skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like let's say it's 50% Putin isn't in power next year

The world doesn't care who's in power so much as we care about what they do.

>Is the idea that we just say "right, that's it, Russia is isolated forever now" and there we are?

The idea is negative reinforcement. You get the belt until you stop doing the bad thing. Whether it's Putin or some other person, as long as they continue bombing, we continue sanctions. When they stop, we will likely stop. In fact, us stopping and them stopping will likely be brokered in a single deal.

> e.g. "we" showed that trade doesn't work, so instead we go for a kind of indefinite containment strategy?

Trade works just fine. It works so well, that not having it is a punishment.

> It just feels like a really stupid path to go down in my view because once you eliminate interdependence via trade you've now removed another barrier to Russia just deciding to take another country.

It won't stop hurting the Russian economy. Trade isn't just a bilateral political tool, it has real benefits to both parties. No matter how long you go without it, you will miss it.

> Once you get to the point at which the Russian state sees loss of their own territory as being a declaration of war, I don't see anything other than full blown WW3 being on the table. If anyone tries to reclaim Crimea, the Donbass, or in a few weeks maybe other parts of Ukraine-now-Russia by force, SHTF.

That's not really an action the western world is taking, so not sure what the criticism here is. "Russia has nukes, so if they want something we have to let them take it"?

> I feel like all of this is getting lost in accusations of propaganda or being on the right side of history or whatever else. There seems to be no realistic climbdown being presented, if Russia fully pull out tomorrow, what do they get back and when?

There is a ton of propaganda, but there are two very obvious climbdowns. Either Russia backs down, and so does the western world, or they don't and they continue to pay a huge economic price for an indeterminant (but likely not indefinite) amount of time. I'd bet my money we wind up in one of those two scenarios.

> Are governments even in control of this any more or has Moloch taken it and gone for a run?

I don't get the reference, but I don't think things are in as much of a tailspin as you seem to think. I could definitely be wrong, but I don't see a good case for that at the moment.
Some lives are more valuable than others
For me that's actually 30% of my worry-o-meter. MAD works two ways, you have to convince the "other" side your tools work, but what if your stage performance sucks? What if they convince western military planners that a preemptive strike is a viable option? Where's the cutoff? 30 of their nukes reaching their targets? 60? 100?

What if the west is certain they can take down their land based launch sites? What if they only need to concern themselves with the submarines? What if the west knows where those are? (Sonar has had huge developments 1990-$NOW) What if sonar technology has developed to a point the west have a fix on 50% of Russian subs? What then?

MAD only works if MAD means MAD, not if MAD means 50% assured destruction... The loss of life, wealth and security if one side of this insane pact ever lets down their part of the deal...
For folks interested in the topic, the best resource I've found that thoroughly covers the latest science is [How Not to Diet](https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/) by Michael Greger. Very, very complete look at all the various aspects of dieting, with [almost 5000 citations](https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/citations/)
I think you and the author may be in agreement on this topic.

Following your example of cars, having a large gas-guzzling full-size truck when you drive by yourself 5 miles to the supermarket once a week would indicate that the vehicle is being used at a low percentage of its capacity. If it were loaded up hauling heavy equipment and materials, to and from jobsites for example, then it would be near 100% capacity.

For the weekly grocery run, it is wasteful to have this truck since it is used at low capacity. One would be better served with a much smaller vehicle, even perhaps one that is human-powered (such as a bicycle).

"Ideally, the resource gets used at 100% of its capacity: we have enough capacity to serve our needs without generating queues, but not so much that we’re wasting money on idle resources."

The large (expensive) truck only used on the grocery run would be wasting money on idle resources, since it is capable of doing much more work but is rarely used.
That's a great article.

I do worry sometimes that something is up with CPU development, that we're tending towards more and more complicated designs with workflows that are very hard to analyse and simulate even for the designers themselves, but the actual workload execution ability performance per core isn't shifting upwards all that much, and then weird mitigations have to be applied that reduce that execution ability in practice.

Something makes me think that perhaps a different design paradigm should prevail, with particular attention paid to segregation of workloads and of core partitioning, perhaps an abandoning of hyperthreading and even to the extent of having 100% physical separation of cores and their caches.

But I'm very much not an expert in the field.

A little birdie inside of me every now and then wakes up and whispers 'is it a coincidence that these design paradigms are yielding so many vulnerabilities?'
Can't North Koreans freely travel to and from China?
Why not just run your VMs / containers on a beefy, cheap, off-the-shelf Linux server that you connect to over WiFi 6? You could also keep all your photos there (and back them up with cheap cloud storage).

