skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also hate it when technical terms are needlessly overloaded, and I can only assume it's often because our field is fractured enough that even widely known terminology might not be known in every little niche. But one has to wonder... don't people use Google when they invent new terms?

Either way, I found this paper that describes a certain obfuscation technique as virtualization [1]. I can only assume that devirtualization is meant as the corresponding deobfuscation technique. So maybe it is the correct, if unfortunate, term. Quote:

> Virtualization-obfuscation replaces native code in a binary
with semantically equivalent and self-defined bytecode, which, upon ex-
ecution, is interpreted by a custom virtual machine.

[1] https://cis.temple.edu/~qzeng/papers/deobfuscation-icics2017...
Plausible deniability is one of ways the cryptocurrency schemes have continued for so long without collapsing - members can convince themselves that Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. aren't ponzi/pyramid schemes because they "do something". Furthermore, that "something" can keep changing over time (e.g. for Ethereum it was first ICOs and DApps, currently it is NFTs and DeFi, and in future likely to be something else), which keeps the schemes self-sustaining. It is the plausible deniability and evolving self-sustainability which are the main advantages Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc. have over simpler schemes like BitConnect.
So now their stuff is actually valued $2.4B and it's no longer monopoly money?
9/11 blue is such a distinct color, and it's seared into my brain. It's so intwined with the day, it's part of the permanent collection at the museum:
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/trying-remember-col...
Infinite Objects – We Print Video
Enjoy your China. Almost no politics, almost no internets.
From this point of view, which I certainly share, the responsible thing to do is to grow as fast as humanly possible until we are spread far and wide across the solar system, while also hedging our bets and making an effort to grow in the cleanest way that doesn’t slow us down.
>China banned mining and mining was gone immediately (largely moving to Kyrgystan it seems).

Kearney, NE seems like a popular destination too, for crypto mining.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/1081252187/bitcoin-cryptocurr...
As the video points out (7:50), 40% of conservatives were already saying they wouldn't get a hypothetical vaccine as early as May 2020, well before the election and before there was any certainty about effectiveness. Public health authorities have made a lot of bad mistakes in talking about vaccination but it seems to have only given people materials to build justification for their already-entrenched views.
Why would anyone volunteer to review?
Sounds like a fiat currency in many respects. Which is funny since that’s what it was supposed to not be.
You just don't "use" heat to make electricity. You need some sort of heat engine running a cycle. All those require temperature differential. This is basic thermodynamics and isn't going to change with new technology. This temp differential is what is required to extract useful energy. So I don't understand why they talk about material at a certain temp having energy compared to oil. If we lived on a planet that is uniformly 1000 deg F, it wouldn't help us because we don't have a temp differential to convert thermal energy to electric.

Nowhere in the article did I see them mention temp differential and where they are going to dump the waste heat? Nuclear plants get crapped on because they dump heat into adjacent water bodies, how is this different?
I hear the WEB is best viewed on a MAC.
No, that's not a difference. Poland has been preparing to welcome Ukrainians long before the invasion started. It had opened up its borders and had logistic ready to receive them as soon as Russia invaded.

All of this happened before Ukraine closed its borders to fighting-age men.
> Crypto may well be the biggest solution looking for a problem I've ever seen.

I think this hinges on what problem you identify. If someone identifies centralized financial systems as bad, even if they're efficient, the problem is real and the solution fits the problem. If you contest this, as many do for good reason, it becomes a solution in search of a problem.
Ledger. I see what you did there.
Here's an infographic that shows the timeline of the German blitzkrieg vs this [1].

By any measure, this is one of the fastest and most aggressive sieges of all time. It is comparable to the speed of Desert Storm or Iraq, and those were mainly driven by air power. The land troops needed to drive straight in desert, not in a combination of urban hills in winter.

I've been watching this, and frankly given the high number (>dozen) of verifiably false claims made by Ukraine, it would not surprise me if they are losing badly.

In our hyperconnected world, we forget how "fast" things seemed to people without the internet.

