skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what ? I was not even aware that it would work ! (Am I the only one to discover that just now ? I am not using Spotlight very often)

It's kind of cool, but I can still find many grievances about the way it's done :-)
>France could build whatever expeditionary force it could fit within its national budget, and it would still be completely useless for national strategic interests, because you could only really use it if the Americans agree you could use it.

You have that exactly backwards. The French expeditionary force can only be deployed with American approval because it requires American logistics. If this were not the case, you would have something approximating Russian expeditionary capabilities.
Yes, although they may not be ideal unless you're able to define a "distance" between a proof that the agent is proposing and whether that proof is correct (i.e. unless you're able to define a reward or energy function).

It may be possible to infer/learn a score from existing proofs though. We have a paper that manages to both learn a flow and an energy function (the score) from data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01361

I don't know much about theorem proving though. Can some value be attributed to partial proofs?
'Enforcing a no-fly zone' is a euphemism for 'declaring war'.

You can't enforce the former without doing the latter, because people with SAMs are going to start shooting at your airplanes, and your 'no-fly zone' now turns into a 'we are bombing ground troops zone' which is indistinguishable from a 'we have declared war' zone.
Who is getting $15k every pay period?

Plus, the recruiter can be outside the company.
Yeah but Ukraine isn't Russia and it looks like Russia is finding out that they aren't just going to roll over for them.
you can assign a new object into *buf in C just fine, with "*buf = (struct YourType){.prop1 = a, .prop2 = b}"; it even zero-initializes unset fields! So C and Rust give you precisely the same abilities here.

edit: the "struct pipe_buffer" in question[1] has one field that even the updated code doesn't write - "private". Not sure what it's about, but it's there. Not writing unrelated fields like that is probably not much of an issue now, but it certainly can add up on low-power systems. You might also have situations where you'd want to write parts of an object in different parts of the code, for which you'd have to resort to writing fields manually.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/719fce7539cd3e186598e...
There are a near-infinite number of reasons to explain differences in economic outcomes between these two countries.

How confident are you that the conclusion you've come to here is the truth?
It's not clear to a western audience if this is closer to Noah's Ark or closer to Santa in terms of "how literally do people interpret this event".
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>Most likely if Putin is facing a defeat he will either deploy nukes and go out with everyone else, or go out like Hitler.

Spies are better at self-preservation than charismatic leaders that can give good speeches. I'm no fan of Putin. But its highly doubtful his end will be like Hitler's in a bunker. Besides, Putin's been running this game far longer than Hitler did.
Thank you Putin for helping us to move away from fossil fuels.
I mean, sure, you can try to write good code or not give a shit, and if you do one or the other will certainly matter to the outcome, agreed.

But I (who has worked my entire decade+ career on very small teams/companies/projects) think that, past a certain point of not being just apathetic/irresponsible, "trying harder not to have bugs when I write the code the first time" has much much less effect on outcome than code review (including even code review by yourself, but giving yourself the time to do that, including some resting time in between when you write and review your own code), test suite, QA, error monitoring (with allowance to spend time diagnosing and fixing any errors reported; actually just having that allowance in general, otherwise bugs keep building on bugs), etc.

Plus if you think bugs are a result of "not trying hard enough" or "not focusing hard enough", you just stress yourself out. Even more so on a small (or especially solo) team. There are ways to create high-quality low-bug software without stressing yourself out. I don't think they include a model where bugs are your fault for not trying hard enough.

But sure, everyone should try to write good code, and if you don't care about what you are doing and don't even try, you will have more bugs, it's true.
Sure it is absolutely going to be difficult for the west as well, but not catastrophic.
> I would guess though that a bunch of health tech sent

I worked for a "healthtech" company in London at the beginning of the pandemic. They had the Facebook SDK malware embedded in the app that people were supposed to use for GP consultations.

I don't believe any explicit health data was sent (there was no intent to do so, and I’m not sure if that would even be possible), but merely the fact that I'm talking to a doctor (and the current time, location, device fingerprint, etc) is not something I'd like Facebook to know.

I know breaching the GDPR is basically the norm in any tech company but I thought that being involved in healthcare would make them super risk-averse and make an extra effort to comply.

