skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only spent about 20 minutes looking this up. Western nations overthrew Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Less than two years after they're mostly done in Libya, they roll those forces over to Mali and get Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in as acting president. NATO/UN forces had a hand in both situations. Western nations were just rolling our already funded and armed forces through the region to set things back up for proper resource and money extraction. This is all on wikipedia.

When I say "our" forces I mean any people who are holding weapons provided by us, eating food provided by us and working towards goals that are set by us. How all of that is funneled to them I have no idea.

Now that the west instated former leader of Mali was ousted France wanted to re-de-stabilize again it seems. It might or might not be worth it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/8/mali-accuses-france...

I should have stated it more as an opinion rather than fact but I stand by it. It's hard to believe that the US has so much intelligence yet we're unable to predict the guys we're training are going to attempt to take over the country. It's also not hard to understand that if we're committing billions of dollars to a war effort there isn't someone or a group of someone who have a hugely vested interest in either keeping the status quo for existing streams of income or removing some impediment in a potential stream of income. Those streams mostly don't go to the governments themselves, rather they go to companies headed by well connected individuals who somehow are able to drive policy and decisions either directly or indirectly.

On the flip side of this, you might have competing interests from other nations as well so it may not be as clear cut. It's no longer border expansion, annexation and "this country" vs "that country". Instead now we have nameless rebels or terrorists (depending on who's side their on) who then sign deals and feed money and resources to their "sponsor countries", or get loans for construction, or some other financial games that are far more opaque.

I have no more specific information, this is all broad strokes based on what I've seen and read. Maybe I'm wrong.
That first picture of a kitten in a maze reminded me of my A-level (final year pre-university, for non-UK people) Bio project on animal learning. I used gerbils (too scared to use rats) but I can assure people that whatever the animal, the trick is working how to keep the little bastards in the maze, not how to train them.
This is neither and ridiculous, and sinking into ad hominem attacks. So good luck to you, as I said the debate has been poisoned (also note that I have never expressed my opinion on those issues in this thread)
In the long run, it would benefit them if they align with western values. How many Indian IT specialists are working for Russian companies? There is a new cold war brewing and India will need to choose a side.
I'm sorry I used the word 'fractional'. It's a bit of a red herring here.

The making of loans does not require a reserve of any sort theoretically. It just requires trust in the institution loaning more of these imaginary dollars/points/beanie babies on a spreadsheet or in a database somewhere. It's just a promise. It was traditionally handled through a backing of some fractional reserve and is still guaranteed in a lot of places by a promise of holding so much reserve of the currency. The reserve fraction varies.

I believe retail banks are more bound by risk and regulatory requirements than by their reserve in making loans.

Modern monetary theory is scares the hell out of me. It seems to give way too much power to too few people. I like instead the idea of encouraging banks to loan to certain industries specifically. This has worked for all these 'miracle' economies like Japan/Korea/China.
The invasions are the worse crimes, not necessarily specific acts that happened within them.

As garbage as "they're next to us and have some shared history" is for a reason to try to conquer someone, it's still a hundred times better than invading a country on the other side of the planet, turning it in to a war zone for a decade/decades, then leaving when you got bored is.
Why does language matter to you? Is it a tool to entrenching your identity and present the world as a battleground between your groups? Or does language serve you as an individual to have dialog and develop? If you choose resentment then don't pull others along with you. What meaning does language have?
But I thought competition is good and leads to a better outcome for customers?
I mean it in the education and learning sense, that for knowledge to be understood it must be tailored to the person asking the question. Answering a question about physics ideally should look different for someone with a high school education vs someone who's in the field, or from someone who only has passing interest vs one that expresses interest through continued engagement. All info is filtered in some fashion, else a simple query would lead to an impossibly dense tome ('baking an apple pie from scratch').

As an edtech person that started a news company to try to solve this, one of my pet peeves about news is that it doesn't adopt an education mindset / approach despite it's mission being an educational one at its core. Part of that is due to search being what drives traffic, and that means there's a lack of relationship to the reader. But the root is internal as news and journalism is still too stuck in newspaper-mind of bespoke, reverse pyramid one-off articles that act as islands of information, delivered to an audience they have no ongoing relationship with and who have no means of getting follow-up. It's a cultural holdover that's bound up in relationship to it's old medium, not what optimally teaches.

Generated results need not be in the form of articles, that's one of the constraints that ML lifts. You could give people some generated text but also give people drill-down tools, letting people expand on a simple summary, or read in dialectic or debate style in areas where facts are not settled or multiple viewpoints exist. Just gotta expand your POV a bit and ML generated results represent an opportunity for incredible leverage educating the world.

