skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The talks like "let's hurt the regular people so they revolt against Putin"

As someone that comes from a sanctioned country, this is one important thing that most people that have never lived a similar situation don't understand:

-When you live in an authoritarian regime, you don't just "revolt" and topple the autocrat. In our case, it has cost a LOT of innocent lives in the streets protesting. Autocrats don't mind killing as many of their own citizens as they have to, to stay in power.

-The sanctions are usually paid for by the population. In our case, while the sanctions were certainly "inconvenient" to the government, most of the effects where on the regular people. Government cronies have no problem getting food, gasoline, etc. This then gives the autocrat the excuse: "Look, it's them causing this. I'm here to defend you from the bad imperialist sanctions.

Now, I'm not saying I know what the solution is, and I certainly get a lot of satisfaction in seeing that my local autocrats cannot travel freely with their ill-gotten gains and seeing yachts being confiscated all over the world. But it's my opinion that most of the time, sanctions affect a population that has very little power to do something about the situation.

That being said, in Russia's case, being very heavily constrained economically does throw a spanner in the gears of the war machine. Not sure how it's going to play out, but I bet Putin would rather see his people starve first before limiting the military funding of this.
Honestly I feel you, I recall interviewing before and the number one thing I kept asking for was feedback, but rarely ever got any. Currently, when a candidate does a Litebulb interview and submits it, we email the same report PDF to the candidate that the employer gets. As in, feedback is built into the flow of the product.

The next step would be to open up that candidate-facing side, and hearing that you'd pay for just that alone is great feedback!
That would be few days ago

https://mobile.twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1499352556300... translation https://mobile.twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1499355164314120...

and already all but 4 dead https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499763642170019846

"Yesterday the conscripts, who were forced to sign a contract or signed for them, were withdrawn from the war zone in #Ukraine. But from a company of a hundred men only four were left alive."
Oh totally. I just mean to say that since most companies in this bucket probably aren’t public and offering RSUs, cash matters more here. Or that’s my guess, at least.
I'm interested in the "modular" aspect here. It's not so clear what
this means, but my must hopeful take is:

- core technology can be switched (pop in a thorium core when it's
available, leaving all the cooling, turbines and electrical as is)

- better maintenance, swap out parts with short downtimes

- interoperability, add a cooling system from another manufacturer
like TeraPower or even a Chinese or Russian firm (after this war
nonsense ends). If we're going to counter climate change with
nuclear it must be a global effort.

- easier, safer decommissioning. No need to carefully demolish 5 acre
concrete bunker sites, just tow away old parts for disposal at a
safe place.

Anyone know what "modular" really means in this context?
Could you highlight the difference between this and training a permutation invariant or equivariant policy network using standard supervised or RL methods? Assuming I also have a way of having an invariant/equivariant loss function
Here's my most recent thought. Pilots spent years up there and the only thing they see are other planes. If they see something it must be a plane, from the size they can estimate the distance.

But when they suddenly see smaller drone, their pilot-brain thinks it's a plane, but because it is much smaller than a plane, they think it must be far away. And when it flys same speed as plane, in "projected" large distance those speeds are enormous. And their agility is amplified in the same way.

The result is that pilots see "planes" doing impossible manoeuvres at impossible speeds.
> hijacks Esc

I hate squarespace with a passion for this. I'll be loading a forum or other page and hit esc to stop the page from loading. It works--but a few seconds later, it prompts me to log into the CMS/management.

As far as modals go, I actively want modals to respond to esc. I don't want to have to reach for my mouse to close a pop-up. Modal popups are the only thing that should hijack esc.
Keeping in mind that Russia of course isn’t going to come out with a 1-pager on their strategy, there are a lot of sources on this. Understandably if you are hung up on the 24 hours thing I mean there isn’t a source for that but suffice to say the sooner the better was their goal.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-believes-russia-planning-de...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/05/ukraine...

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/russia-aiming-to-decapit...

https://www.axios.com/russia-seeking-decapitate-ukrainian-go...

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-invasion-of-ukraine-w...
Ah, but you got pretty dam close didn't you? And with a little "jig" back were on the one you want. Even with tens or hundreds of thousands of songs you could get to the right one in seconds.
> why waste that access on breaking everything in a highly-visible way when you're better off silently sitting there and using the access to eavesdrop on everything

The subtle approach takes more time.

Take the PoV of the hypothetical Russian decision maker.. you can either take all them down now with something quick & dirty while the tanks are rolling, or inject a stealthy targeted piece of malware you haven't finished yet next week after Kiev is already in the hands of a puppet government....
This is not legal advice. IANAL.

Please seek better legal representation.

