skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an interesting take. Only a year or two ahead of the Ukrainian election Trump was threatening withholding agreed to and paid for arms shipments to Ukraine unless they announce investigations into Biden’s son. His people also blatantly lied claiming meetings with Russians ahead of elections were just about adoption policy whereas really it was about lifting the Magnitsky act which was the reason Russia banned US adoptions.
The US absolutely had a purposeful genocide of native americans, and directly implemented prison camps and some property confiscation of japanese immigrants and citizens.

This is explicitly not a support of the parent's comment. The US was not great, and even had explicit segregation, but was not trying to spread it's own abysmal ideals to all of europe. Hitler was clearly trying to spread facism through all of europe, and eventually the world. His desire to do so was broadly popular in Nazi Germany, so the country's people were never going to stop him. Going to war to grind Nazi Germany into the dust was the only option. It is justified. We also didn't preempt anything. We sacrificed two sovereign countries hoping to avoid that war, which should be clearly not acceptable.
I saw him on a recent interview after my YT algo started sending me his stuff, and he seemed to almost suggest the possibility of privateers (state-sponsored piracy) by local regional powers (he also predicts the collapse of the superpower structure into a model of more local/regional powers), or that in cases where it benefited regional powers they'd turn a blind eye?

Still makes no sense to me.
I will up you. Using the word "vanilla" to refer to anything neutral, default, or basic is wrong.

Vanilla is a sophisticated flavor, not to mention a precious and expensive ingredient. Most people have never consumed real vanilla in their lifetime.
Due to libraries and frameworks I most typically see the inverse of this fallacy. A team claims to want something amazingly ideal and yet easily feasible, but then reject the premise outright if they cannot execute it in their favorite library or framework in 30 seconds or less.
I play League Of Legend 2-3 hours a day
Do not confuse Russia with the Soviet Union. When NATO formed, it's border was the partition of Germany and below. Now it includes many countries that were formally part of the Soviet Union. The US made assurances that NATO would not expand eastward. Ask Jeffrey Sachs who was there when those agreements were made. https://www.commondreams.org/author/jeffrey-d-sachs
Alan Wake 2 and the death of disc-based video games
If just a few of the accident reports have attached photos or videos, you'll quickly get to 100GB.
Hm, good point. Perhaps I need to use a different podcast platform for that. Might look into that!

Are you learning Italian as well? What have you tried so far?
They also have lot of early adopter advantages
I've been thinking that we ought to stop using county names to refer to wars. Vietnam is a place, people live there, but when I hear its name I just think about how messed up my grandpa is because of his experiences in that war.

So I think that instead of "Afghanistan" we should call it "Lockheed's War" or something like that.
My daily driver is a Linux phone running Ubuntu Touch. Besides that I have three more phones running other Linux projects, basically to test them, and to report bugs.

In addition to those devices, I also have another one running Lineage OS because I need some apps that I can't run in any other way, v.gr. Monash University Low FODMAP Diet App.
They've been lucking out since the n64 was released.
Programming and complex/old video games
Can’t wait for this to land in langchain!
Profit margin per electric vehicle
Humans in traffic are relatively easy to predict.

They don’t just randomly brake for no reason.
IIRC the devs are only supporting Pixel devices because they are at least vaguely sane.

Supporting random other devices would be a nightmare.
Excellent career advice
I'm not sure if I get it.

How do you use them?

And why is the eink display so slow?
I'm not sure how people can focus without noise canceling headphones. There are too much distractions.

I used Bose QC2 for 5 years, and recently I bought Airpods Pro which are perfect in my opinion.
> The famous line that every Israeli knows

It’s only relevant if you assume Israelis are superior to their neighbors. Why you don’t see the subjectivity of the statement is beyond me. What you’ve got understand is that both parties look kind of barbaric to an outsider.
I agree with this assessment 100%. We are asking for trouble with this sort of thing.

I wrote my own thoughts on the subject on a couple of other threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274017 - on an article on (Google) Bard

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35020806 - on an article about a tool called Self-Learning Agent for Performing APIs (SLAPA)
> Aboriginal cultures went to war not just for material reasons, but also for cultural reasons, ritualistic, and religious reasons.

Those are always just emotional excuses for gaining more power over resources. If you ignore incentives and take everyone's word at face value, then we're all saints and nary a sin has ever been committed in the name of some righteous cause. Mutual misunderstandings, is all, I suppose.

> People make fortunes out of everything regardless of its cause.

Author took care to mark the fortunes of companies at peacetime vs war time and noted that fortunes increased by an order of magnitude in some cases, as a result of war. If your net worth or social standing is due to jump one or two orders of magnitude as a result of a war or two, your subconscious mind will find more reasons than are rational to justify and support a war. You'll say it's to save your people. You'll say it's self-defense. You'll say it's necessary and just. You'll ignore any path to peace that might avert such a disaster, in particular if you never have to enter the fox holes yourself. That's the author's point.

