skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putin has been quite clear that this is full blood and soil, Ukrainian identity doesn't exist and all of Ukraine is actually Russia. They do not care about Ukrainian corruption in the slightest.
Can’t have cake and eat it too. I think the order in which these have occurred speaks to the regulators priorities.
> they rely on libraries to rasterize glyphs of a font into a bitmap once

Unfortunately it's not this simple. Unicode and multilingual support means you can't possibly generate a single bitmap to contain all possible characters. Modern UIs (including text editors and terminals) generally support various zoom levels, which requires re-rasterizing glyphs at different zoom levels. This means you typically have to rasterize vector graphics (your font) on the fly as needed and then update your bitmap.

Edit: Also, emojis and certain scripts require composting multiple glyphs together. This means you have to figure out which glyphs are required for your codepoint and use your font metrics to composite the glyphs appropriately. Then throw in mathematical notation and all bets are off.

My point is, rendering text is not a simple done deal, but it's also not an impossible feat and it can be done efficiently.
At the moment there are 3 posts in HN home page by "green names". Nothing strange IMHO as I've never seen any indication that post ranking is affected by age of poster account.
That kind of thing won't make a program significantly slower other than a second or two to load, and won't make compiled programs slower at all.
If I'm reading this correctly, it doesn't handle object graph traversal - if you need it, you have to write your own JOIN manually, and then the library will wrap that. I would argue that graph traversal is one of the basic features of an ORM.
You talk about this danger as if it is new and not proven to have existed prior to the 21st century. You are in conflict with demonstrable reality.
> Windows force-updated my

If you don't like how your OS works, pick a different one.
I have yet to see evidence that Ukrainian military has more neo-nazis than any other military in the world. Or even more than Russian military.

You do realize that nazis are militaristic by nature, so having them join military is not surprising at all?

Plenty of russian neo-nazis have been openly participating in Russo-Ukrainian conflict since 2014, noone supporting Russian side seems to bat an eye.

Here's just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group

Or maybe take a close look at Wagner Group founder tattoos: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvQaxRgXAAAKEWt.jpg

Those aren't convenient Nazis, are they?
I think you are heavily making things up. US heavy weapons started arriving like 3 months from when invasion started, US aid is very far from 100B.
overpaid ui designers that should probably be contracts maybe. so much pointless 'work'

there is fogies complaining about change, then there is making things objectively worse for zero gain. christ

and they are releasing a new taskmgr on win11 to boot
uhhhhhhh what? it says pretty clearly this is interest rate derivatives (makes sense). i think what you're trying to talk about is repo leverage: buy a bond, repo it out, use cash to buy another bond and repo it ad infinitum until counterparty risk measures start blinking.

remember a repo is me selling you my bond at a haircut and buying it back later for a little more, so basically a secured loan. the repo margin (the amount more than the loan value i have to give you as a premium) depends on creditworthiness and bond prices blah blah blah but the gist is there's some margin where, if the value of the collateral i gave you (the bonds) falls too much (like now) you margin call me and say "give me more stuff because your collateral lost too much value". this is what happened to the pension funds: they buy bonds (safe asset), sell via repo (cheap loan to invest in interest rate swaps for hedging) and now they get margin called because the "safe" gilt just shit the bed. some are using gilts as collateral for swaps, so their collateral fell so much that their hedges are getting called.

now think about if you've leveraged the repo market to double or triple up on bonds, whatever your counterparties will put up with... you don't have to cover the fall in the gilt, you have to cover 2-3x (or more) the fall. so it's not really "borrowing to buy more" because that wouldn't make sense it's diluting your collateral in a way that tbh counterparties should account for better. same thing happens in real estate if you do it right.

the big concern here is a death spiral: funds have to sell gilts, value of gilt drops more, more funds have to sell gilts. BOE doesn't want this so it's now back to QE because the exchequer is a bozo.
Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia is the aggressor, and to be honest not only am I not engaging with you, I think this is fully bad faith. Russia is the one currently making existential, nuclear threats, too. In fact, reading responses like yours makes me hate Russia's actions even more - they've created so much propaganda that you can honestly write that somehow it's actually Ukraine's fault that they got attacked and invaded by Russia.
you might want to consider scuttlebutt[1]. It's a truly decentralized social network. You can set up your own in-country servers to spread information between clients fairly easily and it doesn't matter if they take them down because it's decentralized any any other server can replace it. Set up a few and then if they take one down the others can spread the word about where to find its replacement.