There's legislated protection for you and also already US case law as precedent.
Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone
In that case, I recommend starting out with Zill's Precalculus with Calculus Previews and then working through Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals!
If you are after _weird_ Calc alternative for Windows, I use this one all the time: http://graindolium.paradisia.net/applicat/GrainCalcul.rar
just because it lets you use the keyboard instead.
Thx. That's the goal.
And don't forget about the Texas governor trying to place himself between children, parents, and doctors because his base doesn't like the choices they make. This is the same crowd that screamed about the ACA allegedly creating death panels that replace doctors and patients as decision makers. Kids are going to die because they don't get the care they need or are forced into homes that affirm the governor's worldview.
I use FF for my daily driver. I misread and thought you were describing a reader view of this service.
What I'm reading is that they basically do have warrants. What a bunch of crooks, both the judges and the corporate drones.
The Fed released a paper outlining pros and cons of a “digital dollar”
I wonder how long it will be before we hear reports of people having their ovens turned off to "conserve power" by their power company during the day. 20 years? 15? Place your bets!
> 1. Nobody actually believes the numbers of Russians killed coming out of Kyiv, these are for morale purposes.

All the open source intel analysis I've seen suggests otherwise. Individual battle claims are greatly exaggerated but the overall casualty counts of ~10,000 seems accurate. Hospitals in crimean cities are reportedly overflowing with thousands of wounded soldiers. Vehicles and equipment losses are undeniably staggering. Aircraft losses seem to be confirmed as well, with multiple copters and planes being lost, per day. The convoy north of kyiv is almost certain to draw heavy losses without food, fuel, or shelter from the cold.
When I was 12 I selected an online name. Many people refer to me by that name and have nearly forgotten my real name (my last name for sure). Over high school, I had many names and developed a full-blown alias. This disturbed my father at the time.

A couple people I know live by these new names that we chose, even at work where they use their alias everywhere but on their taxes/employment record.
Sure, so we can easily change the definition of "valid" so that you have to initialize them at creation time. shrug
Crimea is already annexed, and LPR/DPR are already de-facto independent. That is the aftermath of the 2014 events. It is necessary for Ukraine to recognize these losses if there is to be some kind of peace, since it's not possible for them to gain it back.

That's why the current invadion is moreso akin to the Iraq war. The invadion in 2014 can be analogised to other conflicts, if you want.
We built this as a bit of a nostalgia trip for people who want to navigate the web using an early 2000's iPod clickwheel. We hope others enjoy it too!
That is not an accurate representation of the legal obligations of jurisdiction participants.

https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-ba...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/deputy-attorney-general-lisa-...
Both are a problem, because they can only be implemented outside ISO C semantics.

That is why I tend to always write ISO C instead of C.
first there were warnings, that with the latest escalations, borders will be officially closed: https://news-ycombinator-com.translate.goog/item?id=30542063...

then there came various confirmations lately by IT people that they could not buy tickets (eg to Dubai or Egypt) anymore, and had to leave via Georgia on the landline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30568698

the train to Helsinki is now $9000
Given Brexit, this can't possibly be a surprise for anyone?
I am very amazed with GEForce Now. I thought the lag would be unbearable. I tried some fortnite and i'm not even a gamer and even won some rounds. Astounding. If it's that good for fast FPS then it's a no-brainer for slower types of games. Would gladly pay 50€+/mo if i was a gamer just so i wouldn't have to bother to keep upgrading my pc.
Doesn't the US have a large population of Roman and Eastern Catholics?

Catholic and Orthodox are two sides of the same coin, this is why I bring it up. I'm also aware that the US has a lot of various Orthodox sects as well, including Russian.
read like the mathematics background chapter of a cryptography book

A lot of maths-related books, especially ones intended as textbooks will read like that in part because they aren't kidding about the 'abstract' in the title - they're trying to teach/re-summarize key concepts of mathematical abstraction. It's a good and true thing to notice.
I like Fabien's books on both wolf3d and doom. It's a fun read.
I agree that Russia isn't a quintessential example of "totalitarian". At some level, this can be just about clarifying semantics. But when I pointed out the new law criminalizing journalism that criticizes the current war, you pushed back on that. You gave an emphasis toward the other direction. So, that seemed more arguing about the nature of the situation and not just semantics.

I'm not calling you a liar.

I also myself wasn't the one who brought up "totalitarian" but instead was just pushing back on the dismissal of it.

My impression is that there's a new fuzzy authoritarianism that Putin has developed where a government with few reliable checks on totalitarianism chooses to have a lot of democratic-theater that includes real stuff. Like a Reality TV show, it's not actually all scripted, it's not all actors, and they allow real sincere opposition to do and say things, but it's all within the directors of the show deciding how much natural stuff to allow or even encourage in order to keep up the public view of the legitimacy of their government. It's like an intentional non-totalitarianism out of an understanding of the brittleness of actual totalitarianism, and they just take care that things are controlled and limited just enough that it actually maximizes the power of the non-totalitarian government.

