skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens also in catalonia (Spain) where I'm from.

Internet has made the breach greater, we might have great catalan poets from centuries ago, and a rich culture and history, but no youtuber will stream in catalan when in spanish they reach a 100x audience for example...

I'm glad I learnt it as my mother tongue though, being bilingual makes both learning other languages easier, and latin is like the wildcard of word roots for all of 'em (I can speak well English, Spanish, Catalan, and some French)

YMMV
Thanks, thats informative.

It would be even more informative to single out crimea and donbass as separate entities in the survey - the views there are probably quite peculiar.
> 4 meetings just to get a price!

This is often a sign the vendor doesn't know how to price their product. It sounds to me like they didn't have any index of where the lines really were - one line is price where the customer building it themselves ins the option. The other is the price too low we can't do the deal line. They were probably afraid to talk price because they were afraid to put the first number on the table.

> We ended up building the software we needed in house for 25% of what it would have cost to license theirs.

Not surprising. I've been in way too many of these kinds of meetings, both buying and selling. Now when I buy, I flat-out tell the sales rep:

"We make software. One of your competitors is us building what you have. Give us a price that makes that option unattractive."
I am of the same mind, I found value in pairing on small tasks, or maybe a code review/training, but generally I find it promotes 2 negative concepts.

1. That all developers can do/produce the same results.

2. That some people become dependent on others to write code.

#1 fuels the management misconception that hiring or moving devs will result in more work getting done.

#2 makes some individuals short change the PR review process. (I.E I was there when it was written, or I trust that pair thought through all the steps.

I think it’s great in a lot of situations, where something new is being started or for KTing, but as a daily practice it reminds me of those old school group projects where 1 person does all the work and the other gets the credit.
The Russians can't make more gear in a short period of time, and it comes at great cost. Remember one armoured unit has support, training, soldiers as well.

In the 'long game' of attrition warfare, the West would actually win, that is actually the State Dept. Assessment - that Russia 'wins' in Ukraine but is ground down over 15-20 years and eventually loses.

Meanwhile, the US and West have more advanced, much more wealthy economies, and can send relatively cheap weapons to help grind Russia down.

Frankly, if we could have a 'super weapon' it would be something that allows something resembling 'real' information into Russia so at very least regular Russians can see a bit of reality.
Just install the SDK when installing Visual Studio. I don’t see why you can’t have an embedded web view as long as you love Internet Explorer… it’s easier to just create a native UI though and call an API.
Yeah I don't fault people for weighing all of the facts and coming down on one side or the other. But if someone doesn't see that there is a lot of "gray areas", then they have not weighed the facts beyond their bubble. That was my only point.
Where would IBM be if they openaourced their entire mainframe ecosystem and entire Unix ecosystem? Genuine question.
Functions have to resolve to one point in the output domain, even if that point is multi-dim.

Here, consider `y_houseprice = price(house data, economic data, etc.)`. There isnt a unique house price in terms of those variables. The real world observes many such prices for the same value of those variables.

An overly mathematical view of the world has obscured the scientific method from our thinking here. Generally, there arent actually functions from X to Y, and there arent actually stable XY distributions over time.

The world, as measured, is basically always ambigouous and discontinuous. Data, as measurement, isnt the foundation of our theory-building. We build theories by changing the world; data comes in as a guiding light to our theory building, not as the basis.

..wwhich is our direct causal interactions with our environment, ie., its the actual stuff of our bodies and the stuff of the world as we change it
Fair enough, the issue with these type of things is that there’s not enough data because it’s quite a sensitive topic. Another issue is that we might be talking about different things without realizing it. It’s my experience that it happens a lit with this topic.
Yes. But now they can mint their own coins and be custodians of those coins. It’s the easiest way to manage risks.
at which point, a fourier transform is a hell of a lot cheaper ;)
Putin's Invasion of Ukraine ¦ Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer
Not true.

I am bemoaning the fact that there IS at least one precision nuke that would single-handedly hit 30% of Russia’s GDP, cause direct pain to Russia’s oligarchs and elites, and immediate decimate Putin’s war machine - all while doing much less damage to ordinary Russians than broad indiscriminate economic sanctions.

I am bemoaning the fact that this tactical nuke we could drop on Russia’s oil & gas sector is clear and obvious to most everyone involved but would result in economic and political blowback for the west so everyone is burying their head in the sand and pretending the option to stop buying oil from authoritarians who attack our allies doesn’t exist.

I have yet to hear a good argument for why broad economic sanctions against an entire nation and its people are more targeted or more effective than just not buying oil or gas from Russia’s elites and stop directly subsidizing Putin’s war machine.

