skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I traveled the world and am born in Romania. Russia is an evil authoritarian kleptocratic state with vestiges of communism that need to be excised by the Russian people. The Hungarians had to deal with this, the Polish had to deal with this, the Romanians had to deal with this, etc. If Russia wants to be part of the civilized and liberal (in the classical sense) Western world, there needs to be change.

The Chinese people will eventually have to come to the same national conclusion, but at least China isn't bombing civilians in neighboring countries—not that Uyghur concentration camps are much better, but at least they are quieter.

The US and NATO are hardly perfect, of course, but let's not kid ourselves: just about everyone would rather live in America than in Russia. There's a reason Silicon Valley is here; there's a reason Hollywood is here; there's a reason the best universities (where even Russian oligarchs send their kids) are here.
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This is also playing right into NATO's hands in a way.

But, after reading the authors I mentioned closely, I now realize that this is a war for control/negative-control over natural resources (grain, oil, gas, fertilizers, etc.). Also, this is about geostrategic security (anchoring at the Carpathian mountains and Bessarabia Gap).

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CNeDtZmpjU

And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
One of the best things on Android is having SELinux and seccomp enabled.
Russia will build its own DNS, cites US information warfare (2017)
no worries, was having fun with the response.
Relationship Hero (YC S17) is hiring sales associates (remote)
Neat!

Because you're here, and partly out of vicarious self-interest (my kid is about to graduate with a biochem bachelors and is looking around at industry work before heading back to grad school):

What's the day-to-day work here look like? I have a good idea of what most software companies, and even a lot of hardware companies, do. I have no notion of what line engineers and tech workers at a company like this are doing. Is it mostly modeling work? Materials engineering stuff? What's the software stack here, if any?
Let's bring back to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, only under a more inclusive name.

Russia wasn't always authoritarian, though. Before the Mongols, it was a bunch of independent, freedom-loving cities. Sort of like the American Wild West.

I feel like we need a new experiment in inclusive governance, and that Slavic countries are the place to do it.
Are Apple Trying to Patent the Home Computer 45 Years Too Late?
It's pretty hard to grass roots organize when you don't have internet though.
Driving the speed limit or higher on an icy road is wildly reckless, it would be insane to program a computer to do that, regardless of whether you could.
Semantle: Guess the daily word based on semantic similarity
I don't find it surprising that they would trust a system where the emergency braking isn't disabled.
Yeah, and when quantum supremacy arrives and/or there is a mathematical breakthrough, then the data suddenly is exposed.
I'm going to flag this. You can read Elon tweets and disprove this theory in seconds.
Opinion: Innovative solutions to sustainable development? Try livestock (2019)
Russia has declared NATO occupation of Ukraine (a natural result of defending it) an 'existential threat', which is a prelude to the use of nuclear weapons. This is a ticket it gets to punch once, at Ukraine's expense.
Could you elaborate? Is this just something you noticed, or are you referring to some publicly available metric?
What's the risk? How about this https://www.the-sun.com/news/4045314/videos-putin-prisons-in...
Cool game I like it, runs smooth!
The number who have stayed to fight has been amazing. However, TFA says "a research firm in Kyiv was able to conduct for Lord Ashcroft Polls in the past few days." So I'm not surprised this proportion is high among Ukrainians still there.
Buying a Goat for a Family in Africa: The Pros and Cons
Reminds me a bit of Scott Hanselman's "One Email Rule" https://www.hanselman.com/blog/one-email-rule-have-a-separat... that requires a bit of training on other people's part (for the good of all)
That web page is like a time capsule, serious 90s vibes. Just add <marquee> tag somewhere in there to make it complete.
Well, that's clearly not the way Go operates. Go makes incompatible changes between minor releases; they just don't break type signatures. For example, debug/pe ImportedLibraries(), which is supposed to return all the libraries that a module imports, was stubbed out to return "nil, nil" in a minor release [1]. This is clearly an incompatible change, but as it didn't cause code to fail to compile the Go team deemed it semver compatible.

Edit: Apparently this is wrong! See replies below.

[1]: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/abstracting-away-correctnes...
You can say anything about Putin, but at least he knows plenty about taming bears. Maybe we should ask him for help!
It seems like the current model isn't working too well. The more outlets clickbait the more they damage their brand. And people get a lot of news through Reddit and Twitter these days completely bypassing news outlets.
Not to mention the fact that these sanctions are going to make poor people starve. Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine make up a huge chunk of world grain, fertilizer, oil, and gas exports.

In the Grand Chessboard, former NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski openly talks about oil and gas pipelines and diverting them away from Russia. That's what this war is really about.
Much higher unanimity than I had expected!
Yep. And there’s a good chance the company’s production database is on employee laptops so they can test features with real data sets.

