skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CRIMEA:

In the 1950s, the population of Crimea — approximately 1.1 million — was roughly 75 percent ethnic Russian and 25 percent Ukrainian. A sizable population of Tatars had lived in Crimea for centuries until May 1944, when they were deported en masse by the Stalinist regime to barren sites in Central Asia, where they were compelled to live for more than four decades and were prohibited from returning to their homeland.

1954: Gifted by USSR heads, from Russian SSR to Ukrainian SSR (officially “to evince the boundless trust and love the Russian people feel towards the Ukrainian people”). People on the ground weren’t asked, but accepted it without violence and life moved on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_So...

1991: 94% of voters in referendum wanted to be independent of Ukraine (no Russian troops present) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Crimean_sovereignty_ref...

1991: Later that year, Crimea takes place in a referendum for whether Ukraine should be independent of USSR and whether they should be part of that. Only 54% vote yes:

1992: Crimean parliament declares Republic of Crimea with self-government. Passes Constitution with conditional independence from Ukraine. Ukraine/Kyiv are incensed

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/06/world/crimea-parliament-v...

1992: Later in December Ukraine created a Ukraine Presidential Representative in Crimea, kicking off a wave of protests there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crimea_(1991%E2%80%...

1993: Crimean Parliament votes to elect its own President, which Kyiv denounces as unconstitutional.

1994: Popular referendum in Crimea once again strongly supports autonomy and independence from Ukraine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Crimean_referendum

1994: The Crimean public popularly elect pro-Russian president Yuriy Meshkov. Crimean Parliament and President clash in a constitutional crisis and he disbands them.

1995: Ukrainian government intervenes in the crisis, removes Meshkov, and deports him to Russia. Kyiv appoints Anatoly Franchuk to run Crimea instead, rather than a popularly-elected leader.

Crimean people and activists ultimately agree to Ukrainian sovereignty but force Kyiv to expand on the already extensive autonomous status of Crimea.

2006: Crimean Protests against NATO presence: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/world/americas/11iht-kiev...

2014: March 11 the Republic of Crimea once again proclaimed its independence from Ukraine, citing the Kosovo precedent:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_independence_preceden...

2014: On March 16 Crimeans headed to the polls for a referendum that presented only two choices - be part of Ukraine or rejoin Russia. OSCE refuses to observe a popular refendum in Crimea, so as to not give legitimacy to its outcome:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/03/12/osce-will-not-obse...

The option to keep the status quo remain an independent Crimea was NOT included among the available choices in the referendum! A major problem for self-determination. Given the choices, Crimeans largely voted to be annexed by Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum
> force Sony to release their exclusive titles on Xbox.

How much do ports normally cost? How many units would they need to move to hit even?
If you walked into her music studio would you know what every piece of equipment does? Would you be ashamed of admitting you didn’t?

How much do you even know about music theory or dance choreography?
Sild: A Lisp Dialect
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Its becoming a far right cesspool. And its making even less money than the little that it did before. Most people i know don't use it anymore.
I thought the NUC12 Extreme gaming/minitower NUC was a nice machine. Seemed to be a decent value for performance in its small form factor.

What are some good third party equivalents to the NUC12 and (larger) NUC13?
> I think the issue turns on average speed. Not maximum possible speed, but average speed in practice.

On what grounds?

Since most collisions happen at junctions, I would think the biggest source of potential conflict would be differences in acceleration from a dead stop - but again that's a problem that exists in the same form (if anything, a more severe form) for ecars.
Why black and white painting isn't popular nowadays?
I wonder if it's my limited art knowledge, or indeed black and white painting nowadays are not popular. The only modern artist I know who did such paintings was Mark Rothko.

In photography, black and white is still alive well. Everyone from beginners with their cellphones to seasoned pros with big studio cameras do it.

I wonder why.
We’re projected to hit a new global production record this year.

I used to work in the shale industry so I know how it works. Yes it’s more intensive but breakevens for fracked wells are down to what breakevens for conventional wells were 20-30 years ago. They have superior technology and processes now that are only getting better, more efficient, and cheaper. There is a lot of money at stake and a ton of very smart people working on this stuff.
2-4% of unreviewed content shall be phallic..?
This is all a bit of a strawman though - transport yourself back in time before LCD monitors and most people were comfortable referring to the glowing squares on the screen as pixels. That you now define a pixel as a physically distinct separately-electronically-addressable unit doesn't change that.
You can configure your servers to start a small SSH server at boot to receive the LUKS keys remotely.

I use LUKS on baremetal, and even some virtual servers, without much issues. The setup is a bit more complex than average though.
You can look things up when you need something, you don't need to wait for an ad to annoy you to discover something.

What's more, usually, you hear ads for big players, not the small ones, which are often the most interesting.

