skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody call the Lockpicking Lawyer to shove a paperclip in these "security standards". They're flimsy attempts to excuse still doing something that's a bad idea (programming safety critical software in respectively C and C++) by promising to try harder to achieve the impossible standards needed by humans programming these languages.

And I do mean flimsy. Here's a fun example from a random copy of the AUTOSAR guidelines I found online labelled 17-03. AUTOSAR says if I have two 8-bit signed integers and I add them, that might overflow which is bad. So, what if I simply check that they're both less than 100, no more overflow? "Correct" says the AUTOSAR guide this is apparently OK.

Huh. Signed 8-bit integer. 99 + 99 = -58. This is probably not what the person who purchased your car thought the answer was, I hope whatever accident you just caused isn't fatal.
How about the 2009 epidemiology study that estimates > 900,000 dead by 2009 with no end in sight? Quoting from a summary (easy to find the original):

> In 2009, the New York Academy of Sciences published a book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. A team of European scientists led by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to Russian Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, assembled over 5,000 research studies, most written in Russian and not previously published.

> The results were staggering. Yablokov’s team estimated that just in the first 20 years after the Chernobyl meltdown, some 986,000 deaths attributable to it occurred, many in parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The percent of children living in these areas considered in good health plunged from 80% to 20%. Rates of certain cancers soared, including childhood thyroid cancer in Ukraine (20 times higher) and Belarus (200 times higher). Rates of disease in covering many organs in the body all increased in areas closest to Chernobyl.

> Yablokov’s team indicated that the number of casualties would continue to grow, well after publication of the book.
I agree with all your points, but ironically what you said here is sort of another form of what Mearsheimer seems to advocate- carefully think things through to prevent provocations and escalations, based on a consideration of the concerns and fears of other involved parties.

That being said, while there may be many factors involved leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's still Russia invading Ukraine.
I feel the same. Very nice font!
Don't be confused: this is pure virtue signalling by Cogent.

If you think that limiting a population's access to imported goods can lead to regime change via "grassroots change", just look at the myriad of counterexamples: Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea.

The sanctions imposed by the governments against Russia make sense: they aim at crippling the state economy to prevent Russia from waging war and dismantling the power structure by pitting elites against each other.

But limiting access to information for ordinary people is a completely empty gesture that brings no value into the world.
Or HP-UX vaults grown out of Tru64.
> Putin certainly has not suddenly 'gone crazy'.

I didn't mean to imply that. In fact I would say that if a theory relies on someone "going crazy" to explain the war its probably bunk. Putin has decades of proving himself to be an intelligent player.

The Covid and China pivot is an interesting theory and it would make Mearshimer's argument a lot more compelling if he used current events to explain his theory.
EDIT: I misspoke saying that my strategy maximizes learning. I will explain.

I always apply all learnings to the next guess. That is, with each guess I use all the confirmed letters and put them in the confirmed positions. This DOES NOT maximize learning. That would require using all new letters every time until you know the word for sure. But this would reduce overall performance by eliminating luck in early rounds. So it's more correct to say my strategy balances between learning and serendipity.
There are always time limits that apply, which means you need to have a process to delete the relevant log entries (or the whole log) eventually.
It doesn't matter if it's a crazy idea or not. The US simply would not permit Canada to align with Russia and would use military force to do so, and certainly before Russia had the opportunity to station troops in Canada.

Would the Americans' actions be 'wrong' from Canada's point of view? Of course. Would they be 'right' from America's point of view? Absolutely! That's the point here. Both sides are simultaneously both right and wrong, from each other's perspectives.

Once again, it sucks, but it is how it is.
It will be interesting to see how this affects bot farms that seem to originate from there.
Russia to punish ‘fake’ war reports with 15 years in prison
(Not OP) I'd be interested in discourse on this memo - rather than flagging it, would it be possible to change the title to "Authorizing Transactions Involving Certain Blocked Entities Owned by Alisher Burhanovich Usmanov" and keeping it up for discussion?
I like that people are seeing this as 8 years from now when the original bet was from 2003. That there is still a reasonable chance that this could happen by 2030 and by that point was predicted 27 years in advanced. It will just add to the Carmack myth if it goes well.

Personally I'm not sure we will see it but there is nothing that jumps out and says that it is impossible at the same time. 8 years ago I would have said it was a no brainer that we would be there, nowadays not so much. It feels like with a lot of things, the last 10% takes 90% of the time.

I have no candle in the game and am an arm chair speculator at best, but it is fun to wonder.

Let just agree to reconvene on this in 8 years time. It isn't that far away.
> I try to remind myself to be especially careful about how I react

This is good advice and possibly a fault on my part. Coming from a deep frustration about not being able to make sense of current news, then finding out about Mearsheimer, it is very easy to see it as the truth.

