skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-imperialism had a history of being used (successfully or not) by oppressive, expansionist states to enlist the aid of or to commit imperialism against colonized countries. The Nazis attempted the former in, especially, the middle east, and Soviets did a fair bit of the latter. IIRC the Kaiser's government made some similar moves in WWI (but every major player in that war was imperialist, more or less). Anti-imperial revolutions or movements sometimes really were Soviet attempts to install autocratic puppet governments.

On the flip side, of course, so were many US and NATO interventions—but this is why "anti-imperialist" might be taken as possibly actually meaning anti-NATO and pro-Soviet—much "anti-imperialism" was really just a smokescreen for Soviet maneuvering, same as "liberation" et c. often has been, when the US does it—it'd be foolish for actors on the international stage to take either claim at face value, because they've a history of being half-true or not at all true, just a PR cover for realpolitik Great Games.

Hell, even the British, one of the most-colonial of colonial powers ever, used this against the Ottomans, and it was a lie then, too. Seen Lawrence of Arabia? Stirring up Arab nationalism against the colonizing Turks, not actually for their sake, but just as a convenient play in a larger game?

This is why US elites at the time might genuinely have believed that going to war in Vietnam was a good idea—even bordering on necessary—and perhaps, truly, believed it was morally defensible.
That's a lot of money for a service that currently has single-nine availability.
It sounds more like the I/O firmware was running on dedicated PS1 hardware:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/12/ps4-and-x...

> The PlayStation 2, meanwhile, had the original PlayStation chipset built in, so it ran pretty much any PSone title – and when that chip wasn't being used for backwards compatibility it doubled as an input/output processor, which was pretty canny.
> It's still not too late to bring the blood-money profiteering war criminals Kissinger and Cheney before The Hague. While the US isn't a signatory to the ICC, a cargo van and a private jet would solve that.

There's also the substantial problem that the war crimes (and crimes of aggression) that each is most clearly responsible for are not within ICC jurisdiction for geographical and/or temporal reasons. (Becauae the UK is and was at the time a Rome Statute party, the ICC did have investigate British potential violations in Iraq.)
Elon put a dogecoin logo in place of the twitter logo. It's the most obnoxious crypto spam imaginable next to projecting a logo of it on the moon. The reason for other crypto spam falling is because they're competitors. Same thing he did with substack.
Thorough and enforced training requirements for gun ownership I think would shift a lot of opinions from the somewhat opposed to the accepting column.
> are you/have you ever been worth over $100b-$200b? If not... how can you sit there and cast judgement as if you actually know anything about what's going on behind the scenes/at his wealth level?...

This is some Cornithan's level Biblical reasoning right here..
How feasible would it be for me to run things like this and a ChatGPT/CoPilot style LLM on my local servers?
What surprises me most is that Twitter doesn't appear to have anything that allows you post ads only to Twitter Blue subscribers.

They are a set of users comprised almost entirely of absolute morons who believe everything they read online and also have money to spend on stupid buillshit like Twitter Blue, they are a goldmine for advertisers and this oppurtunity to bilk them of all their cash is just wasted.
I don't recall so I'm guessing it wasn't a big deal. Conjecture: The department had stacks of phones for loaner use, maybe they just got a replacement. I remember having several on my desk to play with at the time.
I mean if they hypothetical company X has some tier that is extremely lenient with their limits and would likely end up cheaper than a pay-as-you-go model, I generally prefer going that route. That plus it also gives me some degree of certainty that if something erroneous happens I don't have the potential to end up spending $XXX or more.
> Today, you show up with a passport and a visa, which is easy to get if your skin color is the right shade of white

Only 18% of immigrants to the US were white in 2015 [1], and the preference towards immigration from white countries was abolished as far back as 1965 [2], so kindly go lie to somebody else.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/modern-immig...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
Ah, good eye, ty.
The second seems inevitable from the first. Crypto was when people discovered the massive computational power of GPUs, and AI is when people figured out how to direct this power to do useful work.
It's a barbell. The Ironclad guarantee or default, there is no mid-rating for USA. This is just wall street pageantry to drum up noise to get a compromise.

If you think it's GOP brinksmanship you are entitled to, but a savvy operator knows, It takes two to tango.

edit1: note: the keyword in the above post is 'savvy operator'. I am not taking political sides and happy to bet $1000 that at the end of the hour there will be compromise. I have seen this song and dance before. So please take your political talking points elsewhere.
I linked to the second half of the quotation. The first half was far from a passing comment, he spends a solid 3 minutes on his substantial problems with package.json: https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA?t=589

That first half is essential for understanding the second half. It sounds like a passing comment if you didn't watch both segments because he's assuming you already have the context for why he's ditching node.