[1] https://twitter.com/bazaarofwar/status/1497408494995218432
And apartment building, hospitals and ambulances... I originally would have agreed with you, mind, but it would seem our shared optimism for minimized civilian targets was mistaken.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/kyiv-residential-to...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/25/ukraine-russian-cluster-...
Unless you're a d fence contractor.
I was surprised to see that even my iPhone can send out 1,000’s of requests in just a few seconds.
I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like "I don't like the color of my face in my camera."

If he was to use OBS with the virtual camera as a middleware between him and the call he could apply a LUT (lookup table) filter to the camera output to correct the color[1]. I do this when I'm presenting to a lot of people or when a call is going to be recorded. It makes a heck of a difference to the quality.

[1] An explainer https://streamshark.io/obs-guide/color-grading-lut.
Asked them about it recently? If not, please do.
Your point is well made. If all it took was heat, then climate change would probably be the best thing ever. More heat captured from the sun would give us more energy.
This has always been a problem. Third party closed source OS components are a massive security risk. Te people of the next century will look back on us as barbarians.
Yet Bitcoin is still considered the OG token and a "true" cryptocurrency as mentioned above and not old dangerous tech.

Also in the last 10 years, only a handful of tokens have had a somewhat usable blockchain which grinds to a halt anytime people share pictures of cats or monkeys and we're told to wait for another year or two for an update to whatever protocol is trendy at the moment. Rinse and repeat every year.
Also also, every other year a cryptocurrency comes along and professes to be the second coming of God with solutions to problems with don't have.

So no, not interested.
No, refold have a basic SRS web app now. It's terrible though, awful. Refold is basically trying to commercialize the community MattVsJapan created with awful things like proprietary alternatives to Anki.
And they act like plants: they photosynthesize; they are sessile; and they are structured as a thin layer of living tissue over a dead, rigid internal support.
My perception, as someone with a fair amount of southern, conservative friends, is that the American progressive left absolutely did this to themselves. I distinctly remember many of my progressive friends urging others to never take the “Trump Vaccine”. Wildly, 6 months later when it was actually available, it became the Fauci vaccine and those same people said anyone who wasn’t getting it was a racist or a nazi. If you were vaccine hesitant going into it, this profound and entirely political change of heart from across the aisle probably just solidified your sneaking suspicion that there was something “they” weren’t telling you.
I don’t have an answer to your question, but I will point out that the effects of stimulants on someone with adhd are different from the effects they have on a neurotypical person.
Facebook is full of hateful content that is illegal to post online in certain member states, do a search for German terms on Facebook to see for yourself. Then repeat the search using other European languages. Also look up antivax terms, and enjoy the Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of followers, blaming minorities for the pandemic, and for having to wear masks.
Considering it's a mostly barren landscape with little that could wear down and prevent accumulation of such things, chances are pretty good.

Mars isn't quite the Moon, where you could drop a marble and expect to find it in exactly the same condition 10,000 years later, but it's not quite Earth either.

There's no organisms that will cover and break down anything you throw at them within weeks, obviously there's no rain that could cause erosion, wind speeds are about the same you'd see on earth, but atmospheric pressure is only about 1/150th.
Stalagmite-like formation would also be an accurate description, without the hype. The abuse of bombastic announcements like this one does a disservice to science in general and the space exploration in particular. This gotta stop.
Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker
That sounds wonderful. It's still bitterly cold where I am in the world these days, and I look forward to also doing that in a few months. :-)
And severely outdated technology.
This

> The first example of Kennedy's lack of political skill was the failed attempt to destabilise Fidel Castro in Cuba.

is presented without any evidence. The 'syndrome' itself is based on highly biased, out of context judgement of third party observations. Perhaps they should look up the classical concept "projection."
you're supposed to be using this war to sell patriotism. nobody actually cares about what happens to the ukraine. they just don't want russia to improve it's global position.
All of those things have happened. Straight up. And again there's no excuse for it. But it could also be much, much worse, particularly if the Russians decided to actually bomb civilians and target things like water treatment plants, utilities and so forth.
> and they have the option to desert.