When a stranger has their laptop stolen on a bus, who knows what data was on it. Fingers crossed most people have FileVault turned on these days.
You say Russia invade Ukraine? Right to jail. You say Russia retreat from Ukraine? Also right to jail. You say Ukraine not part of Russia? Believe it or not, jail.
Yes. Continue to run those headlines until the status quo changes. These are active situations that continue get worse, and continue to currently negatively affect the majority of US citizens. The apathy is part of the reason nothing has improved. It's like we gave up. If you don't keep trying to improve, the revolutionaries will come, and no one will be able to defend what we have against them.
The Chrome sandbox would also be problematic for these workloads, for similar reasons! The point of isolated kernels is to foreclose on whole large classes of vulnerabilities. The problem of shared-kernel isolation is that you opt into them.

In the status quo ante of Firecracker, there were colorable arguments that hypervisors had comparably large attack surfaces to containers and jails and zones. But that's mostly out the window now: you can write a mostly memory-safe hypervisor and give it a tiny attack surface by providing only minimal support for virtio devices --- the big challenge with legacy hypervisor stacks is that they were designed to support things like desktop Windows, rather than being scoped down to serverside Linux.
> Solving self-driving in a select group of cities with permanent 5g connectivity, hi resolution gps, and 30k worth of sensors is a massively easier problem than solving “Tesla fsd”.

And yet I don’t trust that we’ll be there by 2030 either.

> For this bet cars can deal with unusual circumstances in all sorts of suboptimal but harmless ways.

Stopping or slowing down isn’t always a “safe state”. Stopping in some situations (like on a highway) is the opposite of harmless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–TikTok_controvers...
I used to pirate a lot of video games when I was young. Steam ( later epic ) entered India and started regional pricing and now I have pretty big collection on steam and epic ( free games )

Same thing with Movies and music. I made a huge offline collection worth 2-3TBs before I just had to throw it all away because everything was available on spotify, Netflix, Disney+Hotstar, Amazon Prime. Their services are top-notch and most importantly affordable.

I think something similar must be done to the online article/news market to make people want to pay them for easier and affordable access. Until then I will use every extension the internet has to provide to read any article I wanna read.
I like the font. I'd pay $75 for a license if it works for editing code.

The problem is that it typically takes a week or so of use to determine if it would work for me. I'm not going to pay $75 for something that I won't know if I have any use for.
> Completely one-sided coverage

I'm not sure what else you expected, it's completely one-sided issue - one side started and continues the war. One side can stop this war at any time.

Did you expect 50-50 coverage, with 50% repeating Putin's propaganda?
I agree, but our opinion has zero value for whom calls the shots on such industries.
One could quibble over the details of the experiment, such as what sort of lamp to use, but Maxwell's laws would have to be repealed for the experiment to not work essentially as Veritasium claimed. Check out "electromagnetic induction" and "displacement current".
As a designer I love how much typography is appreciated on HN.
Rather, I think the closest was when Trump threatened to ban TikTok.
What does 100% mean?

I ask because I think that there are useful points short of "never makes a mistake."

The alternative to self-driving cars isn't perfection. It is humans, humans who not only vary in their peak performance, but in their context-specific performance. A car that drove better than me when I'm tired is a good thing for everyone.

There's lot of talk about liability, but it seems both wrong and incomplete.

One incompleteness comes up with an "accident" happens that a less-than-perfect self-driving system would have avoided. The legal system might not be willing to penalize in that situation now, but the upcoming Breathalyzer mandate is moving us that direction.

One wrong focuses on "will the author of the self-driving system be held liable?" I think that the liability will go to the driver/owner, as today. If it's better than me and my insurance company is willing to insure me, then why wouldn't my insurance company be willing to insure my use of a self-driving system?
Is this an acceptable strategy?

There's an ethical argument against it: "hey lets punish innocent civilians so they attack the real enemy" and a practical argument: "hey russia started the conflict, but didnt cut-off your internet, that was a US company that sees you as their enemy"
You’re right, antibodies are able to recognize shape. Several early steps of the immune response, however, are independent of conformation. For example, in order to be presented, protein antigens are usually processed and chopped into small peptides, and these may be similar between both prion variants. Additionally, prion proteins can be resistant to that sort of processing.
Why? Why are people okay with their comfortable life getting worse? There doesn't appear to be any ideology. It isn't communism. It isn't religion. It appears to be an ego struggle paid for by the comforts of the Russian people. What are you getting out of this deal?
Forget snow; that problem exists for wet roads at night with oncoming traffic!
Does Russia have an alternative video service?

