skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Third observation was unexpectedly high visible support of Wagner by people. Many laughing at situation or agreeing with Prigozhin‘s demands, some bringing food and water to mercenaries in Rostov. All despite that PMC Wagner is a criminal organization famous for extra-judicial executions, war crimes etc. An organization led by an open nazi (Utkin) and assembled from prisoners, many of which were convicted for violent crimes. It is crazy how people can even think of collaborating with them.

This raises an interesting question for me.

The invasion of Ukraine enjoys popular support inside Russia - around 70%.
The justification continuously put forward regarding why such a large proportion of the Russian population supports the invasion is that they've been brain-washed by state media into believing that Ukraine requires "de-Nazification".

That the Wagner group enjoys such popular support, while their Nazi sympathies are also common knowledge^ makes this justification questionable.

My best, admittedly totally speculative, guess right now is that the Russian populace has a far better/non-brainwashed understanding of the geopolitical situation than what is commonly suggested, and that while everyone is happy to go along with the de-Nazification pretence, in reality the populace harbours the same ambitions for a return of Russian imperial power that the Russian leadership does, and also holds similar moralistic perspective.

^I believe this to be the case, but I'm not certain. At the very least there doesn't seem a state sponsored campaign to hide it
Could you explain how this is 'fun'? I think it more or less just makes sense as a fact.
I received a Ph.D. in pure math (number theory) from Berkeley, and then worked as an academic mathematician for 20 years, so wrote a few dozen research papers and some books. My ability to write software for doing mathematics was obviously better as a result of studying mathematics, e.g., I started SageMath (https://sagemath.org) and wrote a big chunk of it.

Now I mostly do full stack web development (I have goals that require doing it), and I do often think about my programming informed by intuitions from topology and algebraic geometry (e.g., scopes in programming are like neighborhoods in topology). Having experience with formal logic and proofs also helps in reasoning about what code I'm looking at will do. Experience with rigorous mathematics also makes me more humble about just how difficult it is for anybody to ever reason correctly about anything.

I taught mathematics to many undergrads over the years, and I would recommend anybody interesting in a career in programming also learn at least the basics of group theory and abstract algebra. It's extremely beautiful, and probably different than the other mathematics you encountered, e.g., in high school or engineering courses. There's just so many beautiful and deep ideas in an intro abstract algebra course that aren't very difficult to learn. I initially got into mathematics when I was an undergrad browsing the programming section of a used bookstore, and found an abstract algebra book that was misfiled in the programming section.
Nothing can grow at 30% for very long, even if you don't make any mistakes. I think the tech bit is painting with too broad strokes.

Google-- he's said investing there should have been obvious because GEICO was spending a lot and still using Adwords very profitably.
Amazon-- He's praised Bezos but stopped short of calling it a missed investment AFAIK.
Facebook-- I don't think it's ever mentioned anywhere in BRK meetings.
Netflix-- He's said it's hard to call winners in the streaming space, although BRK does have a sizable paramount position.
Microsoft-- He's said he missed this initially, he's also said he's avoided investing in the past because he was close to Gates and concerned any investment timing wouldn't be beyond reproach. Later, BRK took a position in Activision/Blizzard that was very controverisal as WEB had predicted, which was claimed to just be an arbitrage position.
How to get unstuck on Leetcode [video]
On the paper “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf]
You can always solve power density by not fully populating a rack or underclocking or both. If Epyc is better it's better; it doesn't depend on density.
There are different modes in which 6500 can operate. The original 15Mpps mode (30Mpps is architecturally the same thing at higher clock speed) involves the line card arbitrating for a shared parallel bus on the backplane, transfering relevant data through this bus to the sup and after getting the result it transmits the whole packet over another shared parallel bus to the egress line card. In this mode the actual data do not traverse the sup card. In the newer dCEF modes there is a switching fabric of point-to-point source synchronous links and the crossbar switch of this fabric is physically located on the supervisor cards, so the “720” in “sup720” really means that there is 720Gbps of switching bandwidth on the card (although it is not exactly tightly coupled to the rest of the card that implements the “supervisor” itself, to large extent it is colocated on the same card due to physical convenience of that design, IIRC it is actually implemented as a mezzanine board).

At ~400Mpps doing the routing decisions in software is going to be a significant bottleneck even with some kind of modern SoC. But OTOH, today you can design the whole thing in bunch of other ways, as it is significantly easier to implement something with large amount of separate RAM blocks connected through some random arrangement of buses and crossbars controlled by few tightly coupled CPU cores as a one big ASIC (or even FPGA).

