skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah right. They are so pro-war that the government recently made it a crime [1] punishable by up to 15 years in prison to be publically against the war or spreading information about it not coming from official sources.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-60594110
I'd imagine that it is nearly impossible to control for time with tests like IQ.
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There's a subreddit for that.
apparently. wikidata return 503 too (i'm in chile)
> Yes, some people will think you are an asshole, but the little bit of friction and occasional loss of a connection does not compare to relief and peace of just not caring what they think

I have found deep joy in un-filtering myself. Not worrying about every syllable that comes out of my mouth for fear of retaliation, cancellation, et. al. My social circle had to shrink a bit, but the trade-off is that I am no longer suffering from a constant stream of cognitive dissonance. I stopped forcing myself to believe in ridiculous pop-culture/tech bullshit just to fit in with others. It was taking too much out of me to fake it for arbitrary social credits.

The crazy thing is that I still have high quality social relationships despite my unfiltered expression. I'd rather have a few people I can actually trust with controversial ideas rather than an army of sycophants I have to pander to constantly.
What people generally mean by Ray traced AO is just an approximation for path traced global illumination. It doesn't just work on the basis of corner=dark, and can be set up to be realistic.

It doesn't really have much to do with voxels, either. RTAO operates directly on the scene geometry (through an acceleration structure), or an approximation of it.

The true holy grail we are approaching and what game developers always wanted is ray traced global illumination, which is basically the perfect solution.
I would guess that once a school becomes "elite", the people that apply begin to aggressively optimize to win the competition to get in. Think weight lifting competitions. Sure, they may be the "strongest", but they border on useless in the real world. And that's being generous.
26% is closer to 3-to-1 odds. :)
Ukrainians will not accept Russian overlords. They hate them. Any puppet government will be killed / removed very quickly. Ukrainians do that very often. Their mentality is very different from russian mentality.
Fuzzball (String Theory)
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Really nothing out of the ordinary. Try to ensure you have a good amount of savings on hand and limited debt. Recessions while harsh are generally not long and are relatively common and likely the only way out of our current issue with inflation. Depressions are long and devastating.
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Russia can't do that. They have no way of moving supplies from Russia into Ukraine. That means Russia's operational capabilities are limited to five days, at which point their troops are stranded.
Towing a few times per year completely trashes the utility of an all-electric truck. I do have a big diesel (1T) bought just to be able to tow heavy things.

What I'd really like, no one makes: namely an electrically driven, so GOBS of low end torque, but with a diesel powered generator to keep the batteries charged. Give me 150mi of electric range (unloaded), and then a fuel tank big enough to pull a heavy load 500mi. Oh, and the ability to keep it plugged in at night so 80% of the time I'm not needing to use the diesel motor.
President Biden Bans Imports of Russian Oil Because of Moscow's War on Ukraine
To be fair, Parquet, which is commonly used in Big Data solutions is a column store format. So, once you normalize your data and save it as Parquet you can have efficient column-wise aggregation - but that assumes some preprocessing step.
Spend less than you earn, keep a decent amount of cash on hand (6 to 12 months spending).

Don't job hop, often companies have a last in first out policy.

Don't take on too much debt.

Keep your skills up to date and make sure your management knows how much you contribute.

During a recession companies are often looking for ways to cut costs so you need to change the way you market yourself to them. If you are an AWS expert for example then you might promote your ability to get AWS costs under control.
They wouldn't need to go hat in hand to those other countries if people weren't so adamantly against Canadian oil, since it's mostly heavy oil.
If Steve Jobs was coming up today, could he have owned
leetcode and tech interviews, would he have gotten a
CS degree, could he have succeeded in a start-up today?

I don't think I understand this hypothetical. He didn't go through traditional engineer channels back then, and I doubt he'd have the mindset to care to do it now.

The main difference between then and now is that the tech landscape is so much more mature. "Two guys in a garage" can potentially shape a brand new industry (like microcomputers in the 1970s) but would not disrupt a zillion dollar industry today.

