skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't the US have a large population of Roman and Eastern Catholics?

Eastern Catholics are Roman (but not Latin-Rite) Catholics. And, yes, the US has a lot of Catholics.

> Catholic and Orthodox are two sides of the same coin

From the perspective of some Protestants, maybe, though from the Orthodox perspective one might see the two sides of the Catholic/Protestant schism as much closer than the Catholic side of that schism is to the Orthodox side of the East/West schism.
One thing that's always blown me away about the TouchWheel iPod and the original iPhone is the mountain of design/engineering work beneath a very simple user experience.

It's what competitors found hard to replicate when these products were first launched.

Nobody ever talks about the kinetic scrolling behavior as a marketable feature on paper. But for the end customer, it builds the image of "it just works" very convincingly.
how would people use it? if i have a complaint i would search for other people making the same complaint? even if it's something like "my burger was cold"?
The US could use them too and we have a LOT more open space and dying towns. Yet those same towns think they're better off being isolationist and pro-Trump (aka anti immigration). Yet US politicians are mum. We could take in 500,000 (probably a few million) and not bat an eye, but I doubt it will happen.
If this was true and practical, there would be so many wars... pretty much every country has had some infrastructure hacked, most more than once, some by random groups, some by government sponsored hacking, some by exploiting outdated installation of services and some using very advanced techniques (eg stuxnet).
If the strike price wasnt that high it never would have been financed.
> due to regulations

[citation needed]: which regulations of which country?

The French nuclear fleet has a problem with cracks, but they've only shut down the affected reactors. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/France-Cl...

Heck, they kept one of the Chernobyl units online for years after the other one blew up, because they needed the power.
With the right commands, you could flip the satellite by 180 degrees, move it from Europe to the pacific ocean, or crash it into one of its neighbors.

All geostationary satellites need to be capable of at least some station-keeping to correct for drift, move them to other service areas, or move them to a graveyard orbit at their end of life. (Unlike LEO, GEO satellites don't carry enough fuel for de-orbiting, and friction is essentially nonexistent at that altitude.)

That layer of commands is hopefully very well protected.
Great detective work. Will be interesting to hear why they were deleted…
I can't wait to file my taxes with this. Next up, field & keyboard support.
I’ve noticed my jeans stain my AirPods, which I store in the snug ‘quarter pocket’. It never occurred to me that my clothes would stain an expensive vehicle! Yet another thing to check for before buying my next vehicle..
The people who care are the ones who know there's a problem, but also don't care enough to root cause it and solve it for real. Moral outrage is an easy way out.
The radar and FLIR aren't as easy to 'trick' though.
This is a damn good idea. Like almost everyone else, I don't really enjoy the leetcode grind, but it seemed like a necessary evil.

I'm currently tasked with hiring a senior data scientist and I'm dealing with figuring out the take home case study right now. Would be great if you guys did something similar that wasn't for pure CRUD apps, but also included a normal data science case study as well as included things like unit tests, enforced a PR workflow, and other MLOps tasks like quantization, A/B+regression testing, and monitoring, etc. I've been asking candidates questions about those topics for a while and it just feels pretty tricky to come up with what are fair and reasonable questions that aren't too easy and at the same time can be graded objectively.

Probably a lot to bite off for your team right now, but I'm just sitting here wishing I didn't have to come up with this case study from scratch atm, so there's my dream scenario :)
Fighting hard to defend a position you don’t personally believe in is an important part of learning that there are meritorious arguments for positions you disagree with; which is itself a foundation for learning to engage productively with others.

High school debate was foundational for the person I became as an adult, because I learned that nuance isn’t just something we pretend exists; it is a very real and very important part of learning to communicate with others. I won many rounds of debate arguing against my own beliefs because I was able to distance my feelings and come up with a compelling argument anyways.
Let me rephrase, I meant that those systems, while they may be exposed to the online systems, are not part of the subscription packages in any way - and don't use the internet to operate.
At least those videos [1] are just birds, see for example this analysis [2]. Skip to the meat of it, if you dislike the style of the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPn-YMp9vI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
> Is there a cure? I wouldn't know. Is there a defense against it? I don't know? Does it actually exist or is it a convenient cover story that I can blame all the woes of the world on? Once again, I don't know.

I don't know about a cure, but a likely defense is the same damn thing as slows the spread of an actual virus - slow down the spread of information. Social media that promotes viral content is to a memetic virus what globalization, international travel, and high-density cities are to an actual virus.
I did a degree in applied math. You’d think this would be “math you’ll use,” but the fact is that despite my program having a CS concentration, most of the stuff I did was not really applicable in practice.