But all that assumes that the thing you are building is functionally an L2 switch, maybe designed with ridiculous amount of L3 acceleration (which is exactly what 6500/7600 is). As a point of reference C7200 is a router roughly contemporary to 6500/7600 and architecturally it is just a MIPS-based SBC with six PCI slots.
You've described most of open source software development and yet people still write the code because they need the code and want to share the code with others because others shared with them. This isn't the problem you think it is. The problem is that most of the web's current funding model is broken and user hostile. This isn't a problem with semantic data or software development this is a problem with the capitalist model of post-scarcity information production, distribution, and control. That's what needs to change if we're to benefit in proportion to what we contribute instead of those who appropriate and exploit the most benefiting the most. Let the web, as it exists now, break - it hasn't been ours for a long time.
I'd be more interested for insurance of total paid in - total paid out. I bet a few companies make out like bandits.
> "Microsoft screwed up with the announcement of the Xbox One and they were never able to recover from that."

Put the blame where it belongs: Don Mattrick screwed up the positioning and announcement of the Xbox One and they were never able to recover from that.
Counterpoint: Postgres is very hard to properly configure in a HA configuration and is hard to scale out, and this will pretty much force you down a path of using managed Postgres. If you DIY a serious deployment you’ll be spending a ton of time researching it and getting it just right.

In other words Postgres is actually kind of expensive for serious use despite being “free.” It’s just something to be aware of. Kubernetes is another “free” system with this nature.

If I were starting a new project today I would look hard at cockroachdb. Its license is on paper less free than Postgres but in practice it’s more free for many use cases, and it’s a modern raft database with auto failover and pretty easy scaling.

Postgres feels like something from 1980s Unix. Everything is manual and clunky and very arcane.
I wouldn't say 30fps is "smooth" per se, but it's very consistent with no stuttering or lag, so at least the frame times are smooth. :)

(To clarify: it's locked to 30fps, it doesn't only perform at 30fps.)
There's one problem with that explanation. If Prigozhin thought that his family was at risk, or if he cared, he had all the information before he attacked. Why then attack, only to then have the obvious move used on you?
I doubt it, unless the digital device is just an e-ink stylus type thing with at most MSPaint level capability, plus some data transfer features(Or maybe some different but similarly limited thing like extremely basic vector graphics) and it's tiny and has battery life long enough to forget about battery life.

I never got all that into paper, my low manual dexterity and spatial reasoning always made it seem just as much like a fight with the medium as it is a creative workout, but it seems like the key feature of paper is that it does not have any cues to suggest that maybe there is something else you could do with it, nor any past experience associations with the act of Crapscrolling.

For me, FreeCAD and Google Keep are kind of the pinnacle of digital creativity, it's like accessing a completely different mode of thought, since you can work with 3D objects without needing to be able to hold the state of them in your head, and Keep lets you just write, without a bunch of bogged down slowness or random glitches or wondering if sync will fail.

I also enjoy digital sculpting as with SculptGL for the same reason.

Minecraft seems to for many be the digital paper, or at least the digital Lego.

But for someone who's naturally decent with their hands none of it seems like it would be as exciting as paper, it's got a Vim-like appeal to those who know exactly what they want to make, have the skill to make it happen, and just want to be alone with their thoughts for a bit without distraction.

Maybe someday there will be something that has the core functionality of digital paper, but with a few extras added in ways that don't conflict with that.

Like, no straight line tool because the option might make you subconsciously have to make a choice of whether to use it or draw it freehand, and then you're thinking about the tool again, but you can select a region of screen and make it a hyperlink to something else, or attach a sound to it, or something else that's completely orthogonal and couldn't possibly "compete" with Just Drawing.

Maybe you could do basic animation, maybe you could have layers with different properties, like popup layers with "Only show when something in the area of a drawing on this layer is touched", or "Out of a 10 frame cycle, show this on these frames".

Maybe other similar tools would spring up for editing the same "Digital Sketchbook" that did have all the fancy extra tools to help you out, and people would need some discipline and honesty to choose which one actually made them most creative (I'm pretty sure I'd much prefer the "fancier" ones).

But it might be cool to see what can be done to make use of the possibilities of digital, without changing the paper like aspects and focusing on them separately.
There’s a lot more to programming than algorithms; so much so, in fact, that I’d say that the sort of algorithm optimization you’re talking about is one of the least important skills to study.
Right, and we didn't so no point in trying now since we are all going to die anyway.*

*or the climate scientists are wrong again
Yes but make no mistake: German car manufacturers will make the German governments lobby for whatever they find value in when time goes by.