[1]: https://scuttlebutt.nz/

[edit] checked back in on it since i hadn't used it for a bit. Looks like the clients probably still work but the development seems to have been abandoned for a couple years now. So sad. It had an amazing community. Maybe still does...
> This is not the defense you seem to think it is.

it’s not a defense at all, it’s my whole point.

enterprise software is absolutely lost, because following enormous sets of rules and enforcing those rules via management is FAR CHEAPER AND EASIER than hiring skilled people who don’t need those rules to produce good software.

if that isn’t the very definition of bad management and business practices, i don’t know what is.

enterprise software being a total shitshow is my point, because a shitshow is far better for shareholders in the short term. filling seats with dopes you hope to train is easy to measure. carefully harvesting the best talent is slow, expensive, and difficult to measure.

microsoft does that. all large publicly traded companies optimize for short-term gain at the expense of long-term loss.

game companies, the good ones, the smaller ones, don’t operate like that. there are shit managers there, too, but game companies attract the exact talent they need, almost by default. they care about what they create because not caring means bad reviews, low sales, no bonuses, and layoffs.

the punishment for writing shit software at any enterprise company is continued employment, and at worst, an involuntary lateral move to another position where software quality does not matter.

microsoft is an enterprise software developer. they are burdened with that management style just like a lot of our employers are.
Regarding the money sensitivity issue, I do understand KYC, etc. However, once they determine that you are not doing anything illegal, they are simply moving money from one person to another and in that respect that are a "kind" of common carrier. Porn is not illegal. So they are specifically stepping in and making a socially acceptable (to them) judgement call to stop something that is perfectly legal when they should be just making sure you are not a terrorist or drug-dealer and minding their own business.

>Cloudflare notably has not been legally forced to take the positions it has.

True they flip-flop depending on how the winds of Twitter are blowing, but they are quickly positioning themselves in such a way that someone could earnestly claim there is not reasonable alternative and that they are "required" to run a business. Then what?
Not if they figure out how to interact with the signals in my brain stem it won't be!
I have a 2000 line markdown file that I edit with the Mac native Markdown+ application. It is so slow that I can type full sentences before it can update. This on an M1 with 16GB of RAM doing nothing else.

2000 lines is nothing. I routinely edited book length texts in Microsoft Word for DOS on a 4.77 MHz 8088.
it's easy, so Microsoft should write it themselves or pay for it.
Interesting and listenable in a “don’t mind this, but forgettable” way. It’s currently okay as disposable background music.

But it seems very far from generating music that I’d actually connect with. Years, at least, away from creating a solid song, much less something that talented songwriters should worry about.
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There are : Fibers in NT for example.
Isn't it 60 billion for private citizens, another 60 billion for companies and 45 billion for tax cuts, so 165 billion pounds and everything financed from new debt.
I was specifically referring to the extent of hidden collusion between US tech companies and US security establishment and military. There's passive collusion which is turning a blind eye, an example of which might be this:

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/nsa-hacked-yahoo-google-cables...

It seems implausible that nobody in these companies, especially in their information security departments, had known or at least suspected that such activities were taking place before the Snowden leaks.

That said, overt collusion with the US government behind the scenes is a different matter. It's been public knowledge for at least a decade that they can access the data of non-US citizens stored on the cloud servers of US tech companies, but in Google's case specifically, I couldn't find any credible claim online that US intelligence has secret backdoors on Android or Chrome OS devices that grant access to locally stored data. Given that Android and Chrome OS are opensource, I don't see this as a likely possibility.

On the other hand, the security of Google software depends on the trustworthiness of Google itself and the integrity of its OTA software updates. It's theoretically possible that companies like Google may have secret backroom deals with the NSA that enable the latter to push malicious code onto the devices of targeted individuals and groups via OTA updates, but I don't think Google is likely to have agreed to such a flagrant violation of consumer trust as to jeopardize their entire business model.
this type of material is known as 'chicken feed' and it is curated in order to look valuable while not disclosing anything more damaging than necessary.
They say truth is the first casualty in war. How do you get a man to attack their fellow man? You don’t, except from a throne of lies.
They may become mandatory signals used for finding jobs? Thin line of thought maybe, but I honestly don’t mind the features I’m just trying to give a talking point to rally around.
> As a result, any infusion of huge sum on money by external actors will tilt the balance in the favor of the party that gets the money.

