skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Russia want to start with extremely costly urban combat when the ukrainian forces are still a coherent fighting force? I get that it doesn't look good from a reddit-war perspective, but it would have been absolutely suicidal to go for the 2 biggest cities before encircling them or roughing up the ukrainian army first. This isn't a video game where you go for the capital city capture, and Russia isn't fighting a Twitter war. You can focus on the cities all you want, but the reality is that Russia is more interested in encircling cities while they mop up the entire country side; just look at how they have operated around mariupol.

Those are 2 massively populated cities, and the much much better American forces had a very hard time fighting much weaker opponents in fallujah 17 years ago. If you support the ukrainian side, you should stress how critical the situation is on the ground instead of downplaying how bad it is on the ground to make the russians look weak on the internet.
It should be, but another thing in this industry is the completely subjective design ideas everyone brings. So PRs inevitably have comments about the approach to abstractions, testing, etc. that are really little more than ego-stroking.
This is an excellent summary from 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37M7ffjro3I -- what's notable is how much gas (as in ethane, propane, and butane) is used in place of coal.
I don't find his arguments any good. Basically "my wife is also a nurse and she haven't heard many" and "they're no good anyway".

> Ms. Ware said regrets are expressed “when questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently”; my wife isn’t thrilled about this as a care technique.

Or:

> Deathbed folks are usually far from their analytical peak – they are often in great pain, and rather muddle-headed. So why would we think their comments especially insightful?

It also gets comically reductionistic:

> Added 9a: Stephen Smith suggests these regrets are the predictable result of opiate pain medication.

But I think it's more about the author trying to force his opinion, when it's not really needed, insightful, or that useful.
Complaining that distributed ledger tech needs to use.. a distributed ledger. Sorry to be snide but there's nothing new or interesting in this article. I would be interested in a write up about a newer tech though e.g. Algorand.
One thing I think that could be changed here is a different storage medium. For example, flywheel storage instead of batteries, or compressed air storage, instead of batteries. Since batteries can't be charged faster than a certain rate, it creates a limitation. Of course, compressed air is only so useful and not so efficient to turn into electricity but, still an idea.
Yeah, it's more application oriented and philosophical than the pure calculation of pure math. I think it's under-taught in schools though. I think it's more useful than calculus for most people and should be taught before it.
The quite visible hand of state mafia in Russia is probably the reason.
Cool things to do with CBDCs:

- Abolish filing your taxes. All taxes can be calculated and payed automatically from your bank account, you don't even have to check. No more tax evasion!

- Manage the money supply more effectively. This is very complicated, you wouldn't understand, but it is very importing for achieving the Fed's mandate of price stability^H^H^H^H full employment^H^H^H^H 2% inflation^H^H^H^H 2% aggregate inflation^H^H^H^H climate change targets

- Track exact carbon footprint of every citizen, track calorie intake, sugar intake, meat consumption, condom use, and leverage this capability to assess and promote your physical and mental health

- Easily restrict specific individuals from certain purchases like guns, alcohol, sleeping pills, gasoline, lottery tickets, soft drinks, pornography, the book The Real Anthony Fauci, and other hate speech

- Turn off payments for terrorist, fugitives, people at risk of fleeing, illegal occupants of infrastructure, or for quarantined people beyond a five mile radius from their homes
He plays with that same "gods playing dice" concept in The Last Hero too. Highly recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34503.The_Last_Hero
That would be super cool, and we'll be adding support for new stacks by popular demand. We've already had a few people mention support for Unity, so it's on our roadmap (but likely won't get to it until Q4)!
The history of the OS calculator is rooted in skeumorphism to look like the pocket calculators of the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator

I doubt any OS calculator got built through a modern software development process.
Will do. Appreciate that.
NFT platform DMarket freezes user accounts from Russia and Belarus
It sounds like you are talking about nuclear first strike here again, ICBMs are primarily for nuclear weapons after all, and there is no advantage to having them closer, see my first comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569822

No, I am talking about boost phase ANTI ballistic missile systems. During the boost phase ICBMs are especially vulnerable because they are still slow, but you need your interceptors close to the launch site because you have to detect the ICBM launches, launch your interceptors, and catch up with the ICBMs. If you have an effective ABM system, you gain a better first strike capability because you can weaken or ideally neutralize a retaliatory strike, i.e. the opposing ICBMs are no longer or at least a weaker deterrent.

This makes it so the most delusional or paranoia person/country, or those that act like it, are given advantages over those that are acting reasonable. This, used as a general rule, can/would cause a negative feedback cycle making the world worse over time.

But look what we got now. Even if my reasoning is incorrect and we ended up with this mess for other reasons, I think it is at least plausible scenario and we could have ended up in the current situation this way. But there would have been options, Norway is a NATO member but has all kind of additional rules like no ICBMs and foreign troops on their soil. You could pave a way for Russia to also join NATO. You could at least discuss concerns and try to find some middle ground. You could try to reduce concerns. It's not binary, you can work on reasonable perceived threats without being compelled to address absolutely outlandish concerns.