Perhaps someone here can enlighten me?
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these are official government statistics, am I right?
So do you think Russia annexing Crimea in 2014 happened in a vacuum, or do you think it was a response to the Ukrainian coup which Russia claims was partially financed and fomented by the CIA in order to install a pro-NATO puppet regime on Russia's border?
This is really nice! Congratulations! I am surprised that this isn't more famous.

One comment though: please have your video in Full HD format rather than 4k. Most people don't use 4K and so it is difficult to see your product demo.

And yes, I agree with you completely. There is really no need to use all of the fancy frameworks - plain vanilla js can give you quite a bit of power to build products like the one you made.
Thanks. I can't reproduce the issue on Chrome or Firefox (98), but I've just pushed an update that changes "aspect-ratio: 1/1", to "aspect-ratio: 1 / 1". Perhaps I needed those spaces.

Let me know if that solves it. :)

Edit: Looks like Firefox only got support for aspect-ratio in version 89, is your browser up to date?
Most of the road cleaning vehicles in Europe have the driver on the right side of the car, but that is a clear exception.
Good. Hopefully other providers follow suit, and hopefully China is next.
Interesting thoughts, I’ll think about this. I don’t have a well thought out response to it at the moment.
> Did the media made that one also?

Yes, there are transcripts[1] that make clear that the media were not being honest. Let's take the very first line of the link you've provided:

> President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included “some very fine people,”

He did no such thing:

> THE PRESIDENT: Those people — all of those people –excuse me, I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee.

So before he makes the "fine people on both sides" comment he makes clear - several times, in fact - that there were not only alt-left and alt-right at that event but others who were either protesting the statues or defending them that were "ordinary" people i.e. fine people.

Again, how did you not know this? You are so active politically, if we take your numerous HN submissions into account, that I find it hard to believe you have missed this.

[1] https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/full-transcript-of-trum...
And this isn't a war or invasion just an "special military operation".
Why can’t they? They threw out the commies in ‘91.
Ukraine Weapons Tracker
Some companies do a strict all-day XP style pairing session, where a paired team works on a synced schedule (clock-in/clock-out/meetings/lunch). Pivotal Labs in particular follows this model.
Cost/performance, time to market, IDE, ability for others to understand
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Foreign students report discrimination at Ukraine’s borders
Agreed. It would be ideal if the Russian military refused to escalate further.
I see it as similar to a RPi - great for POC or smaller deployments, especially if you have different requirements on different projects because you can share the same knowledge base, but for a large deployment you'd probably invest the time and money into sourcing something more specific.

I've had lots of half-baked ideas for things to do around the house that this would be very cool for, since I'm not 100% sure what functionality (and therefore hardware) I'll really need.
And no, I am not saying everything on RT is 100% objective and unbiased.

Especially with programs as Crosstalk you can notice and certain bias from its host. But even that bias is not worse than what appears to be standard with Western propaganda.

Plus, even Crosstalk has guests who are much more objective than the show itself. For example, Daniel Lazare.

Then, you have Going Underground, which does question the Russian narrative to a very good and surprising extent. You wouldn't have that on Western TV.

No offence, but I politely ask you not to make such broad statements (which just repeat the official Western propaganda) if you do not really have experience with the program.

I'd recommend to check out https://rumble.com/c/RTNews and focus on the programs. The Donbass reports in-between are interesting, but certainly also propagate a narrative and appeal to your emotional side.
It’s non-optimal advice because PyTorch is not the only library that runs into problems like this, because Python does not follow semver. You should pin to an X.Y release, and let .Z releases update automatically (which is where your security updates fall)
I'm probably not the best person to say what I'm about to say.

In my university days, I took a graduate-level class called Software Foundations.

We used Haskell to learn and implement type systems and a few other things.

At the time I had no idea why it has "foundation" in the course title, because to me all of that was advanced stuff.

Eventually, I had my moment of enlightenment, and it all became clear to me. These where infact theoretical underpinnings of software.

Till then, I've only seen computation from the perspective of electricity->bits->circuits->...->assembly->the C language (and everything that comes above it).

Over there, the "foundation" was bits and electronics using which you can make logic gates, develop the arithmetic & logic unit (ALU) and control unit, and build everything on top.

On the other hand, with Lambda calculus, Church numerals etc I was approaching computation from the other direction — the mathematical perspective. It's also foundational, in that you can build up everything that you need — ALU and control unit — using Lambda calculus.

Indeed it was eerie the first time I added on paper two Church numerals using Lamba calculus and the correct result popped out. Even though I knew the theory was sound — and I know this is a dumb thing to say — it was still so cool to see it work in practice.
Pope Francis says Ukraine conflict is not a 'military operation but a war'
I'm ok with it either way as it usually acts as a good filter. If you don't have screenshots or prices listed I know the product is hideous AND expensive.

