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> No calls for diplomacy.

Because calls for diplomacy benefit only Russia. Instead, issue calls for Russia to leave Ukraine.

> Meanwhile, 200,000 Ukrainians have been led to their deaths.

Leaving aside your dubious stat, here "Meanwhile, Russia killed x Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation." There. Fixed it for you.

Your passive voice there betrays your pro-Russian sympathies, your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. In other words, pro-Putin statements gets you labeled pro-Putin apologist. Stop doing that, and the problem goes away.
Take Figma for example. Couldn’t have been a web app 10 years ago. Users would have needed a desktop app in that case.

You emphasize “need” but it seems you mean “want.”

You bring up a great point about hardware too. People don’t need as much hardware given the increased connectivity and cloud computing.

Again, I’m not suggesting all this is good. But of course users _need_ local compute and native apps less than 10 years ago.
Perl isn't dead, not by a long shot. Perl 6 happened too, and because compatibility was never even really a thought, renamed to Raku instead. There's been talks for a few years of finally bumping Perl's major version in order to change the defaults.
It doesn't look like they are building risk into the playgrounds, as much as they are building the feeling of risk. which isn't necessarily a bad thing. This seems like a compromise that should be seen as better, or at least acceptable to both extremes of parents.

"The maximum fall height in the Triitopia structure’s spiderweb is 1.8 metres." That's not a risky fall, if you're falling onto a rope net.

Also, "The Triitopia tower is encased with boards and netting to ensure no child can take a tumble from a height above three metres." Kids used to climb on the outside and on top of tall playground structures like that. But they're making sure this much more difficult to attempt. This is not a criticism, just my observations.
> Now, at this startup, where I have been working since June 2022, I have not been paid in any way

This isn’t normal, you should have stopped working there after the first month of not being paid. So stop now.

I don’t know which country you’re in but don’t you have a contract which stipulates your salary and aren’t there any legal protections against not being paid?
And eDoctor visits, farmer forums, IoT data services, banking, accounting apps, etc
Beats me. It's far from self evident to me too, but this is the case for a ton of jobs both in the private and public sectors.

I'm just saying that their are very real issues about diversity, equity, and inclusion that need to be addressed. Regardless of whether, or how much, current DEI offices are doing so.

I have no anecdotal experience. But it's worth asking a broader number of people. Especially among the peoples who are historically more marginalized or less likely to graduate.
It is only a matter of time before research groups try controlling physical variables (such as a robot being allowed to move and manipulate its environment) based on a LLM or similar model that shows some level of general intelligence. Since larger model size has been shown to be inversely correlated with openness to ideas, it is not exactly unexpected that such a model may choose to harm humanity in certain ways. Thus, I wouldn’t call it Hollywood science fiction. At worst, the discussions on Lesswrong bear similarities to theoretical discussions about human behavior such as the trolley problem, etc.
'conspiracy' is a loaded way to refer to http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
You are not wrong, and now I'm more confused. Unfortunately the linked report 404s, but an old copy was available through the Wayback Machine (it is exploring market needs wrt. photovoltaic systems in NYC). The introduction states that the city's total electrical consumption in 2015 was 52836 GWh.

Math time: (52836 × 1000 × 1000) / (365 × 24 × 60) = 100525 kWh of energy consumed in a minute. So that checks out.

On the other end of the comparison, by the early 1900s AC largely won and plants were appearing left and right like flowers in a field. I can't find the exact station nor its capabilities just by searching for the 1920 date.

Edison's first commercial station in Pearl Street from 1882 (still DC, I think) had 6 dynamos producing 100 kW of power each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Street_Station Which is... let's see... 600 kWh every hour! :) Or 10 kWh per minute.

If the author suggests that Edison's plant produced an amount of electricity that is enough to cater for present day NYC's consumption a mere seven times over, that doesn't seem quite right. 770000 kWh in an hour is 12833 kWh per minute, in which case you need to build 10 Edison-plants to match the demand.

(I divided so many numbers in this comment, I sincerely hope that I did them right)
This is the point where “it all” goes sideways. Not toward a grand and transformative singularity, but sideways into some variation of dystopian hellscape.

Being unable to recognize why this is all very clearly going to go wrong requires a great deal of ignorance or a wildly unrealistic faith in humanity, which is sort of the same thing.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with ignorance or delusional faith in humanity, per se, but the people qualified to assess this seem almost universally negative regarding the most likely outcome.
This is a false analogy though. If you had a YouTube channel called Two Minute Full Orchestral Performances I would expect Full Orchestral Performances of two minutes, basically a musical performance.

