skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what do you mean hard to believe? it worked in the Donbas region, Harkiv is majority Russian speaking... from Putin's office looking at a map it was the same situation, and hyping up the Nazi, ultra-nationalist, anti-Russian threat also seemed like a trivial thing, after all it seems to work in Moscow.

it was a cognitive bias, thinking too much about how and why it could/should work instead of looking at why it couldn't (eg. because the strong selection effect of the repressed political activities of Moscow versus Ukraine, plus the strong rose tinted glasses he and many Russians have that color everything positive that seems like the old Russian Empire, whereas Slavic people a thousands of kilometers away have a rather different view of how great that is and was.)
Well economist do say there are 4 types of economies: developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina. Maybe the endgame awaiting us is just Japan where debt exceeds GDP by multiple factors and most of that debt is owned by the (wealthy) citizens.
My parents had their car parked right behind a caravan with a bike rack on the back - they didn't notice anything when driving off the ship, and so it was kinda too late to do anything about it by the time they noticed the impact damage to their car's hood from the bike rack bouncing up and down.

No risk of that happening here >:D
> My point is that there is a huge amount of evidence that the war is going badly for Russia and that the Russian military has lacked competence.

You can just copy-paste that comment for virtually every army out there. Ukraine is holding up because it is massively supplied with modern weapons that they never had in the first place by foreign powers: this is clearly a proxy war, not a bunch of peasants pushing back well-armed Russians.
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Recently there was Norway Mensa test article on the frontpage. I went through 2/3 of it and got bored, short of 2 points to be a proud member. But if you give me a room with a crime and suggest to deduct it, I will fail, because my deduction sucks. If you give me 7x7 hard mathdoku, I will also fail, because permutations of 6 is my max capacity. If you give me your primitive 120iq business, it will fail, because I’m a silly perfectionist removed from reality. But I guess most top mensa members will also fail on something as simple as e.g. leetcode 85.

I don’t know if any hypothesis in itt/tfa are true or false, but regarding IQ tests I’d like to see much more diversity than stupid boolean ops and rotation over and over.
Read up on how the Russians fought in WW2. Russia has executed 153000 of their own soldiers, among other things. They defused mine fields by forcing penalized soldiers to walk through them. Nothing has changed.

You don't need to believe propaganda, just look at the map of the invasion and ask yourself how is it possible that a far superior military on paper is losing so badly.
> it worked in the Donbas region, Harkiv is majority Russian speaking

I'm pretty sure Russians understand that not all of Ukraine is pro-Russian.
As it is not told by the university PR article, I think it's important to state this is about axonal regeneration, not neuron's body regeneration.

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abd5926
It's perspective. Successes might be exaggerated, things that the Russians actually find a minor inconvenience turned into a major problem, and nothing negative or embarrassing is published about the Ukrainians.

For example, is it 100 soldiers refusing to fight, or 100,000? The former is noise, the latter is an actual problem.

Remember the flag burning photos they used to regularly show in the middle East?

It always looked like a huge crowd, but I remember seeing the regular photos and eventually realizing it was often a tiny crowd of people.

It might only be 20 extremists that the camera was tightly focused on. They often had the camera zoomed in and low to the ground and slightly pointed up so you couldn't clearly see how empty the area was.

And that was a natural consequence of the photographer/TV crew wanting to make money.

They wanted to make it look really packed/busy because it sells more pictures/attracts more viewers.
> 1. What sort of transaction costs between people today are _practically_ the most important to leading to a creation of a firm?
My take on this :

I have skill-a , you have skill-b. Skill-a plus skill-b would make a device that would solve a big problem in the world. Company solves the transaction cost of finding two people with complementary skills.
just listen to this, it's insane:

https://twitter.com/101_buckets/status/1525347695505850368?s...
One doesn't need to read news to know that this war isn't going well. Trying to go against a nation that most Russians perceive as brotherly using an army comprising 16 year old conscripts ain't going to go well. Glaring motivation and morale issues, underpaid officers, rampant negligence, indifference and theft - ask any Russian and you will get an earful of how rotten the army is even during the peace time.
Because a significant number of managers seem to fall into the same trap, and it only takes one such manager in the chain above you for it to be painful.
You just need to be a regular consumer to notice that it does not align with the "basket" used by the authorities.
>But a closely related story of "ship, go fuck yourself" was propaganda. The way it was told implied that solders died heroically, whereby they were taken pow and later returned to Ukraine.

That was because after the soldiers said that the feed got cut off and Ukraine didn't hear back from the soldiers until Russia said they were captured. So up until as it was revealed they were captured, the worst was assumed.

>but not a single photo of destroyed Ukrainian equipment

There are many photos like this, did you even bother to look?

Oryx's blog for example has 1,040 photos of destroyed/captured Ukrainian equipment
If you’re not interested in feedback then why are you posting your project here?

