skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how asians are suddenty white when it's conveinient to do so [0]. Don't like the stats? Simply tweak them untill it serves your true agenda.

Google did the same thing, by grouping whites and asians together in their diversity stats.

[0] https://www.asian-dawn.com/2020/11/17/school-district-catego...
By punishing and cutting off everyday Russians doesn't that increase anti-west support?
You are purposely conflating the temperature at which coffee should be made (~185), with the temperature at which coffee should be served (~160). Yes, some folks suggest they are drinking 175 degree coffee. Those folks are wrong.
It is one of several Breakthrough Initiatives [1] established by Julia and Yuri Milner. Breakthrough Starshot [2] aims to send a fleet of extremely small probes to Alpha Centauri in a flyby mission.

(Another initiative, Breakthrough Enceladus, would send a probe to the Saturn moon but I cannot find information about whether this is an active ongoing effort.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Initiatives

[2]: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3
> programming language for board games

Go onnnnn? :D
I really have a hard time believing that you have actually worked in a job that requires customer service. The way you frame your argument is divorced from the reality of these kinds of jobs.

This poster isn't doing bad customer service.i have no idea how you got that idea. What they're doing is stoping one bad customer from ruining other customer's experiences!

The customer is not always right.
The internet should remain a neutral communications platform. Once we start politicizing it the dream will die pretty quickly and we get segregated networks which don't interoperate or only though heavily policed gateways.
Independent sources say the Russian border will shut down in less than 48 hours
You're coming at it from the wrong angle. You're creating a solution in search of a problem. You don't even know if someone NEEDS this thing you're working on. A lucky few are successful in this manner, but most aren't, and for the ones that are... it's usually not their first rodeo.

Successful business make money because they create solutions for problems that customers can understand AND can agree are better off handled by someone else.

Get a full time job, learn about the businesses that your employer interacts with, and then learn to identify areas where you could solve problems for either company. Then try again.
TL;DR: It was the only way to get broadband downlink speeds over copper telephone lines.
Instead of pointing them to check a specific email or providing specific wiki link, would not it make more sense for letting them do "some work" in trying to find the resources on their own? Like one could say, "ohh I think you have it in your email or you can search it on internal wiki and let me know once you read everything if you still have any questions?"
Is it really so trivial? Water is diamagnetic. Salt water is conductive.

All I expect is a "yes we thought about it" in the form of measurements of ocean floor salt water magnetic permeability.

If the models prove too much they could always drop a magnetometer off a boat.
Same with the Deep Rock Galactic battle pass. You only spend in game currency, and if you don't collect all the battle pass items before the season ends, they will still be available in random loot chests that generate during missions afterwards
Does Ridley Scott get a list of the names of people who watch his films?
They have rockets, hundreds of aircraft, thousands of tanks and yet the advancement is so slow. Their logistics have failed and there is clearly no proper communication. Well, eventually you win which such a force.

Take a note that US came from overseas, yet they had superior logistics. They also advanced hunderds of kilometers in week inside Irak, Russia is still quite stuck close to thr borders. They just got their fist major city.
> I honestly don't see anything that's truly unique to ML here.

- The workloads are specific (lots of offline batch processing, accelerator powered offline stuff, then speed/power/resource constrained inference stuff)

- The hardware is specific (ML accelerators are for ML, you don't really use TPUs for anything else do you?)

- Debugging is specific (ML-specific tools like XLA)

- Labeling is specific (e.g. labeling audio, video, 3D points requires specific tooling)

If what you're saying is, "ML engineering sounds like engineering" that's obvious and was never a point in contention. OP's comment was "a couple of motivated engineers can make ML work" and my point is -- kind of, but at scale you need a lot of very specific things which are best done by specialized folks.

That there are billion dollar ML infra companies, as well as companies with ML infra teams that are hundreds of people, means that folks are finding it worthwhile to have, say, a team of folks who work on deploying nets efficiently and only that. Or a team of folks who only build labeling tools. Or a team of folks who only build model evaluation tools. My ramble was mainly to illustrate just how many sub-problems there are in ML and why ML infra is rightfully a big business -- there's a reason companies that use a lot of ML don't just have 2-3 randos building everything end-to-end for each model.

> The part that is described as "model training" in ML is just done manually by developers and expressed as iterations in engineering. I would therefore think that the skillset is very much transferable and much of the apparent novelty is just traditional software engineering and management practices hidden behind ML jargon.

