skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation does not imply causation. Of course countries that are already involved in a joint-forces defensive military alliance are going to be more likely to enter into other external wars together. That doesn't mean the defensive alliance is somehow a contributing factor to that external war.

Countries in an existing defensive alliance are likely using similar gear, have similar doctrine, have similar values, and have alignment strategic interests.

The defensive alliance exists as an outcome of these alignments, as does the cooperation on the external war. The alliance doesn't cause the external war.

Australia is not part of NATO, yet it's followed America into basically every war it's had in the last 60 years because of these preexisting alignments, not because of NATO.
> Diamond also attempts to explain why European, rather than Chinese, conquerors were the ones who did all the colonizing. This is a simple balkanization theory—Europe divided into many areas conducive to states, China formed a great homogenous core—that does not need lengthy restatement. Europe has a highly indented coastline with multiple large peninsulas, all of which developed independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments, plus two large islands.

Roberts' "The Triumph of the West"

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Triumph-West-Press/dp/1842124...

has a quite different take on this. He says the difference comes from a different cultural perspective. It's been a long time since I read it, but I'll try to summarize it with the Chinese perspective was that phenomena could not be modeled. Everything was a unique creation. I.e. the behavior of a model could not be extrapolated to explain other behaviors, while the European perspective was always trying to explain things with models.

Another cultural difference was the European notion (intentional or otherwise) of free markets. This is expounded upon by another book, "The Victory of Reason" by Stark

https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Reason-Christianity-Freedom-C...

My own observation of history is that the key factor is recognition of and protection of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness produce massive technological progress and the uplifting of society.

Societies that recognize these rights thrive, those that do not, fall by the wayside as they are unable to compete.
I can't speak for any other countries, but here in the Netherlands software doesn't follow the "normal" copyright rules. For example, ripping CDs is perfectly fine but copying software requires permission from the developer. Programmers also can't apply for compensation from the private copy levy (the thing that makes us pay €6 on top of every phone so we can legally use it to play music).

This utterly ridiculous special case (as well as the plain corrupt private copy levy) doesn't necessarily exist anywhere else, but it does show that you can't just assume uniformity of copyright law.
and AR is not VR.

Though it does seem like this also does AR things well, and with ease.
> LogicBlox, the longstanding sponsor of https://cache.nixos.org 25, is ending its sponsorship

Wow, I suppose this was bound to happen eventually, but LogicBlox built their entire prod infra on NixOS a decade ago.

Guess they didn't see the value in continuing to use such a niche distro.
Is that an example of you:

A) being a waitress learning to be a writer?

B) an intellectual learning to be a waiter?

I would have thought A, but you imply it's B.

That's interesting to me, because when I was a waiter, I certainly didn't feel B. My high school classmate who went to Cornell and I spent an hour or two a day with senior year pretended they didn't remember me. Customers constantly talked down to me.

I built an app to replace the restaurant computer, occasionally people would ask why I was taking orders on an iPod and when I'd explain, it made things _worse_: there was more than a handful of times they'd argue about rounding and the local tax rate.

I think the author meant its _much_ harder to take the abusive management, extremely physical work, and occassional abusive customer when you think of yourself as an intellectual working a sidejob, as opposed to it being your job where the programming is a side passion.
I doubt it as I was in touch with OpenAI when they were making GPT-4 available last year to their preferred partners. Governments rely on these companies and lag in their capabilities these days.
You cannot access NSFW content from third party apps, such as apollo, without logging into reddit.com and changing a setting.

If the goal was to remove porn, then just enforce higher moderation standards. Removing porn from the API doesn't give the impression of "we want to make the site safer to use", it's communicating "if you want your smut, use the official app so we can blast you with ads".

I have my own qualms with the "protect the children" argument that everyone hides behind for their distaste of porn and this is why; it's never about protecting children; it's about controlling other people. If you view reddit's motivation as driving people towards to the official app where they can be monetized, then these actions make the most sense. If you delude yourself into think they are doing this to protect children, then why are they acting so inefficiently? Reddit already has precedence for banning crude subreddits.
They are taking advantage of regulatory capture - that's all. I don't think I'm blaming anybody here. Maybe these are good regulations. Regardless, it creates a business opportunity.

The EU passes laws which require data/compute/whatever to run in the EU. So a company springs up with a product for that.
He played in a similar space at PA Semi.
I read some of these in school. But haven’t returned to most of them. Of medieval icelandic literature I’m much more fond of Völuspá and Snorra-Edda simply because the fantastic nature of them appeals more to me than the soap-opera style of the Sagas. Of the Sagas them selves, I remember Laxdæla being my favorite, it has been a while though I don’t remember what specifically I liked about it.

