skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we do need is that European politicians wake up and realise that maintaining stable supplies in time of crisis is more important than short-term profits during relatively good times. Some investments in self-sufficiency are definitely needed, but the EU as a whole should have no problem ramping up production of the basics like food, steel, concrete and energy. That is, of course, assuming someone does something about it. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has rattled a lot of people and while the EU is a slow moving beast it is already responding.

I'm more worried about how to make the economy of it all work out. Someone is going to pay for all that it's going to be through taxes, and whomever gets that lottery ticket might not respond as expected (big Tech may decide to leave, smaller business could decide to simply shut down, regular people may cheat on taxes or start building guillotine replicas in public places, and so on.).
I‘ll add that- yes, it’s only on Telegram!
I know the guy in person. I was going to send him the link and tell him "look, it's you!". But turns out he already knew and left that comment.
More like "some" video games.

On one end you have lads playing video games who turn out to be good managers/workers in tech. On the other end, you have socially stunted lads who gradually find themselves falling down the "incel" rabbit hole.
Distributing binaries with Common Lisp and foreign libraries
You can tell he studied Zoology at university - the premise of the Shadows of the Apt book is that races are based on insects and sea creatures!
> ust as anecdote, I don't have whatsapp groups for my fb groups

Exactly that, that the personal updates for close friends and family that we used to post on FB are now posted on several dedicated WhatsApp groups. Yes, that means that that former highschool colleague who you'd met once in the last 20 years won't get to see them, but it's still social.

> Facebook is aggressively promoting its own chat for groups,

Could be, but the WhatsApp interface when it comes to group chats is way nicer and more intuitive (especially when it comes to sharing photos).
Deaths for people inside cars have been decreasing, deaths for all other people, such as pedestrians or cyclists, have been rising.
I think this is a problem if you take one paper and then you weight its conclusion at 100%. It's less so if you take all of the conclusions and realize they all have a weight (maybe 0). But I think that's true for every source of information.

My approach is to avoid framing things in terms of "now I know x is true", and instead look at it in terms of "someone believes (or wants me to believe) x is true". I then weigh all of those beliefs as I observe the world around me. I resign myself to never really knowing anything myself, but having some idea of what different schools of thought are on a given topic.

If you move your information gathering further along the chain, to maybe a text book, or some expert's twitter feed, why should these things be more reliable? If they've correctly come upon the consensus view, you still have to consider that informing you of the truth night not be their first priority. They could be after money, advancement in their field, political agendas, and (though less likely) they still could be just plain wrong.

So they're more likely to know the truth, but you're still unable to evaluate whether they're giving it to you or not.
From [2]:
> Die Autonome Antifa Freiburg (AAF) hat interne Chats der Verbindungen veröffentlicht, aus denen weitere Details hervorgehen.

Roughly:
> The Autonomous Antifa Freiburg has released internal chats from that association which give more detail.

How does a local antifa group get access to internal chats of a Burschenschaft?
If someone doesn't have high coverage you can sue them directly. The reason most people have a million in coverage as the when it is that high it is really hard to convince the courts your damages are more that. Plus if they actually are your liability is so much that you will never be able to pay up. Lawyers will always ask for the maximum liability even if they actual costs you should owe is more than that because insurance can pay, but you cannot anyway so it isn't worth. However if their liability coverage is only $10k it is worth sueing them for a million - insurance will pay $10k, they will then have to figure out how to get the rest - which basically means it ruins their life.

This is why you need to have enough insurance. If you make a mistake (odds are you will), you want enough money such that you can pay off whoever you wronged without it killing the rest of your life.
Because youtube ads respond almost instantly to changing the settings, you can normally get a pretty good idea of whether you are getting any return.
> Meta: Meta has always run 3 separate products either way. Spinning off the loser (Facebook), and the non-social networking product (WhatsApp)

You don't think of it as a social networking product, but it is used as such. I consider Discord social media, and WhatsApp is honestly a text only Discord competitor in the grand scheme of things, all the group chats are reminiscent of Discord servers, but for people who dont care about all that Discord has to offer, even if they never heard of Discord. I would absolutely include chat platforms under social media.
Why do you think that there's something that it's like to be a rock? Assuming panpsychism, you still need to come up with a reason that consciousness is aggregating at the "rock" level, rather than at the mineral crystal level or what not.
100%

I see you posting an opinion I agree strongly with here often. Glad you’re still at it.

I will offer a positive side to this situation. Their war against math proves the math works and they don’t have an internal workaround. Since a war against math is bound to fail in long term (just like the war on vegetables aka “war on drugs”), short term victories of oppression won’t shut down the future.

