skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is of course true that the "average Russian" is not shelling Mariupol, is not an oligarch, and may not even have voted for Putin. Voting and support numbers showing broad support for Putin, if accurate and genuine, should be seen in the context of Russian propaganda.

And yet... this is the first time that Russians experience the anguish they have caused to Central and Eastern Europe over the past 80 years. USSR caused untold misery, to Russians too, but to its non-Russian subjects mostly. Economies were exploited, lives and bones were broken, culture subdued. Attempts to leave USSR be peaceful means were violently quashed, such as in Czechoslovakia in 1968, Hungary in 1956, and lots of smaller events along the way. Pro-USSR sentiment in Russia remains strong, as was support for annexation of Crimea.

At some point, "ordinary Russians" need to understand that the "Russian empire" machine they support, by sentiment if not democratic votes, brings misery and destruction to all who stand in its way.

In my experience, this sentiment is also not limited to "domestic-only" Russians, who perhaps lack access to "different bias" sources of information. I knew a number of highly educated and intelligent Russians living in the West, who still drank the kool aid.

I'm not saying, it's their turn to suffer, but for this reason I'm struggling to muster depths of sympathy.
This is only true if you consider financial savings the only type of savings.

Preppers, for example, are very low-time-preference people who have chosen food storage, energy capture and storage, machines, tools, land, structures, raw materials, cabling, conduit, lumber, etc as their mode of savings. They will tend to do very, very well in high-inflation environments.

This also ignores the fact that many assets owned by low-time-preference people (and/or the funds they hold) are leveraged, whether it be real estate leveraged by long-term mortgages, or 4% dividend-paying equities leveraged by 2% margin accounts. Inflation helps these people quite a bit.
Is this a Bay Area specific thing? The terms "HOV lanes" and "carpool lanes" are used interchangeably in my experience. Are you just calling out separated lanes? The reason for the separation is that traffic in those lanes is often moving much faster than the other lanes which makes it very dangerous to give people the possibility of pulling into that lane unexpectedly. The ideal HOV/carpool lanes should have two lanes to allow passing and be separated from the rest of the lanes to promote safety. The 110 in Los Angeles is a great example and it uses the same transponders with switches that the article is discussing.
Russia was always in control of when this ends. They can simply leave Ukraine.
Sorry if this was unclear - in a datacenter use case you are right, but for an edge deployment, you will usually need to quantize, prune or compress your ML model to get it working as fast as you'd like on a sufficiently small CPU/GPU. Compared with running your ML model unchanged on those platforms, Tensil can run with the performance ranges listed above. You can also quantize and use Tensil too!
> No one has been able to eliminate whiskering, as the phenomenon is not yet fully understood.

It's the kind of stuff we should be embarrassed not to understand. I get that understanding living things can be tricky due to complexity and issues with controlling conditions, but a lump of metal? Whatever we find out will at least save us money in damaged devices, and hopefully drive some progress in metallurgy as well.

We had an era in semiconductor manufacturing when despite the relative simplicity the process was not understood/controlled fully, which took the toll on yield. E.g. CMOS was super fussy due to difficulties in creating gate oxide - impurities in air like halogens made the yield seasonal [1]. But now I assume that if any problems arise, they're due to bona-fide complexity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28178612
I've heard (could be rumor) that the "high speed highways" in Japan are toll roads with tolls so high basically nobody uses them. Maybe that's an example?
It is not just you. ‘Crypto’ is an odd shorthand for digital currencies.

Looking back at the initial whitepaper, Satoshi actually uses the word just once: “What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.” [1] The remainder of the paper uses terms like ‘hash’ and ‘digital signature’.

[1]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
It's not like gas prices haven't gone up substantially over the past 20 years...

The new 9/11 NYC footage that was recently making the rounds captured a gas station with its prices in view, they were all $1.XX/gal.
I've used redshift since ever but didn't knew f.lux had a Linux version. Though nowadays GNOME and Plasma offer built-in functionality for this, it is still needed for those of us preferring a window manager (and gammastep for Wayland users).
Better to solve these issues long-term. Lead's external costs in full product lifecycles are just too high.
It's a piece of the puzzle that will.
The biggest problem with automated tolling is there is no law restricting how rental companies can use those tolls against you. I don't know the current state of things, but there used to be this thing where rental companies would charge you say a $30 convenience fee simply for passing on a $3 toll charge. The consent-fiction was to bring your own toll transponder and cross your fingers it worked or avoid toll roads or whatever.

