skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key differences:

* Russia has spent years financially divorcing itself from the West. China has no economy without the West. Being an energy exporter makes you much more independent than being a manufacturer.

* Taiwan is an island. Invading an island is a much harder task. Also very questionable if they actually have the ship capacity to transfer enough troops. You can't just trickle them in.

* The way Ukraine/Russia conflict is going is likely giving them pause.
> governments and companies start making concrete transition to MacOS

Governments are more strapped for money than ever before, I don’t see them paying a huge Apple tax for no benefit at all.
The leading organizer of research in the field thinks it has a 50% chance of being achieved in 15 years.

Specifically, longevity escape velocity being achieved, meaning for each year you live the technology improves fast enough that you get another year.

Whatever can be done to raise the odds is obviously preferable, because there’s also a chance it won’t happen in our lifetime and that would be really bad.
My very short term predictions (1-2 months) e.g. Russian invasion tend to be on point, but my middle term ones (1-2) years are far off, but let's give it a shot.

1. Breakthrough in large scale model training results in an order of magnitude decrease in computational requirements to train Neural Nets.

2. Russia detonates a tactical nuke ahead of Ukraine's assault on Crimea.

3. Putin dies of cancer or assassination.

4. Certain prominent billionaires that happen to own certain major social media platforms are found to be implicated with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

5. Innocent trans people get incarcerated in Texas ( https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ken-paxt... )

6. Multiple right-wing terrorist attacks during pride month. Attacks in gay bars and drag events (which are unrelated to LGBT people) increase to on average 1 per month across the whole year.

7. China will invade Taiwan or be ready for an invasion by 2024.

8. Hungary will be ousted from EU.

9. The church will push the populist Polish government towards more extreme behaviour against LGBT people.
It's weird because:

Recognizing a prime number is an easy task

Recognizing a prime number is an easy task for a computer

Providing erroneous factors is an easy thing to check

I am NOT "showcasing", to the contrary I am showing that this tool is weirdly inaccurate on typical things that any computer would normally compute easily.

I acknowledge that I used the word "weirdly" instead of "surprisingly".
I remember times where free market and private enterprises were huge part of American culture. I miss those times, bloody socialists are going to ruin everything.
One thing I'll add about `props.propertyAccess` over destructuring is that with TypeScript and a good IDE it gives you autocompletion.
I don’t think this is that contrarian of a view.

I, for one, assumed that at least half of HN would agree with you. HN has a skew of people that are pro DDG, but not so much that this is all that contrarian of a view
The scam is still running.
Feels like it indeed
> This will be hopefully mitigated when all PHEVs only run the gas engine as a generator and get rid of the transmission, but I don't think we're there yet.

If it's cheaper then they'll do it.

More generally, you can remove a chunk of the transmission in a hybrid and use a simpler engine even if it's not a generator. The complexity isn't a big deal. And the moderate cost gets offset by significant fuel savings.
A child determined to do this (I also did it) is not the target of such a program. If you're smart enough to do that, you're probably smart enough to pass classes without much effort. Especially given the innate drive to not only discover a new way to bypass the system but also to automate it. Chances are you did well in school, especially in subjects you enjoyed, because being challenged drives you to innovate.

"If you think you can stop a determined kid" is trivializing the matter. Your average child will spend 24 hours a day melting their brain on TikTok. Not reading the ancient tomes of programmers gone by on how to better automate their bypasses. Your example actually demonstrates in a roundabout way that it's not there to stop determined adversaries who are likely self-driven enough to learn anyway. A certain, largely average, cohort of students do not have this ability, will never possess this ability, and will likely with much effort pass with middling grades. These people are highly susceptible to failing when distractions are introduced. Stopping them should be priority number 1 in any school district worth their salt.
Thank you for this snippet. I hate those windows and they seem to always appear on the scammiest of sites.
Write often, about anything.

Perhaps try nicheless.blog, I write there regularly. Given a 300 word limit, I can write one or two thoughts. The word limit necessitates merciless editing, if i care to have a coherent message to say to the reader.

I write about, literally, anything, at first. Writing is a muscle rarely used by anyone. It is a superpower that could be mastered, or at least harnessed, by everyone.

Currently I write about boring ole everyday subjects. Putting in the work. However, I am getting ready to try flash fiction, then perhaps a short story.

Good luck.
Tesla Introduces Its Own $300 Riff on Apple's AirPower
What I did: (1) start a blog, (2) force yourself to write at a specific frequency at all costs, like once a month, (3) plan and schedule future writing topics and times, (4) be very intentional with each sentence and paragraph, and (5) start with an outline for each post and iterate on it before filling in with details.