Since you're assuming bad faith I won't be monitoring this thread any more. If you'd like to have longer, substantive discussions on HN, I'd suggest knocking off the name calling.
Or right, depending on your perspective.
Is there any large VC shop left with their reputation intact?
> Don't forget Sequoia Capital now too, after the SBF fiasco

Single fiascos rarely tank brands.

Sequoia still has a braintrust that makes it profitable to associate with. Andreessen is increasingly a refuge for those who have no other choice, are in on the grift or are being grifted.
I often find splitting the difference is useful... embedding the CSS with the HTML, as different routes from the server, delivering the same html will still result in more cache being used, and lack of caching if a user shares/bookmarks something different from what a user may already have cached. async loading for routes and splitting on the bundler can help a lot as well. Similar to async load any graphing/charting libs only on components that need them too.

In the end, it depends on what you are doing... if you're wanting to do paged records against a database, then client rendering can help... The direction of React server components, next.js and the like bridge these gaps well. Combined with edge services like deno deploy, cloudflare pages/workers and others make this even more of a no brainer for many use cases.

There's also a place for pre-rendering most content... I don't know why any marketing or content sight like blogs wouldn't be static rendered at this point. JS enhancement for things like sharing or comments.
> The shear amount of floundering

On the other hand, this looks to me like trying all sorts of things to see what will work.
> While I think the app and service has gotten much worse in several ways post-Elon, I do see way less crypto spam than before FWIW

Cryptocurrency spam has declined simply because the cryptocurrency markets have tanked.

Overall spam is way, way worse than before, and it's shockingly low-effort. My DMs are absolutely useless - just chock full of obvious bot accounts who want to "date" me and just need me to click a link first.

I used to get one of those every few months, rare enough that it would surprise me. Since December or so, I've been getting multiple every day.

EDIT: In the one minute it's been since I wrote this comment, I just received yet another.
I think they're probably just overwhelmed with bots, spammers, and "growth hackers". Growth hackers seem to always think they can seed their user base by aggressive following and spamming their links on every popular thread. They can still do that, but now they gotta pay 100 a month. I bet 90% of them disappear.
This seems like a good way to create a gray market of "unofficial" Twitter "API" providers that charge $100 per month to automate Twitter with reverse engineered mobile API endpoints.
One drawback of this is the person behind may incorrectly assume you’re brake checking them; i have had a number of tailgating drivers retaliate by accelerating in front of me and slamming on their brakes (which is especially stressful with a kid in the car). Stuff like this makes me deeply regret choosing Tesla.
I care. I want to learn the entire thing I'm using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and I want to spend money on computers that cater to me.
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I can't find anything claiming this. This is literally the first time I have ever seen this claim.

The original fat PS2 including majority of the PS1 hardware physically in the machine. More and more of it got offloaded to pure software emulation with later model revisions.

I, too, would like to see info on this supposed "spare die space on the USB controller" claim. Because it would be really neat if true lol
"amd64" is the official name, per AMD; just as "ia32" is the official name of x86-32, per Intel.

The fact that ia32 (and it's sub-classifiers: i386, i486, etc) is still somewhat used, while amd64 has almost completely disappeared is 100% due to Intel's marketing shenanigans in the 00s.
Everything you always wanted to know about Impedance Matching
buy a bunch of giftcards from home depot (or wherever) with cash. wear a mask and glasses if you're really worried.

use those to pay for VPNs, like PIA or Mullvad.
If you go to University you might end up working with one of your friends that you make there, and even if you end up working under them (meaning that officially they are your boss) you'll never really be working under them considering the experiences that you shared in College.
Welcome to https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalGPT/
The easy way is to reframe it and create a template for receiving and responding to feedback.

Receive -> Repeat out loud -> Think (take your time) -> Feel -> Filter -> reject/accept -> Respond

Respect other peoples opinions and try to think deeply about them prior to feeling or reacting to them. You may find a significant insight.

Pauses and slower talking receives more respect and comprehension in general.

Defend your work with the sandwich method. Acknowledge and repeat the feedback out loud. Insert a long pause and genuinely think about it. Filter your emotion and identify a logical reason the feedback offends you. Reject or accept the feedback and close with appreciation.
> 11m is a terrifyingly short time, even if this was all correct

Is it? How much warning do you get when a car brakes in front of you on the highway?

In 11m you could write a report on how to avoid the collision prior to actually performing the maneuver
> Nutrition has made no progress. It has discovered no stable facts.

