skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really expect this situation to ever change ? The communities are vastly different in their goals despite some minor overlap in their theoretical foundations. Suppose you take rnorm(100) sample and find its variance. Then you ask the crowd the mean and variance of that sample variance. If your crowd is a 100 professional statisticians with a degree in Statistics, you should get the right answer atleast 90% of the time. If instead you have a 100 ML professionals with some sort of a degree in cs/vision/nlp, less than 10% would know how to go about computing the variance of sample variance, let alone what distribution that belongs to. The worst case is 100 self-taught Valley bros - not only will you get the wrong answer 100% of the time, they’ll pile on you for gatekeeping and computing useless statistical quantities by hand when you should be focused on the latest and greatest libraries in numpy that will magically do all these sorts of things if you invoke the right api. As a statistician, I feel quite sad. But classical stats has no place in what passes for ML these days.
Folks can’t Rao Blackwellize for shit, how can you expect a Fisher Information matrix from them ?
I’m almost certain my ability to program will help me make a dishwasher about the same as my ability to play the guitar.
Care to tell us who did prove it then?

While the 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers", doesn't explicitly mention the halting problem, it does cover the Entscheidungsproblem, and that the halting problem is undecidable follows trivially from that.
> Even if Putin was somehow deposed tomorrow and somehow the invasion ended, that curve is not coming back down any time soon.

Why not? If everything normalized tomorrow, what would stop Russia and Ukraine from resuming wheat shipments?
Well, to rephrase a bit, laser beams that bounce off the moon.

Lasers that bounce off the moon are an expensive way to make a small crater.
We have this today. https://call.element.io/whateveryouwant does what you'd expect.
Fast Flood No.4
→
⌛ → 52 seconds
▶ → 18 moves
→ 3 tries

pretty fun. love to see where this goes.
I wonder if this setup can be leveraged to create a Twitch-like streaming solution based on Matrix. The group call setup is clearly not built for such a use case, but if you only stream to a small audience (say, people paying for a certain perk on Patreon?) you could probably use this quite easily.

The client would need better support for alternative inputs, of course, such as the RTMP suggestion found on the Github issues page, but it can and should work.

What I'm also curious about is how this fits in with the experiments on the peer-to-peer mesh system (running a homeserver on every client). Forwarding video across a web of clients would become bandwidth and CPU intensive real fast and the added latency would be non-negligible.

I'll be watching this play out with great interest, that's for sure.
Not OP, but I read about this in a book by an ex-CIA guy a long time ago. I think even friendly nations do it to each other too. It's like an unwritten rule to have spies in embassies. Of course, I don't know how much was sensationalized, but it somewhat makes sense to keep tabs on everyone else if everyone is doing it.

Also, this is why counter-intelligence exists in every nation. Watching embassies is part of what they do.
yes, just saw news on safe corridors, hopefully that will help some of the cities
> We’re also working with the Tauri core team to provide cross-platform lightweight desktop apps as soon as possible!

How about a lightweight cross-platform Matrix client that doesn't rely on Electron?
Unfortunately, not all Russians are against this war, many people don't even know that there's war, because as of now even saying "Stop War" is punishable by 3 years in Prison, distributing non official information about the war is punishable by 15 years in prison. All free media is banned as of now, newspapers closed down so their journalists don't go to prison.

As for protest, if you think there's a lot of military in Ukraine, wait and see how much military is in Russia. There's 400k "internal" army alone that is dedicated to fighting its own people. Putin has created this army after the Ukranian revolution so the same thing doesn't happen here.

In Belarus 95% of people were against Lukashenko and took to streets like wildfire after the rigged election a year ago, did it help? As long as he controls the military protests can only do so much.
>You are Russian and therefore you are responsible for your government's actions.

Imho that works in democracies, not dictatorships. Putin is holding Russians hostage.
No, this is the second volume of "Probabilistic Machine Learning", the first volume of which was just published this week. The 2 volume set can be seen as a complete rewrite/replacement for "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective"
> if there are incompatible interests and no one backs down or tries to reach a compromise.

It is not only incompatible interests. Both groups of actors weigh the case of Ukraine differently. While Putin (et al) are ready to go to for for it, it does not seem to have the same level of priority for NATO countries/USA. One might even say that to a degree, USA is not aligned with the EU in this case (oil imports made by USA, Nordstream 2).
“Experts” just depends on who you draw on as an expert:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/24/wikipedia...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/02/02/169470/computati...