So, it ends up being a question of "totalitarian" for real versus "might as well be totalitarian where it counts", and I'm NOT asserting even that I'm sure Russia is even the latter, but I'm rejecting the strength of the assertions about freedom of the press and other things used as evidence of non-totalitarianism.

And anyway, I agree completely about the propaganda in the rest of the world. I have no illusions about any of that, and I don't think the U.S. or EU are really democratic. We can see quite blatantly that policies have very little correlation to overall public support but instead correlate only to the support of the wealthy.
You can get good or better at something with effort, but few will ever make to leap to being great or world class at it, no matter how hard they try.
Thanks for a thorough and thoughtful response!
Nuclear power can be considered a fossil fuel, as it relies on non-renewable metals for fusion.
Relax! I'm pro-science, bro.

I'm not pushing an agenda, simply pointing out Minsky's hypocrisy. He thinks he's transcending the "loop" of ideology, but really just displacing one with another.

But thanks anyway for the patronizing explanation that absolutely no one asked for.
Idealists do not force anybody.

What happened was that they failed to employ competent people who could have managed the transition. There would have been pilot projects for each crop, and staged rollout. Any problems would be noticed long before they became any kind of crisis. Rollout for each problem crop would have paused until the problems were solved.

So, this is not a failure of idealism. It is a failure of management. It is possible that rollout would never have completed, but just as likely problems would have been solved, piecemeal, and outlay for imported fertilizers would have been radically reduced, one of the not-exactly-idealist goals of the project.

China's 30 million people starved by the CCP's management failings is a more stark example.
Yeah a 67%+ majority would seem to have been better requirement
Front light, I agree, would probably have a different spectral profile.
What have seen since WWII is that military attacks are extremely hard. Just about all successful missions have support of the local population in the attacked countries.

Yes, the US can take over countries like Iraq or Afghanistan. And then what? Is there any net gain for the US? On the other hand, NATO bombings in former Yoguslavia led to a situation that is still more or less stable today.

Russia quickly took over Crimea, which has strategic value and has support of the local population. But now they are stuck with a nasty and costly war in Ukraine.

So it is not clear where in the world Germany would play 'empire'.

I wonder to what extend an army can maintain an effective defence if there no need for any defence for many decades. Many western European countries have not been attacked since the end of WWII.
This behavior is already done to translate 1.5 and 12Mbps packets into 480Mbps. USB 1.1 didn't do that and 1.5Mbps data effectively stole bus time from higher speed traffic.
Of course it is real. Why would it be surprising? The story is exactly like that – Russia indoctrinates people that Ukraine is run by nazis. It is not true and when you are faced with reality you have to accept it.

I was reading vk social media yesterday which is popular in Russia. People in Russia have no idea what is going on in this war. They still think that Russians have had only 500 casualties. The real number is closer to 10,000.
Your exercise is already useful to you (and those around you): it keeps you healthier and reduces future medical cost expected by the society.

It sounds like a fun project, so I'm not arguing against that, but I don't expect it to "help the Earth" in any meaningful way. Considering the fossil fuel usage by modern agriculture (and all the energy spent on delivering the food to our mouths), the net climate impact of using "human energy" is probably worse than an electric kettle.
This looks really interesting! It seems like there's potentially 2 great companies in here:

1. Providing good programming tests with automatic env setup

2. Automatic PR reviewing and grading.

By this I mean that you could do less and still be useful, for example just run linting and tests on the PR and let me review it myself. That will match what I do at work anyway. That would let you focus on just providing great example projects and covering more languages, rather than on the automatic grading.
> "Did we think Russians can't watch FOX or listen to AM radio? I mean, our 'PR' is clearly far more advanced, but I don't know how you can talk about all that for an entire paper and not once look in the mirror."

Are you sincerely asserting that Fox News and AM Radio started, or inspired, this propaganda model?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA immediately comes to mind.
Yes, I was a bit unclear, but that was my question exactly. I hoped that there is some trick I don’t yet know. Dropping and creating these massive views is my nightmare.
Agreed, I'd like to get the velocity working correctly. I think about how natural it feels on https://tannerv.com/ipod/ we still have a bit to go to get to that point.

And I appreciate the mention about the button support, we're going to add a few more pages to show that functionality, as well as adding in the original click sound as you scroll.

I think it could be something really fun if we get the UX right.
Where's statistics? You mean to tell me I could go through all that and come out not knowing statistics?
Did you know that the US currently generates 4 times as much electricity from oil as most renewables only excluding nuclear (hydro, solar, wind).