Rackets aren't always some men conspiring to gain power or money or fame in smoke-filled parlor rooms. Often, they are emergent properties of incentivized systems.

> The conspiratorial idea that war is largely driven by shadowy elites doesn't really hold up to anthropology.

The only part that is wrong about that statement is the idea of the elites being 'shadowy'. No, they conduct their racket right out in the public eye. This isn't a particularly insightful phenomenon, by the way. Power always follows a power law of distribution. Of course the elites are primarily responsible for war. If the elites are ever against war, it just means that the incentives of the moment are temporarily more favorable for peace.

As a blatant example, let's take the American Civil War for example. Well over 90% of white southerners didn't own slaves. So why would they go to war and lay down their life, by the hundreds of thousands, if they stood to gain almost nothing? Most of these kids were raised on subsistence farms and didn't even know how to read. Of course, to those boys it was a cultural cause, defense of their homeland, states rights, yadi yadi. That's what they were sold. But the ones really pulling the strings in that war, were the rich Southern elites, who did in fact own many slaves and stood to lose a great deal over Lincoln's election.

Again, this is true of the vast majority of wars and battles in human history. Pick your time and place in history.
> ultimately led us on a path to the welfare state status we're at today

That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be: he made enough basic concessions to the working class to prevent an outright socialist revolution. We weren't very far from it at that point in history.

The welfare state is a safeguard. Every modern state has social supports, just like every modern road system has traffic control devices and other safety measures. The alternative, as we've seen repeatedly, is to allow unchecked profit motive to grind the masses down to the point that they start erecting guillotines.
That's not the same everywhere in the world though, and even in places where it is strictly passing on the left (or on the right in the UK, Japan and a few other places) 'keep your lane' tends to be the rule if the right hand lane is also moving at the speed limit (so you can't legally pass).

That way the carrying capacity of the road is higher. But when traffic is less dense 'station keeping' should be avoided at all times and if someone moves into my 'dead zone' or just to the left of me I'll gradually slow down to force them to finish their overtake.
> But the Constitution does not require making all appropriations available

There are some wrinkles, but generally, litigation over the President’s ability to decline to spend appropriated funds has indicated that it largely does. Now, if Congress had connected the debt ceiling to either a specific formula for funding reduction or a specific grant of authority to impound appropriations, that would be different, but as it is the President, assuming both are independently valid, cannot faithfully execute laws appropriating funds and the law setting the debt limit.
The G-machine: designing a virtual CPU and OS in Golang
With this turn of events I am considering just getting a GPS for navigation and using nothing but F-droid. Google is going to continue doing this nonsense since it is against the terms, so going full open source might be the answer for me
Both the California and US constitutions guarantee a right to a speedy trial, and California criminal code has specific provisions on how quickly trials must begin. Who is holding the California government responsible for this? What an outrage.
In some sense that's okay. We shouldn't bypass democratic means easily. It's similar to how democratic societies have "state of emergency" powers and just as dangerous, and also why armed pacifism should be a good default for democratic society. You should not cause war, but if someone brings war to your door, you have a duty to your people to protect them and prevent occupation.

Important in this ideology is that flying a boeing into a building and killing 3000 people is not bringing war to your doorstep.
yeah, It is kind of the elephant in the room nobody talks about in these discussions.

If you look at the US, inflation adjusted Government spending tripled between 2000 and 2022. Do people feel that they are getting 300% more services for the taxes 300% higher than 20 years ago. Schools, roads, healthcare, and prisons certainly aren't 3X better.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2022/Oc...
Yeah, but that is mostly hinting on how normalized fraud became in business.
This is incomplete. Ukraine was supposed to be a buffer between NATO and Russia. As soon as Western folks started talking about getting cozy with Ukraine, Putin saw the eventuality where US/joint bases would be on his border and he didn't want that. He would rather start a war with Ukraine than go toe-to-toe with the US and NATO.
> repeated infections

Do you mean infections with lower intensity? I still got infected second time with all the boosters. It was less intense perhaps, but not sure.
Why do you keep driving it? I had a car that did this to me twice and got rid of it, the first time could have been a glitch but twice is simply broken and dangerous. The dealer said the car was fine.
I don't think that's the case anymore. at the very least they are interchangeable names, and I believe that "arm64" is the name going forward.

I read this somewhere a couple weeks back, but I don't remember the source.
Harambe tried to warn us
Aurora isn't an alternative app store, it's an alternative method of accessing the Google Play Store. F-Droid is an alternative app store on Android usually used by degoogled phones.
I'm sure those options will be dog slow and unreliable.

