skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putin had to invade, as from his perception, Ukraine joining NATO means game over for Russia, economic (oil and gas reserves) and military-wise (strategic positioning of Ukraine), it's in the long-term interests of Russia.

Geopolitics has nothing to do with morality/freedom/feelings, it's all about power.

Don't get me wrong; morality, freedom, feelings, those have important place in your own family, friends, community

But if you're talking about places where you have little control eg. companies where competition is given prestige before you were hired in, or in the case of geopolitics, thousand years civilizations fighting for centuries, it's better for you to see what it is

As much as we strive for equality, justice, rationality, sensibility, beauty, and all of those admirable virtues, let be realistic here, we live in a dystopian planet where god is truly dead - men have played as gods in favour of power

Even Marcus Aurelius who was known as the philosopher king, couldn't do much to not slaughter Christians under his name, if we were to believe historians. This is equal to western media smearing Putin's name in the international community, when what he's doing is essentially identical to what the US did in countless countries it invaded
Fair assessment. I assumed spyplane because it also affected Italy and Greece, so there was a long arc of a flight path. It's possible it could have been the orbit of a russian electronic warfare satellite as well, as if you have a transmitter on it, encoding radio packets of death against poorly maintained linux kernel forks (hugely assuming that's what the terminals ran) is as trivial as loading a metasploit payload. I'm well into speculative fiction, but casting magic spells that stop machinery en masse isn't magic at all - and well within the capabilities of armchair admirals of electronic warfare who read and post on HN.

It would be interesting to see if there was any timestamp data about the order in which the terminals failed, as that would yield the flight path evidence, or indicate the presence of local transmitters in those regions, or if it were async, an internet based attack.

Reality is, the gear that runs critical infrastructure is still a joke, and I've said before that western exposure to cyber vulnerability will cause the US/NATO to hesitate in responding to Russian and Chinese aggression because they have to take on that domestic political risk of infrastructure failure, and in conflict, often hesitation is sufficient. Weakness invites predators, and here we are.
That was cool! I was expecting this though: https://youtu.be/ja6Zju2W_XY
You are confusing the motivation of Russia (which was indeed to build military bases) with that of the oppressed minorities. Again, these people are not "Russians". They are traditionally Muslim peoples who speak languages completely unrelated to Russian.
We all depend on industry, yet the majority of people have zero idea how industry actually works. It is just there, and supposed to work. And yes, big industry is the key driver. They are also among the first to change when money is to be made, or saved.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/vitaly-gerasim...

>> The intelligence arm of the Ukrainian defence ministry said Maj Gen Vitaly Gerasimov, chief of staff of the 41st Army, had been killed outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, along with other senior officers.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/andrei-sukho...

>> Andrei Sukhovetsky was the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division and a deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army, and by far the most senior Russian figure to have died in the conflict so far.

>> Mr Putin confirmed that a general had been killed in a speech updating the Russian people on the progress of the conflict, eight days into the deadly invasion.
Do people really have regrets?

I've seen my parents and my grandmother dying. Mostly they were weak, anxious, miserable and suffering. Nobody mentioned any thing they regretted. My grandmother kept telling me her life went so fast, that I should enjoy mine and do whatever made me happy. She sounded more nostalgic of her youth than regretting any past actions.

I think we like to make up stories, trying to find some drive, but if you don't believe in afterlife, life is pointless anyway.
They did quite a bit of invading inbetween, though.
Also recently four Russian jets violated Swedish airspace during joint Finnish-Swedish exercises.

From the linked article, described by the Swedish airforce as '"particularly serious" given the current situation, [who] called the Russian actions unprofessional and irresponsible.'

https://yle.fi/news/3-12341483
>... bank cards issued in Russia would no longer work abroad, while cards with the companies’ logos on them were expected to continue working inside the country because a local processor handles those transactions.

Essentially, people in Russia are not affected, but fleeing journalists and activists who are facing 15 years prison sentences because of the new "fake news" laws and were planning on continuing their work from abroad now can't even pay for their food and accommodation.

Also, 13589 people have been detained so far.
To me the mistake here sounds like the fact that they rolled it out all at once. I’d have expected to see this implemented by slowly ramping up tariffs on non-organic fertilizers/pesticides over a number of years (like 5-10). It probably takes a few years for a farmer to effectively adapt to such a transition.
China may also decide that the far east russian territories, which are already under heavy Chinese influence, may look cute under Chinese flag.
Do you think that, given the opportunity, they would commit the same atrocities as their ancestors?

Can those traditionalist views be separated from those atrocities or do those views, given no restraint, inevitably lead to the atrocities? If they would, would that Japanese people allow them to stay in power if they undertook steps in that direction?

