skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia
Yes and to be clear I'm talking about the military coup and Boris Yeltsin at the collapse of Soviet Union that happened with the support of common people.
The “west” will provide capital in exchange of property rights to for example land or resources.

This is also China’s play in Africa
A sample point: 5 million RMB is worth of an 80m² apartment in Shanghai, but many ordinary Chinese need to pay a 10~30 yr mortgage. Average salaries are not that high in China.
Yes, hence why extensions like NoScript and uMatrix exist(ed).
cost from apple.com/uk/in/us store
macbook air

US - $999

India - ₹92,900 ≅ $1,213

India(without GST) = ₹78,728 ≅ $1027

UK - £999 ≅ $1316

UK(without VAT) - £832.5 ≅ $1,096

iPhone 13

US - $799

India - ₹79,900 ≅ $1,043

India(without GST) - ₹67,711 ≅ $884

UK - £779 ≅ $1,025

UK(without VAT) - £649 ≅ $854
Nope, not if you want to run something like 4x4k and you're extremely sensitive to noise and want to run in SILENCE which I did. My desk setup is like the people in Apple's press conference, I'm the target market for this computer.

The primary issue is that no matter what you do, the GPU you use is never going to run on idle and will constantly be running a bit hot. You can choose to use a professional card (cooler, quieter) or consumer (flexibility, resale, cost). I choose the latter. As for the build, I had 3 options:

1: Air-cooled -
What I went with. High end fans, thick oversized heatsinks on every component, I went for a low airflow low-noise case to minimize high pitched noises (although this increases fan speed requirements and fan hum). I tried to get the fans to stop completely but I ran into too many issues with the card just not staying quite cool enough and the fans suddenly ramping and now let the GPU fans spin at about 900rpm while the case fans run around ~750.

2: Water-cooled -
With very careful building, you can create a custom loop with large thick rads and slow quiet fans and a quiet pump, but this setup is hardly cheaper than the mac studio, or as quiet, or as cool, or as small.

3: passive -
Probably the best option was something like a compulab airtop3, which is probably the closest equivalent to a mac studio before the mac studio aside from it being a bit worse in performance. It uses a 9900k and is a bit obsolete now, and was pretty pricy back in the day, but it's pretty cool engineering.

Ultimately though, regardless of the options, none of these offer everything I need in anywhere close to the power envelope of mac studio, and more power usage = more heat, more size, more noise. The power efficiency of the m1 GPU is bonkers being built on 5nm and all. I have plenty of PC builds under my belt, I spent hours of research, I did an okay job, but I will never do as good as a job as a 3 trillion dollar company can. Why would I ever fuss with any of that ever again when I can just pay a little more to grab an m1 studio off the shelf that's a better computer?
Thanks for the suggestions, I've updated the repo with paid features and license :)
Yes, you can interface with PCIe devices using DriverKit, Apple's new user-space device driver platform.

No need to run inside the kernel for these things any more.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pcidriverkit
1. Already done, more than 10k foreign people arrived in Ukraine, some are already fighting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russ...

2. Already done for people with military experience.
> you have to be able to create the program text somewhere, compile it successfully, load it, run it, and find out where your output went.

Note that Rust "cheats" for you here, if you ask Cargo to make you a new Rust project then by default the project it gives you will perform Hello, World correctly when you "cargo run". It will also be version controlled (if Cargo can't figure out what type of version control you prefer, but git is installed, you get a git repo).

Rust's Hello World also of course panics if given a full output device. Because just ignoring errors by default, while very C, is not a good idea and in Rust it's much easier to respond to unexpected errors by just panicking rather than ignoring them.
Maybe. Being paid out 100k for 45% of any future exit of the company forever doesn't seem unreasonable on the face of things, even if the company only has 52k in the bank and has been operating at a loss for a long time. But that would depend on the specifics of what the company has in the pipeline. But if you think the company is likely to follow something like the following trajectory of net income then 100k for 45% doesn't seem all that unreasonable, even with time discounting.

Year 0: -10k

Year 1: 0k

Year 2: 10k

Year 3: 20k

Year 4: 40k

Year 5: 80k

Year 6: 100k

Year 7: 100k
For standard lengths up to 10m any HDMI 2.0 cable from decent manufacturers, like AmazonBasics or Monoprice will be fine. For longer lengths it gets tricky and you have to be quite selective but that's a niche use case.

Also, the Mac Studio actually has an HDMI port.
If you speak spanish there's a really good book doing now the rounds by an skeptic of the long-term economical viability of renewables (and fossil fuels, nuclear, and more): Petrocalipsis, by Antonio Turiel. It's very clear, concise and data-driven, so it's one of those books where even when you disagree with a point it forces you to research why.

