skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm aware. Here we are discussing the absurd parallels that some people are attempting to draw with North America, and a hypothetical Canada that has turned to China. As a Ukrainian Canadian, I am fully aware of the absurdity of this scenario and of the fact that Ukrainians are being denied their right to exist.
Arista EDU has always been my cheap go-to, although it's increased in price a little recently: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/190244-Arista-EDU-Ultra-400-I....

(I believe Arista EDU is rebranded Fomapan?)
>It’s much closer to cartel conduct, and a flagrant antitrust/competition law violation.

>While the “number of small labourers team up against large employer” narrative sounds superficially like the actions of a labour union, what this appears to be is actually a number of small businesses forming a cartel to influence the prices for their goods. Probably blatantly illegal in much of the developed world.

Aren't labor unions (especially closed shop ones) basically a cartel for labor?
“Capital strike” tends to be used in situations where this kind of behaviour is spurred by an unfavourable government policy, and enacted by firms that have some form of market power (or political power).

These are small businesses with no market power agreeing to collectively price squeeze another player in an upstream/downstream market. Textbook cartel behaviour.

Edit: typo
You can directly inspect the Bitcoin blockchain. The genesis block pointedly includes the headline it does to demonstrate it could not have been created before 3 Jan 2009.

After that date the blocks Satoshi produced, as a requirement to process and validate transactions to bootstrap the network were simply mined not pre-mined, in a manner open to all.

They could indeed transact in the future. Although I suspect at this juncture should that ever occur it would be to make a political statement since I find people of that intellectual bent tend to be poorly motivated by base material wants. Anyhow, that's pointless gossipy speculation.
I used to lead policy on digital school education for an important organization advising governments on education policy. This was my driving concern: to fight against all the old grumpy people that don't understand and absolutely fear the digital world and think that all would be well if we ban 0s and 1s from school and force kids to go into the woods (not at all exaggerating on the latter part). There were also others that think all problems are solved when you just get everyone to learn coding, which is a starting point but nearly equally wrong and naive as you need societal context and other understanding to make sense of the digital.

It is a basic but at system level not obvious insight that you cannot ignore reality in how you educate your or anyone else's children. It is easy to be careful and conservative but for education to be useful you have to teach them about difficult topics early and thoroughly and both the substance and the methodology have to actually fit the reality these children can and do encounter every day and WILL eventually encounter once they leave the protected environment of school and parents.

You simply cannot teach a child to be a mature, employable, self-confident, independent, informed and sensible adult without the tools of the normal world. By all means, keep them away from tech completely and there are exactly two scenarios: 1) they sneak their way into getting access 2) they fall into an adult life they are not prepared for and will suffer for it.

You, as a parent or educator, mist face reality and discomfort yourself and engage with the world your children encounter. Teach them understanding and insight, not shame or fear.
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The US Navy is talking about synthesizing aircraft fuel with nuclear power and direct carbon capture on aircraft carriers.

An aircraft carrier has to slow down to take on fuel which reduces combat effectiveness (at full speed it can go a few miles while a ballistic missile in flight so it is hard to hit) they are probably paying upwards of $10/gal for fuel as it is. If synthetic fuel means they can operate independently of supplies for longer that's significant.

The Army wants to synthesize fuels too because they are paying more like $50/gal to deliver fuel to forts in places like Afghanistan. They are considering crazy ideas like molten salt reactors, O'Neill style space solar power, etc. It's a matter though of trading a vulnerable and expensive supply chain (Ukraine didn't bother trying to stop the tanks charging towards Kyiv because the fuel trucks supplying them were a soft target) for some expensive (maybe dangerous) hardware that the enemy can blow up.
I literally don't understand what you're trying to say, which is why I asked the question.
To me there is a big difference between joking about the price being $420 and the "funding secured" tweet.
Forensics reports would be nice indeed, but even Google doesn't send them to the RUF address. Never got one report in 4 years of DMARC. Only RUA. Maybe one day..
Good stuff. Previous drug that shows both anti-inflammatory and anti-viral activity AND it’s orally available. Hopefully, it’s easy to manufacture and distribute.
You might appreciate Dimitri Martin parodying Sagan, if you haven't seen it already. https://youtu.be/fYo-OdQ-5ic
Very cool!

