skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I do feel Russia has had a very valid argument regarding the NATO threat and USA has been aware of this for a long time, still they decided to poke the bear.

There's a good talk from Mike McFaul at Stanford [1] who outlines how Russia under Putin for the longest time was interested in joining NATO. Putin saw NATO as an opportunity, not a threat. NATO is a scapegoat - what Putin really seems to be afraid of is the fall of dictatorships and the rise of democracies around him, and he thinks the US is behind it. So he is anti-US, but the whole anti-NATO thing is a false narrative - Putin is anti-democracy. The talk explains it very well.

> USA sabotaged the Russian-German pipeline and all Western mass media acts like nothing has happened.

Why would the US do that? I don't see the motivation. The current narrative, that it was a faction of the Ukraine, seems the most plausible to me. Russia had no incentive to blow it up either.

> All the Western politicians that are pushing for war will not be on the frontlines themselves and most likely neither will their children.

True. But then again, right now we're in a situation where most politicians are actually rather conservative about the war. Just think about how long it took for heavy artillery and tanks to be shipped to Ukraine. Even now that the US and Germany are sending tanks, very few European nations are following suit - not even some that previously touted loudly that they were ready to send them, and that only Germany was holding them back.

Both Europe and the US are acting rather carefully, for better or worse. The West is definitely not in the business of warmongering.

> It’s a shame the Western world and Ukraine deceived Russia with the Minsk accords, as Germany recently admitted [0]. We didn’t have to be in this situation.

This is the article that your source refers to: https://www.zeit.de/2022/51/angela-merkel-russland-fluechtli...

Unfortunately it's paywalled, but I did sign up (their 1€ trial offer was cheap enough, and I'm German, so easy for me to read). I don't think the WSWS article you linked to cites fairly. While the citation is accurate, it jumps over one main fact:

At the time when the Minsk agreement was made, Russia had illegally de-facto annexed parts of Ukraine. Everyone knew it, even though Russia called it "separatists". Putin didn't have the guts to start an all-out war back then, that took a few more years, but the fact that the majority of these separatists were Russian soldiers was widely reported back then already. Given that Russia had started destabilising Ukraine and annexing parts of it, Merkel's comment of buying the Ukraine time to prepare for more aggressive action from Russia is perfectly reasonable, and in hindsight also the correct political action.

Russia wasn't deceived with the Minsk accords. Russia was already the aggressor back then. We wouldn't have this war if Russia wasn't invading its neighbour.

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[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbzf0ix2G5I
>US has only ever been in favour of free trade when it benefits them

Except there is no freedom of investment in China right now. All US corporations are being forced to minority shares and joint ventures with government entities, not to mention Entertainment (movies, games) and Internet companies are outright banned from that market altogether.

>did similar things with tariffs against Japan in the late 1980s

Japan did exactly the same thing China does today. Foreign currency quota and ownership limits "MITI'S SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN CONTROLLING JAPAN'S TECHNOLOGY IMPORTS" https://www.jstor.org/stable/43294946 And it worked wonderfully for them.

Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1990/09/30/j...

"JAPAN AND THE BIG SQUEEZE September 30, 1990. HOW DID Japan destroy the American television industry? The secret history of that strategy reveals how Japanese manufacturers and the Japanese government first created an anti-competitive cartel ..."

"Japan's raid on the American market dates back to 1956, when the largest Japanese manufacturers formed the Home Electronic Appliance Market Stabilization Council, an illegal production cartel. The intent of the cartel was to monopolize the domestic market for television receivers, radios and other home electric products and to exclude foreign imports. Once their home market was secure, they would launch a drive against the far richer American market."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-04-23-870131...

"TARIFFS WON`T AFFECT MOST JAPANESE TV SETS Apr 23, 1987 The new tariffs on Japanese color televisions will have little or no effect on the U.S. market, because most sets are exempt."
> Nor can we control rogue users making rogue AI.

Any uncontrolled group that creates an AI can either find a body of safety research accessible to them, or not. Preparing the former is hardly a lost cause.
The examples (except the very last ffmpeg command) are quite underwhelming:

- "The latest mp4...." well no, that ls command won't give the latest download, or rather, the latest in alphabetical order.

- tail command gives an error... can't you fucking tell which one? Initially I thought it found an error in the log, like a `modprobe nvidia` exiting 1 error and it was going to try to fix it.

- Searching for `sudo` usage was very painful in that screenshot, and the tool didn't ever come to recommend `sudo` themselves

- The list of files seem to have forgotten what we were trying to do (yes I do realize that saying "underwhelming" for a chatbot that can't keep context is so 2023)

- The only `sudo` URLs that worked were those where it's literally <baseurl>/sudo (well that's not surprising, it's a known flaw of most LLMs)

Also, I don't think there were any example (except ffmpeg) that weren't done more easily by hand.

