skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to understand the implications of this thing. Please forgive my ignorance.
So, a DPU (data progressing unit) is basically a daughter board that has multiple CPUs, big network, modest RAM, but also NVMe capabilities? There's a bit of architectural stuff i didn't understated in the article.

Is this the world going full circle and re introducing mini-pcs of the 80's and 90's era?

I understand, I think, the usefulness of having these in a data centre, each customer having their own DPU which would present to them as a bare metal device.

I understand, I think, the crypto guys loving this for compute power, easily expandible.

I also understand this is not for average consumers... but this is HN... what other uses can we put through this/ what advantages does this physical architecture give us?

If anyone could elucidate ....?
It looks exciting, but I'm not sure of the scope.
or credit for more sustainable, more efficient housing, credit for long term transformative city projects, and so on.

but this has to be counterbalanced with higher rate credit for other things otherwise inflation happens (assuming low unemployment).
The 2019 and 2020 fires were mostly because of a 'misunderstanding' between US consumers and Chinese manufacturers.

Manufacturers wrote in the product manual 'do not charge device for more than 4 hours'. US consumers left it charging overnight. The devices reliably caught fire when charging for more than about 15 hours. They just didn't have circuitry to stop charging when full.

The same used to be the case in the 1960's in the USA - many of us remember the instructions on battery chargers how to calculate the number of charging hours required and to set an alarm or timer to stop the charge at the right time. If you screwed that up, they were nicd batteries so they'd just split open and hiss.

That is now resolved for new devices - you can't easily buy a device from China which has a lithium battery and doesn't have a battery overcharge protection circuit.
I'm talking about PCs.

the administrator gets to decide what is turned on and how it is used. the administrator has back doors in, that are more involved and more secure than the front door. the private keys don't go to the manufacturer, but are created by the owner, etc.

there is always owner override in the case of the PC.

consoles are locked down because we have demonstrated to console manufacturers again and again, for 40 years, that we will pirate games for the console if it is at all possible. we have left zero room for interpretation with this message. we WILL steal if there is any way to steal. so in the case of consoles, yes. manufacturer only.
I meant things like the current Twitter debacle where it might be costlier for Twitter to enforce a legally binding contract than for them to go along with Musk wanting to renegotiate, or the cost and risk of a patent litigation making it exceedingly rare for invalid patents to get nullified, or people not routinely suing big companies for losing their data or breaking their services. Litigation costs money, the risks are asymmetrical and hedged towards large players, which makes the game nudged towards large players, heirs and monopolists.

Land speculation is the general Georgist critique of natural monopolies like land allowing people to make profits without labor or risk, creating rents which suck up the efficiency gains of the wider economy.
Your rant is focused so much on the actual implementation details of Flash that it misses the point that the abstract concept of a VM based application container/sandbox could have been a great thing. In fact, it was such a great idea that browser developers were forced into a pretty tough struggle to actually kill it in order to stay relevant themselves. Adobe's poor stewardship sealed the deal, not conceptual shortcomings.
Towards a Learning-Based Query Optimizer
"Moscow4"

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/04/19/navalny-mosc...
I think that might be done at some point.

So most shipments of cars are hazard free and cheap (to insure).

And then you have high risk battery shipments.
With lots of expensive measures to minimize risks and fail safe.

(This is already today a thing, as you can ship items without batteries for less money.)
as well as sister comment, there is hugo, jekyll, etc.
it's just as much government as the supreme court. senate confirmed presidential appointees. they have a dual mandate (price stability and low unemployment)
The stories of Russian military incompetence are so widespread, I'm starting to have a hard time believing it.

They can't drive a convoy a few hundred miles, they don't seem to know that tanks need protection from anti-tank missiles, they're scared to fly their plans, they use ordinary mobile phones to talk to each other, their generals are way out on the front line, their flagship got sunk, soldiers are quitting their jobs due to this not being an official war.

Wouldn't you stop after I don't know, a week of this? It just seems so overwhelmingly bad, you have to wonder if actually the war is going ok for them despite all these things and the Western media is simply keen to point out their shortcomings.

It just makes less and less sense with each story.
Also, the parking did burn down completely. This scenario would be similar to losing a whole ship to the fire, possibly sinking it. Not exactly a good thing, neither economically nor ecologically.
Did you try? Asking because I never did in a similar position.
Of course it's an issue; the cost of finding out why it sank is huge because it didn't have telemetry.
Well yeah, but a hut could have something a bit more robust, with a larger battery bank. This is optimised for weight, which a fixed installation does not need to be.
These are much like Vines, and I’m sure there will be a point where certain social media content services will be shutdown, only for the backups to be rediscovered and reinterpreted some time in the distant future.
You obviously don't understand crypto. Permissionless. Decentralised. You can't "shut it down". :diamond_hands: /s
Because the publisher is choosing to publish based on the identity or opinions of the customer.

