skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but so what?

What you're basically saying is that companies are acting in accordance with certain moral values, even though they don't intrinsically have those moral values. That's great news! That's downright fantastic! Instilling "true" morality is a difficult problem. We have bypassed that problem and gotten the same observable results by replacing it with a much simpler one.

Corporations are supposed to be automata that optimize an objective function. External pressure was applied, via both sanctions and public sentiment, and behold! Their behavior changed. The sanctions had the effect that was intended. That's better than you could say for many other policies.
There is a major element of shaming and condescension here. The very act of this implies "hey, I know more than you do! what you know is less, and also false. because your government tells you wrong things, but my government tells me the truth! so let me educate you". How do you think you and the rest of the West would come across?

Unless you have a personal connection with the person and managed to find common political ground beforehand, this may actually sway them in the other direction, especially so if the person has any national pride.

So, talk to existing Russian friends, network with Russians more, build rapport. Be subtle and open-minded, rather than robotically delivering fixed agenda.

The opposite of random calling, basically.
For me it's mostly that they no longer announce anything that I _want_. I guess I'm not a pro-sumer looking to spend $3k+ on a workstation.
Azure DevOps is "Investigating a service disruption" right now as well.
Branch History Injection (Spectre-BHB) – A Revival of Spectre-v2 Attacks
What’s wrong with macos?
Discord's own status page: https://discordstatus.com/
128GB of RAM in M1 Ultra is unimpressive compared to 1.5TB of RAM in Mac Pro. Right now Apple doesn’t have a replacement for Mac Pro with Apple Silicon

EDIT: At the end of the presentation Apple said Mac Pro refresh is coming later so let’s wait and see
I'm part of a team that does (very small-scale compared to the big NGOs) logistics (food, clothing, baby stuff, hygiene, everything) and provides/mediates shelter in the North East of Germany and sending food, first aid kits and medical supplies to the borders/directly to Ukraine with the supplies and support of the people of the city I'm living in (I'm managing one of the provisional warehouses).
We have bus companies driving people and other things.

If you'd like to work together, I'd love to talk. Petrol has become pretty expensive, so pooling resources makes a lot of sense.

95% of everything is logistics. Fully agree with the quote.
didn't know they were saving democracy in Yemen
Apple announces new 27-inch 5K Apple Studio Display with A13 chip
During a shock, when there exists sufficient productive capacity, price control together with forced production (as on fines for stopping it or worse) do really work.

For obvious reasons (and very good ones), this is something people won't accept unless the shock is really serious, like a war. Anyway, there isn't sufficient productive capacity either, so the shock importance is a moot point.
Sure but it was an immensely stressful time for lots of people, that is going to drive up crimes of all types. Expect a similar (is not as drastic) drop in crime as well over the next couple of years.
Well, there's that and the fact that historically oil is an (economic) weapon. Some ecomonies are more susceptible to price changes than others. Some can use that weapon proactively, others can so nothing but reactively suffer the consequences.

For example, when the USA allowed fracking production to hockey stick (started under Bush #2 and took off under Obama), the international price dropped significantly. That hurt countries such as Venezuela and Russia.

Oil is like a drug. Once you're hooked you're no longer free.
It is enforceable, see especially articles 41 and 42. With the caveat of the veto power of the five permanent members.

Chapter VII: Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression

Article 39

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Article 40

In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Security Council may, before making the recommendations or deciding upon the measures provided for in Article 39, call upon the parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional measures shall be without prejudice to the rights, claims, or position of the parties concerned. The Security Council shall duly take account of failure to comply with such provisional measures.

Article 41

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.

Article 42

Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.
So, if you want to watch any game on any given night, you need

- a cable package for ESPN, etc

- the MLB.tv package

- Apple+

Guessing a lot of bars are going to find alternate Friday night programming.
I feel you. I’m about to board a flight and Spotify logged me out while I was listening to an offline playlist.
Spotify is too.
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Generally it's not a great idea to rely on high school or entry-level university courses as the final word on anything... for starters, what about situations where the price is already distorted by bad actors fucking with the supply levels, such as cartel or monopolist situations?

You've been replying to questions about specific situations with generalities! That's not compelling.