The best vendor product in my industry has an easily accessible website with PDF & YouTube videos on how to use all features. All documentation is easy to peruse, it's used by several college textbooks, and their company is small enough to where I can call up the lead devs and get a bug patch or just chat when needed. It is also much cheaper than the majority of the competition. I was an expert in using the product before I ever used it. They also have trial licenses for all feature add-ons and will extend them if you had a busy month and didn't get the chance to use it. I once arranged for a trial license, tested out the feature, and built a full process around it as a "this is a workable solution to one of our problems for management". They even left me a nice and simple quote. Two years later we got involved with a project that absolutely needed that add-on and I just forwarded management an email showing that I tested it worked on our systems as advertised and even had the quote ready so we knew roughly how much it would cost (the quote had expired, but we knew it would be close).
In my eyes, that's pretty close to what a Russian speaking person might sometimes be comfortable with.

Obviously, if you don't speak the language or don't want said translations, you can also use the english version of the maps, for example: https://yandex.com/maps/90/san-francisco/?ll=-122.431516%2C3...

In the non-Russian variety of the maps there is also a little dropdown in the lower right which seems to let you switch between the variations - it not being there in the Russian maps feels like a UX shortcoming though.

Also, i think that they could have borrowed the double naming for streets as well, instead of just cities, but i guess they didn't manage to find a good way to display data like that.

Zoomed out example of both names visible: https://yandex.ru/maps/90/san-francisco/?ll=-122.391120%2C37...
>have almost 100GB of cached data and it's slow without it

They dont cache the the generated pages, but they do cache the common backend Data and some keys required for DB. They are used more like an In-Memory DB rather than Cache.

Some of those cache are not longer required once they moved to .Net Core 6.0. But Nick went to work for Microsoft once StackOverflow were sold to some PE. So we may never get any updated figures.
Orwell brother was one of the funding members of the UN
> There is often no function to find in solving a problem, ie., there is no mapping from ImageSpace -> DogCatSpace. Ie., most things are genuine ambiguitites --- a stick in a water appears bent, indistinguishably from an actually bent stick in some other transparent fluid.

That's tangential imo. There is a function that maps from image space to dog/cat/don't know space. A sentient being that get the "don't know" can get more info to resolve the ambiguity (or rephrase the question). A universal function approximator can still make itself useful even if all it can do it say it doesn't know. This is a question of problem setup.

NNs are bad at extrapolating, including e.g. trivially to periodic functions. This is a limitation if you thought they could do that, but again a question of understanding what they do.

Hype, as you say, leads some people to believe NNs are magic, leading to mismatched expectation. A universal interpolate-only function approximator is still pretty useful though, just maybe disappointing if you understood that to imply sentience
I did hear ot, I have it and its a dead birth. Not worth the investment. Instead of classic FM broadcast DAB+ might be aside a while next to FM and.then give way to internet radio.
IEM manafacturer includes non-operational drivers in their products
Original source: https://charliereese.ca/y-combinator-top-50-software-startup...

Lots of Ruby and Python. What I get from that is that being able to put up a CRUD type app in a hurry is a requirement for most of these companies, and frameworks like Rails and Django make it easy to do so.
Are you replying to the correct comment? I never claimed anything that would be exclusive to C. What i wrote applies equally to something like, e.g., most Pascal dialects that are around the same "level" as C.
I meant it to mean, indeed in a vague way, what we call human intelligence or beyond; the parent says to make a neural network that can predict what someone will think/feel in the future, which seems the same or at least indistinguishable from the subject’s human intelligence as it will result in the same outputs. So to create the network implied by the parent, we would have to a) be able to make networks of that (unknown) complexity and b) ‘copy’ , or rather make it learn from the outputs, the current ‘state’ of the subject’s brain in it. That is incredibly far removed from anything cutting edge we know how to do. If it is at all possible.

So I was just surprised by their use of language as it seems to imply parent thought we would be closer to or there already with our developments of AI tech.
Romania used to build cheap tractors and sell it to many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The quality was not great, but as the buyers said: a 14 year kid can fix this on the side of the road.

The problem with John Deere is that you cannot fix almost anything without a very expensive trip to a dealer or authorized workshop. Their explanation is that this is the only way to ensure quality (read: "rip off") repair. I don't know in detail what can be user replaceable, but probably not a lot more than the tires.

Compared to auto repairs where most shops can fix almost any car, John Deere has a monopoly on repairing their tractors; not a good one.

Think about a PC with all custom parts that only the manufacturer can build and sell. You would not buy such a thing, unless that would be the most common one you can find, over 50% of the market.
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Did we work together :) ?
Let’s just call it as it is - Putin is a product of Russian culture and Russian society.

