skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it an "educational tool/investment" when you are removing 18-year-olds from their education or job for several months? And "instill social cohesion" sounds a lot like "brainwashing" to me.

Those arguments don't have anything to do with conscription. You could just as well achieve the same with mandatory education, or mandatory pick-trash-up-in-the-forests.
Spore with Subnautica style graphics would be nice.
a) no-one wants that, so b) no-one would vote for that, and so c) it won't happen.

In some remarkable circumstance that the EC proposed such a thing, and all the MEPs did think that was a good idea, there'd still have to be an EU treaty that allowed for it, because it's certainly beyond the scope of the CFSP. Said treaty would have to be ratified by the member states.
This is a great text. Most internet English language forums have a heavy American culture bias. So it's not easy to find places to talk in a calm and unbiased manner about US imperialism.

In a couple 100s of years , history will be talked about this era of "Pax Americana" and the lengths that the US Gov went trying to cling to its power.

Is it good, is it bad? Depends on where you are really.
Well Tbf he saw a road - not exactly “forced out”. His campaign of violence was over a decade long and I don’t think I’ve read anything about him starving or caving on his self-sufficiency ideals in the meantime. But maybe this is covered in the manifesto?

I’d say that if people who value a self-sufficient primitive existence decide they can’t coexist with me in my tech-enhanced world, my natural response is “suck it up”. The idea that they like something that a huge majority of people don’t so we all need to comply to make room for them feels selfish to the point of narcissism. It doesn’t help that, as you said, going this route today would necessitate a massive… let’s charitably say “intentional population decrease”.

Not sure if you're endorsing such views or not, but point well taken - I see how some would find self-sufficiency unsatisfying if they can’t escape all traces of the rest of society.
Some back story on the Lawson brand in Ohio:

As a child growing up in NE Ohio in the 60’s and 70’s, I used to ride my bike to the local Lawson store to buy candy, gum or a bottle of “pop.” Lawson was generally a clean, small and friendly neighborhood store with a limited selection of items. My parents would stop in on the way home from work or an outing to buy milk and bread or an evening snack. They had very good ice cream, and their onion chip dip was amazing—folks in NE Ohio still miss that dip (although a similar version is available at Circle-K now).

There was a classic Lawson TV commercial for their orange juice. The juice was squeezed in Florida and delivered to Ohio in refrigerated tank trucks “in 40 hours.” The trucks were labeled “Big-O” and the freshness of the juice was a big selling point. Here’s a link to the commercial on YT:

https://youtu.be/B7r6A6YQdtI

I believe most Lawson stores were run by families: husband and wife. My parents had friends who ran one for their entire careers and lived a decent middle class lifestyle.

The Lawson success story in Ohio pretty much ended when Consolidated Foods bought the company. But big changes were happening then anyway. I always found it to be so strange that someone in Japan would buy the rights to the name since it was really just a regional brand. When I went to Tokyo on vacation, seeing the logo on stores that look (and smell) nothing like the originals was a strange experience for me.

Thanks for the article!
There's no such thing as improvement trajectory. The argument could sound like sci fi buffs in 1970 wringing their hands on what the governance of the alpha centauri colonies would look like. After all, the improvement trajectory from first flight, to flight being common, to first satellite, to first man in space, to walking on the moon shows a stunning improvement trajectory.

There might be a huge breakthrough tomorrow, or we might hit a brick wall. Or what looked promising might have diminishing returns.
That implies removing peoples voting rights when they reach middle age and are no longer fit to serve in the military.

There is some truth to the idea that the places where conscription really works are where politics is not polarized by age.
This bunch of “unmotivated young men/people” are the least likely to get a war eagerly started but are REALLY only willing to fight if it’s necessary (e.g someone invading their home country and firing artillery at their home village).

In most countries the military doesn’t serve “the people” but the will of politics.

If a big portion of your military IS YOUR SOCIETY (e.g., young men very happily doing a lot of stuff except bombing the shit out of a random country) - it reduces the risk of some bogus operation.

Having conscripts as an important foundation of your military can bring a lot of peace and stability…

Maybe you want to read up a bit on the Vietnam war and how the public was deceived; it isn’t just much “sending conscripts over to a overseas to die for some piece of dirt” - if conscripts see no purpose in fighting over that patch of land, maybe politicians shouldn’t either !?
Airlines response:Strip down to your underwear so we can weigh you.
Reverse engineering the Philips Sonicare firmware
Following [0] a few days ago @atc1441 managed to reverse engineer the toothbrush firmware and find the algorithm for calculating the password found by [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128617
He did neither, the revolutionaries kept out of all major battles, letting the nationalists and Japanese duke it out and then mop up the remains. He believed in violence and power and that everyone was like him.
Switzerland most certainly is not going to start making military service compulsory.
9000, LOL. OK, Olga.

