skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that you'd have been allowed to film Russians being miserable beforehand; don't forget the 1932 Pulitzer/Holomodor controversy.

There's probably a whole field of study in what went wrong with the airdropping of "capitalism" and "democracy" into both post-Soviet states and Afghanistan. It clearly missed a number of elements which were required for those plans to work, mostly around trust and rule of law but also around class and small-l liberalism. Somehow these were more easily overcome the closer (geographically) the country was to core Europe. Then there's the semi-democratic not-very-liberal outcomes of Poland and Hungary thirty years on.
First Principles Thinking, by definition, only assumes the most well-stablished axioms. If your assumptions get broken by a paradigm shift, then you simply failed at proper First Principles Thinking IMHO.

The issue with First Principles Thinking is the required resources (cognitive, temporal, financial, etc.).

P.S. The abstraction-level example the author gives in the blog post look like a case of incomplete information.
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> At the same time, Horton believes that Ellsberg, like other whistleblowers, occasionally sees conspiracy and government perfidy when the evidence is scant. During the course of our hour- and-20-minute interview, Ellsberg contended America still runs a “covert empire” around the world, embodied in the U.S. domination of NATO. He believes Washington deliberately provoked Vladimir Putin into invading Ukraine by pushing its seat of power eastward toward Russia’s borders;

Ellsberg probably sees a lot of parallels between Ukraine and Vietnam: Domino theory that if the invasion isn’t stopped now, more countries will be invaded in the future and escalation starting with non-lethal aid, then lethal aid, then more advisors and trainers, and in Vietnam, actual American combatants.
Maybe it started by people sacrificing what they considered most valuable to them -- their children.

Or maybe it started in a time of famine or other stress, where the young children were likely to die anyways. The reasoning of it seem to be 1.) Sacrifice your child and maybe make a god bring rain or otherwise change the situation. Or 2.) Do nothing and the kid dies anyway, and the famine (or whatever) continues.
> Dawkins said that the god from the old testament is one of the most vile characters humans ever made up.

That’s just pure demagoguery. There are plenty of examples of much crueler cults we just don’t have as many surviving texts describing their practices.

Compared to someone like Huitzilopochtli Yahweh was pretty chill…
>The most powerful iGPU likely. It still won't come anywhere close to high-end dedicated laptop GPUs in the vast majority of benchmarks regardless of how much optimization you throw at it - that's just falling for marketing / hype.

In applications that actually use Metal natively, Apple Silicon GPUs do compare favorably to Nvidia laptop GPUs while using drastically less power.

So no. It isn't just hype/marketing.

Even if you look at the raw technical specs of the M2 Max GPU, it's comparable to Nvidia laptop GPUs - with the exception of ray tracing.
Dissections were not illegal. However, legal sources of cadavers were uncommon. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Unfortunately, it means the source of most cadavers was grave-robbing, which hopefully we can agree is not the most morally savoury of sources?
It's quite entertaining reading about all the societies Benjamin Franklin was a part of. I recently visited the Hellfire caves in Buckinghamshire, England, where the Hellfire club (a blue-blooded social club for the wealthy and powerful) held debaucheristic Greco-Roman style banquets in what was effectively an old chalk cave. Franklin was a frequent quest to such dinners from what I was told. It's very eyrie inside, but well worth the visit if you're in the area. I know OPs article dismisses any occult reasons for the skeletons, but Franklin's associations really do lend a certain uncertainty.

If you're interested in the Hellfire club, you can read both the Wikipedia article, and a more sensationalist article below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
https://www.fodors.com/world/europe/england/experiences/news...
Another use case might be using it as a chat bot on your web site. Magic AI can scan all the information on your web page and serve users as support chat bot.
>Why do you think that ? I am asking as someone who is working in gamedev.

They built Game Porting Toolkit.
>But comments like yours make it sound as if people were sleeping in tents or trailers on Moscow's roads.

Being unemployed was illegal.

And the 70s are only a decade from when the gulags were closed.
> Their civilisation was destroyed as thoroughly as possible

Ehh, we still remember they exist. How many other civilizations have been so thoroughly eradicated that we don't even remember them at all?
This is all solvable and in fact solved, just not integrated in the wallets.
OK, I guess the question is how pip-tools relates to pip then.

Is it a random third party package (someone just grabbing that name) or who manages it? As it is, it looks like not part of pip. (But maybe you were merely posting it as an alternative?) I've never heard of it before. I have been using various tools already, including merely pip, pipenv, poetry. Do I need to look for the newest tool every month? It begins to feel like the JS ecosystem.
> is effectively crazy and bound for an asylum.

It took several thousands of years for us to come to this conclusion.