sadly it's a lot more nuanced :(

-- (apologies for x-posting this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30477618) --

Russia had some trouble[1] recruiting for this mission. Pay is a joke, and they had to hire a bunch of aging convicts with nowhere else to go:

>> Two Meduza sources referred to the formations taking shape in the “people’s republics” as “Dirlewanger brigades,” because they actively enlist former inmates. “Those [joining up] in Luhansk were in prison,” said an individual personally acquainted with members of the new unit. “And then suddenly they turned up in this detachment. They’re real criminals, and besides that they’re no spring chickens [aged 45 and up].”

it gets worse:

>> Indeed, Meduza’s sources believe that those who accepted the recruiters’ offers likely have a rather low level of training. “All the rest are [on combat trips] in Africa or in the sands [Syria],” explained a Russian security agency veteran familiar with the recruitment campaign. “Nobody’s raring to go to the ‘field of spoil tips’ [the Donbas].”

>> “They just don’t want to go there, because there’s a regular army [the Ukrainian Armed Forces]: it’s difficult to fight against it,” said a former Wagner Group mercenary. “If there’s a regular army, there will be big losses.”

There is another[2] recent article that suggests Russians aren't going to Donbas/Luhansk voluntarily. If so it could explain the losses and shocking morale.

________

[1] A road to nowhere Russian recruiters are mobilizing mercenaries for a ‘trip to the Donbas.’ What they’re expected to do there remains unclear. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/23/a-road-to-nowhere

[2] ‘I’m panicking — where is my child?’ Conscript soldiers are being sent to fight against Ukraine, their relatives say. Here’s what their families told Meduza. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/26/i-m-panicking-where-...
I bought a bunch of BRK-B a few months ago, its a nice portfolio balancer to the S&P500 which is heavily tech weighted now.
It's probably an inside joke - his initials are WEB
I like the old Tomb Raider games. Have a dedicated box just for playing them. Partly nostalgia, partly just for tinkering with them, trying out new custom levels, using downloaded savegames where I can jump to my favorite parts of the game. I'm talking TR1, TR2 & TR3. TR4 for the ability to create custom levels using the TR4 level editor. Modern Tomb Raider games bore me to death. I think the old TR games by Core Design are the best, and they're hackable too. Plenty of mods can be done, like changing textures, and some tools even allow you to customize Lara and give her new attire.
There are definitely cryptocurrencies out there that are scams, but big ones like ethereum and bitcoin for example are not. This is besides the point though.
Google:

Ukraine birth rate: 1.23 births per woman (2019)

Portugal birth rate: 1.42 births per woman (2019)

Ukraine-to-Portugal migration is just displacement of low-birth rate white people from one place to another.

If you get only young immigrants, it does help you, to the detriment of their place of origin, which is left with an older population. A lot of people who migrate for economic reasons and such are young or younger. 65-year-olds don't often get up and emigrate somewhere. But I don't suspect that's the case under war time evacuation though.
Dyneema aka cuban fiber is my favorite for lightweight bags, although it's not perfect.

Comes in many grades down to near tissue paper thin which is great for small stuff sacks. Obviously, while impressively strong, the thin grades are weaker than the thicker ones, but still amazing.

It doesn't like abrasion, so don't drag it across rocks, easy enough; just set your bag down instead of throwing and dragging it. "Well there are situations when you need to…" just avoid getting into those situations.

I found my mini first aid kit bag is wearing thin (it's made of the tissue paper thin white color) so for my next mini first aid kit bag I'll go up one level.

Don't use it for something where lack of breathability would cause problems… it's pretty impervious to moisture.

For the thinner grades, the thread holes can be a weak spot. Thin bags need to be handled a bit more gently. Thicker grades are brutishly strong.
It's been clear for years now that nuclear weapons are required to be a sovereign nation. Without enough nukes to be a real threat, the nuclear nations will simply take over when they feel it's worth it.
Basically every company has merch tho, albeit Berkshire's is decently priced, in-house (subsidiary) manufactured and prominently displayed.