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
Most linux distros have used signed repository packages since forever, right? Not really challenging what you are saying, rather asking whether this is not already a very similar setup. I guess it is a social web of trust among package maintainers as opposed to the certificate authority root of trust in Windows. Or am I making a flawed comparison?
I don't get how and why water could ever be an existential problem for humanity, other than in extremely remote drought regions. Yes, desalination plants and other infrastructure investments may make it more expensive, but it doesn't seem to be a fundamentally scarce resource.
Can’t have an autocracy without the willing participation of apathetic citizens.
Only signalling. Matrix users coturn for STUN and TURN.
Have these stamps already been tested in a court of law?
None of these donation scammers are making any money. empty wallets or peanuts.

The big $ is in those fake crypto giveaway livestreams on youtube. In a single month scammers combined earned as much as all ukraine crypto donations, about $30 million, and do it month after month unstopped . greed is more profitable than generosity.
Nope, just how it gets sold.
That's easy to say for people on the outside. Russians who want change can influence one another, build up awareness, but standing in front of tanks will just most likely lead to pulverization

and it's not like russians are strangers to popular uprising, but the trauma of the fall of the soviet empire has a poisonous influence not just on the old generations
I feel if XMPP just had some better tools this push for Matrix would be unnecessary.
Do you have a source for the flights thing? I hadn't heard that yet.

Was your phone inspected when you left the country? Were you interviewed?
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity
Repeating the parent comment - What's the option, though? What better things can we do to help the > 1,000,000 Ukrainian refugees, and all the other millions that are currently being bombed by Russia?

Putin _is_ getting his power from the Russian people. It's unfortunate they believe his lies, but they do, and that's what makes him strong.
Americans about US wars: 'we cannot do anything about our government - they engage in wars and we couldn't stop them if we tried'

Americans about Russian wars: 'the average Joes need to go out to the streets and bring Putin down'
I wrote my first production program in COBOL back in 1983 at Hewlett-Packard.

It basically took reports formatted for the multi-carbon “greenbar” paper that normally went to the big dot matrix printers and sent them instead to print on the then-new HP2680a desk size laser printer.

They made me emulate the look of greenbar paper on the white fanfold laser prints because that was what people were used to.

Good times…
>Why would they be searching in English?

Good point, here's the Russian translation of "how to leave Russia", which doesn't appear to be much different than the English version.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

EDIT>> This is wrong! My mistake, when I translated, I accidentally switched the source country back to USA.
This just seems completely backwards. We lament every time a country in crisis/civil war blocks Internet for its citizens: Sudan, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Yemen, ... and then we cut Russia from the Internet on our side [1]

If the point of sanctions is to get the local population to rise and make it difficult for the government to keep its course, why cut out their access to independent news that would let them know what to protest? That will leave them with only state-controlled news. And now they can't submit that to Reddit to discuss it?

I get that Reddit don't want to be left out of the PR bandwagon, and as a link aggregator all they can do is block links. But this doesn't feel like helping.

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-service-provider-coge...
Np, this is gaslighting.

"If you don't agree with our objectives, you are the enemy!"

Disagreeing with specific elements of social justice, particularly statements like:

"The Wikimedia Foundation defines racial equity as shifting away from Eurocentricity, White-male-imperialist-patriarchal supremacy, superiority, power and privilege to create an environment that is inclusive and reflects the experiences of communities of color worldwide."

Etc. is not 'being against social justice'.

The distinction is quite important, in fact, it's kind of 'the point'.

Most people agree with basic elements of social justice.

How many people are opposed to women voting? To women having 'equal opportunity'? Etc.

We're now into a war of opportunity and outcomes, which is a different kind of playing field.

I think Wikepedia generally does a good job overall, and it's probably fairly hard to do, that said, there is bias.
In this hypothetical scenario I'm pretty sure if united all the Russians would manage to hang putin by his ball from the Kremlin pretty easily.
>what do you expect of people who only have a state-run propaganda machine?

This is your error. They don't "only" have state-run propaganda, and these aren't a backwards, brainwashed, uneducated people.
Herman and Chomsky effectively disproved the notion that mainstream media gives "balanced" perspectives on news in Manufacturing Consent. The trouble is that media has a massive reliance on government institutions for sourcing information and advertisers for revenue. The way that information is withheld from government sources in the case of dissent from doctrine, or money is held back from corporations in the case of dissent from their interests creates patterns and frameworks of self-censorship and framing that twist information. None of this means our news networks are evil, but they are subject to the rules of the game and the only reason they are still going today is because they learned to play ball.

You can question the lack of a perspective in reporting, or doubt the framing of provable information without losing faith in the system. It should almost be seen as your job as a responsible news-reader to look past the propaganda (i.e. systemic limits on information conveying) as best you can, while not becoming entirely jaded or entirely untrusting.
> Another reason we don't like Russians is that they are afraid to stand up to their own government.