No, because the threat of Cuba and/or USSR in this case would have drastically changed, unlike with Ukraine joining NATO.

No, there would have been no actual threat if Cuba would have gotten those missiles purely as a deterrent. The threat would be only in the heads of the Americans because they don't know and can not be sure that the missiles are purely a deterrent. If I point a realistically looking toy gun at you, there is no actual threat. But you don't know or at least are not sure that it is not a real gun, so you will act according to the perceived threat. And now that I am rethinking this I actually tend towards making a stronger claim than last time, you always act according to the perceived threat. Why? Because the perceived threat is everything you have, you don't have access to the actual threat.
"The government" may not care whether you're buying sex toys. But lots of people seem to care, and that gives that information some power to do harm.

The Hamilton Phase 1 summary doc has the following paragraph:

> The main functional difference between our two architectures is that one materializes an ordered history for all transactions, while the other does not. ... In the other architecture, we can audit the set of unspent funds to make sure they were created correctly. Storing the history of transactions implies the central transaction processor can reconstruct the transaction graph, which, in combination with other data sources, could reveal sensitive user information.

Who would have access to that reconstructed transaction graph/history, and under what contexts? How would that be controlled or enforced? NSA staff used their mass surveillance tools to spy on spouses and exes, after all. Even if you don't say anything in personal communication that the government should be concerned about, you can be legitimately creeped out by mass surveillance.
They are trained in identifying aircraft and grok flight characteristics, and for the lack of better phrasing because I'm eating a taco at lunch, how one's senses can be wrong or skewed.
Modern calculus (analysis) was invented because people shot themselves in the foot working with topology and wondering exactly what is a "curve" ? I am a big fan of this approach to learning mathematics, just forge ahead and when (if) things fall apart then go back and fix up the foundations. To this end I recommend a couple of books. "The Knot Book" by Adams is a very interesting exploration in topology (without requiring all the years of study at university before you are allowed to learn exactly what a topology is). And in another direction, group theory was invented because the study of symmetry gets very tricky! But if you want to dive in anyway then have a look at Conway's "The symmetries of things". It is a lot of fun. Most modern group theory (or algebra) books don't actually have any pictures of symmetric things, just endless formulas and lemmas. If you want to be a pro, then you gotta learn that stuff, but there's definitely pathways into higher mathematics that don't require you to learn that.
They don't need to result in regime change nor policy change. If the sanctions lead to fewer munitions produced or soldiers fed, then they have a justified benefit, even if the overall arc of the conflict is otherwise the same.
Ukraine Demanded Cloudflare Stop Protecting Russians from Cyberattacks
I don't think OP has even gotten the chance to write any bugs - hence the post.
I think the inspiration came to me from looking at SumTrees and from having worked on Temporal Difference learning for a long time. The idea of flows came to Yoshua and I from the realization that we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state.

But, yes in the moment it felt like some very serendipitous insight!
It's used quite often on Russian web-sites nowadays. A few years ago it was pretty rare, with most sites just using the abbreviation "руб." (rub.).
As for physical locations, those tend to use the abbreviation, possibly because there's more space on the paper price tag than there is on your mobile screen, but could also be due to some law or some tag printers not supporting this symbol, not sure.
> I will stay up nearly indefinitely in bed if I read my phone or iPad. Read the same material on my Kindle Paperwhite and it can be difficult to stay awake more than a few minutes.

I've noticed the same thing! Glad to see I'm not nuts...
From one Russian to another, не валяй дурака. There was no precedent of NATO anything. NATO didn't attack or threaten your land. Ukraine never attacked Russia. Russia did with Donbas and then Crimea.

Your post embodies the propaganda that Russians in Russia swallowed, hook, bait, and even the lasso.
Same boat, with differences:

Have a product, have a device, have 20 of them garage-made.

Here is what we were doing 3 years ago with them - they have evolved since, but this gives a good idea (we were rejected for YC with this submission, got into startup school but need help bringing this to market.

We have a lot more sensor capability for these and we have a customer that wants to license our medical version, and I am struggling how to write up a partnership agreement.

https://youtu.be/FXkNY0vTATA part one, employee presence

https://youtu.be/c7qvfm6vhF0 part two, product disposition

The premise of the above videos:

We came from tracking weapons/chems for DoD among others whilst at lockheed.

This is an expression of "Slot Level Visibility" in an automated fashion...

We have iterated over the years from Lockheed based on how we saw the deficiencies of what RFID/Slot tracking..