However, broadly speaking, their approach works in general. The pairing of a "visionary and showman" (Jobs) and "genius-level engineer" (Woz) can be really effective. I think most successful small partnerships work this way. Not all of them change the world like Apple, because world-changing revolutions just don't come along that often. Jobs+Woz were a great partnership who happened to catch a really great wave.
Maybe Zelenskyy doesn't like thousand of Ukraines dying for some inflated ego, potentially millions. That solution, and specially if acompanied with guarantees of no further agressions if Ukraine doesn't enter NATO or EU, is a win for the country, and a pyrric victory for Putin: his credibility is gone forever, and all he got is a small piece of terrain. Enough to sell internally as a win, but hardly anywhere else.
Even if all of that is true, it is still also true that turning Russia into a massively nuclear armed version of North Korea is bad for the world. Eventually the Russians who remain are going to get slowly butchered in their homes.

There is significant risk of Russians blaming the West if NATO gets involved. Navalny's organization did a survey of Moscow's internet users, and nearly half think Russia is liberating Ukraine. It strongly suggests the vast majority of Russians do not see this as them having started an aggressive war.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PopovaProf/status/150105368420955...

The nation-state system tends toward distributed blame (to the nationals) even when there isn't distribution of power (autocracy). For once, most of the world is blaming the autocrat rather than the nation. That's an improvement.
A greenhouse won't work when there's no sun, no electricity, and the water falling from the sky is toxic.
Overblown.
But if you use the PCE deflator, real wages are flat in 2021, and much higher than 2019. January down b/c omicron — 9.6m not at work b/c of COVID

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=MIWZ
Russia Turns to Chinese Currency
Is Woz a good judge of that characteristic?
They can lobby their government to stop invading their neighbors.
My point is that it's called "sanctions". Calling it "cancel culture" just makes it clear you're trying to reframe Russia as some poor victim of an internet mob.

They're the aggressor in a war.
There are several instances that I know about of machine learning / signal processing methods ( for example empirical mode decomposition) that purposely inject noise into the algorithm to improve accuracy / fidelity / independence. I'm sure that others here can provide better examples than I.
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Took a peek. Information is accessible and interesting. Code snippets work and visualizations are clear. Can anyone who has read this (or similar) speak to deeper points? Did it change anything for you? Is it outdated? etc.
I'm not sure why NATO would sanction NATO. If your country wants to sanction a NATO member then they certainly have that right to.

If we actually eliminated nukes NATO influence would only expand.
There are some places, (like coasters? ), for which there is minimum height or weight of the person. And no nonsense about age or whatever other irrelevant attribute.
But they are very rare. Sadly.
Atomic War or Peace by Albert Einstein (1947)
Instead of banning things we can stop subsidizing it or just tax it.

Sweeteners are heavily subsidized in the US which is why they're in everything.
Because if we can buy it, and use everyone else's oil up first, we'll be the last to have it, instead of the first to run out.
> Russia will take control of all or most nuclear power plants and other infrastructure. At which point it's only a matter of time until the people of Ukraine will surrender with no water or electricity.

I doubt Ukraine will surrender as long as it can supply its forces with food, drinking water, and ammo.

> As it stands the West can do nothing.

The West can do a lot of things that it chooses not to do out of fear. IMHO one of the biggest mistakes it has made has been to be very, very clear about what it won't do, while letting the Russians be very, very unclear about what it won't do. The result has been the Russian leadership is not afraid, and has taken advantage of the freedom that affords to bomb the shit out of Ukraine.

If NATO had massed soldiers in Poland in January and been deliberately ambiguous about its intentions, it's quite possible that Russia might not have invaded Ukraine at all (and then mocked the NATO by saying "LOL guys, we were really just doing exercises").
There is likely no good medium- or long-term benefit to venting, especially when it's defined as physical violence directed at objects or verbal aggression directed at people. That's pretty clear.

But one of the best pieces of advice my therapist gave me was that under extreme stress, sometimes the only path to making it to the next minute intact is to do something where the long-term benefit isn't clear, or even negative. In those moments, the best we can do is focus on preventing harm to others and minimizing harm to ourselves. (This isn't just about venting, but other stress and trauma reactions.)

If a situation is so terrible that there's a chance of having a more brutal breakdown (or in my case, a suicide attempt) if we don't throw a plastic cup at a wall, or scream out the pain, or otherwise do something stupid for that short burst of peace with a relatively high cost, then we won't make it to a point where we can reflect on how we got there, and how to actually get to a better place in the medium- or long-term.

