skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1993 Ukraine joined a cooperative organization that effectively made them a defacto NATO member.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/07/27/US-and-Ukraine-sign-...

2013 Viktoria Nuland orchestrated a coup to oust Yanukovych because he changed his mind at signing an economic agreement with EU and signed one with Russia instead. A pro Western leader was put in place.
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukrain...

Since 2014 NATO has been training Ukrainian forces.
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/nato-has-been-training-ukr...

Cuba was not allowed to have Soviet missiles but it's ok for Ukraine to become a member of NATO?

The "Nazis" should not be underestimated. They are small but powerful because they use violence and intimidation. Like the Cartels influence with law enforcement in Mexico they influence policy in Ukraine.
I think the parent post means that resources are strictly speaking improved goods not raw materials. I’m that sense innovation and thermodynamics are the limitations, not what rocks we pull out of the ground.
I'd suggest the Mythical Man-Month. I feel like many big techs would be way more productive with fewer employees. 5-person-teams seem most efficient.
That’s exactly how most lawsuits are defended…
This is one of the primary points of the book "The Halo Effect."
I think the main difference is that Guix uses an actual language and writing things for it seems pretty reasonable, while Nix language is frustrating to work with and look at. There are probably hundreds of functions in nixpkgs that would make your life easy, but only 3.5 people know about them or how to use them.
Here's a comparison that shows how different it is than a MacBook webcam: https://youtu.be/-Ea-xakhZmE?t=41

Dynamic range, noise, and resolution are significantly better.
It's also a lot tougher to do a root cause analysis when there's no source, fifty layers of framework, and anemic documentation.

Which applies to nearly 100% of modern software. (Including Linux distros and a lot of their required software, other than the source bit...)
"Grit" without the abrasiveness.
I wonder if one of the reasons we've seen a big push towards systems like this is because it does make the website faster, but in a way that's one step removed than we often consider it, or by a slightly different metric.

What if instead of client side load time, what's also being looked at is load time per finite server side compute resource? By dumbing down the server side to graphql JSON delivery + static JS, maybe that allows them to serve that specific need faster per 10k servers or something, and having to do the full page composition under heavy load server side just doesn't scale as well?
It may or may not matter for various use cases, but the EC2 instances in the test use EBS and the AMIs are lazily loaded from S3 on boot. So it may be possible that the boot process touches few files and quickly gets to 'ready' state, but you may have crummy performance for a while in some cases.

I haven't used GCP much, but maybe they load the image onto the node prior to launch, accounting for some of the launch time difference?
Three backticks then a space. Then paste the code. then hit enter 4-5 times until it sends it.

I don't know where I learned this eldritch incantation--it certainly wasn't in the documentation--but it works.
I think they have always been that hard to understand, it's just that TV series started adapting the more vernacular registers. Also, you will probably still be able to understand a speech from Liz Truss.
Another comment on this thread pointed out they had a potential collision in their instance name generation which may have caused this. That would mean this was user error, not a reliability issue. AWS doesn’t require instance names to be unique.
I'm a game dev and have been following this since the idea for this game was 1st publicized. It's like the ultimate case study in the sunken cost fallacy. Roberts was 100% in charge and made some utterly boneheaded technical decisions at the beginning (the main one being use cry-engine). And despite having many opportunities and many years they've just kept going.

More details.
So Roberts initially funded a visual demo, which was made in cry-engine. He hired a bunch of 3d-artists to make cool models. Using this visual-demo he got a shittonne of crowdfunding in 2012. It was at this point that he should have dumped the demo and hired an amazing lead-dev who would figure out how they would build this game for real. Instead Roberts kept this cryengine visual demo, and hired a tonne of people who started haphazardly adding more stuff on top of the demo. So, it was really at that point the project became doomed, its been walking dead for ten years.
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> limits to the creativity of people

Yes, therefore limits. At least in the short and medium term (which could be 1000s of years). Look at the technological advancement of Roman empire, lost for a millennium before human ingenuity advanced past that level again.

Good video from Jonathan Blow on rise of complexity leading to collapse and lost knowledge [0]. Add in energy and resource constraints (for the given world popuplation numbers) and we may be in for a bad time for a while in the near future.

[0] https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk
That sounds spot on. These laws were probably on the books before the terrorism of the 90s/2000s took place.
My first take: it is slow.

