skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At this point, AGI is a fantasy.

I thought you did, because fully automated problem solving is AGI, but I don't claim that we are anywhere near to reach it.

I agree it's probably far away, but it's a fantasy I like to imagine and I don't think it's an impossible goal. Don't be sorry, I appreciate a fair criticism.

> What we can hope for is to create systems that we can control well, for example to make them learn what we want them to learn and not to overfit to their dataset.

I wish you strong nerves, because it will have AGI written all over it :) Again, this is not a claim, just a prediction.
But I also want to archive the video. I used to "like" videos I'm interested in to be able to re-visit them in future but soon found the percent of deleted videos among my likes disastrous so I concluded I must archive everything. I also rarely want the highest quality.
Zapad is mentioned, both as meaning of "Z" and in relation to Zapad exercises.
>No?

No to what? Can you be more specific? What are you objecting to?
"Go" or "Hold on" would be better?
I remember when I visited the USSR in 1990 (it was still the USSR at that point, barely), it was around 8 rubles to the dollar, and the buying power of those 8 rubles was very large indeed.

I think I took a total of $200 US on the trip, and I was not even able to spend it all, despite being in the USSR for a couple weeks. There simply was not enough to buy that anyone would want to buy, at least not things I could take back on the plane. I ended up getting 9 very nice fur hats, for that reason, to give out to family and friends. I still have mine! It's very warm and nice.
And even without borders, cyberwar would still happen. Cyber has no borders.
I wasn’t there, but I’ve heard that the AT&T-initiated compiler “debundling” was the thing that kick-started the popularity of the GNU userland, with GCC acting as the gateway drug. So not only are these facts related, they are apparently even causally so.
And the MOEX is still closed (for more than a week now). For all the downsides of crypto, you can see the upside of decentralization here.
PDP-11 and PDP-10 are completely different. The 11 was in the DEC 16-bit series and the 10 was in the DEC 36-bit series.
The site says you can’t even do the transfer.
Then it's quite possible that you've completely misread what the alleged source actually said.

You've levied a pretty heavy claim with nothing but your word as evidence for it.
War in Ukraine: 'It's hell, it's hell' – Families flee bombs in Irpin
> And how would those demilitarized states defend against coups d'état?

The same way individual US states defend against coups, presumably.
That's traditionally the domain of logical volume managers.
> You do know that Putin's bluster notwithstanding, MAD only applies to nuclear conflicts?

This is inaccurate.

MAD applies with progressively decreasing strength to:

(1) Nuclear conflicts, (2) direct conflicts between nuclear powers, (3) direct conflicts between a nuclear power and the powers with which a nuclear power has a firm defense commitment, (4) direct conflicts between parties where a different nuclear power has firm defense commitments to each, ... (there are more categories where it has some attenuated impact, but it gets pretty weak beyond this point and the heirarchy becomes murkier)

Tripwire forces are a means of moving category #3 into category #2 as a means of deterring them (also, #4 into #3, which is sometimes also of perceived importance.)

The whole WWIII argument against NFZ in Ukraine is that it elevates a conflict that is not on this chart at all straight to a #2. If you think MAD applies only to nuclear conflicts, you don't understand the role of MAD.in deterrence very well.
The value seems to range from 5% to 95%, is that to leave room for uncertainty?
> The issue remains with extrnal media like from China and Russia
> we can label them

There is already the "The Foreign Agents Registration Act" in the US.

And Russia had recently copy-pasted it into their laws, which had caused a massive internal shitstorm and a heavy criticism from the West.

It was a fun moment of hypocrisy to watch.
> You must accept that your adversary is rational if you aim to avoid nuclear war

In practice, humans are neither entirely rational nor entirely irrational. Humans occupy different positions on this spectrum according to genetics, culture and circumstance.

If we want to avoid triggering escalation events that may lead to an eventual nuclear episode it seems sensible to avoid certain emotionally-charged and chaotic situations such as having the armed forces of nuclear-armed states or their close allies in direct combat with each other.
Russia's Attack on Ukraine reveals political fault-lines in Asia – India / China
I really like how the steel hull looks on these boats, specifically the Eagle and the Peruvian boat. It's seems so out of place, my mind just expects to see a wooden hull.
As you work on a project, you will slowly lose motivation without results. You can supplement motivation by changing the project slightly and adding novel little goals that can act like miniature projects to complete in order to have intermediate results. This is what we do naturally, and the process usually spirals out of control. Don’t worry about perfectionism. You need to set a goal that will give a reasonable guarantee that you will outrun your loss of motivation. This means you need to go FAST. Very fast. Neck breakingly fast and shitty. You need to stay entirely focused on exactly what the goal is, and this goal must be clearly defined. In some sense you have to sit down and plan perfectionism out of the way you write the goal. The faster you go, the less chance you give yourself to wiggle out of the goal and make the project more complex than it needs to be. YAGNI is basically the name of the game. Nothing abstracted beyond strict necessity, nothing engineered beyond the scope of the project, you need to engineer the very way you attack the problem. From personal experience, I slip into perfectionism when I lose motivation, and use it as a kind of procrastination. If you retain motivation, you will keep your eyes on the well-defined prize.