In the ancient word god/gods/divine spirit/etc. offered a perfectly reasonable explanation of how and why the world works. There were simply no better alternatives..
Its using Lang Chain and the document loader:
https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/indexes/docum...
https://archive.is/NUvxg
I agree that grave-robbing is illegal. But I'd have no moral qualms with robbing the grave of someone with no living relatives. It's not like they're gonna mind. We all get recycled in the end.
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Those are terrible controls for most of games.
M1 has 8 GPU cores, M1 Pro has 16, M1 Max has 32 cores. Apple says the GPU of M1 Max is four times as fast as M1. So 30FPS Ultra on 1080p should be possible?
Yeah, I’m talking about infanticide specifically in that case.
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> The Soviet Union was still a union of different countries.

Calling it "a union" may be a bit misleading for people who don't know Russia's history. The countries in USSR were formerly (before the Bolschevik revolution) territories of the Russian Empire, which were conquered by Russia and then mostly held against people's will.

The Soviet Republics, created after the Revolution, were artificial creations, as they were completely powerless (all power was coming exclusively from Moscow). They were created to sell the international public opinion on the idea of USSR being the universal "worker's republic", containing many nations, which will soon be joined by Soviet republics of Poland, Germany, France etc.
cognitive dissonance is real. what is the totl retail now days? like $1500?
Yes, that's the way.

Some developers noticed this when Valve released the Steam Deck and Proton. Some had Linux ports but they were slow and didn't work perfectly. They just removed those and let the SD run the windows version through Proton. Boom, Linux version :D
> Here's what Chat-GPT4 has to say about the fidelity of "gravitational communication":

Who was the original author?
How much does it matter?
Sure "human intelligence" has been used to solve many problems which have therefore made life easier for people. But for me, one of the biggest problems we face is the increasing concentration of power in to fewer hands. The same hands that are able to control and wield these technologies to gain more power and money. How is AI going to make that any better? Its going to make it worse.
Is it faster to build it to weaponize it against Valve than it is to build it without the weaponization?
There is no reason to ever use btrfs, IMO.

btrfs is the result of Oracle trying to clone, badly, ZFS. When they bought Sun, they discontinued development on btrfs completely, as they (thought they) owned ZFS. Nobody sponsors btrfs development anymore, and its development has completely stagnated; while ZFS, under the OpenZFS project, continues to accelerate and absolutely dominates the enterprise mission critical file system sort of market.

Just use the real deal: use ZFS.

Due to the massive data loss issues with btrfs, for example, Redhat completely removed btrfs support in 8 entirely, after the preview feature in 7 bombed. They default to, and highly recommend, XFS (as do I, its a good file system).
I don't think that is really relevant. You can't decentralize the decision to (e.g.) increase or decrease criminal sentence length by ten per cent, which is why we need good economic studies to estimate its effects. In general, many policy choices cannot be decentralized away. Also, even if you decentralize them, people still want to know what their choices will do. Suppose I'm considering getting a divorce and I want to know how it will affect my children. Is everyone in this position supposed to do their own literature review? Or just "use their own good sense" and guess what the effect will be?
I play Civ 6 and it's also "cross platform". Except when it's not.

The PC and (M1/2) Mac versions were out of sync for a few months, making multiplayer games between those impossible.

Worked perfectly with PC + Steam Deck though.
IMO this is probably because most of these frameworks started with Ruby on Rails as an inspiration.
> It shouldn't take too long for someone to make an app or script to easily set up environments with the developer runtime

There you go: https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Whisky

Here is a bit more promising sample about the performance on M2 Max: https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1435ukq/cyberpun...
> Every new platform needs a killer app. […] watchOS didn’t really have one.

So that’s why the Apple Watch failed, isn’t the number one smartwatch, isn’t the number one watch and hasn’t sold over 100 million units! /s
> It will be unusual that for children the unwanted ones suddenly are considered a good offering

Seems like a win-win for me. The child is suddenly no longer unwanted but your ‘most prized possession’.

To be serious I’m not necessarily claiming that sacrifice was a direct alternative to infanticide just that there might have been some links and generally the fact that infanticide was quite widespread made sacrifice a bit more palatable.
Sure ! And still the Walkman only takes one sense away, AR/VR intervene in two senses.
They may be able to learn, but they haven't mastered the art of looking down on other bees because of what they chose to learn, so there's that I suppose...
"Support offline open-source models (e.g., Alpaca, LLM drivers)" is already on the roadmap, which is great! There's just so much cool stuff we can try with LLMs now…

What's the best discussion forum to exchange ideas, experiences and to collaborate on using and customizing (local) LLMs for (indy) gaming and other cool projects?
> Moba/eSports titles also work on Mac (LoL, all things blizzard, cs:go)

That's like.. 10 games ?
Japan is the test case.
If you look at the page, I guess the answer is yes. Or more precisely, an alternative to Flink written in rust.
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Ask George Santos.

