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The Kiev Convoy Mystery
That convoy outside Kiev just waiting there like a sitting duck seems to be a mystery to everybody, military experts included. But surely there must be answers somewhere?
Ukraine urged to take ‘humane’ approach as men try to flee war
I am sorry for the tone of that offensive sentence.
Perhaps I should have expressed the feeling in a more diplomatic wording.
We did have them against the mat and let them up.
Howz that for a PC version.
There was cold war and we could have defeated the opponent.
Instead we funded them.
> (samples? there's a word at the tip of my tongue here)

Synth? Synthesis?

I'm sure that it's a lost art of hearing the sound of one synth over another and identifying it exactly. Hardware ones always sounded much better to me.
It's the OS's fault for silently killing apps that are 'in use'.

An app can already say 'I'm still doing a user visible action' (like logging a run, or playing music). Whenever one of those apps has to be killed to free up memory, a messagebox should be displayed saying "Spotify has quit due to low memory. Spotify was using 647MB and RunGPS was using 1454MB out of 3000MB system memory".
> JavaScript is not available.

Sure it is.
The biggest takeout for me is that most people so not support any of the two parties in the country. A clear sign that more parties and a more diverse spectrum of opinions are needed!
I’m taking off my cynical goggles and giving this a round of applause. Even if I think Twitter could do more, this is a great move on their part.
Fascinating, I'm familiar with the incident but never heard this aspect of it.
Genuine question: Why would the US Department of Defence fund "medical research to fight against diseases"?
We envision a future without passwords and where you can take your identity around with you and plug it in wherever you want, while also maintaining control of that personal info. Interestingly, the first thing clerk.dev asks for when you sign up is a password...

Additionally, we don't think you should have to have a React/Vue/Next.js/etc site just to add auth. We want this to be plug-and-play anywhere and work across all of your web properties (and eventually mobile too). That could make the marketing, docs, and support experiences better at so many websites with a level of integration that used to take weeks or months to build (if anyone even bothered).
The article doesn't explain how to fix the bug! Talk about leaving your audience hanging.
Power is needed to pump water to cool the reactors. Without power = meltdown.
> and I hope the world can one day say "we did everything we could to help Ukraine", because at the moment they certainly can't.

And what about you? Can you say your country, or your world, did everything it could to help the victims from other wars, some of which are ongoing too?
As the communicator your job is to ensure that the audience gets your message. This slide is so comically bad that I wouldn't expect anyone to understand the gravity of the situation after seeing it.

If this was a presentation done in high school they would have gotten a failing grade. And I think we can expect more from university educated people.
Never forget that it took 10 years to pass a bill for federal funding for victims and 18 years to secure it forever.

https://www.consumersafety.org/news/9-11-zadroga-act-18-year...

> In February 2019, the VCF Special Master, Rupa Bhattacharyya, announced in her monthly status report that the VCF was running low on funds. Out of the $7.375 billion allotted to the fund in 2015, the VCF had just $2 billion left to cover victim compensation claims for the next two years. To stretch the remaining funds and cover the increasing number of claims filed, Bhattacharyya proposed a 50-70% cut to compensation awards.

These people will gladly slash a victim fund to save a buck, and then print $6T to bailout their rich friends.

They will help no one if it doesn't help their careers.
Another NASA screw-up that they're trying to pin on the vendor engineers, just like Challenger.

The title is not reassuring. Conservatism in engineering is essentially about creating safety margins through conservative estimation. The title is saying we need to be careful because a tile was likely penetrated. Hell, if I remember correctly they were reporting that there was known tile damage on the news before reentry, but that they didn't know the extent.

"NASA felt the engineers didn’t know what would happen but that all data pointed to there not being enough damage to put the lives of the crew in danger."

If you thought they didn't know, then ask them what they do know! It's right on the slide that flight conditions are outside of test parameters and that the mass of the projectile was much higher. How the F do you work at NASA and not understand the basic principles of mass, velocity, and energy well enough for that to stand out enough to ask questions or run your own calculations...

