skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian army hardly counts as modern though. They don't have nearly enough precision munition (that's why we haven't seen the overwhelming standoff attacks destroying Ukrainian bases for a week before the invasion that Americans would do, and that's also why Russia still doesn't control the airspace completely).

As for control of all communication - it's impossible to control country of 45 million people with 150 000 soldiers. Or 250 000 soldiers for that matter. Russia haven't even entered western (mountainous) Ukraine yet, and they probably won't try much. So media can be broadcasted from there, there's also internet. It won't be easy.

As for the number of soldiers - the armies actually fighting are similar in size. Russia has advantage in hardware (especially unguided artillery and air force), not in soldiers.
I am suggesting a monetary system that is beyond the influence of the state is a good thing.
This appears far more gimmicky than a shuffle. The shuffle was great for working out. This thing requires an internet connection just to transfer local music to it.
Sure, but one side can be substantiated.

The Satoshi protocol is not about money.

It is a distributed, trust-less consensus algorithm. Finance was just a good candidate to start with.

But we can expand that much further.

Some strange examples I hear about how this is silly:

"You can't have a smart contract act as an employer because it doesn't exist" But neither do companies? They're an abstraction that we agree exists, enforced by law.

It needs to be enforced by law because of the issue of trust.

But if I have a mechanism that removes trust (merkle trees) then what's the issue? The contract will do what it states it does because that's the only option it has.

Granted, it's a touch utopian and I'm not advocating for setting this system up tomorrow. But it's absolutely an achievable goal
Ask HN: For any Japanese people here (or people that spent significant time in Japan), do you feel that there is a lot of culture in Japan that is widely accepted, but is actually really toxic?
I am holding off for Occulus Quest Pro, hopefully due to release in Fall 2022 according to rumors.
They would go through the earth at the speed of light but detecting, let alone manipulating neutrinos is a very non-trivial task.
You are mostly describing the mineral mining sector though :D

"Shiny metal, ug ug, me dig up".

Which is not to say gold has no practical use but let's not pretend that's the only reason why we're mining it
Good for criminals and rogue states, certainly.
I was surprised when I learned that everybody doesn’t have a spatial calendar. Mine is a rectangle with the first six months on top and the last six months returning in the opposite direction on the bottom, forming a cycle. (I also “feel” mathematics and code spatially.)

I’m curious why these differences happen and to what degree it’s difference in thought versus difference in conscious perception of thought.
Integrated NVIDIA GPU? What do you mean?
5.12d is pretty hard. Seems beyond intermediate to me (but maybe I'm just soft).
> Yes, which is the difference between having the time to offboard from your current career and do something else instead of being chucked out overnight and losing your house and everything else, multiplied by all the lost developer jobs.

That's what savings are for.

> Imagine the cost of that in the Bay Area. It'd be catastrophic to the entire region.

It would be a much-needed correction.

I don't want unions slowing down progress.
It's the 'secret Coca Cola recipe' leaked to Pepsi situation: The source code is still protected by copy rights and patents. AMD cannot just take it.
i've seen this sentiment echoed lately and it seems patently absurd, US presence in iraq and afghanistan was massively unpopular by the middle of the bush administration; it took another 14 years for us to leave.
it seems like foreign policy is still trapped within the fallacies of Giulio Douhet and Curtis Lemay, simply replacing firebombing with starvation.
not to mention that the economic devastation and looting of the 90s was how we ended up with Putin today.
European eels apparently migrate to the Atlantic ocean when it's time to reproduce. All of them do it in the same way and they do it once in their lives. If necessary to accomplish it they have to even go over dry land to switch to a different river.
That was the primary decision for working with TypeScript over Python. While I like, it's not my daily language of choice.
If you give the entire occupied populace military training, don't you basically train the resistance yourself? I think any occupying power will be paranoid enough about that (and for good reason) to not do that.
> they are and have been lied to, but the culture is to keep going anyways, because that's how things have been done since forever.

Same can be said about the west. What matters is that there is free press, call it "picking your favorite lies", but it makes a big difference.
Don’t disagree with you. But none of that has anything to do with folks doing PoW to secure a ledger. Infrastructure providers can’t really be blamed for the bandits. Nobody likes thieves, and Bitcoin specifically limits the power of the biggest ones.
The German are uneasy because of irrational fear and exaggerated risks.

Even if the worst happen at that nuclear power plant, it will still be a small disaster compared to all the causalities that already have happened in Ukraine the last few weeks (you know: the war)
No, the positive impacts will most likely outweigh the negative impacts.
Kind of depends I think. Some people praise it and those who continue into humanities tend to do ok. But, I know two kids who really struggle to caught up with math after. Out of three that I knew went into Montessori.

