skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only possible "good" way for this to end is for Putin to fall or at least feel significant internal pressure forcing him to back down. Destroying the communications of all Russian citizens will not only make this impossible, but actively harm any chances of people siding with Ukraine and its friends/allies/backers over Putin.
It seems perfectly plausible to me that releasing video of the Pentagon being struck by terrorists would only serve to glorify the events that day. At the end of the day those agencies did their job and secured any footage. This gave the government the opportunity to decide what is released to the public and I think they made the right choice considering the promotional value of it to the terrorists.
> A conventional navigation system would tell the driver to turn right in 100 meters this is not very informative since drivers may not have an accurate sense of distance.

So, this is for the subpopulation of car drivers that have no accurate sense of distance? Mmh, okay.

> - follow the silver car to turn left

> - I can't see it

Not surprising. Colors are somewhat ambiguous, cultural and subjective. Greyish ("silver") is a very common color for a car. At this moment there were several car matching that description.

So, using color, at least in this case, is not accurate.

At least, with a distance, the information is somewhat well-defined.

> - okay follow the silver car in the leftmost lane

That's another silver car.

Wait, what's the benefit of mentioning that car, compared to saying "join the leftmost lane and follow it to turn left"? Or simply, "turn left".

Do they mean it is for drivers that can follow another car but not painted lanes?

What happens in low traffic when there's no other car to follow?

> turn left at the building with a billboard

There are several buildings with a billboard. One at around 100 meters, one at around 300 meters.

So, mentioning "a building with a billboard", at least in this case, is not accurate.

At least, with a distance, the information is somewhat well-defined.

> recent breakthroughs in object detection and recognition semantic segmentation motion analysis of dynamic objects and natural language processing technologies our system also makes use of high precision maps

"recent buzzword in buzzword and buzzword buzzword buzzword buzzword of buzzword and buzzword buzzword our system also makes use of buzzword".

> surveillance systems that understand complex scenes and interpret them for humans

Ah, this may be the real deal. No, thanks.
As terrible as oil spills are, gas spills are currently a much larger problem. They are just not as visible.

Once we get enough solar capacity to start thinking about carbon capture, maybe methane capture is the most interesting problem to start with.
Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fire
Agreed. Not sure if a space colony on Mars is worth the ROI from a scientific standpoint. Technologically we would learn a lot about how to sustain multi-planetary life.
Draft Report on AI Timelines
Curious - what is your use case?
FTSE All-World index was 28,21%. Slightly beating the market then.
> all political sides mainly use Twitter to dumb down discourse

It's true that politicians and their followers have dumbed down discourse (and to a stunning degree) but ultimately it's the consumer of that discourse who needs to change and Twitter is not standing in the way of that.

I don't "tweet" or follow Twitter much at all but I think it's fair to say that on any given day there is a lot of very useful, helpful, and positive banter going on there.
You know what... I think both can be true, and it's good for you to point out the hypocrisy. ACM has been around a long time and they've gotten some stuff right and missed a lot of stuff, but when they come out to talk about ethics, it's time to hold their feet to the fire.
Putin mentioned nuclear weapons specifically when publicly warning specifically against the type of interference you describe.

There is a nonzero chance that the endgame of the decision you hope for results in gigadeaths within ten weeks.

Calling such a bluff risks the entire human civilization.
If you read the chain, the clear political statement was by eadmund. But sticking to old terms or naming conventions (or switching to new ones) is often a political statement. It's a powerful way to do it. I mean, look at the people calling COVID-19 "the China virus". Or the people with strong opinions on "blacklist" vs "denylist"
And fiat money can be used to deal drugs.

I mean I don't defend crypto, the way things are going is that they'll be just as regulated and centralized as digital fiat is, and a lot of it is people getting rich, or hoping to - I mean I'm one of those people, still waiting for my handful of dogecoin to go up 10.000% so I can retire. But I also have a regular job, regular savings, and regular stonks because savings account interest is a joke.
I noticed that as well- “where’s the bit about self-driving”?
I was always annoyed by the apparent lack of consistency between flat and beveled elements in Win3.1, and liked 95 better for its relative homogeneity across the UI. Now I get why they did 3.1 that way! Thanks for explaining this.
This is a good summary comment. The original report is by Contra for Open Philanthropy.

TLDR:
10% chance of “transformative AI” by 2031, 50% chance by 2052, 80% by 2100.
Russian propaganda speculates Ukraine preparing to attack Russia with dirty bomb
"Working as a distribute ledger" is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It's a tool.

What is that tool useful for that isn't better served by other tools?