Anyway if someone in ML at OpenAI/Google/etc wants to get deeper into this, please reach out!
7$/user/month is pretty reasonable IMHO. Of course only for companies with 500 users. But even if you buy the 500 seat package for 100 users it's just 35$/user/month, compared to normal engineering salaries this is absolutely negligible.
>Nobody in the west organized Euromaidan and it was not a coup.

The specific details are usually hazy and rarely clear-cut, but there is well documented history of the US involving themselves in all sorts of "coups" and "revolutions". And that involvement doesn't imply that these actions aren't supported in one way or another by segments of the population in the country where they are performed. If there are benefits to the US, they're in there contributing.
I mean, communism was one of the leading causes of hunger in the 20th century.
Standard practice is to have two if one breaks or is lost.
What competition? If India and China align, we'll be dependent upon their currency.
My cat, Felix, brought his iPad pro from the other room, logged into HN (because Felix doesn't trust persistent logins), read the article to me, then discussed the implications before demanding I open the door for him, because he is a cat and doesn't want to open the door himself.
The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War [audio]
The real question isn’t how intelligent cats are but whether we’re smart enough to really tell. https://wwnorton.com/books/Are-We-Smart-Enough-to-Know-How-S...
Interesting. Why Swedish in particular?
Why don't you try Notion.

Seriously, it feels so much better IMHO, with atomic rollback and you can export your data out in a non-proprietary format (MD, HTML, PDF) if it comes to difficult choices someday.
Do electric heaters magically appear? You do know that stores don't stock enough electric heaters for an entire country to go out and buy them, right? An economic and manufacturing powerhouse like the US couldn't even deal with people buying extra toilet paper. What would happen if everyone in the EU all at once tried to buy electric heaters?
I remembered finding some mails originating from my laptop in my gmail spam folder around the time I switched to mac from linux around 2012. I was tinkering with an instance of wordpress in that laptop and turns out sendmail in OSX was capable of sending out email to gmail out of the box without any configuration from my part (I don't remember configuring sendmail in that machine). The wordpress instance was simply used php's sendmail support and happily blasting emails without my knowledge (thankfully only to my own's address). I wonder if recent version of mac still ships with sendmail.
Einops looks nice! It reminds me of https://github.com/deepmind/einshape which is another attempt at unifying reshape, squeeze, expand_dims, transpose, tile, flatten, etc under an einsum-inspired DSL.
note that this boot loader is in ROM, so it can't be patched or replaced
Furthemore: Did you think about what this means for people with e.g. serious cognitive disability?
Your statement argues for prohibiting them from participating in public discourse wholesale.
This was helpful. Thanks so much! :)
You would tell the Russians to continue the genocide?
Humanitarian aid is the source of many of Africa's wows, as local food producers find it hard to compete with free...
Never thought of using particular tools to help with this. Thanks for sharing! I'll be looking into these :)
Ew, no not every page.
Can we UN-DELETE a lost Pokémon – 15 years after its death?
Nice summary. I skimmed the entire article, and it appears to be mainly about explaining why the traditional consensus that cats are less intelligent than dogs would be biased.

"Because we judge intelligence by comparing other creatures to ourselves, many popular accounts of cat behaviour describe learning as though cats are mentally defective humans rather than highly specialised carnivores."
Good advice! I almost forgot outdoor exists lol. Thanks!!
Agree. It's difficult to guess the definition of "exist" while reading it. The phrase

> ...accepting the existence of the reals means that there are numbers that exist but can never be described ...we can never interact with these numbers even conceptually

is also full of vagueness: what is "be described"/"interact"?
Very useful insight / analogy. Thanks for sharing
The fight to keep the internet free and open for everyone (2019)
After losing a vote of no confidence, which looks like democracy working TBH...
Thanks for this. Still good to get some direct feedback with others who've experienced similar things. Thank you :)
Yep, getting a bunch of 404 for the pictures here
Considering I don't know my passwords, nor can I generate TOTP codes off the top of my head, both are "things I have" for me (a password manager + TOTP manager). And because of this, I prefer to keep the two things separate. That way you need to compromise two services rather than just one.

Realistically though, once an attacker's gained access to your computer or phone, there's very little you can do to prevent them misusing that data. You can keep your TOTP on a second device encrypted with a Yubikey that you keep in a vault in Geneva, but it's not overly useful when an attacker can simply call your bank and read out the security reset SMS they sent you/him.

I'm happy to hear from security power users if there's anything I'm missing.
Are you aware where we are right now?
Ahh, 1337 A.D. What a year!
Feels like both the comments in here are paid for by Notion somehow.
Yes, if what you already have is a car-dependent society and a generally unwelcoming city center, people will do exactly that.