We identified and prosecuted the perpetrators of Abu Ghraib. What legal fate is in store for the butchers of Bucha?
Governments aren't people. They don't have rights. Same for corporations.
>It was cute - even delightful

I remember enjoying the animations for the different characters. I think you could click on the clips /dog/ globe and trigger an random animations. Maybe a slow day at work.

I don’t recall clippy being useful, but I wasn’t a heavy word user.
Can someone explain why the sort3 function produced by Alphadev is correct?

The instruction that was removed was: `P=min(A,C)`, which means that `P=A` at that point.

The next instructions:

cmp S Q
cmovg Q P

with `S=min(A,C)` and `Q=B` can be translated into

if S>Q: P=Q

or

if min(A,C)>B: P=B

which means: if B is the smallest, then `P=B`.
Otherwise P stays as before, meaning `P=A` for Alphadev and `P=min(A,C)` for the original.

So, the end result for sorting A,B,C=3,2,1 would be 3,2,3 for Alphadev's code.

I can't believe, I'm the first one to notice, so I'm probably wrong, but I cannot see where.
Sorry about that!

chrome://webrtc-internals should tell you the exact reason. My guess is packet loss and then it recovers on the keyframe.

In the next day or two I am gonna open a PR to set NACK buffer properly. Right now it is too small :/

Sorry you are hitting issues. Will try my best to fix it up! Email me sean@pion.ly and would love to make sure we get it working 100%. I bet other users are hitting the same issues and not sharing.
Switzerland is in a somewhat unique position. They are not in NATO, and their position of staying neutral and keeping up trade with all sides depends on making it very unattractive to invade them. Conscription makes sense in that context.

GP was a bit too general.
The logical conclusion there is to send all politicians and lawyers to the front lines.

The ones who survive may - perhaps - be useful to everyone else.
I'm going to assume you are building mostly in English, or in languages that maps simply to English (eg. With the same number of plurals). If you have 3 or more plural cases, plus gender (including neutral) you already have a multitude of cases in an if/else.
Or why c++ in a compiler is such a big mistake.
I think it’s fascinating one can get deep understanding of so many topics so quickly now!
Your first link doesn't mention machine learning it is quite literally just a fire in a data center.
Aquila: Chinese/English OSS LLM with 7B, 33B Models (BAAI Beijing Academy of AI)
Makes sense when "fight for your own country" means "dying in a desert half a world away for no real reason".
Not me friend, the government is not “behind it” only instruments as ordinary men.

Your arm chair explanation is insightful, in its own way. How easily played off such things are by convention.

This phenomena has long since existed, and has only become more sophisticated in recent decades (you know how Americans are at pushing the envelope.)

Test this for yourself, can you sit quietly in a silent room and still your thoughts for fifteen minutes? If you are not alone in your own mind, you will soon distinguish your “noise” from those of an exogenous within you.
If you have ChatGPT Plus, you get access to the Web Browsing model, which allows ChatGPT access to the Internet. Not only do you get an audit log for all the sites ChatGPT visit, you also get citations as well for any sources it does end up using in the generated text. Even when ChatGPT does fail, its audit log gives me links to several sources that I can consult instead.
> If I take the collection of images from earlier and train a diffusion model based on it, I'm essentially just compressing it a different way

Not really. If diffusion models were compression they'd be so lossy as to be totally worthless
According to Wikipedia, they were once considered an example of such but that was discredited by later research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good#:~:text=Potatoes%2....
Lessons from Warren Buffett’s See’s Candies Acquisition
That the point, the author can’t have it both ways.
There's no kill like overkill. I've been overdoing a project for the last 5 years and I thoroughly enjoy it. The site is live and pays my bills so why not?

That being said, this comment feels more like self-promotion than conversation. Don't do that.
I think it's the other way around. The death of the city is when you see it as dependent on the suburbs, it places transportation and ease of access over quality of life. To see big cities thrive means increasing quality of live so that working remotely and other changes will not mean abandonment, but just an easier life inside the city because it results less traffic and more spaces for people, restaurants, cultural institutions and parks.

A conglomeration of office-towers surrounded by suburbs with major arteries leading traffic in and out is not a real city.
Your post is showing as downvoted for me right now. I tried upvoting it so it doesn't show as greyed out. Thanks for sharing this resource; I had not come across it before and I think it is a valuable resource to share and a meaningful contribution to the discussion on this topic.
Fair enough! I’d say it’s “equally possible in either scenario” then.
No spore thread is complete without the video of Robin Williams playing spore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5TXEUiR1Xk

(although it makes me a bit sad to post it)
A good number of digital coupons are manufacturer coupons. (I work in this space)

Kroger is usually pretty good about adding shelf tags that highlight the digital coupon.