The reason the slide is laid out the way it is, is because it's describing the thought process and creates a deductive argument for how they got to their concern. This is a presentation for a briefing for other engineers, not a conference or sales pitch. It's supposed to be formal and contain the synopsis of technical points. Using projectors for technical briefings predates the use of PowerPoint. I see nothing wrong with the layout in that context.

Edit: why downvote without a reply? NASA has a history of blaming vendors when they screw up. This looks like another example to me. The presentation format does not have any issues given the setting and target audience.
Oh, whoops. They apparently import 0 gallons a year.
Yeah you can. I created 3 in the last 3 months for different projects without linking a phone number. You just click register with email.
so $800K USD to help Ukraine for humanitarian while purchasing billions of dollars of gas etc from Russia where the sanction is occurring?
Countries like India and Brazil are so stratified in terms of wealth that you essentially have people who have no chance of affording it, ever, and people with the same or more disposable income as those in the west. So the strategy is to simply get as much as possible out of the 'rich' people who will buy it as a status symbol.
I prefer not to upload all my potentially private documents into a cloud service :)

OCRmyPDF (https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/) actually does a pretty good job! It also handles deskewing and all other stuff that's necessary for good OCR results.
Amazon referred to DOJ for potential criminal obstruction of Congress
motorola is awesome in this regard. i have disabled all of the stock apps out of habit and i would not touch a xiaomi, redmi, samsung bloat with a 10 fot pole.
Congrats on shipping! How does this differs from Userfront?
Its up to the employee to continue to build marketable skills, not the employer. If the employee is content in their position, then that's that.
Businesses don’t want irreplaceable anything, including engineers.
> this foam, falling nine times faster than a fired bullet

Wouldn’t the foam initially be travelling as fast as the spacecraft? So it’s just the time between it’s release and hitting the wing to accelerate.
I found ROC at one point, but the native PA tcp connection actually works good enough for me.

The only problem I had with my setup was when I changed my router to a Mikrotik hap ac2 - there was a lot of stuttering and dropouts. After switching to OpenWRT on the Mikrotik, everything became usable again :)
Not to be a downer, but there may simply not be a solution.
Yeah, I didn't like it. :)
If this is true, it simply means that Uber/Lyft outcompeted the yellow cabs in some other set of attributes, rather than price.

I'm guessing availability and ease of use.
That’s good for you. But how good is it for them for you not to inform them of the existential risks of them not getting better at their job and staying marketable? Even if they don’t want a raise? Every industry goes through changes and you should encourage them to stay up to date on those changes instead of just chugging along on the legacy products.

I met two developers in 2016 who had been with the same company for 10 and 17 years respectively maintaining a PowerBuilder app from 1999 running on Sql server 2003.

The company was happy to let them keep chugging along until the company got acquired by venture capital and they said they “no longer wanted to be a software company”. How do you think that worked out for them?
That is completely different than what's stated, though. That is "B&H bought this months ago, and Apple happens to be back-ordered on the same (I'm assuming more-or-less standard) configuration."

This is about a custom order from Apple directly vs. a reseller ordering that custom configuration from Apple.
Last I heard not all of the chipset's features are working in Linux yet...
Right on. There are many companies who interview candidates, but have little to no intention to hire. They are very difficult to recognize, as their job adverts and websites look exactly like all the others.
Speaking of their UI pattern, I just don't understand why MacOS doesn't indicate when one software has 2 or more open windows. For example, if you open 2 Word documents, the Word app will only show one, and there's no intuitive way to tell if there's a second window, and no intuitive way to switch to the second window. My wife has had a Mac for 10 years and still only semi understands how these windows work.