Keep your daily driver lean and cheap (and easy to replace).
We submit complaints to the FTC and state attorney generals offices for non-compliant data brokers all the time. They don't move very fast, but its so great when they finally take action. I highly recommend anyone experiencing pushback from data brokers to submit complaints to the FTC and your state attorney general's office immediately. It does help. We have a little more information about this on the Optery Help Desk here:

https://help.optery.com/en/article/coverage-limitations-for-...
You forget these things sit ~idle (or at browser load) 99% of the time. The magnitude of difference only expresses at peak consumption. Furthermore, what about the lost time/hassle for changeover plus embodied energy in throwing out the last system? It's insanity.
Russia is holding the knife of thermonuclear war to the world's throat while it decimates cities full of men, women and children. Damn right we're going to do anything and everything in our power to cut them off from any source of aid or comfort. The alternative is direct military intervention, and no one wants to go down that road.
If the brain power is focused in the "wrong" direction or all the smart people are constantly looking under the same set of "street lamps" it doesn't matter how many there are.
Unconventional thinking is hard you can't force it solely with numbers arguably quite to the contrary: a large agglomeration of scientists can systematically enforce a proportionally larger conformity pressure.

It is a hard balance to strike because on the one hand you want to be constantly challenged by your fellow scientists but on the other hand also just take the foolish liberty to fully develop your (most likely flawed) intuition.

So even if I'm highly sceptical of Wolfram he gets my full respect and also Hugh Everett [0] who wrote a letter to Einstein as a 12-year old with Einstein answering: Dear Hugh: There is no such thing like an irresistible force and immovable body. But there seems to be a very stubborn boy who has forced his way victoriously through strange difficulties created by himself for this purpose. Sincerely yours, A. Einstein And later in life courageously confronted Nils Bohr with the [...] idea that the universe is describable, in theory, by an objectively existing universal wave function (which does not "collapse") i.e. Many-Worlds-Interpretation.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III
> Nothing gets people going like someone saying something divisive

Shiri's Scissor: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Nothing. His model actually fit the data worse than epicycles. He just thought it was a more sensible approach that matched the Pythagorean opinion.

It wasn’t until Kepler that a geocentric model involving ellipses actually was more predictive.

Might be worth returning to the Pythagorean interpretation (which Bohr discussed): All is number. The world is made of math, not stuff.
> Is it faster in ARM?

Not in the general case, but specifically with how Apple has brought the ram chips so physically close to the cpu cores
I wouldn't be so quick to call nonsense. Spending time listening to certain things most definitely affects your ability to pick out specific details.

All heavy metal music sounds about the same to me. But I'm sure that is not the case for fans of heavy metal.
It’s easy to tell an abandoned bike from one that’s in use. Abandoned bikes become rusty, tires are deflated, they get kicked over, etc etc.
Not much value in being wrong for the 'right' reason
I'm always a fan of the donation drive. I'd take a tab pop-up of https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ over an occasional ad like this one any day.

I'd love to do a shameless plug for radioparadise.com as a wonderful model of someone who does an extremely tasteful periodic reminder to donate :).
> alternative is direct military aid to Ukraine

We're doing that. We're letting loose "one of the largest and fastest arms transfers in history" [1]. What we're avoiding is military intervention.

Because, in one part, nukes. And because, in another part, the clear red line that is NATO membership.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-members-mount-huge-operati...
By that same logic, Putin could nuke NYC and there should be no response. And then Washington. And then San Francisco. The calculus is the same.

Not sure what culture you grew up in, but I grew up in the "progressive" side of the US and I'm quite certain that even the folks out here would demand immediate retaliation. The folks that grew up in red states are even more bloodthirsty. At minimum we'll be using nukes against Russian military targets, and I just don't see that de-escalating.
> What good does shutting the russians out of the internet do?

It makes "going with the flow" less palatable. Generally, things have to get bad enough before people deal with problems that enact large costs, and changing your government is expensive.
I guess it should be used with something like Namecoin then.
Planes Leased to Russia Airlines Now Out of Reach of Owners
As a society there are sets of established but unwritten rules and norms.

I think we are living in a era of re-writing those rules, and until a new equilibrium is reached there will be uncertainty and ambiguity.
LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders form AI startup
No, you have not read the article correctly. Maybe the FAQ helps:

https://news.lumen.com/RussiaUkraine

Simply put, they are closing their Russia business because of the heightened risk of state action and they have no interest in continuing their very limited operations in that environment. Maybe you missed the part where while there are economic sanctions, there are much harsher laws passed just recently inside Russia by Russia to control the media narrative around their special operation that obviously encompass internet providers and all involved in providing it and they are actively preparing to disconnect from the broader internet on their own initiative.

You know, it turns out dictatorships care a lot more about cancelling media access than we ever could.
A 16" macbook with an M1 only uses around 100w and that's when maxing all the things. It runs at about 40w for CPU and 60w for GPU. Based on those numbers, 120w seems totally expected for two chips at the same frequency.
> Racism because we empathize with Ukrainian more than with Arabs ?