And there will be even more accidents, pollution, traffic jams, stress, further loss of green space and social contact. And together this will cost the society more than making the original city center walkable and convenient to do business in.

> There is no reason to go into the city anymore, people can do all daily shopping and errands at the mall.

Consider this: There is no reason to build a mall anymore, people can do all daily shopping and errands in the CITY.

It's funny how the alternative for having an actual, functional city center is letting it die (or not building it in the first place) and then building an alternative city center called "the mall" where people can socialize, walk around without the fear of being crushed by a 2-ton SUV, window-shop, have a lunch or watch a movie.
I tried getting into Notion a while ago (~ 6 months) and ultimately stopped using it, due to general UI responsiveness issues and their lack of a full offline mode.

Really liked the product, though. I think they're working on offline support so i'm planning to check it out again when that is added.

Edit: looked into this a bit more and they promised offline support "soon" as far back as 2018 so maybe it'd be a good idea not to be too enthusiastic about this...
I wish it had pointed out cats also have fast twitch muscles. Their actions are constrained by this. They thus aren’t going to rush through a maze on a whim or for the chance at a treat.
Is that called whataboutism.

If US did something wrong how does it relate to Russia or China doing similar wrong things?

Stop them whatever means necessary.
> The categories with the highest return rates were similar to 2020 metrics: auto parts (19.4 percent), apparel (12.2 percent) and home improvement and housewares (tied at 11.5 percent).

What percentage of sales would have to be auto parts to bring the average to 16.6%? I think something is stated incorrectly here.
a bit of a name conflict with https://zim-wiki.org/ :/
Notion has a strangely huge and fanatic fan base so it's not surprising

It's like a cult
I didn't imply anything about you, I just reminded you that it is the author's wish that we don't dig that up. I see no reason to not respect that request
What gives you that Notion?
> I used to work at a startup that aggregated apartment listings. Long gone now, we couldn't compete with Zillow or Apartments.com. But what we were doing is just aggregating all of the rental websites we could possibly scrape into one interface.

[...]

> We couldn't have the most up to date data, that was determined by how fast we could go back to scrape a listing. And often times we were knee deep in a battle to avoid being blocked by these companies. Often times, after we had exhausted our proxies, the only thing left to use was Tor.

The flip side is if you are looking at listing from small property management companies, they are probably low on resources. The websites aren't very well optimized to serve thousands of concurrent users. Every request to search inventory hits SQL Server which is probably one small box with no automatic failover. I don't like it but unless we somehow help these people better optimize their website (how?),they will continue using heavy handed tactics like blocking scrapers.
I'm left-handed, so I would always take over the left side with WASD for movement - looking back my friends very kind that they let me reconfigure the controls each time.
My personal pet theory is that cats are the only animals ever to domesticate humans.
Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited users
Thanks! Which file are you refering to?
I have multiple, both for that scenario and for different computers. I also have a USB stick with the root key for issuing new keys if all my hardware keys break.
I don't get the point of this. As the article points out, it would be perfectly legal for Shell to sell refined oil products of 100% Russian origin. Why do they go to the length of blending it to 49.99% Russian origin and expect to get away with calling this "Latvian", in a day and age where far more clandestine operations become public knowledge in practically no time with p>0.99 (remember, Russian troop movements prior to the war were reported practically in real time with satellite imagery, something Putin surely didn't appreciate)?
The US hasn't figured out that cancel culture on twitter doesn't scale up to nation-states very well. 'Go build your own twitter' is now becoming 'Go build your own international banking interchange' to powers who are very excited to have that exact opportunity.
What are you trying to say here? Please have a look into the RP2040 data sheet to understand what "boot ROM" means. It is not programmable!

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...

"A 16kB read-only memory (ROM) is at address 0x00000000. The ROM contents are fixed at the time the silicon is manufactured."
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I think that makes sense and it also shows that an algorithm can in practice reliably find market inefficiencies and solve them in some scenarios. In those cases a free market can exist but the robot will always beat it and eventually discourage all other market participants from participating, essentially creating a sort of communist economic system for that particular market.
Great article, other comments have already covered my main thoughts

But those sound boards that let pets communicate with words and concatenate have been okay at helping me move past our tests of intelligence. We cant even communicate with other humans that cant dont talk back or use fingers.

I’m also less convinced that human behaviors are not just reward seeking patterns chained together, so I cant dismiss a pet’s use of a sound board as just trained behavior for a treat - at least as a reason to dismiss their intelligence or weigh that action any way at all

I would say its evidence of understanding and that the animal is aware that they cannot use their vocal cords to respond to us and just give up trying that
Because users want it. Quite simple.