#5 feels like a superpower to me. It has made writing so much easier. It forces me to really understand (and to realize what I don’t understand) about the topic.
If that's Russia then that should happen. It's too big to have any use on this planet.
This is about language, not thinking. When you use the word could, it usually implies a positive spin on things.
Use chatgpt :)
Yes, I too cracked most of my university's passwords on a UNIX system using a dictionary and a tool in 1995.

There really isn't anything new here.
That makes sense.

I was looking for an instance and they listed their server specs. They were very small servers. Would they be susceptible to simple DDOS?
I don’t see the problem with monetising tour own products.

Keep in mind those were different times, and development tools were one of the things that costed a lot of money.

Microsoft still does a large amount of money off the visual studio tooling.
Yes: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
Globalization is a bit more than just companies setting up shop where labour is cheapest. It is a rules based order that relies on institutions like the World Bank, IMF, a bunch of treaties and other institutions and a set of norms about how relations between States should be constructed. It also relies on an elite consensus that globalization is good. I think there is a sense however that this consensus is breaking down, hence the turn towards nativism in various polities. The increasing willingness of China and Russia to flex their muscles and (re)build regional power blocks means that while international trade may not decrease it may no longer be "global" in the way it is now.
Give kagi (paid) a shot. It's been the only tolerable option for me and has been working well even on obscure searches.
> But they’re actually companies with employees, investors, managers, and other stakeholders. I can’t bring myself to say they have an obligation to put time and money and attention into things they want nothing to do with.

Yeah, but Kickstarter always marketed itself as being synonymous with crowdfunding. It's the website you go to first to try to crowdfund something. That's why unstable diffusion wound up there to begin with, not because they thought it meshed well with the website or its owners, but because Kickstarter has always marketed themselves as being the all-inclusive go-to crowd funding website. In such a place, whose moral compass should guide a decision like this? The CEO? Some angry employees? Credit card processors? etc.

> But if it were me, with my company, I would not want to support projects like Unstable Diffusion, for both ethical and PR purposes. Would you? Would you commit to best effort to support them and help them fundraise, for the principle of it?

I mean, yes, of course. I'm pretty much making it clear that I would do that, for the principle of it. In my opinion that's basically what you're signing up for when you decide to run something like this. Until like 2012 or so, that used to be basically how most internet companies would operate with some exception. And like I said, I understand why it's not as applicable as it used to be; some things have changed. But this decision in particular? Not seeing the point. Seems like an unnecessary concession for a perfectly above-board project. Seems like the middleman getting in the way of the will of two parties without any real valid reason to do so.
> ...get one of few AMD motherboards with matching CPUs and overpriced RAM...

I mean, if you want a _guarantee_, then sure, get one of those certified-for-ECC motherboards.

But, like, as far as I know, going _at least_ far back as the Phenom II (released in 2008) AMD desktop processors have always supported ECC RAM. And -as far as I know- ASUS motherboards for said processors have always supported dropping in ECC RAM (and Linux and memtest and friends have always agreed that ECC was enabled and functioning in such a system).

Source: Personal experience with Phenom II, Threadripper, and Ryzen 5 CPUs and ASUS motherboards, and looking-from-a-distance at the rest of the AMD CPUs between the Phenom and the Ryzen 5.
Disappearing messages are due to land this coming year - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat... is the spec for it.

For metadata protection, we're relying on P2P Matrix (https://arewep2pyet.com) - as if there are no servers (or if the servers are dumb store & forward servers like Signal's) then there's very little metadata. And yes, S&F servers could replicate sealed sender - or even rattle through a mixnet to provide proper traffic analysis resistance (so better than Signal :)
many have already advised to read a lot, write a lot. allow me to add a 2022 piece of advice: ask ChatGPT to review what you write. or rewrite in the style you are trying to achieve.

let us know how it goes :)
I stopped reading at the dog kingdom.

A few chapters in, it felt like I had been baited with a veneer of scifi over a core of anthropomorphic medieval historical fiction. Do the dogs connect back to the AIs in a satisfying way? Should I give it a second chance? ChatGPT says

As the story progresses, the puppies become involved in the larger
conflict that is taking place in the galaxy, and they play a key role
in helping the human and alien characters achieve their goals.
The puppies' involvement with the artificial intelligences (AIs) in the
story is a central part of the plot, and the resolution of the conflict
between the puppies and the AIs is an important part of the story's
resolution.

which I take as a "yes." Any humans care to weigh in?
In a hard fork, all rules can be changed.
wow he's still around!
When you talk to RPG fans now you’re find a lot of people who like the idea of RPGs and Kickstarter superbackers who’ve never played a game. Feels like you’re talking to the audience at an improv show.

Some would call my comment gatekeepy. I’m just wondering why everyone is choosing to sit outside of an open gate?