What about billions of Chinese that are afraid to stand up to the communist party?
That assumes a willingness to learn enough about Docker to understand how you configure your container to do what you want. That can, in some organizations, be too much to ask of researchers. That's the core of the problem.
It will be, but it does not mean that they don't want to try.
I've never had that work correctly. Mostly it just gets in the way when the line endings actually matter (because my javascript has to load in IE7).
No, Canada did NOT seize any crypto wallets connect with the convoy, here’s why
Lets say you have a company that requires a level of technical skill to work at, and instead of hiring for that technical skill, you hire them based on being blue. Everyone else, including those who are blue, know you are doing this because the individual is clearly not ready for that work. This creates resentment, which creates discrimination.

You have to promote natural systems, not artificial ones, or you create further inequality. A natural solution in this case would be to create a policy where anyone whom is an authority on a subject can write about it on Wikipedia, and they can write even conflicting opinions. That can all be put together. If woman are paid, men are paid, etc.
I'd recommend going through "Early history of Smalltalk" and "The Dream machine". First covers Kay's work and Smalltalk - how it started, what was the reasoning behind it.
I'm still in progress with the second one, but it gives pretty deep dive in history of computing, covering a lot about personalities behind the field and their work.
The version with MX Silent switches is considerably quieter than the standard MX Red version. I'm hoping the Kinesis 360 coming out this year will be even quieter.
I don't think it'll send the message you or the West think it will. I'm not even Russian and I think this all amounts to bullying by the West because they're petulant and can't stand the fact that they are powerless to step in with actual force.
try blaming people born in North Korea, maybe if they are sanctioned and hated more they stop "voting" for kim jong un?
Telegram is owned by Russians and operated out of Dubai... Western countries have literally warned about it for that reason... Twitter has large shareholders in the Middle East.

Also I forgot TikTok. Plenty of vids there. Owned by the Chinese. You can check that out.

But hey, keep swallowing that Russian propaganda...
Here is the Russian translation (I am not Russian speaking, just used a translator) that is much more proof and addresses another comment on your post. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
Right, on March 8th two largest Russian airlines suspend all international flights. People get the hell out of Russia while they can.
The problem is re-downloading. I think this will take some time.
From my perspective, the really exciting thing about this that it works equally well in mobile web browsers as well as desktop web - clicking on a link on Mobile Safari should Do The Right Thing without having to install anything.

Moreover, because it's built on Matrix, MSC3401 (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/group-...) means that we'll finally have decentralised cascading video/voice conferences once the SFU (selective forwarding unit) component is added into the mix. So, for instance, users on the same homeserver will get their video feeds relayed locally with minimal latency... and then users on another remote homeserver will also get mixed locally with minimal latency, trunking the two together. If the link dies or one homeserver dies, the conference will keep going - i.e. precisely the same semantics as normal Matrix.
You claim it gives legitimacy to copyright regime but then go on to show exactly how it subverts the requirements of a license to be usable (clear, unambiguous, etc). You even finish it off by saying it's not good enough.

That is exactly what DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT means. Interpret however, and consequently, do whatever to it. You want to complicate it and try to nail down what things mean, that's your prerogative. It doesn't try to be a legit member of the copyright license regime.
Yep. See Harry Dunn’s manslaughter for an example of a US spy in the UK under the pretense of diplomatic cover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
there is a whole Wikipedia entry dedicated to the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity
I have another explanation for this. Most people, even the decent ones, get an uncontrollable build-up of anger when they learn about the war, and they have a need to release this anger somehow. This need is like the need to pee: it won't go away by itself. These people rightfully realise that "peeing" at the true offenders - the putin's gang - isn't an option, so they turn to easy targets, I mean the average russians. Somewhere in the back of their head they realise that it's wrong, but their much stronger animal part of their brain strongly supports punishing members of the enemy tribe.
> Because the hardware already does all of those things whether you paid for them or not.

AMD and Intel GPUs have the hardware capability of being great at CAD, but in practice they suck and nobody uses them because AMD and Intel do not have driver integration & certification with CAD software.

Why? Cause developing that costs money.

NVIDIA hardware and software only has this _because_ people that need it pay 10k$ for GFX cards that do these things.

If you'd wanted gamer cards to do these things, you'd need to add to the price tag of gamer cards the cost of developing and maintaining these things, which would make them more expensive.

The claim that this should be free because software and hardware costs nothing once you already have developed is illogical. CAD software, GPU driver software for CAD, and GPU hardware to meet CAD's demand, continues to evolve, which costs money.
You could actually use it to counter bias in an existing system. Consider a real example from a prior coworker:

We lend money for mortgages to people based on legitimate criteria: FICO score, income, etc.