> One of the flaws in his PoV is that none of it actually justifies Russia's behavior

I am not looking to find justifications. What happens in Ukraine is awful. There are no excuses.

What is the problem is that I (as Danish person) feel a great injustice has been seeded by the West and that no European politician now takes that responsibility upon them. On the contrary, they only repeat the narrative that this is the fault of Russia and, obviously, Putin.

That's probably what should be expected during times of war. Answering the "why?" is very difficult without the historical background and the interpretations from people like yourself.
The curse is crypto tokens and NFTs, not Bitcoin or proof-of-work. As we have seen, most of these tokens are just speculative schemes without connection to the underlying property.

On the contrary, Bitcoin, as a seamless Internet-native currency, can actually help making the Internet better, by allowing easier and better ways to monetize content instead of relying on advertising. In the coming years, we'll see more Bitcoin-based services popping up.
Strange article. A bunch of topics mushed together without any attempt to connect them. I'd call GPT-3 if not for the (2015).
Which, if done right could be very profitable
So maybe the title should be “treasury lift sanctions on Russian oligarch“ ? It’s a pretty difficult document to try to summarize in the limited characters of hacker news.
My take is that most people use VK instead of Facebook and Twitter isn't used much either. Sure, some people use it, but it's nowhere near the popularity of Telegram or Instagram.

Some friends, who lurk on Facebook more, do periodically share this or that post that seems to be bashing Russia, so no wonder they blocked Facebook. Same for Twitter. I think people might get more hurt by a ban of Instagram.

Another point is that people who care enough about free speech, democracy, etc. are more likely to be aware of and use VPN services, so they might still be able to access the content, but people who don't use VPN are unlikely to install it just to check some viral anti-regime post on Facebook, so maybe this is a move to prevent future growth of the audience reading news on Facebook.

Of course, take this all with a grain of salt, as I hardly use Facebook or Twitter, just Messenger sometimes. I'm mostly extrapolating from the usage by my friends and family.
Ecovative has a spinoff (https://myforestfoods.com/) that makes a mushroom based "bacon" that I'd like to try. Last I heard they were only selling it at a few stores in upstate New York. Anyone tried it?
sorry. can I fix the title and resubmit?

edit: title updated.
I think the anger is also understandable, there have been so many illegal wars, interventions and invasions that didn’t cause all these bans. If I were in Russia I’d probably be easily swept up by that anger. It’d be hard to see how it’s fair when this is happening to you, even if it feels deserved from an outside perspective.
I'd agree with you except I don't think most people I know even realized he was involved in that saga aside from those who are journalists or on Twitter. But it would be interesting to see polling data on it!
What gives US the right to take Ukraine from Ukraine? Thats where the story started
Source: https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2022&id=03-03-2022
So US company cutting access from Russia good

Russia cutting access to US company bad.

Weird
Anti-covid activity already went down right after Russian invasion to Ukraine
I don't know what's really going on, only at best an approximation because all the reports I have access to are biased in some way.

It's important to recognise this.
Not entirely convinced especially about the last part about hypocrisy. Past mistakes are not the reason to ignore this tragedy.
Usmanov is a crook who has evaded sanctions for quite a while. Curious why this administration is letting him off the hook.
Two spaces after the period looks better to my eye. One space looks cramped.

Plus, it's easier to find the end of a sentence visually.

If you go back to older typeset documents - Ben Franklin's, say - you'll usually see more space at the end of sentences.

(I've studied typography and I've hand-set type. I think it's a design choice.)
Ah, probably from the same people who think what the best way to prevent teenage pregnancies and STDs is to practice abstinence. As we know that works well too.
True story:

https://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Roy-Medvedev/dp/1585675024

Pag 62
One is a one way propaganda TV channel and the others are ways to communicate. Same can't be said.
> How many L5 cars are going to be available in my area on a popular holiday travel weekend that have a roof rack for kayaks and a 7 pin trailer connector and electric brake controller for my camper?

Weekend reservations. Just like people do with kayaks today.

> Not to mention giving up the other customizations I enjoy with my current vehicle - removed rear seats for more space/less weight, dash cam, winter tires, etc.

None of this is necessary with robotaxis. You have way more flexibility in terms of space. You won’t need a dashcam. Weight and tires won’t make a difference to the rider.
Horrible disease. It's interesting that Stephen Hawking suffered from it, yet he lived a long life.
It should also squirt liquid oxygen in space to move in directions
Flutter uses Skia, which is also the actual 2D graphics implementation behind canvas functionality in Chrome and possibly in Firefox and Safari IIRC.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of what you're flaming. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times in the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms (2018) [video]
And I say 2050 would be interesting, but 2030 isn't worth the post.

