skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first casualty in war is the truth - and this applies to both sides.

I don't expect to convince you that you may have been mislead about the origins of this war, but I will nonetheless try.

The war didn't start in 2019, or even 2014, but in 2014 the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, was recorded plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected leadership of Ukraine and deciding who would replace him as was reported by the BBC, Reuters, Washington Post, NPR and NBC. [0][1][2][3]

Before you respond with a counter-claim that Russia did something bad first thus justifiying the coup, I will concede that they may very well have done so, but this only proves my point that this is nothing more than an ongoing proxy war between these super-powers that has now gone from covert to kinetic.

I fail to see how anyone can claim this is anything but a proxy war.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-ukraine-tape/leaked-a...

https://archive.is/EMGcA

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-pu...

https://archive.is/WFmZJ

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/video/audio-of-leaked-nuland-convers...
> but no defence budget protects against those.

what?!? what do missile defense systems do then? nothing?
Definite typo - meant HP, thanks!
Microsoft Sets Expensive Price Tag for New Corporate AI Products
Yeah the AWS console UI is far from incomprehensible. Though I think what trips a lot of people up is how the resources are often something you use to compose other higher level resources.
https://archive.ph/boAZt
I believe in some conditions fat and/or protein can be used to restore glycogen via Gluconeogenesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

I remember reading that for keto diets it's important to not eat too much protein, otherwise the excess protein may be converted to glucose, replenishing glycogen and knocking you out of ketosis.
According to various comments, Telegram seems to be blocked there. Might be a smart arrangement for such services: Set up shop in a country that leaves you alone as long as you leave them alone (i.e. don't provide services there) but also ignores international inquiries and is small enough not to matter. And if Dubai ever plans to act on international pressure: An empty room is easily moved.
> Can we hold them responsible for unprecedented crimes against humanity - today?

No. Crimes against humanity applies only to small countries who lose the war with big countries.
Yes, I think so. This is most likely to happen with a high-fat diet and large amounts of low-mid intensity endurance exercise.
I use a Dactyl Manuform every day, mounted to the arms of my chair like OP, and it’s been one of the better investments I’ve made in my setup in a long time. I can sit typing a lot longer than I used to be able to without back/wrist pain, and it’s so much more comfortable than sitting upright at a desk that I’d never go back.
China threatening to invade Taiwan, what’s your opinion now? What exactly are they building up for?

Are you from China?
"Zero distinguished from capital "o"? CHECK"

Sorry, I have to disagree.
In fact, that was the first thing I saw and decided I "disapprove" this typeface.

Why? Because it looks too similar to norwegian Ø.

It's a very good idea to clearly distinguish zero 0 from capital O, but it should not look like Ø ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 ) either, because there are many swedish businesses, websites, etc. operating in Norway. I know swedish alphabet uses Ö ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96 ), but still.
> It has nothing to do with topology in mathematics except the name.

Well, the description of a topological insulator does use a tiny bit of topology.
One thing I've learned in my career: no policies apply to anyone the company views as a valuable asset.
Because you've got it backwards.

H-1Bs depress salaries because the companies don't have to give an H1-B a significant raise, basically, ever (read: 5+ years or more).

If people can get green cards in 24 months, those people can leave indentured servitude for a company that pays better. It also completely obliterates the "body shops" as they would have to pay a bunch of money for people who are going to jump out at the first opportunity. So, companies wouldn't automatically bring in a visa holder as there wouldn't be a real advantage over a domestic worker unless there was a real, technical reason for doing so.

I have no problem competing with tech people who come here and can move between companies. In addition, immigrants in tech are generally from a higher socioeconomic strata in their home country and have a tendency to found companies.

More tech folks normally means a need for even more tech folks as long as they aren't artificially suppressed.
What if you can't get extra help, what if that's not enough? A child doesn't have that much control over their lives, who knows what is going on at home. Maybe class is all they have.

You're right about my interpretation as black and white. I still think it's an issue if some or even one child (assuming they don't have some mental issue) is left behind in a class. Meaning that the teacher won't slow down for one child but the pace is acceptable for everyone.
What does this actually mean? They are both programming languages made for solving general problems, what makes the comparison inappropriate? I've used both and pretty much all of their cousins, so I'm confused why you would think they aren't comparable.

The "test" itself I agree is a bit shortsighted. I think Go might be a fine choice over time anyway, but the experiment itself doesn't necessarily highlight the things I'd want to highlight for medium- to long-term viability.
Is this a two-sided thing? Like we can expect appointing an European for head of the FTC? /s
Yup, this one has me seriously confused. They even both seem sort of similar in scope...
I can't currently download the model, can people comment on the architecture. Is it a decoder only model? Is it using multi query attention? How many attention heads in all variants, how big is the context window? I wish they just published these details.
I guess Jai aims to move into the gamedev space of this, but the language has a terrible presence online

https://inductive.no/jai/
They have Telegram Premium, and ads for public channels, so there are revenue streams.
Really depends on the tech company too.

