skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITT: people with no experience of combat who think wars are solved in two weeks. The Iraqi desert spoiled us, but surely we still remember Afghanistan...?

If anybody in the Russian army is worth half a ruble, they planned this to take months at least. They came straight out of engagements in Syria and Chechnya, which took years to turn. Whether they told their troops (who, in Russia, are synonim with "cannon fodder" since forever) is another matter, of course.
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bindgen[1] already exists to autogenerate a rust API from c headers. It's inherently unsafe because C code is inherently unsafe. In particular, there is no language constructs like destructors or constructors, so you can't naively create a C-based API that can prevent memory/resource leaks and use after free errors. While C++ does have the same issues as C with unsafe pointer semantics, it does have constructors, destructors, and other features that map almost perfectly with Rust's RAII-based resource management, making it pretty easy to generate a safe(ish) rust interface. In practice, it's pretty easy to create a safe rust API from a C library: use bindgen to create the low-level unsafe API, then create rust wrappers using the ad-hoc creation and descruction library functions to implement RAII.

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/
> The vast majority of Americans are driving cars they can't afford.

How do you define whether someone can “afford” a car? Surely by definition the people can afford the cars, otherwise they would be repossessed?

If you mean they cannot afford to buy the cars outright, why is that an issue?
It solves the basic problem of stabilizing the shareholder group. No more infighting.

Important to your point, this method makes it difficult to stray from the real valuation. If Alice really wants out, she does not value the shares as much as Bob. Her just valuation will be viewed as a good deal by Bob. The scenario you define probably will not happen. If it does happen, then by definition Alice actually valued staying with company.
In other news Lavrov's stepdaughter has a £4 million flat in the most upmarket area of London - well she has it at the moment, for how much longer who knows.
UTF-8 as the de facto for `text` was merged a few months ago. It's in >=2.0.
My respect for Stripe plummeted when I reached out about a closed API and got a passive aggressive answer from support.

I don't think I've ever gotten that kind of rude sarcasm/passive aggression from a simple support inquiry, and I vowed never to use their services again.

Their competitors to this specific API were much nicer to work with and onboarded us after some basic introductions, so part of me wonders what other fronts Stripe has better but less well known competitors on.
Indeed OP is not talking about SAT solvers, since SAT solvers don't "learn" from examples, at least not in the way OP is thinking (symbolic learning is an entirely separate field).

SAT solvers, however, learn from their "mistakes", at least internally, which is really interesting and I think opens some very, very interesting research questions that as far as I know don't have that much money going into.

For example, human brains can reason internally and learn in a similar manner, learning from "mistakes" of rule application in the same way (i.e. if I try to do this, then that fails, but if I do this other thing, then it works but not fully...). Just some food for thought.

Automated Theorem Proving is also a very important success of the Symbolic camp but I would argue a less interesting one, since SAT solvers can do much more than prove theorems (and ATPs that can do more than prove theorems invariably use a SAT/SMT solver internally, like Vampire does for example). SAT solvers (and extensions) are used in model checkers, software and hardware verification tools, software and hardware synthesis tools, operations research, etc.
Do you earn more money in your current EU country vs the home one? Certainly in the UK a lot of cars get purchased for scrap value taken to a cheaper country for repair (or just used for spares)
> I never said it was justified.

> ...the US has been pushing buttons for months.

Those are in contradiction. If someone is being irrationally controlling, then standing up to them and trying to protect their victims isn't "pushing buttons".
Everything has to be weighted with a probability, which is conditional upon the nature of the story, and the incentives of the source. Here's an example... Russia Today (RT).

If you want to find out about wrongdoing in a US corporation, a US advertising funded channel is likely to avoid upsetting a sponsor. On the other hand, someone actively pointing out flaws in the US to sew division, like RT, has a strong incentive to do so, and try to retain credibility, and build up their viewers trust to use later as a wedge.

On the other hand, they will never say anything bad about Russia, other than trivialities.

Always keep in mind, incentives and the narratives those incentives align with. The higher the stakes, the more uncertain you should be.

You also have to try to keep in mind your own emotional and cognitive biases. Those are the ones that social media feeds on. If it upsets or delights you, you're more likely to react, as is everyone else. Which the advertising driven media will then feed on top of.
yes. That's the nature of war. Just like general disinformation and the campaign to support the poor Ukrainians roasting devious Russian in their tanks (while taking 0 losses of course!) and painting the heroic image of a people waging urban warfare defending (read: destroying beyond recognition) their country to the last drop of blood.