What users want > What is good practice.
I am an independent developer based currently in Japan. I work in business intelligence with a gratis role in a national environmental conservation organization. I have no affiliation to Notion. I have used their product for last two years and generally enjoy the productivity boost. I used to be a premium Evernote customer a few years ago.

Hope that clears the matter with you. Please understand that regular HN contributors do not generally engage being paid shill or voting ring members. Some of us happily choose the dignity here over the chaos in paid social media.
I agree. At least some faster-cpython work is going on, does anyone know if there are aggregate updates on that, like performance progress reports?
This is just a typical conspiracy theory to explain the mess that is reality. It borrows aspects of the real world:
1. Predatory resource extraction from poorer countries,
2. Cases where western militaries / intelligence agencies have helped overthrow democratically elected governments,
Etc

But! Then it fuses these pieces and makes it seem like they are part of a larger plan. A plan where "someone" has incentive, lack of ethics and almost all powerful capability to manipulate events.

Thing is, masterminds don't exist. Opportunists do.

*It doesn't serve developed nations interests to keep everyone else down.* Look at globalization. How much money has western companies made from utilizing manufacturing in Asia? More than they would extracting some minerals mined by child laborers...
All those lists of skills and experiences are easily embellished.

Lists of dozens of programming languages, work experiences, and qualifications are a lot of noise that even the worst candidates can just add without any meaningful experience.

The document itself however tells a lot more about the person. It's impossible to fake, and the only truly objectively quantifiable metric of the whole resume.

An applicant that has a deep interest in ConLangs and wants to show that off in their resume sounds super awesome and would definitely get my approval for a fully paid trial run.
Have you been to Russia?
Have you seen how they are pumped with propaganda? How every opposition voice has to worry that either they'll get arrested or killed by a "random" person when they go home.

Try that in US, what will happen? Nothing.

Russia (and China) are big countries and dangerous ones because ruled not by the rule of law but by a will of rulers and oligarchs. And now we have opportunity to stop at least one of them.
For anyone who wonders if cats are intelligent, I submit for your consideration Tulie and Sephie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rROBUDPYI

I was playing with them with a bird wand toy and then I wanted to get back to work. So I wedged the toy's handle in the chair.

Tulie had studied how I operated the toy, and she decided to work it herself to keep Sephie entertained.

At one point the feathers got stuck on the chair, and Tulie figured out how to unstick them!

Then the dogs came by to get some water, and the cats were like "nothing to see here, move along now."

And then with the dogs out of the way, they got back to business.
Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language
It's weird to suggest something like that when Notion has a rapidly growing user base.

It's a great app and has a lot of things going right for it. They are building a platform for others to also share their customized pages/databases. Tons of templates and resources to learn how to effectively use the tool.

You can try to draw comparisons but I think they and Figma are very innovative products growing in similar ways.
Huh, it's pretty well known that the Coup Lady Victoria Nuland played a significant part here in assisting "regime change". The state dept was feeling confident after the successful Arab Spring and were on a roll getting rid of unfriendly governments. (They didn't always succeed at propping up US friendly ones though). Are you going to get absolute, in-controvertible proof ? No, that's certainly not how these things work.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

https://blazetrends.com/victoria-nuland-a-shadowy-character-...

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/19/who-is-victoria-nuland-a-re...

Nuland served as the deputy national advisor to to Vice President Dick Cheney, serving as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser and exercising an influential role during the Iraq War.

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

Her husband - Robert Kagan is the leading advocate of " "liberal interventionism" and was one of the early and strong advocates of military action in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan as well as to "remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan

I would strongly suggest a reading of history with a deeply skeptical view of US state department. The saddest thing for me was comforting Libyan friends who were in shock after their nation dissolved to ashes - a nation which had universal health care.
Cats have been following people around for millennia whereas “breeding“ is more of a last couple centuries thing. Some breeds do have personality differences like ragdolls. They’re also generally harder to breed because they’re more likely to crossbreed with wild cats-which is how we think we got Maine coons.
I think MI2 took me 6 month to complete (also with only like 2 years of english I didnt know what a monkey wrench is...) . Mi3 was one weekend, a bit too easy.
Ask HN: Are you a front end engineer if you don’t know CSS?
And with the zim file format for Kiwix
I have a 1440p monitor as my main screen. What am I missing out on?
"Cat sense" by John Bradshaw is a fascinating read on the nature of cats. Not really on-topic here, but a great read on feline behaviour.