Maybe he so desperately wants his $500,000 bail guarantors to remain anonymous because they're aliens!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/nyregion/george-santos-ba...
Glad to see this pop up. Local models are vital for privacy!
I think the main problem is that the incentives are wrong. Academics are mostly evaluated on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals and the number of citations they obtain. Therefore, the main incentive for academics is to sell papers and it doesn't matter whether the papers are true or not as long as other researchers and peer-reviewers like to read and cite it.
I think the default configuration for GCC x64 is SSE 4.0 instructions enabled, AVX2 instructions enabled, AVX512 and SSE 4.2 disabled. And I think MSVC defaults to processors of a roughly similar age (10 to 15 years old). So instructions in the 40-to-15 year old range get used a lot.

If you're running software that's heavily math intensive, or ever gets benchmarked, it's a fairly good bet that they will have either conditionally-installed or conditional-executed code that targets more modern processors.
That's part of the demographic issues that Russia has, though. The science & engineering talent needed to keep their military machine going is all of Soviet vintage, meaning they entered their careers before 1991. They are all in their 50s at a minimum now, retiring within the next 10 years, and with Russian life expectancy for males at 65, may die shortly after.

The 1990s were a lost generation for Russia, and then talented young engineers that came of age in the 2000s and 2010s largely went into more lucrative software jobs. Many emigrated to the West; I work with a number of them. The folks who can keep all the old military hardware running (let alone develop new ones) are getting increasingly old, and won't be around much longer.
It was basically a shrug; for instance the 2014 invasion wasn't enough to cancel NS-2. Lots of people, Europeans particularly, continued to do business with Russia. In doing so, they were funding the full scale invasion that followed. Only after Feb 2022 did the international community get a bit more serious about sanctioning Russia.

Also the shrug at 2014 wasn't unprecedented. The world also shrugged when Russia invaded Georgia 6 years before that in 2008.
The prevalence of mental illnesses leading to visual hallucination is very low actually.

The idea of whole departments in the US government being staffed with them is absurdist nonsense.
It's not a write, it's just a destination register.

There isn't supposed to be some absolute number of instructions that a RISC has, the idea behind it is that you would take a quantitative approach to add instructions, and require that they show benefit beyond a composition of other instructions, and could be practically used.

More capable compilers, wider use of vectorization and other techniques, and more transistors has pushed that a long way since the 1980s.
Porting your existing stack to new platforms is hard. The much, much harder part is getting your stack running on the new platform at a similar level of stability to the existing platforms. Corner cases and subtle incompatibilities all combine to make 'workaround soup'. It takes a lot of engineering work to support these platforms. The first 90% is bring up, the next 90% is stability.

Hell, something as basic as shipping a working binary for a non-trivial executable on Linux is a bit of a sick joke. Let alone having to support several windowing systems, and a whole bunch of new platform specific bugs in sound systems, graphics drivers, desktop environments, controller APIs.

Mac and Linux have just never been worth the tiny market for large studios. Many games using Unity and Unreal, which can target MacOS and Linux, don't bother providing Linux and MacOS builds because the development and support burden is too high for the number of users they'd gain.
The destruction of Cartagena is the first known example of purposeful destruction of the whole civilization.

The USA and the annihilation of native american civilizations came many centuries later.
From what I understand, they robbed the graves of paupers - people who were too poor to afford marked graves. Which is not at all the same thing as having no living relatives.
Technically it's body snatching, grave robbing is removing valuables from a grave.

Body snatching was historically just a misdemeanour, while grave robbing was a felony, so body snatchers would usually leave valuables and just take the body.
> Eradicating the whole civilization because of some obscure practice that most of the civilizations at the time practised to some extent?

That wasn’t even close to the to being the reason or even one of the reasons why they did that.

> He was a racist, war criminal and very corrupt politician.

Weren’t they all? You couldn’t be a military leader without being a war criminal or a politician without being corrupt by modern standards. That wasn’t really possible in the ancient world..

Feigning shock or disgust at ancient practices might be fun but it’s pretty futile..
We're not talking about sightings though[1]. We're talking about secret programmes to amass collections of hugely valuable alien detritus wherever they happen to land. One of the key protagonists of this story even insists that 'retrievals of this nature are not limited to the United States'

But for some reason not only have shadowy government agencies been successful at preventing alien artefacts from circulating in India, France, Zimbabwe, the former USSR and multiple regimes whose demise was much more violent than the breakup of the USSR, those states and their descendant states have actually kept a better lid on their programmes!