To give another controversial example, there's a difference between a manufacturer choosing not to produce customized cakes, and a manufacturer choosing not to produce cakes customized for interracial couples.
Thank you for explaining that
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> it's something that India shouldn't do as it's going to cause a knock-on effect where the burden of export will ripple to other countries

Why should the democratically elected government of a country place the interests of other countries before those of its own citizens?
The compiler would store the condition in memory, and reevaluate the condition every time the file is included again. If the contents of the file aren't skipped, then it would actually read the file again and parse it normally.

For instance, if the file was this:

// my-file.h

#ifndef MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD
#define MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD

void f(void);

#endif

the compiler would remember the “#ifndef MY_FILE_INCLUDE_GUARD” part.
Haynes Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer Manual – 2010 Onward
It means that competition has ALOT of things to focus on to even be on pair.

Tesla on the other hand has to only focus on one thing now..

And none of those companies reached lv5.

So my bet would be on company that has the best focus.
Lemons are more expensive than petrol? The reason behind it
Oh thats interesting, cheers
The Dear Leader's grand pronouncements should never be taken at face value.
Probably most of these stories are part of the pro-Ukrainian propaganda - in every war the side people are on makes fun of the adversary.
I never noticed that! Did they really change it to gold?
Probably the superiors did not waste time explaining the reason and just demanded their phones, then the Russian soldier stole or robbed a phone and called home since he knows there is a big chance that he will be dead soon.

So if you think that your soldiers have this need to talk home maybe an competent army should offer them some alternatives, like some satellite phone they can use once a day and call home, you can't expect 18 years old forced to go to war to be professionals.
The whole thing made no sense right from the start. Russia is alienating themselves from the West and its allies. Instead of keeping the grift on Russia going, Putin and his henchmen decided its a good idea to just start a new war in Europe. It's clearly not explainable with common sense.
that's very hard to believe after what happened in 2014 in Crimea.
That data is available if you bother to look for it.

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20220119175430/The-Top-1-Per...

Despite the top 1% total share of income decreasing since 2007, they still pay the same percent of all taxes.

Thus the tax burden on the top 1% has increased over time.
29a was glorious
> it would still have value

Sure, but it might be a 10th of what it is now. So in fact it's not backed by anything real.

> because people trust the governments to be able to pay their debts later.

Nobody in their right mind excepts the US to pay their debt (except through massive inflation) - the same goes for Japan and a few other countries where the debt is so massive it can never be repaid.

> especially if over the span of a few days it can lose a significant chunk of its value because of a sale of a few tens of thousands of Bitcoin.

We are still very early days in crypto. It's like saying the internet will never change anything in the mid-80s, well before the web actually started. There's very tangible reasons for crypto to exist, such as not needed any kind of official middle-man in the middle to use your cryptocurrency. The fact that it has value or not is tied to its utility on the market beyond speculation. Whether that will ever happen is a matter of how stable the fiat currencies are going to be, I'd wage.
> A copy of the entirety of Ethereum fits on a single consumer drive.

Also this is an active area of development!

The most widely used Ethereum client Geth (Go-Ethereum, because its written in Go) has 3 or 4 modes. a pruned+fast synced node absolutely fitting on any consumer drive. while its archival node with all the prior states of the blockchain (not necessary for consensus) takes 9 terabytes, and is nearly impossible to sync up with without specialized drives and computational resources.

Other clients improve on that. Erigon is also go-based but with a different data structure, it only does archival nodes and takes 2 tb. Rust based ones like Akula and Silkworm also only do archival nodes, and they take 2 tb as well. Roughly 400% improvements in performance, and the same gains are seen in how much space they take.

There is probably more room for improvement as well, such that an archival node is a viable thing to do.
The design looks really strange on my iOS device -- maybe because I'm using NextDNS and something is being blocked -- but it looks even weirder on PC with the background repeating on the X axis. I'd really not recommend going for a "mobile only" design, especially for the HN crowd.
It’s very much a fact, though.

Before the war started, my girlfriend (Ukrainian) said she figured that if Russian soldiers came, Ukraine would just let them in in peace. She didn’t expect Russia to go ahead with an invasion in the first place, and didn’t realise war was what would be involved. Her attitude obviously very quickly changed when she saw her country was fighting back, morale is an important component of this.

It was always delusional to think west Ukraine would welcome Russia, but east Ukraine had been consuming a LOT of Russian propaganda up to the war. And when we talk about eastern Ukraine we aren’t talking about the bordering cities currently suffering heavy occupation, we are talking about the entire eastern half.