Hell, oil was at $100+ a barrel for years within the past decade, without the same level of gasoline prices seen today in the US: that suggests there's more to the current situation then just econ-101 "high input prices mean output price has to be high too".
According to Downdetector, there's a large amount of services that have outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/

The graphs for Spotify and multiple other services look very similar, so Spotify being down might just be a part of something larger. Whether it's Russian hackers or some more mundane is pure speculation at this point.
Possibly not for long. Asahi linux are due an alpha release any day now. No GPU support yet, but I imagine that will come. And is apparently made much easier by the fact that there's essentially only one GPU with minor variants across the entire lineup.
So the EU should follow Moscow's lead on free media?
"What I should have said was nothing"
Probably for the same reasons you just posted this comment.
> they can sit back and wait until they can claim Ukraine by other means

when will this be exactly?

Putin was living on borrowed time due to the move away from fossil fuels

and his main customers are now willing to pay more explictly not to use his exports

their military ambitions are now finished, permanently
> I’m glad that it looks properly cooled but it seems like a very un-apple design.

Is it? It's a double-height Mac mini with more ports and better cooling.
First PHP true Peer-to-peer Blockchain project released
Oh wow. Thanks!

I actually downloaded the TCL/Tk version because the railroad stopped dropping for me right on the web one and I was hooked again.

My 8yo daughter saw me playing and said “is that game like Minecraft”. I almost cracked up and told her it was a game I used to play when I was a little older than her. She sat with me a while and we played together.

It was so much fun. Just like when we’d huddle around a PC together pre-Internet. I was so glad to share that experience with her.

Thanks for all your work over the years on this breathing life into this.
I don't Tweet. My mother, bless her, already comments on every one of my Instagram posts.
I thought my fans didn’t work for the first month or so. Months in and they’re never audible. The silence, temp and battery make it worth the upgrade over my 16” i9 MBP.
There is no such thing as 'pure propaganda'.

There's only things 'our side do not agree with'.

CNN is pure propaganda, too. It is extremely vulnerable to corruption and agitprop outside the normal scope of journalistic duty. But, I think Russians actually are not afraid of tuning into CNN, like Americans are - deadly afraid, it seems - of watching even a minute of RT.

It really seems like mass hysteria, being exploited to ensure only one sides narrative is understood by the world.
Yup. I turned on the record player instead. I'm glad I still have a dumb machine I can fall back on when all of the technology fails.
If it loses it will also escalate. For the good and the bad, the world is a better place with a loser Russia than a winner.
There probably are ways to do it using modular components. They did this with natural gas power plants (see Wartsila power plants for example.) In that case, you can probably get it down to 2-3 years.
Going into Iraq was probably a bad call from the perspective of US interests, and the cause was definitely bullshit.

But Saddam Hussein's popularity doesn't even compare to Zelensky's.
And what is going to be gained by allowing RT to be uncensored? Their official ""truth"" is that Ukraine is full of/run by Nazis, thus Russia invaded. They've already told the world that. What are you expecting to hear?

Besides, there are other channels for real official truth. Not that Putin will give it.
I do not see how Amazon is ahead in online retail. Buying from Amazon, or Home Depot, or Walmart, or Costco, or Best Buy, or some random website is the same experience. Actually, not buying from Amazon is better because then I have better assurance it is not commingled counterfeit crap.
It is far more risk for some than others.

If you have a minority viewpoint, you get attacked far more easily.
Can you get the mac studio without the tiny person inside or is that standard?
This feels oddly specific. I'm not sure why you can't engage on Twitter and still not be "lacking in real life." Who even gets to define "real life?" And while I'm sure some people spend 20-30 hours per week on Twitter I'm guessing it's such a small percentage of the world that it might as well be statistically insignificant.
Maybe the Apple event is taking all the bandwidth or they cut a deal to turn off everything else so you have to pay attention ;)
When I see a presentation so well trained and rehearsed, I am also put off. It's such overt manipulation of my monkey brain.
The camera being at waist-height of the presenters who are constantly looking down at it also contributes to the power relations effect the producers are trying to achieve.
That decision would have to rendered by a judge. The bank can’t just “take the money back.”
Maybe even the CEO or CTO.
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#dnssec

"Google Public DNS is a validating, security-aware resolver. All responses from DNSSEC signed zones are validated unless clients explicitly set the CD flag in DNS requests to disable the validation."
Discord's status page now reports a 99.83% uptime for the last 90 days. Crazy how it seems that they have a major outage this frequently.
The most important objective was achieved — preventing the expansion of the communism block to other countries. Vietnam today is a market economy, the country is communist in name only.

Also, please try to Vietnam. The US is very favorably perceived, more than China or Russia, although probably below European countries.