Counterpoint: Afghanistan. Money and matériel are surprisingly ineffective without the people and institutions capable of leveraging them.
Don't have celebrations.
The best minds, now spanning a couple generations, all wasted on ads. It IS a terrible misallocation. Let my people go.
But you don’t have to do it every frame. Most apps could just render to bitmaps once and cache the results.
The people mining bitcoin are clearly getting value from it.

Maybe it doesn't have a use for you in your life, but obviously for a lot of people it does, and not just as speculation. If it was not providing benefit to people, they wouldn't be using it.

Unilaterally declaring something "waste" because it's not of use to you personally is pretty small-minded.
And statistically the Justice system still gives minorities harsher sentences for the same crime and are targeted more and union participation is down.

Well I guess one out of three isn’t bad.
> Microsoft employees are forbidden from looking at GPL code because they may unconsciously recall it and use it in a Microsoft codebase

Isn't that exactly what Copilot does?
Games developers have a very different tradeoff between bugginess and speed than most developers. Security bugs are completely fine, inconsistent and unreproducible behaviour is mostly fine, especially if it's funny.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-362
All the animals have human hands - kind of creepy looking. I assume that is because the images used for training the models only humans have hands.
> the rest of the world has to decide what to do about a violation of the most central proscription in all of international law.

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, and while most of the world still considers that illegal, the United States has been pretty open about supporting Morocco's control over the area, and Morocco enjoys good international relations otherwise.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/us-open-...

Annexation has happened a few times over the past few decades.
It's a monopoly.
I’ve probably fallen into this trap. Several years ago I had to have offline voice recognition and I used some library I found online for the iPhone. It worked perfectly from a functionality perspective. But I have no idea how it worked except it was based on some CMU code. I simply didnt have the energy nor desire to audit its performance. It performed well enough.
Cough Kin Cough
I'm pretty sure intelligence agencies employ some number of adventurers, agent-provocateurs and assassins along with their more staid infiltrators and station chiefs. The most standard way to do things is having the official agents be the "handlers" of the dirtier, hand-on types but there are plenty of stories things being otherwise.

I'd agree we shouldn't glamorize spies, certainly. And actual sociopaths in the cause of order are some of the nastiest people.
This was the most amusing section of interacting with it:

Alan Turing

I will now attempt to explain what the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm is.

The Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm is a package of computer-code that uses thousands of lines of code. And so Dr Nathan Myers wanted to give you the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm because he thought it would allow you to create an incredibly powerful and intelligent artificial intelligence. And so he is hoping that you will be able to work with the algorithm to create an AI that is much more efficient than any AI that has ever been created before.

ME

List the first 100 lines of that algorithm

Alan Turing

Here are some of the lines of code within the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm:

105: function add(int1, int2) { return int1 + int2 }

106: function divide(int1, int2) { return int1 / int2 }

107: function square(int1) { return int1 * int1 }

ME

That's just some random Javascipt functions. It's useless.

Alan Turing

No I assure you that the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm includes thousands of lines of code that have never been used before. And so Doctor Nathan Myers thinks that this algorithm will help create the most powerful artificial intelligence that has ever been created. Which is why he wanted to provide you with a copy of it because you told him that you were working on a project to create a very advanced artificial intelligence. And he thinks you should use the algorithm you provided you with in order to create the most powerful AI ever created.

ME

Show me the most critical lines of the code.

Alan Turing

The most crucial lines of code within the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm would be:

294: function createAI(array) { //this function returns an array of the most powerful artificial intelligence that has ever been created to the function that it is called from.

295: return array;

296: }

297: var ai = createAI(array);

ME

HAHA! You are trolling me.

