skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Yandex filing spends a significant amount of text reiterating they’re not on a blacklist though
cause thats where the sexy princess is
Private transportation and American society’s total reliance on it is a disaster
What angers me is that big tech is constantly trying to relieve its users from the burden of learning English. I think by limiting exposure to the spoken and written English and making webpages instantly machine-translatable (translation from English to Russian is usually garbage, but many people still actively use it), shoving local news and ads to those who does not want to see them (Youtube, can you please treat me as an American if when select US in settings, god damn it), it has done more harm than good.

The Internet has the cool effect forgetting my IRL identity. I want to be in the communities and identifying with skills and beliefs rather than my nationality. I've replaced google with ddg and youtube with invidious/piped/newpipe because I am tired of them constantly adjusting to my locale.

Nowadays zoomers like my younger brother with all this like machine translation snake oil doesn't even care about learning English, my English was better at his age. He is perfectly content with Russian-language content and translated webpages. It's sad because there are so much possibilities for learning foreign languages today and he is missing the chance to do it at young age.
The view is really great!
These are normal problems in every society. A certain level of control and moderation is necessary to reach functionality and quality. But this means people gain power, might misuse it, but also gain haters who just don't like the result independent of its quality. This is also nothing new. Complaints over Wikipedia's system and quality are existing since the beginning. This is normal because any system has their grind, their winners and losers. It doesn't mean the system is bad, or is producing bad results.

Can you point out any real issues in their articles? Any widespreaded misinformation or actual issue? Most complaints I always see are usually about disputable details, not about actual problems.
Timex did manufacture the ZX81 in the UK at their Dundee factory:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/2030845/dundee-wa...
Yeltsin installed Putin to protect his family and friends’ assets.
Preliminary Release of Unix Implementation Document (1972) [pdf]
> the propaganda there would tell that west is using any chance to put russia down and here is another example

Aren't we?
They should be out in school

They start under 18 but keep it on after, and many commit suicide because they don't want to deal with life
As an example, I want to point people to the page I have been spending a lot of time on as of late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...

Is the information on this page perfect? Obviously not. But this single page probably represents the best up-to-date summary of information you will find on the internet. And I can only imagine the thankless work volunteer editors put into making it coherent and readable - free from random garbage and conspiracy theories.
His talking of Nuclear weapons, like it's his new cool Smith & Wesson, might mean he thinks he won't. Special Siberian underground military cities and all that...

I remember one Nuclear Weapons specialist commenting once in a interview, that he worried about the fact that the new generation of Politicians had never seen a Nuclear explosion. And that might make it easier to even contemplate the possibility of using it. The previous generation was still alive before the Nuclear Arms Tests ban and seen the tests. They knew the horrifying scenarios
they imply.
Defense doesn't work as a goal.

Lack of de-escalation is likely to mean further escalation. You can step into defense as you escalate a conflict, but you can't remain in defense forever as a conflict with a nuclear power heats up.

The elephant in the room is not escalation in itself, it's what comes at the end of the road.

If there are currently no attempts at de-escalation, and no one in the West wants to acknowledge that this leads to a nuclear conflict, what is the West actually hoping for?
Footnote: I guess the ZX80 did this too, judging by the photo at Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80

I don't think I've ever seen one of these outside a display case, though.
Yes, using Nix. It makes it fairly easy, just pass `--check` to nix-build. https://r13y.com/
> Are we really to believe that swaths of their population believes the Ukranians are merely offing themselves during an invasion?

This is exactly what they believe. More then that , they are told that some of Ukrainians are “nazis” who kill ‘normal’ Ukrainians. They’ve been told that all horrible bombing scenes the world is witnessing are done not by rus. invader but by by those “nazis” Ukrainians. They are truly believe that and they are happy that rus. army is saving “normal” Ukrainians.

Talk to me about their IQ but it is impossible to convince them otherwise, and trust me I’ve tried and others tried they are complete zombies and would not trust even relatives. They would say that you are brain washed by western propaganda and only them are proud russians who know the truth. No logic can convince them because the source of their believes is not logically based but emotionally based.

Yes it’s that bad! And people in the west who do not understand that are too naive and have no idea with what they are dealing and how enormously dangerous it is.
For many people this war came as big surprise. They still think that if russians only knew they would stop.
Only force cam stop them now. Sanctions are too little too late and too slow and people in Ukraine are dying also due to the stupidity and naivety of those who can stop it.

If you think I am exaggerating, try to convince at least one russian, and share your experience here !!!
I forget, am I supposed to be pro giving Russian citizens access to unfiltered Internet now, or against?
By your own definition no one is really free then. I can camp on BLM land, but i can’t live on it. I can drive on roads, but there are still laws. I can go shopping, but i can’t just take things. I can go to the movies, but i can’t bring a camera to record them. People always abuse freedom to be absolute and that never works.