This of course is the shape of much corruption in the US - the government mandates some thing but with no restrictions on its abuse, and then private companies leverage that mandate to screw you (see also: DL/SSN numbers). What needs to happen is any such mandates need to be designed as complete systems that regulate all constructive behavior, rather than mere partial solutions that complexity gets built on top of.
The sanctions may be selective, and what Russia bans may be outside of those sanctions and affect many third countries. Not just from the direct effects, it could also increase prices even if you are able to find a replacement for those exports from a different country. Possible problematic exports:

- Wheat exports: 17.6% of the global wheat exports are from Russia, 8% are from Ukraine which may fall under Russia control. [1]

- Potash exports (fertilizer): Russia and Belarus and #2 and #3 in global exports of potash. [2]

- Gas: Russia supplies roughly 40% of the EU's gas [3]

[1] https://www.worldstopexports.com/wheat-exports-country/

[2] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/minerals-minin...

[3] https://fortune.com/2022/03/08/eu-russian-gas-supply-wean-bl...
His top lip doesn't move when he speaks
It should definitely be tolled, but for a different reason. The only effective way to control congestion is to put a price on it, so the tolls should kick in iff there is heavy traffic.
Brazil, China and other trading partners have not signed onto any or all of the sanctions. The sanctions are still hurting the Russian people, but there haven't been signs yet that it has hurt the government.
I didn’t say you were a Russian troll, I said you weren’t debating in good faith by bringing up irrelevant things like the Monroe doctorine in respond to my initial comment.
It was nice that the intermediate version beeped when getting pinged; the new flex version (with number of riders switch) is silent again. Maybe it's time to hack a tone into it.
You can keep reserves for select nonperishables. In any case, one of my siblings works at a national supermarket chain and it works as I described
Ready to Die? Why Most People Flunk the Zelenskyy Test
> “Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet” (A serpent, unless it devours a serpent, will not become a dragon)

And dragons do not become less hungry. This is a fair summary of current world events.
Respect for actually getting into the thick of things and trying it out. I hope some of the hype can die down without totally killing the momentum.
In research often antibiotics are added to avoid contamination from handling etc. However, large scale and automated production processes can be run antibiotic free because of their very controlled sterile environment. Then the product would also be antibiotic free.
Is Paddle still Only open to SaaS only ?

Last time I check they won’t even accept any other business.
This battle has been fought and lost and the language has changed.

I've learned to just accept the new meaning and imo it's better that way (otherwise you'll end up being the person correcting everyone who writes linux to write gnu/linux for the rest of your life).

Crypto implies cryptocurrency now (especially in public facing writing), cryptography is the less common usage.
I suspect the cop will have heard all of these explanations a hundred times by the time they pull you over, and will write the ticket anyway. :)
What got you excited about this field in the first place? Try and get back in touch with that maybe.

Try exploring another side of the field, like systems programming, or a language like Haskell. Maybe play around with Python ML libraries.

I realize this doesn't really answer your question, but for me personally, passion for messing around with computers has been a constant in my life.

Other things come and go, but there is always something interesting to be done with computers. If one area starts feeling boring or uninteresting, there is a staggering fractcal of interesting problem areas in computing, that seem to spiral out infinitely.

If Web/JS/React/etc feels boring and uninteresting, maybe look at some other space in that fractal.
The problem is, words mean what most people think they mean. This means that sometimes, meanings change. I'm totally with you but you gotta admit that the people who think "crypto" means "cryptography" are a tiny, tiny minority right now.

Crypto means internet money. Cryptography is how it's built.
What is "genocide" to you if not erasure of cultural identity and physical eradication of peoples? Putin literally told us himself that "there are no distinct Ukrainian people" which is erasure of cultural identity, and the indiscriminate killing of civilians is the physical eradication. It's not just about the hospital, the scale of atrocities against civilians is already way beyond the US wars in the Middle East and it's done on purpose.

They haven't setup the gas chambers, I give you that, but the future of Ukrainian identity if Russia prevails is grim.
Could potting prevent this, or can the whiskers "push through" epoxy?
Anyone know what impact these two items from the article would have on western companies?

allowing Russian airlines to register jets leased from Western firms as their own property

In response, a government commission on Wednesday approved the first step towards nationalising assets of foreign firms that leave the country.

It seems to me the companies involved probably knew this was possible/probable when they pulled out but I don't know enough about all of this to understand how much value they lose when their capital in a country is simply taken from them outright...
µTransfer: A technique for hyperparameter tuning of enormous neural networks
Yes, if you are using Kable for authentication, this is a larger problem but there are some fallbacks in place as well.

Our libraries cache the valid (and invalid) keys we process. So if Kable goes down, users with steady traffic (whose keys remain cached) will remain unaffected. Users who have not yet had a key validated by Kable, though, will experience problems while Kable restarts.