[1]though I'm not sure your other cited sightings also involving English speakers immersed in Western culture exactly undermines the implication that its a cultural phenomenon driven by US media. But perhaps aliens can't communicate telepathically in Shona or Ndbele...
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This has probably already been posted here, but I thought this was an interesting perspective.
The bigger question would be why not lld, considering Xcode's compiler is clang.
Ok. But are they stochastic bees?
Is it a better recording device? Do we know that? Everyone is going to hate the person that is wearing that thing during a birthday party. I remember how obnoxious camcorders were because they were so big and obtrusive. This feels worse.

Maybe this replaces monitors, but a lot of people work on their computer 8-10 hours a day. What does 8-10 hours with a headset on feel like? What do other people in your organization think of the uncanny valley avatar?

It doesn’t replace TV. You have to have a headset per person. And each headset costs 3X a good 55 inch tv? And each person needs to be plugged in to make that work. If someone comes over you have to say bring your own headset.

And the final example is a use case that will basically never happen. It is hard to get friends to coordinate over a normal game on Xbox or PlayStation.

I love Apple but this is just not a mass market device.
If the legal status of the soviet union wasn't a federal union, it's constituents could've not broke up by the end of the 80s.

Legal status matters, even when it is a facade. Another example: even though power was very centralized in Mussolini's hands in Italy, Italy was still a monarchy and the king could depose Mussolini in 1943.

Also, the fact that power was very centralized, does not change the fact that countries still operated autonomously and there's no reason to believe censuses would not be counted differently in the different republics.
Finally a sane string encoding conversion API, but insane function names. If they get overlong, accept it and write them out.

And better, write a proper string API. It's still missing.
If there was some Vegas sports book I'd bet the odds are in the direction he's a bit loony or lacks analytical skills at a minimum, or had any real data.

Gov jobs in intelligence isn't exactly an exclusive club for intelligent people after all. Which is usually where the bulk of credibility is built on.

> As our chart shows, the federal government grants top secret security clearance to large numbers of government employees and contractors: 1.25 million according to the latest publicly available figures.

https://www.statista.com/chart/29717/top-secret-federal-gove...
Quite deserved: CUDA is probably the reason Nvidia became a trillion dollar co.

In his 2004 PhD, he tells ATI had a much better performance than nvidia... even if it was still the case, it would not even matter as their tools and drivers are terrible.
Apple's best GPU is close to a mid-range previous gen nvidia GPU?

I'm sure it'll run a 4 year old game on medium settings great! But that's kind of the point, that it doesn't stand a chance against the rest of the industry.

Who's supposed to be impressed by getting middling performance on Death Stranding 4 years after it came out? Literal definition of "also ran".
Moved to khazakstan also.

My mother hosted a Kazakh refugee family for a year. They were from a cossack family (the father) and from a Tatar family (the mother). That day I learn that cossacks were more of a nomad ethnical group from Ukrainian plains than a military unit in Civ :)
Yeah, definitely! All of this wouldn't be possible without the Wine project and CodeWeavers.
No it’s not. It’s a bit more documented than some previous examples but we have written evidence for this occurring in the middle east and archeological evidence that would suggest it in many other places..
Yes, but I think Peter's point is that they moved because their demographic decline means they have less and less chance of achieving the main goal - securing the eight access points along the Russian border. Ukraine is just "on the way to two of them".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA-jOLF2T4c&t=221
Money. They, and probably more importantly their existing investors, want a pay day.
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Rus...
That's on an M2 Max, which is a significantly heftier chip than the M1.
Cause then they can ban whoever they want that doesn't agree with them. Also, I'm sure that some of the powermods get paid to promote posts on their subreddit.
There is so much more to a modern engine than just 3D graphics. Sound, input, windowing integration, high-speed disk streaming IO, networking, robust OS integration (where to store save files, etc), just compiling it. Problem is that testing most of this depends on having a working renderer to display the game. This tool allows getting something on the screen faster so you can test everything all at once instead of having a bunch of sound, networking and platform engineers waiting around for the rendering team to get their part working.
Will this save me from having to go to PowerPoint to make diagrams ?
HDF5 is more for storing and exchanging numerical simulation data. It doesn't have to be resilient to write failures because worst-case scenario you rerun the simulation or try again to copy the data into the file.

SQLite writes are "atomic" transactions. After writing new data, it goes back to the index and registers that new data has been written using a single instruction. That's why interrupting it in the middle of a write doesn't result in partial data or a corrupted index.