That is the question that has never been answered, at least not to my satisfaction.
That's just bullshit framing. The vaccines did not suddenly appear out of nowhere after the election, and "it can't be done" was not a widespread opinion up until then.
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Cut everything. This is probably among the less effective sanctions as its probably not affecting Putin supporters or anyone in power but more osint volunteers and similar.

But do cut off civilian exports to Russia such as airplane parts. Ten time zones is a big place once the Boeings and Airbuses (90%+ of fleets?) are grounded for maintenance.
I think it's cult like thinking to believe these drug companies had good reputations to begin with.

"""Pfizer has been a “habitual offender,” persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results. Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards."""

I use Comcast and Pfizer because theyre monoplies, not becaus of their reputation.

The FDA is fighting to release the data it used to authorize the vaccine and there's numerous former FDA leadership on Pfizer's board?

I think the Branch Covidians might literally believe anything an authority figure tells them. It's scary to see.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/#:....
You kidding? That's exactly what have been happening in Russia, or Belarus. When there is a larger crowd on the street that it supposed to be and it shows some signs that it's politically motivated, the police starts to catch people, like any random person. Because it doesn't matter who you put to jail. It made like that to send a signal so everyone sees that them could be next simply by going outside.
I agree with all of that. And the troop buildup had already happened back then. But the current invasion deeper into Ukraine hadn't.
I had the impression that a lot of change came with the 2015 SCOTUS ruling. Which is a little unsettling - a lot of change only comes if one side imposes their will by law.

I could be wrong though. I haven't looked closely at the timing.
Technically embedded in that case, as your drill line can be represented (often) by a single parameterized function.
wasn't the location of Bin Laden pinpointed in a similar way?
Yes it does. It's these ridiculous hyper-specific questions that make tech interviewing generally awful.

It'd be like me asking what type of lock Postgres 12 awards when dropping an index concurrently. Or how long it takes for an AWS SQS message to time out. These things don't matter at all during an interview for the vast majority of positions. What matters is figuring out if someone understands how to build software. Do they think through realistic problems well. Do they know the difference between memory and disk.

For example, if there is a conditional index that is frequently accessed, but is small, the O runtime doesn't matter because it's for sure going to be in memory. That's the type of thing that can naturally come up during an interview when you ask someone to, say, plan out a social API endpoint. But the question shouldn't start with the hyper specific because at best that tests recall ability and only after many, many questions have been asked. It doesn't test inventiveness, pragmatism, thoroughness, and attention to detail all of which are far more important than random trivia.
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Everyone has different experiences I suppose!
Russia has no power for full invasion of Ukrain let alone EU, so your view is false.
I do remember yesterday or the day before, NATO confirmed that cyberattacks fall into the category of attacks that require an Article 5 response. That is, Russia taking out Poland's internet would be considered an attack on NATO.

If Poland and Ukraine have intertwined backbones, that may have been the reason NATO felt compelled to make the announcement.
I think the only thing we will prove with a Martian colony is that humans can go extinct on two planets instead of one.
Just last year, NATO reaffirmed plans to let Ukraine to membership, after dropping the issue since 2008. This and increasing training and arms sales and donations to Ukraine played into the situation.

One has to ask, why are some NATO members intent on continued eastward expansion.
I think that boils down to whether concerns of Putin would be "more heard" if they were expressed by different person. From my point of view, some of these concerns were quite important for, let's say, viability of Russia as country with a pinch of independence.

I rephrase. If Russia wants some independence in its decisions from external influence(#), the concerns raised by Putin are valid whoever is the leader of Russia.

I think it is unfortunate if the acceptance of these concerns depends on the person expressing them. Moreso, I think it is unrealistic to expect that different person would express same concerns and get different results without exchange of some other important pieces.

In other words, it appears that NATO does not like Russia in its current form.

Of course I am glad to accept you apologies and, in turn, I would like to express mines. I know I can be excessively sarcastic in my tone and I would like to apologize for that.

(#) I came to think that politics are all about "whose influence we prefer this time of day". The right to choose is still important.
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It'd also hit Europe very hard. Natgas is like a third of European electricity generation and much of the heating. Europe has supplies for the winter but if the conflict is extended and the embargo maintained, millions of Europeans would be under heat rationing and rolling blackouts beyond 2022. It wouldn't be a humanitarian disaster with some planning but it's certainly not going to be popular, nor particularly good for the economy.
Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin
Wut. This is like stealing faberge eggs so that you can throw them through the window of a Shake Shack that you want to break into
Totally agree. I'm ready for the tides of fashion to turn once more and skeuomorphism to be the way again.
"Companies do bad things" is not the same claims as "companies are willing to do arbitrarily bad things without any limit or regard for consequences".

