skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bush and Putin are both war criminal, period. They both "Manufactured Consent" to justify going to war. American right-wing journalist use propaganda, like freedom fries to denigrate and vilify the opposition.

In the case of the US, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, was living in a mansion in Pakistan. The hijackers were mostly Saudi's. Bush decided to attack Afghanistan, then Iraq? The Saudi was killed by a small group of soldiers, so war was unnecessary. The attacks are the sign of someone very incompetent or a war criminal. The offenders were Saudi Arabia.

On a side note, 2000 American's died in September on the day, and people were outraged. During Covid, 4000 American's were dyeing daily (not just one day), and people were like it's no big deal, I'm not going to get vaccinated or wear a mask. So the whole thing is disingenuous.

It was immediately apparent that when the US engaged in war crimes and got away with it other countries started to salivate. It's easy to see a link between what happened in Iraq and Ukraine. But again, both are war crimes.
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CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
I did a 0.8mm fanout on their older limits, and it was barely doable - the inner balls of the ECP5 FPGAs are all power and ground, and with careful depopulating of the inner layers' annular rings it's possible to get enough working room to make it all fit!

But if you want signals in those inner balls... still pretty tight. And the 15x15 ECP5 is the absolute max this would work for; after that you hit both needing inner layers to route on, and additional ground planes for the outer layers' return current.
Outside Smalltalk, TDD has never "worked" for me. But in a Smalltalk environment it was an absolute no-brainer and super slick because the environment was set up for it to just work. The nuance is the code-build-test cycle. In Smalltalk, they were all one and the same. In other languages and with other VMs, that cycle is disconnected. Likewise, once we moved to web applications, things changed. Now the unit we want to test is the API, or the widget, not really the function per se, but every TDD tradition has been at a much lower level. It overlooks that it takes real time and energy to build out tests at that higher level, and there are better tools than what have traditionally been "TDD."
Downdetector has predicted about 50 of the last 3 outages, and linking to them here just makes the self-fueling cycle even worse.
Interesting work. A DNN is after all something that compresses the input data and hopefully generalizes well over the domain. This 'machine' itself will adhere to principles of Kolmogorov complexity etc..

Traditionally, empirical solutions in the NN literature to address instability are regularization and dropout.

Also, adding layers seems to improve things. The famous example is XOR which cannot be trained by a single layer NN.

How do the theoretical limitations in the paper relate to these? if at all...
Before layoffs hit Looker, workers trained their replacements
true, but usually only for players currently on the court and who knows what direction you'll have to rubberneck to read it. This is one instance where I like mixing the small mobile screen w my real world view, it's an augmented reality!
Suppose they DO get their satellites back from Russian. How long do you think it would take their engineers to go over the satellites to determine that nothing had been tampered with, and to approve them for flight?

I suspect it would probably be faster to launch the next flight's worth while reworking these and throwing away any Trusted Platform chips.
Depends on the model and the up-to-dateness of its firmware.

My main travel laptop is still an old Thinkpad X220, because of the great keyboard.

It lasts considerably longer on Ubuntu 20.04 than in Windows 10 $LATEST. In Windows, it runs too hot to have on my lap, and the fans run constantly.

In Ubuntu, it runs cool and I rarely hear the fan at all.

Check your firmware is current: that's step 1.
They're saving it for the SHTF I guess.
Have you looked at the marketing material for any of those phones (or any modern flagship for that matter)? Over half of it focuses on the various cameras they have and their specs/features.
He could have offered any amount of money in the world, they still would not have done it.
It's kind of the house style of the New Yorker to be picture-adverse, which is definitely to the detriment of this article.
Well, some thoughts in no particular order:

0. YAML everywhere. Augh.

1. Vanilla kubernetes by itself doesn't really do much; everyone basically assumes you'll use a cluster in a cloud somewhere that comes with all kinds of add-ons and functionality on top of the default.
If you want to run an on-premises cluster, once you start adding external components to a Kubernetes cluster to make it actually useful, it starts getting complicated.

2. I don't think configuration management of the resources you do put in a cluster is a fully solved problem, especially if you depend on CRDs.

3. kubectl being context-sensitive is rather annoying. You basically can't share a kubeconfig between two terminal sessions without severe danger of footgunning.

4. If you just use Helm packages with defaults, you'll end up running software with very collision-prone UIDs and security contexts, so two separate components that you deploy can end up running as the same user on a host. I don't think that's good security design, but the system doesn't encourage you to do the correct thing.

5. All the "easy" tooling is basically just "run this magic incantation and it will do things for you". The culture around how things are done seem to encourage ignorance about what you're actually deploying. Many operations also modify cluster state and thus should be managed and not done willy-nilly, but that's also ignored by default. See also #2

Kubernetes has its upsides (something like ArgoCD is very nice to use when set up properly) but I guess my main beef with it is that it can make things look easy that actually aren't, and mislead its users.
This is a great little insight, well put, and in fact you are understating the scope of the problem.

