skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like nobody holding their promises right now, i.e. USA, Brittain, RF, France are traitors, thus Ukraine has full right to not obey this agreement either.

No, the only traitor is Russia. Look at the actual contents of Budapest memorandum [1]. This is in summary what the parties committed to:

1) Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.

2) Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

3) Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus,
Kazakhstan and Ukraine to influence their politics.

4) Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

5) Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

6) Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.

I do not see any of these items being violated by western powers.

> RF started to prepare their citizens for such scenario already.

Obviously not for propaganda purposes...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
I learned it as “Nerts” but my brother’s ex-girlfriend called it speed solitaire. We still play it with my family.
> unfortunately later torpedoed by Trump for no reason

Not just Trump, but the entire Republican Party and its voter base. And not for no reason: the reason is that it's easier to keep Iran as a public punching bag than try to deal with real and far more difficult strategic problems like North Korea, Russia, or China, all three of which seized the opportunity to pursue their strategic goals while the U.S. was distracted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran took that opportunity, too--the wars provided both the impetus and the time to pursue a nuclear program.
Really? You have never heard anyone ever describe regular citizens surrendering to the invader? I feel like you are arguing a technicality here - if you are faced with people with guns of course you'd say "I surrender" even if technically that's not what you're doing.
There are countries that don't care about US IP laws. China comes to mind.
My thinking has been that we need smaller decentralized nuclear plants, that can fail without it being cathastrofic, instead of huge centralized plants that "can't fail".
Isn’t this the case in many different products? E.g. I can buy a car which has certain features “locked”, because it’s cheaper for the manufacturing company to have a single production line, and helps ease supply chain / inventory management as well.
Why? Any example? This tool just tell, not changing anything.
Yes, the power plants now need a stable supply of electric power or diesel for cooling in coming days, weeks and months as they have been shut off last night. A failure of cooling is what lead to the newclear disasters in Fukushima.
Pete Whitaker was the first who did this with a 360 camera https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/pete-whittaker-solo-climb-on...
Doesn't India pretty well want to control their own money? Even more strongly than others?

Not that they at same time aren't willing to provide services, just paid for in fiat...
> Homeschooling, contrary to what people may think, is not sitting at home while your religious parents teach you the earth is 4000 years old.

Maybe not all homeschooling, but that precisely describes how four of my cousins have "educated" their children.
It’s not as cute and dry as you claim.

CSV only plays nicely with big data where your CSV encoder and decoder both agree on how to read and write CSV data. The problem is CSV is not formal standard, sure there are documents on how CSV should work they’ve never been enshrined as a standard. This means CSV parsers often differ (like with how some JSON parsers break spec with supporting comments except where JSON differs it’s nondestructive to data integrity but where CSV differs is hugely destructive).

Common issues that break CSV:

* headings or no headings

* multi line comments not being handled the same

* delimiters differing

* differing support for quotation marks

* how to escape characters, particularly control characters such as quotation marks, new lines and delimiters

* parsing of numbers (a lot of popular CSV editors actual mangle numbers a lot)

* parsing of non-numeric data that superficially appears as numbers (like credit card data, dates, basically anything where zero padding needs to be preserved).

But the worse offence with most CSV parsers is that they’ll often silently fail (or silently do the wrong thing) thus garbling your data in ways that can be almost impossible to spot on really large data sets.

You can see a practical example this problem just saving a CSV file in Excel :)

JSON might have its warts but it is a better format for where you care about preserving the integrity of the data between two independent systems. However if you’re reliant on tabulated data then I might recommend jsonlines https://jsonlines.org/examples/ (ndjson is a very similar spec too). While they have not been formally standardised they do at least extend JSON in a complimentary way and they also solve your complaints about JSON but without creating the same problems as CSV (well, aside from the headings problem).

I appreciate if you’re working with large enterprise databases then you’re hands are likely tied as to which file format you can use. But if you’re writing your own routines then jsonlines is definitely a better format for data integrity than CSV.
Do you drive a car? Ride a bike in traffic? One false move and you are dead. You, like most people, are probably competent at these things that would be very risky but for your skill.
It's unfortunate that most people are first exposed to rock climbing by watching videos of free soloing. It really distorts your perception of the sport.

It's no surprise, of course. Free soloing is pretty much the most riveting thing you could watch on a screen, whereas every other form of climbing is frankly quite boring to watch if you don't know the sport intimately. Mostly, it's people pushing their own personal limits, without any risk whatsoever, on things they've aren't visually all that spectacular.