They were not alone in this - PatientAccess and a bunch of other sites - that you can use to book GP consultations (including through the NHS - UK’s socialised healthcare system) had a shit ton of such trackers too, obviously loaded before any GDPR consent could even be obtained.
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Maybe they can do a handheld Mac Micro or Mac Nano.
Invisible hand might work in a liberal capitalist law-abiding society. Russia in 90s lacked most of these.
No, the grant, before any reactor, is equivalent to 400 MW (later adjusted down by capacity factor). The nuclear reactor itself is vastly more expensive ($2.4B after the 5th unit). So each reactor is closer to 1500MW of wind (again if we take 30% then 450MW more in line with the reactor) and that’s optimistic (because early nuke estimates tend to underestimate cost). So the real reason for nuclear is that it provides consistent output and thus has lower requirements on the grid.
Does anyone know how to prevent pollution? I have only nuclear power since day one, but my industry is very dirty. I guess the only way is killing off my industry, but then I suffer from unemployment.
Doubly so because when someone says “who are you,” usually they mean “what’s your name?”
Yep, here-ish for the later standard-gauge tunnel over toward Railroad Ave in Woodacre:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0043212,-122.6207934,115m/da...

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1SkFrgLj-TR4gyw9Y4m...

Some relevant pages:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130107031505/https://www.marin...

https://www.marindirect.com/fxhistory/whiteshill.html

http://www.pacificng.com/template.php?page=roads/ca/npc/gotg...
I have lived in many places out west, thanks. Metro areas are kind of arbitrary things with surprisingly arbitrary definitions. But going by USGS, the Washington DC metro area alone is about 6.4 million people, surprisingly close to the Dallas metro area. If you're going to insist on including Fort Worth, then you probably should also allow the DC metro area to include Baltimore, whose city center is under 40 miles from the White House. The combined DC and Baltimore metro area is about 9 million people, larger than DFW I believe.

I understand that everything is bigger in Texas. But everyone seems to want to restrict DC to the diamond, which is like restricting New York to Manhattan. DC is much larger than many people realize. Regardless, my point is: from the perspective of the impact on population size, Dallas and DC are roughly equivalent environments.
result = 0

for each x in L: result += x

for each x in M: result -= x

(Loops arent nested here but done sequentially)

Whats the ballpark? O(2N) you might say. Nah, its like saying that x+1 is O(2), you re not giving me the ballpark here. What matters is how fast it grows when we put in more inputs. We dont care how many operations there is exactly.

It's O(N). Think of it like, whatever are the details, we have traversed one list, the concatenation of L and M. Weve just traversed lists sequentially, its in the ballpark of traversing one (think of it as a big one if you need too) list. O(N).
Not if the added inefficiency totally consumes the added clean energy and needs further non-clean energy to sustain it. You could end up in a situation where taking energy from residential solar panels leads to burning more coal than if you hadn't done anything.
USD-HUF (and EUR-HUF) is also bonkers

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=HUF
https://archive.ph/r1rlG
But Russia went to war because Putin did it on a whim. Likely the last wish of a dying man. They could have gone along just fine without attacking Ukraine. It is a completely irrational move on their part.
https://asmirvine.com/
I’ve never seen or heard of any society that has pulled it off for long. Where you see it even in the short term, that is more likely due to extreme effort put forward on a day to day basis by people both in the machine and outside it.

If you care to put forward some examples, I’m happy to try to provide more concrete information on what I mean.

It’s easy to write off leaders as sociopaths - but very few seem to check the boxes, if you pull yourself out of the politics.

More often often you see someone acting with a set of incentives and a problem that you don’t understand, making a decision you don’t agree with. Which sucks. Add on top that the extreme pressure, visibility, power, and wealth can cause some unique looking (but all too common) pathologies at those levels, and it gets even easier to us vs them them.

Someone can’t make hard decisions if their heart bleeds (for real) for every bad situation. No group will survive long with no one able to make hard decisions leading it.

No matter what anyone does, if the group size is large enough bad situations will happen no matter how good a system is, or how perfect anyone attempts to make it. For anyone to be able to be effective at that level, they have to be able to make decisions somewhat free of emotional affect, and to be good, they need to do that without completely losing it. Which is incredibly difficult.

It’s easier to just go ‘meh’, make the decision that’s better for them right now and move on.

And being an experienced leader - emotional contagion/forcing empathy as a manipulation tool is super common, and commonly used to try to ‘should’ someone into making a decision that is terrible for everyone.

We all do it (hopefully positively) - give a smile (regardless of how we’re actually feeling) to the boss, or try to relay how terrible it feels to them when a family emergency happens, etc. hoping they’ll empathize and treat us nicer.

And good bosses do, but also know how to draw the line if someone is abusing it.

