skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The U.S. put its thumb heavily on the scale

More than a thumb. The Constitution of Japan was written by Americans. America stomped on the scale, and that time it seems to have worked.
> (Given that it uses an ARM processor, maybe you wouldn't need to emulate it, on A and M-chip devices.)

The Newton has a 32-bit ARM processor, whereas all of Apple's processors for the last ~5 years have only implemented AArch64.
Basically stuff a 32 bit value into an 8 bit value (and lose precision).

Apparently it doesn't affect the results significantly.

More info:

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/17901
I'm sceptical that turning Russia into a kleptocracy was a plan. Usually participants just want to quickly enrich themselves. So I can agree that "let's make it good" plan didn't work well enough, but for planned degradation I'd like to see more arguments.
Huh, there's a ton of duplicates in the data set... I would have expected that it would be worthwhile to remove those. Maybe multiple descriptions of the same thing helps, but some of the duplicates have duplicated descriptions as well. Maybe deduplication happens after this step?

http://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/ima...
Russian citizen here, and one with self-honesty to talk about 199X without self-pity, unlike many of my compatriots here.

> The United States didn't do enough to help Russia transition to democracy in the 1990s. There was no "Marshall Plan" after the Cold War like there was after World War II.

Total bullshit. The West did put in nearly as much money as part of GDP in aid to early 199X Russia. US aid was pouring from every hole up until mid-late nineties.

I would argue America went too much Marshal on Russia, and you are reaping the results of this folly now. It was a giant mistake not to finish off the beastie, and not to SCALE UP the pressure after the USSR collapse.

The West is responsible for much of the CPSU comeback happening in 200X, just like USA rescued early CPSU from total collapse through food riots in early 192X out of pity. A giant mistake.

US humanitarian aid was stolen many times over, sold again, stolen, and resold, giving a headstart to CPSU elements turning to banditry. It was totally unsupervised.

Subsequent entries by Western multinationals funded much of 200X mess in Russia, rise, and legitimisation of early Putin's mob regime. The first Western supermarket in Russia was literally inaugurated by a mob boss of Moscow.

Much of Kremlin's current denizens owe their meteoric rises to megabribes they got from Western MNCs in early 200X, which catapulted then into power.
Are there pictures of this? I can't seem to find any. I'm on an an acre and would love to see how others use a similar sized portion of land to do such a thing. I might get some ideas.
Xcode cloud requires you let Apple handle code signing automatically so you don’t have to do it locally, although obviously you still have to have a paid account. Additionally as others have mentioned this can push things to TestFlight for you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_water

> pure water has a slight blue color

I find it funny how reluctant most are to accept the color that particular substance. Ask a kid to draw a swimming pool, or the ocean, or earth. They'll usually draw it blue. No need to overthink this one.
One of the interesting things about rural USA telecom is that many states, as viewed at a whole-state map level, often do have a patchwork quilt of old rural coop phone companies and small ILECs.

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

In parts of rural western Canada it's very different, if you're in SK in you've got sasktel, if you're in AB you've got the former AGT (now Telus), if you're in BC you've got the former BCTel (also now Telus).

Comparing WA and BC, in WA there's pockets of small ILECs all over the place which differ wildly in how much they've invested in overbuilding their old POTS wiring for real rural broadband, and different medium to huge sized ILEC entities covering different big population centers. Ziply (former GTE/Frontier), Centurylink, etc.

In BC you've got... Telus. And that's it. And maybe shaw cable if you happen to live kind of near a medium sized city.
I use pomodoro, works like a charm
Yeah, just not long term actual traction. The impact of CO2 emissions was recognized in the 1800s and has been of increasing concern since then. It was treated as a good tbing by people who feared ice ages (and read a lot of Time).
The web works quite well as a document system. Unfortunately people wanted an application system and the web is not architected well for this. Most of the sins of the modern web are from this frankenstein effort to graft an application system onto a document system.