THEN, we use a model to see if we lend more/less money to African Ameicans at better/worse rates. If we see bias in this model, we make adjustments to the first model so that they are "treated fairly".

I've seen the same done on message boards where certain actions were more likely for men vs women - and the administration discovered they were accidentally awarding more points to men vs women. So they adjusted the points for different actions so women had an fair-ish chance at getting points
As an American who has had plenty of disagreement with acts of violence by my government in the past, I have to say I have more sympathy for a Russian who is in this position now. Even in democracies, marching in anti-war protests and voting for anti-war candidates at the next election doesn't always seem to have much impact on the government's behavior, at least in the short term.
According to my optometrist, the default practice in choosing a prescription for computer glasses is to divide your typical prescription for nearsightedness in half. Thus a 1 diopter prescription for everyday glasses becomes a ½ diopter prescription for computer glasses. That worked nicely for me, where my screens are about 2.5 feet away.
> A million people marching in Moscow would change minds.

How? What would they do? They would march and riot and protest and then after a day or two they would go home. Meanwhile the politicians will just wait it out and the show will go on (see Belarus).
More like 'welcome to history'. There have always been periods of peace and prosperity, sometimes hundreds of years long. Those living through these have always thought they were the exception. They have always been wrong.
So will you send all the north korean refugees back to fight their dictator?
at .01 cents a gallon or less, yeah it's not scarce at all...
I dunno what kind of wheat they grow in Ukraine; specifically when do they plant and harvest? I've got the impression that planting season is a couple weeks to a month off and closes a couple weeks after that, for a late fall harvest.

In the southern USA there's more winter wheat in the fields than I've seen in the 30 years I've lived here. It looks really happy so far too. They'll be bringing that in starting in another 3mo or so.
Instead of Google trends, it would be interesting to see how this shows up in geolocation datasets
Rumours are not propaganda.

No you haven't discovered a vast EU-wide conspiracy or someone 'saying the quiet part out loud'. Nobody knows what is going on and naturally there is lots of speculation to fill the void.
Telegram was created by a Russian.
“ Another reason we don't like Russians is”

And that’s how wars are maintained. They vs us. Who is we?? How can you dislike millions of people just because they were born inside a border different than yours?
Comments like these are why I come to HN. Thank you.
There's nothing surprising about it. There is at least one recent, well documented case of mass emigration due to the economic collapse of an authoritarian regime. Millions of people have left Venezuela since the late 2000s [1]. Considering Russia is barely richer than Spain whilst having 3x the population and the fact it's about to get much worse, I would expect millions of Russians to leave in the next few years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela
More appeasement BS

> Washington and Brussels should create an incentive for Russia to stop before wrecking Ukraine’s major cities.

Are there examples of similar lines of thought in other conflicts ?

Was Europe looking for Bush/Obama off-ramps in Iraq or Afghanistan that would allow the US to save face?
Right after a news story about Putin getting deposed will be a news story about the Baltics being invaded. So, careful about what you wish for.
When you organise against Putin the state swiftly organises against you. There are plenty of examples of those who try to resist being jailed or murdered. I do not blame your average Russian for keeping their head down and deciding its safer to just try to get by.

I am quite demotivated at the idea any meaningful change can be effected in my home country, which is technically a well-functioning democracy that doesn’t actively persecute the population at large[0]. If there was also the threat of violence against me or my family for being politically involved, my motivation would drop off altogether.

[0] = the UK does have bizarre fixation on its Muslim population, one example being the story covered by the recent Trojan Horse Affair podcast
At this point, it doesn't look at all like we can practically expect a popular revolt. For me there are two outcomes to target with the sanctions:

* Make life unpleasant enough for the oligarchs that they replace Putin with someone less intent on ruining the nice thing they had going.

* Handicap Russia's ability to wage war. This includes eliminating their ability to buy supplies and destroying their morale.

It's the second goal that is, in my mind, the motivation for the economy-destroying sanctions.
There are some theories floating around that claim that one of the reasons Apartheid was instituted or started forming as an idea was because of a scare about Communism taking root in South Africa among the black population.
dogs are already excellent communicators, they don't need buttons

and most dog owners wouldn't have the time nor the discipline to train their dog to use these buttons
"Russians are trying to flee Putin’s chaos"

We all are.
Unreal! And the C64 turns 40 next year.
I assume it's to get away from the stench of the peasantry.
Kinze, Case IH, New Holland, Massey Ferguson... yeah, there are many competitors to John Deere in the tractor industry. Sort of like how there are many competitors to Apple in the smartphone industry.

Saddly, "repairable" just isn't all that competitive of a feature. Probably because it's really hard to measure before you purchase a product.