That being said, the progression over time is impressive, and LLM are already useful for programming, maybe they'll be able to take the wheel the way this tool intent it to in just a few months.
Yes, of course there is...

https://github.com/01org/tpm2.0-tools
http://trousers.sourceforge.net

You can also emulate a TPM in recent versions of QEMU...

https://tpm2-software.github.io/2020/10/19/TPM2-Device-Emula...

I wrote a couple of scripts meant to help me lock down a machine for colocation in this "BitLocker" type manner. And, as luck would have it, lol... I'll (again) shamelessly self-promote the Show HN I wrote just a short while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35066894
On the topic of artificial sweeteners, what is the current cutting-edge research on Aspartame and Acesulfame K which is what Coca-Cola use in Europe. And I drink a lot of it.
There are multiple libraries and software giving you a gateway, but there's no public gateway. It would fall into problematic use in less than an hour because of the insanity that IP is, and it would completely contradict the whole idea of being decentralized
Hasn't aspartame been demonstrated to be a carcinogen?

Legit question, I stopped following these developments a few years ago and things were still pretty much in the air then.
On top of fiber, it's just easier to drink than to eat. Mulching 3 whole oranges and drinking them (fiber and all) is still a lot easier than chewing through them. Also, it takes a bit for the fiber filling you up signal to get to the brain.
> But, if we allowed him to produce some tokens in silence prior to answering

Depending on how the model is implemented this is already the case. Transformers just predict the next token but usually we don't just greedily pick the most likely next token as doing this produces cases where the model just repeats the same sentence or spams tokens it really likes (the enter key). Some more sophisticated techniques, like beam search, produce a different sequences of tokens and try to maximise the score across all tokens in the sequence.
You're describing one of the unofficial fan-written fanfic sequels.
I suppose it depends on my relation to the person, if I was hiring a personal chef I would probably go with master of one assuming what they were a master of was cooking and if I was hiring a handy man a jack of all trades would be fairly useful but I suppose that would make him a master of a different sort.
Are you saying that React is bad because a Junior Developer cannot bother to think about caching or at least open introductory materials before using a framework? If that's the kind of problems you deal with, that makes React one of the greatest framework ever.
See discussion on the EA Forum

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7b9ZDTAYQY9k6FZHS/...
It feels so miserable that we make important life and financial decisions based on video content.
> ridiculous ... something out of a tv show.

"Many countries have banned or temporarily limited access to Facebook. Use of the website has also been restricted in various ways in other countries. As of July 2022, the only countries to continually ban access to the social networking site are China, Iran, North Korea, Uganda and Russia."
Well, the guy he attacked failed to get legal relief, but Musk's reputation was severely permanently damaged. I wouldn't call it "getting away with it", personally.
Europe is warmer than North America due to the Gulf Stream, so during winter at the same latitude, it takes less energy to heat the house.

Anyway, at such lat, it is not possible to survive winter with only solar; you need additional energy source.
Those cryptographic hashes that sit on the same sever or are under control of the same group that publish the file itself really came about so you could verify untrusted copies like mirrors and CDs, not data integrity or hacks on the trusted source or a connection to the trusted source.
The point is until everyone moves to IPv6, the rest of us are stuck having to support dual stack - which is expensive (see the recent story about an ISP supporting a tribal reservation who had to spend an extra $300k and wait 11 months to support legacy IP) and introduces complexity/risk.

For a small network it makes no difference, everything is auto configured, mdns is used to lookup names, you can makes your hosts ::1 ::2 etc if you want to. Many ISPs around the world provide IPv6 by default, and users are using it without even realising, so it is being adopted just not fast enough. Global usage is around 42% based on published stats, and is well over 50% in many countries, as high as 80% in some.

IPv6 does provide benefits to end users, it reduces cost for the ISP and makes end to end connectivity viable which opens up a whole new set of opportunities. End to end is immensely beneficial for gaming, voip etc. Having everything centralised because users are encumbered by NAT is a big problem - increased latency, high costs (recouped from the users somehow - eg selling their data), single point of failure, applications which become useless once the central servers are shut down etc.
My superficial understanding is that - according to some people at least - the big bang is supposed to be neutral, merely dividing nothing into something and anti-something, aggregately summing up to zero.
While in jest, this is so accurate that it's not funny.

I've seen the outbound version of this which gets sent to our customers:

Dear customer, extra 20% this year, kthx.
Refreshing to read something so well written: clear, supported with examples, but still drops in some rare words to expand your vocabulary.

