skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there were at the very beginning, and they were quite harshly repressed. It's not like anti-war protests in the US against the Iraq war, where you can just do it and go back to your life the next day, necessarily. Russian reporters who just say negative things in print get prison sentences.

There are more protests against the war in Ukraine now, than there were in Russia in 1915, and the Russian people eventually overthrew their czar over that.
No, that's fine, this is more like the `len()` function being called implicitly if the array is being passed to where a "scalar" value is expected.

Like here:

sub some_function($) {
my $some_var = @_;
print("$some_var\n");
}

my @arr = (1, 2, 4, 7);
some_function(@arr);

This prints the length of the array.
At 20$/month, someone earning 1000$/month would have no trouble affording it.
It's more inspired by the zeitgeist of the C64, but definitely not a remake.
Proxy wars are wars not fought by ones own military. Korea and Vietnam were faught by americans and thus arent a proxy war for the USA.

For instance the ukraine and russia war is a proxy war for the USA but is not for russia, as russia is fighting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62969778

> Being an anti-war activist in Russia is dangerous. Rights groups say there have been more than 16,000 detentions across the country for anti-war actions.

That's 16000 as of last September, by the way. Thousands more since.
I wonder if this is going to level the playing field a bit.

People who cheated in school had a bit of an advantage, but with these advances, it forces teachers to find ways to test people in different ways.

I once had a teacher who gave us open book, open note, etc... for chemistry. The trick was, you had ~60 minutes to do it. If you didn't practice, you'd never finish the test in time.

I also had a different teacher in thermo 2 give us two different insane problems, and we had to solve them. GPT would easily fail at this. It involved drawing a few diagrams of layers and calculations. (although, I wonder if you could train LLMs on this problem) Still, you had to do this in class, no calculator, just set up the equations.
I'd rather kids not be taught by something that hallucinates and spits out accurate-sounding lies. The education system is already struggling to teach kids to read and has been removing math from california schools (two front page news here this week). Adding a lying tutor should be classified as child neglect.

That said, I like the AI, but only as an adult who has enough training to question whether I'm being lied to by an auto regressive Turing machine.
The posted article presents a naive point of view.

In tech, it's very common for those who resign to be walked out of the building immediately.

In corporate America, the idea that you'd give THEM more notice than they'd give YOU in the event of layoffs is one-sided.

By all means, plan your exit carefully. Ensure your own security. If it's an amiable parting, try not to leave them in a lurch. But all of that is you being nice, not something you have to do. If, as is often the case, you're leaving because you're very unhappy with your situation, there's no point in prolonging it. Go.
You may like this:

https://jwilk.github.io/chemiscripts/
It is akin to how the USA has not yet vanquished ISIS, despite it being a bunch of poorly armed amateurs. Perhaps the reason is that a "forever war" keeps your enemy in a known place, rather than regrouping and rebuilding.
To a certain extent I think it also exposes how much busy-work there really is out there. A lot of people have been talking about ChatGPT as the ultimate bullshit artist, well if that is true, the stuff it is producing perfectly would be what, bullshit in the first place?
Only DB portability would be a concern to not used stored procedures, that I can think of. If you want to write an application that can use multiple DBs then you might have a problem.
> It would be best to arm Ukraine to the extent required (missiles, planes etc) to reclaim all their territory vs reactively doing just enough to keep them in the fight.

The trouble is: it's impossible to know ahead of time what's enough. It's doubly difficult because Russia gets to react to what NATO and friends do (e.g. with additional mobilization).

I do agree, though, that it would have been a lot better to have gotten to this place right away.

Honestly, though, the real thing that the Ukraine needs is way more artillery ammunition. And no one in NATO really has a lot of excess that they're willing to part with. Or much capacity to create more.

If NATO could give Ukraine 20 million rounds of 155mm per year, that would substantially improve their prospects. And it wouldn't be the same sort of "escalation"[1] that aircraft or long range missiles might be.

Edit: artillery -> artillery ammunition

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1. IMO, the escalation theory is overblown. But enough people believe it in the US that it causes problems getting those kinds of equipment to Ukraine.
Sure:
https://crates.io/crates/left-pad/reverse_dependencies
https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad?activeTab=dependents
4800 or 6000 towers?

https://united.group/united-group-reached-agreement-to-sell-...