I didn't know the European Union bordered Israel directly and Israel threatened to nuke the EU and USA...

As for Palestinians, even neighboring Arab states have long stopped supporting their cause. Are you going to invoke Arab on Arab racism here?

People trying to make the threat of nuclear war a "racism issue" are unhinged.

Russia has explicitly been threatening NATO with Nukes that's why they are getting punished. Russia have created more than 2 millions European refugees, that's why they are getting punished. Many of these companies have a lot of their IT employees located in Ukraine, Russia has been killing their employees or disrupting their operations, that's why Russia is getting punished.
I agree. I also think that twitter reflects that. The vast majority of political twitter claims to be independent. Axios is doing a thing that centrists do often, which is to equivocate between independents, "swing voters" and centrists in order to make themselves a silent plurality.
Yeah, it's still somehow comforting to take down a base with just your compound bow ;)

I find it rather pretty, either way...
Two amputations a week: the cost of working in a US meat plant (2018)
Single-thread performance is barely better than a M1 MacBook Air. It takes apps that are heavily parallelized or need the memory bandwidth to actually make use of the Ultra. Few creative pro apps are that optimized, unfortunately.
It’s funny / depressing that Microsoft is not in last place given the frequency, severity and rank embarrassment-level of the slew of recent Azure vulnerabilities that have turned up.
Do people really need 1.5 TB of unified memory? If you had 128 GB of unified memory and another pool of 1.5 TB or whatever of “slower” memory (more like normal speed on the Intel/AMD side) would that work?

You (or the OS or the chip) could page things in and out if the unified memory. Treat unified memory as a MEGA L3 cache.

Depending on how it’s done it may not be transparent if you want the best performance. But would it work?
Just a vanilla Firefox install and ublock origin disabled for this website.
>I don't really understand what the endgame of the sanctions and various actions are here.

For example Chechnya is in Russia only as long as Russia transfers huge money there. Many other regions are somewhat similar.

>The idea that the populace will rise

The populace doesn't matter. The Russian elite got used to a comfortable life of mini-Gods, and they might finally decide that they don't want to go down with Putin, and instead they may want to just give up Putin and let the populace work to pay the damage to Ukraine while they are back into their London mansions.
How is wasm worse than JS?
Nature sounds like rainfall & ocean waves vary a lot I imagine, with lots of breaks and pauses, the lack of a continuous sound probably helps.

A fan that's rotating back and forth might produce neurologically better sounds, as the breeze bounces off different parts of the room than one that is fixed in one direction?
Is it absorbed through skin pores when we put on sunscreen??
For me, venting is absolutely essential. It's my greatest source of motivation. Once I can clearly identify and describe flaws which I see in the system which are holding me back, I can start to look for alternative paths... At the same time, venting helps to raise awareness of systemic flaws; it increases the probability that the flaws will be fixed at some point in the future.

So if I vent about some issue today, there is a chance that it will be resolved in maybe 20 years from now... So if I managed to keep working for 20 years straight, I will be among the first in line to benefit from the system being fixed because I'd have been waiting for that fix for so long and keeping tabs on it.

For example, I've been venting my frustrations about the fiat monetary system for years while being involved in crypto. I'm just building software while at the same time waiting for the monetary system to get fixed so that my work has a chance of becoming relevant.

I'm also benefiting from mainstream crypto projects (not my own) acting as an 'alternative path' since they benefit from the flaws in the monetary system due to the wealth concentrating forces of centralized money-printing. Unfortunately, my own projects cannot benefit from the current fiat system because me and my community are socially too far from the money printers... Though obviously, the Bitcoin network is very close to the sources of freshly printed fiat...
There's a lot wrong with Netflix's Single All the Way but in one shot there's a 10 second close up of someone using a phone to search for a Holiday Inn Express which is shown having 4.6 stars. At the end of this shot they receive a job hired notification from Taskrabbit and cancel their search. Product placement is driving plot lines now.
The rest of OPEC will eventually come in and fill in for Russia. It's the thing to do. Russia is no longer a reliable source. Saudi Arabia will gain market share and Russia will lose market share that will take years to regain if ever -even after the war is over.

OPEC can't wait too long since the last thing they need is for their largest consumers to go into recession due to high energy prices -not after 2 years of a pandemic. Oil prices will find an equilibrium. They will probably be higher than before the war but not as high as they are now.

This will happen. It will just seem like an eternity since we need them to be lower now.
"It's not that hard to grasp. We live it everyday.