Important questions that would need answers before I would revert my opinion to one I might have held if alive 80 years ago.
There's a school of thought among physicists/philosophers called "eternalism" (also goes by "block universe") that posits that all the future is already "laid out," so to speak, and that free will is an illusion. The idea is that the current state of the universe (and mind in our case) dictates the next state (deterministic or stochastic) and we really have to control over the process. Many physicists subscribe to this view (Albert Einstein is supposed to have been a proponent), and I'm increasingly becoming a believer myself. The upshot is that we should never regret/second-guess the past or worry about the future because we really have no control.
Russia-Ukraine War Possible Trajectories
Most of the time, yeah. But sometimes there are legitimate reasons to be stressed and angry and unhappy.

Stop watching the news, and maybe when you should be angry, you won't be too exhausted to do something with that anger. Anger without action is wasted emotion.
That sounds unlikely since DRAM is all refreshed constantly regardless of whether or not it is being used.

Perhaps you meant storing and fetching from memory lots impacts battery life?
How many? One thousand? Two thousand? According to the 2010 census there were 2446 ethnic Chinese individuals, right behind 4192 Koreans. Let's suppose it's 5000 now. It would still be less than 1%

All this talk about taking over Russian territory is just pure fantasy. Russia, on a liberal / anti-imperialist wave, even in a bankrupt, extremely weakened state could only become kind enough to detach Yakutia, Caucasus, and some other distinctly ethnically different autonomous regions, but it won't allow anything to happen to the ethnically Russian regions, nor these regions themselves could imaginably see themselves separate. Russia would still be a nuclear power, and I doubt the Chinese would risk a world apocalypse for a piece of tundra.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30598841
The technologies exist.

The reality is YouTube bleeds money like crazy. Pretty much only huge enterprises like Google can afford to run a service like YouTube.

You can try. Many have tried before and YouTube continues to be king for a reason.

Good luck!
Every time Barcelona's superblocks come up on HN, people confuse them with mere blocks.

A superblock (or superilla in Catalan) is usually a 3 by 3 grid of blocks. The inner streets are closed to through traffic, although locals can still get their cars to their apartment garages.

The inner streets are then turned into a combination of parks, benches, bike lanes, and plants.

Currently just a handful of these superblocks exist.

You can read and understand the superblock concept here: https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/superilles/en/
As someone who was born under de-facto Soviet occupation, almost 40 years after the end of WWII may I suggest you go stuff yourself with your suggestions?

Suggesting that "it's never an issue for them" is just ignorance of the highest order.
The Rise of Intelligent Matter
A 60-70% round trip efficiency would be very impressive for round trip efficiency of electricity to hydrogen and back. Its in the same ballpark as pumped storage. I can only assume it's assuming using fuel cells which are 90% efficient for the conversion to electricity. I'm not convinced these have really been deployed at that scale before, the biggest fuel cells I'm aware of are used in non-nuclear submarines where cost is not a priority.
...wait until the Government can control your access to money and cut off access to the financial system for any or no reason.

So a CBDC will suspend the Constitution and due process?

Wow! Scary.
The satellite command and control is probably the one bit of the network that's actually hardened (possibly even air-gapped), completely proprietary, etc. - that bit is designed by the companies that make $200 million satellites, not the people who make fairly cheap modems and have different priorities.

The current generation of satellites themselves generally do nothing to the data stream - for each of the dozens of spot beams they're transmitting, they generally just take an RF signal from the ground station (multiplexed in various ways up to the satellite) and convert the frequency. Same with the receive path just in reverse.

The actual modulation/demodulation all happens at the ground station. This is because they expect modem technology will improve, but the satellite has to be able to work for 25-30 years. (Though in the industry they are talking about putting more and more 'software defined' functionality on the satellites, but again this will mostly have to go via their secure systems at the ground station, not from the terminals)

So there's basically no way to interact with any 'satellite firmware' unless you're in a very specific location (near their ground station) with extremely specialised gear.
Vitamin D deficiency is probably playing a not insignificant part in what you're seeing.
What makes you think Ukraine ADS is almost dead, they seem to have shooting down aircraft pretty frequently and are being resupplied by Europe
A big part of this is due to them not being military losses. In each engagement the American military closed with and destroyed the enemy repeatedly. The nation building part failed in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Iraq did a bit better in that respect, but it isn't a new Japan.
Seems like they have ~500 employees, so the price is over $10M/employee. Obviously a good time to sell a security company right now.
Fair enough, but the geopolitics are quite different: China and Russia are (wary) allies and the agreement was more about agreeing where to draw the line than handing over war spoils.
It's more complicated than that though: life is more like a variant of poker where no one even agrees on the rules or what the goals of the players are.
> nuclear power

Is it though? Russian conventional army has clearly been devastated by corruption and bad administration, as the generals and staff didn't anticipate that it would actually be used in a real all-out war. What makes you think that nuclear forces are in better shape?
Energy is energy whether it's electricity or something else. Europe's primary energy source is fossil based, either oil or gas, which of course mostly comes from Russia.