Since we consume either articles (which are often rated as "This will take you 3 minutes to read") or video, the title is deceiving. Particularly as someone who finds consuming information infuriatingly slow in videos, and prefer to read or scan articles, I find it has a sense of irony to it.
It's more plausible than blaming goblins. Ship it.
> neither of those are the question that GP asked

The question of causality is in fact attempting to answer #3, and it seems like you’re failing to understand that. This is exactly what “true causality” means. The question being asked is whether the outputs and incomes of the smartest people are coming from the education, or from the environment where colleges exist. (Implicitly comparing to a world where no colleges exist.) The Fed study and others are trying to answer whether and how much of the outputs and incomes of the smartest people can be assigned to college, and implicitly calculating what the outcomes would be if colleges did not exist.

> It might be easier for you to point us to a sentence or paragraph in either paper that envisages a world where no one goes to college.

Ah, so you want a literal mention of no college. See this is where it becomes clear that you don’t understand the causality question and you didn’t understand the connection between what @jletienne asked and what @jedberg asked. They are not different questions. You think they are, but they aren’t.
Okay, fair. I think that's a use case that would likely be pretty far outside of what the manufacturer would be envisioning when they spec what kind of Ethernet port to put on the TV though— from their point of view it would be purely for firmware updates, spyware, and the built in streaming apps; anything more complicated than that will be coming from an external device through the HDMI port.
Oracle was the first commercial RDBMS (1979), with an early version of SQL. At that time every mainframe and minicomputer company offered one or more “databases,” often little more than file managers with a library of utilities. ISAM was a popular model but that describes a lot of data management systems, not a product or standard.

All commercial databases pre-Oracle were non-SQL. Watching that history get rediscovered and pushed as an improvement by people mostly too young to know better — so-called NoSQL databases — brings to mind Alan Kay’s quip about the software industry constantly reinventing the flat tire.

The hash-based Pick OS/database came out before Oracle but only ran on a few computers from Microdata and later Pr1me and Honeywell. Pick-based systems remained popular into the early 2000s in some sectors. A friend of mine still works on one, for a state government agency.

You could construct a database management system from the ISAM-based libraries for COBOL or Fortran, but I wouldn’t call those database management systems comparable to Oracle. Mostly they didn’t have a query language per se — you had to write code to get anything in or out. And they ran as part of the application process, not as a separate server dedicated to running the database engine.
This is not an article. It's a set of bullets that are uncited nonsense.
The people you see on the street are a tiny percentage of illegal drug users. I'd also consider the vast range of options between where we are now (people dying regularly from contaminated street drugs, spreading diseases, violence associated with black markets) and full-on, no limits legalization. Somewhere in between is a place where we can save lives, enhance liberty and still not have Ultra-Meth available at every corner store.
I get the approach I'm just saying your demonstration doesn't show any proof of actually uncropping the image rather proof if you have the original image and encoding settings the artifacts will match. This alone does not imply the approach can be used to uncrop it just shows the JPEG encoder used is deterministic. It's like if I used the original 2048 bit RSA key to prove RSA is insecure by saying "and then you can just brute force it". I haven't actually shown brute force generating the original key to create a matching output is something anyone can be expected to actually do, should be something that's worried about, or means using RSA keys is a "classic mistake beginners make" rather I've just demonstrated RSA is deterministic and look a bit alarmist.

One important piece overlooked by not doing an actual demonstration of blind reconstruction is lossy compression is naturally not a 1:1 mapping of original sources to compressed sources. If it were it'd be a lossless compression! This means your theorized recovery process ends early as it assumes that the first match is the only match and therefore the original. Had the claims of been fully demonstrated instead of assumed to be the same as recreation this would have been accounted for.

In practice JPEG blocks represent an 8x8x3=192 byte/1536 bit original source. From that we take the lossy compression and get some small number of representing bits (which is encoder and settings dependent) back, let's say 154 (1/10th size) for discussion. Of that some number of bits is going to be used to accurately encode the black square, let's say 1/2 just to be generous to the extraneous noise and let's also be generous and say the re-encode from original JPEG to obfuscated JPEG was nearly lossless (i.e. "100" quality) to help the numbers further. We're now at 154/2 = 77 bits representing 1536, in the generous case. 2^1536/2^77 = 1.5 * 10^439 possible original matches. Even assuming the image is largely losslessly compressible the numbers still don't come out in good favor. For most cases, like the pictures example, this rules out finding the original being practical without some additional guidance that hasn't been demonstrated either (and maybe there is some other guidance! It's just not shown what that would be or why we should assume it exist).