Here's an example of what most of us do:

https://youtu.be/dp8b45CdUAc

I defy a non-climber to make it through 3 minutes of watching me fall off the same 15 foot tall rock. Climbers, however, will notice that there are harder moves on that stone than anything you'll find in Alex's big free solo videos. They'll also know, of course, that Alex would likely be able to send this thing on his first try, because this is well within his limit.

Those two facts, reconciled together with him having practiced the easy route in the solo video every bit as much as I did this little boulder problem, give you an idea of how unlikely it is that he would fall off it.

Sadly, that's all lost on non-climbers, who just see a spectacular thing happening way up in the sky, stripped of all context.

It's a cool sport, by the way, go give it a try some time and I bet you'll get hooked.
I think the success stories are mostly self-selection: parents who care enough about education to enroll their children in an alternative system will have children who care more.
Anecdotical data: in my non-US state everyone (admittedly 3 people) who went to Montessori schools were 3 years behind in every subject as compared to public schools and mostly they did fine with some help, but the difference between who did better or worse was, as you pointed, inherent personality that was completely independent from the education they received.
> Ukraine because his front-end guy is in a bunker

Those are two very different fronts. How grim.
Because it shouldn't be debilitating if it can be medicated ? So that's the part I'm curious about.
In practice compilers and the things they compile are insanely large. If we started updating them more... who knows what bugs we'd get with different GCCs on different OSes...
We have memory mapped files now which look to the program like ordinary RAM but are backed by disk storage. (You still need to call sync to actually write back to disk.)
Spotify’s probably the most (only?) prominent Vorbis user out there… but they probably hardly count since everything they distribute gets wrapped up in their proprietary DRM.
...I need to start getting serious here for my family's future. ... I can make great money if I just get a full-time job.

Look after family first is my motto.
He knows he'll get an actual response that he can't defend against, nukes or conventional weapons.
Have you ever climbed up a really tall ladder, like a 3-story extension ladder? It's... kind of terrifying. You're a long ways up, you can see the ground, the ladder is flexing under your weight. But other than the fear, it's actually pretty easy; all you have to do is keep climbing and not do something stupid.

To a phenomenally accomplished climber like Honnold, a 5.11 route is like climbing a ladder. That's hard to imagine as a normal flightless human who hasn't spent his/her life training the relevant muscles. But if you think of a ladder as a 5.1 route, you're already on the path.

That said, "3rd classing it" is definitely not for me.
Hello, Cheney
And, with the current crisis in mind, Russia. They'll be looking to expanding their local semiconductor production from now on.
We played a variant of this in Poland called "Oszust" (liar). Jokers were used and counted as any card.

Person who has 2 hears starts and plays it openly. Every other card is played covered.

You can play 1,3 or more cards at once (you can't play 2). You can play cards of the same rank as the last person or 1 higher than the last person.

You can cheat by playing more or less cards than declared as well as lying about their ranks. At any time anyone can say "oszust" and check last played cards and either he or the person lying takes all cards except the first from the discard stack.

Also if you don't play any cards in a given round - you have to take 1 card from the unused cards stack. If the stack of unused cards is empty you put all cards from the discard stack except the last into the unused cards stack and continue.

The player who has no cards wins. Then the rest continue for the 2nd, 3rd etc places. When 2 players remain they both are losers and the game ends.

We played this on every break at university, sometimes with double deck and 8 people playing. It's great for bluffing and psychologic warfare.
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Sure, but also the dissident, someone fleeing a war zone, someone having their life savings destroyed by bankers and politicians…

It’s ok if you don’t have a use for decentralized money. I hope you never need it, and continue a sheltered life of luxury and convenience.
Gamers by new GPUs every cycle to every third cycle. Keep them covered and having hardware and the developers will continue supporting your hardware too. Decent market, with growth potential from countries getting richer.

AI, get your tech in, get them them invested on software level and as it scales demand will go up and stay up. Just see how long Intel has been around. Similar position and inertia is sure way to make money.

Crypto on other hand purely chaces profits. And you can't really rise the prices for partners, that is board manufacturers too much. So even if end user prices are high, not all or even big chunk transfer to Nvidia...
Nukes are all about the threat, and he does gain from the threat.

In this case pressure to keep the west from becoming directly involved.
> Borders of this war are drastically in Russia's favor. They control the entire north (Belarus), east (Russia) and south (Crimea and Black Sea). Ukraine could potentially use their western borders with friendly countries to their advantage, but those are long ways away from the key population centers of the country. After a strike in, say, Kyiv, they will have to drive 7+ hours to hide in Poland.