Three first thematic examples I googled (conglomerate, railway, insurer).

https://www.microsoftmerchandise.com/Shop

https://www.cnboutique.com

https://uhg.corpmerchandise.com/default.aspx
The key distinction is that they own a lot of Apple stock, but not enough to call people who work at Apple their own employees.
If, like me, you had no idea what this was…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia
‘I’m panicking – where is my child?’ Conscript soldiers sent to fight Ukraine
Good point, and I can’t disagree. I have for a long time largely felt the same way about Europe and Japan re-militarizing on the theory that while it is good to have allies, it is better to have allies armed to the teeth and prepared to defend themselves too if our politics ever took a turn for the stupid and we indulged our isolationist tendencies again.
Probably wouldn't change much in crypto, those that can't use SWIFT would likely just switch to a similar payment system that China developed, CIPS (Cross-Border International Payments System).
Along Mexico’s Riviera Maya, Tourists, Drugs and Violence
Also

> > Game theory says “on three JUMP HIM!”
> Yes, sure. But what you're betting on here is that when Sweden says "on three JUMP HIM!", the rest will follow

Which is precisely what NATO provides
You surely meant Kearney, NE. NB in the North-American context stands for New Brunswick, Canada.
Open challenge: Getting an elected US politician to seriously propose a space heat sink as a solution to climate change.

There were some people seriously proposing big convection tubes that'd bootstrap columns of hot air, then passively pull surface air into the upper atmosphere. I can't find a link, but those wouldn't get to low earth orbit, so not a "space" technology.
https://archive.is/22B4o
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226022922/https://www.nytim...
and suffer the fate of krypton?

sorry, I couldn't read the article without solving the question of energy cycle in my mind. renewable sources like solar, wind are kind of taking energy from outside, so in case of geo-thermal, if we keep using that, there is nothing thats balancing the equation.
Not confirmed.

Both mobile internet (yota/megafon) and home internet (mosnet) can access twitter just fine without any VPN.

Probably a technical issue.

Also, netblocks seems to make false assumptions regarding censorship. Funny thing is that they seem to do it on purpose, as it is evident from the article that they are aware of Roskomnadzor.

Unless there is an order from RKN, claiming that each technical issue is an act of censorship is misinformation.

This is very important to remember as these issues will be more common right now, due to ru-net being under heavy load, caused by both heavy internal consumption and external DDoS attacks.
Magma is a "throw out a large portion of how 3GPP does things" approach.

As a primer, the 3GPP (which is primarily equipment vendors and large telcos - think ITU and standards like ATM) defines a bunch of different "splits" of functionality either in code or implementation, some of which are required, some optional, as in any "made by committee" standard where everyones pet use case is in some corner of the standard. An example document about this from a vendor about splits:

https://hub.radisys.com/5g-and-iot/exploring-functional-spli...

Magma (which is Facebook and more computer networking folks) basically says "Hey, what if we don't do that, and just make our own stack that works, but ignores all the 3gpp standards". The upside is that it does exactly what Facebook wants - wireless using 3GPP technologies without all the baggage. The downside is that some of that baggage is very useful for interoperability, and the splits exist for a reason.
As an American I hate NATO, that's a great way to start another World War.
extremely pleased this didn't happen in the UK

our ruling right wing party (arguably to the left of the Democrats) have been heavily pushing for everyone to get their 3rd jab now for months

the universal trust of the state run NHS ("socialised medicine") also having a vast, vast impact (certainly more than the politicians)
I am wondering if this automatically means Russia will switch off gas supplies? Understandably, how Europe will pay for Russian gas when SWIFT is switched off, and probably Russia won't be sending gas for free?
It is not blocked either
I don't follow, left good or left bad?
Most probably considerably less expensive than any other commercial option, though. And, as opposed to other commercial solutions - it runs on a PC with a SDR, and nothing else is needed.
Oddly this letter doesn’t have an overarching lesson. Some of the teaching points are that interest rates are low driving up valuations of everything, adjusted earnings including ebitda are suspect, don’t bet against America, float is under appreciated by gaap.
Don't they publish books, too?
You can try to convince the rest of the world to follow your efficient process. Until you succeed at that you need humans at the interface to other organizations.
That depends on whether the linked article has any validity (it doesn't).