Yeah ML engineering is engineering, so plenty of skills transfer between ML engineering <-> other engineering. But if you want to go from other engineering -> ML engineering, you do have to learn ML-specific things that I would not dismiss as "novelized software engineering" or just "jargon."
Lithuania. Area:65000km2. Some mentioned Chernobyl plant explosion - we had identical nuclear plant that has been decommissioned since. If the same would have happened here,more or less entire country would be exclusion zone even today
If they can still transfer them!
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/

Go to this tool and check to see if your name is coming up with any returns.
The fight is happening in Ukraine and what happens there is what is important. I don't care what is being posted / reported and what is not, I care about the people of Ukraine and that democracy will prevail.
Not sure why the title is about Grischuk specifically, Norway Chess banned all Russian players. Which sucks given that many of these players have spoken up against what Russia is doing. Seems like they're being penalized unnecessarily.
Considering running ADSL over wet string didn't work until the water was salted there's obvious EMF considerations at play.

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
> (I'd presume they learned from the US experience, where it was left to the courts to provide the "ok but there are obviously exceptions" relief valves to the Constitution.)

If so, they learned exactly the wrong lesson. It was wrong for the US courts to do that, but at least they were acting on their own and not claiming some justification in the text of the Constitution. It's far worse to have these exceptions undermining basic natural human rights written directly into the EU charter. The inclusion of Article 11 essentially makes the rest of the charter pointless—you have "guaranteed" legal rights, except when those in power decide that you don't, for what seem to them to be good reasons at the time. I doubt there is an example of any systematic infringement of rights throughout history which wasn't cast as being in support of "public safety" or "national security" or "protection of health or morals", or some variation or combination thereof.
I see it differently. At work, we have several bothersome but sorely needed issues that needs doing, but no one is volunteering to do them, because they mostly consist of loads of thankless work, that may drag on, and will distract you from tasks that earn easier praise. Eventually, one or more of us get sufficiently annoyed to clean up whatever the issue was, but that no one volunteered to work on it, does not mean they are not grateful someone eventually did. I have botb been the volunteer and the feetdragger at times, and have seen colleagues i appreciate in both roles too
Not having knowledge disseminated through your organization well is a huge issue at larger organizations. I left my last company because no one was on the same page. There was rapid turnover, new people come in and have no clue how things are supposed to be done. It got so bad that the company had all 400 members of the engineering department redo the new hire orientation for a week.

<shameless pitch>I created https://gainknowhow.com/software-companies.html to solve these issues by structuring documentation/skills as a tree. Currently, all documentation is stored in a flat data structure, which does not have knowledge of documentation dependencies. When documentation is structured as a tree, you know who to notify when their relevant skills change. I'm trying to solve this exact issue. I'd love your feedback on the idea</shameless pitch>
Wait, 40" @ 4k is exactly what I want. Where can I get one?
> I've worked under 40 hours a week and rarely worked overtime

That is exactly the slack in the system that makes the endeavor sustainable. There's no way to get quality software out of consistently drained engineers.

Trying to find some "balance" without hedging for the asymmetry inherent in the problem will lead you to burn out roughly half of the workforce, which has nonlinear (very superlinear) knock-on effects for the success of the remaining half.

If you burn out the top half of your workforce, the bottom half will suddenly bear twice the load and burn out that much faster.
Emailing HN moderators is the best way to reach (without loss of generality) dang
> it would certainly immensely hurt Russia’s strategic position to have their gas exports cut off.

Would it?

Surely a few days of gas exports aren't that important to their economy, just because they can average the losses over many many more days of gas exports.

Now europe has a reason to let russia win, and repair the pipeline. A few days without heating would damage europe (though I'm unsure how many days worth of gas europe has stored).

I guess I could see it hurting Russia, because they lose a valuable resource and the threat to cut it off, but I could also see it helping them.
Yes. Each bank provides an access point to the interbank network. Which is a fairly centralised service run collectively by the participating banks. There's one database (approximately) per bank. That holds your account figures, etc. Atomic transactions are used, so yes, the account is locked on both ends until the funds go through or the transaction fails.