In particular, hearing about NordVPN every other video is not necessary.
What next, should she also know vi?
Corvids like the crows and magpies mentioned are remarkably smart animals, so not too surprising.
After WWII in US propaganda was renamed to "public relations".
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tartube is only available on Sourceforge. I thought that was a malware infested download site?
It can be tough to unambiguously express ideas and concepts in English.
My bf learnt how to do hard things soon enough (mostly against his own will I admit) and I wish I could find the strength to emulate him in a way.
Gamers rise up !
To my knowledge, no.
that's "the sitch"

it's not the ignorance, it's the gleeful arrogance and gloating about being ignorant.

this kind of attitude is dangerous.
Judges son works at Microsoft
That's not far from Bansko and that dude that runs Nomad fest there, right? https://nomadlist.com/bansko

would be so nice if they could make these projects a little more suitable for families. but I might need to see this when it's done anyways :)
We all know no good games are coming from this company any more, and it is true for a long time now. Microsoft is the most anti-competitiveness corp in the world and Bobby's comments... They are really funny :) The sun is finally setting for Blizzard.
Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees
This just totally depends on your country and ISP.

In Germany most ISPs don't even give you a dynamic IPv4, it's cgnat so you share with a lot of other people.

But there are ways around it. I use Cloudflare Tunnel and that way I don't expose anything (I could only do it with ipv6 but in the end Cloudflare Tunnels are easier)
Just a meta comment: Don't think of calculus as hard in the same way learning a language or learning to paint is hard. Calculus is more of a gotcha moment. You fumble in the dark for a few focused hours (or minutes) and then you Get It. From then on it's relatively easy.
It's a huge reach to say it's not scammy because you use an external tool most people don't even know about or would be able to use effectively in order to help filter through the scams.
Superfluid Helium [video]
i'm saying that because it's a small number of people, most of them shouldn't be Japan related. but if the Japan related topics are more than 3% of your feed, then Japan is by estimation overrepresented, i.e. Japan likely does have a culture of exacting artisanship, i.e. opposite of what you are providing evidence for.
It has to do with the architecture of the network used to create the embeddings. The embeddings is actually the output of the final layer of the model. The dimensionality is a function of the number of parameters in that layer.

Different models/architectures will produce different dimension embeddings.
Sony vs MS lawyers... that would be messy... and fun to watch. grabs popocorn

Would they just build a COD that is dependent on specific MS tech so they cannot release it on competing systems? Why not try and rebrand Call of Duty so that it isn't in violation? Just call it 'Duty'. It starts to get very grey very quickly.
I don't think it was an option for the unaccompanied minor to not check in with an agent. Part of the thing being that they'll have an escort to the gate and between connecting flights - and that can't be done at a kiosk or app.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/special-assistance/unacc...

The skiplagging was going to fall apart real quickly, it's just a matter if it happens at check in, or when trying to leave at the connecting flight when the connecting flight escort says "this way" and the minor says "but my parents are at the passenger pickup area."

Airlines take their custodianship of unaccompanied minors quite seriously.
> I personally think we need to promote stability by moving towards more local economic activity. We are too globalized and it's already hurting us with supply chain issues, among other things.

And stronger, more local, communities. I can't believe life is that hard sometimes, especially when you have kids, and having a close and big circle of people around you would help tremendously.
A better description is "simple", not "easy".

"If you do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because you do not realize how complicated life is."
-von Neumann
That's a very interesting finding. Nowadays Java security is a joke, but back in the day, Java security was a serious topic. Users were able to run downloaded applets in their browser, so protecting the sandbox was important. It's very likely that using those kinds of "corrupted" strings would allow to break out of this sandbox, because that protection code definitely relied on strings being sane and correct.

I can't imagine this behaviour to cause much problem with modern Java, nobody runs untrusted code anyway. But good to know.
Only for in-memory data structures under Rust's control, if it is related to OS IPC, Rust cannot do anything.
Isn't this totally irrelevant? Do you really expect a DMCA takedown for a browser? So why mention it?

I guess it's an IMoB (Irrelevant Mention of Brave)
One scenario that I can imagine, is for development environment. People had CentOS as dev environment and deployed RHEL. Or ran CentOS guests on RHEL hosts (VM or Docker)
I like this approach as well.

My current explanation for this is more along the lines of being well-rounded. By being exposed to a number of different skills and learnings throughout your education, your more likely to be able to connect the dots in other areas - and just hold better conversations with people.

Don't need to ace all your classes for that, but put in the effort to try and structurally understand whatever it is you're coming across.
I saw this when it got posted and all I think is...Are you kidding?

That UI is absolutely horrid. Everything is hidden. It is complete and utter unusable garbage that has no business being in an application being used by professionals.

> Meanwhile, the UI trends in the industry have evolved,

No, they've devolved. That's what this entire thread is about.