The impact of this issue is, if anything, greater on the cost of research than it is on the cost of an education. A major academic institution is the single most expensive place you could do research - because everything costs much more than it should, the headcount on any project is stratospheric, and everything moves so slowly that you pay much more for each "head" than you ought to. That has downstream affects that kneecap every industry reliant on academic research, from industrial and military competitiveness to medicine. It's also why there has been interest for decades, and seems to be increasing interest now, in private research lab investment from large philanthropists - it is legitimately cheaper and faster to pull a Paul Allen and stand up a new research lab from scratch than it is to get the same research done through traditional academic means.

Scott Galloway (who I know is somebody everybody has an opinion about now) has scoped this problem really well, though I've been much less impressed experientially with his solution (Section4). You're spot-on - if we optimized for creating productive members of society (bullet #2) and preparing individuals for financial independence and productivity (bullet #1) individually - or even just ceded #2 temporarily (which is a role, arguably, existing colleges are failing at anyway) and optimized toward #1 - it could be done much more cheaply than it is being done today. NOT through any kind of high-minded shift in how education is done, as education, in the sense of a teacher-in-a-classroom-teaching-students-supported-by-TAs, is not broken, and has worked for centuries. But college today is like a really bad cable bill, where the vast majority of users are paying for one thing (ESPN), but have their cost burdened by 90% of the package being a required purchase that they don't want. (All the other channels)

Other dimensions of the problem better support disruption, but most directly, your point would be well addressed by colleges simply reducing overservice. Of course, that implies gargantuan changes to the structure of these institutions, which will be wildly uncomfortable for a lot of individuals who are currently supported by them.
iCloud Private Relay is shown as affected as well. This is an interesting case when it comes to failure behavior. From security perspective, you want your connection to stop working instead of falling back to insecure. Is this the case? Can anyone confirm?
I guess you could argue that, if you bought a device with this CPU, you should be able to replace the CPU with one of your own that’s derived from this one.

I think that’s the spirit of the GPL in a hardware context, but I don’t think it’s a given (by a long stretch) that courts would accept that argument.

A somewhat clearer case would be if you bought a device that implements a GPL licensed design in a FPGA. I think you could argue such devices cannot disable the reprogrammability of the FPGA.
Interesting. Thanks very much. I will try it out.
If medicine used dogs, wouldn't every doctor's office need x different dogs trained in detecting x different diseases? Also, there are ethical considerations in employing living creatures that can not possibly be fairly compensated. Development and use of an artificial nose would be superior, because only one (system) would be required, compared to i don't know how many dogs.
>RTWH

But it is RWTH

I went there because it was supposed to be the best university in my state. But it did not help my career at all

I should have tried to get into a US university
I was distracted by this passage:

> What this argument misses is that the stakes of bad economics are often far higher than bad physics: being wrong about gravitational waves may cost you tenure, but being wrong about the minimum wage might condemn tens of millions to poverty.

Which leads me to believe that the author has a seriously myopic view of Physics and how much it permeates everyday life.
I feel like the industry is really struggling with shipping “boring utilitarian things”. Rather than let software remain boring and just-plain-useful, it is forced to slowly transform into a nightmare of ads, pop-ups and other crap that is clearly NOT required for core functionality and ultimately the whole thing becomes awful to use.

Even when the intrusion is small, it is ridiculous because it is not required for the software to work (e.g. in the iPhone SETTINGS app, nothing about tweaking settings ever requires the user to view a stupid ad, and yet there they are, crappifying the UI).

And as I get older I am telling myself “this isn’t what I signed up for”: I want useful software that is free of garbage, especially when money is exchanged, and most certainly when a LOT of money is exchanged.

So tell these bean-counters to get the hell out, and let us make computers “only” useful instead of ad-spewing machines.
I agree. 90% of DSLR shots don’t need to push the limits of physics. 100 vs 1600 ISO doesn’t matter if you have indistinguishable noise reduction. F/1.8 gives a nice bokeh, but if you only have two depth planes (a foreground subject and a distant background), no one will notice if you fake the blur.

That said, I still have to carry my mirrorless into the backcountry because tiny sensors can physically only let in so much light, which makes them unsuitable for astrophotography. I’ve seen the “Astro-modes” on new flagship phones and the result is always “wow, this is good...for a phone”, but nowhere close to what I can get unedited from my camera.

And the worst thing is that it’s unlikely to change. Companies that have the ability to make really good phone cameras have no interest in ILCs, and the ones who make really good ILCs don’t care about software.