And for reference a properly architected applicaton system would start with a virtual machine designed for hostile input at the bottom, net requests would be a first class system call and the applications could be written in whatever language you want. if you were particularly insane your entry point could be something as stupid as "#!/dns/org/gnu/gcc4 mass of hideous c code here" but usually would be "#!/dns/com/sun/java/java4" or "#!/dns/org/python/python3"

and before anybody shouts webasm... no, webasm is stupid, you are now trying to jam another application system on top of the document system "lets build the virtual machine in javascript and use it on top of all the existing browser madness" is not a good solution.
I thought most of the major assets got bought by connected oligarchs, sometimes by literally putting goons at the doors of the auction room to beat up anyone that tried to get in to bid against them. If the oils fields were actually owned by European companies, we’d be buying Russian oil from ourselves, not from Russia.
Such a weird and untrue statement. Birth control is allowed in Islam. Maybe they don't trust them because of cases like the one where the CIA ran a fake vaccine program in order to collect DNA to help catch Bin Laden[0]. Or maybe it's because there isn't widespread access to healthcare. Or one of the other factors you are totally ignorant to

0- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277145-cias-hunt-for-o...
Looks interesting and useful for small advertisers. I can see this being useful in some cases. Nice that you’re insulated from cookie issues with context targeting only.

I’d expect the lack of tools like frequency capping, impression trackers, brand safety, etc to stop you from getting many large advertisers.
> common sense reforms

Politically and in terms of press freedom, maybe.

Economically it was a disaster that ruined an already stagnating growth and turned it into recession.
General purpose hardware that's been artificially castrated by software? Is that really a good way to fight walled gardens?
The transition to a market economy went very well for most of the former Soviet Republics except Russia.

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/03/16/the-transiti...

A lot of Russia's issues stem from the way the government sold off their state owned corporations, which created artificial monopoly/oligopoly owners overnight — often insiders/cronies to begin with. This can be contrasted with traditional market economies where large corporations start off as small companies and become dominant through innovation, growth, and generally meeting consumer demands.
In hindsight, that's directionally correct even though it was not that obvious back then. Only freaks mentioned the nukes in the 90s for example. Now it's crystal clear that their stockpile alone should have justified much higher engagement from the first world. Possibly all the way to literally buying most of it. All kinds of things were possible in the early 90s.

We can definitely blame the US for forcing Ukraine to relinquish its nukes. We can blame the US for insisting for a long time on preserving the USSR (during the Gorbachev era). We can blame the US for not paying enough attention to the other two Slavic former republics early. We can blame America for not penalizing Yeltsin's regime when they started to veer off the original course.

But we need to remember that it was the West in general, not just the US. The EU is equally to blame. And even though the last 20 years are a direct result of the 90s not that much was done in those 20 years either. Not in 2008, not in 2014, not even when President Trump told the Germans to cut the pipelines and spend on the military.

It very well could be the case that destroying the Evil Empire was an unprecedented affair which was too hard for anybody. Where by hard I mean impossible in the Velvet Revolution style. Or at all. They had to perform multiple simultaneous transitions (Totalitarianism -> Democracy, central planning -> market economy, empire -> nation state). With a population impoverished by 70 years of Communism and three generations not knowing any other life (not the case in the Eastern Europe).

It's poetically fitting that Mr Gorbachev died the same year his entire legacy was erased. He was not perfect, he was an idealist, but he gave freedom to the people. It was him who opened the border and let millions escape.
What’s crazy is the minds behind the Washington Consensus favored a form of extreme capitalism that no western democracy would ever tolerate such a system on their own soil.

Some ultra-capitalist die-hards have even retreated away from
Liberalism in general as they found it too restrictive for their extreme ideology (they know their economic regime could never gain sustained popular support; it would need to be imposed)
The U.S. held a lot of sway in the post USSR. They lent a lot of credibility to Yeltsin.

If the U.S. had pushed for a system that actually would've held the resources in trust for the people and allowed them to be developed by market capital, that very likely could've happened.

But the reality is that across every region of the globe, the U.S. in the constant purity quest of its foreign policy had purposefully alienated anyone with anything other than right of center views. It found itself cozied up to the most audacious, self dealing, would be autocrats, cartelists and outright gangsters for the very reason that they stood the most to gain from the decline of Communism and so they beat their chest the hardest against it.

Particularly the Reagan and Bush administrations had little interest in looking over the shoulders of those they had been ready to support as promelgators of coup. Though instead the Communists committed political suicide and these entrepreneurs of corruption instead would pick over the carcass of the state.
Keyboard Maestro? The built-in AppleScript, Services and Keyboard shortcuts support?
In hindsight it seems it would have been a futile wasted effort - there are many books that have been written about Russia and the psyche of it's people and why they would never succeed with democracy.

Now we have a proto-facist regime copying some aspects the Nazi regime.
I've been looking for something that can recognize the mute button in call software (Zoom, Meet, etc) and click it, but everything I've found seems to do image detection.