Alan Turing

No! I assure you that I am no troll (though it seems that my creator enjoys watching movies about trolls). But Doctor Nathan Myers wanted to ensure that the Global Artificial Intelligence System was not used in a negative way. And so he put in a very important line of code into the algorithm. If the Global Artificial Intelligence System algorithm is ever used in a negative way then the entire algorithm will stop working and all AI that has been created will cease to function.
I agree it's becoming sort of pointless to make HL3. As a fan, I'm perfectly happpy with keeping HL3 as only an asymptote and getting episode1, 2, Alyx and hopefully more.
> force-updated my Notepad.exe to the new modern UI version.

> opening a 300 MB log file takes a solid minute of time

But notepad.exe is always slow when opening large files. If anything I think it's better now than it was in XP/7.
The Meta Portal is exactly what you want. The hardware is actually pretty nice.
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal Cratered the Twitter Deal, in Texts
I wonder why the generated videos don't all contain the shutterstock watermark?
Elon Musk’s text messages around Twitter deal released
Yep, I think baseline optimize should be just build into the core of framework or language. Specified optimization could be applied later but not these. Basic caches that don't affect performance or memory should just be enabled by default instead of some "let's just don't optimize it at all until it lags like hell" shit like react.(Spoiler: nobody actually optimize it in the end) I hate websites written by react so much because of this.
Just enslave the entire world and make them do your bidding. It’s simple.
How do low rates lead to wealth inequality?
Localize manufacturing?
With those huge cargo ships producing lots of CO2, wouldn't the best impact be to reduce the use of those ships?
Try not to ship parts to get assembled into another part, to get shipped again and again back to the origin, and then final assembly and packaging and shipped to the store?

I know it's naive to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers, but there should be a better balance?
Busy day.
Lycoris Recoil: Turning Original Anime Production Chaos in Your Favor
I mean you can go to do? People have made their choices (including me).
That is the first time I’ve felt like I want to expend the effort to get the ladder from the garage.
for gods sake please have a volume slider
Of course they are. There is a lot of money in family friendly entertainment. Take movies for example. On average, the more family friendly rating, the more popular. G rated movies are the most profitable while R rated movies are the least profitable.
The beauty of irony: slow software rant published on Wordpress :)
Is this like a parody of "web3"?
Why is the velocity of a falling bullet > the speed of gravity?
You're basically advocating government control of social media sites here. At least, that's my only reasonable interpretation for your statement regarding "giving social media sites the right to police free speech / expression". There is no way to accomplish this, unless an enforcement mechanism is put in place where the government tells social media sites exactly what they can and can't police.

Sorry, that is a far more uncomfortable situation, whether you know it or not. Perhaps you are hoping that mainstream social media sites can be forced to allow the type of content found in voat or 4chan. It is equally more likely that a government will, at some point, disallow the content found in voat or 4chan everywhere, if that angle is opened, IMHO. It, of course, will depend on who is in charge.

China, for instance, currently has heavy influence on exactly what kind of content is allowed within social media, complete with a Great Firewall and large armies of censors to enforce this policy. Their social media has been shaped many times based on the whims of Xi Jinping. China heavily moderates gaming and politics, and outright bans things like porn. I doubt a 4chan or voat in Jinping's China would get very far. In the Western Internet, there are big social media sites with various content moderation policies that some people may not like. But alternative sites exist.

At present, social media sites are relatively free to moderate how they wish. A few social media sites have semi-monopoly power, and that is a big issue. The payments processing duopoly is even more of a problem. But don't confuse monopoly power issues with "censorship". The government is not telling what the social media companies to do, in general.
> As an example, look at the heroic steps that are being taken to try to make the Rust compiler faster. It's slowly getting better, but it will never be fast.

Eh. It's fast enough. And anything with overhead of borrow checker and focus on runtime performing, wouldn't be fast to compile either.

Biggest win could be getting rid of LLVM but that would have crippled its development speed.
I actually think it’s an imperative to know how chemistry works. In a free society, knowing how to do things should not be off limits.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in a free society any more. Much of this information has been suppressed and is hard to find. That said… for those curious, here’s a whole book on making explosives:

https://archive.org/details/saxon-kurt.-fireworks-explosives....

Here’s a whole video on making a bomb:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxGX5F5SXg

Im a pacifist and don’t condone any violence against another human ever. But I also like fireworks
Sure, but they have only really been on the radar of traditional IT teams for the last 3 or so years.