They've recently invented the funny term "Technologieoffenheit" as an abstract concept to allow for "whatever the market decides" which sounds good but completely ignores, e.g. that they won't have enough renewable energy to produce zero-emission e-fuels/hydrogen at a scale big enough to achieve reasonable consumer prices for usage in cars. AFAIK anything that is based on organic matter can only be net-zero and potentially drives out potentially more important food. Not sure yet what this "strategy" leads to if not more populist politics.
I empathize with every individual taking on this journey, and I feel for them. Everyone deserves an attempt at a happy life and for some this is the only way. I cannot say that if I were in their shoes, I’d act any differently.

That being said, the framing here has changed a lot recently so I was commenting on the terms used.
I dunno, it seems pretty dubious to me that that’s the way causation’s arrow points. I don’t think any purely financial market could have that much impact on the price of a very, very expensive item consumed by almost literally everyone (i.e., there’s a deep and liquid market of transactions involving actual real assets that are useful and in demand - unlike, say, crypto).

I also don’t understand how the pricing models used on the securitizations translate to the actual prices agreed by buyers and sellers in individual real estate transactions. Obviously that’s going to have some effect on the terms that originators offer, but there’s still a real underlying transaction between two usually rational counterparties.

My naive guess would be that the government backing of mortgage loans makes the securitization market possible, rather than securitization making the real estate sector viable.
I can tell you for certain that that number is off by a few orders of magnitude
That's a wild take considering how much general (not user) revenues are shoveled into projects for cars.
Sometimes I find myself desensitized to what I've seen, experienced and read about the U.S. "Justice" system and think that I am totally jaded and can't be shocked.

I am always wrong.
and porsche
> So many of these actions make zero sense to me. They’re illogical.

I suspect that's because you, and the rest of us here, don't have all the information.
Scuba diving! Clearly, "expert" is relative but you can without much difficulty become a certified "professional" diver in just six months. Diving gear and diving courses can cost a lot of money though.
Should be true. Insurance costs depends on probability of the accident, which is not the same for different cities.
What? Insurance companies are famous for their generous payouts and not at all using scummy tactics and wording to void claims! /s
One problem is that alternate transportation services are not profitable, and if they're not profitable, people don't think it should exist.

But that's just short-sighted thinking. If you ensure every drunk person has a ride home, that alone would save millions in costs caused by drunk driver accidents.
Never heard that "Deutschlandtakt 2070" (lol) depends on electrification of all railway tracks, to be honest. Would be interesting to read up on that, so if you have a source, I'd be glad to read it!
Are you saying the virus did not originate from a wet market?
Yet those households largely have an obesity problem. Our standard for quantifying "food insecurity" arent similar to actual starvation and food shortages
Ask HN: Host and Server Recommendations?
Who would you use to host several servers with a high core count?
Good to know. At the time, I was like "whatever." The car was pretty smashed up.
Err, whatever the market decides, isn’t that what we’ve had in the US forever? It works for some thing but we don’t seem to be the leaders as far as fighting climate change goes.
Those are myths that developers use to gatekeep the software industry.

You don’t need a special mind to be a programmer, you just need to have a willingness to do this work. Which many people don’t.
I would assume that undervolting and underclocking will likely drop that power consumption quite considerably.
The problem is the premise of the question.

Is “better programmer” a useful metric to problem solving? For a class of problems, probably.

Math and other hard sciences will probably give you a different perspective than a traditional CS education which may help with solving certain types of problems. Those may be programming related, or may be something else. Of course it may depend on the kind of person you are too.

In my opinion it’s worth pursuing whatever feels hard in terms of education, even if there’s not a rigorous CS education. You can always go into CS later.
Though kangaroo meat is available at the supermarket in Australia; it's decent but overpriced.
There was a recent story about how big trucks in the US don't have basic safety features seen in say Europe like stopping cars from ending up under them.
Neutrality won't save us. Neutrality is kicking the can down the road, to be picked up by... well, whoever is alive and still civilized by then.
The article answers this: Bergamo is 360W and Ampere One is 350W. I suspect the 256T Bergamo is faster than 192T Ampere One.
Show HN: Built a QA job board ONLY for companies using playwright/test
This has been my weekend project!

This might seem like an odd job board given how incredibly niche it is, however, there is an industry-wide shift happening towards test automation using Playwright and sourcing these jobs at the moment is painstakingly hard.

So I built a job board just for Playwright jobs:

https://ray.run/jobs

All jobs are...

* 100% remote

* using @playwright/test

* manually sourced by me

* link directly to the apply to job form (only Greenhouse and Lever)

It is all manual because there isn't a ton of high-quality jobs worth listing, but I expect this to change over time.