> and many of our new users tell us that the UI appears heavyweight

Your "new users" are likely your lowest common denominator user. They're beginners at coding and haven't learned all the things that they're going to want a single click away.

> and dated.

Dated? Dated is good.

> Our goals were to reduce visual complexity

A goal that sounds noble, but really isn't.

> provide easy access to essential features

By hiding them behind unintuitive buttons that don't even have any text? Just a meaningless icon?

> It's the first time I've seen a step in the right direction for a long time.

110% disagree. They dumbed down the UI considerably.

> There is so much more room.

Even in 1080p, I think JetBrains IDEs have just enough room. In 1440p, it's great. I upgraded to 4K recently and I have more room than I know what to do with.

Are you using a 14" laptop monitor or something?
Yes, the same dude, Matthias Zeitler - co-working (and now co-living ) entrepreneur.

Units are now on sale and selling fast.
Private Copying Levy
Good display of integrity by the Economist to publish this given that economic libertarianism is their core tenet.
Not if the memory has been allocated on a shared memory segment, Rust has no control over what other processes might do.
And that is a huge part of problem with sustainability and magnification of problems that would otherwise stay local. PFAS, microplastics, pollution... It's all consequence of overproduction of useless things that are consumed by society manipulated by ads.

The product is "ad" itself if it is good. If not, you need extra advertisements.

For me it is immoral to consume ads.
> I can only assume we're just training a new generation of kids to believe that ads are a normal, inevitable part of every kind of media consumption.

Maybe? I distinctly remember doing my utmost best to ignore TV ads between my cartoons as a kid. Especially <10yo I'd be basically chanting "boring boring boring" to myself until it was over, or just stay focused on toys.

Then again, today's children have access to Youtube far earlier and with more control over what they watch, so you may have a point in that they're starting earlier and thus it gets normalised instead of "this is a sucky thing I'm going to try to ignore".
The game that I'm working on in my spare time has a lot of state machines in it compiled to CLOS, letting me use method calls as a means of directly sending sending events. Rather than write all those methods myself, with `case` forms on the state, I spent an afternoon writing this [0]

(defmacro defdelta (class &body body)
(let* ((body `(,@body
(- enter - - -)
(- leave - - -)))
(acc (group-by
1
(let ((-q0) (-e) (-w) (-q) (-a))
(loop for (q0 e w q a) in (cdr body) do
(setf -q0 (tc q0 -q0)
-e (tc e -e)
-w (tc w -w)
-q (tc q -q)
-a (tc a -a))
collect (list -q0 -e -w -q -a))))))
(push (cons class acc) *delta*)
`(progn
,@(loop for (e . clauses) in acc collecting
`(progn
(defevent ,e)
(defmethod ,e ((me ,class) &rest args)
(when (member *@* args)
(apply #'emit ',e (state me) me args))
(case (state me)
,@ (loop for (q0 . deltas) in (group-by 0 clauses)
collecting
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`((,@(or w 1))
,@(when (and q (not (eq q0 q)))
`((change-state me ',q args)))
,@(when a
`((apply ',a me args)))))))))))))))

which allows me to write, for example, this

(defdelta door
( q0 event - q action )
;;--------------------------------------------------
( locked challenge - - test-lock )
( ^ unlock - unlocked - )
( ^ enter - - to-locked )
;;--------------------------------------------------
( unlocked enter - - to-unlocked )
( ^ challenge - open - )
( ^ lock - locked - )
;;--------------------------------------------------
( open enter - - to-open )
( ^ arrival - blocked - )
( ^ shut - unlocked - )
;;--------------------------------------------------
( blocked departure - open - )
( ^ enter - - to-blocked ))

along with some support code (e.g., the action functions) to define the auto-closing, auto-locking behavior of doors.

---

[0] Some helpers have been omitted. `defevent` defines a generic function with the given name and a particular set of arguments, and a default method that does nothing. `change-state` handles the mechanics of updating the state variable, sending a `leave` event just before the transition and `enter` just after.
no, not whatever OS you like. Windows installations are coded against doing this. You can copy your Windows partition to a new disk and insert that, carefully, but you can't plug it into a different motherboard.

but you can with Linux.

I've never tried it with MacOS but the days of swapping Apple harddrives are in the past anyway.
There's also been a language called Vala, active since 2006!

https://vala.dev
I spend a large amount of time in my profession writing and editing[1]. The industry standard is Word, with some scant holdouts on WordPerfect. Word is a behemoth. The UI objectively makes reading and writing text difficult.

Recently, I've switched to using VSCode for my first draft (written in markdown), and then converted via pandoc to .docx. From there, I can reformat to the industry standards.