"United Group BV, the leading multi-play telecoms and media company in Southeast Europe, has reached an agreement to sell 100% of its mobile tower infrastructure unit in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovenia (“TowerCo”) to TAWAL, a subsidiary of stc Group.

The transaction values TowerCo, comprising more than 4,800 towers, at €1,220 million on a cash free and debt free basis, fully payable in cash, which represents an EV / 2022 EBITDAal (pre IFRS 16) multiple of 20.1x."

btw: €1,220 ...in cash (!)
Yeah exactly. I rarely if ever run these kinds of platforms for exactly that reason. I've been at small, resource constrained orgs where could not afford the developer hours to keep open source products up to date so we just buy entry-level licenses. And I've worked at huge orgs where we have the people but they have more urgent tasks so handing over $250k a year to a SaaS vendor is still cheaper and less risky than hiring.

I still very much appreciate the open source stuff as it at least keeps vendors honest.
You don't state where you live, but odds are good your country is mostly car dependent. Sure transit is useful for a few (10%) of people who live in the city, but if you look at the numbers in almost every country cars are the vast majority of transport if the country is rich enough to afford them. If the country isn't that rich you will see other things, but as they become richer they become car dependent.
Well the thing is that this is how cars with encrypted immobilizer gets stolen today (deffo not the case of RAV4)

- Open a hood

- Connect new, unprogrammed ECU (no immobilizer loaded)

- You can now start the car without chip in your key

As I see, people are reinventing wheel here, and are creating same problems as OEMs did 10-15 years ago.
I've been using it for product ideas as well. Occasionally it's brilliant but sometimes it's so bad it's funny, like when it suggested Seven-Year Itch for a perfume brand.
FAANG salaries are so bloated because Bay Area housing costs are insane. Someone making 500k could put half or more of into their mortgage.

I've said it before on here, but I live very comfortably in Philly for a lot less than that.
For the counterfactual, imagine if we sent a bunch of HIMARS or MBTs in the first months of the conflict and now they were being paraded around by Russia on victory day.

It makes some sense to provide small arms -> light support -> progressively bigger weapons systems. It is worth remembering that at the beginning of military aid to Ukraine, there was a large chance they might have suddenly capitulated. In that event, anything you send would have immediately fallen into not-Ukrainian hands.
Some historians say the purpose of scrubbing the decks on early sailing vessels -- shipshape -- wasn't only because the decks needed to be cleaned and splinters removed by holy stone, rather it was as much to keep the crew occupied in order to prevent mutiny.
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No, they were proxy wars. It’s just that Russia and China were playing the part we’re playing with Ukraine.
> A loss in Ukraine wouldn't even be the most "backed in a corner" a superpower has been since WWII

Perhaps not for the country, but it could be for Putin. It's dangerous to make a man with the nuke codes desperate toward the end of his life.
Tip: Don't point out contradictions to a LLM AI. Just tell it to redo the wrong part. They can not figure out that they are wrong (yet.) They only spit out best effort attempts.
Other countries and yourself may be different, but you'd find it difficult to find a US driver who has not tried to catch a yellow light.
The Mega 65 gets pretty close, they say “highly compatible”.

https://mega65.org/
I agree it cannot be dependent only on Li. That is why I had stated in the last line of my post

> Solutions possibly lie in exploring other battery chemistries while improving the efficiency of Li extraction.
> EVs in current state are not so good

Well then, good thing the world's largest battery maker is starting to mass-produce batteries with twice the energy density.
If you're pro-war, you should head down to your nearest Army recruiting station and sign up for duty. Otherwise, you're not really pro-war. You're anti-war for yourself, but you want other people to kill people on your behalf. In other words, you're a coward.
I think this article is interesting because it's real-world evidence of an impact GPT is having. I've seen speculation from people about how education might change, but this makes it much more real. GPT is providing work that students used to get from real professional writers.
https://archive.ph/55qN4
It gets worse with lithium air batteries that actually gain weight as they discharge because of the formation of solid oxides from the air. Argonne are reporting 1200Wh/kg in the lab though so still worth it.
And what is the ecological cost of the people it will replace?

I kid, I kid.. or do I?
An admission essay is hardly education, it's a pro forma hoop to jump through to get into college (especially now that more and more are ignoring test scores). So you have to invent eight hobbies and convince a bunch of bored administrators that playing the cello since you were four has really helped you overcome adversity, but it's also made you disciplined and ready to take on the world.

I'm very pro-education, and anti-college admissions essay.
> No, that's not a great approach. One overreach and you're in a nuclear war.

That's pretty easy to stop - I'm sure NATO has already told Ukraine that an incursion into Russia proper would mean an end to military aid.
Internet of things is off to an exciting start
We should talk, i'd love to hire you
So if they get one million paying users at 20$ they break even
I quitted web development because I failed to learn CSS
I even bought that course by that popular guy. CSS for JS developers that could not help me because I could not help myself. CSS designs is just not for me no matter how hard I try.

I find web development to be mostly css(frontend) and if you lack css skills, you can't be a good web developer.

failwindcss and bootcrap are no substitute for cs s according to the experts of industry.

How do I learn it? Is there a way out?
>there is no any guarantee his successor won't want to continue the war.

If they continue the war, it will be difficult for them to hold onto power for more than 1 failed offensive.

There will always be a group of people that want the war over, not for peace reasons necessarily, but for economic(and political or personal reasons). A new dictator stands on a shaky ladder. They need to have a successful offensive quickly or they will be replaced.
Having spent 11MM annually on infra to effectively (though obviously not efficiently despite a very favorable ROI) generate reports for <1000 customers, that sounds like a bargain.
Meta laid off all of Instagram's London Office ~250ppl
Why do you think a Kenyan would be incapable of writing about something interesting?
Someone had posted their tax filings in a different OpenAI thread. Although this only starts at 2020, this may give some insight into their employee costs https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
This is cheaper than running Twitter which is a CRUD app
I cringe when I have to install a Qt app, because at least half of the time, even as a user, I know I'll be fighting with Qt system dependencies. Even if the app is distributed in binary form. The situation gets worse when you have to actually build the source. It seems like the API is never stable, even with minor versions they seem to like changing methods name and breaking backwards compatibility. When I look at what was changed, it looks like change for change sake and I can't tell a difference in how its better.

It happens so often that I'll avoid a Qt app because the dependency management is so bad. Then once you finally get it to work, be prepared to spend time on Stack Overflow researching arcane QT_ environment variables to fix things like display scaling and added additional library paths at runtime.

It's been this way as long as I can remember, and the problem has persisted across versions and different OS and systems I've had over the years. I can always get something working, but it just feels like nothing ever just works out of the box.

Also QT applications seem like they are more unstable to me, more prone to crash and just not work well. I'd rather have a runtime error in some javascript frontend than the entire app crash, and have to pour through enormous stack traces through crazy overly abstracted code that shows a list or runs some tab component.

Then there is the style, at least the one that comes out of the box. Very inconsistent and relying too heavily on platform features that make the app look and behave differently on different OS's. It must be hard for developers to customize because you rarely see a polished Qt app, they all look the same and have the same quirks and lack of padding, spacing and consistent typography.

The last thing is kind of personal, but I tire of seeing the word Qt everywhere. We already know we are working with Qt, you don't need to prefix every single class and package with it. I get this may have to do with namespacing, but in practice it just makes source harder to read and debug.
That's a lot of words saying nothing. Russia invaded a sovereign country, that is the fault of Russia alone. Ukraine is defending itself, which is their right according to international law. And helping another country defend itself is similarily allowed under the UN charta.
I want to be interested in Rust, but then I see a line of code like this in the post:

let decrement = move |_| set_value.update(|value| *value -= 1);

Maybe I've lost that interest I once had in learning language syntax.. I just don't really understand this intuitively and the barrier to understanding this line feels unnecessary. When I compare Rust with JS/TS, Python, or even Swift I feel like those other languages are created in a way that's easy to pick up and transfer knowledge from other languages, then the deeper parts of the language are easily accessible once you're introduced to the basics.
I saw rampant cheating in an engineering program - there was zero busy work, homework problems were really more like a good starting place, and people still cheated.

Also - weird thing to say about kenyans. The people under discussion specifically make their living by researching and writing academic essays, I think the natural assumption is that they'd be pretty sharp. No one wants to pay for Cs and Ds.
Feels like what I make in 5 years
You, at least somewhat. They get soul shard futures and once you die can realize them to acquire a part of you soul.
I know you're only kidding, but your mind can prioritize based on importance. We have some framework on top of our associative models. AI, currently, uses us, for this. We prioritize when we seek out data to use in training, filter it, reinforce some of it, tune the model afterwards again, and so on.

But truth is, all of this will also be, and already is being automated. GPT-4 was created by GPT-3.5. And GPT-5 will be created by GPT-4. And so on.
The 8-bit computing renaissance has been going on for quite some time. I think it's a combination of 1. the age & experience of the original audience, 2. tech changes that make it much easier to design, build and supply retro-inspired computers and 3. the appeal of a stand-alone "computer" where an individual can hold the entire design in their head without massive abstractions. There's a lot of sad, negative, stupid things in the world today but the state of the NEW 8-bit scene is amazing. If you're a purist for original 8-bit gear it is not as great.
What sane tooling are you talking about? FE projects takes minutes to build while backend projects can take hours.
he also has great taste in letters.

why do you think he chose teXas?

do you think that was an accident?
People interested in AI/machine learning are a small niche. Your AI/machine learning computer is about as interesting to most people as large agriculture sprayer is to your average car buyer.
SpaceX is well known to have a very "flat" management structure. They expect all their scientists and engineers to learn, understand, and contribute across-the-board.

Otherwise you get Boeing.
This is exciting to see, as I am concerned about the hallucinations, biases, privacy, licensing, etc issues. I imagine the results are minimal at the moment, but perhaps soon they will be useful
What kind of model? Question-Answering? I imagine it must be quite specialised at <1b Params when many are 7b, 13b, or more?
Meh, the only reason EVs are more efficient in the city is because of regen braking.

An ICE car traveling at a constant 30mph is going to get much better fuel economy than an ICE car traveling at a constant 75mph. The difference is that <=30mph roads usually have a lot of stop-and-go.
This sounds nice, and I more or less agree, but has zero political rhetorical/ persuasive power.

Sticking to this line is basically resigning yourself
to the status quo while claimimg yourself morally above it.

Just for one thing: geriatrics control most policymaking in America, and they won't be fighting anything.
Telegram bug bounties: RCE, privacy issues, and more
Some engines (SAAB, I'm looking at you) will detect knocks and adapt the map on the fly.

Then, there's the more insane stuff:

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1024086_ethanol-powered-...
First they came for the kenyan plagiarists, and I said nothing
Look - I'm sure that there's lots of Russians who are against the war and are just afraid to speak out.

But you can go on Youtube and find people doing interviews in Russia. It's pretty clear to me that the war continues to have substantial popular support among Russians.

Is it a majority? Who knows. But it's not difficult to find people who are strong supporters.
For some use cases FitPC[0] could be an alternative.

[0]: https://fitpc.com/
Thank you, @mooreds, for the advice. I believe I will need to trust my gut feeling in this situation.
I can't help but notice your accounts only activity before this post was praising another giskard.ai submission a few months ago. Anything you'd like to disclose?
You're proving my point by saying "the newer, more powerful machines can run more demanding software" and not looking any further than that.

Are you saying electronic waste and increasing energy consumption aren't problems anymore?
That’s much trickier than it seems. Not only modern weapons stacks requires large integrated systems - which Ukraine is far from having - but you have no guarantee those weapons and vehicles won’t be used to attack targets on Russian ground that will escalate the war beyond what Ukraine’s allies might want.
I think Ukraine established its will to fight within the first month and its ability to exist in two or three months or so. We should have shifted our approach around then and started planning long term.

We are 14 months in now.
Here's what is going to happen. These thieving assholes are going to make it so that new cars will have to have an always on connection to the auto maker in order to start so that they can "verify" it is really you. This will be the "solution" the auto makers will come up with. Forget that it also will enable them to know a shit ton about you as a side-effect.
I would love to see a complete modern pc wrapped in a retro styled keyboard like this. With usb-c power and video output you could just plug it into a monitor with one cable.
I am very closely tied to what the NVMe vendors want, having written the first internal draft of the proposal to the standards body (since that draft many smart people have taken the pen and done a lot of great work).

XRP is unrelated to offloading eBPF to NVMe devices.
The 1.0 UI refresh and the sundry bug fixes that came with it (especially to Text) have already made Inkscape 100x more usable for me.
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How the Online Safety Bill can (will?) bring about a kind of “CyberBrexit”
Not just smudging. The entire mechanical act of writing (and everything) is optimized for left handed operation being the mirror image of right-handed operation, since left is mirror image of right.