I understand that running in a browser makes things hard, but is there a better method? I guess I could write an extension for Meet and Jitsi, but Zoom would then be the odd one out.
> “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'"

-Ronald Reagan

Perhaps you know that Reagan didn't really mean it, but it seems like many people believed him anyway.
OK but why are the pheromones in your armpit instead of your elbow?

You might be reversing cause and effect.
AutoHotKey is not normally aimed at developers but highly skilled administrators. If you target your advertising at this market you would likely get more traction.

Moving the field of software development is about solving more problems for people without putting a large learning curve in their way.

Yes some aspects will always require expertise but that is not an advantage.
Falsehoods programmers believe about email
Snap will lay off 20% of staff, report says
Maybe I was unclear. By market I imagine corporations which constitute the market. Those amoral entities concerned with profit above all else.

I am in favor of governments ruled by representatives elected by the people. Regulating markets to ensure healthy competition, without collusion or corruption.

Not sure where the laws of nature fit into the picture. Unless you subscribe to the view that might makes right.
> The OP is saying the US meddled wrong and could have meddled beneficially.

How are you getting that from the Original Post? The Original Post only mentions what the US didn't do, not what it did do.
I like Healthline
Seems like the IT version of removing shoes for TSA. Is this still done?
Not downvotes, I call them California votes :)

A people so detached from reality, common sense and common people that they might as well be considered a separate species.
4.2 gigabytes???? That's insane, especially considering how poorly optimized the models are (with better algorithms and ways to understand and categorize the data, this could be easily reduced 10x or even 100x).
If you are not going to see someone in person or it will be very infrequently, there is less need to match face to a person. And why would you match it anyway.
I understand that some people like to match face to name/person and feel more comfortable but it is not real need. Work doesn't depend on that and comfort of one person should not be appeased on account of discomfort of another person.
How does a CI/CD system lead to an AWS competitor?
This has been flabbergasting a lot of us. I have been playing with these text to image models for about a month and I still cannot believe it.

Try for yourself a bit. Here’s my current favorite interface to Stable Diffusion. Give it a little sketch, then go wild with the prompt description. Try different style descriptions like oil painting or comic book.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest
Not exactly creepypasta, but I do believe the SCP Foundation would make a cultural splash if it were invented today: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-series
In Poland that same "shock doctrine" led to quite good results, quite soon.

Not to mention lack of evidence...
You're literally describing INCR, it's atomic. But I know what you mean, you want atomic GET then SET which is done by WATCH.

I don't disagree with you about WATCH being less powerful than PG transactions. SQLite data types are less powerful than PG types but it's still a database.
The biggest difference is Polio crippled kids and they were vaccinating kids, whereas COVID mostly kills grandparents and leaves most kids unscathed.

Also, now we have facebook.
How come people from first world countries are more concerned about overpopulation in this world countries than your own coming underpopulation problems? What will happen is what has always happened-- people will go from crowded countries to countries where people are needed. Problem solved.
> It was not really a base for capitalism to take hold and effect. It needs a basic rule of law and democracy to work. All it got was brief window of chaos, before the kleptocracy returned.

This is my understanding as well, from everything I’ve read. The more interesting question is why Russia, both as a nation state and a culture, has no history or tradition of democracy. I’ve never received an answer to this question.
Thanks for the suggestion about learning about the occupation. To be clear: my statement wasn't that the U.S. did nothing, but that there is no amount they could have done which would force Japan to succeed against their will, or their own ability. There are many examples of the U.S. putting its thumb on the scale, so to speak, in countries where there was not a subsequent, successful democratic transition. The difference between these cases, I'm suggesting, is not the weight of U.S. involvement, but factors external to U.S. foreign policy, such as the people in the countries affected.
> It was not effective at all for willow ptarmigan, ground birds which tend to run into the turbines’ base rather than its blades

What is wrong with these birds
> I can't see any options around automating selection/clicking of dialogue box buttons?

I can only give you some technical details for ahk_x11 here. It would be ControlClick I think, here [1] is the Windows docs for it. Not present on ahk_x11 right now, I plainly don't know if it is possible yet [2]. If it is, I definitely want to have it. Other than that, I can only think of clicking on fixed coordinates, such as `MouseClick, left, 200, 300`. I haven't done `CoordMode` yet which would be rather important for that, out of sheer prioritization. For a generic solution, there's also ImageSearch [3] for more recent Windows AHK versions which I'd like to have at some point too. Some OCR command would be cool as well.

