skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He, and many others, actually does seem to have the support of a lot of the party. Liz Truss didn't - she just had the support of the current party leadership.

They made the mistake of putting up two incredibly unpopular candidates for PM to the party members in the most recent PM selection process. I'm not sure they will make the same mistake again.

At the same time, they did just have an election, so it's not like they are going to be interested in having another one. Labour-aligned folks are calling for one for obvious reasons.
This is why most people think any management would be better than twitters current managers.
I think part of it is that we're in the political equivalent of "total war" -- if a politician were seen as being friendly with political opponents they would probably be destroyed in primaries by party rivals using it as red meat for how they were "soft" or an "x in name only" or some similar idiocy.
Given how weak the electric force is compared to the strong and weak forces inside a proton, that must be an extraordinary experiment. It would take a very powerful electric field, while trying to hold the thing still enough to measure.
Many things that are quite cheap require very specialized knowledge.

It's not appropriate to send a bunch of scientific instrument builders on a major project when you can just buy it.

Notice also that tools like these made in China exist, but that they still wanted this US tool. Perhaps they already have many of the same model, or it's actually special.
NATO is not a threat to the survival of Russia, only to Russia's imperial ambitions. If Russia's neighbors did not feel threatened by Russia, then perhaps they would not feel the urge to join NATO. I don't observe anybody joining a military alliance with the goal of protecting themselves from Panama or Luxembourg.

It is a tactic of bullies to reframe "defense" as "aggression". Is me locking my doors "aggression" against burglars?
We did not have the old, send every man to die in case of internal unrest mass mobilization wars for 65 years.
They are clearly no longer used as societal valves like they used too.
It was a nightmare; the only saving grace was that team was small enough that everybody could talk to everybody else.

We might have been able to eliminate Perforce (though there was one particularly cantakerous game dev) but then we'd still have the CAD data issues, so I threw in the towel on this problem.

Oh, I should be clear: I didn't mean "synchronize" in that code went back and forth between control systems, if that's what you meant. Device code (kernel, drivers, etc) was in git and stayed there; game code and assets were in Perforce and stayed there; and CAD stuff was in whatever that system was. And we never had good document control as we used (ugh) google docs and text files in the various repos.
I seriously doubt that interfering in politics would do the monarchy any favours whatsoever. Constitutional issues aside the intersection of conservative and royalist is famously large. Why would he piss off the people most likely to support him?
A 12-year time-lapse of the entire sky
I doubt that’s going to happen in the modern era?
A lot of the manufacturing ability that we take for granted is uncommon in much of the world. For example China was not able to manufacture ball point pen tips before 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...
> What matters to me is that someone is at least trying.

Delusional autocrats wasting loads of resources and probably human lives (just like at Qatar and the World Cup, this should be much worse) to build a an exceptionally unpractical city in the middle of the desert that nobody wants or needs. But yeah it's worth is since someone is "at least trying" .

> Given the same resources, what would you do

A great example of where to put loads of money you don't need is Norway. Despite having much less oil than the Saudis a country of just 4 million people now owns the largest investment fund in the world, which is worth more than Google and ~2x more than Tesla.

> Given the money, how would you build a brand new city to attract people given the history of modern (< 30 yr) planned cities?

Well first of all make it a circle instead of line. What the point of all than density if it's going to take you a shitload of time to get anywhere?

> Where are the SpaceX sceptics today? What is their new focus on?

For every success story there are 10+ (or even more failures). What's your point?
That's still a huge number.

Twitter doesn't make enough revenue to hire enough people to do that intelligently.
It's obviously not a silver bullet that will magically fix everything, but a lot of countries are doing very well with proportional representation.

Also, I think Italy actually has a hybrid system.
This is the correct interpretation. Apologies for any confusion.
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> Using NDA GmbH as a front company, Orekhov and Kuzurgasheva sourced and purchased sensitive military and dual-use technologies from U.S. manufacturers, including advanced semiconductors and microprocessors used in fighter aircraft, missile systems, smart munitions, radar, satellites, and other space-based military applications. These items were shipped to Russian end users, including sanctioned companies controlled by Telegin and Tulyakov that serviced Russia’s military. Some of the types of electronic components obtained through the criminal scheme have been found in Russian weapons platforms seized on the battlefield in Ukraine. As alleged, in 2019, Orekhov travelled to the United States to source parts used in the Russian-made Sukhoi fighter aircraft and the American-made F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft.