So we have a spatial sensor that tracks:

Temp

Humidity

Particulate (Co2, and more)

Altitude

Wifi/mesh

Presence/ location of people (we can map them out, the partner company wants to license our base to add their Lidar on top (even though we can do lidar easily)

A badge that allows for awareness of people in the space...

---

We are talking to a national paintball org such that we can provide arena awareness of everyone on the field. (We may eventually actually track shots)

This is separate from our medical uses (tracking health of independently-living elderly in their homes) (did they open their medecine cabinet, have they fallen, how much movement activity did they do today, whats the air quality in the home)

Integration with voice "Alexa, did grandpa take his medications today"

We have working devices, patents and pedigree... and yet getting HW funds has been a wall for us.

We are a team of two, with support from a small group of contributing engineers from our network.
I know the difference between the CISA and the NSA.

The NSA infiltrated and compromised the NIST (and got caught), so I can't see why they wouldn't do the same to CISA.

Basically, yes, I'm saying don't trust the entire USG, because they have a catastrophic record on security, both defensive (OMB leak) and offensive (attacking your own team is an own goal).
Many thanks for your kind feedback :). First DietPi images were provided via Raspberry Pi forum in summer 2014, as minimal Raspberry Pi images: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=83219. But it started as independent open source project with own website and code on GitHub in 2015. So 8 years are a bit stretched at best, but you are definitely a long time user then, that is awesome!
Add morse code support for inputting text by pushing the central button.

I can't tell if using jQuery and React at the same time is part of the artwork.
> Instead of communicating a copy of the image, Google provides HTML instructions that direct a user’s browser to a website publisher’s computer that stores the full-size photographic image.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

It seems Google saved its butt with that explanation. Can you do the same?
The lamp iMac design was really so nice compared to any iMac made before or after since it made adjusting the screen so easy. This really highlights a problem with the iMacs, however: they use gorgeous screens but the displays have a useful life 5-10 years longer than the CPU. I really wish there was something like an e-waste law to encourage manufacturers to either make them upgradeable or recyclable.
Repeatedly engaging in your contradictory arguments isn't really something you should act on, nor is it something society ought to let you indulge. We're in agreement, there isn't much point in allowing you to indulge in these fallacies further. Adios.
Reminds me of this video on 'Chain Restaurants That Vanished Across America' I ran across earlier today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib2zljzT4P4

'Hitching your wagon to a star' has always been risky. Given Amazon's history? Whoa, would never want to be there.
I still have my "lifetime" User Friendly membership card signed by Illiad and "Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell, a User Friendly Guide to World Domination" from O'Reilly. I wish I had found a copy of the first UF compilation book, and that my copy of "Ten Years of UserFriendly.org" hadn't been destroyed in a move.

For those of us who have been doing this for a very long time, User Friendly was the salve to the dry business side of Dilbert. Think the xkcd tech support cheat sheet (https://xkcd.com/627/) but with far more snark and characters.
Not sure I agree with that - you also have to take into account that calculus is a requirement for many other sciences. I suppose you could just of course make it a pre-req for things like that but I found that in highschool rarely did they go that deep. Physics becomes a hell of a lot easier with basic calculus for example.

If anything should be dropped from a highschool level its all of the insane memorization you have to do for some of the lower level math classes - I found that totally useless. You then learn some basic calculus and realize "I just wasted so much of my life" and never need to memorize those things again.
I ran into a similar problem when trying to extend a Mac Pro 4.1 with a USB-C/Thunderbolt card and an USB-C to 4x USB-A hub on my desk. High speed USB devices like a HDD worked just fine - but my mouse and keyboard did not. The reason took me a while to find out: These "add Thunderbolt"-style cards carry only a USB3/TB PHY and pass USB2 D+/D- right through to a connector which you are supposed to plug into your motherboard's onboard USB connector.

I was just thinking "wtf, who invented this madness... are you serious?"... also, how much money would it have cost Intel to put in an USB2 PHY into the TB chipset? A couple cents maybe... that's just bonkers.
I don't follow. The author dismissively ctrl-V'd a paragraph with no further explanation, and my response asking for elaboration gets shadow-buried by a mod. What?
Speaking of group theory, I can recommend "A book of abstract algebra". I think that it's a very approachable introduction to the topic. As a person with a CS degree doing ML, it changed my perspective on so many different topics, I can't recommend it enough.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8295305-a-book-of-abstra...
Hmmm, maybe not a question for you, but for Gumroad, isn't there already an issue with candidates investing so much time in the process? (E.g. with any large company it can literally take 3 months+)

For me as someone who just finished interviewing, if you told me that I either have to work on two jobs for 4-8 weeks or quit my current job for a limited contract that may or may not work out I'd almost certainly say no. (I think most people would too, I mean people already complain about take home quizes etc.)
More surprising to me is that he still has conversations with Eric Raymond.