Some further reading:

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1498490752065757184

https://yasha.substack.com/p/insurgency

Putin is evil (and a child of the end of history). And yet, fighting fire with fire in heated, nationalistic conflicts has never been a recipe for improvement.
No, EVs were not "totally impossible" 5 years ago. The first GM EV1s with NiMH batteries were produced 23 years ago, and the first Tesla roadsters with Li-ion batteries 14 years ago. The battery capacity and weight of the roadster are not dramatically different from that of modern EVs.

In vehicles, energy density is not terribly important. The issue has always been the price of the cells. Only very recently they started becoming cost competitive compared to ICE powered vehicles.

The situation is very different in airplanes. At takeoff, something like 40% of the total mass of an airliner is just fuel. The best Li-ion cells have something like 50 times lower energy density than kerosine. It is simply not possible to fly any useful distance with such a low energy density.
The “Voyage of the Damned”
I’m not sure that it matters how much a country defending itself spins things. If the invaders don’t want spin, they can go back to their (unbombed) homes.
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Same thing happened in Gaza - Israel blamed Hamas of course:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-israeli-strike-damaged-g...
Dacia is so cheap that they even omit features that you might not think of as "features".

The base model Dacia Duster doesn't come with height adjustment on the driver's seat or with a glovebox light, you need to upgrade to the Comfort package for those. It does interestingly come with a radio these days, back in the day that used to require one of the upgrade packages.
They're building machines that will be used to kill humans. Don't work for Hermeus and shame on Sam Altman for war profiteering.
Atari buys videogame database MobyGames for $1.5M
Unpopular opinion in a post about Saab lovers: Saab (and Volvo) are/were fugly as hell, I'm pretty happy that those '80s designs disappeared.
Of all the new fangled crap to emerge in js ecosystem over past decade, typescript stands out to me as perhaps the best and least BS of them. I would love for typing to be supported by ecmascript but unless it arrives full featured I'm concerned it will then be typescript vs ecmascript types and landscape will simply be more cluttered with competing options. Just like how new browsers have half assed support for es6 modules. Free me from the toolchain hell of js, please, I'm waiting eagerly
Iron from the pan is not absorbed as easily as the iron in foods but it is still generally good for you rather than bad for you (like chromium).

If kids are low in iron, doctors still recommend cooking using iron pots & pans (in addition to supplements).
All of life is logistics. There’s no getting around the need to try to maximize efficiency. You can choose to improve resilience as well, of course.

Supermarkets don’t usually have much extra stuff because they carry a lot of perishable stuff. This is no different than outdoor markets for millennia. If anything, we’re a bit better off due to refrigeration and better preservation techniques, but if you have too much slop, that just means greater food wastage.

There is still a backroom for places I go. You can see it behind the milk cartons.
I've used flux for years. It is great. As someone with mild to bad sleep issues this really helps.

It's also a visual cue for me. Oh shit my screen is yellowish. Time to get off the computer and wind down.
What changed is, someone very powerful said this: "One of my incredibly big misses over the last decade was not buying enough Bitcoin. At $60k per Bitcoin, I'm still not sure if one should aggressively buy it, but surely it is telling us that we are at a crisis moment for the Fed."
When I was trying to dabble in game development, by far the hardest part of getting started for me was deciding on an engine to use. Godot was one of the top contenders for sure
Please don't start yet another instance of the same old generic flamewar on HN. The issue isn't whether you're right or wrong, it's that we've had this flamewar hundreds of times already and nothing new comes of it. That makes if off topic for this site, which is supposed to be for curiosity. Curiosity withers under repetition and fries under indignation.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep. Until very recently, we weren't able to support businesses selling crypto. (The regulatory details are complex.) We're now rolling out support and this page is basically about that change.
The Volvo V90 looks sharp as hell, especially for a wagon.
FWIW The Internet's development was funded by DARPA - The U.S.'s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For better or worse defense/offense has driven significant innovation for humanity, which has created many non-violent related benefits.
1) We have already created our first piece of edible pork using our method!

2) ATKearney in their article "How will cultured meat and meat alternatives disrupt the agricultural and food industry?" estimates that about 10% of global meat consumption could be switched over to cultivated meat around 2030. While 10% is low, I think you'll start seeing restaurant experiences start cropping up more and more over the next 3-7 years.

