skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economic benefits of NATO for the USA wouldn’t change much today if Germany had its own troops instead of the US troops stationed there. Of course, if the troops were never there in the first place, that’s a different matter.

The biggest actual difference isn’t US troops stationed in NATO countries but rather the extent of the US as a global reserve currency and the power of the petrodollar. The concerns over these are well-founded as the powers that be have willingly traded the latter in exchange for upping the US’ position in the current brinksmanship with Russia, when Russia was never the economic juggernaut to be reckoned with and certainly not worth giving up those cards for.
I disagree. Historically, having a lot of subcultures wasn't a thing in any society I've heard about. Even in the west today, what people call a subculture is just people doing stuff that is conformant with the dominant culture (mostly individualism and progressivism, what indivduality or direction of progress might change and people think that's a subculture).

History looks at all available sources not just popular ones. Merely surviving up to the present age is a huge feat for any historical evidence.

I am constantly seeing disputed history when I look into historical events or figures. I only agree with your last sentence because much of history was oral and like the game of telephone it has gotten distorted or just lost.
>hard drives aren't celebrated for reliability.

With no revelry whatsoever my 2006 early SATA Maxtor 100GB HDD is still going strong with Windows 11 on a Dell Vista PC.

Boots no slower than our IT guys have 2-year-old SSD W10 PC's doing at the office.
I've had a chat with psychotherapist one and we both agreed, at least from our own limited experience - previous generations were/are very stiff when it comes to emotions, sharing them openly, talking about them.

I mean even within 1 generation, from my father to me, the difference is massive. Not sure on what to pinpoint it exactly, we saw and see massive transformations of our societes at neck-breaking speed. When my late grandma saw how I hold and hug my then-girlfriend, she just sighted 'why cant I have a bit of that', and said similar stuff about my father (aka her son just to be clear).

In fact, I used to be like you describe when young, quiet till explosion, rinse and repeat. Something when growing up changed in me, I was growing up slowly till my mid 30s, even redefined who I am by diving into mountain/extreme sports, handling one's fears ie of dying quite regurarly has quite an effect. Plus a lot of backpacking around the world in 3rd world countries, I cant be xenophobic or +-racist like many former peers even if I tried hard after that. My parents lived in communist eastern block, this kind of adventure stuff was unheard of, so I dont blame them.

My advice to anybody and everybody out there - expose yourself to intense experiences, cultures, understand how everything works (schools made me hate those topics, took a decade+ to find my own way back to them). Everything changes you, imprints on you, makes you richer and better person, the more intense experience the more profound effect. Just stay the fuck out of comfort zone for as long as you can.
> Would you let it comment on every interesting video and comment thread?

For what purpose? The user wouldn’t learn anything and everyone else would be annoyed. No one’s personal thoughts are so important or insightful that they should flood every thread.

The scenario is doubly pointless when everyone can do it because you’d just have a bunch of clones spewing drivel at each other, no one learning anything.

> Is this digital immortality?

When you die, your present biological consciousness will be gone. A digital clone offers no more immortality than a statue. It’s a symbol for those who remain, but ultimately meaningless to the corpse.
California, aka Tesla HQ, is one of those "all party" states.
We had a hack-a-thon at my company around using AI tooling with respect to our products. The topics mentioned in this article are real and come up quickly when trying to make a real product that interfaces with an AI-API.

This was so true that there was an obvious chunk of teams in the hack-a-thon who didn’t even bother doing anything more than a fancy version of asking ChatGPT “where should I go for dinner in Brooklyn?” or straight up failed to even deliver a concept of a product.

Asking a clear question and harvesting accurate results from AI prompts is far more difficult than you might think it would be.
The reach of propaganda has increased immensely though with technology. Everyone has a little box in their pockets and many of them use it to read propaganda many times per day. Not true in Roman times!
I can't find any references to 2022/0155(COD) ("Chat Control 2.0") on the Signal website. However, I'm sure their response will be very similar. The EU is being as malicious and deceitful with its proposal as the UK, if not more, and the implications for E2EE are very much the same.
I think it depends on how you account for defense spending. For example that doesn’t include veterans benefits. This anti war group is probably over estimating it at 48% but it’s still significant.

https://www.warresisters.org/store/where-your-income-tax-mon...
Developers loves Stripe because they can not start a bank themselves in a weekend.
You seem confused. Copperhead AFAIK existed since 2015. Daniel was fired in 2018. GrapheneOS has existed since 2020 when it was officially named GrapheneOS. It was named Android Hardening before that in 2019.

You can't conflate CopperheadOS as GrapheneOS or vice versa because GrapheneOS has changed over the years since the split. I think the ex business partner makes this same mistake.
"while skipping the “how to make a profit” hard stuff."