We have redundancies in place to ensure that Kable downtime is minimized. Obviously no system is perfect, and outages can't be avoided 100%. But we employ all best practices around redundancies, rolling deployments, and rapid response to minimize the impacts of downtime
I'm not sure he actually is all that good at picking such things given his history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Clarium_Capital
Sure, I inquired about the API, and got a templated reply that simply repeated the API's landing page

I replied saying I'd be interested in knowing what they're looking for in potential beta partners:

> That is good to hear. All you need to do is follow the instructions listed in my previous email and wait on contact from the Treasury team. I am happy I was able to assist you.

> Thank you for choosing Stripe!

Keep in mind the "instructions" are to fill out the form that got me into this email chain in the first place: in other words there's nothing about what I asked there.

There's the whole "That's good to hear" reply to a question I asked...

And I was especially taken aback by the whole facetious "happy I was able to assist you" bit after completely ignoring my question.

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The entire interaction felt like "why are you bothering us", which is honestly would be a fair position if they're looking for established players for example... but why not be direct?

We had other companies flat out say their partners want X million in funding before they'll work with you, and that was fine.

It'd actually take less work than writing out a non-answer like that
Realistically there would be a pipeline with various companies and AIs involved, each specializing in a specific aspect of virtualizion (the way effects houses work today,) not a single AI doing everything.

But yes, everything you mention up to and including writing and directing can and will be automated to the fullest degree possible in time.
Great! Some folks have had transponders for a decade or more, as they don't need replacing very often. AFAIK, this is the first time that there has been a reason to get a new transponder if your existing transponder is still operational. It's also not communicated very well to customers. I've talked with many people who wondered how Fastrak knows how many people are in your vehicle. They were unaware that there are new transponders with a toggle.
If every country refused to trade with Russia, would it become one of the poorest countries in the world?
I think I've used Fusion and Everlast exclusively
> Russia and Ukraine generate a quarter of the world's grain, and nearly as much so of corn.

They generate a quarter of the grain export. That's a very important difference.
Russia stopping wheat exports would be a very bad thing, but it's not nearly as catastrophic as some present it to be.
So we'll discard everything about Ukraine that Western strategists said before Putin started his war?

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592

That cannot be a distraction. You speak about the rambling speech but what about his 2007 speech? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_speech_of_Vladimir_Puti...
This is the one thing you don't see in all those analysis about intermitent fasting: Hard data about cholesterol, triglyceride and other blood levels. It would be good to have a large randomized trial with say 16/8 no-breakfast fasting which monitors those numbers.
this is how you prove that you just learned about crypto last week. if you think that bitcoin was more of a sure thing and less risky relative to reward in 2011 then you have no idea what you are talking about. first of all if bitcoin crashed from 65k to 10k that wouldn't even be the worst drop bitcoin has ever seen. thats like an 85 percent drop. bitcoin has seen MULTIPLE 95+ percent drops over the course of it's life. it's harder to regulate bitcoin today than it has ever been because there are multiple fortune 500 companies and s&p companies that would be massively negatively effected by this change. bitcoin is in a less risky political position than it has ever been in before.
It depends whether you want your benchmark to be fair or to be representative. I think there's a case to be made for both approaches.
I don't think radar is strictly necessary. The camera based adaptive cruise control in Subarus generally works pretty well except in heavy rain.
Yeah, and we're not allowed to even put it in products anymore by law (RoHs, reach, etc)
Yeah the improvement in young Luke in The Book of Boba Fett was pretty impressive.
Let me preface this by saying that housing prices are ridiculous.

That said, a new house from the 60's is very different from a new house today.

The things that come to mind:

Much larger kitchen space.

Shared bathroom vs every bedroom has a bathroom plus half bath for guests.

Major code differences for electrical.
Kinda like Hacker. Ship's probably sailed though...
HN hates everything.
The main point of crypto these days appears to be to replace the current middlemen with different middlemen who can make more profit while offering the consumer much less legal protection.

It's a bit concerning.
>Back in the day Turo was mostly people with somewhat interesting cars who wanted to share them, and rental agencies had nothing interesting, and the pricing was reasonable.

>Now a $60 a day car can come out to more than a $100 a day car because of extended insurance for specific models, Turo fees, weird discount structures, massive deposits