An ok alternative in english would be Facing the Anthropocene, by Ian Angus (but the scope of that book is way more limited, and it's markedly political, specifically ecosocialist)
If the company has the money and the continuing founder doesn't, how do they afford to "rehire the same staff"? If company money gets used, the courts that eventually get involved would likely treat the new company as owned by the old.
Deriving Our World From Small Datasets
A 3 paragraph article is stretched to 13...
>>>is there any counterpart in the German example to the logistical failures we've seen so far?

One early vid featured a Ukrainian civilian driving up to a stopped Russian APC. The Russian crew said they were out of gas. Your vehicle has a 300km+ fuel range and you ran outta gas 50km from the Russian border? WTF? Did you leave your Assembly Area with a 1/4 tank of fuel?! No I don't think the Germans ever launched an invasion with such poor preparation.

>>>struggling to use what they have in the field effectively in most of the battlefield

We've been discussing some examples at work (with an Iraq-veteran Staff Sergeant and a recent infantry company commander): videos of just absolutely terrible security habits from the Russians. I don't care if they are unmotivated conscripts: you've gotta realize by now that you are in "Indian country". You need to keep your head on a swivel and watching your surroundings if you simply want to NOT DIE. There were parked tanks getting knocked out by ATGMs at fairly close range.....doesn't make sense when the T-72B3 has a thermal imager, and it's winter, so body heat should stand out at a reasonable distance. The crew should be scanning the treelines periodically with the thermal.

There's some aspects of the war where I'm willing to give the Russians the benefit of the doubt because, as I said, nobody has done this in 30+ years, maybe even 50+. But there are FAR too many flaws where we are sitting shocked and thinking "You guys suck so bad at your JOB, that I'm embarrassed for you."
Bill Gates “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need”.
You only pay the £6 if you complete the deal. If you cancel midway, it's free.

Oh - and it's £3.
I've hated almost every* high-process environment I've been in. To me, "process" feels like overhead. Overhead is anything not contributing to the value proposition of the company's products or services. Overhead is the friction and heat of a sloppy machine. So a couple job hops have been to smaller/newer companies that haven't gotten baroque yet.

* The exception was one company that knew it. The attitude was like, "yeah, we're kinda overbureaucratic, but we're gonna be _good_ at it." And indeed, the process slowed down the overall work a bit, but the process was kinda well done and not painful.
My guess is they will launch their own cloud platform powered by Apple Silicon.

Click & deploy from within Xcode (I hate Xcode though.)
I missed it, will keep it in mind. Thanks for sharing.
This dug up a vague memory of stack-based optimization tricks for copying memory on the Z80, from when I learned how to program that for my calculator. Searching for that revealed this Retro Computing Stack Exchange discussion[0] which lists a number of them. I guess this was a common trick among many architectures back in the day.

[0] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/how-...
Is being 1st or 2nd place in this matter to celebrate? I live in Brazil and this is something that really sucks.
I think there is a distinction to be made here. It seems unlikely that the politburo would bother approving such a small item as 5m yuan (Less than a million dollar. If you see this as the action of China the country, then a million dollar is basically a symbolic gesture.). However he would not have dared do it if he thought it would have landed him consequences. He made the call that the CCP would let him get away with this.
Yet another manager not knowing what being a manager is. It is your responsibility to know what your reports are doing and making sure their efforts are recognised and their flaws corrected (or ultimately fired). If you don't remember unless someone keeps sending you self promotional messages, you are the problem, not your reports.
Author here. I used cord.co and got a several reachouts from founders. Just my opinion but I didn’t find any of the pitches compelling.
Ask HN: How to recognise image when parts of it may be occluded?
Problem: Given a frame from a mobile camera's video stream, I need to pick a reference image (from a corpus of images) that the given frame most closely resembles. Input: Mobile frame, Output: file name of reference image. Sort of like a mobile version of TinEye or Google image search, except that the corpus is at most a few thousand images.

I can constrain the problem further. I can make sure that the mobile camera is positioned at about the same angle that the reference images were taken; but the mobile used to capture the reference may not be the same as the one 'in the field'; given the differences in resolution, lighting, different types of mobile camera specs etc, the images are bound to differ.

Second, it is possible that some part of the image to be identified is occluded (like a hand or a paper weight).

This needs to work on Android (which I am new to), and I don't have much of a background in image recognition. Ideally, if there is a way to fingerprint/hash the image in a way that is resistant to occlusion, rotation etc, and perhaps even the angle it is viewed from, that would be nice. I have thought of using Unity+Vuforia, OpenCV, perceptual hashing (phash) but I'd be very grateful for comments from experienced devs. Thank you all.
They were isolating the various aspects one might use to detect fakes. Audio only, video only, political content only.
There have been tongue-in-cheek quips that Russia might claim that Ukraine has WMDs because that's an 'excuse' that has worked before for others... Reality might be catching up with satire once again.