In the sense, the US lost the war, but won in the end, at a very steep price, of course
Ah, our glorious sci-fi future.
It would be quite hard to argue that we're better if we would simply start doing the same.
Here property crime was up a little bit but violent crime was way up (50% or so). I personally think it's the stress and anxiety of lost jobs, loss of release valves (going to the office, seeing friends, etc). I believe it's a temporary spike and will fade in the next year or two.
Thank you. It does sound like this is dependent on the security council which Russia is a permanent member of, able to veto anything basically. What a messed up situation.
I still would like to see an apple competitor to the surface studio... Why have they not added touch as an option for the new studio display?
I am not sure if this makes it better or worse - that the army is full of imbecils in charge of deadly weapons, who have no idea how much danger they put everyone in.
> In the best places

With all due respect, that's a pretty bullshit metric. Most of the world's population does not live where solar works best, so you'll get only fractional output and much higher price to performance.
Guns are the only mechanism to enforce laws affecting sovereigns. Actually, to a first approximation, force and power underlie all laws, not just international ones. Ultima ratio regum. The final authority is physical or economic compulsion.
Reading between the lines on the discord one, it seems self inflicted. Seems they restarted a service which caused an outage of one feature to extend to a general API outage.
> I still can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life.

The Lenovo X13s reportedly offers even more battery life at around 70% the multicore performance(based on demo device score) and is fanless as well.

Still doesn't beat the M1, but comparing the TDPs of M1 and Qualcomm's 8cx gen 3 in the X13s, it appears that it's TSMC's 5nm node that's doing all the magic.

Personally I'm happy that we're getting proper fanless laptops now - I hate moving parts in mobile devices, because they tend to fail first.
As opposed to the crypto pipe you've been smoking.
Was that the one that happened after Gates had machine problems with his keynote days before? I've suspected Jobs somehow had the "problem" added to his keynote just so he could tweak Gates by saying, "That's why we have backup systems here."

1:37 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnVUvW42CUA
Many artists use it as a platform to show their art. I'm betting it's more popular than DeviantArt for this purpose, for example.
An iPad without touch?
If you don't actually have moral values then you're merely acting according to various pressures.

I don't think this decision is good (not selling to Russians) but we can imagine much worse decisions that follow from companies yielding to, say, social pressure.
You can't fire me, I quit!
Aren't independents people who haven't declared any party affiliations? They are usually in the middle, but could have extreme Democrat or Republican views.
I hope they get laughed out of court.
Let us not forget that mood stabilizers are notorious for making you put on and retain weight. (Mine makes my body use its muscles for energy before it taps into my fat - hooray!) But honestly, lots of people with mood disorders - like mine, which prior to medication inspired me to periodically drop out of school and quit lucrative jobs - do that math every day. In the grand scheme of things, there are worse ways to be than overweight.
here. international laws are enforced by the actions of other governments.
Join now and we'll send you five missiles we think you'll like every month, but you have to ship them back within 30 days or we'll bill you for them. Sign up a neighboring country and get 10 free missiles!!
It just strikes me as weird. Nobody is going to be impressed by your power stance in some off-brand vans and jeans.
Statement from Poland on providing airplanes to Ukraine
It has the aesthetics of a Nissan qube to me.
So the 27 inch iMac is dead?
Not that many people I know use Twitter at all, the place seems overly toxic and whenever I see a thread or tweet it's usually terrible stuff with terrible comments attached to it.
M1 Ultra is incredible.

Just watch intel come out with a 500 watt CPU and then say "see, we beat the M1 Ultra"
Examples where most people are worse off are easy to think of. I gave an example where everybody is worse off because it is an interesting scenario. I made no claim about how often that situation occurs. There is no reason for overall progress to grind to a halt — the Nash equilibria for a game can be arbitrarily bad. There is only the obvious conclusion that governments should get involved to fix these problems when they occur, including regulating lead use, given that we see plenty of governments that have not and have suffered the consequences.
History doesn't repeat itself perfectly. For Putin to say that Ukraine doesn't exist and ukrainians are actually Russians is as bad or worse than Hitler standing. Putin denies the right of an ethnicity to exist.
I think the key is "unilaterally confiscate". In the real world I'm sure a court would rule in either a criminal or civil suit that the bank is entitled to money from the bank robber as restitution. In which case, the judge would probably allow the funds in that account to be confiscated.
That's not true at all, and I think you're being disingenuous. RT in English used to be an easily accessible channel that provided another point of view for many mainstream, internationally relevant events - and now it is gone, completely.

Extraordinary how blood lust and war hysteria led us to drop our facade as a free, open and honest society so quickly.
The ratios discussed here are basically in line with the theory of the disposable male. As in 70% of females procreate, but only 30% of males.