This honestly feels like the story of every gig economy service out there (Airbnb, Turo, etc). They were unique and interesting and well worth the cost versus traditional competitors at one point. Now they're at the point where I'm back to cross-shopping the traditional options (hotels / car agencies / etc) first.
Blind People Stagnating at Work Due to Inaccessible Technology, Says New Study
Wow this isn't known. The signs don't say that you need a new transponder to get the discount anywhere. I did always question how they'd know but quite simply no one made it clear. I haven't yet been hit since I don't drive often but wow this just seems to be looking to catch drivers who simply read the sign and assume they're good to go since they match the conditions listed on the sign. It turns out there's a hidden condition!
Being a Russian citizen, I think absolutely nothing coming from the Kremlin should ever be trusted. If they actually say something true, that's more likely to be an unhappy coincidence.
WarGonzo is Russian state propaganda. How do we know those are Ukrainian defenders and not Russians pretending to Ukrainians?
U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons (2005)
The catch is that a lot of these exports are bulk goods, which are sensitive to transport cost. It's why, for example, Russia exports so much gas to Germany. It's not for nothing that a large swath of the EU became dependent on Russian energy and wheat.
Can be exchanged for goods and services.
Huh, you’re right, not sure why I thought it’s TensorFlow related.
> author describes tensors as things behaving according to tensor transformation formula

In grade school it drove me nuts when the homework required us to describe a word without using the word (or it’s Latinate siblings). And yet as an adult there are few enough weeks that go by where some grownup doesn’t try to pull that same trick.

If you think developers are guilty of circular logic, check out some of the math pages on Wikipedia. You can get lost in moments.
If I was him I'd shut it down and use environmental retoric to justify it. "We should leave it in the ground, what about future generations?" sort of stuff. The mental gymnastics would be Olympic level.
Ah, an MG-F was my first car, loved the style of that mid-engine roadster.
If requiem gor a dream is anything to go by, do meth.
Information about funding programs
I have a dual citizen Polish-American, I was born in Poland and I think I can answer this. I wasn't proud of being born in Poland until I went back in my 20's and went to the concentration camps and learned a bit more about the history. Poles are extremely resilient people and have a vast history. Seeing other poles do well in tech space, sports and now helping people from Ukraine just makes me feel good and happy.
slippery slope dang, HN soon the place to be for promoting NFT's about tech

oh it is already, does Stripe gets an exception because it is "backed by YC"?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stripe

It should be tagged as such

More transparency dang, please
I worked at $FAANG and a coworker was hired, then fired on their first day: they had chosen to omit that they had worked for a Chinese tech company from their resume, but the background check came back and said he did.

That's not sanctions, that's because my $FAANG had hard evidence that Chinese tech company employees were switching to my company, stealing data, then leaving.

I've also heard people from my current parent company's headquarters (in Switzerland) will only hire Swiss citizens for important servers (SAP, etc). Not italians, germans, or french (and if you look at where they are headquartered, the city is literally on the border of germany and france, with many people commuting in daily).
No mention of Uranium.
The purpose of C++/Rust bridging is to allow adding Rust code to existing C++ projects. PyO3 lets you embed a Python interpreter in an otherwise Rust-only application. They serve two different markets - though, if you really needed to, you could embed both C++ libraries and CPython in the same Rust app.
Whats your definition of a company based in Germany?
But that applies to every lane in CA. The equilibrium seems to be staggered traffic in every lane going the same speed so that no one can cut you off and you know someone is filling your blind spots at all times. Oddly enough the right-hand lane is often free (mostly on 101N between Gilroy and San Jose) since no one wants to interact with merging traffic (one of the very few traffic laws/suggestions anyone follows).
I'm also assuming that with your system engineering background, you're also limiting personnel access to the reactors or better, to the rooms where they will be located as well as all security measures to avoid social engineering hacking into the facilities, right Vincent?

Congrats on the initiative, just absolutely fantastic!
Great points, I totally agree.

I’m a little worried that Russia will decide to lay waste to Ukraine and not stop until they’ve killed the government. :(
Okay, that's a good point and I can understand where you're coming from. It seems to be true that if Russia were to succeed, there wouldn't be much difference between the situation of the Ukrainians and that of the Uyghurs.
As another commenter points out, the West could stop financing the war by payments to the Russian state in exchange for fossil fuels. But that would be pretty inconvenient for westerners.
And the Cube Thingies are real! https://niftygateway.com/collections/cube-thingies
I agree with science is prone to corruption. As far as climate science having power...it was opposed by every giant oil, gas, extraction corporation and actively suppressed for decades, with these companies funding rival fake science. Science is still science, science minded people will hear you out provided evidence. If someone wants to claim CO2 doesn't cause climate change and they have a good argument I still believe someone will listen. Einstein was ridiculed for years about his ideas, you could say he had majority of 'institutional-science power' against him, but ideas still won out.
I imagine global companies' Russian assets are a minimal overall percentage of their property. And I suppose something companies should assume is a risk when they do business under a dictator.

But I also think it's really interesting from a burned bridges standpoint: It's going to be super hard to get companies to come back or resume doing business with Russia ever again.
That's a good point, they're definitely not equivalent. If it was societally expected of me to have three small bumps of cocaine every day, I'd have an incredibly hard time not overdoing it.