3) For cultivated meat, one method of adding flavor is by cultivating fat cells and merging it with the muscle cells after maturing.

4) With our method, the final shape of the meat can actually get very unique. There really are no limitations on the shape/ layout of the meat, and the final shaping is done after maturing the cells. If you want to have chicken meat in the shape of a ribeye, you will definitely be able to with our technology.

5) We have not tasted it yet, but we will very soon!

6) We are probably closer than you might imagine. Our technology enables production at any scale, from a full industrial plant to a small "home brewing" set-up. Really, it just comes down to getting the medium and growth factors to be cheaper for the average consumer.

7) Generally yes, with some minor and not so minor adaptations.
One thing I love about driving in America is that (in a sense) everyone is equal. Whether you drive a brand new Ferrari or a 1990 Toyota, you still wait in the same traffic. HOV/carpool lanes are an understandable conceit to incentivize good behaviors, but the idea that you can pay money to skip traffic just feels awful to me.

Those transponders are cool though. I have a different one for my electric car with a CAV sticker which lets me use some of the SoCal lanes alone.
Now that a CVT gets better mileage than a stick shift, it’s impossible to make the case for a stick. Plus, EVs don’t even have transmissions, at least not ones that need shifting.
Google is right: BBR improves video performance by 21%
Which ideas do you mean? 1 or 2?

I realize now that I probably should have made two comments.
Updated again, thank you :)
> Mathematicians' tensors = generalization of arrays, transformation rules don't matter.

That's definitely inaccurate, at least it doesn't match what I think of as tensors in mathematics.

In mathematics, tensors are the most general result of a bilinear opteration. This does imply that they transform according to certain laws: if you represent the tensor using some particular basis, that basis can be expressed in the original vector spaces you multiplied, and choosing a different basis for your vector spaces results in a different basis for your tensors.

By "most general bilinear operation" I am talking about what is expressed in category theory as a universal property... with a morphism that preserves bilinear maps.

Tensors can be over multiple vector spaces or a single vector space (in which case it's typically implied that it's over the vector space and its dual). When you use a vector space and its dual, I believe you get the kind of tensor that physicists deal with, and all of the same properties. Note that while vector spaces and their dual may seem to be equivalent at first glance (and they are isomorphic in finite-dimensional cases), both mathematicians and physicists must know that they have different structure and transform differently.

Something that will throw you off is that mathematicians often like to use category theory and "point free" reasoning where you talk about vector spaces and tensor products in terms of things like objects and morphisms, and often avoid talking about actual vectors and tensors. Physicists talk about tensors using much more concrete terms and specify coordinate systems for them. It can require some insight in order to figure out that mathematicians and physicists are actually talking about the same thing, and figure out how to translate what a physicist says about a tensor to what a mathematician says.
So, putting up barricades behind a schoolbus is ok as well?
wow, straight up running their own obtrusive ads on it no less.
I am perfectly fine not having such difference in C++.
Most of the science and research used to develop their designs are from said billions that went into designing those jets for the military.
The company avoided a shareholder fight for shares. This is actually a defense mechanism for the company, not the founders.
True, but Windows 10 mode looks different. Might just be subjective.
I don't use them on any devices.
I don't ever want to look at my screen through a filter, or have colors distorted, any more than is unavoidable.
If my eyes need a break, I'll take an actual break from the screen, rather than look at something distorted.

I also only use daylight bulbs in my house. "Soft white"/yellow bulbs give things a creepy feeling for me.
Let's see. I bet neither NATO nor the EU will consider accepting Ukraine or Georgia as new members, after Russia proved they're ready to invade these countries to defend their interests.

Do you believe the West would go to war with Russia, only to add a few members to a giant military alliance that was designed for a post-WWII world?

The US will retreat and focus on China and the EU will try to become more independent from NATO and Russia (and they'll negotiate with Putin if need be, unless he already jumped on China's side for good).
Just in case: there are yellow glasses marketed specifically for use at the computer and for avoidance of blue light.