Finally, if you can help it, don’t work on projects that you can’t stay motivated for. If you’re doing a startup or research or something where the motivation is entirely internally generated, I think this is the way to do it. If you have a day job well, it’s way harder, and I empathize with you.
This is about the commit that fixed the bug, not the commit that introduced the bug. The accusation is not that linux developers intentionally introduced a vulnerability. Instead it is that linux developers hid that a commit fixed a vulnerability. Linux does this to prevent people from learning that the vulnerability exists.
Some people have hobby projects they really don't want anything other than donations for. Sometimes they don't even want donations.

Money brings responsibility, and responsibility kills the fun. Donations will begin to feel like you owe the donators your time, even though you do not. But it's hard to break out of that mindset. Especially once you start getting negative remarks for not implementing enough features, despite the donations.
You have people defending Putin and his war on western media. You can find them without trouble.

On the other hand, I dare you to find an RT story critical of Putin, without any sugarcoating. Beyond the war, on literally any topic.

So no, it's not western media from a Russian POV.
I'm seeing too much hyperbole related to Russia-Ukraine conflict.

First they say Putin is just like Hitler. Anyone who's read anything about WWII history knows this is absurd. I'd risk saying it's an insult to those who suffered indescribable hardships under Nazism.

Now Russia will collapse just like Nazi Germany?.. I don't know, history might prove me wrong, but this just looks absurd to me.
> That doesn't mean that there are no politics in science, in music, in work or even in intimate relationships.

I'm saying a bit more: that there's exactly the same kind of kind of politics that Mesquita and Smith talk about, and that, contrary to your dismissal, their insights are far from irrelevant to people who "uncover the secrets of the universe" or "have talent for music".
> Their entire supply chain from cars to planes to military goods to computers and software relies on the west.

Explainer-Importance of Russian Titanium to Global Industry

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-03-01/...
This probably means that the “black market” rate is even higher.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if the street rate for buying USD within Russia is 200 Rubles to the dollar.
It's Smart AudioBook Player by Alex Software on Google Play. The paid version - extremely cheap and totally worth it.
> Americans are tired of fighting everyone else's wars.

NATO was formed to fight Russia's expansionism, but for 30 years it's done nothing but fight the USA's wars of choice.

Americans have fought nobody else's wars and are already tired...
I think the last paragraph is a bit off. I have heard from multiple Ukrainian sources that there is corruption and oligarchy in the Ukraine. See also:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-o...

Then there was U.S. involvement in the coup in 2014 (Nuland and associated neoconservatives who think he world is a chessboard). Then there was talk about joining NATO and Zelensky hinting at getting nuclear weapons in the February Munich conference just before the invasion (nice escalation strategy).

People like Mearsheimer are realists: They know that both Putin and neoconservatives are playing Game of Thrones and advise the best strategy for the countries that are the pawns in that game.
imho, the demon is a day late and a dollar short…
> Back in the day, you would just use Flash.

And back in the day, I would close your site as soon as it opened if it started loading a flash animation. Using flash for a website animation was never a good choice, at least not for the end user.

I am perfectly happy to have a higher bar for rich web content if it means a less user hostile web than we had when flash was everywhere.

If we really need a more integrated and cohesive experience for content authors, then go out and make it. The fact that one doesn't exist may indicate that there isn't a cohesive demand for such a tool.
Let's see, a country punished for its aggression, leading to crazy hyperinflation, misery, rise of right-wing leadership...

What gets me is I still can't figure out what Putin's motivation is. Is this really better than having left things alone?
> [..] Britain was a generous country but it needed to maintain checks on who was arriving.

This seems obvious. The EU may be willing to accept absolutely anybody who shows up, but this is just basic border control. Just ask Germany how accepting over a million Syrian refugees without checks is going. That is an ongoing mess that gets very little publicity.

> The British government has been condemned by charities, opposition lawmakers and France after its insistence that refugees first acquire a visa meant some Ukrainians have been stuck in the French city of Calais, unable to enter Britain, and provoking a diplomatic row.

Interesting, because Calais has been an awful mess the French are still yet to deal with. It's not a sudden issue, it's an ongoing crisis. The EU rules are that they must apply for refugee status in the first safe EU Country, and the last time I checked, France does not border Ukraine.

> Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Britain was not doing nearly enough. It should let refugees in and deal with the paperwork later, she said.

Scotland gets very little immigration comparatively and ultimately doesn't have to deal with the enormous mess that large amounts of uncontrolled immigration creates.
I became perfect.
Can you say what you're hoping to do? LK devs tag security fixes with "[SECURITY]" and then what? You would merge individual [SECURITY] commits into your tree?

Currently the situation is that you can just follow development/stable trees right (e.g. [0])? Why would you only want the security patches (of which there look to be a lot just in the last couple weeks). Are you looking to not apply a patch because LK devs haven't marked it as a security patch?

[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
> And if you take a look at videos from Feb, people in the Eastern part of Ukraine don't mind the Russian army there, even wave and show high-fives. My highly incorrect calculations suggest that about 80% of people in Eastern Ukraine support Russia. In the middle part, that figure is maybe 30-40%, and in Western Ukraine near zero.

This could explain the normalization of the openly Nazi Azov Battalion. Another commenter here last week pointed out that 30-50% of the regular Ukranian army may sympathize with Russia so the ultra nationalist Azov Battalion became an official military unit since they are die-hard Ukranian loyalists.
"Nord Stream was pushed by Germany even though it was obvious that this would make Germany depended on Russian gas."

Many held the view that a more interdependent world is a safer world.

Without such interdependence, the West wouldn't have the ability to impose economic sanctions.

If those sanctions wind up having the effect of shortening this war or lessening the likelihood of future war, then this view will be vindicated.

If not, then we've got a very dark future ahead of us as military conflict (and possibly the end of the world as we know it) will become ever more likely.
It's a shame that they can advertise the life of the diode itself with no regard for the rest of the electronics.
> How has the military (US, or other) historically managed to recruit and retain their medical corps, or the Army Corps of Engineers?

The US military will pay for someone's medical school education, and also offers significant signing bonuses for doctors, who then enter the military as officers. Which I imagine is enough to keep a steady pipeline in regular times.

These days so much of US military work is done by contractors, that I imagine they'd just pay contractors whatever was necessary to attract what they needed for specialized non-combat roles. (Heck, contractors end up being in effectively combat roles these days too, even if formally not. Wikipedia says as of 2012, 1,569 US contractors had been killed in Iraq, compare to ~4500 soldiers).

Back when there was a draft in the US, they drafted doctors along with everyone else, and had them be doctors in the military. (Some of my family members were such in WWII). I think they just had draft numbers that came up like everyone else's though, I don't think there was a specific doctor draft.
You should get tested first, chances are you don't need supplements if you live in the tropics and spend much time at all out in the sun. If you're a vampire like me (I rarely go out much during the day, my car is even in the garage :) ) you might need supplementation though. If you're an active person outdoors a lot the chances you need supplements are unlikely. Go to a doctor and get some blood tests, they can spot all kinds of deficiencies and tell you how normal things look
Probably to consider a larger set of problems including the one you are trying to perfect, and solving that overall problem as best as possible. Your pursuit of perfectionism would result in a different approach taken because the flaws present themselves differently

Additionally, thinking about what else could be made improved or closer to perfect instead of what you are trying to do perfectly. What else could be improved? Is that more valuable? What would deteriorate in your pursuit of making something perfect?

It's hard, if not impossible, but at least worth considering.
Extra credit:

Use ML (and some servos and counterweights) to make it do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCrdla_BljQ
It would take a lot more than that. There's very little support on either side politically for leaving NATO for example, which is why even Trump didn't push for it.

The US could modestly reduce its global military footprint, and refocus those resources better on Europe (Russia) and Asia (China), and that would probably work out just fine.

Most Americans like their big military, even though they gripe about its cost. If there were a strong majority sentiment to reduce that military or pull out of the world, Trump would have done better against Biden.

Americans are tired of the stupid shit - invading & occupying Iraq; invading and occupying Afghanistan (occupying it for two decades for nothing). That money we poured into nothingness in Afghanistan, could have plausibly done wonders for Ukraine in numerous ways. Our attention and those resources would have been vastly better spent shoring up the new, fragile democracy in Ukraine than on an Afghanistan that was very unlikely to have a positive outcome.

That isolationism lean, which is a modest minority group politically, will tend to come and go. It's amplified currently due to the stupidity of what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US also had some of that culturally after the disaster of Vietnam. Overall it's a good thing to have that minority isolationist political wing, it might help tilt the US toward not doing the next Iraq. Some counter-weight to our rah rah rah global adventurism is important.
It's also a lot easier to care about a country who doesn't declare on a daily basis how much you should be killed and your country destroyed. Go figure.
* smells like Argentinian spirit *
So what this tells me is to buy a Mac mini and throw it in the corner of the office.
So true, 100% on the tutorial videos. I found myself watching this super basic tutorial video the other day that had a lot of polish and shine but lacked a huge amount of substance. I wondered how such videos would operate if the downvotes were still visible. Yes downvotes played a strong role in signaling tutorial quality.
> What gets me is I still can't figure out what Putin's motivation is. Is this really better than having left things alone?