This is incorrect. As of 2021 the United States generated about 0.5% of its electricity from petroleum. It generated 9.2% from wind, 6.3% from hydro, and 2.8% from solar.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Really great read, I found it very engaging! It does a great job balancing introducing concepts and teasing more advanced stuff for anyone who wants to explore further.

I wish I had this text when I took my intro to computer hardware course!

I found one or two copy editing errors (missing words, a broken link) but those are easily fixed and I'll make an issue for them.

Great work overall.
this may or may not have been my inspiration haha
If it's full of "untruths" and "whataboutism", then point them out, it should be easy because you said there are so many, provide sources etc. Your comment actually makes this article more believable, because it makes it look like people who hold your viewpoint don't have a leg to stand on.
I'll check those out, thank you!
But many elections aren't determined by undecided middle voters. They are a small minority of the voting population, and most effort spent convincing them is wasted.

Elections are often determined by how successful the get-out-the-vote campaigns are, to get the base to show up and vote. It's both much easier, and much more profitable to bring a lazy member of your base to the polls, than to badger someone who doesn't care much either into voting for you.
But finding a viable business niche that doesn't depend on some quasi-monopolist is getting harder every day.
True! But sometikes getting better at something is all people really want, and that's ok. I see that most of my CS students just want to be able to not see math as an obstacle when learning new/interesting things.
I've heard that from another firefox user as well. Thanks for the heads up, I'll add it to my list of changes!
Yeah, I worried about my wording, but couldn't think of anything that would get that point across better.

FWIW, I respect and admire those who avoid violence. We need less application of it in the world, obviously.
So your Tesla car basically has a fully remote OTA backdoor controlled by Tesla Inc., as predicted. Hardly a surprise.

Can't wait for a hacker to control a random Tesla from anywhere in the world by using Starlink internet.
I find it hard to believe that the author started to appreciate physics by reading The Feynman Lectures on Physics before any exposure to physics or even algebra, and in less than three years went from barely knowing high school math to enjoying advanced mathematical physics and graduate-level quantum physics. It looks this is one-in-a-million level brilliance as learning the sheer amount of requirement knowledge in such a short time is amazingly challenging: analysis, functional analysis, complex analysis, linear algebra, abstract algebra, differential equations, mathematical statistics, and all the physics: mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, optics, statistical mechanics, relativity, and of course quantum physics, all in less than three years.

Kudos if the author is this talented.
> That the democracy is not a 100% requirement

That was literally my point. GP said one reason Russia and US might not be allies is because of democracy, when clearly that hasn't stopped US from being allies before.

>You made up something here

GP brought up the topic of invasion, I didn't.
Any chance I could borrow this code for my (very WIP) classic clickwheel iPod emulator? I've actually got an experimental WASM build of it up and running, so this would be super appropriate!

https://github.com/daniel5151/clicky
among all the new web trends i like this one the most

frameworks keep coming and going, but iPod click wheel will serve us for centuries!
Many people have a concept of human rights, which we contrast rights which are considered to be legal creations (legal rights). Frequently people are considered to have a natural right to life, whereas the right to vote or own a business would be mere legal creations. Jefferson, among others, distinguishes copyright as a social construct[0], which different societies may feel free to respect or not, in consideration only of their own benefit. As pertains to the current topic, Russia by this act is disregarding their treaty obligations, but not necessarily violating anyone's human rights by doing so.

[0] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0...
I'm in chrome on MacOS and it works for me and others, you don't have JS disabled with an extension do you? Also you have to click and drag around in a circle for it to work.
Shutting cars off ought to mean that telsa gets immediately disincorporated. Companies just should not be able to decide that they no longer want you to use the product that they sold you and remotely destroy it.
Most home kitchen scales have gram accuracy, but I doubt the calibration procedures lend themselves to even that level of accuracy.

Throwing in a bowl works to a point, but if you accidentally dump too much in, you might have a hard time removing the extra 1g.
"No well in hell" is a very good answer. Just the HTML DOM and layouting code in KHTML before it was forked into WebKit was an enormously complex piece of code. Then there is the JS implementation (including compiler - JS gets transferred as source code), the SVG DOM and renderer and other goodies that were integral parts of browsers already back then that I'm probably not thinking about.
Wonder if it was the Pro or lessons learned from it that instigated building their own Mac chips.

“Intel can’t or won’t make the chips we need to make the designs we want, so we’re going to have to do it ourselves.”
Yearn Finance is listed in the article as one of the 25 projects being shit down on April 3rd. Could be a mistake by the journalist of course but do you have anything to back up your assertion that it’s not closing?
It looks like you're automating coding interviews. Not technical interviews.

I conduct technical interviews routinely and very rarely do I touch on anything coding-related. That's because I'm in security, compliance, and identity.

I'd strong suggest changing changing 'technical interview', because it gave me a completely incorrect idea of your product.

Coding interviews are technical. But not all technical interviews are coding.