So what components are those, exactly?
Can anyone comment what this project considers "large optimization problems". More than 2 variables, few hundred variables or many thousands of variables?
Even without quantum effects there are quazillions of molecules in each neuron influencing learning and inference somehow. To what degree the neural architecture tries to void or use these interfering effects is a most interesting question.
That can’t be, uBo was one of the starting extensions for when they created the new version: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/08/07/three-reasons-not-to-upgra...
Facebook (the social app) and Google (Ads, Play Store, etc) are no different. I’ve read countless accounts from many individuals and small/independent app developers about their accounts being suspended or terminated with little to no means of redressal.

I will go on to say that this remains a generally unsolved problem for companies working at scale that are under scrutiny and dealing with financial or social fraud. They are willing to accept false negatives instead of false positives.

I worked in an organization that prided itself with great customer service, and they did deliver. The cost of doing so (resolving each case manually, often giving benefit to the customer) is significant.

Amazon is another prime example of a company that does customer service well - though that might have some consequences on their work culture (mistakes are not easily forgiven - since the cost is so high). Not an apples to apples comparison though, Twitter is ad based (much higher volume/users needed for revenue) unlike Amazon.

More users = more challenges with the same level of staff. That’s how you end up with a cheap processes (lots of automation, outsourced reviews) designed to handle 90% cases vs. an expensive/more thorough process (manual checks by experts along the way) that can handle 99% cases.
Please don't kill me :(
Pixel Watch teardown shows off “ugly” insides, gives strong first-gen vibes
There is somewhat established, half serious, idea in political science to pick a random citizen instead of a general election, I can't remember the name though.

Over time the two systems would converge, and it's much harder to exert undue influence over the candidates when it really could be anybody.

It's one of those ideas that's worth taking seriously even if it's never implemented anywhere.
The Fracking thing was just simple tactical incompetence and thus definitive proof Liz wasn't up to the job.

I think this might cause some second thoughts, at first for Tories, about whether it's actually a good idea to ask their membership who should be Prime Minister.

Many of these MPs knew Liz wasn't fit for this post from the outset, but their own party's rules said they should allow ordinary members (a few thousand people who are disproportionately old, white and male IIRC) to decide from the best two put forward by MPs. The members, in effect, picked the woman who said the things they wanted to hear, even if those things were nonsense. If those members were your general electorate, then arguably the country gets what it deserved - but they're not, they're just the party members. If you thought US party primaries were a bad idea, well, yeah, that.
She didn't jump, she was pushed. The resignation happened immediately after a meeting with the chairman of the party's "1922 Committee" - that's the body that (to greatly simplify) gets to make the rules about how they get rid of their leaders.
It works quite well. There is a lack of precision trying to drag the cursor around on Android, which is made worse on the <$100 quality devices. Using vim's keyboard commands, I can precisely edit text far easier than anything else I have used on a phone. I never used emacs because I'm not a fan of chords, and this is amplified on the phone. However, people who swipe text may like emacs chords over vim's commands and modes.
The Joe Rogan podcast with Vijaya Gadde, Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool gives the outside world a good look at how Twitter is run. They should have been able to wipe the floor with every concern that was raised. Instead Jack Dorsey comes off looking lost and Vijaya Gadde comes off looking like a bad lawyer.
The PPP adjustment is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Real (non-PPP adjusted) GDP per capita in the US is ~50% higher than France's.
I see a certain elegance rather than absurdity in closed cycle green energy storage. Whether H2, NH3, CH4 or something else, chances are that will require high quality CO2 sources. Both CO2 based electric power plants and cement factories look like excellent candidates.

I find the simplicity of compressed CO2 energy storage [0] ten times more elegant, but I'll be happy with any progress towards scalable distributed abundant cheap energy storage.
>> This is what the current terms of service of Copilot say: you as the user are responsible for ensuring you are not breaking anyone's copyright when you accept an auto-completion from Copilot. How you would know that it just spit out someone else's code is unspecified, of course.

This is the key point.

If they were confident that the "generated" code did not violate any copyright or licenses then they would be using Copilot internally or offering indemnity for commercial users of Copilot.

Is Microsoft or Github using Copilot for the proprietary software products they sell? (that is, are they "dog-fooding" Copilot?)

What corporate legal team would be willing to sign off on the use of Copilot for a software product that is sold and distributed?

If the "generated" code is licensed under the GPL and it gets mixed into a proprietary software product then the terms of the GPL have been violated and the proprietary code falls under the GPL.
I think this is looking at things from the wrong perspective

Corporations can be viewed as artificial intelligences. Some components of that corporation are human, such as the marketing professional designing an advertisement or the executive deciding to invest $40 million in IT infrastructure. Some components of that corporation are not human, such as an automated system that sends emails and tracks metrics on the performance of the marketing campaign.

Rather than asking if this or that job will be automated, ask whether the total percentage of (loosely defined) 'stuff' that a corporation does will be more or less human over time? I would argue that the answer is, with decades and decades of evidence, over time corporations will do more and more with fewer humans.