The children angle is insidious, especially when whistle blowers, reporters, and power players in revealing high up people involved in pedophilia seem to all magically have unfortunate accidents. It is a tool to emotionally manipulate a population which is ravenous against pedophilia. A very effective one. I look forward to the day these people are all held accountable.
Same. At the end of the day it's just a handful of minigames. I remember I had a trackball at the time which made the jousting minigame nearly impossible for me, but others were fine.

Also, there was the time when pre-teen me stumbled across the somewhat hidden "nude" scene and thought he hit the jackpot.
Businesses don't use Stripe or PayPal to transfer money, they use them to accept card payments. Bank transfers are much cheaper, but customers want to pay with their cards.
Why wasn't Microsoft included in this list? They have more overlap with Amazon and Google then Meta does.
(2006) last update, by the look of it.
Ask HN: Fellow dads, I need help with a baby monitor (electronics question)
Fellow dads,

Our baby monitor is rated for 6 volts, and comes with an appropriate adaptor.

In my part of the world, electricity supply is unreliable (we get cut off for a couple hours at a time).

As such, we've gotten used to using these little Lithium Ion battery kits to power small appliances (such as the WiFi router) - they work great!

I have a spare little battery kit as described above, and it has two voltage output options, namely 5 volts and 7 volts (I can select between the two with a switch).

The baby monitor is rated for 6 volts, so I'm wondering - can I use this battery kit? And if so, should I switch it to 5 volts or to 7 volts?

Any significant risks at such low voltages given that it won't be exactly 6 volts?

My knowledge of electronics is minimal, so apologies in advance if this is an ignorant question ^_^

Thanks a bunch!
'I was deceived': NFL players raise questions about Prolanthropy
Weaker europe generally, industry in europe shutting down (and US industry still running), demilitarization of europe (relying more on US), billions of weapons destroyed that will need to be bought again, and since the european industry is fucked, they'll be buying US made weapons, selling gas to europe at inflated prices, etc.
Scribble Diffusion: Turn your sketch into a refined image using AI
Thank you all for great advice! I have spent time in Norway and loved it. I’m aware of how dark it can get, but it doesn’t phase me. Also, skiing is something I love
The Cost of Deglobalization
The market is small anyway. Better have customers at all. Mabe the customers are not "locked in", but happy that there are remaining offerings.

See the pricing for commercial Smalltalk. Same thing.
Yes, but gg allowed you to remove them.
They got away with Zyklon B, they can get away with anything.
> Rising energy costs are only half the truth. "BASF to Cut 2,600 Jobs after losing 2 billions in Russian investments " could be the other headline.

... and still has enough money left over to pay dividends.

Mass layoffs should be banned as long as a company still has money left to pay shareholders. Having rank-and-file employees suffer the first for corporate misgovernance instead of the shareholders who failed in their duty to keep corporate leadership accountable is disgusting.
Good on your n=1 data, but pedestrian fatalities have been steadily increasing for the last decades.

Also, nothing to do with "being stupid", if there are cars going 60mph right next to where you're walking, it's the luck of the draw whether you get decapitated by a truck or not.
Perhaps: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/
Adult octopi eat younger ones.
I think a "Omnicient"/"Time-travel" debugger with strong tracing support would be interesting.

I'd like to be able to take a recorded run and add tracepoints after the fact, and be able to toggle them on and off, or add or modify conditions on the output, watching the trace change as I do it.

When I looked at the Pernosco demo it looked like it had the capabilities to do this sort of thing, but only a rather primitive user interface.
> One way to increase awareness of these proposals would be for E2EE messengers to include an in-app notice and call to action, for customers in affected countries.

I think this is a really cool, low-cost/effort way to raise awareness.

Makes me wonder if this could be used against those apps somehow. We all know some countries' governments are quite coerceful and scummy...
If there is a phsyical principle that stops QCs from working, then trying to build QCs is probably the best way to make progress in fundamental physics.
Germany does have a plan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
You really expect us to be at war with China?
Pool day is the undisputed king.
I first played the NES version and I still fire it up in an emulator from time to time. I still enjoy the variety of the gameplay: attacking and defending castles, raiding, rescuing the princess, and of course jousting.
It would be great for a modern game to give more depth to it. Maybe add some tower defense like elements for building up castles or something.
They get to reap what they have sown. That, or they should have factored in the 4x higher natural gas prices at which the Americans are providing them with (compared with the prices of Russian gas) since the very beginning.
Could it be that it renders the sunlight at the appropriate time of year to be on that face of the mountain?
I always want to be on the sunny side of the mountain in summer...
YouTube also functions as a network offset, no? Egress from YouTube helps balance ingress from everything, which should lead to cheaper network settlement.

I worked in WANOPS at Microsoft in the 90s, so my understanding of billing is literally decades old.
I'd be surprised if we'd completely emptied the Baltic and Baltic seas of oil in 20 years, and if we do, there are alternatives.
Hi. Author here. This is the first in a series I've been writing for a while to help orient people about useful perspectives to have in catching up to all that's happening in AI/ML. It's based on what I've seen in the industry and the nlp company I work with (Cohere, where the post is hosted).