The page is not aesthetically pleasing as it is, you can ask anyone that works with design for a living.

The only time “weird” design works is when it’s either minimalistic (like Craigslist) or esoteric (like Snapchat). Yet neither of those examples look unfinished or “wrong” the way a repeating background does.
> I'm not opposed to them btw, but as a Dutch person I found it weird to have this all split out.

No problem, I'm just trying to shed some light into it for those not German and/or not familiar with how it works in Germany. Also, these things are difficult and there are many pros and cons, so I'm not even sure what my own opinion is on many of those things. But I can at least provide some pros & cons and then everyone can make up their own mind about it.

> In NL you get AOW no matter if you're the queen or just Joe, you just have to be of pensionable age and iirc lived in NL during your working life.

In Germany it's different because the amount of your pension depends on your contributions - hence it makes sense for it to be different from tax that you pay (which have no impact on your pensions at all).

At the same time it has benefits if things are listed out separately, because it increases transparency to where your money goes. At the same time it increases beaurocracy (and hence costs for administration) quite a bit, in particular for foreigners.

> The public broadcasts are financed with tax money but not every household separately gets a bill equivalent to a Netflix subscription to be paid for a year ahead.

The reason why this is a fee in Germany and not a tax lies in the idea that the public media should be more independent from the politics. Whether this really works or not is a different question, but it was set up like this so that politicians can't "threaten" journalists and public media by reducing their budgets if they don't do as politicians want. At the same time. The process for deciding on the amount of the fee is a bit complicated and involves politicians as well, but not only.

It definitely adds friction that it's a separate system. For instance, exceptions are being made for certain groups e.g. people who live on social welfare, who are students without income and sufficient financial support from their parents, people who have heavily impaired vision/hearing and so on.
Writing a toy compiler, the entire pipeline end-to-end, for a language no matter how small. I can't think of another exercise that covers so many good issues to solve, and good practices for solving them.

The two I like to recommend are:

- PLAI: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

- Essentials of Compilation: https://wphomes.soic.indiana.edu/jsiek/

For general software design, this blog is quite golden: https://www.tedinski.com/archive/
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There have been so many interview fads it's hard to remember them all, but a particularly disagreeable fad was the "surprise question." You're being questioned about some programming-related thing, and then in the middle of it they want to know how many monkeys you can stuff in a milk crate, or how to develop an optimal strategy for playing roulette.

I suspect a lot of interviewing fads are because interviewing is a long and boring process, so changing things up brightens their workday. But I never had any reason to believe any of them had any connection with discovering the optimal candidate.
Early on in the Falkland Islands war the British destroyer HMS Sheffield was sank by anti-ship missiles launched from Argentine aircraft. The British Navy was considered at that point the most well trained and equipped in the world. It was widely celebrated across South America as evidence that cunning Argentines were well on their way to an unprecedented victory against the foolish British invaders who underestimated the grit and determination of the Argies.

The British, of course, went on to trounce the Argentines.

Specific facts which are true themselves but have their significance wildly misrepresented (either through the ignorance of journalists or manipulativeness of military media personnel) to partisan media are very common forms of wartime propaganda. Ships are generally considered thought to be easy to sink with the right ordnance when parked along a coast, and it is not uncommon for a military we consider relatively incompetent to be able to sink some of those owned by a G7 power.
I am guessing here, but these boards seem to be geared towards accelerated data transfers to feed GPUs. Some GPU cluster workloads are limited by node to node data transfers that need to go through several slow bus transfers between GPUs in different nodes with traditional computer architectures. These DPUs are spec'ed to act as a kind of programmable beefy DMA controller bridging directly between GPUs and some fast interconnect and storage.
I think many westerners do not realize the sheer scale of incompetence and lack of standards or protocols in Soviet/post-Soviet organization. Bundled with corruption and misaligned incentive structures, it's ridiculously dumb and ineffective. The whole system is trained to make it look ok from the outside, though (especially when higher ups are coming for inspection).

I'm Ukrainian, and unfortunately familiar with reality of Soviet/post-Soviet organization systems. Before 2014, the word "army" was a joke. Army was a place for those who couldn't make it into universities. Most of the time soldiers were working in fields or building mansions for generals. It all changed after 2014, of course.

But in russia it's been much worse. Historically russia tried to keep army low-status, so it can't pose risks to the ruling class (communist party in USSR, and FSB in post-Soviet russia). Thieves-in-law are higher in the russian power hierarchy, for example. Consider these news (google-translated links):

- Russian conscripts are forced into gay prositution [1]

- Thieves imposed a tribute on russian military base in Kemerovo [2]

[1] https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/742132?_x_tr_sl...

[2] https://lenta-ru.translate.goog/news/2021/12/26/konraktniki/...
This is what happens to Motorola IT.