However, one thing that has been VERY applicable is proofwriting. Although math proofs are far more rigorous than most real world stuff, the discipline I learned in writing proofs has carried over into pretty much everything from programming (will this algorithm work every time?) to executive decisions (why, specifically, should we believe X?). Obviously in the former case I wind up doing actual proofs, and in the latter I make strong arguments based on logical consequences of established or presumed facts, or find flaws or gaps in arguments that are being considered.

I really wish I’d spent a lot more time on proofwriting than say, vector calculus.

Of course you may want specific math to solve real problems, and that’s a real need too! Not to diminish your point at all, just advocating for proofs to be seen in a practical light.
Semi-related: Is it possible to monitor USB hub bandwidth in a meaningful way?

The only time I've ever noticed bottlenecks is when things stopped working, or work intermittently, and sometimes informs (via kernel messages) that USB is overloaded... but it strikes me odd that we have top/iftop/radeontop/intel_gpu_top/etc but I'm not aware of anything for monitoring USB hubs.

EDIT: well crap, I guess I never looked; there exists USBTop: https://github.com/aguinet/usbtop -- leaving my stupidity so others may learn.
> the great territorial expansions of ... United States under Nixon

What are you referring to here? I don't recall Nixon claiming any new territory.

The real American expansionist was Polk. He's barely remembered now but he was responsible for annexing Texas, taking the southwest US from Mexico after the Mexican–American War, and dividing the northwestern US/southwest Canada with Britain.
> That's why the current invadion is moreso akin to the Iraq war.

The topic of discussion is that it is not:

- Russia has clear intent to annex territory

- US never had such intent from early 20 century: they left Iraq when they were asked to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_tr...
Action Retro on YT made a video about a Pi case that was based on the blue&white G3 tower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLh7c6KQAT4
It means something to people who have zero trust in every government entity… no one is arguing it matters to everyone. -peace :)
Random aside, does anyone know if the M1 (well, M series chips) are likely to migrate to the iPhones? I'm upgrading soon, but if the 14 is going to have an M-series chip, I may hold off.
How do you like to solve math problems in this day and age?

I'm partial to Jupyter notebooks lately - I run it locally from a docker container, and have a folder of notebooks. Mostly markdown cells, alternating between my narrative thinking and LaTeX math output.
Switching Open Software Terms
First thing people are going to do: Cut out the middleman. That is to say: Use the platform to find a teacher. Then exchange contact info and pay them directly for all subsequent sessions.
Yeah, I did, I grew up in Romania, which was also heavily and negatively affected by the the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (we lost everything East of the river Prut, Northern Bukovina and the county of Herța in June 1940, as a result of a Soviet ultimatum). Nevertheless, we did learn that USSR got into the war in 1941, i.e. when the Germans together with some of their allies (including us, Romanians) attacked them.

I did personally know a person that was close to me (he passed away about a decade ago) who had been a soldier on that front, he was in Odessa, in Crimea and all the way East to the Don river. He considered that the war started when his commander in chief at the time, marshal Antonescu, had ordered him and his fellow Romanian soldiers to pass the Prut and attack the Soviets, in June 1941. As it happens marshal Antonescu is considered a war criminal, and he was indeed a war criminal if you look at what he did to the Jewish population from Romania. That didn't count for people like that close person of mine I had told you about, who regarded him as a hero because marshal Antonescu was one of the the only persons who really wanted "to defeat the Bolsheviks" (I'm quoting my close acquaintance on this). That's why history around these parts of the world is really, really complicated, is not black and white all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Antonescu
I think that should be fine. I'm going to be adding more documentation, and the license will be/is open source.

- keep and eye on the repo and we'll be adding more features.
An interesting problem that I haven’t seen addressed is that, despite the marketing, web3/defi/crypto projects will be antithetical to “builder”/hacker types. Decentralized protocols are slow to develop by nature due to many people depending on them. If you’re developing Yearn finance, for example, no one wants you to do anything but make sure that stays running and delivering optimal returns. Once you have a project with supporters, it becomes impossible to leave or modify. Not so with a centralized project which can adapt quickly and “pivot.”

Moxie Marlinspike talked a bit about this in his talk “The ecosystem is moving.” Where Signal could implement video chats any time they wanted, distributed systems and protocols are hoist with their own petard: consensus. You must get community agreement and development on the new direction for anything meaningful to happen. This is both the strength and weakness of decentralized systems and one that is less suited to hacking and more to code review.
Do you sincerely believe that there is no more shared cultural heritage between the US and Ukraine than between the US and Iraq?
We should probably be building more pumped water storage now in anticipation of wind cracking 100% of demand.