A sociopath (by definition) acts anti-socially, and they won’t be at the head of any social group for long, if ever.
Based on the certificate authorities linked to by Microsoft [1], around $400 to $700 a year, depending on the type of certificate. Extended validation certificates grant the software a better reputation with antivirus products, but I don't know if there is actual validation involved, or if it's just buying a rank.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/da...
Yup, but that don't pay the bills.
It does catch up, of course it does. It takes some time, but there is ROI, and it’s not even that far in time. It’s just that you have to spend more time in debt.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UC_BCz0pzMw
I think you overestimate of what "we" can do. The people who can deescalate the situation in a snap are the ones close to Putin.
tldr: Microsoft provides a web service that returns user authentication tokens based on port of the request for users using the service without the user having to validate their identity!

The default values of the service include Managed Identity being set to ON.

This default means you don't have to provide or rotate any secrets and the service (which you can get a token to without authenticating) has access to all resources that can be authenticated with Active Directory. So full compromise at root level through a GET request to an endpoint with no authentication.

Do I have this right? Wow.
You are falsely assuming that allowing public access and serving the requested object constitutes an intentional act of invitation by a bucket owner. If the alleged victim sought the FBI's assistance, it seems pretty clear that they did not intend to extend such an invitation, regardless of the bucket's configuration.

Or, to extend the metaphor I made earlier, just because I left the door unlocked, it doesn't mean I meant to invite anyone in. And if they tricked my housekeeper to invite them in by falsely claiming I authorized them to come to pick up my broken laptop, they'd have no invitation defense, either. (Maybe they wouldn't be guilty of burglary, but certainly larceny.)

Unauthorized access can occur whether the bucket is public or not. The law does not require that sufficient measures (or any measures, really) be taken to protect the assets in question. We can disagree as to whether it should, but that's not how it's written today.

Before making comparative arguments here, it's a good idea to think about whether a judge would laugh at you or not. :-)
Yeah, places I've worked that offered referral bonuses typically deferred the bonus for 3-6 months to make sure the referred employee passes "probation" period.
Why wouldn't you lobby to get public funds _and_ do something that can actually sell mass market?
Seems entirely plausible to me that someone pushed a firmware update which corrupted the firmware (even maybe at the fpga/bootcode level) and effectively bricked the devices. Not horribly complicated to do and once you've done it it would require physical access to recover each device individually.

Is there a plausible explanation for who would do this, besides Russia?

Is Viasat/Eutelsat a particularly good target for this for some reason (seems more like Iridium is used in these scenarios).
Is there a specific tech stack that matches most of these roles or is one of Python/Java/JS good enough?
Well, why exactly would it be fair for only the United States to get away with genocide, war crimes, human rights violations?

Seems weird that only one side is allowed to be guilty.
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Let me equally forcefully condemn the Russians’ faith in negotiations. The problem is how opaque all of these negotiations are. Those of us who follow the proceedings have to read tea leaves and grasp at straws listening to houe-long Lukashenko videos to find where he says something about the talks.

Luckily, we just have the negotiators like Arakhamia and Podolyak come out and discuss what happened. Looks like the Russians were not empowered to decide anything without consultation with Moscow, and the conversations were stilted. Of course, I personally condemn Putin for refusing to meet with Zelensky. For invading when Macron was about to organize the next Normandy format meeting in March. But also, no one on the Ukrainian side taking this seriously to begin with. Because millions of lives are at stake, that is either incompetence or malice.

Arakhamia is a DJ who wears a baseball cap to show how much disdain he has for Russia and how much faith he has in the proceedings. One of the people sent by Zelensky to the talks was assassinated by Ukrainian special forces. They say he had been under investigation for a while for being a Russian spy. Well, in that case what kind of incompetence is it to put him on such a team? This should be the most important team in the country! If they get a peace agreement they can be the heroes of Ukraine!

The political system is broken in many ways, and the fact that closed door negotiations and lack of transparency by elected officials is tolerated, is a huge problem.

I am mad at the political class in general, for refusing to truly listen to each other. It would have been better if Donetsk and Lugansk had surrendered like Kharkiv did, and try to resolve their grievances through peaceful diplomatic channels. None of this would be happening. I apply the same consistent reasoning everywhere.
I think the primary technical challenge is the scale of AAA games.

For me, this stuff gets viable when one game studio goes all-in on building a streaming-only game experience that considers all economics of scaling GPUs.

If you reduce visual fidelity enough, you can get away with a lot more clients per host. Hell, depending on how you architect things, you might even be able to serve some clients from servers that dont even have GPUs.

The upsides of cloud gaming are pretty solid if you can get over the caveats. The biggest thing for me would be competitive gaming experiences that are guaranteed to not have any cheaters. That would feel really nice.
Metaculus indicates that the first fusion plant may not be online until the 2040s[1]. We shouldn't be not building lower carbon energy infrastructure now with the idea that fusion will save us.