Nutrition facts that have been known for 20+ years:

1. Increased calorie consumption causes weight gain.

2. Diabetics are unable to properly metabolize carbohydrates without insulin.

3. Fat is necessary to hormone production.

4. Protein is necessary to create or maintain muscle mass.

5. Carbohydrates with high glycemic index cause fluctuations in blood sugar and energy levels.

6. Fiber promotes bowel regularity.

7. People with Celiac diseases have an autoimmune response to gluten, a protein found in grains.

8. Iron is necessary to cognition, motor development, and energy levels.

9. Vitamin A promotes eyesight.

10. Calcium is necessary for bone strength.

11. Vitamin D promotes Calcium absorption.

Not a comprehensive list, just what I could think of off the top of my head.
Well, the original post was "Stop me if you can."

Basically, if there's no rule saying I can't do it, then I should do it, until rules are developed to stop it; regardless of the morality or danger.

I suspect that one way to make people more careful, is to make future rules and regulations retroactive.

For example, if I had developed a fintech product that was a legal ponzi scheme, or a downloader that is a legal way of accessing copyrighted material, because of loopholes, and those loopholes are closed, after the fact (happens all the time), then, if the new remedies can be applied to the "legal" implementations that were in effect before the closing of the loopholes, I suspect that it would make the "loopholer" a wee bit more cautious.

But that won't happen. There's way too many ways that it could go off the rails.

So people will keep on bending, folding, spindling, and mutilating, until they are stopped by a steel door, slamming down in front of them.

I strongly suspect that a lot of companies are set up to harvest as much as possible, before the door slams, so they can reap the benefits.
one month ago (60* comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590745

* it's funny, the algolia search function sometimes returns one less comment than the actual number
There are ancient 32-bit things that still run on modern operating systems, that you simply can't get a 64-bit version of. On my Linux machine, one specific such thing is the Brother printer driver. Brother laser printers are awesome. Cheap, reliable, inexpensive aftermarket toner etc. But to make them work (in my experience, and certainly for the scanner function) you need their binary driver and it has not (last I looked) been updated in years, and it's 32-bit. No problem, install the 32 bit compatibility libraries and go.

On a pure 64 bit CPU, unless the 32-bit compatiblity problem is solved with emulation at the OS level, all this old 32-bit stuff is history. Or does "cutting 32-bit mode" not mean that, i.e. 32-bit binaries still run in the 64 bit mode?
The Ukraine war is a negative for him. He wanted to use Russia against China. Like how he previously used China against the Soviet Union. He was the one advising Trump towards detente with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Unfortunately for him, others within the deep state made that policy impossible.
Why should that matter? They are not addressing you personally.

Look at all the negative posts about Google, Youtube and ads. Do you think the adtech engineer visitng HN cares one iota?
The Peak-End Rule
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond
While I don’t at all doubt the public health advantages of the Covid vaccine, I do have one reservation about the whole thing that I feel was never properly addressed: when I was growing up, I was taught the reason we make vaccines mandatory is because they confer herd immunity; that is, if 90% of people cannot catch or spread the disease because they are vaccinated, the other 10% are conferred protection as well because there aren’t enough remaining vectors for a disease to spread (any potential chain of infections peters out quickly rather than continuing). This reasoning made a lot of sense to me and I accepted mandatory vaccinations on that basis. I do feel that a kind of “bait and switch” happened where the Covid vaccine was initially presented as mandatory for the same reason, but then “prevents infection” was replaced with “significantly lowers the harm from infection”, and thus the new motivation for making it mandatory was “it stops the public health system from collapsing by dramatically lessening the cost and impact of each infection”. While that is a very good thing, it is still the case that we lost the original ‘herd immunity’ justification for mandatory vaccination, but never re-litigated the mandatory aspect of it on this new basis.

I’m unsure that “keeping the public health system afloat” actually justifies mandating medical decisions for individuals. I urge you before responding to note that I am unsure - it might have justified mandatory treatment, I was quite open to believing it did, but it remains an uncomfortable fact for me that we went ahead and kept it mandatory without anyone making those arguments.

(Posting this because that’s what this study shows: a small effect on preventing infection and a very large effect on reducing the severity of infection)
> a16z's investment thesis completely centers around finding the next bagholder for their investments.

To be fair, that's all of VC investment thesis, not just a16z. VC is by definition early stage investing, the objective being to build up a project enough that it can be either IPO'd or sold to a bigger company, providing the returns for the next round of early stage investments. a16z is nothing unusual there.
The short answer is its PE Ratio is obscene (even more so today), and last quarter the ER was kind of “doom and gloom” not just for NVDA but AMD, DELL, HPE, etc.
Gottach, you aren't in the trades, you work for yourself on your own plot of land. That's exactly like working a 12 hour day in 10 degrees in an empty sky scraper. Herding your goats is not construction.
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/#io

Essentially the thicc PS2s include the PS1 chip and normally use it for IO and also for PS1 compatibility.
> On a pure 64 bit CPU, unless the 32-bit compatiblity problem is solved with emulation at the OS level, all this old 32-bit stuff is history.