I can understand asking to censor YT channels but this is too extreme. YT is also a repository of knowledge, not just a social media platform like Twitter so this is a big loss for an average Russian.
In Europe RT News did not shut down, they were banned.
Musk also proficient in C++, among other things

https://medium.com/p/4120f36da702
I subscribed for a while, and really liked the news! However, a little off topic, there was a very strange several day period where I got repeated auto-playing audio-only ads that I could not stop from playing. There were no audio/video controls anywhere, but I could turn my phone volume down. For days, the ad was always this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYUvgxwuJbA (Dietz Nuts ad, the joke is that Dietz sounds like "deez" or "these")

I called their support asking if this is a known type of ad that they do for paying subscribers. It seemed like a bug, so thought they'd want to dig into it. They told me that this is indeed a thing they do, and that I am not exempt from autoplaying unstoppable audio ads just because I pay. I told them to double check, since otherwise I'd be canceling, and they confirmed that it's a thing, so I canceled. (I'm 50% sure the support person just didn't know what I was saying. Maybe my ad blocker was being screwy somehow.)
First try, 17 moves: Okay, lets see if I can do better.

Second try, 17 moves: Interesting, lets try again.

Third try, 18 moves: Damn, not what I expected...
My personal integrity is a higher bar than mere legality. I realize that I may be in a minority with that attitude in startup culture.
Trying to think when this worked well. Iran and North Korea had sanctions imposed on them for quite a bit of time, and they seem to have a pretty stable leadership structure for years. Perhaps some of the colored revolutions or Arab Spring movements but not sure how much sanctions played into those...

As long as Putin can re-interpret this as an external aggression from the $insert_pejorative West, and broadcast that better than Twitter, CNN, etc, I can see those sanctions having an opposite effect and further solidify his power.

On the other hand, I can see attacking those who are closer to him being a lot more effective. His billionaire friends not being able to travel to south of France for vacation is a much more serious threat than a regular person who cannot use Apple Pay or watch Netflix any longer.
On some level, losing things you already had hurts a lot more than preventing it from taking root.
Did they censor the pages in Russia too?

Afair, it was them censoring them in EU
They seem to be getting a lot of groceries in the back of that thing [1], also shows them putting in a surfboard. It has a lot more space than would seem to be the case from looking at the exterior.

> Where would you fit a suitcase in that thing?

Unless it's some kind of huge suitcase where the smallest dimension is 3+ feet... in the back cargo area under the hatchback.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWukO5TLssM (about 15 seconds in)
Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes
There were between 80k - 120k protesters [1] present on January 6. An estimated 1,200 illegally entered the building. That's 1%. Do you have a credible citation that indicates that the core purpose and motivation of the ~100k was to support the action of the 1%?

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-classified-documents-reve...
No, isn't exact comparison but it is the same vein. RT.com headlines have actually been relatively straight forward statement of fact with out charged language. I suspect many at the channel are against the war.
They also present full or longer clips of Russian official, instead of (possibly misleading) sound bites.

One doesn't have to agree with a viewpoint to find value in knowing what the other side thinks, instead of being told what they think.

FOX News and MSNBC are a form of propaganda as well.
The correct answer is both are needed, for overlapping but not always identical reasons.

There are a lot of drug addicts in homeless encampments, and they are often a menace to other people and to themselves (the drug addiction often going hand-in-hand with mental illness.)
MINE + CRAFT
Many things associated with homelessness are already criminal. It is is not clear to me how this changes anything for the better.

Instead of charging them with a crime in a real court, and mandating rehab programs or incarceration if they don't cooperate, we will charge them in a "care court" and mandate rehab programs or incarceration.

Seems like the same exact thing.
Russia limits information themselves - they’ve blocked facebook and twitter mere just a day ago.
And what about when "Mom is in the backseat having a heart attack and we need to try to get to the hospital" is added to the equation?
I've been an on-and-off Cogent customer for two decades now. Getting into peering wars used to be one of their major recreational sports.
Mercedes will release the EQS in the first half of the current year with the Level 3 "Drive Pilot". Works (afaik) on the entire german Autobahn.

German source, you will probably find an English one as well - even contains a video: https://www.golem.de/news/s-klasse-mit-level-3-mercedes-darf...
I have a theory about what's going on here, and I don't doubt that it has occurred to other people smarter than me in all areas of the globe:

Russia's invasion of Ukraine may be partly -- mostly, ostensibly -- about Ukraine, but it could also be an attempt to provoke lots of institutions in the rest of the world into making overly-aggressive counter-responses.

Russia may want the CIA and special forces of European nations, to overreact. It may want Facebook to fail to moderate within Russia's (perhaps onerous, but no less legitimate in standing than of any other country) legal requirements, may want NATO to overstep, may want individuals and groups to get involved to the extent of personal and business risk that they later regret.