That's the beauty of it :)
A good joke, thank you. That sort of satire has a noble history, of course:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail#Etymology
I think he was suggesting that the technology exists (and I confirm) not necessarily that all of your tele-coworkers are utilizing that technology.
> I think the anger is also understandable, there have been so many illegal wars, interventions and invasions that didn’t cause all these bans.

"But mom, they got to do crime, why can't I do crime?"

Nobody gets to do crime.
Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer in my current role.

Before I set my linkedin status to "open to work" I would get at least one cold one per day, every day. Ignored every single one of them. Amazon started emailing me once every week like clockwork, a different recruiter and team each time somehow.

Now that I've changed the linkedin status it's more like 3 per day consistently. I may reply to like 2 of those per week.

In my work email I'll maybe get 1 random cold email a week from either a recruiter looking to sell a candidate to us, or a company trying to sell us their thing. I ignore them since they're usually not at all overlapping with our field or desires, in the rare chance that the recruiter may be relevant I'll forward it to a manager where it'll disappear in to a void.
Version number hangups are indeed a problem, I don’t mean to suggest my organization has escaped them. But if you can wade through those successfully, the technical solution itself often does make sense.
is cuda usable under wsl now?
Original title: Why is the U.S. lifting sanctions on one specific Russian oligarch? [pdf] (treasury.gov)

Changing the title to that of the original document.
New engines are however made en masse out of alu which expands more than iron/steel. The argument that driving reduces wear makes little sense to me since whatever you do outside of sitting in neutral (fast idling if need be/not already programmed into the ECU) is increasing stress on the components that are not (optimally) lubricated and at a tighter than optimal clearance.
Then again manufacturers know people can't even wait 30 seconds so engines are designed with that stress in mind so it's not the end of the world.
I wonder if a day will ever come when a "X major site banned in the USA" headline crosses HN for speech reasons. We've been surprisingly tolerant of a lot of nonsense from a top-down perspective. The closest we get is a grassroots campaign to get Joe Rogan off Spotify.
As far as I'm aware, there's nothing in either the WebAuthN or the FIDO/CTAP specifications forbidding back-up-able (i.e. clonable) credentials.

Apple is even explicitly planning to offer something like this for their platform authenticator implementation on iOS and macOS, although I'm not sure it's been finalized whether and how that fact will be exposed to applications.

I'm not sure either is a good idea though, to be honest: The line between enabling credential/authenticator backups and enabling "credential skimming" is very fine.
Has this ever worked?
Thanks, that does make some sense. 2013 and flash made enough sense, I was wondering how old this article was when it was still talking about Window XP legacy support (which ended in.. .2014,5 at the latest?). .

>These sites are rarely ever responsive. If you're lucky, there's a mobile version that works based on user agent sniffing, and often suffers from feature parity issues.

It does suck, but responsive design as a paradigm didn't really exist in the mid 2000's , even in the west (and as the article noted, tech takes time to cross the language barrier). These were the days where you had two web domains with one specifically designed for mobile and one for desktop. But I'm not quite sure how those pre-smartphone mobile sites scale to today's smartphone/tablet screens. Probably not well.
When developer productivity come before sysadims that is when security goes south, as history has proven on desktop systems.
It is necessary to let my internal combustion van warm up for at least a minute on a cold day, otherwise the steering and brakes feel heavy to me. Plus, I don’t like to think of the damage being done to the engine cylinders if I drive without letting the oil warm up. And it takes many seconds just to start.

Either way, it is not my experience that you can drive a combusting car “seconds” after ignition.
Don't know how it's in your area but i would recommend a gym. I had a surprising amount of pleasant conversations between and during sets.
Stuff from casual conversations to philosophical debates.
EA was just ahead of the time with “you have to wait twelve hours until ‘the car is repaired’... or you could pay us money”.
I think RT was literally shut down (with people laid off) by Russia... sooo yeah.

I saw a thing about it on Reddit earlier today/yesterday (seemed to be about the Russian channel?), and this[1] seems to be about the American wing.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/russia-backed-cable-news-sta...
It is in fact trivial to compost cardboard at home! I consider cardboard a valuable resource around the garden and use it for a variety of soil building related applications.
I'm not sure it's related, in my internet neighborhood covid generally getting way less attention than before the invasion
It's also likely they blocked it because then non-state approved opinions about war can circulate more easily. They already shut down those few more free media that were left so it makes sense that they would crack down on alternative platforms too.
I get multiple per day sometimes. Definitely 3-4 a week.

It's all software vendors or consulting companies or recruiters trying to hit me up and win our company's business by pitching how they can staff me with resources or provide some service we don't need.

I just ignore them to be honest. I'm swamped with work as it is, juggling multiple projects, and most of them offer things we're not interested in.