Some wise exec had the vision to outsource it to an external company and then Motorola (that was already on the path to its death) realized how much was done outside of the process (which is typical for such companies, fortunately or not).

Suddenly your threat of whatever happening if your thing is not fine had exactly zero value against "raise a ticket". Everything crawled to a stop because of that and "golden tickets" were used.

This is one true example of why you should think 20 times before outsourcing something you do not understand.
22 years of corruption under Putin has gutted the Russian military
Nah, that won't work. Needs to be re-evaluated every 5 years at least.
It's also worth considering threat models. It may be worth risking account takeover if they can keep the reset flow user friendly. Not every site needs bulletproof security, this one seems lower risk.
Thanks for such a detailed and informative answer. Much appreciated.
I am very surprised that the Russian military hasn't simply cut all the fiber optics running into and out of the areas where they're operating. Does anybody have insight on this?

Fiber isn't hard to find. The aerial stuff is unmistakable (snowshoes or other slack-loop storage). The buried stuff has conductive marker tape, like the stuff used for locating buried power lines but with a different resonant frequency.

It can't be that hard to find the few fiber optic arteries into/outof the next city they want to crap all over and cut each trunk once.

Would love to know why this hasn't been done. Obviously I would not make a good general.

Edit: okay, the article mentions this, claiming that the Russians don't have VHF radios, which I find to be an utterly ridiculous claim. This is 1960's (or earlier!) technology folks. Does not pass the smell test. Even if they've resorted to "civilian handheld radios", those don't need cell towers or fiber optics.
It depends on how much current you want. I worked on a 1.2 m major radius 1 T copper stellarator that used 10 MW of power for the confinement coils. The coils are water cooled but even then the shots are only 1-second to avoid overheating (and to save on the engineering cost of the power system).

Any real fusion reactor would need 5+ T confinement fields and be 2+ times the radius of this machine. You would be using many GW in ohmic losses in copper confinement coils for hundreds of MW of fusion power: it simply could never work. A cryoplant for an LTS fusion reactor would use on the order of 50 MW, a bit less for HTS.

So for the big magnet application superconductors are an incredible win.
PLAI seems to be a upper level course. What kind of programming/CS background did you have before that? Did PLAI need knowing the language it uses beforehand?
> One of the strengths in Wikipedia is crowd sourcing and a strong editorial culture that, for example, enforces citing sources and giving unbiased takes,

This is a laughable statement. That's assuming the newspapers acting as sources are devoid of bias, while we clearly know that they are partisan in the own right: even stuff that the NYT is heavily biased and can't be seriously used as a reference for everything.

Crowd-sourcing is not a robust mechanism to prevent that from happening either. Just look at every controversial topic on Wikipedia, there is only one narrative that is accepted while the reality might be way more complex that what is portrayed in a paragraph.
> There are many photos like this

Not in the mainstream press.
The goal of an economie should also be stability of the system. So that people can have a good baseline for living
> My servers should do as little as possible.

Why? It’s not like they wear and tear?
Truth died 3 months ago in the west regarding Ukraine and Russian war.
If the Russians were really as bad as western propaganda said they were.
Macron wouldn't have said too Zelensky to just let Russia anex Ukrainian regions and sign a peace accord same with the Lloyd Austin US defence minister.

I wouldn't be surprised that once the $40 billion "Ukraine bill" gets approved as one last big tax payer slush fund for western elites, the message will change real quick how the Ukrainians fought like brave lions against the Russian asiatic hordes.

But the Russian asiatic hordes were just too much, how the Russians used human wave attack, while reality russia is fighting a Ukrainian force that is 2~3 times the size of the Russians fighting forces.
She finished high school in 2019 and I assume she was 18 at that time. She would be 21 now. I am in awe with her.

Here’s her CV: https://rosenzweig.io/resume.pdf
Partly what’s called netiquette, partly consequences of it. It’s literally literacy, something you get by reading a lot (lurking) before gaining confidence in discussions/communities.
You can’t copy and paste my comment for ‘every army out there’, as some armies are winning wars and aren’t incompetent. That’s such an odd thing to say that I almost feel you must have intended to write something else.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at with the rest of your comment. Yes, Ukraine has Western aid. That doesn’t negate Russian incompetence or mean that Russia is somehow actually winning. For example, it doesn’t explain how the Moskva was unable to defend itself against a small number of current-generation sea-skimming missiles (a threat that’s been around for at least a couple of decades).
DPUs/SmartNICs are a partial industry response to AWS Nitro (based on Annapurna acquisition) which performs I/O (network/storage) virtualization.

Nvidia DPU is based on Mellanox acquisition
AMD DPU is based on Pensado acquisition
Intel has an in-house DPU

There was a 2018 talk on AWS Nitro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8DVmwj3OEs

Cadence summary: https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-by...