I much prefer digital coupons to paper coupons that I always seem to forget. But I understand that there is a significant portion of the population who prefer paper coupons instead.

As for the topic of the post, I absolutely think regulators need to step in block the Kroger / Albertsons merger. We need more competition, not less.
This is the sort of comment I come to HN for and hate that I come to HN for: rational, pragmatic, realistic, savvy, read the article, and

Fuck the world doesn’t have to be like this.

This Byzantine maze puzzle of inherited wealth and hopeless inequality and every part of it does feel inevitable and it feels naive to the point of stupid that anything could be reformed.

But I try to remember that it’s all pretty made up north of the actual physics. We put up with this because we’re collectively agreeing to.
Redwood, California?
Was this article written by ChatGPT?
Did a local human editor even read this?
> GB and France are?

While the UK and France have nuclear warheads, their numbers (225 and 290, respectively), pale in comparison with that of Russia (5889) and the US (5244).

Also, the UK's force is sea based and France's is land and air based, both Russia and the US have a nuclear triad:

three-pronged military force structure that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear-missile-armed submarines, and strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs and missiles.[1] Specifically, these components are land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and strategic bombers. The purpose of having this three-branched nuclear capability is to significantly reduce the possibility that an enemy could destroy all of a nation's nuclear forces in a first-strike attack. This, in turn, ensures a credible threat of a second strike, and thus increases a nation's nuclear deterrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_triad
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What is the time limit a secret of this magnitude could survive without being revealed by someone? A year, two years? If we look at our history, we will only see secrets that were revealed within that maximum period?

Snowden revealed quite shocking information, and I think it is safe to say the secret of mass surveillance was going on for much longer than 4 years.
it brought me to the payment page for a free trial
Instead we used Mr, Ms, Mrs. I don't know why listing one's preferred pronouns are somehow worse
People who buy things expect quality, service, and interoperability. In my experience, FOSS projects often have the quality, but they lack service (they may ignore suggestions or unusual bugs). Interoperability is usually left as an exercise for the user.

If a user buys a binary, the seller should expect demands for work or a refund. But people don't expect refunds for donations. And it takes a lot of money to attach strings to a donation.
“Are there any regulations on AI in the US? I’m not aware of any”

There are yes. Environmental regulations that impact hardware. Personal information, privacy regulations that impact the training data. Business regulations that impact what businesses and business owners can do with labor, financial reporting, etc… We also have a fourth estate so if people like Yudkowksi get enough traction in the media the government will be force to act. That is worse than regulation by government, it’s regulation by the whim of the media owners.

These are not AI regulation per se, but they are de facto restrictions that aren’t present to the same degree in communist China.
>removing 18-year-olds from their education or job for several months?

They're getting education in a different set of skills, and additional life experiences; some of which may actually be transferrable outside the military context.

I don't see the same objection to students deciding to take a gap-year to backpack around Southeast Asia.
I mean, taking an existing military drone that's already capable of full mission autonomy and then adding an LLM for logical reasoning when out of contact doesn't seem that far fetched? I think there's even been a demo already, but more as a mission planning optimization kind of thing.

The question is more when will it be deemed reliable enough for active deployment.
Nord Steam Sabotage Linked to Yacht in Poland with Ukrainian Ties
This review is less about language misuse and more talking about how the book’s particular use of language (among other things) reflects a personality and worldview that the reviewer really hates
Thank god you are so understanding. There's a whole generation of soldiers who went through Iraq and Afghanistan who're loaded with PTSD and the feeling of "no one understands" is what drives so many to suicide
The number of users on these platforms has increased considerably. Orchestrating a “movement” consisting of hundreds of millions of people takes a really significant forcing function that affects everyone, not just a vocal minority.
A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line
Then get some nukes and threaten to use them if attacked. Strategy seems to work fairly well and way cheaper. If Russia did not have any their conventional forces most likely would've been wiped out by now. Very strong conventional force I think is mostly needed as a threat to others which is not what progressive society should be looking for.
No, it was not a good game, and it was not particularly well received. The nigh universal hatred for the game was not because the marketers did a bad job. It was because it was a bad game that they lied about being a good game. It was a case of fraud, and it was more or less repeated in exactly the same way with Sim City 2013.