If Ukrainians themselves were thinking it, there is no question soldiers were as well. You may have seen comms of dead Russian soldiers in the early days of the war talking about this, including a sms conversation that got famous when being read out at the EU parliament.
Of course we (the West from my POV) are conducting propaganda. That's war. However at the present level our propaganda is more to do with emphasis and exaggeration.

I think the truth is the Russians are not doing great and we're exaggerating their failures.
Given that you know the outcome: a supposed second strongest military is losing in a war everybody expected them to dominate in a week, explanations like that are the most plausible ones. Hard to believe outcomes have hard to believe causes.
> the front page gets filled with spam, because that's what you get with "zero censorship".

Commercial messages are not entitled to the same protections as political opinions, so no one is asking for "zero censorship".

I suppose a law can't force social media companies to filter spam and make their front pages bearable to read, but if your suggestion is that they should maliciously comply by unnecessarily and deliberately ruining their own services for people in Texas, then they could just as well not offer the services to people in Texas at all, which would achieve the same result and be cheaper.
Who can guarantee a return on capital?

Tech stocks are down 50-75% now. You think it was smarter to borrow money against that equity rather than sell and pay taxes?

Like I said, it's all theoretical, yet no one has actually shown me numbers that makes sense.

Delay selling equity? Sure? Delay it until you are dead? No way (unless you're within a few years of dying).
I would believe it in part. Coming from a post-communist country, I can testify corruption levels at all layers of society were massive. We are still working hard to change the collective mentality 30 years after a regime change, and I have all the reasons to believe there is far more work in this regard to be done in Russia.

(Also, the stories from folks who served in the Czechoslovak Army back then border with the incredible)
Madoff also did all those things. Every time I look into one of those “projects” it either depends on money coming in or other parts of the crypto system growing. Stop fucking lying to people, and especially don’t compare it to something like Linux. So much wasted effort for nothing
There has been speculation that Putin doesn't realize how badly the war is going:

"We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership," Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, told reporters during a press briefing.

"We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisors are too afraid to tell him the truth," she said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-advisers-too-afraid-tell...
It dropped 5% just this past year. The population did not decline 5% this past year.

And sorry, "slow population growth" is the same as "increasing population growth", so it doesn't explain a decrease.
you can sort of do it in powershell
you can browse it, e.g. ls HKLM:\
There was also a case of soldiers using flash-card apps to learn about the nuclear bases they were stationed at, revealing various facts.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...
What would that even mean, concretely? It’s not Ukrainian propaganda that the Moskva sunk. Russia admits it. (And if it wasn’t sunk by a Ukrainian missile, extreme Russian incompetence is the other explanation on the table.)
It's not mobile only to me. I like the design on bigger screens, with the repeating background. I don't think anything is blocked, all the necessary data should come with the same request, from the same server. Weird/unique/memorable ...
I have a 400W wind turbine along with 400W of solar on my boat. The turbine almost never gets used as it makes more noise than a 1500W gasoline generator.
Nice app. What network client are you using for user authentication, upvote, reply etc.?
Why All Cryptocurrency Should Die in a Fire
Lists about all kinds of interesting topics
*troops, fix the heading please
Ask HN: How did you learn good program design?
Was it a specific language that caused the shift in mindset? Or was it a book, a project or a course at university?
wow! Phrasing! Are we still doing phrasing?

Alternate title: CEO personally guarantees company financing

"The CEO believes in his struggling company, although it theoretically means he could have an excuse to sell a bunch of Better.com shares or personally declare bankruptcy, this CEO has 5x as much cash and is probably swimming in less debt than most of the middle class."
Or there is no direct causation: people who make choices which are long-life-ish tend to be those with higher-IQ. Why? Because, jointly with IQ, also correlates wealth (etc.).
Hiring too many people is still the number one thing that can kill your growing business. The communication costs alone eat a bunch of headcount so if you don't desperately need the people then you shouldn't hire them.

The problem generally starts when you hire a bunch of people without fixing broken processes first, these people then push back against fixing said processes, and the rot sets in.
> good analogy

Sure, comparing and old physical asset that deprecate over time with a pure digital asset built on a blockchain makes a lot of sense. Currencies are way easier to trade than physical goods.

Everything is a question of supply and demand, it does not mean it's valid to compare every goods to another on the market.
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.

Propaganda works by selecting some facts and amplifying them, all the while hiding others. Note how Ukrainian military losses are never reported, for example. Photos of destroyed Russian tanks are all over the place, but not a single photo of destroyed Ukrainian equipment. The coverage is very selective to paint a specific picture.
Keeping abreast with Russian sources as well, I would hazard a guess that it’s a little bit of both.