In most cases, our distrust of institutions is nonzero but finite. See https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-distrust
President Zelenskyy's speech to the Russian people
I don’t disagree, but I’ll refer you to this video from the show “Yes, prime minister” on the subject of salami tactics and nuclear deterrent:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4

Where is the red line?

I’ve just read in the news that Kadyrov’s Chechen forces of islamist murderers are going to be deploying to Ukraine to assist Russian forces. Should the West continue to wait and see?
Wow I've somehow completely missed the gradual disappearance of this. So many buttons now only have the hover effect.
OP is saying the existence of head means someone will use it and get the paper cut. It's true you just shouldn't use it (even when you know it's non-empty, write the throw yourself). But that's why it's an annoyance. Arguably it's even more of a problem, it's a "foot gun". It would be nice if the Prelude was just replaced, but that obviously presents a host of annoying challenges. Several alternative Preludes exist, but none appear to be becoming the new center of mass.
Coincidentally, I just added a link to a story from 2014 that was already celebrating the shift in attitudes.
Have you ever heard the phrase "money laundering"?
How does Walmart compare to that regarding purchases with ill-gotten cash?
Are you using a lot of the other filters too? I use Broadcast's background removal and the tracking zoom on a Quadro 4000 mobile and it remains mostly silent.
We have had thirty years of peace among the great powers. It’s been seventy years since armies last clashed in conventional, large-scale armored warfare on European soil - or perhaps anywhere.

Through these years humanity learned to expect perpetual and cold stalemate as an inevitable paradigm between Russia and the West.

Over these generations, humanity has on average become wealthier and more educated and more democratic - all correlates of robust peace between nations.

You’re not the only one surprised. I have little doubt that everyone, even the CIA analysts generating grim predictions before the invasion, was at some level unable to believe something like this was possible in 2022.

We can still hope to prove it was the absurd strategic mistake our intuition had hoped it was.
Everyone in Russia already knows how to use VPN, how do you think they access RuTracker? xD
No, many people were surprised. However, they weren't paying attention and the invasion has been obvious for months. Dec. 21st: https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527

Regarding Lukashenko, I have a contrarian theory that Lukashenko actually considers himself justified in rigging elections, authoritarianism, and Putin-alignment because being a Putin patsy dictator is preferable for the Belarusian people over democratic change that would result in the same fate for Belarus as Ukraine is experiencing. (his thoughts, not mine, although a weak case could be made)
Everything is inflated and has been bid up. Cryptos are certainly no exception, it's only gotten worse in the last two years with all the FOMO they fostered and salesman that gathered to profit off my disillusioned generation. To each their own, but I think the idea that TINA to crypto is plain silly, yet I know more people (am millennial) owning crypto than stocks, always with this notion that TINA. At least with stocks you're still entitled to legal ownership of cashflows, with cryptocurrencies today you merely get a late entrance ticket to a digital commodity that might have monetary value, but trades like just another risk-on asset.

The S&P500 will always look like a 90 degree angle on a long enough timeline, that's just how exponentials work. And it is by definition exponential as earnings compound, a quality cryptos do not possess. But it is ironic to hold that against it when 5-year charts in the crypto world look as they do.

Time will tell which way it resolves I guess.
Haha, thank goodness for that.

To your earlier point, "here are some card-carrying members of your tribe with a different opinion" definitely seems like a useful approach. If you can find those people, and they can maintain their card-carrying status after coming out of the closet with their contrarian opinion.
> so there is no actual information in the "error" value.

At least as a beginner, the information about which line the error occurred on would be helpful.
It's kind of funny how many people either don't know or pretend to not know about some obscure thing that happened in 1989.
> they generally don't capture backtraces

Backtraces with higher-order functions, lazyness, partial applications, and all the transformations going on (SKI, CPS, or whatever the GHC does), I don't think any kind of backtrace would be legible.
ohhh thanks, this is something I needed to know.
HIPAA doesn't apply as widely as most people think it does. It applies to "covered entities" which are health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers.

Labs doing forensic work for police departments are probably not covered entities.
It all depends on what Putin told his cronies. If the story was that they would be welcomed with open arms and instead they're welcomed with live ammo, functional AA and anti-tank weapons then that is a serious setback already, if the story was that it would be over by Friday night because they'd have control of aiports, media and the capital then clearly they have failed.

Putin's credibility is what is at stake here, not the absolute speed of the invasion. The double crossing at the negotiation table last week had only a few hours of shelf life, that gave them an advantage but that has already been eroded. The supply lines are quite long and the roads leading South are littered with abandoned columns of Russian vehicles. Already Chechen troops have been put into play.