This article has the first four points (out of thirteen) that are useful to keep in mind. They are:

1- Recent AI developments are awe-inspiring and promise to change the world. But when?

2- Make a distinction between impressive cherry-picked demos, and reliable use cases that are ready for the marketplace

3- Think of models as components of intelligent systems, not minds

4- Generative AI alone is only the tip of the iceberg

---

The article goes into each one with more detail. Welcoming all feedback and perspectives as we collectively figure out this new frontier.
A gun is self defence incarnate.

The right to effective self defence is a natural right and requires no license.

Americans use guns defensively hundreds of thousands times a year.

Encryption can very much be used to facilitate murder.

Your data is not as important as your life.
The risk a payment processor (credit card, PayPal, etc) takes on when handling your transaction is proportional to the size of the transaction. Basically, if you draw out the complete state transition diagram, there are some terminating states where PayPal is left holding the bag. So to cover that risk you have to charge a percentage - of course, the percentage gets bumped up (perhaps dramatically so) to make a profit, but you’ll never escape percentage charges with payment processors.

How do banks, crypto, etc.
operate without charging percentages? I don’t know if it’s a completely sensible distinction to make but I think of them as processing transfers rather than processing payments. A payment is money in exchange for something, there’s customer rights involved, if the something isn’t provided the money can be clawed back (e.g. chargebacks). A transfer is just a raw “moving money” operation, there’s fewer customer rights involved, if you transfer to the wrong account you just lose the money. Basically, draw out the state transition diagram for a raw transfer and there’s fewer end states where the institution ends up on the hook - few enough that it’s safe to offer flat or no fees.
He has been talking about repartitioning Poland since 2022

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/16074873454939340...

https://www.quora.com/Russian-politician-Medvedev-imagines-a...

Putin was saying for 10 years the fall of the Soviet Union was the biggest tragedy ever. On face of the current shaky military situation, and the possibility that China might consider a large war in Ukraine as strategically advantageous. I would say better starting taking them at their declared intentions, even if their word is known to value nothing...
> registry

Registrar. You can't buy directly from the registry unless you become registrar yourself.

Some other important tips:

- make sure auto-renew is enabled with a reliable credit card

- make sure to update your personal data once a year. Registrars are mandated by the registry to send a reminder email once a year, but for an important domain I'd also set a recurring reminder every year, 2 weeks before expiration to make sure that everything is ok. You probably shouldn't "setup and *forget*" your domain names

- if you can afford it, make sure to register multiple years at once, the max is usually 10 years, but I'd recommend registering for only 9 years, because if you need to transfer to another registrar for some reason, the registration will be bumped 1 year. If you're already at 10, you're stuck.
I’m surprised that Gopher does not really predate WWW.
Globalization is at odds with national level anti-trust. The past has shown that international companies supported by their governments would eat away at the smaller US companies.
I was unimpressed by the arguments in the article.

Focus implies that Alphabet cannot avoid being over controlling (why? Any evidence other than idle speculation?) whereas devotion to increasing quarterly shareholder value would somehow be hands off (LOL has the author ever worked for a megacorporation?), or eventually being bought out by a (probably overcontrolling) competitor (Disney? Netflix?) would by some miracle be less overcontrolling than Alphabet currently is. With a side dish of the assumption that Youtube would be better off with less control and oversight. Why is that?

The second argument is also weak. The claim is there are two ways to being ad sales in-house at Youtube (they... aren't already?) one is paying financial market middlemen billions to do a corporate split such that there will only (temporarily?) be in house sales dept, the other option is a cheap, probably money saving, departmental re-org. "We can save money by making a giant pile of cash and lighting it on fire". Naah, not taking the bait, doesn't sound profitable.

The third argument is the author is some kind of insider and our toothless and ineffective unelected regulators hate google more than they hate facebook (solely because he claims it to be the case), so splitting from google would reduce government regulation. I mean, we're just making stuff up at this point, aren't we?

The forth, unnumbered, argument is a restatement of the first argument, that Alphabet is inherently and uncontrollably hypercontrolling so "freeing" Alphabet from hypercontrolling responsibilities WRT youtube would allow better micromanagement of various AI projects. Now wait a minute, the first argument was Alphabet's theoretical control issues are "bad" therefore YT should leave, why is the forth argument that toxic management is somehow good when its applied to new AI divisions? I have a better idea, if the author repeatedly restates that Alphabet management is incompetent and detrimental to everything it touches, why let it ruin AI along with ruining Youtube, why not push to implement better leadership at Alphabet so all the orgs underneath Alphabet would benefit? I'm just saying if the repeated theme of the article is Alphabet is a "rats deserting the sinking ship" argument, well... why not fix the ship so its not sinking instead of coming up with elaborate and expensive evacuation processes? If Alphabet management is toxic therefore YT should leave to avoid it, then a couple paragraphs later claiming Alphabet management is toxic therefore they need to manage AI even harder, doesn't make sense.
What Web3 and climate change have in common
Western Europe isn't mining iron ore and making the raw steel. They're most likely importing steel ingots and finishing them. Everything has to be shipped in: the energy, the iron and raw steel. And then everything has to be shipped back out to it's final destination.