All of those things seem true, but Ukraine has so few forces and Russia has so many, that it kinda balances out.

And this is not highly trained and motivated Israeli fighting a desperate force a generation or two below their tech. Ukrainians seem to be on par, but russians look to be way more able than the Arab alliances from those past wars.

At the start of the war their tech was comparable, and the new weapons poring out of the west are only now reaching frontlines.

Russians are loosing slowly - the failed Kiev offensive is a proof enough of that, its just they have such a strong media clamp down that their people are not exactly aware of how bad things are for them, well nobody knows _really_ right now but it does keep morale high.

And Putin can’t really afford a “graceful loss” - he needs a win, and I think he’s banking on the west not being able to stay coherent for a long enough time, and to wear down the enemy slowly. It’s not without precedent and authoritarian regimes are considered more stable through war than democracies, let alone abstract things like the EU.
Researchers have been looking for a multi-factor theory of intelligence for a long time. People are extremely highly motivated both on a careerist basis and an ideological one to find a better model for intelligence than g/IQ. It’s been tried. The two most famous are Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory.

The main fault of Gardner’s theory is that it has no empirical backing of any kind[1], which effects its popularity with Ed schools not at all.

Sternberg’s theory at least actually works. It’s just that it is extra work and complexity for no increase in predictive validity. There’s no way to distinguish it from straight g.

[1]According to a 2006 study, many of Gardner's "intelligences" correlate with the g factor, supporting the idea of a single dominant type of intelligence. According to the study, each of the domains proposed by Gardner involved a blend of g, of cognitive abilities other than g, and, in some cases, of non-cognitive abilities or of personality characteristics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intellige...
> Your elections seem to bring only corrupt elites to power? Randomly select citizens to govern.

I do really like the idea of a randomly selected "second house"
So we should soon see drone alarms triggered by wifi signals (?)
I think it's more likely that Putin lied about this, and the soldiers were told the same lies. Russia trusted that collaborators / saboteurs in Ukraine would allow them to crush the remaining resistance very quickly. This is allegedly how Cherson fell so swiftly: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088926/-Ukraine-up...

And recently Arestovych said that the first days of the invasion a lot of saboteurs and assassination squads were in Kiev trying to topple the government.

Of course you can't believe everything the Ukrainians say either, I just think it's pure propaganda from Putin when he said the Ukrainians would welcome Russia as liverators.
Seems like you want to get the count of "leaves" in a tree expressed as array of arrays.

```
const lengthParam = (a) => {
let count = 0;
for(let c of a) {
if(Array.isArray(c)) {
count += lengthParam(c)
}
else {
count++;
}
}
return count;
};
```

Am I hired?
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Yep, I'm in awe at some of the other replies. "Keeping up with Russian sources"? The same ones who claimed Ukraine was not a real country or that they were developing battle pigeons? I wonder which side is more likely to be correct: the ones who claim their enemy is incompetent or the ones who claim their enemy is using black magic. Seems clear-cut to me.
"To some, this type of scenario may seem...hyperbolic"

Or just wildly inaccurate given the lack of cell phone networks at sea...

Once they are on land
There's a difference between sexual behaviour and gendered insults, that's my point. Or no?
Exactly, you can see that from the droves of people here who control their own thoughts and yet fully believe the only way to launch their own unfunded startup is by hosting it on aws on multi az clusters with all the latest crap paying 10k/month. Considering the chance your startup will probably never make money and you will close in 6-12 months, you could also have given 120k to charity. Or, you know, not believe ‘gurus’ and ads and use rational thought to just start on a $1/mo vps. Everyone on HN makes the best choices indeed!
I’m not denying that Ukrainian propaganda exists. 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. Oddly, lordnacho seems to suggest that they are less inclined to believe this the more evidence for it that they see.

The mere fact that Ukraine still is not occupied by Russia tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
Ukraine’s $10k Drones Are Dropping Tiny Bombs on Russian Troops
India just banned all wheat exports with immediate effect
Ukraine’s losses are also being reported - it’s not all positive stories
I think he has a grudge against US tbh.
I guess, you're from US? Anyone with experience with Russians, this situations is not just believable for us, this is Russian default.
The bias and narrative is definitely pro-Ukrainian, but the facts are well documented. There's a massive OSINT effort around this war. There's a Dutch group called Oryx specifically tracking material deployment and destruction [1]. That data is also scraped and put into a visual format by a guy on GitHub [2].

[1]: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com

[2]: https://github.com/favstats/uaconflict_equipmentloss