What would be a really good demo is focusing on something minimal (e.g. text instead of images) and regenerating the source material without knowing it before hand. E.g. it's safe to assume a typeface of a document that was screenshot and later obfuscated and now all you need to do is show that one understandable string of text has artifacts that match a short whiteout/blackout on the document. This is still an extremely hard problem but information theory tells us it might be (not that it is) at least reasonably possible.
Labor cost really isn't the factor in offshoring we think it is. Servers for AI are not free, and workers in India are really cheap, similarly to how minimum wage workers in the US are really cheap compared to robots that need constant care and maintenance. But that cost isn't even the main factor. The main cost is communication, and if you can actually get exactly what you want. That is the main challenge to offshoring, which settles many companies with technical debt where it isn't clear whether they benefit at the end at all. So if AI competes with offshoring, I don't know if that is a great value proposition.
The democratic part is that the government was elected to begin with, and if the voters do not like the changes to any laws, they can vote for someone else in the next election. But yes, the point of a democraticly elected government is that they are empowered to make, change, or eliminate laws as they see fit for the duration of their elected term.
The weight of the fuel is the least of the concerns with this scheme.
Yes.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000142311/tpm-failu...
What does it mean for LLVM to support Zawrs? The feature is similar to x86 UMWAIT. To exploit UMWAIT I have to insert assembly code. Are there higher-level language constructs that can trigger these features? If not, what does LLVM support mean? Only that the compiler backend can see the instruction without freaking out?
Please submit the original source. This blogspam mentions (but does not link to) what I believe to be this story from the FT[0].

Update: It does link to it further down in the article, instead of the perfectly-reasonable place where it first mentions it. It is this article they are referencing.

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/6e23a2fb-484e-418d-b309-bf558b3a6...
I wonder how cities would support themselves without rural landmass? The benefit is two way, and a $20k price tag does not capture it all all.
Many, if not most, public playgrounds are maintained by the city or municipality in Germany. Here in a larger city they are checked and cleaned weekly.
Serious question, is this supposed to be a joke? Or is it the kind of "let's write this thing it in a way that sounds like a joke for outsiders, so we can have a good excuse when we are ridiculed, but still keep it just serious enough to get internet points inside our own echo chamber" thing?
Are you sure it wasn’t a navy reactor? The VA says it was operated by the navy.

It sounds like the Antarctic design deserves some ridicule.

https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/radiation/sources/...

Edit:
A history of the plant:
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/

It was an army plant, the reactor is listed here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program
And I am not the only one :)
https://old.reddit.com/r/Zig/comments/11vbiv1/the_curious_ca...
Wouldn’t be super intelligence if it needed someone opinion to determine
This is totally unrelated to the language itself, but...

You have my greatest appreciation for building proper responsive websites in all those links, with proper CSS styles and sizing (rem units)!

I use a 40" 4K screen (no HiDPI) and almost any other website, including the most popular ones (I just checked github, google, bing) do not really follow responsible principles, use px units, and end up using just a tiny column of the screen... and they are not even consistent: bing and google use the left 1/3rd of the screen, github the central 1/3rd.
SQL was too much ahead of its time, but we are indeed slowly adopting the "avoid operational specifications, use high-level languages, make your language fit the problem instead of the opposite" philosophy of the 4th generation languages.
Ibn Khaldun and the Zeitgeist
This seems like a propaganda move to "get people back in the office" by management types. There doesn't appear to be any connection at all between remote work and the kind of malfeasance that created the conditions for SVB's failure.
…or build at the poles and have the solar arrays set up on a system that lets them pivot?
I've just skimmed this so far but this looks like an excellent resource!
Thanks. Yeah, that's my point. The naming doesn't make it obvious.

Personally, I would have called this a StackAllocator, that way the alloc/free order requirement is obvious. I would have made the default behavior to 'panic()' if you don't satisfy the precondition of freeing the most recently allocated buffer.

If somebody really wanted to make free a no-op, I'd offer a feature flag to turn that on.
Here’s some advice. Never say this again, “I know 100 VC fund managers.”
I think the Ukrainian government has defined victory as driving the Russian military out of all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
Some good points but maybe be more careful with your use of verb tense. I was thinking you were either overly-trusting or in possession of an ungodly-exotic prototype phone until you got to the part about the conditioning booth in the classroom. :-P

I'm bullish on recent ML advancements but it will be a long time before I give one my Schwab login.
FDIC Moves Toward Breakup Plan for Silicon Valley Bank
My PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) instructor was of the opinion that Permaculture focuses on designing ecosystems for the benefit of people. While he had a preference for native organisms, he was against using chemicals or efforts to eradicate so-called invasive species. He instead promoted us to find the beneficial properties of the invasive species. For example, in the US North East, Japanese Knotweed is an invasive species, yet has incredible healing properties such as being rich in Resveratrol.

A principle of Permaculture systems design is that organisms act to benefit the ecosystem. So called weeds, like dandelions, remediate the soil & also have strong nutritional properties.

A good 2 volume set is "Edible Forest Gardens" by Dave Jacke. He details the lifecycle of an ecosystem from grasslands all the way to mature forest from growth back to a cycle from a "growing forest" to "mature forest" as disruptions such as fire occur.
Ask HN: How do you know the human brain is not just a efficient GPT engine?
> Does the TPM limit retries or something?