Edit: comments below are trying to tell me how to switch windows, of course I know how. My point is MacOS doesn't tell you there are multiple windows. On PC, the Dock will show "stacked" icons.
Thanks for the heads up! We've fixed the link!
If you read the original post you were replying to, then read your post, your post appears to be only tangentially related, utilizes sarcasm and implied political hostility, and makes an accusation that doesn't seem warranted. The post you were replying to seemed to be genuinely referring to the same platform's famous fact-checking of Trump, merely as a point of comparison. There was no implication of some kind of hypocritical opinion regarding whom should and should not be fact-checked.

That's what causes these kinds of rambling forks in threads.
This was a very interesting read. Very easy to understand too. I hope this solves some of the problems I had when trying to connect with peers in IPFS
Remote to the US from South America is my goal. Same time zone (pretty much), less natural disasters and pleasant weather.
I’ve actually worked for them as an interviewer (no longer). They ‘try’ to make it a decent candidate exerience in my view, but are missing some obvious flaws in their approach. For example, they do “care somewhat” about code quality but you’d have to catch that from the subtle wording.

And I’ve seen entry level candidates demonstrate far above entry level skillsets and not pass the interview.
The car driver should obviously be punished for this behavior but it always surprises me how inflexible people can be sometimes. Just move to the bike path and let the car pass, it's not a battle worth fighting cause you're no match for a 2 ton vehicle.
Julia writes so nicely, something about the way she talks about projects and things is so earnest. I have a brag document because of her and it’s helped quite a bit. I have my own list of toy projects and I think it’s good to track them especially to find code examples later!

https://nivethan.dev/projects.html

I really liked writing a http server in bash because I started just to see if I could. I also really like my project to get the top reddit stories from each country.
Intel, HP, etc invested over 10 billion dollars into Itanium (closer to 14-17 billion dollars today). For perspective, AMD's market cap in 2003 was around 5 billion. They could have built 20% of the US carrier fleet of the time with that much money.

Ultimately, the compiler never materialized and I'm convinced they knew it wouldn't (but in the meantime, they almost killed all the RISC competition). The Halting problem means that at best you have heuristic optimizations that constantly fall through.

The only way to solve these problems with a high degree of success is to analyze the code as it is running which is what other CPUs actually do. This is so true that later versions of Itanium (latest being released in 2017) were just VLIW wrappers around a rather traditional, speculative core.
It's fun to build simple stuff that work, but it's even more rewarding to build stuff you actually use every day.
I made a simple expense tracker that will parse the SMS messages I get from the bank when paying for stuff, categorise based on merchant categories and push it to a google spreadsheet for traceability and visual charts. Good opportunity to play with building native images (it's done in java) in order to minimise resource usage as it's deployed in a 5$ digital ocean droplet.
10 years ago I've built a Swing app to generate invoices in a local compliant format. It was great to flexibility to customise everything.
I've seen presentations with Powerpoint that suck the life out of you and also ones that inspire and excite. It's not the tool, it's the presenter and how they wield the tool.

Reading word for word off a text-heavy deck in a monotone with no images or diagrams is a recipe for disaster. I tend to have my decks (back when I was doing presentations) be relatively text-lite and involve images/diagrams that back up my talking points. And I've seen image-heavy decks that really don't convey anything either.
Labs were given to Ukraine from the US DoD/DTRA, so pretty easy jump for conspiracy theorists to go all biowarfare zombie sarin etc. The page below explains what they are actually used for.

https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen...
And is it a wandering maze of errands in other industries?
I took a philosophy course in my university focusing on law, covering contracts. The professor gave an example "a band wants to play at a venue, they make a contract; what happens if the venue burns down, who owes who money?"