And good luck trying to compete in the middle without the hundreds of millions that Apple/Google put into ML research and the decades of research that Canon has done on colour science.
>Non whites like you couldn't possibly be interested in cool technology early on

did you just call me a non-white? it almost sounds derogatory in the context of your post. I guess since I'm just a "Non-white", my only interaction with crypto could have been through a lens of gambling, since I'm so unsophisticated and weak in comparison to white people (in your apparent belief).

Seriously, look at the tone of your posts, jfc. All of you morally superior self hating whites are the same, at work, on this shitty website, and in SV tech in general. At the very basal level, you actually look down on non whites, you think we're uncapable in comparison. The only respite I get from your type of racism is on places like 4chan, ironically, the most racist place on the internet. But at least there's some fucking moral clarity there

very nice of you to assume it was crypto gambling, rather than an academic interest in cryptography. I'm a crypto punk, through and through, in the classical "I used to go on sketchy IRCs as a kid" sense. I was telling people at college parties to buy bitcoin because I was a CS student, a long fucking time ago.

And crypto isn't about some unclear moral platitude that you have about some "egalitarian" paradise. It's about telling the government to go fuck themselves and having the freedom to do whatever the fuck I want to, without anyone knowing. Cryptocurrency was about buying adderall on the darknet, not "helping disadvantaged non-whites"

finally, the people who's faces are on the list of "crypto rich" are the people who failed. The real crypto rich people aren't known by anyone, because they know what they're doing
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What software leviathans do you think are best at managing their complexity?
The analysis I've heard leading to the invasion is the interdependence is calculated since that's what brought peace to western Europe, they'd hope the same with Russia.
After a quick read, my take on this. This basically says we need commercial software that companies pay for. It's just that people are so used to open source and developers have been banging on about how open source is good that no one really wants to admit that open source isn't all that good, we have the 1% of projects that everyone points to Linux Kernel, Kubernetes, etc but the reality is most open source libraries and applications are under-maintained. There are lots of battle tested well used production ready libraries that are being used by thousands of companies that have open issues and open pull requests and no one has even responded to. The whole "you can fix it yourself" is great until you realise that often means "you can fork it and fix it and maintain your own version"
How to Use Satellite TV to Break into Putin’s TV Propaganda Fortress
> It's that they're making choices for us

I think that's the definition of a "smart" appliance, and you just described what my problem with "smart" appliances is: they are too smart by a half, and end up making bad choices when pushed a little.
Probably. But I don’t see how that could happen regarding accountability. “Why is our municipality donating hundreds of thousands to something that is free whilst increasing ticket prices for the swimming pool?”

At least with the idea of combining the funding of municipalities to build something together as FOSS, they’re not paying for something that already exists
For a few years I worked with the guy behind this project, Paul Campbell. He is a fearless coder, and moves between hardware and software design with equal ease.

An example of his crazy coding chops, he was frustrated by the lack of verilog licenses at the place he worked back in the early 90s. His solution was to whip up a compliant verilog simulator, then wrote a screen saver that would pick up verification tasks from a pending queue. They had many macs around the office that were powered 24/7, and they could chew through a lot of work during the 16 hours a day when nobody was sitting in front of them. When someone sat down at their computer in the morning or came back from lunch, the screen saver would just abandon the simulation job it was running and that job would go back to the queue of work waiting to be completed.
> I decided against the iPhone because of the automatic skin smoothing.

There’s no such thing. I doubt any reviewer making videos knows what they’re talking about unless it’s from a very few sources like DPReview.

The iPhone camera has never had skin smoothing - that’s something only Asian camera apps do. Deep Fusion is more like the opposite of that.
One of the great things about MobX is that it works on plain data and plain operations on that data [0], not just the contents of a sanctioned Store, which means it has no opinions about where you put your data. Local objects captured by closures? Cool. Classes? Great. Mutating arguments? Go for it. Global singleton? Have fun.

[0] Technically, it wraps all the different data structures in Proxies etc as soon as they get assigned into an observable structure. But the goal is for you to never have to think about them as anything other than plain data, and that abstraction very rarely leaks.
> Tolkien [...] published The Hobbit – a quaint novel for children with dwarfish miners [...]

It is certainly a minor point, but Tolkien was adamant about using "dwarves" instead of "dwarfs" and "dwarvish" instead of "dwarfish" whenever writing about Durin's folk. I find this especially important considering the author of this article later writes:

> Orwell’s brand of democratic Socialism (he always capitalised the “s”) [...]