It is, the human mind doesn't see reality as it is, see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ&t=9s
Tangential to oil, the US government tracks the availability of "strategic resources" ("critical minerals") via the USGS [1]

For example, the US produces no rare earths, mostly because the process of extracting those is enfironmentally-unfriendly and we've closed all our mines that produced them, preferring to outsource production to places that don't care about the environmental impact, like China.

From what I remember from the USGS talk many years ago, a lot of the critical minerals required for our modern technology comes from unstable regimes. The US could produce mine many of those locally, but of course it'd take many years to ramp up production (not even mentioning the local environmental impact)

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/programs/mineral-resources-program/scie...
Right, my point is that it's as solved as it can really be as far as human understanding is concerned. There are too many variables at play to have any sort of elegant solution like Ohm's law or calculating an orbit. The best we can do is find different/more efficient/novel methods to calculate it. Am I wrong?
I'm not complaining; I generally agree with you. But (I believe) for people to invest in Macs for servers they need to be able to fix and replace them faster than dealing with Apple would allow.
I agree, there are limits to our understanding right now.

Whether it is QM, or Dark M/E, etc. A lot of these constructs feel strained to me at times.

But. having said that, I am guessing, that back when the cutting edge was Maxwell, and Lorentz, and along came a burst of genius, named in the article, Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg, and I would include Pauli, Godel and probably a bunch of others.

My prediction is that there will be a burst of insight and innovation, these things tend to come in clumps, when a lot of people start "riffing" off of each other.

There is no way to predict when, but I only hope I am still breathing to witness it!
I hope that's a misunderstanding or miscommunication. It might be useful in some limited contexts, but it would point to gaps in the theory (at minimum).
Ate so much Lucas powder growing up :(
Countries prefer NATO, because of a malicious actor/bully at the door.
> With the hash you can identify matching records but you cannot create a record from the hash.

I always chuckle when I see someone saying this. A buddy of mine (email marketer) tried to convince me that his 50 million large email database is "well protected" because they are using "industry standard md5 encryption". Of course its not encryption but rather hashing. He was so sure of his, erm, encryption, that he send me the whole database and said "here, crack it".

I found a large hacked Facebook email database online, run few python scripts to weed us most combinations of usernames (name+numbers, numbers+name, numbers+some random chars, etc) and some 1000 generic email domains names (like gmail.com, yahoo.com, etc). It took my regular i9 five days to go thru the whole 50M of md5s and compare each combination of usernames + domains names. Oh boy his shock when I returned some 70% "unencrypted" plain text emails back to him :)

Bottom line is, if there is some "industry standard" of hashing data, then there are ways to unhash it. Yes in many cases it may be in millions of years to circle thru all possibilities, but if your standard is first name + last name + email address (and all caps), then you can easily plug database of names and download millions of email records online and narrow down your hashing search greatly.
> I thought military are not citizens anymore.

They are still citizens. There is a contract between the service member and the government. The service member does not lose their rights or citizenship or any of that, but they do agree in contract to do certain things such as following the legal orders of those appointed above them, and adhering to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (an additional set of laws for the military members).
Wrong. American fetishization of individualism is a sickness that is literally rotting our society by causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. Causing people to die is pretty much the absolute most anti social thing someone can do. Sure, no one has the right to force you to take a vaccine, but society absolutely has the right to completely exclude you if you are making decisions that are causing people to die.
The CCPA (California's Privacy Law) permits a data broker to stop honoring an opt out after 12 months.

Does this mean users have to keep opting out every 12 months? If yes, that sounds...dumb, isn't it? Maybe I am not understanding this correctly, is there a reason behind this 12 month period? Even if they wanted to let data brokers add the data back, 12 months seems too short a time. What am I missing?

Why is every bad thing opt out instead of opt in? This is so backwards...
Hey, I'm also a self-taught developer and was hired as a junior alongside another self-taught developer, who taught himself in the space of 6 months after being a chef for his entire career. He smoked me! I had been programming for 5 years at that point. What was the difference between us?

After working with him for a year, I still didn't know and I still don't know. I offer this to you because, you will not always be better than the people around you.

That being said, its worth investigating the python debugger if you haven't already. import pdb; pdb.set_trace() - this will drop you into a debugger at the spot in execution that will allow you to examine variables and iterate through for loops. This has previously helped with my understanding of Python.

But, my big message to you is to not get taught up on comparing yourself to other devs. You will excel on some things and not be great on others. You will be slower than some and faster than some. Try first of all not to stress about your performance, but keep a learning mindset. From my perspective you seem to have your heart in the right place!!!
I wonder what stops AMD, Intel in trying this, except loss of modularity. It is not like the architecture will change by bringing it into the die. As far as I remember, CPU is the only thing that does RAM access even in x86
Ukraine and the Sorry State of Non-Proliferation
Brain-computer link bypasses the gorilla arm problem entirely.