The "base" model (supposedly 16x faster than the large one) takes more than the audiofile playback time on my machine to do transcriptions.
Part of me wants to say Logitech could’ve done this better. But given they have no games of their own and this thing runs Android, 300 other Chinese game tablets are gonna leave this one in the dust in 2 years tops.
thuttinger posted in this thread: https://github.com/tobiashuttinger/openai-whisper-realtime
Are you adopting the TH3 approach for your codebase? One of the distinguishing things about SQLite is the DO-178B TH3. Not sure if any other open source database have that.
http://www3.sqlite.org/th3.html
That would be stagflation, I believe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
Ok i get it now.
Ignore my comment, sorry.
What a cool little project. It occurs to me that you could also make the opposite: a cheap portable audio recorder with a 3.5mm jack, which has a number of practical uses. I think that's doable with a chip like the TI AIC3104.
Except, of course, the human has very little control over what the AI outputs in TXT2TXT scenarios, at least in terms of whether the output would match the definition of copyright infringement of someone else's work. IMG2TXT is kinda different -- I think you could make a much stronger case for derivative work there. So you have a tool that can randomly create massive liability for you, and you can't know if its done so or not until someone sues you.
It worked for me, after a couple of seconds. The header menu defaults to open and you have to wait for the page to load fully before it disappears. This page takes a little while to load. Ideally default CSS would hide that menu.
IIRC the other major problem was that Orkut was invite-only for a very long time. That's partly was it was so popular in a few South American countries, it was very difficult to get yourself on the platform, and even if you did, it was difficult to use it to communicate with anyone locally.

Google was not the giant then that it is now.
This is what a cassette walkman would look like if you described it to an alien.
Well don’t let us keep you here.
That's generally peoples reaction, I should get a CC with this technique or that technique. I don't need or want credit. And yes, sometimes people try to get smart and tell me my utility bill is credit. queue massive eye roll.

It's just not my thing.
Dmitry Vyukov has forgotten more about non-blocking synchronization (lock- and wait-free algorithms) that most developers presently remember.
Cause Uncle Sam has a machine that can make portraits of George.
open source, means the source code is available, in my opinion. I don't agree with your opinion, or the OSI, or any of the licenses you named. That might be why the license I choose doesn't include that language:

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0

Someone could put time and effort into some software, and put it out to the world to be used for decades. Some company could then use that software to make a profit, and the original author would get nothing. I don't think thats right, and I will keep raising awareness against those who have been brainwashed into thinking only business friendly licenses are open source.
Well you can sort of play it, it just doesn't feel like a half billion budget game.

Of course, since they are constantly moving the goalposts and making the scope of that game bigger, they will never actually deliver everything they promised.
I see it as a rare case of "hate the players not the game"

I've come to rely a lot on gitlab and github's web interfaces through the years for diff and quickly navigate a specific commit, or a project I don't want to checkout. All the improvements coming from more JS and Ajax have been a boon to me. Sure I could do everything locally, but it's just so much more convenient.

Same for gmail as you mention it: I wouldn't go back to the previous web mail interfaces short of getting paid a living salary just for that. Same for banking web sites, which came such a long way.

The technology and trend is a net plus, advertising company coming to ruin whatever they can ruin is par for the course. I mean, looking at newspaper, TVs, Google Search, YouTube, Instagram, AppStore search etc....making anything it touches worse is in the ad business' DNA.
How common is it for an artist to accidentally generate a work that resembles an existing work?
Weak argument. Iraq War created massive discontent, debates were on the news every night for years.

Meanwhile in Putin’s Russia you can get jailed for just calling it a war.
If Russia is going to have radically less resources, this is one way to reduce the demands of the population?

How do they simultaneously argue how awesome they are doing at war and then a draft?

There's no way anyone is convincing me nuclear isn't happening if things go even worse and maybe not even locally, he's got nothing to lose at this point, there's literally nothing the world can do about it because they aren't starting WW3
It seems like Stable AIs release has led to some real disruption in the ML field regarding open source, and this doesn't seem to be limited to image generation. Excited to see what comes next.
> Our global map of ant abundance expands our understanding of the geography of ant diversity and provides a baseline for predicting ants’ responses to worrying environmental changes that currently impact insect biomass.

Would it be possible to see that map without shelling out the $10? The people need to know!!!
Hey I was alive for the two times the US got within days of default for silly reasons.
Twitter seems like a good way to miss it. I don't check Twitter every day...
Exactly.

So many people lose sight of the bigger picture, workers are always cogs in the machine. Luxurious, comfortable cogs, sure. But its crabs in a bucket.
Nudges IIRC they were called.

I remember using cheat engine and sending infinite nudges to friends. Good times.
also, there are aftermarket versions that cost $30 instead of $150
It’s ultimately a humanist set of values that lead to that conclusion. If we value human happiness we should try to make as much of that as possible.
Am I the only one who hates talking to computers?
I think it goes beyond just the licensing fee. It makes compliance/on-boarding significantly easier to have everything bundled. If you're using Exchange/Office, you've already vetted Microsoft for your use case.
Ask HN: Is there a hostname manager utility?
I am often wrangling hostnames in DCs, at my own home, in cloud providers, etc. and I'd like to find a program that can keep a database of these hostnames and metadata about them, make it searchable via the name or metadata, and provide an id so I can run something like ssh `hm 454` instead of copying and pasting large hostnames.