It's worth noting that these two games bookend the career of John Riccitiello as the CEO of EA, and basically ever since then he has been the CEO at Unity.
Either way, cars need to disappear almost completely.
Except ML isn't bullshit. The proof is in the pudding. Yes, some people may overhype the positives of it, and maybe it is just my bubble, but I see far more people overhyping the negatives of it. Having a balanced approach to calling out overhyping in both directions would lend more credibility to their organization. Currently they just look like 21st century luddites.
https://archive.ph/LvjOM
Indeed, it seems the ratio of fatalities for rail/cars is around 1:25 in EU (see above) and 1:10 in USA [0].

Comparing those data, driving is also much safer in the EU:
death rate per 100M passenger for cars in 2021: 0.57. Multiply par 10 (100M to 1B) and divide by 1.6 (miles to km) = 3.5625. Rate in EU = 2.52.

Your right to point out those numbers aren’t split by driving assist options. Until that (still imaginary) future with +95% AV it seems hard to beat that 1:10 ratio, even more with vehicles weight steadily increase [1]

[0] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

[1] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/explore-automotive-tre... (select « weight » then « cars » for regulatory class and vehicle type)
It sounds like he has a neopets like game that he's working on next. Not everyone wants to build a company.
The ones that leap out to me are:

* Investment in Russia post-USSR collapse to replicate what happened in Germany after WWII.

* Not expanding NATO towards Moscow in the 1990s-2010s (including the discovery that Ukraine is de-facto partially under the NATO security umbrella).

* Working to bring Russia into a security alliance targeted at China.

* The US not adopting a policy of prolonging the war in Ukraine to bleed out the Russian military. It should have been treated like Iraq 2.0.

But it is people like Victoria Nuland who have been influencing policy in the region so I expect there are a lot of other opportunities that have been missed. She's part of the cadre that should have been working somewhere outside foreign policy (ideally, McDonalds or Walmart) following the Iraq war.
You would like The Rest Is History more then. Two pleasant chaps talk about history with only light banter, and they're both historians.

If you want banter, but not the mean and forced kind, The Dollop is a much better Behind The Bastards.
> Switzerland most certainly is not going to start making military service compulsory.

How does that square with what I read on https://www.ch.ch/en/safety-and-justice/military-service-and...

Every Swiss man is required to serve in the military or in the alternative civilian service. In most cases, the military service obligation applies from age 18 to 30.
Isn't it easier for tourists to just take public transit instead of renting a car? You probably won't find parking next to the empire state building...
I don't work in AI myself, but this is not consistent with my experience of talking to people who do.

A lot of them were surprised by AlphaGo, GPT-3 and shocked by GPT-4.

The fact that some people were ridiculously optimistic at the beginning should not take away from the fact that few people saw GPT-4 coming.
I don’t like compulsory military service. That said, with the rise of obesity and other health problems, this might make a small difference in getting people (men?) take their health a bit more seriously, once they leave the service.

I am just guessing of course
I think the biggest benefit of more people serving is that the general public realizes that war is a terrible thing and should be done as a last resort. I think it also gives a better understanding of the ways governments use power projection and it's an unnecessary evil, particularly becoming relevant again with Russia. As we see fewer and fewer people serving I believe many of our political leaders will become less empathetic to that understanding. As a reservist in the US, in the many conversations I've had with fellow tech coworkers, there's usually a general lack of knowledge and understanding on the military as few have any direct relatives in the armed services.

As a side note in terms of fitness, in the US, the number eligible people is rather low due to the number of constrains the US military places on fitness, weight, tattoos, mental health etc. The number of people that could actually fight it everyone were called up that's within the age bracket is somewhere in the teens in terms of percentage. Unsure where that stands in Europe, but it would be a large roadbump if the draft were to be reimplemented.
I remember having dialup in 1994 through xmission. It was the same year my dad installed Slackware on our basement computer.
It is substantially implied, considering being worried about population growth when the data suggests it is declining.
The distance from Wuhan of the discovery site of RaTG13 is irrelevant, if (as the article implies) a senior team at the Wuhan lab were working on RaTG13.

The article is not suggesting that Covid19 evolved from RaTG13; it is suggesting that Covid19 is a chimaera made with RaTG13.
A backpack works for me.
The author is noting that in this particular case, Valve made a mistake in releasing the debug symbols for a particular build, as noted by them releasing them in a 2017 build, and then removing them in a subsequent build.

The author did not say that "shipping with debug symbols is always a mistake", they noted that it can happen unintentionally and provided evidence of that in this case.
> "it multiplies my output 1000x

I mean definitely not by that much, but 3-5x easily? If you count those times where one spends hours sifting through documentation and examples on something new you're not familiar with then it could reach those numbers if it spits out something that works first time in several seconds. But not on average.

It's not great for debugging existing problems given the extreme context limits, that's become apparent, but for writing new code? Absolute gamechanger.
but who would this EU force fight that NATO wouldn't?
https://archive.ph/ePscM