I buy wintel so I can run my software from 15 years ago without interference. Literally the only reason I don't buy a mac. If they want to take that away, well, good luck to them
Did you look at the diesel emission scandal Wiki page? Everyone was 'cheating'; VW was a mid-level 'cheater' which took the brunt of the heat for it.
Not really. Wars are mostly money-losers today. They're more likely to be a power trip for some leader.
> To assert jurisdiction over an adjacent wetland un-
der the CWA, a party must establish “first, that the adjacent [body of
water constitutes] . . . ‘water[s] of the United States’ (i.e., a relatively
permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable
waters

This (interstate navigable) does seem like a much more restricted version or interpretation of 'waters' and areas one might want to protect though. Does this ruling impose this interpretation now? If so, would a large lake contained entirely within a single state no longer be a WOTUS?
Markdown underlining is a typographic faux pas
WHO Releases Data.who.int
Sounds like he won a moral victory over the US Government and the Fascists, and then the US Government (ever full of contradictions) later helped depose the actual Fascists through the war he wanted to avoid.
> Older, used LTO drives are actually quite affordable

They are, but If I'm not mistaken you need a SAS controller, and those go for ~1k euros in my area, even used.
Almost none of the "private LLM" ideas are private. There are hoards and hoards of idiots out there that continue to use OpenAI unfortunately.

The best thing to do is make your own Dockerfile to run Gaucamo locally. Putting it on gitlab too can help quench some of this cloud nonsense that keeps cropping up.
Because it sells the world's best selling car at a high margin? And is double the price of the Toyota Corolla it dethroned.

https://electrek.co/2023/05/25/tesla-model-y-is-now-the-worl...

If one gets news about Tesla only from HN then it does seem Tesla is ridiculous, because only negative stories tend to get upvoted and positive ones buried.
For semantic clarity: are you saying that it ticks the boxes for being a "representative democracy", but not extending the meaning of the word representative to encompass representative of the will of the constituents?

> Anyone arguing it's not is moving goalposts or arguing No True Scotsman.

With this be considered rhetoric?
Confusingly, cutting out 32-bit mode does not break WOW64, and you can still run 32-bit applications. It keeps the ability to use the very simplified use of segmentation registers that Win32 programs use.
The dominance of the US military, for all its faults (and there are plenty), is the reason there's a mostly peaceful world. Deterrence has been an absurdly powerful force towards that goal, and we have the military-industrial companies in the US to thank for that. Yes, they're also profiting from it. That's a win-win, in my opinion.

In my 20+ years in software engineering, I've yet to meet a Chinese or Russian colleague who thinks it would be better if China or Russia had more military/political power. I've even argued in favor of that position in the past (that the world would be better off if there was more multipolarity), and they fervently opposed my position. They are keenly aware of the kind of crimes their ex-governments engage in.

US military dominance is hegemonic, yes, but it would be far worse to have it any other way currently.
Tesla Model Y is now the world's best-selling car, first EV to do so
And Iraq would the be the Bush/Cheney/Haliburton War. I'm a fan of this naming convention.
The specific players change, though. You wouldn't call it (for example) the "Reagan-Raytheon Complex", since that's just a specific, temporary instance produced by a more systemic pattern of behavior. Even though the more specific framing seems more actionable, getting rid of those particular players would not solve the problem if the next set just did the same thing. So, it's actually more useful to think of this as a warning about systems rather than entities.
The fact they seem to be custom manufacturing silicon carbide FET's.... While everyone else is using off the shelf components.

Those custom FET's haven't yet publically been torn down. But I'd guess they enable more efficient motor inverters. More efficiency means smaller battery, and less cooling. Less cooling means the whole heatpump system can be downsized, reducing weight. Reduced weight means smaller battery. Smaller battery means less weight... Which means an even smaller battery... And a smaller battery in a lighter car means more profit margins.

Because of the recursive nature of this, even small efficiency gains on the FET's have a pretty massive impact on profit margins.
In light traffic, I wouldn't. In medium traffic there often isn't that much choice, but in those situations I prefer the company of other cars my size, and preferably ones with attentive drivers (so I discriminate against Tesla drivers.)
Oh, your issue is the different syntax not the feature itself?

The syntax this RFC uses is based on the standardized syntax for attributes in C.
It would not be a mistake when that Vox writer, and most of the other stuff, gets replaced by ChatGPT though...
This isn't true under the current terminology, where Democrats have assigned themselves the title of "the left" with the enthusiastic agreement of Republicans. And while that's a new situation, we're also currently experiencing a vast majority of people who identify as "left" falling under two categories: Obama socialists, who were enthusiastic supporters of candidate Obama and were disappointed in the absolutely traditional run of his presidency, esp. its second term; and Clinton socialists, who went along with the catastrophe of the 2016 Democratic primary because they let themselves be convinced that while they mostly agreed with Sanders, H. Clinton was the only one who could defeat Trump (and they resent the party for this.)