Looking for feedback how to make it better
You can get along famously in Germany knowing only the following 3 phrases:

1. Ein Bier bitte

2. Noch ein Bier bitte

3. Wo ist der W.C.
I know! I just couldn't bring myself to remove it it. It's such a cool note. I think I'm going to do these differently in the future lol
yeah, you are;
however given the zero amount of interest shown on focusing on the train system by the department for mobility, doesn't give much hope it's going to happen before 2070... they want to build more and bigger high ways such that there is less traffic jam, thus less emissions, which is just hilarious.
Europeans to regress to hunter gatherers in 2051
It takes extreme skill to maneuver yourself right and hold yourself on the walls he was climbing, even if every hold is sturdy (which they typically are).

It also takes skill to look at rock and have an understanding of how likely it is to be safe to put your weight on. And it takes skill to repeatedly do climbs with a rope to get to the point where you're comfortable doing them unprptected.

Finally, it takes skill to hold yourself on the wall with 1-3 of your other limbs in the event that one of the holds gives away or your hand slips (the latter of which does happen plenty often).

If it weren't skill-based, you'd see random daredevil freaks freesoloing all the time. It just wouldn't be interesting. It'd be like, "Man climbs tall unsteady ladders regularly!" No, what these guys are doing is both insane but also insanely impressive.
I found the source and the stat sorta accounts for that in a different way, because it reports any at-fault accident in the driver's history, regardless of whether or not it was with that particular car. Thus, even if the Porsche isn't a daily driver, the owner's past accidents would still count.

That said, I'm not sure how I feel about this methodology overall. It's based on insurance applications submitted by the drivers themselves, and I'm not sure what they do to check applicants' actual history. Perhaps Porsche drivers are more inclined to lie about their accident histories?

> To apply for car insurance, drivers input personal and vehicle information, including the make and model of the car they drive, their license plate number, and whether or not they have caused an accident in the past. To create the list below, the Insurify data science team compared the number of car owners with a prior at-fault accident against the total number of drivers for each make and model, determining the proportion of drivers with an at-fault accident on record.

Source: https://insurify.com/insights/auto-brands-most-car-accidents...
That depends on what "as close as you can get" means, using just those data points. And whether there's extremely overfit training on recent forbidden parameters with a huge number of degrees of freedom, or whether you have the exact opposite.
There are an awful lot of shallow takes on geopolitics here and in general, because … how do I put this in a non-insulting way … it’s a complex topic that doesn’t lend itself to pithy internet comments by those without a deep knowledge. Nation states do weird things, like how the US policy towards Cuba (itself complex) is almost entire driven by the electoral college for presidential elections and domestic demographics, but security still matters.

Our debates on Twitter, Facebook, crypto, and AI are pithy because we all know the topics well, and have mostly made up our minds about them. Often there’s not a lot to add not included in the article.
> don't actually understand anything (as greater concepts), but rather operate as complex probability machines?

But, things are defined by how they interact with the world around them.

A concept is its relations to other concepts.

Which does seem to be the general sort of thing that these models are trying to get at, even if they don't seem to do a great job of it.
Deutschlandtakt has nothing to do with electrification. And full electrification isn't planned for any point in time, there will (if it goes as planned) never be a fully electrified railway network. They are planning to either shut down small branches or use locomotives with batteries or hydrogen fuel cells.
To me, programming is past that. But I easily fool myself what I program is worthwhile. Or am I?
Regarding json/text instead of jsonb,

https://medium.com/geekculture/postgres-jsonb-usage-and-perf...

Says that jsonb is better suited for my needs as I need it to be indexed for lots of searching. Almost all my queries will have a where clause on this jsonb column.
With no emitters alive that goal makes some sense.
In the US some human rights are guaranteed directly by the constitution (some forms of slavery are not allowed, the right for women to vote). Others are guaranteed by federal laws (pay discrimination between sexes is a federal law). Yet others are defined by court rulings around specific laws (famously, your right to know certain rights when you are arrested. The thing you see on American TV: "You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney..." is a side effect of a court ruling). Still other rights come from State specific laws or constitutions (Abortion, notoriously, is a right that is no longer guaranteed federally, but is now delegated to the states.)

The US is pretty complex, and actually has one of the older governments in the west (Europe included) despite being a relatively new country. One thing to keep in mind is that the US was originally conceived as something much closer to the EU than as it's own country. The US government was originally MUCH more limited, and the individual states had much more power.
I got stuck on the first question.

I couldn't figure out what kind of park it was. I don't think a wheelchair is appropriate in a skate park.

However, if the "skate park" allowed bicycles, dirt bikes, motorcycles, and cars, I think a wheelchair is fuckin' fine.

Thus, a wheelchair is a vehicle in some circumstances.
Been looking for a good mobile markdown editor for a blog so I love this. A few things:

* Github login is broken for me

* Lots of extra vertical space on the edit page on mobile when in landscape.

* Would be great if one of the publish options was to publish to a github repo for use with github pages!
I also have no tickets in 15+ years, and also western US in a suburb.