Why the extra step? Because when you're fighting with the UI for your attention, the ability to focus on the written word takes a backseat. I'll often end up tripping over some auto-correct feature (the autocorrects for copyright and euro are two of my greatest foes) or cryptic formatting issue, and end up getting farther and farther away from my original focus.

Word processing is broken. VSCode in markdown with a few extra plugins for QOL (e.g. spell check) is a nice balance between something raw and plaintext like VIM and an unbearably clunky MS Word. I can't wait for Microsoft to add Clippy 2.0 powered by ChatGPT into Word so that it can finally complete the slow erosion the author in favor of pure computer-generated text.

[1]: Just because I spend most of my time writing and editing for a living doesn't mean I'm great at it. I explicitly disclaim any typos in this comment!
The problem is that "Technology allowing an advanced civilization to travel to Earth, enter the atmosphere, leave, etc." is significantly more complex than "Technology that would allow them to be completely undetectable to us, and also not crash into the planet"

"Only detectable by people with bad gear" is just not a technological state that makes sense in this context.

There is A LOT of stuff recording what's going on in the sky at all times. A lot of stuff that could give us detailed and high resolution images and other readings. Some of it is actively beholden to various governments so I guess you could argue it's being kept from us there - but are all of these governments going to be in lockstep on this issue? And even more aren't - are scientists going to all just keep quiet on this?

We've had all these declassified videos released recently, and they're some of the most obvious not-extraterrestrial-visitors ever. The one recorded on an aircraft carrier through nightvision with the flying triangles? Night vision goggles have triangular apertures. Bokeh takes the shape of the lens aperture - so bokeh lights become triangles. The blinking in and out of existence? Same timing pattern as a commercial jet.

The pill video from the jets? Parallax makes stationary things look like they move fast. The pill only ever looks to rotate/change direction when the actual recording device in it's housing also does. It's all stabilized so it's not readily apparent unless you know to look for it, but it becomes obvious when you do. What is the object itself? It could be a mylar balloon, it could be an IR hot spot from the sun reflecting off the water. Could be other things. What we don't have any reason to believe is that it is some sort of advanced craft with physics-defying maneuverability.

I fully believe that there is intelligent life out there. Probably in our galaxy, but near certainty in the universe. I also believe that the chances we have had intelligent visitors from another place is the barest fraction of a fraction of a percent.
Those nests look like a work of contemporary art too. Such detail! So organic!
Even RMS himself prefers the abolition of copyright over the existence of the GPL.

Besides, it's already pretty unambiguous that weights are not copyrightable: they're a result of a mechanical process. The only original creative input that goes in to the weights is the unfathomable amounts of content scraped from other sources that aren't the authorship of the models. The objective of the gradient descent is simply minimizing loss on the training data.

Facebook doesn't own the llama model weights any more than the Bridgeman Art Library practically owns the paintings of European masters because they made quality scans of them. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel.... ), or any more than Rural Telephone owns the phone directory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... ).

Trying to make model weights copyrightable is going uphill, and I don't see how you get there without first establishing that the these LLM are unlawful derivatives of a countless number of copyrighted works along the way. Doing so would probably create a immediate monopoly for legally created LLMs for the hand full of corporations with quasi-monopoly content hosting services (facebook, google, etc) that can (and/or already have) stuffed licensing into their terms of use.

Do you want a cyberpunk dystopia? I think creating an AI monopoly is how you get a cyberpunk dystopia -- and the two ways we end up with one is either outright restrictions on private development of AI like some have been lobbying for and the other is the extension of copyright so that only a few entities can get access to enough of other people's data at a low enough cost to train them.
They are the ones making the deals with the game devs anyway, doesn't matter if the studio isn't an internal one.
Will no one think of the miners? Because you should, definitely, think of the miners. The only entity which at scale actually stands to lose the most, and at their depth of time in the market stands to gain the most, from crypto and especially Bitcoin going mainstream.

The miners who actually own the primary physical conduit between imaginary currency and the real world infrastructure that secures it. who are conspicuous only in how incredibly low profile they are, content to let all the heat accrue to the exchanges and the scams and the outrageous twitterarti charlatans.

while they sit back on their war chest of coins minted for pennies decades ago, when no one was looking at how they acquired their power or facilities nor how much of a hand they have in the pools that are supposed to be a hedge against unilateral control of the network, and who can throttle back (using a lever that they alone possess, the block reward IV drip of new coins created every 10 minutes-ish) liquidity in the market anytime the precious number go up looks like it might falter for too long.

Or some upstart Cassandra somehow manages to get the mass media's attention and is dangerously reminding them to ask why after 10 years and still no substantial usage outside of ransomware and darknet and funding criminal outlaw regimes, there is no meaningful adoption of this supposedly world-changing technology, needs to be outflanked by wiggling that magic shadow puppet market cap number around once again.