These aren't intellectual positions at all, they're just soap opera stuff. If they've picked up anything about political economy, it was because they were in left-wing spaces during the rise of the Sanders campaign. As far as I can tell, all they took away from it is the slur "tankie," which they think has something to do with Tienanmen Square and should be screamed at anyone anyone to the left of Bill Kristol.
This is a very important point.
>The conspiratorial idea that war is largely driven by shadowy elites doesn't really hold up to anthropology.

Of course not, Bush jr and his administration made up a war right in public. That we had no business in the middle east is not conspiracy. That Bush wanted to go to war in the middle east is also not conspiracy. Those WMDs never existed, and they knew that, yet off to war we went. How is that not elites driving war?
> that you could make a case for some method by which you could suddenly ramp out of control without our notice.

lots of things ramp up without our notice. Like CO2 in the atmosphere, or Ozone depleting chemicals, or PFAS in the water, microplastics in the ocean. I don't think it's a small list.
Yep I’m also a beginner but I haven’t found anything similar to this project.
In terms of learning materials I found classes that follow the CEFR system (A1, A2, B1 etc) have been more helpful than Duolingo and also this free resource https://www.languagetransfer.org/
Eh, it's not like you people would share SinoVac, even if it worked properly.
When I saw "Romanian" I figured the medieval texts were Byzantine and therefore might contain ancient Greek fragments. Since the library belonged instead to Transylvanian Saxons, that's probably not the case.
You can read the opinion for yourself: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf

TL:DR: The case comes down to how to define the EPA's interpretation of their mandate to protect the "Waters of the United States". The EPA could make the case that any amount of moisture on any property in the US could qualify as "Waters of the United States" largely to its own discretion. In this case none of the justices argued that the EPA's choice to fine the couple $40,000 a day wasn't arbitrary and egregious.

> With the court’s ruling, the CWA no longer protects isolated wetlands nor intermittent and seasonal bodies of water, Ryan said.

This is actually not what the judgement said, and there are plenty of situations where it determines non-arbitrary protections of wetlands.
It seems training the Vicuna on custom dataset could be quite easy as well, according to the following:
https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/tree/master/llm/vic...
it is accurate, their trained model does surpass GPT4 and Claude. Which means someone can beat GTP4 in specific applications with a model that runs in an old graphics card
More like the left abandoned American politics. At least compared to the rest of the world the US have 2 right-wing parties.
The government takes in close to $5 trillion a year [0], debt servicing is $496.5 billion [1]. So it's easily able to be covered by existing revenues.

With respect to prioritization, I'm sure Treasury officials don't want to be put in that position, but if we end up hitting the debt ceiling they will need to make it work.

[0] - https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial-rep...

[1] - https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial-rep...
They don't necessarily need to use a foreign telecom company. They can buy SIP access directly from a US company (Twilio, SignalWire, etc) and use it anywhere.
Everyone is designing their own bespoke AI silicon now. CUDA is just a backend for things to run on top of, like how if a whole industry uses a certain power tool brand so everyone in that industry has a backup battery for it and inertia goes into effect. However the vast majority of people working in AI couldn't write 'hello world' in CUDA. The language that makes AI and ML run is Python. If some other hardware came along that could seamlessly take over and let all the Python engines work just as fast no one would notice. That is my perspective anyway.
So the opposition now is responsible for the decisions of the party in Power?

Ah yes I don't think that this works that way
It's...a thing.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss
Great idea but there isn’t an easy way to manage that
That is exactly how it works, just none of the constituents think that's how it works on their team, so we're in this sort of stasis. The unsolved and repeatedly retrodden problems are called wedge issues and they're key to these teams staying in power collectively.
My point was this can be done on any network you join... a coffee shop, a coworking space, etc (unless your using encrypted VPNed obviously) so not just your hardware.

Additionally, any network along the way can inspect unencrypted packets not just your ISP. Unless your ISP is just one hop from the DNS server you're using (or you use your ISPs DNS).

You are trusting potentially dozens of parties... some of whom you have a contract with any many you don't and some of whom may be a malicious government (depending on where in the world you are).

But I do agree with, implicitly, what you are saying. I wish the default wasn't Cloudflare and if you change it explicitly it sounds like the canary won't work anyway.
That's why I use Lyft instead of Uber. In SFBay it's often Tesla because of their business relationship, and I don't like it.
Why the down votes? Republicans love war, sometimes Democrats go along with it.
It's called compromise. You mean, why do Democrats sometimes bend their principles in the face of gun toting Republican's calling for a coup? I don't know, to thread the needle to keep the peace. When half the country is ready to re-enact the Civil War, what is to be done? It isn't like Lincoln didn't compromise when needed.
Other people making friends is not really a good reason to start killing them, either way.

I know it’s not what you’re saying exactly, but it’s what Putin’s actions boil down to.
Predictably, this comment started a partisan political argument that took over the thread like kudzu.