Cycles of venting are bad, because constantly venting means constantly being under stress, which means it's harder and harder to step away from it to recognize the sources of the stress and break that cycle. But as a response to a peak in stress, or a sudden trauma, it's a tool - not the best tool, not even a good tool, but if it's the _only_ tool I can reach in time, the advice I got (for myself, which I am not a therapist, and which may not be relevant to you) was to not second-guess whether to use it.
Ah so the better you do in previous surveys, the more weight it puts into your prediction?
Deutsche Telekom's public cloud is running it also...
Prediction markets for real money that relate to violent outcomes are a very dangerous territory ethically. You could bet the Kyiv will fall and then provide support or resources to the Russian forces, for example. A more practical example would be something like an assassination prediction.
Lack of guidance and cultural context leads to abuse of all sorts of substances. For all the ills of alcohol, there is at least (in the west) a degree of "acceptable usage" existing in society, something which almost every other recreational substance is currently missing.
Does PredictIt make markets on the outcomes of military conflicts? That would pose some interesting ethical dilemmas...
Armies have momentum. Germany almost lost in 1941 when Barbarossa failed. Hitler managed to keep his armies from disintegrating, but it was a near thing. Japan's armies went far further then they had any right too in the same period, because of the perception of invincibility, higher morale, and everyone underestimating them for racial reasons.

It's very clear that the Russians badly screwed up their logistics chain - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4wRdoWpw0w for a good obvious breakdown. But they also dramatically underestimated the morale of Ukrainians and also badly miscalculated NATO's response. NATO is flooding UKR now with drones, anti-tank misles and surface to air missles.

They also have failed to have clear armor and air supremacy. They have fed some of their most "elite" VDV units into a meat grinder by sending them directly into Kyiv without any support, under the thesis that the Ukrainians would leave them uncontested, or where not able to maintain a reasonable response.

Nevermind that Ukraine is mobilizing quickly (pre-war calculations where 30 days to build a effective force), while 75% of Russia's strike forces are in theater, and 95% are committed to battle.

Because of all this - Russia is in a no-win scenario. To hit their goals will result in sanctions staying in place - and eventually destroying the Russian economy or alternatively leaving them as a vassal state of China. If they retreat, they may save their army, avoid a vietnam scenario, but Putin will loose face, and Demcoratic forces will be revitalized inside of Russia.

Or they just stay where they are at. Inching ever close to Kyiv, but never winning any strategic victory.

Forces are pushing towards stasis right now.

I'd never bet on it - it's disrespectful to the dead and those fighting for their futures, and there are armies in the south that are a big problem - but I don't see a path for Russia to get what it wants. The question is how long will the sunk cost fallacy rule?
That's a nice way to put it. I guess the fetishisation comes from the fact that being able to do arbitrary function compositions coincides with a fundamental mathematical structure, even if the impact on code productivity is questionable.
There are lots of sympathetic audiences online too— see relationship or parenting vents on tiktok, where the comments are often just wall-to-wall supportive, with crown emojis, slogans like "SLAYYYY!" etc. Twitch "just chatting" streams can be like this sometimes too.

But I do wonder how much of it actually lands for the recipient. As an influencer putting out a carefully curated image of yourself, how meaningful is it to be boosted by a bunch of mostly-anonymous strangers? Wouldn't it just feed into a kind of dissociative thing where you recognize that they're praising and lifting up a mask and have no idea about the particulars of the real person's struggles? I don't know.
That's the point of the study though, right? That violent behavior begets more violence.

It may seem like a "no duh" moment, but sometimes you need to observe it in a structured format to demonstrate it.
Maybe I misunderstood what was meant in the parent comment.

The Russians may not know, or believe, that there is the shelling of cities with mass casualties among civilians. But they certainly know that Russia is somehow militarily involved in Ukraine right now. Even if they only consume the state-run media, they would have heard this from Putin himself. They know that their economy is collapsing; they know that various payment systems have stopped working; they know that imported consumer goods are disappearing from the shelves, and that stores of international brands are closing. Whether whatever is causing this is called a “special military operation” or a "war" is not a matter of knowledge, but a matter of language usage.
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Sorry to switch to a meta-topic, accusations of "whataboutism" have shutdown self-awareness of hypocrisy and prevented holistic thinking in so many cases. It needs to go away.
> Without opinion on the relative damage of both, I'll note that considering this a logical statement is really flawed.

I can't understand what you are saying here.

> You can pretty much always find "studies arguing for both sides" on an issue, but that doesn't mean much in and of itself.