My guess is that even though in an absolute sense this is developing very fast that on a relative scale it failed on several key objectives and that those failures are starting to add up.
Not a lot of details. Why only accord and cr-v? My Clarity reliably slams on the brakes if I pass over a certain spot on CA-24 in Oakland with the ACS engaged. And the FCWS freaks out at low speeds frequently. Almost certainly the same hardware that’s on an accord.
Why not? It's usually the lowest cost (in money, materiel and bloodshed) option for both sides, so it doesn't seem a bad first option. Of course it's unlikely to happen, so you should be ready to execute a plan B.
Double buffering prevents the user from seeing a half painted buffer. Instead of having the application draw directly to the screen buffer, the application draws to an offscreen buffer and the buffers are swapped only after drawing is finished. It's orthogonal to whether you do full or partial updates. (Although if you do partial updates then you're not really swapping the whole buffer, you have to do a blit to present instead and that can actually be less efficient than swapping if the swap path is really swapping, say if you're in fullscreen exclusive mode or if hardware overlays are in use). And it can only ever increase the time it takes updates to reach the screen, not decrease it, since it adds an extra step (swapping) compared to drawing directly on the front buffer.

Why would you draw the entire screen? Well, it instantly eliminates a whole class of bugs where partial updates don't match full updates. It eliminates a ton of really complex code you'd otherwise have to write to track the on-screen size of arbitrary changes separately from painting them, and skip things outside the dirty rectangle while painting. And it doesn't change your worst case performance, which is what you care about when trying to hit a fixed frame rate. Actually the worst case performance should be slightly better because you're not wasting time tracking changes when you have to paint the whole screen anyway.

So the question really is, why would you bother to implement partial updates? The only real reason would be to save power in scenarios where only a small part of the screen is changing. Which is important but not that related to responsiveness or animation smoothness, which again are about worst-case performance.

Even if you do want partial updates you may be better off simply special casing a few common things like blinking cursors or video playback than implementing a fully general change tracking solution.
To date, all systems composed of ones and zeros are not generally intelligent.
Author here. I agree with what you said. I wrote my first book with Packt back when I was a student and was like: "cool, a book deal!" Of course, I didn't know about the caveats :P. Yeah, there was very low (/no) quality control. In fact, they introduced a lot of typos during the layouting (apparently, they re-typed the equations by hand!).
However, despite all of that, the book was quite successful, so for the subsequent editions, they gave my book much more attention. Personally, I also got much more flexibility regarding deadlines, etc.

Long story short, yeah, there are definitely issues with quality control, and it's really up to the author to make sure that the content is correct and sound. For this particular book, I must say that I worked with a great layouter who paid a lot of attention to detail this time. Also, with their new layout, they no longer had to re-type the equations, and the typesetting looks so much better now. I am pretty happy with how it turned out this time :)
Sorry, I'm not suggesting that vaccines don't have a positive impact on hospitilzations/deaths for a person who has already had covid, just that its quite marginal, especially for younger populations. I'm reasonably young with young children who already had exposure, it concerned me that the messaging did not seem to be very nuanced regarding the relative risks by age and prior exposure. It very much felt like my children were going to be force vaccinated with a drug that would not benefit them. I do believe if people were not voicing their concerns we would have seen that come to pass. I struggle to see the conspiratorial thinking involved here.
If we compare crypto to stocks, then Bitcoin is Apple and Bitconnect is Theranos.
My only connection to the word "terrorist" until that day was from a James Bond game (I was also young). Its hard to believe now, but the idea of a deliberate attack on civilians was really not on most people's radar at all. I think that's why most people's reaction to the second plane was pure bewilderment. It wouldn't be like that now.
A good rundown of the history of Sibelius, Avid and Dorico is included in this video: https://youtu.be/dKx1wnXClcI
So the gist of the article is that instead of saying “in five hundred feet, turn right”, they’ve built a nav system that can say things like “follow the black car that is turning right at the tree”.

Sounds better than what we have now, which is dumb systems that often repeat stuff unnecessarily and annoyingly:
“In a quarter mile, turn right”
“In 500 feet, turn right”
“Turn right”

I want it to pick one and shut up unless I’m about to miss the turn:
“Turn right at the next light”
“Are you going to turn or what?”

This would be less annoying and also reduce the amount of assistance my wife feels compelled to provide.

Ed: s/nab/nav/g
"Several academics have critiqued the use of cultural racism to describe prejudices and discrimination on the basis of cultural difference. Those who reserve the term racism for biological racism for instance do not believe that cultural racism is a useful or appropriate concept."
But EU shall not worry because the US can readily supply it at even higher price.