There's coire glas being built already but we'll need more, and it takes about 2x as long to build as a wind farm does.
If you keep posting like this, we're going to have to ban you again. You have a long history of breaking the site guidelines and being banned on HN, and it seems you're falling back into old habits. Please correct this so we don't have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like to bike, but am just an amateur. My ftp is ~280W, which is what I can sustain for a long time without accruing too much lactic acid. I've held 200+W for hours. Just to give a baseline. A heavier person could probably do even more.

A track cyclist can reach 2000+W bursts, but they are freaks.
Disappointed that the buttons don't do anything. I want the entire site navigation to be controlled by this!
We hire with projects derived from the specific frameworks we use. It's the best way to give them a taste of actual work.

We also give people time to learn the framework we're using as part of the hiring process. And we encourage them to do that if they want!

People with a tremendous amount of experience in our framework-of-choice have an advantage. But they're also more likely to be immediately valuable. It's imperfect, but it works well for us. And you'd be surprised how many people float right through the technical assessment learning as they go.
People can interpret Athiesm in different ways, and I was a bit clumsy by asserting anything about Athiesm in a broad sense, since there is no category or group of people who all have the same opinions and interpretations of Athiesm.

However, by dictionary definition and from citing Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

"Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities."

Anti-theism is the assertion there is no god. The prefix "a" can mean "not" or "without." "anti" means "against", "opposite of."

So no, it is not the assertion there are no deities. It is an absence of the belief in any deities.

The perspective I am arguing from is that there is no other coherent argument to be made about the existence of deities. We cannot currently prove there is no god. We cannot currently prove there is a god.
Interesting page, and while what I said may be incorrect (it's not air-gapped or anything) - my intent was to say:

>The online subscription and cellular service connectivity is not directly interacting with the eyesight safety system.

The original article seemed to conflate them.
but if inverters were small and cheap, I would personally prefer having an exercise bike plugged into the grid. That way my exercise energy would at least be useful to someone, somewhere.

You'd likely never produce enough energy to offset the energy used to create the inverter.

Just to come up with a rough estimate, if the bicycle grid-tie inverter cost $200, and 25% of that cost is due to energy @ $0.10/Kwh, that's 500KwH of energy wrapped up in that inverter. If you produce an average of 100W while biking, that's 5000 hours of biking, or about 10 years of biking 10 hours a week.

It might be more practical if you could harness all of the bikes in a busy gym where you could get hundreds of bike-hours of energy a day.

(Ok, I made some pretty big assumptions here. First, I don't know how much energy goes into making a product or how much it costs, and it's not all electricity, there's diesel and natrual gas in mining and processing raw materials, etc).

(Edit: my guess is probably not too far off, a typical phone in 2008 had around 180MJ/50Kwh of embodied energy [1], so 10X that amount for a 10 or 20 pound grid-tie inverter might be in the right ballpark. Aluminum alone has around 200MJ/kg embodied energy so a 2 pound heat sink would account for around 50KWh of the embodied energy of the device)

[1] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/02/the-right-to-35.html
That source seems to agree with me. The graph shows less-educated white voters with a 10% swing to democrats between 2016 and 2020. Also I completely agree that irrational animus towards HRC was a big cause in 2016.
Three Thoughts about NFTs
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https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards might be a good resource
Rambling, nearly interminable and staggeringly one-sided screed. Victim blaming Ukraine with the "she was asking for it" by flirting with NATO defence. The usual "Only Western Imperialism Is Bad" appeasement talking points, spurious comparisons to other scenarios to 'expose' Western hypocrisy, apparently Putin is the real victim being treated unfairly and that we're here because it's the West's fault:

- Mentions US interference in Ukraine, ignores Russia's

- Calls the resulting protests violent while ignoring Russian demands to shoot the protesters before Yanokovic was ousted

- Quotes Mearsheimer, a realist who admits he doesn't consider the moral dimension to helping Ukrainians determine their own future

- Apologises for the annexation of Crimea by stating Putin's speculated fears for Sevastopol naval access - set against and ignoring Ukrainians ACTUAL fears of being invaded

- Complains Corbyn et al being reprimanded by their party for falsely equivocating Russian invasion to NATO expansion, calls it a loss of their 'freedom' to criticism NATO again all in contrast to the literal loss of actual freedom of Ukrainians

And on and on.

This is pro-imperialist apologia. YES the West is hypocritical and self-interest too, obviously. YES Western governments have behaved despicably and should be scrutinised more. YES the media is biased toward laziness and sensationalism. YES it hasn't written this week about the few hundred nazis fighting for Ukraine. YES the public has a short memory and has forgotten Syrians on the other Polish border. Yes to all of that. NONE of that exonerates Putin as this tries to suggest.