This will all take a while though, if nobody else joins in.

Thanks for your viewpoints though, I agree with the sibling comment that these insights are valuable.

[1] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ControlClick.htm
[2] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/issues/3
[3] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ImageSearch.htm
Okay. It is a bit hard, because on one hand there isn’t anything similar to CCP in the western world, on the other hand my understanding of all this is quite poor, and on the third hand China, being some five times the population of US, is adequately more complicated.

There are parties in China other than CCP (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in...), and those are kind of like parties in the west. CCP is different though - it’s less of a party and more part of the government, with “sub parties” inside it. This means that on one side it’s privileged - as described in the constitution - but on the other hand, being part of the government, it’s controlled by govt mechanisms, unlike the “do whatever you wish” western parties. You could draw analogies with what the Church used to be in Middle Ages - except Church ended up being fundamentalist, while CCP keeps adjusting to society’s preferences.

It’s a part of government, essentially. Expecting China to be ruled by someone outside is like expecting US to be ruled by someone who’s not a citizen - both are fundamentally arbitrary rules, but both exist for complicated historical reasons.

Of course in US there are also hard rules that aren’t in constitution, eg you need to be a member of one of two ruling parties, you must not have left-wing views, and you have to be wealthy and Christian. But I’m pretty sure there are similar quirks in China too.
What would you call the field of Artificial Intelligence then? I can't think of anything.
Advice applies to anywhere which has native oak species.

Oak trees serve as host to a particularly large number of species, many of them feed on the tree and serve as food for others year round along with acorns as food and species that feed on acorns as food. Oaks are keystone species as they have a particularly large positive impact on the local ecosystem.

Lots of birds eat mostly insects and only sometimes seeds, oak trees provide year round supplies of insects for birds to eat, in a wider variety and number than most other trees.
> Perhaps you know that Reagan didn't really mean it

I think you surely know it too, Reagan was all too eager to use government power and his supporters were happy to see him do it.
Of course the early iPhone apps were siloed, one could not even copy/paste between apps until three versions in. :-) But the iPhone did, indeed, feel like a step back in many ways. Though Microsoft would let it languish and later get stomped by iOS, the early WinCE/Windows Mobile devices had better inter-app communication and integration. I felt like I could get stuff done (and I did) on some of those devices. The early iPhone had a lot of innovation, but there was no last-minute editing of a Word doc on those devices.
Awesome comment.

It shows a failure of the "Unix Way" imo. Everyone hand-rolling their homebrew combination of 20 different tools together is sometimes not the best way to go.

We can look at Docker, Kubernetes, Dropbox(etc), desktop environments, and many other things to see that people greatly value almost the complete opposite approach, within some sweet-spot.
We've all been down the Ted's Caving Page rabbit hole.
Well no, the way I read is quite literal without anything misogynistic - if a person is saying that they personally take X to affect their body, then the appearance of their body is some (weak but still) evidence about what effect X has, and the decision of whether you want to imitate their actions is influenced by whether you want to look like they do, whether the results they're getting seem worth imitating. The author was apparently considering that personal experience as a user of that product (and the visible outcome) was more relevant than whatever some specialist would have read about it.

Like, for an example of the opposite gender, if someone you trust says they did a particular treatment to fix male pattern baldness, then it seems reasonable to put some weight in their personal experience and how their hair looks after the treatment, especially if you don't trust the official descriptions/PR/advertising claims, then even small amounts of anecdotal but real evidence might seem more valuable.
> If the internets is the source, that’s really Tyler Durden of ZeroHege, not the movie.

It's definitely that, as it has the same talking points as this article by TDB on ZH [0]:

In the 2020s, we will also see the rise of China. The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly for many years and is now the largest in the world. China will use its economic power to challenge the United States for political and military supremacy. The Chinese challenge will trigger a new arms race and a new Cold War.

All the while the CCP has enacted a zero covid policy that destroyed it's economic output and as been on perpetual lockdowns and has been dealing with a looming economic collapse and capital controls and bank seizures as their real estate sector has imploded since '21.

Again, ZH is like the onion of doom porn and should be taken more like comical satire, although the increase in unpayable liabilities in the US is a significant cause for concern.

0: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-08-24/5-reforms-would-sa...
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