And you've already answered your own question. Virtualization and emulation is precisely how this will be cared for. Heck, in a lot of cases, that's already how old 16- and 32-bit software is run, as you also need associated compatible operating systems, not to mention clock timings and so forth in the case of games, and it's a lot easier and more accurate to just fire up DOS or Windows 3.11 in a VM than to run the code natively with OS-level compatibility.
Yes... many, many internal deployments are definitely using MS-SQL services. StackOverflow.com uses MS-SQL, for a prominent, public example. There are client libraries via ODBC or direct in many languages and platforms, including Node.js (mssql/tedious) and Rust.

As to where, AWS offers Windows as do many other cloud providers, including a significant portion of Azure VMs. Not to mention, that MS-SQL and SQL-Edge both run on Linux. IIRC, Azure Cloud SQL is also MS-SQL running a non-windows version. There's also Linux/x86_64 Docker images.

Aside: if you're willing to write a big check, MS-SQL replication configuration is far easier than pretty much anything else to setup and configure (UI based flows or scripted). While I personally advocate for PostgreSQL, I've used and mostly like MS-SQL fine.
>That's obviously ridiculous.

In what way? Any pollution draining into the wetland affects the wetland. Why shouldn't regulation to protect the wetland protect the wetland from pollution?

How come you should be free to pollute a waterway just because you aren't waterfront property?
> a16z are shrewd, smart operators...if you had the Buffet/Elon effect (genuine ability to move markets) and could, why wouldn't you trade on it

Because you want to keep it. a16z's returns have been bottom-tier for a while. It's partly why they switched models from VC to retail asset manager. (The other part was to trade crypto.) That lack of returns translates to a lack of carry, which corrodes one's ability to attract and retain talent. It's a doom loop they've been floundering in for at least half a decade.
Time to RE.
> It’s all very clever, yes, but at bottom it’s just a brute force approach.

This is the bit that I think you should focus on a bit more. I don't think it's the case you need complicated, clever algorithms and architectures in order to get complicated, clever behavior.

If you start with particle physics, then work your way up to chemistry, and then biology, you can see how we start with very, very simple rules, but at each level there is more and more complexity. The universe "running" physics is the epitome of a brute-force approach. It would be a mistake to say that because the rules of particle physics are so simple, that nothing made of those particles could ever think.

Likewise, even though these models are just big arrays of numbers that we stir in the right way to make them spit out something closer to what we want over and over again, I think it's a mistake to say that out of that, can never arise something much more capable than humans.

> You can’t just train an LLM with more and more parameters and more and more tokens and expect it to be smarter than the data it was trained on. And such models don’t bring us any real understanding of what it would take to make super-intelligent machines.

Others have addressed the first point here, but for the second -- yes, that's true. As for the second, I think we'll have a bit of warning before we get to true superintelligence, but even now, I it seems to me like we have half of an AGI in large LLM models. They don't seem to be conscious, can't really evaluate its their thoughts except by printing them out and reading them in again, and are only superintelligent in terms of knowing lots of facts about lots of things. But I think we are probably going to figure out how to create the other parts and we'll be there.

I am worried that humanity is on a bit of very-high-inertia train of "more and more progress" without enough safeguards. It was ok in the past, but as our world gets more and more connected and new inventions get spread far and wide in less time than ever before, it's possible for damage to be done on a very wide scale before we can figure out how to counteract it. It also means that good things can spread in the same way -- but the problem is that it's not just the average that matters, it's the variance. It doesn't matter if you create and disseminate 9 out of 10 new technologies that are massively beneficial if the other 1 ends up with humanity gone or completely disempowered, and you can't take advantage of the good stuff.
> Sequoia still has a braintrust that makes it profitable to associate with.

That's why this single fiasco is so damaging: the braintrust has proven to be a farcical joke. The guy was playing video games while on their funding calls and they called it "genius." Zero due diligence, just brown nosing.
Seems like there should be a few more tiers, but the posting rate one needs to require the $100 tier lends that the platform is becoming a core part of your business, etc. Maybe it'll slow some of the bot trolls. etc too.
I think it's very hard to see what happens when these things can handle video and become truly multi-model.

you would get a very powerful world model, I think. There don't seem to be any sensors you can't hook them up to.

could it learn to infer left from right, object permanence, things like falling and gravity?

Another thing to look at is large organizations accomplish much more than any individual in them, even the CEO. Revenue per employee in tech companies has continued to grow, how far does that ratio increase?
> I think they're probably just overwhelmed with bots, spammers, and "growth hackers". Growth hackers seem to a always think they can seed their user base by aggressive following and spamming their links on every popular thread. They can still do that, but now they gotta pay 100 a month. I bet 90% of them disappear.

Maybe this will come as a surprise to you, but spammers aren't using the official API.