Some things never change...
I felt it coming... as a migrant, a couple of weeks ago I felt people started to look at me differently.
> Secondly even if the code is available a design that breaks software on other users machine is stupid and anti user.

Most things work like this. You can't natively run ARM programs on x86 or POWER or vice versa, but in most languages you can recompile the code. If you have libraries then you recompile the libraries. All it takes is distributing the code instead of just a binary. Not distributing the code is stupid and anti-user.

> This was a problem with all AMD compilers for GPGPU and ROCm should’ve tried to solve it from day 1 but it still adopted a poor design and that has nothing to do with how many people are working on it.

It isn't even a design decision. Compilers will commonly emit machine code that checks for hardware features like AVX and branch to different instructions based on whether the machine it's running on supports that. That feature can be added to a compiler at any time.

The compiler is open source, isn't it? You could add it yourself, absent any resource constraints.
Oh, NS2 sabotage is quite relevant as it shows that "someone" can blow up (partially) German infrastructure while Germany have no guts to even wink in the direction of the perpetrator. Not exactly a definition of a sovereign country.
If anyone is wondering if there's any relation with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, like me:

> While not a direct adaptation, the video game series S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is heavily influenced by Roadside Picnic. The first game in the series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, references many important plot points from the book, such as the wish granter and the unknown force blocking the path to the center of the zone. It also contains elements such as anomalies and artifacts that are similar to those described in the book, but that are created by a supernatural ecological disaster, not by alien visitors.

from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic#Adaptations_an..., unfortunately no concrete reference to actual interview or statement from the developers is provided in the page.

Also, about Metro 2033 (game):

> The book is referenced in the post-apocalyptic video game Metro 2033. A character shuffles through a shelf of books in a ruined library and finds Roadside Picnic, he states that it is "something familiar". Metro 2033 was created by individuals who had worked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. before founding their own video game development company. The game was based on a novel of the same name which also took influence from Roadside Picnic.
Oh, I never expected Cloudflare to handle the problem for free. I would happily have at least a pro level account with them if they treated ipv4 traffic properly. But they don't expose a request's actual v4 address to the backend. The WAF works amazingly well, but it otherwise breaks a critical part of the service.
Yes but that is skewed by the South of England. There's a TON of hardly populated land in Scotland/Wales.
Ask HN: What can we learn about human cognition from the performance of LLMs
What can we learn about human cognition from the performance of LLMs

Some hypotheses (adapted from other posts):

* We have learned that Spreading Activation, when applied through high-dimensional non-symbolic network (the network formed by embedding vectors) may be able to account for abstraction in fluent language.

* We have learned that "fluent reasoning" (sometimes called "inline" or "online" reasoning), that is, the shallow reasoning embedded in fluent language, may be more powerful than usually thought.

* We have learned that "talking to yourself" (externally, in the case of GPTs, and potentially also internally in the case of human's "hearing yourself think") is able to successfully maintain enough short-term context to track naturally long chains of argument (via contextually-guided fluent reasoning, as above).

* We have learned that to some extent powerful "mental models" that support (again, at least fluent) reasoning can be in effect (functionally) represented and used in a highly distributed system.

* We have learned that meta-reasoning (which the LLMs do not do) may be important in augmenting fluent reasoning, and in tracking extended "trains of thought" (and thus extended dialogues).

* We have a new model of confabulation that fits into the fluent language model as implemented by LLMs.

* We have learned that people's "knowledge space" is quite amazing, given that they have ~10x current LLM parameter size (~10T, where as an individual has potentially ~100T cortical parameters -- depending on what you count, of course) but a given individual only encodes a small number of languages and a small number of domains to any great depth (in addition to the standard operating procedures that almost all people encode). [That is, vs. the LLM encoding the whole damned internet in ~10 different languages.]

What else? (And, of course, it goes w/o saying that you'll argue about the above :-)
> [L]awyers are traditionally tech illiterate

This is the main reason I think disbarment as the punishment in this specific instance may not be fair. There are people who are unaware of the limitations of these systems and the risk of these confabulations occurring.

While I don’t think disbarment is inappropriate, I would rather see the New York State Bar use this to require some better understanding of these emergent technologies or even better have all the State Bars start discussing some standardized training about this because it’s easy to see a person trying to treat this as LexisNexis.
The quality of VoIP software tends to leave a lot to be desired, in my experience.

None of the 4 VoIP providers I've worked with support IPv6 :-/
100% agree, and this bothers me a lot. I like `just`, but for some reason I keep coming back to `make`.

> or not GNU flavor not sure

On my macOS laptop

which make
# /usr/bin/make

/usr/bin/make --version
# GNU Make 3.81

> doesn’t support parallel tasks by default

I haven't verified this. I've checked `make --help` using the built-in make on my Mac (GNU Make 3.81), it mentions the `--jobs` option to run multiple jobs in parallel.
Just to echo your point… USA >> EU
US GDP = $23.3 trillion
EU GDP = $15.8 trillion even if you counted UK (to make Europe rather than EU)
UK GDP = $3.1 trillion
Legion malware expands scope to target AWS CloudWatch monitoring tool
I had to log in because you're ignorant, and your dismissal takes far less effort than proving my side.