The worst is when I get calls on my phone from rando sales people. IDK how they got my number.

Basically a 0% chance I'd respond to any of those cold outreaches be it via email or phone.
From my understanding, the goal here is to prevent routing to Cogent which is a backbone provider. You can see a map here:

https://www.cogentco.com/en/network/network-map
Average russians don't use twitter or facebook, it's mostly the educated middle class.

Educated middle class people know what's going on, hate Putin and have been protesting it all since 2011, but there's only so much they can do against an armed police state that arrest kids and runs a torture convenor belt in prisons: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4045314/videos-putin-prisons-in...
I literally live in 2 countries and my family is spread across 5 or so. I've been to a dozen or so countries. Speak 2.5 languages (2 fluent, 1 poorly). My kid will have 2 nationalities when they're born and hopefully speak 3+ languages.

No, I feel that way because people need to stop enabling evil through inaction. If babushkas can happily protest this war and go to jail then so can every Russian. And what's the risk? The quicker Putin is deposed the less jail time...

But yes, I'm sure chilling on a beach in Thailand or visiting Africa will make me be OK with power hungry dictators killing civilians while citizens enable it...

I've got many friends who are refugees, from Congo, Kosovo, Syria as well as friends from Ukraine, Russia, Ethiopia, Egypt and many other hot spots. People enable it by not standing up and for once a country actually is (Ukraine).
But not everyone gets punished for it.
There would never be a mix of self driving car and human driving car.
There will be self driving cars on special self driving lanes.

Another option is a personalize self driving AI model per driver. I.e. most driving occur in repeated manner (same time and same routes), so training a self driving models for each driver routes, might solve most of the issues (I.e. let each driver train his/her car model).

However, Tesla business model rely on a driverless taxi which suppose to support all routes in all times.
(In response to original headline questioning why the US was removing a single oligarch from sanctions.)

It isn't. The license applies to majority Usmanov-owned entities that aren't otherwise explicitly sanctioned; Usmanov himself is still sanctioned, as are other entities tied to him.

It’s still weird, though; I suspect to really understand it (absent a public explanation) would require going through a list of Usmanov-owned entities and the specific sanctions list to find which of the former aren't on the latter and thus are unblocked, and reasoning from there.
I'm going to link to a thread by a Belarusian today on twitter[0]. It sheds light on Belarus which is applicable to Russia.

Highly recommended read.

[0]: https://twitter.com/AlinaLeonovaSF/status/149945792856210227...
I have to say that the title is definitely “click baity” - I watched the video because I wondered what we were doing wrong. It is focused on how to improve AI when we run out of atom sized hardware. I don’t appreciate the title.
"I have absolutely no sympathy for any Russian"

You have no sympathy for people who will be beaten, jailed or worse for simply peacefully protesting the war their country is waging?
I'm siding with Jeff on this one, for the exact reason he states - the problem is massively underestimated. There are too many things that us creatures with brains take for granted that computers simply can't handle.
Are polls trustworthy either way at this point? People are getting jailed for showing up to protest at all. Answering ‘No’ or abstaining from participation just seems like you’re signing yourself up for a trip to the gulag.
Ukraine wants the same.
Isn't it strange that both wants the same?
I wouldn't rely on their aggregation. But, with a subscription, you can just read the magazines in the same format and layout as they are printed. No aggregation to get in the way.
> They will become "the new oil" in N years.

The existential problem with oil is climate change, not finite resources.
They should pick one: pay for it, OR fill the page with 50 shitty ads

You shouldn't have to deal with both
If it comes down to ambiguity, it will be on the minutiae of what "Level 5" (full autonomy / no human in the loop) actually means in practice. Because in the world we live in, all these vehicles will be networked regardless. The marginal cost of having a human available for whatever fallbacks are needed approaches zero, which means that even if L5 were technically achievable there's little value in actually deploying anything like that.

But for sure count me with Carmack. My car is already driving me around my western suburban environment without trouble; zero-intervention drives are the rule now, not the exception. And it's been a long, long time since I've had to intervene for anything reasonably interpretable as a "safety" concern (mostly it's about stuff like navigation decisions, or the car is being a jerk at a merge and I don't want to be honked at, or it's being too slow pulling into an intersection and there's a lot of traffic, etc...).

Don't be fooled by the memery regarding Tesla. There are 60k+ FSD beta cars on the roads now, all of them with eager drivers wanting to post interesting failures to youtube. If these things were genuinely having trouble, we'd know.

It's not "done" for sure (in particular a lot of tuning needs to be done still), but it's at an effective level 3 already at least in my areas. And some work with remote recovery interfaces (something that Tesla doesn't seem to be focusing on) would get it to L4 in the kind of constrained environments Waymo and Cruise are operating in reasonably quickly, IMHO.