jewish prime minister is a Nazi?

Do keep in mind that I'm not exaggerating, that's literally what they did.
Yes, my country (Canada) did not participate in the invasion of Iraq. And in large part to the vociferous opposition and protests against it in the days leading up to the decision.
It may take a lot of time to get all the approvals from all the code owners. One of the big advantages of a tool like Rosie is precisely that it splits up the update into smaller CLs and has automation that nags all necessary reviewers and reruns the transformation once head moves.
Of course a country without infrastructure or cities is pretty much as valuable as not having conquered it at all.

Though literally nothing about this war makes a lick of strategic sense for Russia.
Thank you for answering that, sincerely. You've knocked somebody's white whale out today, which is one of the most selfless things you can do. In doing so, you've probably freed up minutes or even hours of their thought for years to come.
I pray it’s true and that he can be embarrassed.
> Now not so good tidbit. Just few months ago we had a lot of people lured into Belarus by Lukashenko trying to come to Europe. Poland treated them really really poorly.

Those people were from the middle east, pakistan, afghanistan and so on no? A big difference when it's your neighbor in need.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459634
Couldn't we have one big plant with a large hole that distributes heat to surrounding homes?
FAIDEPRO
Yeah, I know it's trendy and useful to muddy the waters convince people we're all the same but we aren't really: some of us invade and kill their neighbors when they show signs of becoming "too independent".
Yes, and that's why I've never had to actually learn the formula, and can make do by understand squares.
Adding some more context.
The Ukrainian refugees are fellow Slavic people and
the refugees from last time were mostly Muslims from the Middle East... and that the Far-Right tends to be racist.
Yes. This whole thing is just once more revealing the cluelessness of our political classes. SWIFT is just a messaging system with verified identities, some schemas and a bit of business logic on the side. It exists because wire transfers predate the internet, not because it's clever or actually critical infrastructure.

Disconnect Russian banks from SWIFT? OK, submit your SWIFT formatted messages to banks via this helpful REST API instead. The outcome is the same.
Nice, that's an improvement!
What if peer reviewers put their name behind the review and were held to account in some fashion when issues like the article talk about come up?
I don’t know how much that will help here.

Most of the time that worked, the wars were at the end of a long supply chain (see Afghanistan for USSR, Vietnam for USA, Afghanistan and Iraq for USA) and were not felt to be vital (see protests over Vietnam).

In Ukraine, the war is next door to Russia and easily supplied. In addition, whatever it means to the Russian people, Putin has a lot staked personally on this war. In addition, Russia will be operating with a lot less restrictive rules of engagement (the invasion itself is a war crime, so adding other war crimes on top of it really is t going to change a whole lot of opinion for them).

Rather I predict this will be like the Boer War or the US war in the Philippines where despite spirited local defenses, the resistance is ground down.
That's not what I mean.

I mean Russians are murdering Ukranians right now.

So the least Russians opposed to it could do is protest even under threat of arrest. Protests already are happening in Russian cities so it is possible.