Under that perspective, Russia's actions could be a series of provocations almost entirely to demonstrate and document alleged hypocrisies around the globe and to see whether the world is able to counteract those, or whether the general population proceeds with accepting them as matter-of-fact.

This idea makes me scared. There's vast potential to uncover massive wrongdoings and learn about organized, international coercion -- but there's also the chance that those same forces (who are, I'll add, not always restricted by borders, in practice -- even though citizens of all affected countries are) simply win out and become a dominant world order.
Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant [pdf]
> We have direct historical precedent in Cuba where the US almost started World War Three over the USSR doing the exact same thing the US had already done in Turkey.

Yet the US did not invade Cuba and the US choose a blockade over an invasion during the Cuba missile crisis. Even with the bay of pigs the US choose against direct military intervention and merely armed and supported Cuban rebels. This is direct contradiction of your claim.

This war has nothing to do with bases and everything to do with Putin's dream of a slavic ethno-nationalist super state. The Russia government has said as much, as had Putin in the past. Note that Ukraine doesn't even have US bases on its territory and was not even going have bases for the foreseeable future. Your argument here has no legs to stand on.

> This is so laughably untrue. The US has long influenced Mexico's elections and domestic policy over things like the drug trade, foreign aid and such.

You are moving the goal posts. Not one saying the US does not use diplomacy and soft power to attempt to influence the policies of other nations. We are talking about a war of aggression waged against a democracy by means of total war including the indiscriminate shelling of cities and population centers. Total war is very different from Russia merely supporting a coup, backing a candidate in an election, or arming rebel forces.

Saying "What about the US" is not the trump card you think it is. Attempting to wash away the blood Russia is spilling by saying the US would do that same is admitting Russia's guilt. Terrible crimes like this are not excused because someone else did them as well. Not one would accept the murder defense that sure Alice murdered Bob, but Eve also murdered Carol. If the US launched a total war against Mexico because Mexico was going to sign an economic agreement with China or offered a China a military base, I, and I suspect you as well, would be strongly against such a war.

Finally what the US does or does not do is not at issue here because Russia is not invading the US, Russia is invading Ukraine! Would Ukraine invade Belarus if Belarus had Russian military bases? No, because Belarus has Russian bases and Ukraine did not invade Belarus.

> So this is the Ameribrain in action.

Using insulting terminology like this both harms your ability to communicate your argument and harms this forum. Please don't do that here.
> storing encrypted secrets is fine

Only until/unless the encryption is broken. I wouldn’t store long-lived secrets even encrypted in a public place.
Once Russia has Ukraine, they will have met most of their core geostrategic security objectives. If they go any farther, then it will be WW3 as it should be.
Bell labs was doing research for AT&T, a telephone service company.
Honestly, just the title of this post has caused me to lose some trust in Adafruit as a company. It's so completely passive and doesn't explain what actually happened. It feels like it was intentionally written to avoid attracting attention, but then attracts attention because of how vague and weird it is.
Well with GP's logic, a C program is isomorphic to XML because it can be parsed and then the parse tree serialized as XML.
Trump's social media site/thing won't be able to take off properly because if they allow the level of 'freedom of speech' on there that they say they want to allow, neither Apple's nor Google's app stores will host the Truth Social app.

At least that's what I've seen people say, and it sounds quite plausible.

So in that regard there is some way that the web gets policed in the US.
I don't think it's that insanely ambiguous.

If the car moves extremely slowly in a major city, it would get banned after a handful of traffic jams, and so wouldn't be commercially available. And anyways no company would risk the bad PR of launching a car that tops out at below the speed limit.

If the car calls itself a tow truck, it has obviously failed to drive itself.

If the car is programmed to avoid tricky roads, it can't "drive everywhere in all conditions" per SAE.
Thank you for saying this. I really can't stand the "west good, everyone else bad" arrogance I see here sometimes. Western rulers lie to their people too!

As an exercise, search for "the ghost of kyiv" and then try to imagine what the headlines would look like if it were a actually a fake russian story about a russian pilot instead of a ukrainian one.
Much better link is the actual reddit comment:
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/t3qrxe/company_di...

BoredPanda appears to just screenshot reddit comments with a large font?
AT&T was in the business of selling telephone service. Bell labs (AT&T owned) was where UNIX was created. Why else would AT&T be researching computer systems if not to broaden and improve their marketshare in telecommunications?
Also, caniuse.com's way of displaying the browser versions is much more helpful. It also communicates which browser versions are current, what's coming up in the next version, and so on.
Who else could have an estimated $40 billion and not bother touching it? My guess is that it's the Mars fund and when Starship is ready, those first coins will move.