(This is not an endorsement, however.)
Many Russians have seen them and still support the invasion. There are TV interviews showing this regularly now. It’s not a lot different from Republicans in the US ignoring other realities.
I'll admit it's been 15 years since I originally read Warrior Diet, but I thought it advocated a massive salad as the first part of your dinner followed by the protein source? I don't recall much mention of stew in the book, but like I said it's been ages since I read it. Not challenging you. Just curious since it has been so long since I read it and I'm trying to jog my memory.
Can you make and play a game using bookmarklets?
If you know of any games with java script bookmark lets already out there please tell me. If you know any really cool java script bookmarks lets pleas let me know about them?
How does three lines of Perl sound?
> every state has their own independent system -- the federal government should enforce one standard, so I can use my toll reader on any toll road in the country.

My EZ-Pass works in 19 states.
I get that this is a humble opinion. And I respect that. But for a language that draws so much ire from the programming community, and yet demonstrates such an ability to change and morph over the years. Are you saying you do NOT WANT it to get better? (and I realize "better" is subjective).

The same is true of PHP. People hate it. People complain. PHP takes the criticism and makes updates. People complain more.
It's fun sometimes, but other times it really takes away from the conversation.
Is there a possibility to always make the cursor bright?

Thanks for f.lux.
Altman failed upward from Loopt[1], ending up running YCombinator somehow. Maybe Paul Graham just really likes him.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt
Exactly. A ~2x premium to make all of that Someone Else's Problem is worth it.
Yes, absolutely. If the invaders don’t want to shoot a schoolbus, all they have to do is go back home.
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I can't edit, so I'll add this reply. I see that I really mis-typed above.

Also, at nearly 60 years old, by basal metabolic burn rate (according to online calculators, so YMMV) is only about 225 calories per day. At my weight that is like a 30-40 walk.

That should read,

Also, at nearly 60 years old, my basal metabolic burn rate (according to online calculators, so YMMV) is only about 225 calories lower __than my basal metabolic rate of 25-year-old-me (that is, at my current weight)__ per day. At my weight that is like a 30-40 walk. That result surprised the crap out of me.
Did you read that account's tweets? It's clearly a biased account with an agenda.
Oh please. Long time Stripe fan and customer here - this makes me sad from the inside. They even mention NFT marketplaces - scams all over the places. Why would they want to support use cases like that?
But this is a valid question? I am sure other Stripe customers are upset with this as much as I am to call it what it is.

Are you going to flag them too?
>the idea that you can pay money to skip traffic just feels awful to me.

This is no different from any toll road except the toll road and the free road are right next to each other and are therefore perfect substitutes with the only difference being the amount of traffic on each.
Article scheduled to be published 2 days after the start of the invasion, was promptly removed when it became clear the 'special operation' wasn't going to plan - http://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/202...
Translation - https://pastebin.com/rWEqsGe2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_soil

Also
> "...solution of the Ukrainian question..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
A friend who at the time ran a charity that sponsored marathon runners asked me if there was a technological solution to tracking runners more closely than just the mats that read runner shoe or bib RFID tags. The issue was she wanted to do at the New York City Marathon and frankly I was concerned there would not be enough cell tower availability for real-time monitoring. These days the answer is run any of 100 cellphone tracking and location sharing apps like Glympse and carry on since every time we go up (3g->4g->5g) we get more and more towers in smaller and smaller coverage areas. But at the time I was envisioning a peer-to-peer network of esp8266 devices all sharing location data and passing along updates via whatever open wifi access points they could find.

I hate to say race organizers should demand people load a phone app just so they can get an official result, but maybe we're back to needing dedicated hardware or enough tracking mats that spoofing the system becomes impractical.
My partner was showing me a Doja Cat TikTok last night where she was singing an old song with an “old age” face filter on, and the effect was stunning. Super realistic wrinkles, contours and skin texture, it never glitched out and had no visible edges. We are truly through the looking glass.
>On the other hand in 1990 the smartphone was no necessity to take part in normal society, so the 500$ and monthly data fee is an additional cost weighing on people

That's only if you don't consider the cost savings from that. Today you would use your smartphone to handle your online banking. In the 90s you would do what? Drive to the bank and talk to the teller? That costs a non-negligible amount of time, and money for the bank which presumably gets passed on to you.

Also, there's no reason you need to spend $500 on a phone, if all you need is "take part in normal society". That can be done with a $200 android phone, or a $180 iphone SE[1]. I would wager that even with the purchase cost + monthly fee (of a reasonable plan), you'd still be coming out ahead in terms of time savings.

[1] https://slickdeals.net/f/15272707-cricket-64gb-apple-iphone-...
Can you share the API/competitor?
Near Death Experience – Jeremy Smith
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Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision