skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well those who have left are effectively stranded where they are, unless they want to return. If you left as mobilisation was announced and you're in Georgia or Armenia right now you likely do not have permanent residency - many applied and few got it. So you have a temporary visa on which the clock is ticking. If you want to go to the UK or Germany you'd have to return and apply for a suitable visa in the embassy in Russia. One good change in this specific case would involve permitting Russian citizens to apply abroad - at the UK embassy in Yerevan or Tbilisi (or wherever).

And those who haven't left, I'm sure there are ways they can be assisted too that we should also do. I'm not sure why "let's help this group" keeps getting interpreted as "let's punish this other group" :-/
It's true for any shared media as the bandwidth is limited, thus wireless is really only suitable for where fiber is not a viable solution.
> e-bikes/bikes that can be left freely

That's the whole point: they can't.

You cannot dump your crap on the street and expect that to be ok.

If you can't just park your car on any random sidewalk or dump your bike in the middle of the street, what leads you believe that it's ok for a multinational to dump their crap all over a city?

Construction companies have to file for permits and pay all kinds of fees to temporarily park a trash bin on the sidewalk. People have to pay fees to get the trash company to take care of furniture you want to throw out, and you still can't just leave it on the sidewalk. What leads you to believe that it's ok to dump all sorts of crap on a sidewalk, specially when they are mainly used for joyrides?

Meanwhile, there are countless solutions for personal mobility that have been around for ages. Hell, is a bicycle an alien concept? Let's not fool ourselves into believing that a multinational's abusive business model is the only way anyone can move from point A to B.
Hope to see the same in London.
How do they keep the ink from drying up in the nozzles? That, in my experience, is the problem. There's always leftover ink in the nozzles from the last print operation.
where did you get this from? This quote is certainly not from the article
This doesn't add up for me. They are launching more powerful satellites with a higher cadence than before. The network is in every measure improving its capacity, and it doesn't seem like money is the issue.

Do you have a source for them burning money at a pace that requires starship in the near future?

Looking in from the outside, their amount of falcon launches don't reflect that.
Me too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729268
In America, agent help you travel overseas. In Soviet Russia, agent help oversee your travel.
Kids did fine with Amiga or Atari ST

A tiny number of very interested kids did fine, most just ignored computers.
But Pulumi still uses Terraform providers for many resources? And isn't it just as difficult to have multiple providers that depend on each other in the same stack?
My guess would be no. Since social security is federally accessible, so I could easily see people just move to Texas a few years earlier from California to get around the age difference.
I don't think that's quite fair. I have had Italian-Spanish conversations which were slow but not painful. With Dutch I can often guess what something means when I see it written down but understanding the spoken language is very hard and I can only pick out a few words here and there.
10 years ago we had a discussion of a similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728124
Been a Linux user for almost a decade. Built a PC for someone recently and they wanted 11 Pro. Whatever, I shrugged, and downloaded the iso from Microsoft. I dd'd it to a usb, like every other iso, and boot to the installer menu. I'm greeted by an error that there are missing drivers. I'm familiar with this error, still, but I'm surprised to see it on the latest O/S. It looks exactly like I remember from 98. So, I spend two or three hours downloading drivers, copying to usb, booting up, waiting, selecting Find Drivers, manually choose each driver directory... and sub-directory, and sub-sub-directory. Error!.. Error!.. Installing... Hallelujah. An eternity ticks by as I watch a progress bar slowly filling up, indicating that, at last, Windows is installing the required drivers. At least it's finally doing something, I think... Nope! Despite loading every driver, the problem is never solved. No progress is made in two or three hours.

More hours spent internet searching. Apparently, that "missing drivers error, please insert media containing drivers" error has nothing to do with missing drivers. No, it's because I was dumb enough to think I could just DD a Windows ISO, like every other ISO I've ever encountered. Microsoft are special, I need to use special tools. Fine, OK, done.

Oh, you didn't think you could just boot the latest Microsoft Windows USB, did you? Oh no, friend, Microsoft corporation wishes to protect you from the threat of unsecured boot routines. You first have to choose the right combination of bios options to enable EUFI, or secure boot, or whatever.

Now you've chosen all the right bios options, and you have created the boot usb, in a Microsoft compatible fashion, let's go! Wait, is that a usb3 key? That might not work, best use an old usb2 one, oh, but not that one, use a good brand, and don't insert it into that slot, use the other one, the black one, no, not that one... ARGHH!!

Finally, after about 6 hours, it's installed. All that's left is to wait another hour or two while it updates and installs drivers, then install the other drivers from the motherboard makers website, and activate the licence. But the licence server doesn't work, I have to perform a phone activation. That means all the usual pain of automated phone systems... like, listening for 10 minutes to all that "hey, did you know it's easier to activate online? Simply log on to this, and that, and activate your licence the easy way! Are you sure you don't want to do that? It's easier, you know? Ok then, let's get ready to do a phone activation. You can still hang up, though, just hang up! No? Oh, ok then... Please enter your 64 digit code, and, if you get that right, I will give you the 64 digit response code that you can enter into your PC"

At this point, I'm honestly wondering if I can sue Microsoft for the (hopefully mild) PTSD I will inevitably suffer from this.

I'm never installing windows, for anybody, ever again. Ever. Never, never, never.

Sorry for the long rant, but I thought, maybe, talking about it, openly, might help reduce the nightmares. Oh, the nightmares.
Bullshit arguments about AI (not) replacing jobs
Absurd is communities like Elm where all identity and package management must be published on Microsoft GitHub or you and your code can't be a part the community repository.
There are also laws/government initiatives about the use of Welsh in Wales, so the theory that it's some sort of neo-fascism doesn't fit well there (Wales is run by Labour).
One problem with those older office-size laser printers is the standby power consumption is pretty terrible.
As someone else said, I highly recommend reading the original Bitcoin paper. It is straightforward and while obviously pro-blockchain, almost entirely devoid of marketing hype.
Would I be able to train an AI only using microsoft's leaked windows code to write a windows clone with no copyright (since it comes from an AI) and be safe from legal repercussions because it was trained on fair use code I just happened to find online?

If they rule that it's ok to do that, I might be ok with AI being ruled as fair use.
You can find the Windows XP source code publicly on github right now. So I'm not sure how serious MS actually is about this...
you may also war because you trade though. Opium war is a good example of that where the war is inspired by difficulties trading.
If you browse https://paperswithcode.com you'll find when you look at the highest performing models on a given dataset, you're as likely to see Nanjing, Shanghai or Tsinghua as you are to see Stanford, MIT or UCLA.

IMHO there's a good chance China already has the lead here.
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I'd go Jack Kerouac on everyone's ass.
From 4chan to politics, a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream
Science is about money and publishing. We find sponsor, we publish, we get money. There is nothing hard to understand about this business model!
I naively did something like that with my kid, although nowhere near as extreme. All I achieved was to instantly kill any interest she might have had for learning about tech and computers.
The company definitely ain't valued 1B any more, that's your problem. You have taken more money in than the company is worth.
I mean, we don't need to call our house or Moon sized AI "brain", but it seems clear that no laws of physics are preventing us from building something so intelligent that we are mere ants in comparison. The old Gods, while powerful, would pale in the light of its intelligence. A true God, hopefully a benevolent one. It doesn't seem many decades away.
Thanks for the tip, but I have a follow up question. When is best to pour an oblation of goat's blood to the Dark Lord? Is it just as I'm defenestrating the laptop or while it is midway in its descent? I've heard that's also part of the puzzle.
English language pushes everyone–even AI chatbots–to improve by adding
Very nice! Now for the real experience, only one person can use it at a time. ;)
I would cut costs aggressively to remove the need for additional financing. That is your ticket to freedom and what is best long-term for the company. As CEO you have full rights & responsibility to do this, even if it will wreak havoc in the short term.
You never know if a snippet it created came from another project verbatim or not… unless you claim you know all of the code that exists?
SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects and files
Nobody is saying "rewrite everything".

We're saying "think about each dependency you're considering pulling in. Maybe have a quick browse through the code. Is it a gigantic hot mess? Is it tiny and elegant? Does it only have 3 downloads/week on npm? There are lots of things you can do before deciding to rewrite it yourself, but yes, I argue there are definitely some dependencies where that is the right call. But also, YMMV - it depends on your team and resources too.
Here in Romania, THE CARS litter the urban spaces. There are cars parked everywhere: on the sidewalks, on the side of the road in parallel with those on the sidewalks, in bus stops, on all the green spaces, on no-access markings of the roads, etc.
I wish people would use more e-scooters & e-bikes. 8-10 rental e-scooters fit in the same sidewalk space a car would occupy and a car can't be moved if the owner isn't there.
I could have a set of values I believe in and not run my service in countries that violate my values. Seems pretty simple.

Not simple if you want to make money from a huge percentage of people in China.

Also, it seems like the principle of giving into bullies isn’t just an immediate decision but a precedent for future decisions where the rule is to capitulate to authoritarian regime demands.
I wrote a (public) uBlock filter list to hide this social media-like stuff. The “you might also like” genre exists to keep you on the platform and I have enough distractions.
>David seems to think that since ridiculing politicians in China is taboo, having people ridicule Xi on MJ would make it unwelcoming to people in China. He wants them to feel comfortable collaborating with people all over the world on MJ. So, prompting Xi is blocked. That’s all there is to it.

Under Xi's dictatorship hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been imprisoned. There's plenty of evidence of forced labor, mass internment and forced sterilization. I don't know how a "hippie" attitude would support this?

Blocking prompts of Xi seems like bowing down to a terrible dictatorship to ensure that this giant market stays open to them. I can easily create prompts for various other dictators that don't allow ridicule in their countries. Try everything from al-Sisi to Museveni to Putin. All of those work easily.

Plenty of companies are adjusting their businesses so they can operate in China. At least they openly admit why they do so.
I dislike both the company and their products. To my tastes, they make horribly overpriced toys.

That's a good enough reason to avoid them.
On the other hand, I've been seeing ads across my Apple products as well (both macOS and iOS) so it's not like they're above enshittening their products for more revenue. They're just a bit behind the curve.
> The Russians who already left Russia to dodge the draft probably don’t need help leaving Russia.

Many of them are in countries that are happy to give Putin anyone he wants. A lot of political activists and detectors get deported back to prison.
Midjourney is an incorporated company. It has a board and at least one shareholder. Whether or not they're all the same person is irrelevant to the point made, which is that this annoying notion people keep bringing up when a CEO makes a choice that they're somehow inherently required to do what maximises profit is false.
Thank Christ someone said it…
I would start guessing with the obvious: money.
For the partly reusable Starship, which will be used for orbital satellite launches well before Artemis 3. It seems they first just go for reusing the lower stage, similar to Falcon 9.
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To you personally what's more beneficial?, also which sounds better?

- Cutting costs so you're burning 0 per month AND keep the 27%+ of the stock?

- Accepting 30M and all strings attached?

> And cutting revenue while you are also trying to sell the company is going impact valuation.

For you personally, which is worse?, the valuation drop or the stock dilution from extra money?, negotiate from there with everyone else, it's really not your company, you're a shareholder and employee, you should make sure you're properly compensated as well both as employee and as shareholder.

Also, it seems like even with the extra money, you're still going to need to address costs at some point?, but from a weaker position?
You know, copper network is not a great option technically, but nothing better to just exhaust the budget.
> Are you claiming that people should not be allowed to clone other peoples' open source projects and put copies up on GitHub?

If the github ToS supercedes the author's own licence, then I guess the uploader is effectively relicensing the code without the author's permission. That would mean the author has cause for action against the uploader, but not against github.

I personally dislike git; I find it too complicated, because of features I don't need. Microsoft has always disliked FOSS anf GPL, and I suspect that Copilot is a deliberate effort to undermine it.
> Most scooter-haters

Please don't.

There is no such thing as "scooter haters".

Companies like Lime are criticised for their abusive and antisocial business practices of dumping crap on the public space without any concern, criteria or care, and pretend everyone around them to just suck up the externalities to validate their business model.

No one cares if you ride your whatever on roads or bike lanes. People care when you dump your crap all over the place and get them in the way of everything. You'd hear the exact same complains if instead of escooters you dumped washing machines.
This bullshit is repeated ad nauseam as if it was true, it's almost funny.

First, there's no "Windows" hardware. Unless you are talking about Surface.

Second, all laptops I had were useful for far longer than 2 years. My current one is almost 4 years old and still extremely good for everything I need.

I also replaced Windows for Linux recently, and I suspect that will extend its lifespan for many years still.
imagine the scene when you go in for your scan and you hear some mumbling from the tech, strange beeping, and you realize your cover is blown. You are in fact NOT human. RUN!
Don’t you think it’s a tad wrong to ban the chairman but not every other leader? Like China is especially sensitive?

The fact that the treatment is “special” leaves questions about the argument for inclusivity, at least in my book.
The Amazon deal was probably the writing on the wall as to where Canonical is heading with Ubuntu in the longer term. People need to stop using it in favor of better distros.
> It's like people are more involved in US politics than their national politics.

You know when someone is incessantly speaking louder than others, drowning their conversations? ... yeah.
How is that different from "This evidence for X raises the risk that people falsely believe that X"? That's an argument for X, not against. And nothing in that paper, even if I discard the dross (ie. everything except one section on page 7), seems to actually make an argument against X of any strength beyond "it is wrong because it is wrong".

My point is this: I disagree with you. This is not because I have "misunderstood" something; it is because I understand the stochastic-parrot argument and think it is erroneous. And the more you talk about "the risk that people will come to falsely believe" rather than actual arguments, the less convincing you sound. This paternalistic tendency is a curse on science and debate in general.
Also bought a ThinkPad a few months ago, right away installed Linux (Fedora). I didn't even second guess, just straight up formatted away the yucky pre-installed Windows 11.
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Where I live it's very similar to electric and gas supply, where you have a common carrier that you get your supply over. There is one fibre cable into the building that goes out to some kind of interface accessed via a manhole ourside; all the local telcos use that fibre as common carrier and either rent existing fibre thats already been laid and hooked up to that interface, or lay their own at their own cost.

I have choice of half a dozen suppliers this way but only one set of hardware in the house.
If I have the math right, their revenue of $130m is made up of $110m in COGS. If they’re losing $1m/month that means they’re spending roughly $30m/year on running the business. My educated guess is most of that $30m is marketing spend required to secure the $130m revenue and cuttable costs (salaries, office space) are much less than $10m/year.

Sounds like ARR is the wrong term since it’s probably not a business operating on recurring revenue — probably an example of the bananas valuations of the last few years, based on revenue not viability.
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Well, how should it be done then? You just explain what doesn’t work and explain that “nuclear for sure doesn’t work either”. You offer no viable path how to “go renewable”.

“ In simulation, it turns out that large distance grid connectivity (which is better for the resilience anyway) and some storage (which was at the time (and still today) way more room to progress than some nuclear technology) are fixing the "no wind night" challenge quite effectively.”

Not in reality it seems though. I take a look at April 3, 7 am: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE Solar was zero. Wind dropped to 20% coal was increased to 30%. April 2nd at 3 pm, wind stood at 37% and coal stood at 13%. So, where after two decades of “going renewable” is this even remotely speaking yo your ideological dream world? Let me reiterate: wind dropped by 50% and they had to increase coal by 100%. At night.

I want renewables to work. I put my money where my mouth is. But after two decades or so of “trying” we are only showing data demonstrating they can’t work for Germany the way people like you want us to believe.”
Github was always private and their founders had already sold other companies to Microsoft, so it's hard to understand how anyone could be shocked and disappointed when they sold Github as well.

Copilot is great IMO, so good it feels almost like cheating, but if you are so broke that you cannot come up with $10 a month then don't use it, you can still use Github though.
For those who might have missed the connection, related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401185 the joy division cover art for their album unknown pleasures
I watched a snippet of him on Les Fridmans podcast. Now, granted Fridman has kind of outed himself as a complete hack more recently.

Watching those two wring their hands over whether GPT is 'conscious' cemented my opinion that this is all just choreographed pantomime and a white tech-upper class quasi cult.

Anything inflating his ideas into personal space is just a land-grab now.
Clearview AI scraped 30B images from Facebook and gave them to cops
> What is the disadvantage?

Disadvantage of satellite cellular vs terrestrial cellular (ie mobile networks and most WISPs) is largely simply that the satellite cells are generally _enormous_. Starlink cells cover 379km^2. Some very large rural LTE cells may be of similar size, but if they hit capacity it is comparatively simple for the provider to build new towers and make them smaller. Urban LTE/5G cells are _much_ smaller.

Latency is a secondary issue; even low earth orbit satellites can't really compete with the sort of latency that 5G can provide, say.

> Why is the performance degradation unsurprising?

Ultimately, for any cellular service, there's only so much bandwidth available for a cell, and the size of the cell is anything from virtually unchangeable (generally the case for satellite services) to difficult/expensive to change. So, if you're the only user of the cell, you get all the bandwidth (subject to any artificial limits placed by the provider). As more people are added to the cell you're sharing with more and more people, and typically the total achievable bandwidth per cell really isn't that much, so things get worse until the provider is forced to deal with it. For terrestrial cellular they'd normally do this by adding towers or upgrading equipment to increase supply; for satellite their options are much more limited, and they're really mostly looking at increasing cost (thereby destroying demand) and allowing degradation.
I think the main issue is use private companies of common shared space. Its not certain that a private companies has the right to use public communal spaces.

Secondary issue physics.
A person riding an electric scooter is a danger to other pedestrians especially vulnerable are children and eldery.

Kinectic energy calculation

KE = 0.5 × m × v²

Let's calculate the kinetic energy for each speed:

5 km/h (1.39 m/s):
KE = 0.5 × 70 kg × (1.39 m/s)² ≈ 67.5 J (joules)

10 km/h (2.78 m/s):
KE = 0.5 × 70 kg × (2.78 m/s)² ≈ 270 J

20 km/h (5.56 m/s):
KE = 0.5 × 70 kg × (5.56 m/s)² ≈ 1080 J

Chat gpt explaining the above impact energy

"67 joules:
This amount of energy is roughly equivalent to the energy required to lift a 6.8 kg (15 lbs) weight one meter off the ground. Imagine dropping a 6.8 kg object from a height of 1 meter; the impact would be relatively small and generally tolerable.

270 joules:
This energy is comparable to lifting a 27.5 kg (about 60 lbs) weight one meter off the ground. Picture dropping a 27.5 kg object from a height of 1 meter; the impact would be more significant and might cause some discomfort or minor injury.

1000 joules:
This amount of energy is similar to lifting a 102 kg (about 225 lbs) weight one meter off the ground. Imagine dropping a 102 kg object from a height of 1 meter; the impact would be substantial and has a higher risk of causing pain or injury"

Third issue is blocking of pedastrian spaces, this is a danger to visually impared. A form of littering.
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