There are definitely edge cases, but it doesn't feel too hard to specify a "catch all", and if the other party doesn't like it, they should clarify those terms too. Feels easy enough. Reminds me of "burden of proof tennis" - if the catch-all isn't satisfactory to you, carve out an exception the other party accepts.
GPU claims at carefully chosen tasks that don't need GDDR6 to get top performance. It wouldn't game like a 3090 for instance, but then not many people are gaming on macs anyway.
David Heinemeier Hansson: You could be wrong
> my "career path" is to keep being an IC, doing a good job, not getting too attached to companies... and switch jobs every 3 years or so

THIS is what the 1:1 is for. That is where you communicate to your manager what you need in order to keep from leaving in a few years. You might not get it and leave anyway, but then again, you might. Nothing lost in the trying.*

* I'm not suggesting you frame it as an ultimatum but let them know what you want.
Not so sure about that market part... its 160 million of mostly poor folks who are becoming massively more poor as we write here. That's not so lucrative market compared to ie Europe with 500+ million wealthier citizens. But yeah Chinese cheap stuff will not have much competition.
Not even free. Vendors needed to purchase Apple hardware, did they not?
Not sure that is the case. Thunderbolt Displays, the previous equivalent, had extremely little depreciation over their life span—even when higher resolution monitors started to become mainstream. I suspect used versions of these monitors will retail near the new value for a long time.
There does appear to be a growing body of evidence circumstantially suggesting that COVID-19 is due to American incompetence and gross negligence.
x86 and ARM have different memory access assumptions which affects the reorder buffer in material ways. Apple added something to their chips to use the x86 memory model when flagged for Rosseta2.
> That is part of the reason Powerpoint is everywhere. You cannot assume that people have read anything before the meeting, you cannot assume they will read during the meeting, so you need to read it out loud to have a decent chance of it being received.

I've been told—very seriously—by multiple management consultants that public and private sector executives alike won't read a damn thing unless it shows up in powerpoint format, and even then you have to walk them through point by point or they'll miss most of it. This, when the documents are coming from people they're paying tons of money specifically to tell them stuff.

The company in question (you've heard of them, if you've heard of any management consulting companies at all) quite literally had an off-shored office dedicated to producing PowerPoints decks from notes overnight, while everyone on an actual engagement was sleeping. The primary tangible output of an engagement, as I understand it, is, overwhelmingly, PowerPoint decks. It's the Final Draft of the upper-end management world—apparently, you'll be dismissed and lose face if you show up with anything else, or even send something else in an email.
That's an idea that goes back to Hobbes' Leviathan.
I mean, there's really no value versus Ubuntu or Fedora. It's basically Ubuntu + different DE + more bugs. Not surprising they haven't been able to make much money from it.
No, it doesn't. It's bullshit.

There's stuff like the Ulefone Armor 9 FLIP rugged smartphone which has the headphone jack and has even better ingress protection than the iPhone:

> the extra padding and protection that comes with an IP68/IP69K-rated, MIL-STD-810G certified outdoor smartphone

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/ulefone-armor-9-flir-rugge...

Apple removed the headphone jack for Airbuds and to get extra money. Their accessory division would be a Fortune 500 company, on its own.

You don't get to be a billionaire by giving money away (or not picking it up when users throw it at you).
That post you linked is itself spreading misinformation. Notice how it retreats to the argumentative "motte" of bio labs - which are not a secret - while contextually purporting to support the claim that the US is developing bio weapons in Ukraine, which itself is misinformational support for the propaganda line used domestically in Russia, that the bioweapons the US is allegedly developing in Ukraine will be used to attack Russia.

I understand the urge to apply neutrality here but the fact is that the priors simply do not support a good faith interpretation of what we know is coming from the Russian state propaganda apparatus.
This sounds about correct. I had a similar hunch, but I noticed it correlating to high memory instead (could be just a symptom, perhaps it was doing more swapping?). I increased my swap partition, which made it happen less often. It could be very well be the CPU.
Comic Book Panel Segmentation
It is a video memory problem. Unified memory is nice but you need GDDR6 to feed a powerful GPU. But you don't want GDDR6 for the cpu.
'Some people' is never a particularly helpful phrase.