Jobs aren't automated, job functions are. If most "middle manager" job functions are automated, we might still see middle managers but as a smaller percentage of the overall corporation. If some retail functions are also automated, then we might see both stay in the same ratio, but the business is capable of vastly more revenue without increasing the size of the staff.

Regardless, I would think it's largely accepted that in the foreseeable future, corporations will continue to do more 'stuff' with fewer humans.
He does not. Kings have not done this kind of thing out of their own initiative for at least a century or so.
Announced a lot of unfunded tax cuts financed by borrowing - these have now been walked back on. The main issue was not really that she cut taxes, it's the unfunded borrowing to cover. Borrowing with the current high interest rates was always going to be risky and the market didn't have confidence that the cuts would lead to growth. This caused the value of the pound and of UK gov bonds (gilts) to plummet. Several large pension funds (which usually hold large numbers of gilts) were in danger of being margin called, which would cause them to have to sell gilts to cover the responsibility, which would drive down the price further, causing more sell offs. To prevent this the Bank of England (BoE) announced that they would be buying up to £65B of UK gilts - which calmed the markets and prevented a sell off (for now). But it has significantly worsened the economic outly for the country, buying your own bonds at a premium during a period of high inflation is a horrible position to be in.

The gov also declined to get the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) to check the impact of the plans. This is something the OBR does before every budget and it's very unusual that they didn't do this - even though it turns out they offered to before the budget was released. It didn't help that a lot of the taxes cut were targeted for high earners - It's hard to argue how cutting the top 45pc tax rate for earners over £150,000 and dropping a cap on bankers bonuses would help people in the short term (or dare. I say, the long), when the majority of people in the UK were struggling with the massively increased cost of living. It almost seemed as if the conservatives were trying to force through a list of long desired for tax cuts for the wealthy without the proper mandate (as Truss was only. elected by Conservative party members, rather than the general electorate) - and this made her gov monstrously unpopular.
It's odd seeing this on hacker news.

When people on hacker news are literally shadow banned, have their comments hidden with zero feedback or notice.

In fact i guarantee this comment cant be seen either.
It's wrong after all that, 1 (base 10) is 1 base pi, of course. But the argument still works!
Does nature use radio waves? Can anything sense or transmit them in a meaningful way?
Exactly. They somehow managed to do it without men?
A true technocracy would mean a lot of oxygen wasters will lose their jobs, money, livelihood and influence.

It will probably work out better for the citizenry, but I don't see how we'd ever end up there short of a violent revolution - the current system is self-serving first and foremost and will never allow itself to be replaced even if that is the true will of the citizens.
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> hatred that seems to be all we have left in the USA.

UK and USA, they make a very interesting pair https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo...

> Both nations, too, now, are nasty places. They feel so markedly different than the great social democracies of Western Europe and Canada. The atmosphere and mood are ones of constant, omnipresent hostility — to everyone, from everyone
please add a dark theme and the ability to block results from places like instgram
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I'm not sure if it's pure idealism. It feels like in previous era politicians much more prestigious career. And people were valuing prestige over €€€ much more.

Sort of like clothing. Now people want to be comfy and go in tshirts. Previously people were much more invested in community functions.
Cynical but I think it's worth considering that the last couple of PMs to leave might have been offered a comfortable retirement by people around the party in order to not call an election. Not in the "here's a bag of money" sense but pretty close, as in "listen I'll make sure you'll always be on the after dinner circuit".
Poland and Hungary don't, yet fuckers rule them.
Reading the thread; I have to assume whatever rep was in charge of that twitter account had ~no idea what they were talking about. It's just too oblivious to the base concepts involved.
Historically in Westminster systems that hasn't actually been that unusual when the majority party has lost as much public trust as this one seems to have. At a certain point, presiding over an unpopular rump can be more damaging in the long term than letting go and regrouping.

That doesn't seem to be the way current conservative parties operate though.
I see a lot of traps with this. Who manages it and maintains the AI? They have a lot of power over the company and most companies won't have skillset. What happens when there is a crisis (natural disaster, employee walkout)? What happens when there is downtime? What happens when the AI goes off the rails (fed bad data?), who can override it? What happens when the system is compromised?

What are the assigned goals of the AI? Short-term profit, long-term profit, employee retention/satisfaction, public image? Those have to be assigned priority values. Those programmatic goals will likely not align with stated company goals. Will people learn how to game the system?

What is the training data? If the data is biased, will the AI learn the bias? Does the AI understand legal protections? If someone makes a harassment complaint against a coworker, is that input it processes? What if someone requires medical accommodations?