The people who started playing with 5th ed. are about to go through their first “Edition War”. Their true journey is about to begin.
Worth noting that these drills aren't really newsworthy. They occur in international waters, have been ongoing since 2019, and are smaller than the drills the US has conducted in the South China Sea.
The story inspired the Simpsons line, but doesn’t actually come from the story.
I wish image editors would come with tools specifically for redaction. A solid colored box works but it's ugly or makes it hard to tell that there was anything written there at all.

What could be better is adding noise that matches the dominant 2 colors of the selection and focuses near areas of contrast. Then you can apply the pixellation on top of that and get something that's tougher to reverse.

Alternatively, it could try to recognize where the text and replace it with a string of random characters that are around the same size. In that case there would be absolutely no way to get back the original text since it's gone before the pixellation is even applied.
I know it’s the social-popular thing, shit on their behavior and all - but this is just plain wrong.

China is building up, they’re the real historical successor the “it’s Hitler all over again” rather than Russia (maybe they get to be Italy?)

Not only that, but “tough” animals will signal greatly their desire to fight before engaging in the actual fight to intimidate their opposition. The actual fight will come at great cost regardless of power.

Hard times coming our way…
Ibm most likely had many multi-years (decades?) long contracts.

Stuff like mainframes assure, at least, decades of support contracts.
HelloSilicon – An introduction to assembly on Apple Silicon Macs
Tell me you've never tried to teach children without telling me you've never tried to teach children.
Staring at Decisions
Yup, I have seen that with bots too lol.

I have an idea for a social network (for a lack of an adequate word), one of the rules would be you can't downvote without a comment and most moderation happens at the edge (clients apply moderation by user controlled settings) but harmful and illegal content can also be moderated through 51% consent of participants electing/certifying censorship authority in the authority domain.

With HN though, i wonder how much is manual vs algorithmic reaction to downvotes/flagging. Either way shadow modding goes against honest and valuable discord.
Remember when you were a kid and you did things out of curiosity, to see what would happen? That's the mindset you need in this case. No real harm is done by picking the "wrong" instance.
I highlight important points, then take a snapshot of the highlight, paste it into an outliner, and add my thoughts about the point to the same item in the outliner.

My reader can also display other file types and webpages, so I treat them in the same way.

I wrote my reader-outliner but can't mention it here as that leads to angry comments, and I have been banned twice here for doing so. Look in Apple's app store under Education.
Oh this is fantastic news:)

Thank you so much for the excellent work yall do
Of course Kickstarter as a company can do nearly whatever it wants and ban certain types of crowfunding campaigns, it's just sad to see this happening left and right in many fields.

At least in this case someone can just choose a different platform (and in fact Unstable diffusion has switched to some else); if you run a website and CloudFlare thinks your website is morally bad (likely because some people complained, otherwise there is no incentive to do anything), good luck defending yourself from DDoS attacks; if the Mastercard/VISA duopoly caves to public pressure and bans your organization you are basically done (even if what you're doing is completely legal).
Which instance was a tricky point for me. And then suddenly one of my options wasn't accepting new members (turned out to be temporary). I now have an account that I'm not using on an instance that is semi-blocked by other instances, because of abuse/spam. And I do have an account that I actually use.

I thought I had to weigh:

1. Will this instance be blocked and become useless
2. Will this instance go away because it's the altruistic hobby of someone who will be overwhelmed by users/traffic or graduate in the next year.
3. Is my content acceptable for a topical mastodon? (I'm on mathstodon, is it ok to post about cooking?)

All of these can probably be hand-waved away with "you can just...", but they were a concern to me as an onboarding user.
I don't know - is it interesting that the US govt. used its influence to conceal Twitter influence campaigns that served to justify and whitewash the kind of military operations whose ugliness Manning revealed [1]?

What happens in US military expeditions is 10/10, but how they are sold to the US and global audience is 2/10?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111071
How did you get from stadium to police? The whole idea why people organize themselves in countries is to ensure internal and external safety and thus that everyone pay taxes for police, army and courts. Everything else is an addition and in my opinion even undesired to fund by whole community - you can always organize fundraiser or start a private enterprise for such things.
So I'm an idiot if I avoid things that are unpleasant but won't harm me? And again, speed doesn't matter if I'm not in the car.

Or I'm an idiot if I would rather idle than pour alcohol on my windshield?

> If the weather is as cold as it gets here in Scotland in winter, the car will never warm up sitting idling.

Okay, then that person is an idiot, but it doesn't extend to the people actually warming up their car.
They weren't just a Bing proxy. They also mixed in Yandex results which were obvious when they were links to Russian language sites.
You’re right, if we do nothing, everything will be OK. Just look at Ukraine. They left Russia alone, and Russia left them alone
Another key difference with email is that it's easy (the default) to find email providers that are overtly content-neutral, whereas Mastodon, for whatever reason, makes that shockingly difficult.
Are you sure? Just some back of the napkin math: S&P 500 is 5.17 times higher since the bottom of 08. BRKB is 6 times higher. And performance this year is even more dramatic. S&P is down 20%. BRKB is up 3%. In 08, too, the decline in Berkshire was much less than the S&P. Clearly Berkshire has been a better bet at most points in time.
Seriously. My joke when Windows users say they don't know how to use Linux is that they don't know how to use Windows either but that doesn't stop them.
Where does ChatGPT get its input data from that it turns into responses / "knowledge"?