That said, I came across a reading Brennu-Njálssaga a year or two ago, read by Árman Jakobsson (a medieval literature expert; and a brother of the Prime Minister) and it sparked a new interest in these stories. These stories are written to be read out loud. They were first authored to be remembered and recited, and when they were written down in books the common practice was still for one reader to read them out loud to a group of people as entertainment. Reading was a social event, not private like it is today. If your are interested in the sagas, for sure try to find a recording of a good reading and listen, as opposed to reading your self.
Well, if I could send a short message to myself 15 years back in time, I'd tell myself that - specifically, tell myself that professors and TAs seem disengaged or dumb mostly because they're being forced to teach outside of their direct area of research or expertise, and those same scholars will be thrilled and super-engaged if you approach them to learn about their research. Something I learned just as I was leaving the university.

(That, and investment tips, obviously.)

However, very much like the article claims, I feel that me 15 years ago wouldn't be truly moved and convinced by this message. Hell, I'm sure I must've read or heard that advice many times in my early university time - but I never stopped to actually process it.
offset is what its name suggests. sometimes its ok if a company innovates or pays money to others to innovate.
"LidlCloud" is a thing... https://www.stackit.de/en/
>The response was surprising. Unlike most companies, which try to soften their blows behind corporate PR speak, Huffman answered rather plainly.

I strongly disagree. The response is line with his past behavior and notice that nowhere in it does spez response address the fact that he was caught lying. That is exactly what corporate PR speak is. Deflecting away from lies and guilt and refusing to answer the question. He wants us to be mad the Apollo dev protected himself by recording the conversation.
That study doesn't make "cats rarely attack rats" accurate.

More accurately from that study - a transient group of feral cats rarely attack huge rats that are in a 150 rat colony at a waste management facility.

- They watched huge urban rats that had engorged themselves at a waste management facility

- A large rat colony can communicate and they had safe routes established by the time the researchers and cats visited

- The feral cats had better options in and around that facility for food or fun

- They observed many cats in the environment which changed the rat behavior. "a one percent increase in the number of cats on a given day made it 100 times less likely that a rat would trigger the team’s motion-sensitive cameras". So throw a ton of cats at the problem and they become less effective.

“You can watch a lot of cats and rats accommodating one another, easing by one another, eating out of the same trash bag.”

Many predator/prey animals will ignore each other if there is an ample food supply to share. Hyenas and lions do this. Lions don't stop eating a kill to go kill hyenas. They'll chase them off or choose to share a meal.

Long time ago I used to have a huge cat that was indoor/outdoor. It went outside and killed anything that moved. It once drug home a large rabbit and put it on the doorstep.

This study shows, contrary to what many would think, that you can't toss feral cats at a huge rat colony and expect them to eradicate them. True. Especially good to know if you run a waste management facility in New York.

You'd probably get more kills if you used a single well-fed housecat than letting a lot of feral cats come and go into the rat colony which drastically changed their behavior and made them stay in hiding.

Put a rat and cat in your house and the cat WILL attack it. Send a cat into a rat's environment, same thing. Watch a bunch of feral cats come and go into a rat colony with huge rats - yeah, probably not many attacks as they load up on the easy food from the trash bags and the rats stay hidden. Fat rats can do that. Especially at a waste management facility.

The general claim that cats rarely attack rats due to that study is silly.
It's something most Americans don't appreciate. Half of Europe suffered under or from a totalitarian regime not that long ago and set up their respective barriers.

Some people give it lip service in America for political points but they don't understand it on a fundamental level - most of them would turn around and complain about why google street view doesn't work in Germany.

I say this as someone who has bounced around between both sides of the pond
Best summary of the whole saga I've read so far.
I've been thinking a lot about this. Us engineers periodically think some version of "I'd like to put a text box on the internet, and hmm, maybe, yeah, some way of storing and retrieving what someone else put in it". Sounds like another endeavor in a grand tradition of such endeavors.

Everything else past that has insane ramifications. Do people put threats in that box? Do people put personal information in that box? Do people link to CSAM in that box? Do people link to radicalizing videos or viral misinformation in that box? Do people use this to harass and stalk others? To manipulate stock prices? To manipulate elections? The answer is "yes" to every single one of those things. You used to think it would be nice if people used your service, but now you realize to your horror you run a Nazi bar [0].

This is the question of the web now: how do you deal with Nazis? You might disagree, you might think it's about centralized/decentralized or analytics or JavaScript, but the only reason those things are relevant is Nazis.

Don't forget there are two kinds of Nazis. We probably immediately think of the American History X Nazi, but don't overlook the respectable Nazi, the polite, well-groomed, non-tattooed Nazi. The Nazi with a bachelor's, or even a law degree or an MBA. They'll use your service too, in ways that might seem like speech you should allow [1] but is just the first Nazi walking into your bar.