If the author is willing to capitalize "Socialism" because of Orwell's preference, then I think it is not unreasonable to ask that they also use the adjective "dwarvish" when referring to the dwarves of Tolkien's writings.
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If you go to Japan you will find something similar.
Dash-to-panel helps, but it doesn't go far enough for me. It doesn't work well in vertical orientations: for instance, status icons should be arranged in horizontal rows. In a single column they take up far too much space.

Cinnamon suffers from the same problem, FWIW.
All those invasions of Russia from the West were failures that did not have any long-term consequences.

Moreover, those invasions were all personal affairs. Dictatorial leaders like the Swedish kings, Napoleon or Hitler wanted to beat the Tsar/General-Secretary or whatever the master of the Russians called himself and take his possessions.

It was not like the majority of the citizens of those countries cared about the Russian lands and wanted them.

Now, when all the Western neighbors of Russia have democratic governments, continuing to say that there exists any danger of invasion for Russia is ridiculous.

While during the last 500 years there were a few failed attempts to invade Russia, on the other hand Russia has continuously invaded very successfully both its Western and its Eastern neighbors, becoming from a relatively small country one of the largest empires, and it remained the largest country after the British Empire decomposed.

On all the territories that they invaded, the Russians have implemented brutal policies against the natives, both during the Tsars and during the communists.

Especially during the 19th century, the Russians, while expanding continuously toward the West, claimed that they were "liberating" various populations from the non-Christian Ottoman exploitation.

In reality the new "Christian" rulers have always proved to be much greedier than the former Ottoman rulers and much more aggressive towards the non-Russian populations. The former Ottoman empire was much more tolerant towards minorities, regardless of their religion (as long as they paid the imposed taxes).

So no, any justification of Russia being some kind of victim of invasions, when it is Russia who invaded successfully and relentlessly all its neighbors during 500 years, and thus needing today some imaginary vital space for its protection, is completely baseless.

Moreover, because the post above mentions that the Russians would like to reach the Carpathian Mountains, supposedly for a better protection of their Western border, it is good to know that before WWII Russia/SSSR never reached until the Carpathian Mountains.

After WWII, according to the agreements with Roosevelt and Churchill, the Soviet Union incorporated large parts from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Those parts included a segment of the Carpathian Mountains and it is thus how Russia reached them.

However Stalin included much of what was taken from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania into Ukraine.

Therefore when Ukraine opted out of the Soviet Union, Russia lost the access to the Carpathians, so they probably regretted that Stalin has chosen to include those parts in Ukraine (which made more sense geographically) instead of in Russia proper.
I find this article pretty pointless. People are curious, nothing new.

If you’re tired of explaining to satisfy their curiosity, write a better rationale and hand it out on a pamphlet.
Yeah. I think this is a good example, because it's similar to the juju in the article in that the belief often seems more aspirational or preferential than necessarily defensible or provable in some sense. My impression from people I've known who were into, say, astrology, isn't that they would put it up against gravity in a facts-or-not evaluation, but rather that they like the idea of a world organized thusly, or that they find it benefits them to frame things thusly, and therefor 'believe' in it.

The shopkeeper wasn't prepared to demonstrate the good things his pouch of talismans were doing for him, but he certainly preferred to believe that his day would go better with them in hand. Who wouldn't? What an easy way to ward off misfortune.

It's like a belief in Myers-Briggs personality types, too, in that it's easily bolstered by a confirmation bias and, arguably, can serve a broader function in metaphor. The same of course can be said for much religious dogma and many faith-oriented parables. I think most people would agree that the world would be a better place if more people behaved as Christians believe Jesus did.
That’s a Fabrizio de Andre actually quote:

“ … Si sa che la gente dà buoni consigli sentendosi come Gesù nel tempio,
si sa che la gente dà buoni consigli se non può più dare cattivo esempio…”

There’s a good chance Catherine beat him to it though. I am kidding ofc, I don’t quote was stolen from either.

Google says the song was written in 196. It is a brilliant song, pure poetry.
French fries are not from Belgium. They are French and from Paris.

A Belgium source about that but you can find many others. It’s a common misconception to debunk. https://www.rtbf.be/article/cuisine-la-frite-vient-elle-de-f...
this is exactly my point, thanks for pointing it out better than me! I don't care who wins at this moment, I vote for stopping war, not only in Ukraine, but in all other countries. If war stops tomorrow either with Russian win or EU win I am happy for both

We are human species, we haven't chose Earth, why millions should get killed for the ambitious of very small subset of humans
I first interpreted that as "...the second walks into ducks".
One of the primary goals of homeowners (one of the largest voting blocs) is to prevent the decrease in the value of their homes. In this way, government is fulfilling its purpose beautifully.
It is easy to understand why people might assume so. There is a correlation. In colder temperatures people gather in indoor spaces and that helps spread the virus.
What you are saying is you prefer dead ukranians to be slightly uncomfortable in Germany.