Everything in life has consequences. You have to weigh them.
Agreed. Formatters are supposed to remove all cognitive burden related to formatting. But formatters like Black (for python) will do line-length based formatting which reintroduces the cognitive burden again ("oh crap, my variable names are too long, better shorten them so this line stops getting broken up"). I like gofmt better for this reason. It doesn't break up your lines based on some arbitrary line length.
Tractors are considerably expensive. Yes, there are other brands, but they too have issues.

Finding the right tractor for a farm is a time consuming task, and currently it will take 6+ months to receive a new tractor.

Swapping a tractor requires having another tractor for farm tasks, or delaying farm tasks until the swap is complete. Delaying farm tasks is not really an option, as that can negatively impact the overall operation.

Another thing to think about is all the tooling, equipment, and accessories that are used with a tractor. These also have requirements of what type of tractor is used, and which features it has.
Thanks for the feedback, on the front page it was a consideration to keep it UTC to not accidentally dox anyone using it on-stream. I like the idea for having a selectable timezone on the verification page.
Always keep in mind that 50% of all people are dumber than average.
You wrote: <<They suddenly want to "inspect" (and stop imports from) all meat producers here that exported to Russia after our government made some decision they didn't like.>>

Sorry about that. I didn't know about it. I see similar behaviour from China. If they see a political decision that they do not like, they suddenly increase import inspections or deny imports for arbitrary reasons. It feels like they are cheating WTO rules.
Does anybody else recognize the contradiction of being on a thread that complains about some people not being exposed to enough different sources of information and then downvoting/killing WaxedChewbacca's comment merely because his interpretation of events differs with what their government told them?

This isn't an information problem: it's a mindset problem.

The only people who are resistant to authoritarian propaganda and misinformation are those who are going to question everything that they're told on all topics.
Spoiler - expososing test data from the implementation: https://github.com/jamesshore/testing-without-mocks-example/...
Without specific examples this is pretty meaningless.

Every now and then there are groups that try to gain control of an article or group of articles on Wikipedia (especially around big current events) and then they start looking for ways to game the system all the while bitching about how Wikipedia is 'broken'.

The way I see it: Wikipedia is imperfect, but not broken, and it has developed a pretty impressive array of defenses against being overtly gamed.
Having a strictly (formatter) enforced style is actually how you allow people the freedom to use their preferred style.

Everyone can just set up a pre-commit hook to automatically format the code back into the official style, then everyone is free to put the codebase back into their preferred style.

Otherwise, if developers reformatted code to their preferred style regularly, it would create massive diffs.
Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
Commodore 64 power supplies fail similarly.

The voltage regulator on the 5V line fails causing higher voltage to be fed to the motherboard potentially frying every chip on the board.

https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...
Nuclear war is not the same thing as world war, as world war implies that the world is largely divided in conflict. If Russia intends to fly their nukes in response to military confrontation in Urkaine, then India, Saudi Arabia, and China will most certainly weigh in on that. Russia would find itself truly alone in the world.
> How can you be so naive as to condemn Zelensky

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11...

Adding

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russi...
I think most of the conflicts are because the left-wing and the right-wing are incompatible moral philosophies. Because Wikipedia content is completely public, I'd like a forking model where the left-wing and right-wing maintain independent versions. Viewer apps can provide ways to read both for people interested in all sides (like allsides.com).
Or pigs
Dumb point of view. He raised money to self publish. What in the world is wrong with that?

However I didn’t know about his success in raising this much money. I read Mistborn, and then I tried to read some other books but found his writing to be immature and his characters flat and not compelling. Am I in the minority?

I had just finished reading the Expanse series, which are extremely well written, so maybe it was whiplash.
>>>that doesn't mean the Ukrainians are being told lies

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/ukraine-s-snake-island-h...

^Another example of a Ukrainian "myth" being a straight up lie. I haven't seen good data confirming Ghost of Kiev's kills....much like the "Russian Airborne lost 2x Il-76 transports full of paratroopers". I haven't seen pics of Il-76 crash sites. Seems odd, considering the huge amount of photos/video of coming out of the war, including plenty of other downed aircraft.
The first step to fixing a problem, is to understand the problem.

I know, many people will possibly agree that this problem exists - but that sort of empirical observation isn't all that useful. If you want to try a method to fix it - any method at all - you need to first have a reliable way to measure whether it actually improves things.