At what level of scale might one expect to need what's going on in the "Edge Cluster", as opposed letting all the requests fly right into the app servers?
Laughing gas is nitrous oxide (N2O). I'm talking about normal atmospheric Nitrogen (N2). Nitrogen is available anywhere and significantly cheaper than Helium. Nitrogen can be used for welding or for brewing certain types of beer.
We hired an engineer from a pull request
This is about as good faith of an argument as using Cannibal Corpse as an example to prove a point that all rock music (including Queen/Pink Floyd/etc) is immoral and univerally bad. Hey, Cannibal Corpse is quite popular and known too.

Something tells me that the type of hip-hop songs you've mentioned aren't the ones being included in the library of congress.
“Irregardless” is a word. You just used it, so do millions of others, and when they use it I know exactly how to understand it.
Russia had no issue deploying such weaponry on NATO's doorstep (Kaliningrad teaming with weaponry, including short-range ballistic missiles that Russia claimed to no longer hold, long-range AA missiles, constantly flying bombers into NATO airspace, etc.).

So for the analogy of Canada-China alliance, you'd need, hmm, East China Sea to be already teaming with US or NATO weaponry. Not just an aircraft carrier here and there, but sizeable army ready to attack. (clearly doesn't work so very well with a maritime border, but that's where China's fragile bits are. US troops in Kyrgyzstan clearly stir far less emotions. Indeed Americans were in Afghanistan which borders China and they didn't seem to mind).
In a benign example of the YouTube algorithm's radicalizing influence, in a little over two years, I went from watching videos about developing film at home to following some large format photographers' channels and purchasing a large format film camera. There actually isn't that much difference to digital if you're primarily concerned with the end result, but the experience of taking the photos couldn't be more unalike. One example: Yesterday I went on a hike and I carried only four sheets of film with me, meaning I was limited to taking four photos total during the whole day. There's something very freeing about that. Perhaps it's not feeling pressure to come home with a memory card full of images that I then need to cull through. In the end, I only took one and I won't know how it turned out until I develop it next weekend.
I agree completely about theater, but one note: I know a couple of people who have worked in airports (in food service), and all had to go through both a background check and normal security each day. I don’t believe for one moment that those measures are particularly effective, but airport service workers aren’t held to a different standard.
I use an Onyx Boox Nova 2 for epub books and web browsing which it's great for as a fully featured Android tablet, but it's not that great for A4-sized content with its 8" screen. However the same company also has the Boox Note line, which has a 10" screen. They also have the (expensive) Max line with 13".

I'm not aware of any other (remotely popular) device line good for web browsing/Android apps. The company is Chinese and a little weird, but you can easily root the devices and disable all the phoning-home.
It wasn't very sporting of him to punk you with sarcasm on the internet, where it is notoriously hard to suss out. But I think you made it easy for him by not giving him the benefit of the doubt.
You can "home in on" a target, or "hone" a concept. "Hone in" is not recommended usage.
See reply to willipriano. Browser Chrome.

As I said, I'll try my PC and get back. At this point, all I can say is that everything else I've looked at on HN in the last several is perfect.

...Thinking, if OK with you this could be a typeface (font substitution) problem. If so, it ought to show up on the PC as the typefaces are mostly different.
>The largest American company is completely dependent on China

uh. that's is not correct. if you watch any Apple tear down. there are a lot of components that's not made in China for example the chip are made by TSMC, screen is made by Samsung...etc.
Who is always pushing and agreeing to reduce emissions? China and Russia. Who every year increases energy output (particularly non-green energy)?

China and Russia.

The west is now paying China and Russia to produce green technology. Which requires mass destruction and mining.

At some point it would be nice to truly assess the situation...

As someone who makes money from harvesting plants, I hope for higher carbon and a warmer climate. It means more, larger harvests. Cheaper food for all.
How is replacing wood with coal going to result in a decrease in emissions? That doesn’t make any sense.. wood/biomass is at least sort of renewable.
Something I was wondering is if faking results is so common, then surely these things they are researching must never be used in any application right? If they were, it would quickly be found that it does not actually work...
A union is explicitly a labour cartel. But we as a society decided that giving workers more money and better conditions is good, and that they should be allowed to collectively bargain for them.

At the same time we for the most part decided that businesses best serve society when in the absence of market power, hence competition law enabling unions and outlawing cartels.
There’s an iOS app which simulates it. Playing with the Antikythera mechanism on an iPhone certainly spans some history…
Raytheon and Lockheed should gift Putin some champagne ;)
I live in Finland and have not seen any headlines making this claim this definitively in local news outlets. But on Reddit I've seen article after article from foreign sources stating that Finnish NATO membership is imminent.