From "Emerging Perspectives on the Antiparasitic Mebendazole as a Repurposed Drug for the Treatment of Brain Cancers", 2023:

> Mebendazole can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and has been shown to inhibit the malignant progression of glioma by targeting signaling pathways related to cell proliferation, apoptosis, or invasion/migration, or by increasing the sensitivity of glioma cells to conventional chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36674870/

From "Antiparasitic mebendazole shows survival benefit in 2 preclinical models of glioblastoma multiforme", 2011:

> Our findings indicate that mebendazole is a possible novel anti-brain tumor therapeutic that could be further tested in clinical trials.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158014/

"Surprise Finding Yields a Possible Tumor-Fighting Drug", 2014:

> Searching the literature, they found reports that fenbendazole had been shown to inhibit cancer growth. Then, by trial and error, they determined that the related drug mebendazole—which has been used for the last 60 years to treat parasites in the human gastrointestinal tract—might also hold potential for stalling glioblastoma.

https://www.cancer.columbia.edu/news/promising-treatment-dea...

And, you _do_ hear of people using these antihelmintics, in conjunction with conventional cancer therapies, for treating their disease. There is a large community on Reddit around the Joe Tippens protocol, who has never been disproved.

> His next sentence almost floored me. He said, "You know, we’ve known for decades that these anthelmintic class of drugs (meaning to destroy parasites in the intestines) could have possible efficacy against cancer, and in fact in the 80's and 90's there was a drug called Levamisole that was used on colon cancer and it is an anthelmintic drug".

> I said, "Doc, if you have known for decades why hasn’t more work been done on it?" His answer was honest. He said, "probably because of money…all of these drugs are far off-patent and nobody is going to spend a gazillion dollars to repurpose them for cancer...only to have generic competition the next day."

https://mycancerstory.rocks/the-blog/

See also: "Repurposing Drugs to Fight Cancer", 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/opinion/repurposing-drugs...
And what kind of latency is needed, what geo areas are involved? Budget? Engineers available?
> a lot of people on set got cancer not much longer after shooting, likely from being around so much industrial waste

Is there a credible source for this statement?
I'm sorry, but isn't that the most basic thing possible about GET and POST?? GET is used to read a resource, POST to write to it... why would you NOT expect writing to a resource to invalidate caches of that resource??
You or Daniel have not provided any evidence for this statement or any claim. You're replyguying this entire thread in support of Daniel without linking to any neutral source.
From reading the article, one of the key items addressed by HTTP Search is caching. POST requests are usually not safe to cache
Gaming sector subjected to Dark Frost DDoS attacks
The problem for Germany is that nuclear power plants, wind, and solar don't product natural gas.

Natural gas can be turned into electricity, but electricity cannot practically be turned into natural gas and German industry needs a lot of natural gas.
You are in a thread saying that shutting down nuclear was a mistake because they'd have to burn coal to make up for it. At the same time you are saying that forcing new installations (and repairs to a certain extent) to use heat pumps instead of gas starting next year putting even more stress on the grid is a good move?
Software Book Publishers Remain a Bit Terrible
This is literally one of the oldest problems in programming: returning the stack to its previous state before returning from a subroutine, or jumping back to the start of a loop.

Specifically, the XML element example involves ‘pushing’ the context of a new element into the document - a context which MUST be ‘popped’ before continuing.

This problem is literally why GOTO was considered harmful, why old school programmers insist that subroutines should have one return statement, why functional programmers are right to despise mutation, and why iterators are preferable to loops.

So as a programmer, you shouldn’t be surprised that your language of choice has clever ways to solve this problem, or that you can think of a dozen ways of avoiding this. It’s like the ur-problem of writing code.
I wish most companies were run this way.
In most jurisdictions in seems to boil down to if there is an expectation of privacy.

In the dashcam case, if there was an obvious warning saying it was recording audio, it probably would have been fine for instance. Same with the conversation thing - if everyone knows it’s being recorded, it’s generally fine.
About players, some parents are Linux users and we loved help our children develop computer skills and also play games with them in their Linux computers. In my case Gcompris for learning and pre-10 years old and TuxCart, TotalAnhiliation and 0ad when older.
In 0ad case, is both gaming and learning, about civilizations and history. We played together first and networking later, which helped learn some networking skills like looking his computer IP.
People take it out on their peers rather than their masters
Engineering will always be hard, but I think a lot of this current AI hype cycle doesn't even have a product - its just "well that's cool so I want that."
Explain std::launder then - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/launder - it's simple word, mostly used when talking about dirty money ;) - but hey - I've still no idea how/when/why to use it...