The author is an optimist in defiance of all that he observes should make him pessimistic.
Covid May Cause Changes in the Brain
"This is pointless work but your boss [e.g. the manager's boss] thinks it is important"
Thanks, I have added some more "mobile compliant" CSS styles.
Super agree.

I took calc 1 and stats 1 & 2. Much preferred the stats and it set me up for understanding all kinds of science lingo in articles and papers. I also indirectly use stats fairly often at work.
my history teacher in school, said once - anything sooner than ~100y ago, is not yet history, but still politics..
> In a year or two I expect that procedure to be fully automated, to a point where one could do a root on ZFS.

Ubuntu has been able to install directly to root-on-ZFS automatically since 20.04. I don't think any other major distros are as aggressive about supporting ZFS due to the licensing problem, but the software is already there.
Should we always be hearing the other side though? Relitigating the obvious? Like the earth is round, invading a non-aggressive country is worse than inviting it into a defensive pact?

We can't keep going in circles like this. Yes the West is hypocritical, self serving and needs to reassess. But right now, less so than Russia.
You are confusing taxation with monetary policy. Given the context, this is more about stimulating spending/forcing investment into something other than “cash”.

Something like that would have 0 effects on bezos or musk (where all the wealth in stocks). It’s about a tool to stimulate the economy by Keynesian logic. (Savings bad, spending good!)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Soulver yet (https://soulver.app/). I have used it for years -- it looks like it has pretty similar functionality to this but (IMO) with a more native-feeling UI. I love it.

I don't think it supports as wide a range of math, but it does seem to pass the accuracy test given in the article (sin(exp(37))). It also lets you assign variables which I find handy.

On the other hand, the propagation of uncertainty in Chalk is very cool.
It is equally embarrassing to load over cloud. All it takes away is the compute/GPU resource requirements locally.

Controls are also awful right now as you're stuck using the Xbox controller - other Xbox compatible flight controllers, as well as the keyboard and mouse, aren't available yet in MSFS over xCloud. It's not (personally) enjoyable.
bcachefs isn't even mainlined yet. You'd have to build your own kernel to test it out (or I think NixOS packages it)
Hopefully I got something wrong but to me it looks like evil genius from hell:

The drop of the ruble made the war much cheaper for Russia.

1. They pay their soldiers in rub, machinery was already paid or is bought from domestic suppliers in RUB.

2. Russia earns eur or usd by selling oil and gas to the EU. They earn more rub because the rate decreased so much.

As a result: Russia silently decreased the payment of their soldiers by the exact amount that the ruble fell. A truely evil plan. Fighting your brother nation and not even paying for it. The more the rub falls, the cheaper the war gets for them.
Trade agreements usually begin with far more tangible and fundamental agreements to allow physical goods, stop tariffs, and allow for health/safety standards and inspections.

IP agreements are far more complex and are usually negotiated on top/after the initial agreement.
+1 for SpeedCrunch

For anything more complex there is SageMath and Jupyter notebook.
You mean this graph?

https://www.lazard.com/media/451885/grphx_lcoe-07.png

The right side has one magical word in the title: "marginal".

New built renewables have a lower cost than your paid off traditional plants. In other words, to get a more efficient capital allocation you would close your existing nuclear plant and build new renewables. That is where we are today.

In the same fashion nuclear puts a lot of cost on the grid since you need to plan for the largest producer cutting out at any time. That can be phased out with renewables.

Battery storage is also starting catch on due to lowered costs. For 2022 10 GW is planned to be added to the US grid.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51518
This is Cook not supporting Russia sanction which pushed gas price higher and higher, by making victims of higher gas price and increasing pressure against Russia sanction from Apple employees.

Which begs the question, does Cook support Ukrainian and on the side of whole world, or is he on the side of invasion? Why is he not helping the sanction, but instead ordering more gas consumption?
What the permutation invariance gets you is that the model doesn't arbitrarily prefer one (graph) configuration over another, but this seems tangential. The difference between this and RL is in what we do with the reward:

- RL says, give me a reward and I'll give you its max.

- GFlowNet says, give me a reward and I'll give you all its modes (via p(x) \propto R(x)).

Yes you would ideally have a loss (well, a reward/energy) that is invariant and operates e.g. directly on the molecule rather than on some arbitrary ordering of the nodes.
> turning off ota updates

With the new US export restrictions, I would say exporting software to Russia by means of an OTA update would land them in hot water.
Well you can think of it like going to the gym. You don't exactly see people doing squats during their daily life, but you can see the results of people having a good physical core.

This needs to be explained further during education and motivated appropriately. We have a short-term utilitarian perspective, and we need to take a step back at times and recall that it takes time and lots of sculpting to transform a wood log to a art piece.

As you can jog everyday for fun and/or for the challenge you can also jog to improve your physical health. And not doing proofs is like declaring a guy can weight-lift by just watching videos on youtube and never lifting a weight. Or a guy can "code" without writing a line of code.