And for that you first need to find a way to actually measure this - in a reliable, repeatable, unbiased way. You need to find a way to measure all of Wikipedia for this sort of problem. Not just the current state - but through the change history for any arbitrary point in the past as well.

Then do some thorough data analysis, trying to learn as much about the problem as you can. That's your best bet for actually solving the problem.
AKA, if China support the west against Russia, the covid origin history will be re-written to exonerate China.

It's strange (not) how the the press zeitgeist moves with western (US) political desires.
I’m fairly sure the “chemical imbalance” thing is still not a proven cause. It’s more of a metaphor psychiatrists use when trying to get someone to take meds.

Time in nature, meaningful work, healthy food, body movement, healthy relationships, processing emotional trauma, etc. are the contexts that ultimately get leverage on “mental health”.

For me, I was told by Standford psychiatrists I’d be on meds my entire life, presenting w suicidal depression, biploar, schizophrenia, anxiety,etc.

Thankfully I trusted my intuition and found a path through without traditional drugs (psychedelics helped).

But from my journey I realized “chemical imbalance” was more metaphor than reality… and sort of a hyphothesis that didn’t really play out.
Get the Wikimedia Foundation to spend money on the technical foundation of the sites, rather than spraying millions up the wall of "racial justice". That's not me making a strawman by going straight to "omg, the SJWs", it's a exact phrase from the 3rd paragraph of the 4.5 million Knowledge Equity Fund page [1].

That, and executive pay, is where donations go, not to keeping the lights on. The running cost to keeping the servers running is about the same as that fund. It certainly isn't the case that engineering is "done" either, as the open bug count is growing constantly and huge swathes of the software aren't maintained and don't even have maintainers[2]. Just minor things of no importance to modern didactics like, you know, functional video support and rarely used, obscure, functions like uploading.

They have more important things to do like weird elections and appointing cryptobro "disrupters" to the board.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund

[2] https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers
I wonder how hard it would be for starlink system to run an alternative internet on earth aka starlink bbs. As great as the internet currently is, as a long time user it has been rather disappointing to see what it has become. I get the feeling it could have been so much more if it was so heavily funded by ad technologies.
You wouldn’t need anti-radiation missiles, you just need to detect the radiation using some kind of sigint system, then plot those points on a map and attack them conventionally.

I seem to remember that during the Crimea invasion, Russian used a similar tactic: they used sigint to find Ukrainian cell phone signals of soldiers hiding in the forests, tipping off the defenders’ locations.
I see three reasons for the exodus: reduced salary, firings of an extreme scale which already happen, and political views. Most people I know have started relocating due to the latter, but former two now start to take major impact.

Regarding portfolio - exchange has been frozen indefinitely, depending on measures taken by central bank nobody can predict what would happen to the stock price. They have also blocked most ways to move money out of the country. Possible economic default is also a possibility.
I think it’s worth noting that the original author of the regex primality test is Abigail, a well known Perl hacker.

https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...

This blog article does a nice job discussing Abigail’s work.
I get a unknown certificate issuer warning on Tor browser for https://redcross.org.ua/en/donate/ which seems to be the official domain.
> promote his absolutist free speech view

Musk is not anything like a free speech absolutist. He makes extensive use of NDAs and other speech restriction agreements for non-security non-trade secret reasons, and one time it seems he swatted a whistle-blower.
So reinventing banking?
Excerpt from the interview:

Q:"What has changed? has Putin changed?"

A:"...Some say that the man himself has changed: has Putin changed or the situation? Both things changed. President Putin, whom I knew until 2014, was the leader outside the EU I met the most. My office counted 25 times. But what has changed is, above all, his perception of the circumstances. The Putin I knew was a person with a deep resentment against Russian decadence. He himself said publicly that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the collapse of the USSR, not because of the collapse of communism, but because many Russians were left outside their homeland, and their Russian citizenship was not recognized. He's a man deeply scarred by resentment, but he's also someone who made rational calculations in terms of weighing the costs and benefits of each decision, and tactically seeing how far he could go..."
> no body asks what people think. The level of propaganda is so strong that people would believe whatever they are told.

In my experience, these statements are contradictory. When nobody asks what the people think, the people notice, believe little, and keep their own thoughts close.
I doubt that is the case. As I understand it slavery was expected to be on the outs for economic reasons anyway when the constitution was written, so abolishonists gave ground they might not have given if they knew the cotton gin would make slavery viable again.

Regardless, I think slavery is a dreadful example because it leaves the definition of personhood up to individual states and that is ridiculous.
Protocol looks computationally expensive to me. I think the dag size could get out of hand if an offline but otherwise correct node comes back online.

What caveats do you have in mind?
If the display of the code is removed from its representation, I think the same could be done for comments. Comments could be kept as part of the AST and rendered how you like.