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/363/will-a-fusion-based-...
I never got beyond algebra/geometry in High school. I think I had to take one 100 level math class in college, but it was basically a review of HS math. Oh, and I had to take a stats class for non-technical people in graduate school. That was my worst graduate class by far. But, I would like to learn some more math, like calculus. I’m hoping to get to it when I retire in a decade or so.
Daniel Ellsberg talks psychedelics, consciousness and world peace
I can recall pretty much every episode of the first 10 seasons of the Simpsons in ridiculous detail because I watched hours of TV after school in the 90s, and my parents lamented that I didn't go outside enough. This isn't new.
at the point the russians are attacking UK nuclear reactors we're already in a hot nuclear war
Or : “a shell for Google” ?
> these reactors would still require huge infrastructure investment in order to spread the power.

Nah, I've done it in Factorio, a single wire can handle the full output of multiple reactors.
Why would Europe not admit Ukraine's neutrality once Kyiv falls, now that we know neither the EU nor the US wants to intervene?

Europe has clearly stated they'll continue to pay for Russia'a natgas even at €120/MWh, which will fund Russia's war for quite some time.
200W isn't a lot of power. Most microwaves are 1KW. You'll need an inverter that can do that at least to run a fridge constantly and a microwave periodically.
One kiloWatt-hour of electricity costs around $.24 in my state. If you can output 100 Watts for 1 hour, that’s .1 kWH. Do it every day for a year that’s ~36 kWH, or about $10 in electricity.
Try spreading out the Industry units and keep them away from Residentials
They absolutely thought they could surround and take down the government in Kyiv right away, probably in less than a week and they are finding out otherwise.
Post-cold-war, progress in things like IT infrastructure have been driven much more by the private sector than by military needs.

Look at rocketry for example. The moment the impetus of a serious threat is gone, the US decided to put all their space money into a useless boondoggle that was more about spreading the pork around into the right congressional districts than seriously advancing rocketry or space exploration.
Noisebridge is re-booting pretty successfully in San Francisco -- a break during early Covid was either well-timed or overdetermined, because they also had to move venue due to rent rises, but the new space is coming together, and there's a bunch of in-person events now kicking off to celebrate the space's fourteenth birthday:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
I've lived in both and the difference between them is even starker in person. So much of Russias wealth is concentrated in so few hands. The median Chinese is doing so immeasurably better and that gap will only grow.

Russias a nuclear power which counts for a lot on the world stage but economically the country is in terrible shape even before the sanctions.
So let's assume 10 of these got deployed, and then one of them develops a problem. No explosion, just something which could evolve into a serious issue if not taken care of within a couple of months.

This would mean that all the 9 other reactors would have to be shut down until the root cause has been fixed, due to regulations.

That is 10 million homes which will require a relatively quick alternative source of energy, for around one year.

Is this a problem? I don't know, that's why I'm asking.

But for some reason this would appear to increase the probability of failures of the overall deployed MW capacity by all these systems together.
You are comparing nominal GDPs, not really useful. If you compare PPP, Russia is almost 50% higher than China...

This estimates are for 2021, would like to see what they are now. They probably change the picture a bit.
so if I get the double negation (of sort) you suggest that it hasnto be the same grip on EE to make Russia happy?

Well, that ship sailed thankfully and Russia can expect a strong fist from those countries. Hitler and WW2 Germany had smaller negative impact on those countries than Soviet Russia.
I think I have a strange answer: The only things that work for me are spite and a desire to not be a dick. I will not overcome perfectionism for my own sake, but wanting to model handling mistakes gracefully for junior colleagues/kids enables me to do it.

If I don't mess up, I can't fix it, and the world could really use more people who are willing to admit fault and work to repair mistakes. We all make them; I find lots of people with perfectionistic tendencies (myself included) hold ourselves to a much higher standard than others, so I just created a new impossible standard to meet that makes it possible to mess up, admit it, and move on. (Now the impossible standard is that I don't possess infinite grace about my mistakes, but...)
The terminology used and author conclusions are questionable but the idea the article presents (using a pseudonym or 'pseudopseudonym' that is like a more concise version of your name) is a solid approach to marketing yourself and making a more significant impression on others is true. People have been aware of this since Positioning was first published in the 80s.

Whether or not you want to is up to you, but for someone like me I'd prefer not to use my whole unique and cumbersome name.
I'd love to see an M1 put inside a 12" Macbook, I know it was controversial but I always loved that form factor.
Children of some of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs are rebelling against Putin