If you want to reduce your reliance on oil and gas from Russia, then you need to reduce your consumption of both materials regardless of how it's used. That means more than just converting your electrical supply to non-fossil source, it also means converting your heating supply as well (wood briquettes do horrific things to air quality, inner cities would become no-go zones for asthma suffers if we swapped gas for wood briquettes). Indeed the majority of household energy consumption in Europe is directly burning gas, not using electricity. So turning off light bulbs will have negligible impact on Europe's gas needs.
Since Opera became increasingly bad in the last 8 years or so (I didn't use it before), I assume that the people which are still using Opera actually are pretty sticky.
The history is complex. The current politics are not. It's just a way of Japan reminding Russia how unhappy it is with the war in Ukraine.

The islands are barely inhabited.
Well I dunno, last time I checked by far most of Europe does in fact not call it petrol. I can't claim to know which word is most commonly used, but as an anecdote the dutch call it "benzine" which is also "wrong" but in a different way from both gas and petrol.

Seems to me no one can figure out what the proper name for this stuff ought to be :P
In a 100% renewable economy, where are the emissions coming from? Renewable sources don't create carbon atoms out of nothing. Cement production, maybe? Solar doesn't need cement!

If the economy is not yet close to 100% renewable, what matters is not small CO2 emission from making the renewable sources, it's how rapidly the remaining fossil sources can be displaced.
The article may have been about SSAO, but it applies equally well to "real ambient occlusion", because raytracing voxels assume that corners "absorb" light like a black hole.

The photographs prove however, that corners in the real world do NOT absorb light, meaning that even "voxel ambient occlusion" and other "realer-models" are fake.
I think it did work out for them. Just not to the extent to justify the $100 million of VC money they took.
> If the processor is always busy, that means there’s never even an instant when a newly arriving task can be assigned immediately to the processor. That means that, whenever a task finishes processing, there must always be a task waiting in the queue; otherwise the processor would have an idle moment. And by induction, we can show that a system that’s forever at 100% utilization will exceed any finite queue size you care to pick:

This argument is incorrect because it proves too much. If tasks arrive predictably, say at the rate of one per minute, and the processor completes tasks at the same rate, you can have maximum throughput and a finite queue -- indeed, the queue never has to exceed two waiting tasks. The unbounded queue growth problem only arises when tasks arrive unpredictably. Since this argument proves the same conclusion without regard to predictability, it's incorrect.

Here's how I think it actually works: if tasks randomly come in and out at the same rate, the size of the queue over time can be modeled as an unbiased random walk with a floor at zero. Elementary techniques prove that such a random walk will hit zero in finite time, and will therefore hit zero infinitely many times. These correspond to the idle times of the processor. The only way to avoid hitting zero over and over is if tasks come in faster than they come out, which leads to tasks piling up over time.
> North Korea is not crazy

Why do you think so?
I would recommend an hour for almost everything except where very fast updates is expected, in which case 5m is my lowest number (I work at a registrar).
Things like Django or Requests are old stable projects in python.
So, the last time the US annexed land by force was the 1800s and the Spanish American war. That's probably why the US isn't getting sanctioned, but Russia is and China would.

Meanwhile, I look at Crimea and say Russia isn't shy about annexing. And this particular thread was trying to talk about if China could invade Taiwan without sanctions, using examples of Russia and the US as similar powers. My point is that wars of annexation are met with sanctions.
I've yet to find a music/lyrics app that isn't half-broken or riddled with spyware and advertising. Edit: I thought saying "app" made it clear I needed it for a mobile device, Android, sorry. Foobar2000 is my choice of music player, it just doesn't do lyrics on mobile. I do think it's a testament to how underserved this niche is that all the replies are either desktop programs or mobile apps that don't support displaying lyrics while playing a song.
We dont need proofs, calculus, reasons, process, principles and theorems actually. Just results and facts are in demand for our lives. But it may make us subordinate to people who have invented theories of statistics or calculus, because we have no choice but refer to and based on their theories, I mean, depend on them even if the theories are absolutely correct or truth of the universe.
You are correct; my mistake. Nevertheless S3 returns a 403 (unauthorized) response for robots.txt by default which causes Google not to index it.
I think that piling on top of an already volatile situation is a distinctly unwise move.
Renewables are a technology for a civilization that has decided to accept being in a state of slow decline. Higher stages of civilization will require more power, which can be practically provided only by nuclear. If the west goes all-in on solar, China’s investments into nuclear will give it the opportunity to become the dominant civilization.
It's baffling how socialists can deny reality and working economic models in favor of their demonstrably and repeatedly failed theories of economy and state, even going as far as denying the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
Sure, but when his family finally tires of his imperialist warmongering, they can just block his sewer line. Let's see him hold onto his territory then!
The source of heating is not what's the most important (in any case an (electrical) heat pump is always going to be more energy efficient, everything else pales in comparison).