In the early days (1980s, 90s) this all tended to crash on Black Friday and Boxing Day, taking the whole thing down for entire banks and, a few times, nationwide. Been a good 20 years since that happened regularly though.
I used to think this myself. I even got in trouble from my university professor when I complained about other students using our internal forum to ask simple googleable questions.

Now I think of it as a different style of knowledge seeking. In life, some people get answers themselves via physical artifacts and other people get answers by talking to more knowledgeable people. One involves more socialization than the other.

I think both styles are valid and have different pros and cons. I find it less annoying when I think about those interactions like this.
Sitting here mid-career, I suppose (maybe farther along than that—we'll see how the whole age discrimination thing works out in a couple years), I'm now convinced that the problem is doing the same thing week. After week. After week.

I think I'd be absolutely thrilled to be in this industry, still, if I wrote code... I dunno, 25-30 weeks per year, then did literally anything else the other weeks, including any kind of work that didn't involve staring at a screen.

It's doing the same thing almost all damn year that makes is such a grind.

I like working, actually. I hate doing the exact same work 48+ weeks per year. HATE it.
Another solution is “fire the bad customers”. You can’t do that in a literal restaurant while a party is eating, but in most businesses, there’s a slice of your customer base that isn’t profitable to serve, never will be, and when you find them rather than staffing up to serve them, consider sending them away.

If you can gift them to a competitor, you can double the win.
Yeah that really sucks.

It's understandable when the lines between state and individual are blurred - like with state sponsored doping of Olympic athletes, who are competing as part of a national organisation.

But when it's an individual whose nationality just happens to be Russian?

Seems more unfair, than just.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/world/europe/france-macro...

Is this not a major project? The article is very lacking in details, so it is hard to tell what it amounts to in terms of impact.
Nations no longer matter at all what remains are networks of interconnected multinational corporations. These networks are based and administrated by governments that exist solely to provide services to their corporate clients and represent their interests globally. USA vs China competition is a quaint and an obsolete notion. The world hasn't worked that way since the 1970s and the end of the Cold War marked the end of major nations being sovereign entities as capitalism prevailed.

EU is still paying Russian corporations for oil and natural gas and the existing pipelines keep running and will keep running as long as the Russian oil fields have supply. This is an essential input to EU based corporations especially manufacturing and heavy industry. Chinese corporations work closely with their American corporations using a single global financial system that's been around for over 75 years. These corporations compete fiercely in markets but their boards and officers are best friends and know each other by first name basis.

US/EU/UK are the maintainers of this global financial system and bear the costs of maintenance and regulation. This works for Chinese companies as China doesn't have to take the costs of maintenance and can enjoy the benefits for free. It's a gift from US/EU/UK to China and they appreciate it and love Dollars/Euros to buy nice mansions, yachts and other luxuries.

China and USA governments engage in political theatre to keep their people motivated to work and further corporate interests which benefit them mutually. War is very bad for business and the Chinese government especially Xi is very disappointed with Putin's stupid and reckless activities.
interesting. I Wonder what their numbers look like in different radix.

7-3 I found interesting because those are modulus complements in base 10
Seeing as this post is getting on HN, as a long term Caucasus resident, I'll take a moment to give some love for the publisher. OC Media are a fantastic outlet, that provide a home for top-notch journalists in a region where the wrong sort of reporting can get you into big trouble. Worth a follow, or a donation if you're feeling flush.
This sounds like throwing out the baby with the bath water. Zero tolerance is indistinguishable from intolerance.
Replying to myself…

I'd love to see Putin in a Ukrainian prison, but if the war could be ended with Putin moving to live a life of luxury with 200 servants on a beautiful tropical island, inaccessible to assassins… I'd say yes to that. At once. Sigh. So I can see why many wars ends without anyone being dragged in front of the ICC.
For those curious, Alexander Grischuk did put out a fairly strong statement of condemnation of the invasion: https://worldchess.com/news/all/alexander-grischuk-on-the-ru...

Pretty brave of him.
I think they made the correct decision here... These are the kind of foundational decisions that impact the direction of the internet as a whole. Starting a precedent for politicization is dangerous idea.

I support fighting propaganda with better more believable information. Censoring information is not the answer.
All those things were going to happen anyway.

I'm assuming Russia's incentives weren't to prevent them from happening altogether, but rather to position themselves in a way that would allow them to manoeuvre when they did happen.