There is however likely big variance in terms of which Montessori school exactly we talk about (literally which building).
Like the alleged genocides in Luhansk and Donetsk - if the case is clear, why noone including Russia submitted it to international institutions? For example Russia was a member of Council of Europe together with Ukraine so they could have put all this stuff to the human rights court in Strasbourg.
Why would you need _any_ processing library in your runtime image ? You're not training anything, your model is set in stone.
True, they are smaller, but the key is they managed this shift. Their education was not always top notch - it changed by careful and wise policy design over ~2 decades.

And while Estonia is small (1.4Mio), that still means we are talking about 600+ schools spread over an entire country (land area of the average US state), with a very low budget and vast differences by region, e.g. an impoverished east with Russian speakers, some very rural areas, and Tallinn and Tartu as major university towns with startup scenes.

Finland is a bit bigger in population but even more population diversity, from a significant Swedish and Russian minority in the cities and east to finns spread out over rural and city areas, up to nomadic reindeer herders with their own unique language in the far north. So definitely an entire education system with its own challenges, which was not always good.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Estonia
Sorry, I don’t understand, how is air support not direct NATO involvement?

The reason has gotten stronger because if we let Ukraine into NATO now, that obligates NATO to defend them, which makes this into WW3. That would be extremely bad for humanity on a much, much larger scale than Ukraine represents. NATO is not a tool for humanitarian aid.
It won't, and it's a very important technology since it's the only way for humans to store digital property without relying on some government or corporation.

Also, it ever gets attacked, much more will be at stake, including your freedom for choosing what software can be run on your computer.
Show HN: Brackit – Separating Key Concerns in JSON Query Processing
Oh, I posted that after this comment.
It was the same for CentOS.
At least from my understanding AMD did so by making a new open source driver while the old one remained closed.
If you write literals such as 0xa.bp-3, 1/3 or 22/7, why would those be allowed to throw out precision for speed? (That hex literal is valid C++17; the fractions aren’t literal in the standards, but IMO are literals in human heads)

⇒ If you think the “sensible default behavior is to preserve precision“ I think you would have to call for (at least) rational as the default non-integer integral type. (If you think of √2 as a literal, it gets more complicated. In the end, you might have to use a representation that’s similar to that used in computer algebra systems)

Edit: you could also require constants that do have an exact representation in your floating point format. That would be annoying, too, though, but maybe not too annoying if you had a way to specify “the number closest to this one”, say by requiring one to write ~2.1~ instead of 2.1
Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) has a banner to ICTV Ukraine live stream on its frontpage. The channel is in Ukrainian, though.

Link to ICTV stream through ERR: https://jupiter.err.ee/otse/eri6

About the ICTV channel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICTV_(Ukraine)

About ERR's decision: https://news.err.ee/1608518996/err-adds-current-time-ukraini...

For context, access to ERR's own Russian news site was blocked in Russia a few days ago.
> I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community.

Agreed. But I don't understand how this helps the mining community, either.

Removing the LHR restriction would lead to a vast increase of the network hash rate, and consequently the difficulty would also increase, leading to lower rewards. The result would be that (1) non-LHR card owner's rewards go down significantly, and (2) LHR card owner's rewards probably wouldn't change much, perhaps even go down as well.

At least 80% of Nvidia GeForce cards sold since Summer 2021 have been LHR. That's a lot of hashing power locked up.
I would never in a million years want to do this, but it must be pretty amazing to be able to do something with that degree of reliability.

There's only one thing that I can start doing and be reasonably sure I'll succeed, and that's coding, and only because there is a defined process to follow that is resistant to basic errors, because it's so highly mutable and mistakes can be fixed individually without starting over.

To be able to do anything to that degree of reliability must be pretty amazing.
Chine -> banned crypto currencies

EU -> plans to strongly control or outright ban crypto currencies

US -> might also move against crypto currencies

Idk. about India, Japan etc. but if EU and US moved they will likely follow.

Just to be clear I'm speaking about crypto currencies like we think about them now,
I'm sure there is a future for blockchain based currencies, potentially even spear headed by governments.
I was a member of the Teamsters for about a year. That organization seems to thrive on creating a hostile relationship between management and staff. I’m a manager now, there’s absolutely no way I would want to invite that type of operating model into a current workplace.

If the organization that I work for creates an environment that is not conducive to retaining employees then I’m just as likely to leave as my team.
Not at a dangerous level, say more than eating a banana.

The dam breaks killed and hurt magnitudes more people.
Oh yes!

I know what you mean, I also "see" code in a similar way as the OP author explains numbers.

It's though mostly "blocks" that interact with other "blocks" and a large application is comprised of probably hundreds of blocks organised in specific shapes with interaction lines between them.

This helps me spot "poor" application design when blocks that should be separate are actually intertwined (tightly-coupled or concerns not separated).