All that said, I support it as a tool to be used by people. I'm just against overreliance and need to be able to gracefully fallback.
Mostly mechanical products like gears, automotive parts, etc. Or products like kitchen cabinets, basin, etc. To give you a general idea. On a small to medium scale.

Thanks for the recommendation!
I enjoyed seeing that Al Franken was the writer of this. Platinum level satire it is.
Not only have you avoided answering the parent's question, you have also avoided answering any of the alternative questions that you posed. Would you care to?
"According to court documents, beginning in 2018, Eriks Mamonovs, 33, and Vadims Ananics, 46, both citizens of Latvia who operated CNC Weld, a Latvia-based corporation, conspired with Stanislav Romanyuk, 37, a citizen of Ukraine and resident of Estonia who operated Estonia-based BY Trade OU, and others, including Janis Uzbalis, 46, of Latvia and individuals in Russia and a Russia-based company, to violate U.S. export laws and regulations and smuggle a jig grinder that was manufactured in Connecticut to Russia." -- Emphasis mine
So what's your response to a country led by an obvious despot that rigs elections and murders high profile citizens outspoken against them, that invades another country as part of an ongoing revanchist campaign and threatens nuclear strikes if you come to its assistance?
The UK is going through a crisis. A recession and inflation and high gas prices. The PM has to take responsibility for those things.
I was temporary host after the move. We had IPs from Wikia's office network vandalizing pages afterward. They literally paid people to vandalize us because we dared detract from Lord Jimbo's holy ad revenue.
He doesn't have any authority, in practice. It has been that way since 1414. The second the monarchy tried to exert control over politics would be the second it was abolished.
> Licensing in this context means "closed/strict licensing which doesn't provide freedoms".

Maybe that's what the commenter meant but that's not what that language means. Open source licenses are, well, licenses, and if you use them then you're licensing your code. The L in GPL stands for license, for example.
Every day that politics has been operating since she took office has been one crisis after another. The first disaster was the mini budget that everyone pointed out and how poorly it was handled, but the nail in the coffin was the chaos in parliament yesterday.

In short, the opposition called a vote on fracking, which is supported by Truss' "pro growth" government, but was opposed in the conservative manifesto. The government declared that anyone who voted against the government (and for what they promised to their constituents when they were elected) would be kicked out of the party. MPs who then tried to vote against the government were reportedly manhandled and assaulted to force them to vote with the government.

There is a whole load of other chaos that happened in the last 24hrs that was just ultimately impossible to recover from.

I think the last 24hr has just proved even to her final supporters that she is completely incapable of leading a government.
One of my favorite C-Span shows was The Prime Minister's Questions[0].

Don't mess with British politicians. Even the grumpiest old dogs can savage most American politicians, as the folks that tried roasting Galloway found out[1].

[0] https://www.c-span.org/series/?PrimeMinisterQue

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5u1skEoqLs
> It's time for an early General Election. Every trace of the Tories must be obliterated.

Sounds like completely unbiased opinion. /s

More seriously, I'm only interested in hearing the arguments for a general election from nominal conservative (Tory) supporters. All arguments from leftists are just "we want to win" in disguise so are completely untrustworthy.

From what I understand of UK politics, Johnson won the last election on policy (he was already PM) and lost his seat because of COVID shenanigans so presumably the Tories still have public mandate to continue the same policies (maybe not the Lizz agenda though).
Uhm, what? I think UK politics is pretty sane actually. It has a lot of problems, but definitely not this almost civil-war-like type of language that you have in the USA. And although the UK is getting worse and worse, there are European countries that still have a worse political environment.
Just an fyi for the author in case he’s around: the CSS for mobile has fumbled the lines, each last word on the script overflows to the next line.
Good. As it exists right now, the Russian government should have zero access to anything.
One important thing for founders to recognize is the thin line of difference between actual individual angels and entities of investors disguising themselves as individual angels (think investor groups and syndicates, partnerships and Special Purpose Vehicles). You could also possibly include a note to that effect in the guide. Otherwise, well structured and well explained.
Our bodies implement a script, which is our genome.

Our genome is not a script --- more like a blueprint.

Once construction is finished, the thoughts and actions of your mind/body are not "scripted" --- unless you *believe* in pre-determination.
Australia uses preferential voting for its federal and state elections
Introduced a set of deep tax cuts. The markets reacted negatively to the implied increase in governmental borrowing. The pound had hit an all time low against the US dollar.

This wiki page contains a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2022_United_Kingdom_...
The donut tutorial is definitely a classic go-to.

A friend of mine has also put together some videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderForge/playlists
To beat a dead horse to a pulp, the Tories are awful at running the country and have no one to blame but themselves.