Are there any tools out there that are similar to what I'm describing?
Very true, Dale Carnegie makes the exact same point in his book "How to win friends and influence people". Apparently people like Al Capone, "Two Gun" Crowley, and Albert Fall (the guy behind the Teapot Dome oil scandal) felt themselves victims as well, according to his book.
Same error on page load and when I put my IP in nothing happens.
iOS.
I think Salesforce isn't used/needed so much like MS Office. MS Office is needed for interoperability but Salesforce is for internal.
Consider you can easily emulate Vim inside Emacs but NOT the inverse and you'll understand what those extra cycles do.
And if everyone had a beetle engine running full power 24/7 we would have run out of oil decades ago and every urban or even suburban area would be uninhabitable.

A rock concert serves hundreds or thousands of people for a few tens of hours in a year. It adds milliwatts.

20kW each is 160TW. 20kW of work per person if prodiced in the area is enough to double the heat that a city like paris has to dissipate.

At 160TW from fission, world uranium reserves last a single year in a LWR or a few decades at full burnup (which basically no nuclear programs do). Thorium reserves would barely last longer.

At 160TW from PV we need 100 million tonnes of panels to be produced per year just for maintenance and to cover an absurd amount of land. Current tech would use all of the silver ten times over. Copper in the panels and wiring would use 5-100% of world reserves.

At 160TW direct thermal forcing is 1W/m^2 which isn't as catastrophic as 500ppm CO2, but is about the current GHG forcing (which is just going super swell). Take into account any realistic generation scenario (3W/W of heating from nuclear or 2W/W of albedo increase) and you're in a 2 or 3 degree heating scenario on top of our GHG problems. Add in a few billion more people and any 20kW future is apocalyptic.

20kW is obscene and if you think a lifestyle based on that level of wanton waste can be sustained without forcing many others in other places and other times to suffer you are deluded.
A lot of people in the US would turn it off because "I can't understand what they are saying with their funny accent". The reason they get away with being on Netflix is that they don't need to be super popular to be worth it for the streaming networks if they pick it up for a cheap price.

Linear TV had a limited number of time slots and had to be very choosey with what they put on. It needed to have massive appeal in all parts of the country.
Volvo EX90 will equip LiDAR
The NPV values didn’t look weird enough, but I got the same results from: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/financial/net-pre... — Values used: Interest Rate = %5, Compounding = 1 times per Period, Line 0 = $0, Line 1 = 5000 periods of $100.

However, I think the economist column/article misses some important points:

1: There is a stereotype that corporations only look at the next quarter’s earnings. The article argues the opposite, that corporations are long term focused. The article needs to address that point.

2: Stocks and dividends should be inflation proof (with some assumptions, such as revenues increase with inflation).

3. The article doesn’t seem to mention bonds, even though it talks about constant $ returns. What?

The most interesting part of the article for me was “The original marshmallow test, it turned out, had a flaw. Exclude some children from better-off families (which seems to make them both more willing to delay gratification and more likely to succeed in later life) and much of its predictive power suddenly disappears.” [Slight edits]
I think it is because a flat surface gets one chance to reflect by refraction and predominantly only at a shallow angles. A bunch of micro surfaces in an aggregate formation mean it could bounce around multiple times and then head out, or pass through the ice medium and then bounce back out when it exits and reflects off more. Absorption wise a greater ratio of air to ice means it will absorb less often too over the same distance through snow.
Exponentials can get away from you a lot faster than you might expect. For instance if we sustained a 1% annual population growth for another 13000 years the total volume of all living people would be more than the total volume of all the space within 13000 light years of Earth.

So unless we get faster than light travel or we greatly reduce the amount of space into which you can physically cram a living human we are under 13000 years away from a pretty hard upper limit.

Make more realistic assumptions than speed of light expansion of humanity and that limit gets a lot shorter even with growth rates quite a bit lower than 1%.
Mostly agree with all you have to say minus the reference as Steve carrell being a safe, reliable pick at the time period. Being on the daily show is a great metric for a casting director as far as quality goes but in reality he had close to zero exposure and public recognition before the office.

That fact is supported by how bad the first season of the US office did ratings wise. People warmed up to it quickly thanks to the quality of writing, but the showrunners and producers clearly didn't feel confident in the future success of Steve carrell as a leading star or they wouldn't have ordered he get hair plugs to make him more look more likable.