His explanation seems sound, but probably underplays the still immense value of large language models as a mega-autocomplete.
Simplifying a bit: It's a pedalboard with a Linux SBC inside where you can load LV2 plugins and chain and route them as you wish. It has a sleek web interface for management and some short of "pedal store". Like an advanced multieffects pedalboard. Originally the MOD devices where crowdfounded.

There's a small introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USQ7BsZ054

And Modep (as @tcrenshaw wrote in another comment) this is a MOD emulator for Raspberry pi, just in case you want to play with it: https://blokas.io/modep/
its not really medium format size captor though.

if you want true medium format digital camera you need to buy digital backs for twin lenses cameras
I detect a certain decline in almost all activism: You can spend years fighting any issue, but the other side will have too much money, too much patience, and even if, by some miracle, you eke out a temporary victory, you know that the same forces you oppose will rapidly regroup and launch a whole new assault, and you'll have to start fighting it again from square one.

In addition to that, you have to work harder than every just to live. The energy gets sucked out of you, and it becomes harder than ever to sustain a fight you know you'll be lucky to win. No wonder people burn out, and simply give up. Everyone has their limits.
Nature article HN comments ( 8 days ago )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34960947
It's just super obvious by this point that none of the AI safety LARP is really about safety it's more about justifying why a technology that to hire the team to work on it requires that work to be published (Apple tried to do it without publishing and struggled to get the talent) but by publishing you lose part of your advantage so the only way to lock that advantage up is to make it so use of the models has to go through you and also trying to push for reasons for others to not have access to the tech required to train their own model.

If you disagree then why is OpenAI's safety committee talking about how you should need a government contract to buy an A100.
Conda is gonna work much, much, much better for these kinds of applications, as that's what it's mostly used for, i.e. scientific/numerical computing with C/C++ dependencies.
> but a very basic statistical model simply wouldn't be able to do what these models can do.

Why do you think that? Why do you think a basic statistical continuation of the logic of a text wouldn't do what the current model does? There are trillions of conversations out there it can rely on to continue the text, people playing theatre, people roleplaying, tutorials, people playing opposite games, people brainstorming etc. Create a parser that can parse those down to logic, then make a markov chain based on that, and I have no problem seeing the current ChatGPT skills manifesting from that.

> Or alternatively, if you want to consider the model as a markov chain mapping the probability from the previous four thousand tokens to the next token then the space is astronomically large. Beyond astronomically and even economically large, there are ~50,000^4096 possible input states.

Yes, that is the novel thing, it compresses the states down to something manageable without losing the essence of the text, and then builds a model there of likely next token.
That was some really odd advice.

I belive fusion 360 is free for personal use and much more popular than solidworks.

Solvespace has a non existing UX. I would very much advise against using it.

People have gone from zero to first commercial PCB in 1-2 weeks using kicad.
This is the right answer. Also used as "cotorreando".
100% agreed! I’ve switched go Sumatra PDF roughly 5 years ago, after Adobe Reader became just absurdly slow. It’s crazy how a hobbyist can make product that’s vastly better than a multibillion dollar company.
I would say that different technologies serve a different purpose.

So, saying, that e.g., Zig is generally better or worse than Rust doesn't make any sense to me, as both Languages have a different purpose.

I would much rather use Rust to write a Webserver (in production) than in Zig, simply because Rust serves this purpose better than Zig does. And i personally can consider Zig to be my favourite Language.

I would also never (at least right now) write Website frontends in either Zig or Rust, i think JavaScript in this case, is the obvious choice, because it has been developed (over years) for this (and unfortunately other) use case(s).
Bee and butterfly numbers are falling, even in undisturbed forests
Reminds me of the "anarcho-satanistic" anti religion of Illuminatus! and subsequent works. It's been ~20 years since I read it, but it may be that they even referenced him, but they were more into "mainstream occultists" like Crowley, IIRC.
Yes; a lame pun, but my first thought reading that was 'Well yeah, I like my brother too, but what does that have to with — oh right'.

The printer manufacturer is 'Brother', your brother is just 'brother', except if he's also part of a fraternal order.
> Performance is very very rarely a contributor to a product success

You might as well say, having users is very very rarely a contributor to a product success. We're over two+ decades into the 21st Century and we're still pushing a 20th Century mindset?

Why Lord? Why?
Corporations innovate through the work of human minds. Corporations improving doesn't cause the human minds to improve, so there's no recursive self-improvement. Corporations today still have the same kind of human brains trying to innovate them as they did in the past.

A human+ level AI would be able to understand and improve its own hardware and software in a way we can't with our own brains. As it improves itself, it will get compounding benefits from its own improvements.
What's New in Swift 5.8
Studying Ukraine war, China's military minds fret over US missiles, Starlink
Show HN: Knowbuddy.ai – ChatGPT and other AI models all in your WhatsApp
And I never click on Ads. Yet they work and drive a lot of traffic and money to sites. (Even after all the fraud)

Products almost never compete on performance, and the biggest, most popular ones are almost always the slower ones.