But if the population is friendly to the insurgents, couldn't they hide there after an operation?

It seems like the border with an insurgent-friendly country would be mainly useful for supply, training, etc. IIRC, the Taliban had a kind of "fighting season" where their fighters would migrate into Afghanistan from Pakistan, then return months later. It wasn't hit and run from border outposts.
I don't understand why gamers should have any priority over miners and programmers in access to video cards. Mining or computing is a serious business. Gaming is just a way to kill time and kids would get much more benefit if they read books or did sports instead.

Also, gamers don't need top video cards, 1 or 2Gb cards are fine for most games.

Therefore, all restrictions on hash rate should be removed.
Prokoviev also wrote the score to the movie Ivan Grosny by Sergey Eisenstein (The Battleship Potemkin), the first part of which is portraying the csar unifying Russian clans and became one of Stalin's favourite movies, while the second part describing the csar's mental decline and general degeneration was forbidden by Stalin.
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The film shows Leclerc free soloing hard routes on sight, including ice routes. The degree of difficulty is totally bananas.

It's a fascinating character study.
I did not know about that aspect of nuclear plants and in my non-expert view it would be a major point against nuclear plants in the discussion how to solve climate change (at least until we learn how to secure them in case of a war). Am I wrong?

EDIT: I would also like to ask if you can recommend some source where curious layman with no knowledge of physics could learn a bit more about this.
War Crimes – How Putin Could Be Tried in the International Criminal Court
Because the german forces were split and the allies supplied USSR, otherwise the USSR would have collapsed.
Without the allied material support and the german forces being split, the USSR would have been deffeated.

It's not something that I would have liked, just the truth.

People claiming Russia to be invulnerable miss the real lesson of those conflicts -- the ballance of power.

The ballance of power is set against Russia right now, if the West remains strong in its unity and resolve, Russia will collapse.
> We know from history and other countries that broadly speaking, if you weaken unions with right-to-work laws, workers as a whole end up worse off.

> If you look at peer countries with stronger, more present unions, you find that workers are usually considerably better off there.

Compare and contrast https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/

Also compare European countries. The more neoliberal ones tend to be richer.

> It's being forced the same way any other terms of employment are forced on you, and your option in this case is the same: go somewhere else.

In some sense, yes. And you can read my comment as an argument in favour of me avoiding union shops.
It looks like you are using salami tactics. Salami tactics works in both ways.

You say that nobody will went crazy when a tactic nuke will be used against RF army. Right?

Can you draw the line, please? When this war between two nuclear states will be nuclear, if even use of tactical nuke is not enough for you?
> With a union you can bargain, understand the problems, and resolve them.

What keeps you from talking to your team?
Doesn't really matter. 3000 chips are on the cutting edge node and thus competiting with everything else that also wants to make chips on it.

It really is multi-modal market. And demand for that node, is different from automotive woes...
> It looks like nobody holding their promises right now, i.e. USA, Brittain, RF, France are traitors, thus Ukraine has full right to not obey this agreement either.

Nobody wants to start WW3 over Ukraine, except maybe Putin who has been left with very few options and doesn't care much about the lives of others, including his fellow Russians. The way he sees it is that he's liberating Ukraine from "nazis" and that the US has orchestrated a coup in 2014 replacing his puppet Yanukovych with their own. He has also signalled that he's ready to use the nuclear arsnal to deter anyone who interferes. What the West can do without potentially triggering WW3 is to economically cripple Russia, supply Ukraine with small arms, personnel carried anti tank and anti airplane weapons, ammo and possibly mercenaries. Any direct engagement between NATO and Russia could potentially trigger WW3 and nuclear warfare.

What you are doing is making unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine might be developing nuclear weapons. The very same false claims were in fact voiced by the Kremlin.
Cryptocurrencies, not cryptography. My software freedom is not dependent on the existence of cryptocurrencies. My hardware freedom is currently significantly hampered by them.
Interesting. I’ve not used Linux as my mainly driver for years. I miss it and I want to come back but I basically don’t have any decent PC anymore so I have the freedom to get/build one.