It's sometimes hard to describe these in architecture documents or PR's as it seems not everyone is seeing the program on this level.
I'm turning 35 this year. My first startup was at age 16. I've launched well over 100 startups in the past 19 years. They all failed. The only really successful one was a non-profit hackathon. Though about 3 years ago I started on a boring enterprise app marketplace startup after seeing a friend do well with one. First payment wasn't until 13 months in. Didn't make enough to cover my living costs until 25 months in. Now it's starting to make serious money.

I think my takeaway advice I would have given my younger self is to identify existing marketplaces where money is already sloshing around, and focus there. Enterprise app marketplaces are the most boring thing in the world, but it's an easier place to make money than alone in wild.

Now I'm starting to dial back, kick this startup into coast mode and focus on the big change projects I failed to get traction with in my younger years when money issues meant 3 months maximum runway.
> there's the fact that it's XML

DocBook was SGML for most of its lifetime, and only became XML-only with the newest version 5, I believe. So you can use custom Wiki syntax if your concern is XML's verbosity and unfriendliness as an authoring format.

Other than that, I don't have a particular bad experience using DocBook for the one conference paper where I used it. Especially compared to LaTeX' limited options for rendering copies to HTML, I'd say DocBook is far better, like you say.

Also, DocBook is supported by pandoc.
> What will you do when the government decides to nullify years of your life spent working?

The US Government has nuclear weapons. If the US Government decided one day to start actively screwing me over...

I'm fucked.

There's no two ways about it. Them zeroing my bank account is going to be the least of my concerns.

The argument about "if you use crypto currency you'll be safe from an evil government" holds no sway. The government knows where I sleep.

The only way to not get fucked by the US Government, is to make sure the US Government is run by good people.

You cannot mitigate an evil government. An evil government has so many tools at its disposal, an individual can do nothing.

Hence, I'm forced to trust the US Government. Because if the US Government is untrustworthy, we're all screwed.
Source: "trust me, bro"
Here you go, kid:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/326707/bitcoin-price-ind...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/371895/inflation-rate-in...

A great insight would take into account more prominent cryptocurrencies and 3rd world countries but you don't throw pearls before swines.
That opinion is contrary to over 70 years of geopolitical and military strategic thinking.
It is direct NATO involvement, I never advocated for it -- Ukraine did.

Obviously we wouldn't let Ukraine into NATO now during a conflict, but if this conflict somehow ends and Putin withdraws then I think there's a strong case for giving them NATO membership. Letting Ukraine join NATO later is a deterrent from another invastion, letting them join NATO today is just the start of WWIII
>Why is that in China's interest though?

That is a good question with no concrete or simple answer. Apart from they are allies. May be China wants to gain control of Russia as some have stated ( I find that highly unlikely ), or Xi wanted a test and see how Taiwan could be handled.
Hi all,

Brackit[1] is a flexible JSON query processor developed during Dr. Sebastian Bächles time as a PhD student at the TU Kaiserslautern in the context of their research in the field of query processing for semi-structured data. The system features a fast runtime and a flexible compiler backend, which is, e.g., able to rewrite queries for optimized join processing and efficient aggregation operations. It's either usable as an in-memory ad-hoc query engine or as the query engine of a data store. The data store itself can add sophisticated optimizations in different stages of the query processor. Thus, Brackit already bundles common optimizations and a data store can add further optimizations for instance for index matching.

Sebastian did his research for his Ph.D. at the TU-Kaiserslautern at the database systems group of Theo Härder. Theo Härder coined the well-known acronym ACID with Andreas Reuter, the desired properties of transactions.

As he's currently not maintaining the project anymore, I stepped up and forked the project a couple of years ago. I'm using it for my evolutionary, immutable data store SirixDB[2], which stores the entire history of your JSON data in small-sized snapshots in an append-only file (tailored binary format similar to BSON). It's exceptionally well suited for audits, undo operations, and sophisticated analytical time travel queries.

I've changed a lot of stuff, such that Brackit is getting more and more compatible with the JSONiq query language standard, added JSONiq update primitives, array slices as known from Python and fixed several bugs. Furthermore, I've added interfaces for temporal data stores, temporal XPath axis to navigate not only in space, but also in time and temporal extension functions in SirixDB, index rewrite rules, etc. pp.

As Brackit can query XML, you're of course able to transform XML data to JSON and vice versa.

Moshe and I are working on a Jupyter Notebook / Tutorial[3] for interactive queries.

We're looking forward to your bug reports, issues, and questions. Contributions are, of course, highly welcome. Maybe even implementations for other data stores or common query optimizations.

Furthermore, we'd gladly see further (university-based?) research.