Insulation is really the most important thing to reduce a building energy consumption (some buildings are even built with zero heating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_heating_building), along with air-tightness and heat_recovery_ventilation.
sounds like justification for any sort of collateral damage, this reasoning.
reality check: it's hitting Putin marginally while negatively affecting all Russians and the entire world. where I live, people at the bottom of the jar who barely afford a living now fell below the threshold and can't afford energy (gas and soon oil and electricity) to even cook their food.
Thanks to the "hitting" of putin. millions or perhaps billions who have nothing to do with this conflict and may be also against the Russian government are paying the cost of the west obstination working for his own interest only.

it is baffling the near unanimous support for maximum economical sanction given all we know about them. millions of death as a consequence of decades of sanctions against saddam, but we never learn of course. or we learn but get relentlessly told we are fighting the good fight.

take a pause from the news for a bit and think calmly who is paying the consequences of this politic. the Ukrainians for the most part. then the Russians, and then the rest of the world. even that is a forbidden form of thinking. we only have one choice:support Ukraine in its resistance and all possible economical sanctions against our enemy. pretty dull world we live in with very well educated people who refuse to admit how terrible this politic is.
Thinking about the regrets listed in the article. Pick this one:

"I wish I had not worked so hard."

What if this person went back in time and didn't work so hard? Are you suggesting they would, in their twilight years, express regret for not having worked harder? Perhaps regret they did not have the means to buy more stuff or travel?

Because nothing like that made the top 5 from the author's anecdotal evidence.

We have to assume either then that people rarely regret not working enough (or that the majority of us work too much and so never have the opposite regret, ha ha).
Well this doesn't mean that you can smoke all day if you move to Umbria and be safe. But what I noticed is that in some places smoking is much riskier than others.

And apparently it's not just a feeling of mine. Belgium is the 6th worst place in the world (just after the USA) for age adjusted cancer rates: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/global-cancer-data-by-cou...
And if your primary use-case is column-wise aggregation over the whole table, in SQL you'd use a (compressed) column store rather than a row store as your table storage method.
What are all these comments about not _necessarily_ returning Crimea to Ukraine? Is HN being spammed by Russians?
It's not about miles driven. It's about air quality in cities.

Just looking at efficiency, we see that people get 50% more miles per gallon today than in 1978. This doesn't even include impact from emmissions equipment, electric/hybrid cars, etc. Plus, most highway miles are not in cities. Pollutants can disperse and settle out (not ideal in general, but relevant to air quality it is positive). They also have lower densities of people in the area to affect, which should affect the overall population numbers less.

According to the EPA, cars (and trucks and busses) are 99% cleaner today than in the 70s.

https://www.epa.gov/transportation-air-pollution-and-climate...
I feel like your grandfather had a wicked sense of humor.
You need to overbuild solar with a factor of 5 to get to a practical amount of batteries. See https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1441605024887427073?s=21

One side benefit of that is that energy will be free 90% of the time. Great for carbon extraction and desalination.
I think a layperson's outlook on these topics in high school could be very interesting though. Use this outlook to help motivate learning calculus and linear algebra. With a mix of engineering survey and math survey there are plenty of kids out there that would find parts of the course that stimulate their natural interest. Then the "calculus has many practical applications" thing would feel way less contrived. I mean of course I know now that it is true, but in high school I didn't feel it because I didn't have enough broader context.
When its mature, would you object to dual GPL+commercial ?
They optimised mostly for startup time, not execution speed.

Java for example uses runtime VM information before it starts compiling classes to machine code. That means it's faster in the long run, but requires a 'warm up time'. Obviously a bit better for server side.
That's true.

A much more plausible event is a coup within, similar to the one in 1991. The mayor of Moscow, S. Sobyanin, for instance, is an ambitious man who attempted to run the COVID-19 fight while Putin was hiding in his bunker. Recently, Sobyanin created a commission that will analyze and make decision on economic measures under sanctions. I won't be surprised that one day this commission will become a new government.
Meanwhile villagers in Bangladesh have 1/10 the carbon output you do. Why not go all the way?
> Multiplying by 1.5 has the advantage that 1 + 1.5 > 1.5 * 1.5, so the second time you realloc it fits into the old memory (which can help reduce memory fragmentation if the allocator takes advantage of it).

I’m really struggling to think of any mainstream allocator that can take advantage of this.
The EU has similar mandates which create corpora across a lot more European languages and has also been used for training translation models, AFAIK.