A comment on the title and the contents, though: The quote in the article is that they are looking at ways to prevent "research material" from being captured by Russia (as one would expect) not to prevent facilities themselves from being captured, which is obviously very, very different.
I think without piracy Linux would be installed on 90% of desktops two-three decades ago.
At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found
The Logic of US Foreign Policy
Mozilla is clearly circling the drain, as stunts like this show they are desperate for cash. Worse, stunts like this drive away the core users who love and promote Firefox.

The world will be a lot poorer when Firefox light is extinguished, which seems all but inevitable, unless Mozilla can get back to delighting users instead of abusing them.
Long term investments? Vanguard mutual funds.
It could also be signed using SSL or GPG or really just any other kind of PKI. In the end I need to establish a root of trust, so I either way I need to know that 2c414...2d7 is indeed the hash of the chain_address/ssl_cert/root_ca/gpg_key/... - so in that regard there is no advantage of using a blockchain over a "traditional" PKI.

Amend: The real question is how to verify cropped and recompressed snippets. In academia or HN we add a "see foo et al. [1]", so probably that needs to be encoded into the data stream, e.g. "authoritative src is https://media.whitehouse.gov/permanent-url/1234[...] with hash $hash signed by $cert_hash on $data, portions are $some_encoding_here" and better be signed as well.
What do you mean by "despotism"?

As for gender discrimination, who says it's done in a way that is bad for profit? From what I hear, young women nowadays earn more than young men, and only when women have kids are they discriminated against. Which is unfair for them and bad for society - but profitable for the individual "capitalist".
> It's not very advisable, but if anything, this crisis is showing that's not advisable to rely on any other country at all for your crucial infrastructure...

Or maybe it's showing that it indeed is quite optimal to rely on other countries for your crucial infrastructure - it's just not advisable to anger those countries by breaking international treaties and committing war crimes?

Having to resign from this optimal strategy and isolating yourself is exactly the war deterrent that sanctions are supposed to achieve.
Note that I mentioned "2x27'' screen size", not "2x27''". I would very much prefer if they just just glued two 27'' studio displays together, effectively making it a single 32:9 10K 49'' screen.
I still have my original SE, but I use it as a secondary offline phone precisely because the web and apps are no longer optimized for it.

If I turn off data and WiFi the battery lasts for days and it's still perfectly usable for calling and listening to music since it still has 3.5mm jack unlike my "new" iPhone 11.
Why is this news?

The Netherlands with ~ 20 million people donated over 100 million in 1 donation this week.

That's more than 100 x more in absolute numbers and china has over 1 billion people.

Anyone wants to compare relative difference per capita? Since this is not even newsworthy in absolute numbers.

Probably it's a record low in relative numbers.
The collapse just stands for the unknowable details of the interaction with the environment during measurement, a good quantum physics course will explain that and include experiments that make that clear. For instance the Stern-Gerlach experiment illustrates this well.
Nobody cares about Russian internal propaganda at this point.
>if you believe as I do that we won't attain information via objectivity, which is a nebulous concept anyway, but via plurality, RT France's disappearance is a net loss for the French media landscape

I urge you to reconsider this philosophical standpoint, as it fails under adversarial conditions. It is possible for me to distort your view of the world - make it less accurate - even while telling you only true things. Selective truth can convey negative information. I merely need to have an idea of your pre-existing beliefs, and only correct some of them. If your terminal value is letting people be better informed, as defined by allowing them to make better predictions about the world, then permitting state propaganda outlets to tinker with their minds is a net loss.

Note that the Russian state does not share your viewpoint about free information flow. Can you really consider RT to be a good-faith participant in the public dialogue? If you're looking for a "fair" principle behind banning RT, I would argue that that is a good one - if you censor media, expect your media to be censored likewise.
Some of that is mentioned, e.g.

> Build steps that use system time to generate timestamps.

> Builds that change behavior based on currently set environment variables but don’t commit environment variable configurations.
Androids pixels are display pixels, there's no post-render scaling. So no pixel cracks, no blurriness, etc... Density is instead handled mostly at layout, as it should be.
What is this?. Some silly tool to add an image around your image. I can create this is one hour. Come on. This is shit , not hacker news worth. If this continues too much I am out of here.
Incident at Slack
And also like the Winter War, Soviet/Russian forces were shown up to be incompetent, or at least really really badly led. They had planned on cutting Finland in half in two weeks flat, so even that schedule was not as ambitious as the two-day decapitation planned in the current war. Anyways I can't see how the Soviet failure to flatten Finland didn't subsequently embolden Hitler.
I sold my house without any agents in Portugal. They are common and people use their services frequently, but I figured I could do it by myself and pocket the fees.
A couple of quick thoughts:

Its not really obvious to me what a "screenshot beautifier" _does_. It would be useful to have a (visual?) description of what it does without having to first drop a screenshot into it. I didn't have any screenshots to hand so fairly quickly clicked away.