It should, for instance, be possible to add vector instructions for SIMD instructions in the future, as the query engine is already set-oriented and processes sets of tuples for the so-called FLWOR expressions (see JSONiq). Brackit rewrites FLWOR expression trees in the AST to a pipeline of operations to port optimizations from relational query engines for efficient join processing and aggregate expressions. Furthermore, certain parts of the queries are parallelizable, as detailed in Sebastian's thesis. We also envision a stage for the compiler to use distributed processing (first research used MapReduce, but we can now use better-suited approaches, of course).

Kind regards

Johannes

[1] http://brackit.io

[2] https://sirix.io | https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

[3] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19eC-UfJVm_gCjY--koO...
Thanks for posting this. What a fun memory. Now I’m wondering how the heck I ended up with it on my families SE/30. We weren’t part of a local MUG and obviously no internet… random shareware I guess?
That's a fine way to do it and Nvidia should have started 10 years ago.
Oh, SSDs have definitely had a big impact. On a cost per iop basis, they've been faster for a while, so any workload that's iop limited is on SSDs these days (assuming it doesn't fit in ram).

Re your prior comment about Redis style caches, it's worth noting Memcached now supports an SSD optimized external store. It identifies values where it'd be beneficial to spill them to SSD and does so, holding metadata in ram such that the object can be served in a single io (size permitting), and that there's no io required at all to delete/expire an item. It can saturate just about any SSD array you can build right now assuming your network can keep up.

It'll take a while, but if you skim the last decade or so of VLDB papers, you can see lots of compelling research into databases that are SSD optimized. It'll take some time for this to coalesce into proven industry solutions but it'll definitely happen.

And even with existing databases, I think a lot of people still underestimate what can be done with a sql database on a machine with a beefy SSD array. With more modest scale systems lots of people cargo culting an architecture built around say a cassandra cluster when something much more straightforward would easily suffice.

In any case, having millions of ios/sec be totally affordable in a server is a huge shift, and I feel like we still have a lot of layers and inertia in the way of fully utilizing that.
Russia has already access to the Black Sea, not least since they took Crimea back.
That isn’t anything game-specific, rather something that applies to anyone who bought an NVidia card.
I had a box of these in elementary school, too. I am not great at math but these things ... I didn't get the point. They bored the hell out of me whenever we had to use them. I had some great experiences by stacking them and making jenga-like tower builds, though. I think they even came with a small booklet that showed you some basic builds. But using them to do math stuff always felt unnecessary and tedious because it was much simpler just to do it on paper or in my head.
I don't know, but I think people who have nothing better to do right now should read about the history of Russia's conflicts with the Chechens as background for this war.

I don't want to go into detail because I wouldn't necessarily be able to identify disinformation in Wikipedia.
I'll start: the 10k pizza
I am shocked "8x8 Meet" hasn't been sued by Google yet.
> 2014 putsch in Kiev

WARNING: Troll factory catchphrase ["putsch"].
I asked Stallman once why he didn't use the more obvious XINU recursive acronym, apparently he just didn't think of it.
Hey, thanks for the tips. I realize the different ways to communicate also plays a role. Somehow, I did not make that distinction as in my mind, there were very similar. Thank you for laying it out like that.

(and also thanks to the child comment, which makes it explicit about asking for help, so as to remove any confusion. That is something I will apply immediately)
That’s an iPhone 6S; I’ve seen them go for $100, or less with stuff like “battery runs out in 3 mins so must be connected to charger” which should be sufficient if you just develop.
Irrelevant. It would be relevant if others could write an open source driver. Which, effectively, they can't.
By that metric you never did, and LHR doesn't change anything here. It's just yet another out of million optimizations baked into the drivers already, except this one is on BIOS level.
It could be as simple as using a third party library or snippet of code which they don't have the license to give out the source code for.
Doesn't matter what they think or acknowledge. If they set foot in a country that supports those convictions, they can be arrested.
The claim was "more stable than most world governments".

And inflation isn't the only criteria of stability for a government.

But you're correct about pearls before swine though.
Ah, full width and half width.. I don't mind Japanese web pages in general, in fact I like a lot about them, but when it comes to filling out forms it can be horrible. Just last month my wife tried to book a hotel room in the only hotel available near a particular airport in Japan, and the online form required her to create an account and a password (the first question is, of course, "why?", just for booking a hotel room?).
The problem was that the site rejected all her attempts for passwords, insisting on "half width ASCII". My wife is Japanese and her iPad is Japanese, and she has lived most of her life in Japan, but she had no idea how to get that to work. We tried absolutely everything we could think of, all attempts rejected. In the end she had to phone the hotel and book that way, which they grudgingly accepted (at a higher price).
I still haven't figured out what "half width ASCII" is supposed to mean. Not visibly, I think I get that, but technically. What kind of charset was she supposed to use, and how to get the iPad to output it?
But that's exactly the type of thing why iOS apps tend to be of higher quality than Android apps. The whole "I do the bare minimum to support your platform" thing isn't going well with iOS users.