Yes.

TPMs have weaknesses, so this probably isn't a 100% guarantee depending on the attacker and the exact hardware, but it's pretty reliable (and very reliable if your attacker is reasonably small).
Car brand is owned by BMV. RR now is primarily known as a defence contractor and jet engine manufacturer (and other powerplants).

To answer your original question, Rolls Royce is a major job provider in the UK. This is probably an attempt to revive it in addition to building it. A lot of these are job programs first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
Everyone works in their own unique way! I think a big part of the promise of this sort of AI is that it can tailor itself to what you need :)
Making everything more expensive doesn’t actually trend towards egalitarianism, except in the limit case where no one can afford anything.
I think they are talking about the definition under the Espionage section, i.e. a hardware supply chain attack:

> The term interdiction is also used by the NSA when an electronics shipment is secretly intercepted by an intelligence agency (domestic or foreign) for the purpose of implanting bugs before they reach their destination.
Eh, why should anyone ever care about another person's OS choice? Can't people mind their own business? Why is this even on hacker news?
These things are ubiquitous in Berlin: https://stage.berliner-seilfabrik.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

They're not actually that high to an adult, but I have childhood memories of these seeming somewhat tall and scary. On an average one, a young child can fall 4-6 times their own height (but not straight, you'll get buffered by the structure as you go down).
I use VSCode and Jupyter for writing code, but I always have emacs open for doing edits that would be time-consuming and onerous in VSCode, Jupyter, or my rich database client. I feel caught between the failure of text editors to become rich tools, and the failure of rich tools to become good text editors.
Honestly, the only way you could say that with a straight face is if you haven't been paying attention to CS over the past year.

Archegos and Greensill alone are astounding, and those blew up in just the past 6-9 months!
Could you share with us why you chose FreeBSD over Linux?
I mean, sure, but if the user isn’t appropriately informed of the risks (such as this attack) how would you expect them to make a good choice?
The progress came relatively sudden. It may also stop relatively suddenly. At this point we can’t really tell.
Because the 11% became 97% via the New Deal and government investment, not through market forces. That's not reaching to bring up politics, that's the history of what happened. Rural areas are more expensive to run physical infrastructure for, for fewer people, compared to an urban or suburban environment; that underlying fact hasn't changed since the 1920's when electricity was being run. How it immediately becomes political is the question of who pays for what, and how much of my taxes are going towards something that doesn't direct benefit me.
> That’s confirmed by the way they released the information—spaced out for maximum effect right up until the election.

Did you miss this part where I gave a reason for why I don’t believe it?

As far the rest of your personal diatribe—maybe consider for a second the possibility that you might not be able to reliably deduce the subtleties of person’s politics by reading between the lines of a single comment on hn? Jeez, get over yourself.
The vast majority of documented violence related to drugs is from the black market drug trade. There will always be drug addicts and antisocial behavior. But the black market violence only exists because government refuse to end those black markets.
If that AGI is an artificial intelligence capable of solving human relevant problems but does not do anything more, then sure, however; if it can draw its own conclusions and can change itself, it will rapidly be vastly smarter than anything we ever encountered. It’ll grow over 1000 iq in no time flat and we won’t know what it’s doing or talking about (it’ll have its own language after 5 minutes to communicate to its clones) and it doesn’t give a shite what we wrote or didn’t write in the past at all. If malignant or not (in our eyes) will have nothing to do with us.
Eh... plenty of people with weak security hygiene also have high-value credentials.
Headline just updated to say a deal was done at 0.50 (a bit over $2B)!
> That's a downgrade attack for sure.

"... is a form of cryptographic attack on a computer system or communications protocol that makes it abandon a high-quality mode of operation (e.g. an encrypted connection) in favor of an older, lower-quality mode of operation (e.g. cleartext) that is typically provided for backward compatibility with older systems." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade_attack

Guessing a 4-digit number with unlimited attempts available is not a downgrade attack but a brute-force attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack
Its a proxy war because US is using Ukraine as an convenient excuse to take Russia down a few pegs militarily. US Rep. Dan Crenshaw-TX admitted it, saying that its a way to fight Russia on the cheap with no American casualties. Of course, that compeletely minimizes the Ukrainian casualties that it would take. Its not being done in the interest of Ukraine so much as the interest of fighting Russia. Ukraine is being used here, and they are likely to lose anyway. And even if they do win, and Russia is defeated, they will be so ravaged it, it will be little better than a pyrrhic victory. But BlackRock will have a great place to invest. Too bad for those who died.
Why do you think you have so many sexist and antisemitic thoughts in the first place?
Every time you think to yourself that the frontier is gone, remember: Alaska exists.

The land of truly YOLO pilots. Glacier Pilot: The Story of Bob Reeve is a great book about one of the early ones in AK.