Framing it this way, at this time, is done to blunt the criticism of and excuse a brutal, corrupt, aggressive, nuclear armed dictator whose ambitions beyond Ukraine are not yet clear. That is the priority. This is the news now. Two or three actors can be simultaneously bad. Sorry it doesn't conform to your world view.
Uber, Ola Slammed by Bombay High Court for Operating Without Valid Licences
The rates aren't that high, and for people that trade volatility, yes it can be insanely profitable.
Many comments here are speculating on future China exploitation of Russia as a result of this situation.

On Twitter there has been a discussion about several high-profile Russian government and private individuals who may each have a motive to assassinate Putin. Unfortunately I couldn't find the link to it, but as an example, here are a couple recent incidents[0][1] showing a divide between Putin and the FSB.

I wonder if risk of this China-Russia relation will contribute to any such motivations, and if so, to what degree.

[0] https://youtu.be/o9A-u8EoWcI

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-double-agent-...

EDIT: Poignant comment from the YouTube video showing an exchange between the FSB head and Putin: "Sergei is giving off the vibes that Putin is the only one who knows where his wife and kids are"
I'm optimistic the Ukrainians will hold on longer than oligarch and military support for Putin...
As long as he uses a proper grid-tie inverter, there's no reason the grid couldn't absorb his excess energy. It wouldn't be cost effective for him, though.
Sure, I'd hope for a heavily decentralized system to have some capability of autonomous operation. But in the medium and long term, it can't be good to not be able to remotely monitor for failures requiring manual intervention or on-site mechanical servicing.
The US has a big military-industrial complex. A capable EU-army might result in a focus on weapon production in the EU. Quite a loss for US industries.
>who made 1 = 1

The nervous system of every single animal in existence, unlike the existence of god.

>because they give rise to useful interpretations of reality

The problem is consensus and alternatives. If you reject the traditional answer of "1+1" and go for one of its many, many very convincing alternatives, would anybody go after you with a fork and threateningly insist you follow the $one_true_interpretation?

That's what (organized Abrahamic) religions are usually criticized for, "useful" is entirely irrelevant and dependent on the objective function used, the real test of an ideology is : what if somebody chooses a different objective function? because (organized Abrahamic) religions are often totalitarian, they cope very badly with some nodes refusing the general consensus.
Global bank stocks decline as more firms cut Russia ties
Russia, blocked from the global Internet, plunges into digital isolation
> > They have the largest nuclear arsenal

> Given the state of their military, I wouldn't doubt that the majority of those are a bigger risk to Russia than to anyone else

Yea, I kinda wonder about the state of those weapons, considering how much effort and money has to go into maintenance for nuclear weapons. Are most of them even functional at this point? Even a tiny bit of neglect can cause nuclear warheads and the components for ICBMs (and other advanced weapons) to degrade and become nearly unusable.
I learned on an 8080 system (Interact) that also had MS basic. Almost every one of 256 op-codes is used on the 8080. That's not to say there were that many instructions. For example register-to-register move might be considered one instruction but the source and destination register are encoded into that one byte so there are many reg-reg moves. Same with add sub, etc... My father wrote a disassembler in basic to read out the ROM and he made his own mnemonics which amounted to probably 20-40 actual instructions (I still have it and could look it up), but there were maybe 8 entries in the opcode table that did nothing.
better permalink : http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2022/03/06/the-frog-of-war/
Please fix the HN link to be https.

Thanks
This reminded me how convenient the touch screen or mouse wheel if, when you can just ”give it some speed” and page scrolls automatically.

You get so accustomed to this kind of things, you only start appreciating them when they are taken a way from you.
Reminds me of the toaster challenge video[1] where Robert Förstemann, German track cyclist, powers a 700 Watt toaster for over a minute on an exercise bike. Absolutely insane.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
I really liked LeetCode style interviews at big companies, and I loved that my colleagues also understood the importance of run time of complex algorithms. I also interviewed at startups where algorithmic knowledge is more of a disadvantage, as I may optimize things too early.

As an example of why for some (especially big) companies need deep algorithmic knowledge is that at Google I was working on adding new features to an ads prediction model, and even without changing the code base the new (slightly more complex) model increased the ads 99%-ile latency by 0.1ms (millions of dollars loss because of the RPC timeouts), which required director level exception there if I wanted to ramp up the experiment to total user traffic (the usual thing that people do is to optimize something else in the code base to stay in the latency budget).

The small problems that LeetCode provides for interviews are great filter for people in these companies when they are faced with much more complex optimization problems. The problem is when a small company with lots of user facing features uses the same type of interview (they shouldn't).