Regardless of your anecdotal evidence, there is a reason why this sentiment is prevalent in the industry - because PMs and devs who thought otherwise were quickly outcompeted by those that moved faster and released more features.
How was Taksashila (where my cousins live today by the way) destroyed by Muslim invaders when it happened before Islam existed? Don’t you mean the Huns, as your own cited source of Britannica says? See my other comment in this thread.

cf. “Decline” in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila#History

>The White Huns and Alchon Huns swept over Gandhāra and Punjab around 470 CE, causing widespread devastation and destruction of Taxila's famous Buddhist monasteries and stupas, a blow from which the city would never recover. From 500 CE to 540 CE, the city languished [54] after falling under the control of the Hunnic Empire ruled by Mihirakula. A patron of Hindu Shaivism,[55] Mihirakula presided over some destruction of Buddhist sites and monasteries across northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent.
It's funny how this community trash on JS at every chance they have but for some reason bash is off the hook. I am tired on seeing CI pipelines failing and Live environment crashing because typos in .sh scripts. I propose to switch to powershell every time I can but that still sounds as heresy for the devops guys.
I bought a Brother inkjet printer last year. It was a bit expensive but it just works flawlessly. I don't even use it that often but it doesn't betray me when I need it, I press print and it works.
> But as a Catholic priest, he must have deeply believed in the moment of Creation as described in Genesis.

Catholicism permits a literal interpretation of creation in Genesis, but does not require it. Debates regarding literal vs allegorical interpretations of Genesis and similar biblical narratives go back at least as far as the 2nd century. For example, Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD), one of the earliest Christian theologians, argued that the 7 days of creation were allegorical. AFAIU, allegorical interpretations of Genesis began to predominate in mainstream Christianity rather quickly, though even in Catholicism today there are literalists.

Some narratives are interpreted literally, but not in the obvious sense. For example, AFAIU "God created man in his image" was never interpreted by most Christians to mean physical image, but rather in the sense of moral consciousness, etc, and today (and perhaps even originally) interpretation as physical similarity would be, I think, heretical. Such nuance in meaning and implication is important for understanding, for example, the Galileo Affair, as well as the far more minor debates regarding the Big Bang (were there any major debates?). Also, because at any one point there's always some kind of literal vs allegorical debate within the context of the current Overton Window, someone's feathers always seem to get ruffled no matter the topic.
This is probably the wrong link. The website is: https://mobyproject.org/

Which I flipped through and also watched the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcRR0g0kO4o&t=1s

I still have zero clue what this is, how to use it, who it is for, and how it works.
Indeed. The Commission is appointed by the Council (member state govt heads of state) and appointments are ratified by the European Parliament. Same as with the executive in the US. Not complicated.
I Fly Opener’s BlackFly EVTOL
yes, I want to use this everywhere.
It's funny that there is a use for the word "un-deprecated" but that's good news!

Now that I think about it I guess I'm glad that they didn't remove or replace the original tools - I could still use them.
I'm confused, this feels like a complicated way of creating a docker layer.

Building and hashing the dependencies is exactly what adding the requirements file/etc and building a layer does.

> moving around 100s of megabytes of images seems unnecessarily heavy-handed when we just need to synchronize a small change. Consider git – it only ships the diffs, yet it produces whole and consistent repositories.

Just ship the layers, that's literally what docker does, right?

Is this a whole build process just to get around the ephemeral nature of github actions?
> Even worse: USA sabotaged the Russian-German pipeline and all Western mass media acts like nothing has happened. Germany has proven to be a lap dog of US interests by staying silent on the matter.

Interestingly, the story is still unfolding on this one, going through:

* "it's obviously the Russian, stupid",

* "wait, no, it's not obviously the Russian, we don't have any proof"

* "thinking about it, it's probably not the Russian, let us investigate"

* "Russian propaganda claims it's the USA, but no-one really believe them anymore, because 'previous year'"

* "previously famous journalist claims it's the USA on his blog, but hardly anyones believe him, because 'anonymous source quoted on a blog'"

* "US intelligence claims it was Ukraine based on undisclosed sources". [1]

For some reason, "the evil western media" does not seem to have too much trouble accusing Ukraine of sabotages - but we're still playing the "whose undisclosed source do we believe ?" game.

Don't insult your intelligence (pun intended) pretending you know better than anyone.

We'll wait and see and humbly acknowledge that this one will probably remain in shadow for a while.

However, I suspect the "It's obviously the CIA, stupid" narrative will go on forever. It's just too catchy. "On ne prête qu'aux riches".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-p...