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and NVIDIA have been huge on personnel growth.

Apple has quite famously been very stingy in growth that way.

On the flip side it meant they had fewer layoffs, if any, when everyone else was recalibrating with mass layoffs.
Asteroid's Near Miss of Earth Undetected for 2 Days
>> In just the last few years, the game of football has been party to a bounty scandal, performance-enhancing drug allegations, concussion-related suicides, rapes, murders, drunken driving deaths and at least one child-molestation scandal. The NBA has had a referee go to prison for betting on games he officiated. Baseball’s own Hall of Fame couldn’t find a single living player worthy of induction this year. And the NHL’s audiences and revenues have spiraled downward thanks to a number of labor disputes and games now appearing on cable channels nobody can find.

Wow! There goes the little FOMO I have [or had] on watching sports.
>My main point is that school vouchers are bad.

Which you keep repeating without providing any supporting argument or citations, hence the downvotes.
There's a whole episode involving Jai Alai too (which those clips in the intro are from.) Spoilers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMJ46LJlt0M
There's a comp which is a combo of Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football which are somewhat similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rules_Series
What dev contexts? Do you have a citation? I’ve been a developer for just shy of 25 years and have never heard or read “forge” used in that way.
I personally used an old NUC6i5 with 16GB Ram and 1TB SSD as my private "HomeServer" / "Media-PC" / "RemoteMachine" for a long time, mainly bought because it was (and still is) 5.9W idle power consumption while reasonable performance (way more than a raspberry PI at the time).
I also spent the money on an Akasa Passive case[1], which made the device very expensive in total, but it was worth it at the time. It's still running as a backup.

BUT: I really think the times of the NUC are over. Media-PCs are getting less important (Netflix, etc.). With dedicated boxes like Apple-TV and TV Recording they hardly play a role any more and for home servers there are better alternatives.

I recently invested some money into a used Fujitsu D3417 + Xeon homeserver and it runs Proxmox at 9.3W Idle. The performance is just on another level than any NUC with the same price tag and because it is upgradable and supports ECC RAM, the only drawback is it's size.

I'm still questioning the industry, why they don't provide affordable ITX or smaller sized boards with enough space for ECC (!) RAM and two or more NVMe-Slots as low power low cost Micro-Server appliance. Newer AMD Ryzen does inofficially support ECC but the Idle Power consumption is pretty high. This could be a niche, I would definitely get one of these, if it was good quality (like the DELL, HP or Fujitsu Servers). These boards exist, but they are nearly impossible to get anywhere. An example would be the Gigabyte C246N-WU2, which does run at an unbelievable Idle consumption of less than 8W [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-dVdm3OjME

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFurC_HDlKM (German)
Solidarity between workers. No tears for Bezos losing the price of a broccoli.
In chatgpt there is plenty of "secret sauce" in their output sampling, sending the output for scoring by another model.

As for Gpt4, allegedly it is a combined model(many domain specific models) so perhaps add extra input processing by yet another model to detect problem domain and send it to the right specialised model.
Putting a tracking pixel in a readme is a new one, wow. I would never want to clone that project in case I accidentally open the readme
> The idea that every life is sacred leads to some trolley-problem level of moralizing

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth"

"Can we take your liver now" ?
Vlang on Exercism
> We need to at least try to figure out why is that, before we dismiss it so haphazardly.

No, we don't. There is enough misinformation and woo surrounding QM already. There is absolutely no reason to entertain the notion that there is some deep connection between QM and any macroscopic phenomenon simply because both inolve a wave equation. That's just stupid.
You don't need to learn useEffect until you need to plug arbitrary js libs and components into react. That's the intended use of useEffect. Using it for anything else is usually a bad idea.
Such hacks just to get trapped in apples ecosystem? How can that be appealing?
Basic question, but if there are no references and it’s all values all day long, then how do strings, arrays, and other types where the size unknown at compile time work?

I saw the example they gave, which is cool, but they were with string literals. So, per my question above, how would the same program work if the strings came from user input?
I think the poster above you meant other mini PCs by non-Apple manufacturers.
Threads is losing active and engaged users. I think I know why
I agree with all of those, but not paying for a degree in underwater basket weaving. Sorry.
Vau comes to mind.
Rust's borrow checker can prevent data races, but it can't prevent deadlocks.