Humans create it in the first place. Without human creation, ChatGPT won't have anything to work with.
Come on now. I just told in what sense ZFC has not been replaced, and you mentioned something different. No one ever claimed people actually wrote down their proofs in ZFC - again, that was never the purpose.

> Are there any which don’t exclusively apply to the mechanics of set theory itself?

Forcing has been applied to a variety of statements, including those about "normal" mathematics. The first example that comes to mind is the question of whether all automorphisms of the Calkin algebra are inner (Farah, 2011). There are many, many others.

> That the equivalence of algebra/geometry commutes with the equivalence of proof/computation has two practical effects:

You have still not given a statement an ordinary mathematician should be interested in! Type theory might good for engineering things - I'm totally on board with that. But if you claim HoTT has meta-mathematical interest, you need to give a meta-mathematical justification. That is, you need to prove something new (and interesting).
One can also embed tweet with nitter by adding /embed in the end and with iframe tag.
Eg: https://nitter.fly.dev/mhevery/status/1606438382561026049/em...

Pagespeed score: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https://nitter.fly.dev/...

reference: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/515
If you signed up only a month ago, that means your pbkdf2 iterations were set to a non-trivial value (presumably the default 100100, but you can verify this in advanced settings). This insulates you very well against brute forcing.
Fraud Self Driving
Building a book review grid with a Query Loop block variation
You can start by asking John Mastodon:

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

You can sort by interest.
The problem with ‘next-gen’ gadgets
Values are always cheap to have until you hit a case that tests them.

It turns out that Kickstarter didn't really want the ones it had
I like using it as a quick diagnostic to figure out if a given window is running natively or under Xwayland. If the eyes follow your mouse when you hover over the window, it’s still using Xwayland, if they don’t move, it’s a native Wayland application.
Slight correction: alleging Donald Trump's government was doing unconstitutional acts.

Which we know they did, in spades, in other contexts; but I've seen no evidence in the "Twitter files" to indicate anything illegal was going on in this context. The government briefed Twitter that they expected disinformation campaigns and to be on the lookout for them. The government also flagged a bunch of tweets as "hey, these are sus and might violate your rules, you ought to take a look" like anyone else can do.

Whatever Musk and Taibbi are trying to cook up, they seem to have forgotten who was running the federal government at the time. It wasn't Joe Biden or tHe LiBeRaLs. The whole thing is stupid.
>New wars start based on drone
That's so dystopian.
California is a great state? I guess the mass exodus over the last several years is just simply people leaving in excitement.

California is not great. It hasnt been great for a long time. It's hostile to anyone who is not the elite while also mascarading as a progressive paradise. The problem with people leaving is they export the same politics that got California to it's position as a working class hostile state. In the most common states, Oregon, Nevada, and Texas Californians are looked at with great disdain. It tells you something, at least, when even a left-leaning state like Oregon doesn't want you.
I am curious about this too. I deleted my account last year.
This. But more importantly, you trust their judgement when it comes to moderation and defederation.

While you don't understand these issues, you can either rely on somebody else's advice for that, or join a server at random and see what happens. Unless you've joined the new Gab, you should be okay – if anything goes wrong you can just migrate to another server.

As for the things you've mentioned: you shouldn't assume your communication is private anywhere on Mastodon (there's some encryption proposals, but that's a long road from now), and you definitely should use different passwords for different websites.
"Everyone learns from experience: fools from their own, the wise from others' "

We're all human, so there's still a lot we can learn from the less than complete self-criticism of others (whether we acknowledge our own eye-beams or not).

Incidentally, I once read of a latin author who had been exiled to Marseille, and corresponding with a friend, reporting (like Aesop's fox?) that the figs there were by far the best he'd ever had. I've never been able to re-discover this anecdote, leading me to think I might have dreamt it, but could it have been Cicero? If he had been eating a lot in exile, and was exiled in Marseille, I'll have to dig around that period...
GoToSocial seems to be a much better fit for a single user instance and it should be able to run on a scaleway stardust instance for €1.80 a month.

I was considering running mastodon too but someone mentioned this here and it does indeed look great
No, calling this harm is sadly laughable.

If teachers can be so boring that the t-rex game outcompetes them for the attention of students then the problem is teachers not the game.

I understand that not al teachers can be like Richard Feynman or Tatiana Erukhimova or Walter Lewin but surely we should expect them to be better than the t-rex game.

Many schools have wardens instead of teachers.