We gotta stop thinking "I'll put a text box on the internet" and start thinking "I'll figure out a way to keep Nazis out of text boxes on the internet". This sounds like a huge task but, and I want to be clear: this is _table stakes_ for any new service. The thing you're building isn't a text box, it's a Nazi-free text box. This is the bare minimum.

Then, and only then, can we start building tech that starts to make us feel good about ourselves. That starts to address the loneliness epidemic, or the bonkers decline in adolescent mental health brought on by social media (don't--ironically--@ me on this one), tech that inspires us and brings us together instead of tech that isolates and depresses us, tech that respects us and our privacy instead of surveilling and exploiting us. We have to start thinking about what our tech will do to people when people start to use it, from 10 users to 1000 users to 1,000,000,000 users. We need to start taking responsibility for the things we create, it's no longer possible to just throw your hands up and say, "look I just put a text box on the internet, how was I to know blah blah blah". We have to know better.

[0]: https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-k...

[1]: https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism
Pentagon Is Freaking Out over Potential China War (Because America Might Lose)
> Literally just cook with it.

Lmao. Hapless beginner follows your advice, decides to scramble some eggs on day 1 with his badly-factory-seasoned Lodge pan. Egg glue now encrusts his shiny new pan. What do? Wash with soap? BAD NOOB - that's bad for the seasoning. Scrape it off with steel wool? BAD NOOB - that's even worse for the seasoning.

(If you do this, fellow noob, I think oil + a scrubber sponge got me out of the predicament)
The thing about benchmarking and profiling is that you need a target scenario. Even if you can simulate a generic representation of a given workload, you might have different workload, or your specific environment might differ from the norm. One could imagine an armed force that actually was well attuned to fight a near-peer power in a border conflict, but wasn't well setup to fight battle a continent away against guerrilla forces. This is a peril all benchmarking has, even when correct, it is still limited to its own assumptions and context.
Very clean interface. Nice.

> It comes with a web interface powered by JavaScript/Preact, and an API built in Go/Gin.
Probably a bit of both, but their competition in this article is unproven and unbuilt data centers. Ultimately DCs don't exist in a vaccum, if the energy in Europe makes it possible to be 100% renewables without dodgy offsets then everyone will be, not just evroc. If it's not possible then nothing in the articles gives me the impression that they have a secret sauce that would make their 100% renewables "true 100%".
Hilarious thing is, that sort of speech I think is protected by the Brandenburg Vs. Ohio. It's when it gets specific in a "do x at y" way it gets you v&.
https://hub.packtpub.com/developers-dont-belong-on-a-pedesta...
DB are 100 sub-companies under the same brand. I'm getting the impression we are talking about different sub-companies with different rules.
Home computers/mobiles with parental controls, for example.
Everyone learns to carry plates while growing up. There's a lot more to being a good waiter than just writing down orders and carrying plates. And there's a lot more to being a good writer than just knowing how to write sentences.
Indeed, this is not Fintech News.
> When the sun is shining in Spain, then we move the data there, and when the wind is blowing in the Netherlands then we move it there.

I'm sure this sounds great for the laymen and politicians, but does it really make sense technically?
Wouldn't that be Hetzner?
The political views of some of the major developers (tankie, pro-china, castro-profile-picture communists) has put me off lemmy, particularly because they're (allegedly) removing anything critical of Russia/China and promoting genocide denial on their instance.
There's household device linking. One reason, streaming services/smart tvs want you to link phone/stream from phone. And all those services that want your phone number to verify/provide "2 factor". Yeah, they're totally not doing that to link phone and sell for future targeted ads.

There's many other ways devices can be linked, addresses of bills for instance.
If you are a game development company you shouldn't build your business on someone else's gaming API (aka game engine)?
They may have market share, but there’s very little money being made by Android manufacturers and likely also by Google. Apple has an overwhelming percentage of the profit share from the smartphone market even if they don’t have a majority of the raw market share.
Or you could parent your children instead of relying on Big Tech to do it for you.
Unfortunately, technology washing is the latest trend in minimizing responsibility for outcome.
If you don't scratch the surface the teflon coating is at least as safe as the cast iron.
Show HN: Animated merge sort of any image's pixels
Yeah, that hardware engineer isn't really doing anyone any favors.
The most obvious answer is that killing third-party apps is intentional.

It would have been a reasonable compromise to cut off API access to users who don't have Reddit Gold, but that's off the table, because it doesn't juice the numbers for the IPO the right way.
It strikes me as the attitude of someone not familiar with the platforms. I can recognize their evils and harms while still appreciating how mind-bogglingly much I've learned from them.