James Hamilton summary: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2019/02/aws-nitro-system/

The founder of Annapurna-Nitro is now at https://www.lightbitslabs.com/, which has created the NVMEoF (NVME over Fabric, i.e. Ethernet or FiberChannel) standard. This is implemented via a software driver or hardware accelerator. Both DPUs and NVMEoF can be viewed as an attempt to standardize "composable data center" architectures pioneered by AWS Nitro.

> but this is HN... what other uses can we put through this / what advantages does this physical architecture give us?

A good place to start is the decade-old NetFPGA SmartNIC research project from University of Cambridge, now in the 5th generation of hardware, with earlier boards sometimes available on eBay. https://netfpga.org/

A line-rate, flexible, and open platform for research,
and classroom experimentation. More than 3,500 NetFPGA
systems have been deployed at over 300 institutions in
over 60 countries around the world.

Several hundred papers have been published: https://netfpga.org/Publications.html
I was not clear enough, apologies. Naturalness is not the reason that things should be owned in common. Rather, the reason that land ought to belong equally to all is because unchecked exclusive ownership reduces the freedom of non-landowners. It is thus incompatible with a classical liberal view that celebrates individual freedom.

If I build a fence and claim everything inside of it, you might find that reasonable. If I build a fence and then successfully claim everything outside of it, then I have in effect made everyone else prisoners inside of the fence. And if a subset of humanity claims the entire Earth, then the rest become like trespassers to be dealt with however the landowners saw fit. The rents they demand could be unlimited, since everyone requires access to land.

Every parcel claimed reduces the amount of freedom of everyone else, and eventually all land becomes claimed and rents begin rising in tandem with the progress of civilization, putting people into a position of serfdom. And that is why no amount of technological progress will ever eliminate poverty.
> The Russians don't have reliable communications, so it's not like there's that much choice.

Oh come on, VHF radio is stupid reliable. It's a war zone, so nobody's enforcing TX power limits. I don't buy this explanation. They aren't downloading multigigabyte 4k video, they're issuing combat orders. VHF has done a great job with that for decades.
It doesn't matter for what ends up in your pocket from your paycheck in the end.

But it still matters quite a bit. If you just see "deductions: 42%" on your paycheck, that's different from seeing "3% tax because you don't have children, 4% tax because you live in west Germany, ...". It helps you understand your life situation's impact on what ends up in your pocket and it also educates people in some way, e.g. there will be more public discussions if it's still necessary for western Germany to support eastern Germany if the impact is immediately visible on your paycheck.

In addition, since pension is not a tax, it matters both in the sense that higher pension contributions lower the tax you pay _and_ it also matters in that you earn claims against the state for receiving pension later on. Pension contributions are protected very differently by German law compared to if it were just a tax and you would gain welfare from the state when you stop working. This might be a nitty gritty detail, but it starts to matter when people want to change pension distributions - e.g. some changes suddenly might require 2/3 of the parliaments votes instead of a simple majority vote.

I could go on, but I think that's enough food for the mind.
Urbanisation, rates of internal migration and car-centric cities make some places objectively more dangerous for kids than others.
Yeah, and contributions to e.g. IHK and so on. That's why I focussed on employees. :)
The thing is that the British did come very close to losing, and their carrier groups were enormously vulnerable. The whole operation was a huge gamble. So I’m not sure if it should give much comfort to the Russians.

Also, the Russians have had plenty of time to read the board of enquiry report on the sinking of HMS Sheffield. The same mistakes shouldn’t be repeated again.
I've heard about large packs on boats catching, sinking, and continuing to burn while wholly submurged, and remote control aircraft being left to burn out because its safer and easier yo just repair the runway afterwards. I'm not sure how you soak that much energy. I've seen metal cabinets where people put iffy packs in case they go. It was clear it had been in a fire at least once. I think the normal way to dispose of such a thing is a controlled burn. Repair is too dangerous, its like defusing an explosive device.
Have you considered moving them on a managed version of WP(something like wordpress.com)? That would be the easiest option for me.
I'm not saying it's easy. But hey, StackOverflow threads on how to post form with checkbox with "false" value in it are pretty telling.

I've done forms with Qt, QML and Flutter, and it's completely different experience.
Under the current system yes. People do need a savings technology. Not everyone should have to be a part time investor. Gold was that technology but it didn't survive the tech transition. Now we have Bitcoin trying to continue gold's mission.

If the currency was not inflationary, people saving would mean that everyone else's money becomes more valuable. You save first, then you invest. Not the other way around. Unless you want dumb money pilling in everything and creating mega bubbles that will burst and destroy everyone's value.
I don't agree with this.
This is essentially what discord is. Most people find a group of under 100 people which is a more personal space to interact with.