Pasting an image using Ctrl-V doesn't work for me (Win 10, Firefox 97.0.1)
Biden orders government to study digital dollar, other cryptocurrency risks
> a weak Russia & an incapable Russian armed forces is a solid foundation of the peace of our generation.

> of the peace of our generation.

Thanks, got a laugh from that.
Did anyone else notice they have been trained to automatically close pop-ups without reading them? It turns out this one has useful instructions in the pop-up.
There's also the fact that nearly all content has compression as part of its path to display anyway. Video & images are obvious examples, but also GPUs almost always render to a lossy compressed framebuffer as well. It just saves way too much memory bandwidth not to do.

So as long as 'transcoding' from GPU framebuffer compression to DSC is itself a mostly lossless process, there's realistically not even a quality hit from it anyway
Nationalism is still the dominant ideology, we still separate people physically even though goods and money has very few limits. The cause of world wars was the nationalist religion, and apparently it s still very influential, especially in poorer places where people don't feel they have Man other options to improve their position in life
I should’ve commented this earlier but completely forgot:

Hi HN,
I built this over the weekend and last few days and am happy with how its turning out so thought I’d share. The source is available at https://github.com/MaxLeiter/drift
As the saying goes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Third Reich (Nazi Germany) and Soviet Union were also allies before Operation Barbarossa.
All the stories nominated for the 2022 national magazine awards
Wouldn’t you like to know…
> Edit: there will never be "One Linux Desktop" we will always have at least 2 or 3 very popular ones, one for power users, one for GNOME/Apple types and one for minimalists

And all those "very popular ones" put together with the less popular ones will have 1% of market share and will never have high quality common commercial applications or high quality first party drivers or games that run on all distributions, etc.

It's a sad story, and I say this as someone who used to be on desktop Linux for years and years and have been around FOSS for 15+ years.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611859
or as tsar Putin says "special military peacekeeping operation in Ukraine" goes as planned.
> their military ambitions are now finished, permanently

I'd like to think that if Russia fails to subjugate and absorb Ukraine then it will put an end to Russian dreams of restoring empire, for at least one generation and perhaps for longer. Recalling Zbigniew Brzeziński "It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire."
It's just an in-joke, it was a common misspelling on slashdot.
My guess would be an M1 Ultra with additional modular expansions for specific purposes. I.e. instead of having a GPU, you could add a tensor processing module if you need to do machine learning, or a graphics processing chip for video production, and so on.
Largely agree with your post except:

My understanding is Xi knew of the invasion well-ahead, and actually told Putin to delay it, to not interfere with the Beijing Olympics. This might partly explain the logistical problems the Russians are having: when they first started massing combat power, they didn't plan to have 150,000+ guys sitting around in the winter for quite this long.
If you ever have the chance to see Richard Paterson live, do it. He is a genuinely warn hearted, top world class, and last not least very entertaining master blender.
I think you're right. There needs to be an option to try the app with some demo image. I've noted and will add it :)
Incorrect. Even for unknown small companies, 7-8 rounds is pretty standard now.
No Power at Chernobyl
Thank you. Seems i missed that.
My guess is that they don't want to distort results. Any kind of scoring would present an incentive to start cheating (e.g. by not checking the "I've seen this before"-box), be it consciously or subconsciously.

From the presented samples I'd wager that one goal of the study might be to quantify the influence of audio-only vs video-only vs text, hence text-only, video-only, audio-only, and video with subtitles.

While text limits the decision making process to preconceived notions about the person in question and prior background knowledge, video and audio may present clear cues from human perception alone.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/...

With effect from April 1, 2021, BCD on import of printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), camera modules and connectors will be raised to 2.5%. For PCBA and moulded plastic for manufacture of charger or adapter, duty will go up from existing 10% to 15%. Whereas, other inputs and parts of chargers will attract 10% duty.

Completely built-up units (CBUs) of battery chargers attract 15-20% customs duty while handsets attract 22.5%. Certain sub-assemblies of phones such as display panels, printed circuit boards, mechanics and die cut parts are also liable for 10% duty to encourage greater value addition in India.
> How soon will I be able to buy a machine more powerful than the world's computing power when I was born?

An AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is 2.3M MIPS. If you were born prior to ~1977, you are currently able to do this, according to https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/world-computing-power...

If born after, you still can but you need a lot more money.
I don't think you understand how detail oriented they are. Even things as small as international student nights get cancelled at Chinese universities because any form of organization might lead to potential opposition. They simply try to oppose any form of organizing.

Same here. China won't even allow local western politicians to meet with a local Taiwenese politician (yes they have such influence, Amsterdam Politicians are not allowed to be on photo with Taiwenese politicians). 100% sure they care about the actions of such a prestigious institute as the Chinese Red cross.