That said, Putin's approval ratings have always been extremely high for a leader, and war (one where you largely control the narrative in your country no less) has been a pretty consistent winner in gaining leaders popularity.
It is pretty simple; a regional war in Ukraine weakens both the west and Russia while reducing their focus on China. China's best strategic interest is to keep the regional war going as long as possible. China is not really "helping" Russia, rather propping up one side of the information war to ensure the war grinds on.
Putin is doing this for popularity boost, as he has successfully employed several times before. The reasons he gives publicly are contradictory.

And in any case the treaty doesn't allow for invasion upon the government being perceived as illegitimate. This is an aggressive war, considered since the end of WW2 to be the supreme international crime.

The problem still so far is everything done to hold Putin accountable is viewed by Russians as the West vs Russia. This invasion is viewed not as aggressive war, but liberating Ukraine from Nazis. Exactly what Putin says domestically.

And yes, most of the rest of the world recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign country, except formally they use language consistent with One China to avoid a row with China
As evidenced by covid 19, pandemics are a matter of national security. I like to think that the DoD is interested in developing novel ways to fight novel pathogens, rather than use them as weapons. That said, I am under no illusion that the DoD or any government institution should be simply taken at their word either.
Why require any phone number? I hate Twitter and won't use it either way, but they have no business asking for phone numbers.
Guide to Getting a Tech Job Overseas
Several days ago: https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67331.html

I can't see any explanation for it other than "epic operational blunder," either.
Does it include multimedia content or page itself
cause they were reducing threat of COVID in UA Armed Forces (first link)
Just more evidence that advertising is a huge net-negative on the world and should be abolished as far as I'm concerned.
To defend against biological weapons. The DoD is responsible for defending the US against all kinds of attacks -- conventional, nuclear, chemical, and biological -- even if it doesn't use all of those weapon types itself.
Also "Google Play Services" is doing everything and nothing, it seems. I know it's a wrapper for various functions, but man... 500 MB...
> I don’t know why China is so keen on helping Russia.

They are ancient neighbors and have a vested interest in helping maintain global geopolitical harmony, just like all other globalized nations.
Public Buys Otis
I dunno.

Personally I do well with whiteboard interviews and similar things most of the time, both in terms of being good at the subject and in terms of making up for my deficiencies in terms of bluff and bluster (I like to joke that there are two answers to any interview question: "look it up in the hash table" and "look it up in the literature")

For all the talk that "hiring is broken" and that managers and candidates need to do something about it there is remarkably little talk about what to do once you've hired them (other than occasional threads that are fashionable from time to time such as "what to say in a 1-1 meeting when there isn't really anything to talk about") If the situation of vetting candidates for quality is so bad you might think labor unions for software devs would be good for management.
Show HN: Open source machine learning inference accelerators on FPGA
Tom from Tensil here - happy to answer questions!

We developed Tensil to bring custom ML accelerators to people who don't have the resources of companies like Google, Facebook and Tesla. Currently, we're focused on supporting convolutional neural network inference on edge FPGA (field programmable gate array) platforms, but we aim to support all model architectures on a wide variety of fabrics for both training and inference.

Tensil is different from other ML accelerators in that it is open source and really easy to use. For example, you can generate a custom accelerator with one command:

$ tensil rtl --arch <my_architecture>

You can compile your ML model targeting that accelerator like so:

$ tensil compile --arch <my_architecture> --model <my_model>`

Running your model on FPGA is as simple as doing the following:

$ tcu.load_model(<compiled_model>)
$ outputs = tcu.run(inputs)

The accelerator generator was developed in Chisel and we built our own parametrizable compiler to target it. The link in the post takes you to the documentation, and here's a link to the Github repository: https://github.com/tensil-ai/tensil/
With Google translate:

> From March 10, Irina Elina will not be able to access her Russian bank account, a consequence of the sanctions against Russia. Irina Elina, who is a student in Uppsala, is preparing for the worst.