In retrospect we should have ground the Russian military to dust after ‘91. No aid without nuclear disarmament and population reeducation.

Hopefully when the dust settles this time, we don’t make the same mistakes.
That's foreshadowing the utter disaster and waste of resources (for countries that could ill afford such wastage) that OLPC ended up being.

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/09/09/why-did-one-laptop-per-...

Once the laptop finally started arriving in the developing world, its impact was minimal. We think. No one is doing much research on their impact on education; discussions are largely theoretical. This we do know: OLPC didn’t provide tech support for the machines, or training in how to incorporate them into education. Teachers didn’t understand how to use the laptops in their lessons; some resented them. Kids like the laptops, but they don’t actually seem to help them learn.

It’s time to call a spade a spade. OLPC was a failure. …

As Shaikh suggests, OLPC is a classic case of a development program more tailored to the tastes and interests of its funders, than the needs of the people it was supposed to help. Back to the drawing board.
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The two weeks when Covid brought the planet to a standstill
That worked well for North Korea.
Blinking an LED with an Original 1980S Intel 8051 Microcontroller
Same here, Apple often auto correct my word into something else, or failed to even suggest the correct word. I had to use Google to get a correct spelling. ( I am not sure if I am alone in this sometimes I dont think I can spell any more. )
Do you have any details on that? From what I've seen they just say it's a normal SFU architecture.
Experiments are data collection. It's the iinput to the thinking process.
That’s a pretty useless “proof” which gives no insight into how neural networks learn in practice. The author takes a sigmoid neuron, tweaks its parameters to the extreme so that it looks like a step function, then concludes that since a linear combination of step functions can approximate anything, so do neural networks. Bravo.
A man offering a bounty for Putin
Its hard to convince management that them adapting devops means they actually have to follow devops principles.

Too many times Ive seen companies throwing this buzzword around without understanding how much work is actually required to have real devops.
I also didn't believe it until I met someone making that money and then I got hired for a similar amount, so now my whole perspective has changed from "$100-$200k jobs are a myth" to "oh now I make that so it's real, so now $500K+ jobs are a myth"!

But ofc I know better and I know that's a personal bias (specially when I see this same bias stronger in my friends with who I grew up with) so now my question is "if this is real how can I be one of those people making $500k+?", even if it's just a mental exercise -because I'm not willing to move to the US-.

Edit: ofc the best jobs are not in Stackoverflow, if you try to buy a new ferrari you don't go to ebay.com, so the best jobs are only found mouth-to-mouth, in company-specific pages (normally without price attached), or in more niche places like Ask HN as my fellow commenter suggested: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ or look at what Uber has to say: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
Toasters with a bagel setting concentrate the heat on the cut side of the bagel (which is presumed to be the inside), a toaster oven can do this even better by setting at toast to heat up, then using the broil setting for the actual toaster.

This gets three textures going: the crump stays chewy and dense, the crust isn't burned (very important if it has any allium topping, fairly important for seeds, still not great for plain), and a nice crumbly toast layer.

Which holds up under schmear and butter excellently. I agree that a fresh bagel should be tasty direct from the bag, but I'm still going to be eating them with toppings for the most part.
followup: https://raccoon.onyxbits.de/blog/reactions-bugreport-free-su...
This is a long written argument with some animations, not a visual proof.
As a disclaimer, Lisp's ML background is different ML than what's mainstream today.
How are the Russian oligarchs robbing Russian citizens of the wealth they otherwise could have?

I didn’t read that from OP’s post and I don’t understand what exactly you are claiming here.

Do Russian oligarchs steal from the bank accounts of ordinary Russians or is there another mechanism of theft?
This is why we work with our tools though, no? A NN can decide where the ambiguities lie in the data set and communicate that to the data scientists who are working with it, who can then provide data to help disambiguate the data.
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Universality shows potential, not optimality. the article covers this.
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I think that's the way to treat all devices.
I guess the clinical relevance depends on how well you can tailor treatment based on it. AFAIK if docs don't know a) the specific bug and [1] b) its antibiotic resistance and c) the patient is seriously or potentially going to be seriously ill they start out with broad spectrum anyway.[2]

Since the fingerprint technique doesn't tell you antibiotic resistance the real benefit is probably identifying rare bugs early and to some degree avoiding broad-spectrum stuff and slowing down the sort of antibiotic resistance bacteria develop over a population over time.

[1] Docs can genrally guess the type of bug, or at least the class of bug, and even "narrow-spectrum" antibiotics can cover multiple classes

[2] For less serious infections docs go by likelihood tables and population features (ie-- UTIs are generally killed by X in this region of the world/country). If that treatment fails, they try another one.