Edit: There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about what I am saying. The headline (as of this writing: "Finland and Sweden set to join Nato as soon as summer") is not true. Lots of people wish it were true. It may even become true in the future. But as of today, it is not true, and I take issue with that.
Supply chains are not 100% transparent.

We know how bad one unit of "cigarette" is for our health, but we don't know how bad one unit of xxx is for the environment. An apple can have a co2 footprint of multiple tons of co2 or zero tons of co2. We can't know for sure.
In npm you often need to run arbitrary code as part of installation, making the attack surface far greater.

This really is the key. It makes it so you can't even really compare JS to java in an intellectually honest way. It's just not even close to the same. One downloads a Jar that will only ever execute at runtime, whereas node downloads arbitrary code that will execute on your machine immediately if the attacker so chooses. Not only that, but a user may legitimately not even know that node downloaded that module. The dependency tree is so ridiculous that the user would have to look through it with a fine toothed comb to spot the unimaginably big security hole.

On the one hand, yes, the user should have looked through his/her dependency tree, familiarized themselves with what was in those dependencies code-wise, and known what he/she was doing. On the other, come on man. That's kind of like these 100 page EULA's that take away all your rights. I'm not sure that it's reasonable to expect everyone to read those as carefully as you'd need to read them to avoid the problem?
I've been using Linux since I was 10 (so almost 20 years now) and there still isn't a distro that I can say I like (although Alpine is closest.) If you want to be picky then learn to do it from scratch, otherwise find a distro with a good group of people behind it and stick with it.
A good visual introduction to neural networks can be found here: https://playground.tensorflow.org

A parameter is a "weight" in this case (the lines drawn from neuron to neuron). The neurons are effectively runtime values or "activations." Parameters (weights) are updated during training and then set as constant during "inference" (also called "prediction").

There's unfortunately a ton of jargon and different groups use different words almost exclusively.
Men grow up in a different environment from women so I can't say (don't know) how much of the behavior difference is biological rather than learned.

My hunch though is that a lot of it is going to reverse.
Well, we had this happen in the 1960s with the Cuban missile crisis. No need for a thought experiment.

But more broadly: We have excellent relations with Canada. If we step back, what would we be doing to Canada that would make them think "Holy crap, we need to join a defensive alliance with China to prevent a possible US attack!"?

Is the US entitled to treat its neighbors so poorly they seek defensive alliances elsewhere?
The Apple PR machines at work again. "Tries to reduce reliance on its Chinese supply chain." Wait until you see BOE OLED on your iPhone and YTMC NAND for storage.

Appel started work on this a long time ago to avoid import tax and some other tax benefits. This along with many other Chinese brands assemble their phone in India to try and compete in the 2nd ( or largest ) market by population.

But credit's where credits are due their virtue signalling are working extremely well.
>I want us to stay true to what we've been doing for the last 200 years, staying neutral and peaceful. If we chose a side we're in the same boat as everyone else.

Good to know we can count on you Sweden if we get invaded by Russia. Glad that you also stayed neutral and peaceful during WWII. Not really sure how you managed that, seems really hard.

- Finland
> To be blunt: if the algo kills, why wouldn't you ground the algo (all instances of it)?

It depends what the alternative is. If it crashes less than humans, then you keep running it despite the flaws.
Weightless cats – Do space cats land on their feet? (2011) [video]
>Is it even possible?

Of course it is possible. It would take some time and money, but if Apple wanted to do it they could. There are plenty of places that could use good jobs and have manufacturing experience like the Appalachia region.
Jira: Software Status
Mechanical computers are really cool. Veritasium just did a 2 part video on them. The second goes over some ML applications for the future. You can make a really tiny and energy efficient mechanical chip to do some cool things.
This is such a fun narrative hook. It immediately draws parallels to Asimov's Foundation, but has Greco-steampunk vibes.

I might have to steal your idea.
You're both right and wrong, I could devote a lot of text explaining why it's technically incorrect, but would that make it better?
I think Google is punishing IOS user .....
China ends gaming approval freeze, grants first licenses since July last year
Apple currently does not have much market share in India, but with a population of 1.38 billion people I'm sure they'd like to. They've been making iPhone SEs in India for a while now.

This report [1] says they ended calendar year 2020 with 2.4% market share and increased it to 4.4% in 2021.

[1] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/exclusiv...
> Until China can produce its own fab equipment

Nobody in this world could make such sophisticated equipment alone.

Unfortunately this is truth, which is not studied in typical University.

Even more - in Russia Universities teach people, some sort of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche

And their government constantly spend huge resources for propaganda, to keep people minds in this perverted world.