;)
> What I miss from IRIX, that no other system has yet replicated: 1) Realtime mode. RTLinux doesn't count.

FWIW, SGI didn't seem to agree.

From SGI's own whitepaper: "In addition, REACT for Linux adds unique capabilities including sgi-shield and kbar that were not available on IRIX. The Linux based platform delivers better real-time performance than SGI
Origin running IRIX with realtime extensions: 30µs guaranteed interrupt response time versus 50µs for Origin."

https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/565/463/operating_syst...

Without REACT extensions, Irix realtime facilities aren't any different than the scheduling policies of Linux (this is akin to bypassing the normal scheduler).

https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man5/realtime.5.html.

I have a soft spot for Irix from the early 90s, and it had some clever accomodations for the technology at the time, but things have moved on and advanced.
> It does matter, because it means Washington has tangible leverage over these supposedly-sovereign states

In case that someone is genuinely confused: Poland put quite significant effort into using far-away and much more reasonable and friendly USA to decrease risk of invasion of nearby, brutal and evil Russia.

Main leverage that USA has in Poland is risk of *withdrawing* military support.

Because getting invaded by Russia is extremely bad, war worse than average invasion results.
The tone of this post really rubbed me the wrong way. I know nobody reads the guidelines, and that this post violates them even more, but I really like the civilised interaction norm here and when otherwise earnest and substantive replies come in form that appears to me combative and unempathetic then it's quite disappointing.
NS2 was not quite German infrastructure, it's really Russian infrastructure. It was also entirely irrelevant for Germany at that point, no gas ever has flown through it and none would have almost certainly even if it were still fully intact (one strand is undamaged).

We don't know if the German government knows who did this. So I don't think we can draw any conclusions from the lack of action here, we simply do not have enough information.
Seems more West specific. Related to money printing and lockdowns during COVID.
Out of curiosity, why do you think AI generated contracts are the future? Do you draw a distinction between contracts generated by AI and, say, contracts “generated” by first-year associates (i.e., using precedent to generate a first draft appropriate for the deal that’s then iterated by more experienced lawyers)?

Also, how is this incident going to push the legal industry further into the past? Do you think lawyers are going to, like, stop using email because of this?
Implied in your comment is that scarcity does not confer value, which is just not true. Scarcity, particularly when controlled by one entity, creates tremendous value for that entity because it creates a power imbalance with other entities. Otherwise, the secret coca-cola formula would have no reason to stay secret. Patents actually get their entire value from the artificial scarcity they create - you don't need a patent to confer an invention to someone else, only to stop other people from using it. Scarcity also greatly improves your ability to capture value, but it creates value to be in the club.

Another possible misunderstanding you may have about the concept of "value" is that you may be conflating value (in general) with societal value. One is a subset of the other - you can get value, companies can get value, and society can get value. People and companies can get a lot of value out of things that are not directly valuable to society, and society tolerates these things because society, on the whole, gets more value from having those people and companies in it than not. This is why you can drink, and also why most countries have patent systems despite that patent owners may not make optimal societal use of their patents during the term of their limited monopoly.

Also, if you have ever sold a patent before, you will know that it frequently takes the form of an auction process. Even if not explicitly structured as an auction, these negotiations have auction-like qualities with buyers bidding against each other and actually a lot of information-sharing.
I’m certainly not discounting your experience but do you really think this is something that took shape only over a couple of weeks? Or did you mean that you woke to the realization?
Just put it in writing. If you want a record to be permanent, e-mail it. If somebody tells you something over the phone, e-mail them to say "I'm just confirming the details of our call, where you said X".
> even if you factor in the cost of your time you should come out ahead

There is always the hidden cost of not spending time on activities that are core to your business (if this is indeed for a business) that would make multiples of the money CF costs you.
I want to show the creator this specific video on DAIN (Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation): https://youtu.be/sFN9dzw0qH8 !

https://github.com/baowenbo/DAIN
In short, is all this just fancy BS?

I have been following Simon Wardley on Twitter and read most of his blog posts about mapping and maybe kind of worked through his examples - so I am not any kind of expert and had never used them before. I was introduced by a client to the roof truss industry. Here is a link to one corner of an entire ecosystem:
https://www.tpinst.org/

Just to help me make sense of an industry that I was completely unfamiliar with, I mapped it from lumber producers all the way to home owners. I showed the map to my client and just briefly explained what the axis were. He was able to clarify my understanding and point out where other players fit in that he had not mentioned before. By realizing that different players will fight commodification, we could see their likely moves. Time will tell if we are correct.

So my take-away is that it is useful. I went from complete ignorance of an industry that has a new technology being introduced, to making reasonable guesses about the likely moves of incumbents in just 2-3 hours.