He's the leader of a quasi-superpower trying to forge a legacy. History books are littered with guys like him.
I do not support Russia's actions in this invasion, but I take almost anything the media says about it with a grain of salt. Had this been the US invading another country, we'd have similar stories about WMDs. We have to view stories like this through the lens of the MIC and their goals. I have no doubt that there are atrocities happening in Ukraine as with any war, but don't think for a second that other countries won't see it as an opportunity to commit the same for their own benefit.
By the way, "git reflog" can usually get you out of horribly botched rebases without using special filesystem features: git reset --hard <sha1 of last good state from reflog>
I found it on another site:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80...
“ You know, the whole thing about perfectionism — The perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in … It’s actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is.” - David Foster Wallace [ https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-on-ambition-and-perfect... ]

The way I pull myself out of it, for any “medium,” whether it be art or technology, is that producing an artifact, no matter how imperfect or embarrassing, is better than a perfect idea that never makes it out of my head.
20% if you make it pre-Crimean invasion Ruble
> Russia employed a bunch of trolls, who helped create and amplify the memes.

As long as we all agree that it's a bunch of literal trolls. The kind who live below bridges.
> For example, I have no doubt whatsoever that Boris had absolutely no intention of trying to increase NHS funding despite repeated saying he would if people voted leave.

the government did increase NHS funding by more than the bus number (£350 million/week)

see NHS Funding Act 2020: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/5/pdfs/ukpga_20200...

(148MM-127MM) / 52 = £390M increase / week

so, how about that doubt?
To whom? Lawless despots?
>but ultimately you have to respect the vote to an extent.

Why?

I mean, we can all accept the results of the referendum, but why would anyone have any respect whatsoever, for the results of a political campaign largely based on lies?
Matrix is a bunch of append-only logs automatically synchronizing all the time. The most immediate use case is message passing, but it can also be microblogging, data storage, source code repository, pretty much anything. And because it has been started with HTTP+JSON, it can be used in the browser directly.

Anything that requires any sort of communication can be built on top of Matrix, and profit from its inherent properties (authentification and authorization, encryption, signing, replication, ...)
Here is the paper (link in article is broken):

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80...
I prefer trying to find news on my own whenever I do. I just try to look around a bit, get different views - even the ones that would rather disgust me and I give up often midway to articles and opinions but that exposure is needed.

I try not to equate news with that one truth - it can't be - but rather something towards the truth - or let's just call it "knowing about some event or something in somewhat detail" - and that rather unsavoury exposure often reveals some parts of that perceived truth/knowledge that wouldn't be exposed to me if I didn't read views that are actually exactly opposite to mine, which I can't reconcile with. No one writes absolutely.

Also, being from India I do not try to limit myself to the "English only" news sources -- that is one way to read views which are extremely limiting in the sense of being from within an intellectual ghetto for both - Right and Left; and even the Centre. In fact more so for the Left and Centre because the Right had figured out that the vernacular is where the mass is and that's where their propaganda machine attacked almost a decade ago and then won the country in a swift propaganda coup of lies, deceit and misinformation. While the progressive intellectuals kept bickering in English, often among themselves.

What I meant is -- we should not try to filter news too much, limit our scope and sources for ideas. It's okay to go to and through a mishmash of sources.

And last one 1-2 years has taught me - nothing beats paper sources, even now; print magazines. Online, apps, Twitter, lists and all those shiny gaudy and minimal websites, and what not are just fancy tools to play with or are the refuse for the news obsessed/addicted. Okay, this is taking it a bit too far, but online sources do indeed distract too much and encourages you to scan, rather than absorbing, is too quick, and often leading to endless click/search-athon.
A miscalculation and now a doubling down.
The arm that holds up the monitor is designed for a specific weight. It would be difficult to swap out the display.
Aren't cases like this a rare exception and you're let away with a slap on the wrist by Amazon and they will look the other way? If you keep doing it, you will have to cough up the funds, so just learn from the lesson?
What is your threat model / situation that you care about attackers who reverse engineer patches, but are not in the small circle of people who would be informed before hand.

To me, it seems like the average corporate security team is not going to worry about these kinds of attackers. Security for state secrets might, but they seem likely to be clued in early by Linux developers.

I'm probably missing something tho.
By shipping lots of horrible crappy code to production and observing the outcomes.
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