At some point, these industries are going to pivot closer to the raw materials and the actual consumers, the growth economies in the 3rd world. Western Europe won't be a major player.
> It is definitely the case that YouTube gets lots of really cheap compute by being part of Google. But that isn't a bad thing, they are making use of an otherwise wasted resource, effectively lowering the cost for products that need daytime capacity to serve humans.

Google could rent this compute capacity to the masses, allowing for healthier competition.
In-Jar Signing for the JVM
We know, but what is the other option? The Americans want European industry to be destroyed and Europe to be dependent on their LNG.

Sure, it'd have been best to invest in nuclear power (and nuclear fusion research) for the last 30 years, but right now that isn't a quick solution.
> like food, steel, concrete and energy.

Honest question, exactly how are they planning to do that absent cheap and abundant energy? Afaik the energy resources present in the Northern Sea are not up to the task (for re-industrialising the whole of Western Europe, that is).
> products built on papers

This is the key to everything else. There is built in reproducibility and amplification of new, functional ideas in the ML community.

For the most part in life sciences, papers are published to achieve current grant aims and write future grants that will be funded. You can be an academic and love your research area and be ultra-passionate about it, but at the end of the day, grants are the end product that you are working for.

Your science does not have to work or be replicated, all you need to do is publish papers that make grant reviewers think you are reliable enough to not waste federal grant money. Nobody on the grant review board has time to look carefully to see if you papers are not fraudulent.

Let’s look at physics on the early 20th century, which had progress even faster than today’s machine learning research. Massive upheavals and rapid progress in understanding our world, including 4 different models of the atom (including the most correct one we still use today) and general relativity. What’s the difference to today’s life sciences? At the important epicenters of the day, working in the field was 1) contributing new observations, 2) directly testing somebody else’s theories with an experiment.

In today’s world, very rarely will somebody contribute new observations without an underlying motivation (get new grant money, advance current grant claims). And nobody has the time or resources to test other people’s ideas with new experiments. Why? Cause research is expensive and you would need a grant to fund a replication. And no government body funds those grants.

Disclaimer: there’s people in life sciences in some fields doing good work.
You must have never looked at a map of NATO expansion over the last several decades.
Afaik they are not abundant enough.
Foreign data wrappers.

"During a query that references any remote tables on a foreign server, postgres_fdw opens a transaction on the remote server if one is not already open corresponding to the current local transaction. The remote transaction is committed or aborted when the local transaction commits or aborts. Savepoints are similarly managed by creating corresponding remote savepoints."
Hitting companies with antitrust when consumers have is a terrible idea. Antitrust laws were made to prevent monopolies giving consumers choice and preventing them from getting screwed.

Amazon is e-commerce, i have multiple choices to shop on web. Amazon has even benefited the consumer by forcing retailers speed up shipping. For cloud hosting, there are alternatives to AWS. There’s healthy competition in both fields.

Meta the consumer is the advertiser. They are the ones spending the money. For advertising, there are different channel and mediums. You could buy billboard ads, tv/radio ads, direct mail etc. Competition is very healthy.

Google the same thing. The consumer are advertisers. Thats the market.

Lets compare major anti-trust actions. Standard oil was the pretty much the sole source of oil in the US. Consumers had no choice. ATT another major antitrust case where there was just one telecom company in the US. Kodak where they were controlled all the film market.
Yea, this is the answer. If it’s easy to file a complaint, scammers will just file a million complaints to (wrongly) win 1%, and walk away with the $
I disagree with this reasoning on the grounds that quality (however that may be defined) is only one of many factors that influence Linux distro popularity.

FWIW, my unrequested opinion, is that I largely agree that Pop!_OS is one of, if not the, best consumer distros.
I can't agree.

Ultimately, the article argues for spinoff because of 1) focus, 2) more subscription experimentation, and 3) regulators.

But there's zero evidence YouTube is a distraction, it's already done lots of experimenation with subscriptions, and YouTube seems like the last of regulators' concerns with Alphabet.

I do think it's true there isn't a whole lot of strategic synergy between YouTube and Google or the rest of Alphabet. It's not like YouTube and Maps reinforce each other the way Docs and Slides do.

But the biggest argument for keeping them together is that there are large economies of scale, mainly regarding datacenters and edge nodes and all of the like, and that for this reason alone YouTube is an essentially perfect part of Alphabet's portfolio.