> But when the rubber meets the road, Buffett and [JP] Morgan are basically the same person.

Word for word one of the least accurate articles I've ever seen linked on HN. Shallow on content and it gets nothing right, it's an impressive feat. It wasn't even well written, if it were at least it would be well written fiction and there might be something to enjoy in that fantasy aspect.

The character and personalities of Buffett and Morgan are very different and not "basically" the same. How they treated people - including workers - is dramatically different, that alone ends the article.

Rather comically - as one would have to be exceptionally ignorant of history, or a lying clown to miss by so much - the article is pretending to equate the barbarity of the late 19th century labor conflicts (a time during which Morgan thrived), with workers only getting a $2,000 signing bonus and small pay raises each year.

Only a fool would proclaim - on a thin argument at that - to judge a person's 90 year life on one matter. At numerous turns throughout his business career (including in regards to Berkshire Hathaway itself, the textile mills), Buffett delayed or avoided layoffs even when it's exactly what he should have done as a rational business move, missing out on large sums of money by not doing that.

Of course Buffett isn't a Socialist, which is a good thing.
Ok, with the sheer amount of red flags on the article, you chose that hill to die on?

If you can get it anywhere, you go get it near the sea, and dump your heat there.
It's also worth noting that this image was taken _yesterday_.
I see that Russia has carved out a nice straight line. A very thin line.

That line carries their supplies.

You're right that things move fast. Gas runs out fast too, when you're running your tanks 24/7. Sure would be a shame if Ukraine's air force blew up the fuel trucks that they're expecting to come refill them.

And you're also right that Ukraine may be losing badly. But that was the default assumption. Everything I've seen in the last day has made me rethink. If the Russians can't even knock out Ukraine's internet, can they really take and hold Kiev?
BRK is 45%+ AAPL. SPY is ~21% MAMAA.

https://www.cnbc.com/berkshire-hathaway-portfolio/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/holdings/

Seems like SPY is more diversified from “tech” than BRK, which would hardly accomplish the goal of balancing away from tech, unless that means going heavy on Apple compared to the other 4 in MAMAA.
I've heard of launching some large mirrors into orbit, or a bunch of small mirrors that can link together in orbit. Then you use them to reflect some sunlight off into space. I have no idea how practical this is. The bigger concern would be if something goes wrong, you need to make the mirrors deorbit quickly.
My initial thoughts were "sand mushroom" and "sand seaweed".
The fraud/contract mechanism that I remember seeing proposed years ago was always escrow (which BTC at least supports) and a third party arbiter.
Wordle Game
I don’t think enough Russians have enough self reflection to ask themselves the question.
Amazing context to just how big the universe is as we kill each other over a tiny part of a ball of rock and dirt.

Reminds of Carl Sagan’s, “Pale Blue Dot”

https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g
Could Elon get terminals in? Are there enough uplinks in the countries around Ukraine? Starlink doesn't just magically work everywhere, it relies on ground stations with uplinks (just a few of the Starlink sats have inter-satellite links and IIRC many of them have been moved to support Tonga). The terminals also requires about 300-600w dependent on the location so isn't easy to run with limited power or on batteries.
Was curious and pulled it down.

Why does git clone on this repo produce a local copy that is lacking content in any of the subdirectories of the NFs/ directory? Looks like a symbolic link issue?

More importantly, how does one fix the issue?

Or maybe what I am seeing is references to git submodules?

Edit: got it, yes, submodules. Instead of git clone <url>, the trick is to use:

git clone --recursive <url>