Those are biological ratios observed across species.

High value males can deliver sperm to multiple (as in hundreds/thousands) females. That is the economics of mammalian sperm and eggs, the scale of production is different by four to six orders of magnitude.
3999 not bad
Indeed! It is one of those things that is difficult to measure, but we know the strategy has some effect, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Yea, "Friday Night Baseball" means further fragmentation of where the games appear. I get that the leagues are paid by each of the companies broadcasting, but at some point they are making it more difficult for people to become fans for the future.

College sports are even worse a lot of times. You have them on ESPN, the networks for some games, then a conference channel, then possibly a separate conference streaming service. I just don't subscribe to any of those now, while I could afford to subscribe to all of them. I'm just done with these shenanigans.
Turns out it's half that...$3999 for the Ultra.
Baseball is just not an entertaining sport to watch.
It is little appreciated how child sexual abuse can affect the victim and the people who are close to the victim for the rest of their lives.
This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever.

I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring) once, and I thought "I make $XYZ per year, twitter pays me nothing, this joke tweet caused me a lot of stress, the odds that being on twitter will get me cancelled will cost me $XYZ are non-zero and I don't control them"

Then I deleted all my tweets and my twitter account (8 years ago) and life has been really nice without it!
What has never made sense to me is that the IQ effects aren't equally visible across income/class groups, but we know there are millions of wealthy people living in old housing in Boston and NYC and Providence and so on. Lead levels in those houses must be just as high, right? But those kids aren't experiencing the same IQ effects. Surely this suggests that something else is a bigger factor?
Clearly someone thinks so. They convinced the UK Conservative party to do it a few years back.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=conservative+power+pose&t=ffab&iax...

I don't think I've seen a single person who doesn't think it looks ridiculous.
I'm not sure how to compare the 128GB "unified" RAM with the 80GB dedicated video RAM on a A100.

I suppose it might even be an advantage to unify RAM, so you don't have to copy back and forth between the CPU and GPU?
It's not shaming, it's informing. The censorship is heavy in Russia.
i would think the amd64 -> arm conversion would take a lot of oomph out of the mac studio in that setup
I tend to agree. But where is the declaration of war by Western governments?

Anyone who does something we don't like is a pretty large set of governments.
Russia has a habit of pushing people out of windows who disagree with them. They have poisoned opposition leaders on foreign soil. They used chemical weapons in Syria. And they sent a few hundred mercenaries to attack a military base knowing full well it was held by US soldiers. Also they just passed a law to punish anti war protesters with 15 years in jail.

The West is by no means perfect. But Russia has been abusing the goodwill of the West for decades with little push back. They finally crossed a line that the West collectively agreed was too far. I personally think we should have put these sanctions on them in 2014, and maybe we could have avoided this war.
I think part of the problem is there are 162 games in a regular season. It's way too much. Hell, I like baseball, but rarely watch a regular season game unless it has big implications for the playoffs, and usually only read recaps or watch the highlights, because who has time for watching that many games really?
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Face ID is a step back in usability for most cases, since you have to be looking at your phone to unlock it. Doesn’t work if you’re in the car and need to unlock for CarPlay, doesn’t work if someone else needs to change music, doesn’t work if the phone’s in your pocket and you want Siri to continue telling you privileged info. They just solved masks (in beta), but that still doesn’t work for Apple Pay or app authentication. The amount of times I’ve had to pull over to punch in my alphanumeric passcode so the passenger can get to Google Maps makes me want to throw the phone in the creek.

I think they’ll make some triumphant return to Touch ID in the power button at some point, because they don’t really seem to feel like making Face ID better right now either. I’m not sure what the big draw is, as in the best case it’s as usable as Touch ID was.
The younger generation may not be familiar with the name Thomas Friedman (NYT) as his popularity seemed to peak decades ago but he had this "McDonald's theory of no war" that people quoted:

>In Friedman’s hands, the sophisticated flavors of Cobden and Smith were homogenized into a quick-serve dish, which he called the “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.” His thesis, originally expounded in a 1996 column, proposed to explain the decline in war as a result of the expansion of global capitalism: “No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” -- from : https://archive.ph/lNwNQ

Moscow Russia has McDonald's. Kyiv Ukraine also has McDonald's. Well, here we are.
Similar quote by Mark Twain

> It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
So the so called 'decentralized' web3 land town square is down again.
Many people whose articles and projects get regularly posted here only have Twitter listed as the means of contact on their personal webpages. Wish they offered another contact as well.
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