The fact their actions have caused these to happen sooner is certainly relevant, but whether they "lost" or not to me is simply a matter of whether their actions have placed them in the above position of better manoeuverability or not.

Whether this is the case or not, no idea.

Also, "win" and "lose" are highly relative terms here.
what is the use of having a video call where you have hunders of people seen each other?? even with a 4k display you cannot display more than couple dozen people at time..

more the a couple dozen the videos get so small they are useless, at this point it is better just go audio..

usually you are only interested in the video from a couple of people and usually one at time.. and software we have today can already handle it with connections below 100mb..

i dont think you need that much for VR.. you probably can get good realistic vr with 1gb..

the last two are specific needs for specific fields, i hard say it is something that fall under consumers needs
"I don't even know if this is something people would want or pay for if I completed it."

This is the definition of finding product market fit. If you are building something you aren't sure people would buy, you're just gambling with your time.

Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns
Ask HN: Is TypeScript ready for serious and productive development?
Ask HN: Is Typescript ready for serious and productive development?
I'm dealing with a situation right now that is, IMO, simply unsustainable, in terms of number of living things vs. square footage of living space. I've got 7 humans and 3 animals living in 3 bedrooms / 1,634 square feet. 3 of us are working full-time remote. We can make it work, and we have been, but it isn't a healthy or viable long-term situation. Add on to that the fact that my parents are rapidly aging and dealing with declining physical and/or mental health and will likely be living with us in the next 3-5 years...

I know that there are plenty of people who are afraid of "looking poor" and who are buying McMansions that they simply don't need but that isn't the case for all of us...
In this case, it's not a matter of image formats, but simply a 404.

https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/raw/5e745c392772d150b41462...

Here's map4.png: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/map4.png

There doesn't seem to be a 5 or 6.
"You: If I put it in the wiki you would have said to put it in the group, and if I put it in the group you would have said I should have put it in the wiki."

I learned this the hard way in a corporate setting. If someone's going to damn me for doing (A) and doing (not A) then they're really just attacking me.

OP's point is, tersely, a good faith coworker needs to do a bare minimum of work to show genuine interest outside of hostility. That's definitely a thing, too - few situations get to be one sided. Further, the example she gave sounds like a coworker who only makes demands or criticisms. When it's 100% demands or criticisms then it's actively destructive. This I learned from family who claim to "just be contrarians".
It looks very visually similar to Oracle of Ages/Seasons and lot less like Minish Cap or A Link to the Past. There's definitely a much more limited color palette per sprite than what the GBA games typically do.
I get the sarcasm, but...why does it have to be that way? For decades, high-school kids kept their rifles in the trunk, and fewer students got shot than now.
Unpopular opinion?

The military. "I feared for my life" just doesn’t have the same ring to them.
Most of these seem reasonable, but why do you suggest that he lie to his ISP by telling them his router is broken instead of buying a new one himself? You are casually suggesting he commit fraud to save $100. What are you thinking?
You have misunderstood the article. The problem wasn't the lack of napkins, the lack of ketchup or a problem with the food. The problem is with the customer. Even if you got all of those things correct, they would be upset with some other aspect of their service. If you had brought everything out ahead of time they would have complained "Why have you put so many things on my table? I never asked for any of this!"

This isn't a staffing issue.
not necessarily. only if you think in terms of cou ting does your sense make priority. if I were to think in terms of multiplication - circles are more useful for a lot things.
Nah, working with the public enough shows you some people are never satisfied. The "Correct business response" may be to completely cut people like that. Your definition seems to rotate around your personal morality rather than profit motives or even other people's wants and needs.
Did seeing the misery of war trigger Americans to against their government during Afghanistan/Iraq?

The only losses televised were American soldiers. People are nationalistic to the bone.

> The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table.

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

> About 241,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone since 2001. More than 71,000 of those killed have been civilians.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af...
But, there is a connection between the two. Even his own children have admitted they get most all of their money from Russia (for example).
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In the domain of Mixed Martial Arts there's a discussion over whether to permit Russian nationals to have fights, even though the majority of Russian nationals in MMA are from colonized ethnic groups who live in the southern Russian republics, e.g. Chechnya, Dagestan, etc. Amateur wrestling would be completely fucked if it were to conceive and follow through on such a ban given the hegemony in amateur wrestling these southern Russian republics hold there, particularly Dagestan.