Just trying to cut off the expected "studies show X" comments before they get started. Because if studies aren't definitive, which they rarely are, there isn't any point in raising that. And a simpler way to explain this is "studies conflict."
I saw someone running those 'correlated subreddits' programs and found a significant (although not the strongest) overlap with that sub and the now-banned r/femcels.
I probably wouldn't let the guy torturing my neighbours help paint my fence, even if he's really good at fence painting.
As someone tempted to try it, I’m curious - what IS the consensus on intermittent fasting / keto?
Ukraine is tundra. Right now it's entering the muddy season.

Russia could only possibly even attack using airforce now, because anything on the ground is going to sink.

Ironically, Xi telling Putin to wait till the Olympics were over probably cost Putin the war, because of all the abandoned vehicles stuck in the mud.

There's a convoy with who knows how many vehicles but it stretches 40 miles and it's never digging out of the mud, most likely it'll be added to Ukraine's assets when things dry out.

Russia is leveling cities, but this is a WIN for urban warfar. In previous wars some people would level their own cities so they had better places to hide and setup snipers at.

Here's a good video outlying why Putin has already lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4hvLqNfqo
Can you expand on how an intense relationship can enable turning aggression inward? I’m genuinely curious about this idea.
There is a service for tracking weight that uses methodology from The Hacker's Diet: https://trendweight.com/

While COVID isolation did a number on my results, it's my favorite weight tracking solution.
Does theater improve communication skills (we're also talking about politics and social skills)? It seems there are a ton of performers that are totally inept interpersonally, and would also do bad in the type of group exercises you're talking about.
This kind of consequential decision can happen at high levels. Obviously less often when a truly brilliant developer ends up in a small organization (but that has its own risks.)

In the example, it was determined that they could not afford to let each service solve its individual bottlenecks ad hoc. So a corresponding strategic error was also made/forced at the senior business level.

It's easy to speculate in hindsight, but in this case I could imagine a globally enforced throughput mandate supported by a widely visible and frequently reviewed dashboard, new tools/libraries as needed, and an optional central queue service required to 'compete for business' of the individual service teams.

I can see potential problems with that too, though. In a sense, failure has already happened when growth management is deemed to be too important to be left to capable individuals on decentralized teams.

Enjoyed the article.
So are you saying maybe people should have called random numbers in the United States?
I posted a few days ago about how seeing Canadians protest against the war in Iraq made me question the premise of the US invasion. It’s not the same as a phone call and I didn’t have any say in the matter because I was only a teenager but I do think the perspective of an “outsider” can sometimes shake you out of blind acceptance or at least put some cracks in the foundation. I suspect a “trusted” outsider would be a lot more persuasive, though. A phone call from a random Belarusian or Kazakhstani would probably carry a lot more weight than a random Westerner.
US and Canada have issues, yes, but these issues are not in the same ballpark as Russia. Not even in the same league. This is such an insane false equivalence.
Yeah, hugest lesson in life. Just because something worked out, doesn't mean you made the right call.

You can cross the street with your eyes closed and (depending on the street) survive most of the time. Doesn't mean it was the right call.
¿Por qué no los dos?

I'm not persuaded that those who "stop venting" end up happier in the long run. It seems like a road to letting yourself be mashed down and convincing yourself that you lack power to change your circumstances.

I'm glad that Malcolm X didn't pay attention to all the people who wished he'd "stop venting".
It is a marketing buzzword that comes with some predictable development needs, it lets people immediately know what I’m talking about so thats super effective

The primary difference is frequently the use of the library web3.js or some other equivalent for the respective network

Metamask browser extension is one of many apps that listen for web3.js calls and helps the browser connect to the nearest node on the configured network

Its basically the same tech but less of it, like I mentioned, it’s simpler. No product has to track user sessions across a massive funnel to sell their data or impress investors salivating over the potential of selling data, and the calls to action are all direct payments, so frontends are simpler.
Iraq was on the other side of the world from us, not next door, and we took that over in a matter of days.
Just to throw out an idea (not sure I believe "sell out" nor this idea, but just to throw it out).

Perhaps it's less the "oligarch class selling out" but rather "the great debt game that created so much prosperity has reached it's final stages".
Given the government's tendency for bailouts recently that might be a losing strategy. Things like eviction holidays are happening more and more. I wouldn't get into debt needlessly, but if you need something in the next few years anyway, now might be a good time.