The issue is that all tech companies treat their products as all-or-nothing options. It is not theoretically impossible for YouTube to exist without terrifying levels of data-harvesting, unfair creator monetization, and the weird shit they do with kids.
Forums are a way better method of discussion and storing useful information. I still find information on my cars from forum posts 15 years ago. They're usually a smaller community without the big overseer admins of sites like reddit and shitbook, waiting to nuke your entire forum for something they (or now their Ai) view as a transgression. Some of my best friends I met on car forums when I was in college, and our board is still going strong.

I will agree youtube is super useful though.
This is just false. Outside of the visual cortex there isn't any evidence that brains work anything like GPT-4 or neural nets. Producing the same outputs isn't evidence of anything.

At best you have just stated a hypothesis of how the brain might work, not any actual evidence supporting it.
I once got a below average performance review paired with an above average raise, to which I told my boss that he could call me ugly if it came with money like that. I will say that it helped a lot that I really liked him and he wasn't all that thrilled with the company review process either and was apologetic about it.
Well, good luck trying to commoditize a mob. Reddit are not the first one who try, but they will probably be the next to fail.
For those who downvote me, can you explain? I'm really curious on the answer of the question. I don't really understand what the problem is. The data stays under the same licence anyway, so scraping it shouldn't really be any issue.
Good luck, they gonna need it.
> To me the market is still being discovered.

The *WHOLE POINT* of this HN post is to poo-poo Dvorak's take on the iPhone *AS IF* the introduction of Apple Vision is comparable to the iPhone's introduction.

"iPhone critics were wrong then, therefore Apple vision critics are wrong now" is *NOT AN ARGUMENT*. It's emotional manipulation where you are supposed to reminisce about the glorious smartphone revolution that Apple ushered in, and apply that to this product launch. That is what is going on here.

And every time I press the point on what the hell the Apple Vision thing is for, the only thing I get back is mealy-mouthed corporate bullshit like what you just wrote.

"It's gonna be revolutionary, trust me, bro"

No. There is zero reason to believe that these things won't end up collecting dust on a shelf somewhere, just like the majority of VR headsets are already doing.
People choose to live in Europe for reasons other than money. Things money can't buy.
I'm not sure, possible that there is signals intelligence that can only be gathered in atmosphere.
You just can't go changing the layers of a neural network independently of each other if you are doing guided optimization.

For a start, it's not even a given if increasing some weight will increase or decrease the result. The neurons are all tightly coupled.

You can do it on unguided optimization, what is one of the reasons I strongly suspect our brains use something similar to simulated annealing.
Sounds interesting, but It’s a shame that they only hire you if you’re willing to relocate to Sweden.
How exactly? Ever federated project has all this faff about "which instance should I use?". How is that possibly easier.44
As a computational neuroscientist, I find myself both terribly disappointed and unfortunately reminded of Gell-Mann amnesia.
Is that old information? I’m sure I have a dump on most Turkish civilians from a few years back… it also includes data on Erdogan, his birth place and ID number.
You are missing the point... The Apple Vision also attempts to solve a problem: Create a computing interface that interacts with the real world.

Will it be successful? No one knows. Pretending that they do by either calling it a success or not a success this early is bound to be wrong.
> > Diamond also attempts to explain why European, rather than Chinese, conquerors were the ones who did all the colonizing. This is a simple balkanization theory—Europe divided into many areas conducive to states, China formed a great homogenous core—that does not need lengthy restatement. Europe has a highly indented coastline with multiple large peninsulas, all of which developed independent languages, ethnic groups, and governments, plus two large islands.

It's like he knows nothing about China. There's lots of different dialects, Mandarin wasn't the main language used by Government until around the time that the Americas were being colonized by the Europeans.
they are in the business of community building, a bit directly but mostly indirectly through the various subreddit teams

thus they have a reputation as platform gods, and now they put up that reputation as bargaining chip, it's the classic "trust us, we care about you", and now it seems they really don't.

so now they owe an explanation to users, teams, and in general to anyone who they directly or indirectly hurt.
Even "being sacrificed" is a bs characterization.
The US and the HMMWV did great at the combat part of Iraq and Afghanistan. The real switch was from conventional military operations to the long peace.

"Instead, the new incentive for most countries would be to build a military in a way that aims to minimize the political costs... it makes sense not to build an army for conventional operations but instead with an eye towards the kinds of actions which mitigate the harm caused by failed states: armies aimed at policing actions or humanitarian operations."

MRAPs exist to minimize the political costs (dead and wounded soldiers) in a policing action. When you look at conventional wars like Ukraine, HMMWVs remain very relevant in their doctrinal role.
They are my posties, and they shall know no fear (of poor weather conditions)
This is a selfish ask, but is anyone motivated enough to read through the AMA answers and share a summary of the interesting points?
This is the first time you're asking for examples. Given both your way of asking and your previous messages I'm neither interested in continuing this "discussion" with short and snippy responses, nor do I feel safe directing you to any individuals.
I didn't mean anything nationalist by that phrasing.