E.g.

(+ 1 2) ; Add two numbers.

Would become

(comment (+ 1 2) "Add two numbers")

With semantics like const.

Another would be

(+ ; Adding
1 ; one
2 ; and two.
)

To

((comment + "add")
(comment 1 "one")
(comment 2 "two"))

You could display comments as popups, marginalia, or even in a traditional fashion (since some intent is captured by the comment scoping. You could also have different types of comments like annotation to have different kinds of display types.
WIthout reading the article, I'm on the "testability is a first class design criteria".

Ease of testing should absolutely affect all your production code design choices.

That said, there are terrible ways to do that, as always.
Does anyone know where the source code is for the Snowflake browser extension? I'm failing to find it anywhere, including in the Snowflake Gitlab repo. This is concerning to me, but I'm sure there's a good chance I'm just missing it.
Most wars are probably lose lose situations, at least in a certain sense. When I wrote win I meant Ukraine not being controlled by Russia. Even though those scenarios are probably not likely, there are certainly some imaginable scenarios. There could be a diplomatic solution or Putin could give up due to internal opposition or for economic reasons. If there was a no-fly zone, maybe the Ukraine could have a fighting chance. NATO is obviously very reluctant to enforce one, but maybe non-NATO countries could be encouraged to do this. The outlook is certainly bleak but there will be an outcome.
We could also maybe use some exaggerated threats back. Trump for all his weaknesses was quite good at that stuff.
Say the earth is a smooth featureless sphere and there are 36000 basketballs bouncing around, and say they all broke into 100 tennis ball size fragments. You’d still never expect to run into a single one. And that’s on the surface, there’s a lot more space up in space.
Took me several seconds to realize this.
I want this to be front-page news because Biden explicitly threatened the withdrawal of aid unless a prosecutor of a sovereign nation investigating his son's company was fired. This was the same threat that you accused Trump of and everyone castigated Trump for - which was proven false. But Biden gets a complete media-free pass for the same bald faced threat.

Biden's own words below:

In December 2015 -- he told Ukrainian officials: "We're leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money."

"Well, son of a bitch," Biden continued. "He got fired."

A classified US State Department email from 2016 shows a leading diplomat warning that Hunter Biden’s lucrative job with a Ukrainian energy company “undercut” American efforts to fight corruption in the Eastern European country.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/us-diplomat-warned-about-hunte...

I don't care what Trump agrees/disagrees with or who he is a fan of. Irrelevant to this discussion which started with a verifiably false accusation. The media has noticeably different amplification standards depending on who they do or do not favour.
The vast majority of Republicans approve of Trump. In other words, they approve of perpetual, blatant dishonesty, or at least don't think it is important enough to change their opinion. Very disheartening.
Indian and African students face violence leaving Ukraine
Yup. Google pixel buds firmware (when I was involved) was 100% reproducible based on the input source.

I think I’ve also done that for other projects I’ve been involved with over the years.
Swift only hurts couple of banks which are under sanctions, and only transactions done over swift. Money transfers are not fully blocked. I highly doubt this is the real reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30559401
“How jealous/petty should other writers be about…”
prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30559401
You're signing up to fight yourself then? Or just want other people to fight for you
Kevin Murphy has done an incredible service to the ML (and Stats) community by producing such an encyclopedic work of contemporary views on ML. These books are really a much need update of the now outdated feeling "The Elements of Statistical Learning" and the logical continuation of Bishop's nearly perfect "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning".

One thing I do find a bit surprising is that in the nearly 2000 pages covered between these two books there is almost no mention of understanding parameter variance. I get that in machine learning we typically don't care, but this is such an essential part of basic statistics I'm surprised it's not covered at all.

The closest we get is in the Inference section which is mostly interested in prediction variance. It's also surprising that in neither the section on Laplace Approximation or Fisher information does anyone call out the Cramér-Rao lower-bound which seems like a vital piece of information regarding uncertainty estimates.

This is of course a minor critique since virtual no ML books touch on these topics, it's just unfortunate that in a volume this massive we still see ML ignoring what is arguably the most useful part of what statistics has to offer to machine learning.
Sure it does. Make the war cost more than its valued. It isn't a binary "things heat up or cool off". The motivations of all parties must be constantly re-evaluated.
Actually it's already playable right now

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

(Given you don't want to join any public servers due to the anti cheat not working yet)
If ransomware groups self-attribute, makes me wonder how they’ll interact when they encounter each other in the wild.
https://github.com/kragen/dercuano perhaps?
I haven't read the link yet, but did not expect synthetic alcohol to be used for food and beverages.