Lastly, there is something to be said, at least regarding comedy, about differences in taste between cultures. British and US comedy have often been quite different over the last 70 years and is evident in the stylistic differences between the british and us versions of the office in season 1.
Edit: to be clear, I am implying SC stands to make much more than 50mil a year, much like GTAV and COD make multiples of their development cost year over year. /edit

They still have that incentive, because SQ42 is a standalone game they intend to sell to a broader market and SC is an MMO "forever game" they intend to monetize.

If you think 500m is a lot, go look at how much money games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto Online make year over year. 500m over 10 years is 50m a year, and not in profit. Blockbuster games are making much more than that much more quickly. To say nothing of the billions in scummy phone game microtransactions.

Cloud Imperium Games is multiple offices and 700+ employees, if the intent really was to not release they definitely don't need that many people sucking down wages. It's not like a VC scam where they can trick investors with headcount growth.
> But if you want to call gettimeofday, you should do that by calling the gettimeofday function in the libc, not by trying to set up a system call on your own. The former is a stable interface, the latter isn't.

Not on Linux.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

The system call interface is not only stable but also language agnostic. The correct place for this inferface isn't in some C library, it's in the language itself. We could have compilers directly targeting this. GCC could add a system_call keyword that emits code conforming to that ABI. Dynamic languages could have a JIT compiler that does the same thing.
Nah, Google's mistakes with Chat are myriad but the biggest one is that they didn't make Slack. They added like one feature on top of Hangouts (threaded group chats), completely redesigned the entire interface (and the Gmail and Meet interfaces while they were at it), changed a bunch of words to make it seem like they copied Slack, and then said "enjoy using this new turd we pushed out".

(Okay, they also added a tiny bit of Markdown-based text formatting. Because why not use the least intuitive, most complicated possible solution, and then not document half of it.)
"Is that a Teams Channel or a Exchange Distribution list?"

"Yes!"
Hate to break it to you, but all those people are going to die.
> But it’s not a panacea, and the footprint of `unsafe` buried in so many crates is worrisome, especially when novice systems programmers see “guaranteed safety” and make assumptions that aren’t necessarily valid.

On top of the tens of thousands of crates that (ab)use unsafe everywhere and programmers importing lots of packages and installing hundreds of transitive unsafe packages, using an NPM-style package manager and marketing this as "guaranteed safety" does sounds very much like the Rust hype-squad are over hyping their snake oil to push the cargo cult.
Or fund one hundred Donnie Darko movies.
Exactly what I'm getting at, well said. Rip when Vimeo being actually competitive.
They also bought (and ruined) MindAlign which had originally been developed and spun off from UBS investment bank and was light years ahead of its time.

What they turned it into / replaced it with was such a depressing step backwards.
Indeed it does. As for stability, I had a few decently sized customers running minio clusters in production and they never had any issues with it.

https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/install-deploy-ma...
If this were a movie you'd be the guy in good will hunting trying to name drop to pick up chicks.
Not a Canon EOS user, but typically there are accessories called "dummy batteries" that take the shape of a standard battery, but is actually used by connecting to the AC socket. This way, the camera can be powered on constantly so long as the venue with the AC doesn't have a power outage.
It’s also what’s used in vape cartridges.
But the marketing departement isn’t the firefighters. They’re the marketing of the parks departement. Once the firefighters put the fire out (Google engineering stops haphazardly killing products), marketing can attract people to the parks again (Google marketing attracts people to their services).
Or fund _one hundred_ Donnie Darko movies.

Edit: 111 movies.
This month marks the 14th anniversary of the '08 financial collapse, a debacle founded upon naked greed, corruption and cronyism.

In late August '08 I was epitome of rags to riches American Dream, bootstrapped founder of a 100+ person startup boasting 12 consecutive years 2x growth, 8-figs liquid and a signed LOI that represented generational wealth. Easy guess what happened next......

To answer your question Sirspacey, I'm nearly as passionate about crypto/blockchain rendering global feds impotent as I am about loving my amazing wife and children.
Kaldi is an open, pluggable framework and is a ton more flexible and powerful than this. It's used by hundreds of teams, including a number of consumer tech companies you've heard of. They're not going to move to this over it.

Especially because ASR is a living organism. You have to constantly update your language model as new people, ideas, and words move into the normal lexicon. As people start talking about "COVID", "metaverse", "king charles", or whatever new things that happen, these need to be added to your language model. You need these updates monthly at a minimum and OpenAI didn't release the raw data which means you can't retrain it even if you wanted to spend the time/resources to.

So, this is an interesting research project and helpful for small teams and side projects, but it's unlikely it makes any real impact on the industry.
MS Paint is useful without a printer, so maybe 3D Paint will be become too...