When I used it, ironically, NVidia was the way to go on Linux and ATI/AMD was a shit show. Is AMD ok nowadays ? My needs are mostly confortable casual gaming where I don’t care having more than 60fps and I don’t play online (so this anti cheats situation doesn’t really bother me other than ideological issues).
(De)Serialization costs definitely add up. I've seen measurements where it was 20% of cpu cycles. Even worse lots of systems out there that could get an immediate boost just by swapping libraries.
Can you post a link to a video him saying that, I never heard it
Given recent moves to allow Ukrainians everywhere to bear arms in response to the invasion. It's rather reasonable to see that the Civilians, once they enter into defending a stronghold (in this case, just a power plant), that they are now considered a militia, which can surrender.
So much of computing practice is based on the idea that floats aren't quite real numbers, they're like fuzzy analog voltages almost.

Almost nobody thinks about float rounding, they just use something precise enough that it doesn't matter, or use integers.

Why break that standard? Everyone expects computer numbers to be just a bit off. If we didn't we would do a lot of stuff differently in incompatible ways.

Seems like it would hurt the Python ecosystem if people wrote stuff that assumed floats were perfect decimals, and encouraged code that depends on that.

You'd get stuff like serializing to JSON, and reading in some other language with a JSON parser that doesn't know the numbers need to be precise.

Plus, it's just faster.
I suspect he’s describing how it is, not claiming that it provides any utility. It’s just someone sharing some aspect of their experience with the universe, not someone prescribing a technique.

I can see how you concluded the latter, since this site frequently have posts with this style of title where the upshot is an implied “and why you should too”. This time, though? This time it’s just someone’s blog where they’re telling you how it is for them.

As far as I can tell, they didn’t share it on here and they’re not proselytizing the experience. It just is.
> The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model -- Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

Completely off-topic, but what a strangley formatted document. The pages of the PDF are 9x8 in.
Seeing how rigid their society is, I probably would be a hermit too if living there.
Good PR and actual goodness are sometimes correlated and sometimes not.
Thank you for making this game and the beautiful source code provided. This is great and I‘ll show it to my two little sons (9 and 13) how to write simple, but really fun games.
I can believe it. We let our kid skip 4th grade. It was absolutely the right thing for him at the time. He's now a college freshman and first term was a mess. Being under 18, he needed his parents to sign off on a bunch of things no other student had to even think about. Thankfully, he's turned 18 now.

He took a band trip to Vegas this week but got left behind last night because he was the only under 21 on this trip. Part of me is annoyed that no one was willing to skip the clubs and tables to not leave him hanging alone. But I remember back to that age and there's no way I would have done that at 21 with a per diem. He made the best of it and had a really good meal and explored the Strip but the age difference matters a lot in the college years.
Ask HN: Anyone using bose QC45 at work? whats your impression?
> Grischuk didn't even use the word "war" in order to not have issues with Russian government.

He said he didn’t use the word “war” to avoid being censored, so that the Russian media can quote him directly.
Starlink will get us there for at least long-distance connections once they have the laser inter-sat links fully connected.
More predictive than being wealthy? Strongly doubt.
> Billionaires spend a small fraction of their money on superyachts and keep most of it invested which is the system working if you believe in it.

But in the event of a major war, and if it goes nuclear, biological or chemical, the billionaires can hole up on their yachts and ride it out in the relative safety of the middle of the ocean, just like the film Waterworld but less apocalyptic, so was the system working or is this why sanctions have been imposed? Its not like any of these billionaires can just take off now is it?
You would have to saturate the market with specific mining devices. Like with bitcoin ASIC miners, the crypto mining demands have to increase to the point where using gaming graphic cards becomes unprofitable. Otherwise miners will buy the specific mining devices and the gaming devices. The problem is that Etherum was designed to resist ASIC approaches.

Instead of locking cards down, Nvidia could manage the supply. They could sell their cards in cooperation with Steam: Only people with an active steam account are eligible to a new card. If their performance stats don't improve after the purchase, which means they have resold their hardware, they won't be allowed to buy another card.
I'm no fan of banks, but that doesn't mean I'm about to trust the same small group of people that brought us The DAO, MtGox, OpenSea and the endless churn of crypto scams.

Your arguments are the same ones that argue for cash, and not more layers of unaccountable middle men or networks that are controlled by a minority of wealthy stakeholders. I even made the argument for cash using that same exact anecdote about Cyprus that you used about a week ago[1].

At any point the government could order exchanges to take a haircut on deposits and transactions. If that happened, 99% of people who hold cryptocurrency would not have the ability to liquidate it without taking a haircut. Even LocalBitcoins needs to follow KYC laws in the US, and will comply with laws of the country as long as they want to operate in the US. If people used any legal exchange in the US, their wallets are associated with their identifying information and there will be a record of transactions on the blockchain that point back to them should they try to escape the haircut.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30436347.
Needs desperately a 2012 label in the title!