So Russians believe on some esoteric things. For example they believe, that Russia grows, when isolates from world (this is not true).

This is totally typical way of totalitarian societies - they create their own closed mythology and once isolate from truth so much, so they do weird things, and then fatal things, like Russian invasion to Ukraine, which for my believe have started countdown for disintegration of Russia.

I'm not too much philanthropist, I just know too much about Israel, which suffer from constant visits of terrorists from the poorest countries around it.

I prefer to have something like North Korea - mostly harmless country-museum.
With you there buddy. Moved into a place at short notice because I was desperate and squeezed, only to find it is next to the plumbing for the whole building’s heating system. 24/7 noise of radiator pipes and boiler running filling the apartment. And I have the same equation: fuck this shit, not worth it, they can keep my deposit
Work time and market integration in the original affluent society (2019) [pdf]
For ip sake I would do work and only work stuff in the corporate asset and totally non work stuff on you own. This includes web browsing and email. Overly cautious, yeah, but keeping things separate strikes me as a good thing and putting the heavy wear on “their” property also seems useful.
> let them dumb down a language

If you've not seen it, I highly encourage this 6 minute take by Stephen Fry on Language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

And besides, while you may be honing a blade or skill, my Homing Pigeon is homing in on home.
I do not get this. Why you need to create unreal analogies just to state some point?

Especially now, when non-NATO neighbour of Russia was attacked by Russia?

What if USA invaded Mexico and Canada became close allies with China? I do not know this is hardly going to happen like ever.

Between my country and Russia is one country: Ukraine. If Ukraine was in NATO there would be peace today. I'm so glad that my country is in NATO. And what you are trying to say seems to me like you do not consider us as sovereign nation.

Side note: it is not "whatabboutism" more appropriate term is "Putinversteher"
I think there remains an immense amount of such suboptimality still hanging from the tree, so to speak.

For example, our recent paper "Tensor Programs V: Tuning Large Neural Networks via Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer"[1] shows that even learning rate and initialization used by existing models are deeply wrong. By just picking them correctly (which involves some really beautiful mathematics), we can effectively double the model size of the GPT-3 6.7B model (to be comparable in quality to the 13B model across the suite of benchmark tasks).

Large neural networks behave in a way we are only beginning to understand well just because each empirical probe of any such model is so much more expensive and time consuming than typical models. But principled theory here can have a lot of leverage by pointing out the right direction to look, as it did in our work.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466
Even if it's more cost effective to own the host machines (whether it be bare metal or VM), I'd guess you still save yourself considerable management headaches if you continue to put containers on them. There is still some stuff to manage with something like puppet and ansible, but I think if most of your configuration is in containers, it gets a lot simpler and these tools become less critical/complicated.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive, first of all, and second of all, you are not the arbiter of the language either.
What does that say about CFEngine?

That’s an honest question for all. Is it considered a good or bad thing?
Lol.

Drunk drivers are killers. People that text and drive are killers. People that get kicked by their kid and turn around for a second to yell at them are killers.

I'll take an unfatigable, indistractable, computer that literally has eyes in the back of its head, and on the side of its head, and the front, and can bounce radar under cars, etc over the pitiful example of a "safe (human) driver" we have now.
Think of it like procrastination. Why do you do it? Because you either have little motivation or little clarity on how to do it. The idea is one of "Wu Wei"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/wu-wei-doing-nothing

I believe this applies more to parents than children in the sense that the more you allow things to just be, the more likely they will just get done. The Tao of Pooh is a short read that covers this concept a bit more.
Call me a misguided optimist, but I think it’s premature to say that “we don’t have a choice” until we’ve exhausted all of our options.

Most Americans don’t even know the names of their representatives. Improving the public’s ability to petition its officials is something we should try before completely giving up.
The Streisand effect only works if you don't have the media in your pocket. The media was happy to carry water on the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the election, I suspect most people don't know about the diary and the FBI's response to it. They just won't cover it like they haven't covered a lot of things in the past few years.

I'm sure some exec at HBO makes the final call on what they actually publish, if Oliver has actually anything the most it probably results in is that exec being owed some favors down the line.
Paper mentioned in tweet thread: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1906196116
The purpose of NATO is to prevent a Russian conquest of Europe. Full stop.
In terms of lack of launch on demand side. One thing that would solve this almost immediately is to re-purpose money from legacy science / launch efforts.

For example, take 4B/year from SLS. You could fund just an incredible amount of activity with that.
You forgot to add unwillingly, but otherwise correct