The Pony language has something analogous to Rust's ownership system (there it's called reference capabilities [0]), but in addition to that Pony prevents deadlocks too [1]. It does so by not providing locks, but only providing actors with message passing (channels). Now, Pony is a much higher level language and unsuitable for some of the low level stuff that Rust does.

If you restrict your Rust program to not use locks, but just send messages through channels between threads [2], you won't have deadlocks either. But that's quite a handicap for a low level systems language, so Rust in general can't commit to that.

[0] https://tutorial.ponylang.io/reference-capabilities/referenc...

[1] https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-makes-pony-different

[2] If you would rather prefer to write async code, there are async channels too, but to be deadlock-free you need to always guarantee that your futures are polled https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/submitted_storie... which is maybe a strange requirement that's alien to most languages
Link? I don't see this in ToS.
Feceboom is over it is a shit website and nobody cared about your friend count.

Their bubble has burst (and rightly so after CA scandal).

The rest of the industry will use fecebook's news as advice, sadly.
In my understanding, there are still pointers under the hood, they're just not exposed as such in the type system. If you can't copy a pointer you can't alias, so they're indistinguishable from the value itself in practice.
"Our goals overlap substantially with that of Rust and other commendable efforts, such as Zig or Vale" - oh well, but not with Vala, I guess?
> that can exchange information with us in an anthropomorphised manner

No, thank you. Let us just stick to "a system that can solve problems potentially replacing a professional", which also would imply "providing a professional output".

That «anthropomorphised» could make one think of the joke (which exploits the gender-bent use of 'man' in demotic):

Seller: "This computer reasons just like a man". Female customer: "Can I have one that just reasons?"

Similarly, it should "exchange information well" - not "like a human".
How's Svelte different from AngularJS 1? I have such bad memories that I refuse to touch any code-in-html framework with a 10 foot pole.
> I also pack it up every single day and bike it to work

For three years!?

Why not make another one and leave it at the office?

I lasted less than a week after buying a split, ergonomic keyboards before I bought a second for the office.
Well, in order to preserve inaccurate silliness we did start calling it Stilla Havet instead ;) (transl: The Calm Ocean)
If you’re not poor, you can afford college. Period.
AlterEgo – MIT Media Lab
From my experience of constantly using both, Signal's UX is inferior unfortunately. On both macOS and iOS Signal feels like a second grade cross-platform app with a clunky Android feel (no ribbon effect, no animations, poor aesthetics).

Telegram's UX quality is far superior to any other messenger app that I've ever used. Its social functions are quite nice too, I think Telegram invented some of them before they were copied by the others.

The thing with Telegram though is that you can never trust a private company if you are a journalist, dissident or a government official. We don't know whether Pavel Durov is as independent as he wants us to believe he is. The big red flag in the Telegram story is why it's still not banned or censored in Russia. We don't know.

But all in all, kudos to those who have built it, they have my respect, Telegram is one of the best pieces of software at least among the messaging apps.
Using headcount seems like the wrong thing to measure. But, it seems like maybe there’s a method to the madness? If you reward growing the pie then you avoid nastier politics like Wall Street firms might have. It’s a luxury that big tech has been able to afford. Now that they can’t afford this anymore I wonder if we see the relatively friendly tech cultures turn into a more brutal survival of the fittest. Seems like the good times are really coming to an end.
Tevin/Shepard retired at the end of 2020, almost 30 years. That’s a long career in any job.
> Then he probably helped bring freedom to billions of people as well.

That's why they thought. In reality they just changed masters.
> Most of what governments do is harmful to society

Hard disagree. Some of what they do is harmful, and needs a vigilant and active population to keep at bay; but the vast vast majority is massively useful, or even critical. Decentralised (as in, not government managed/controlled/planned/regulated, where government could be anything from a single centralised one to a highly local one) infrastructure, education, consumer protections, healthcare, safety/security sound like a nightmare. Reminds me of thet libertarian utopia town with the bears (A Libertarian Walks into a Bear is a fun book).

> (On libertrarians) House cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appeciate or understand.

~ John Spaulding
The power consumption of an idle "Wall Street Canyon" 12th-generation model is almost negligible. At the SoC, often less than half a watt. At the wall, less than 5 watts typical, most of which is being wasted in the AC/DC conversion.
I was in Dubai a couple of months ago and Telegram definitely worked. Some news sites critical of e.g. Saudi atrocities were banned though.
No I dont think so. The For You and Following tabs work well for me. I didnt get bent out of shape over Elon though
The physical economy and the gamble economy are almost decoupled. Some Wallstreet scam artist running a cryptoshedd in the Cambodian djungle producing virtual wealth is not helping some unlearned sod living under a bridge in any meaningful way. He might produce some more in the long run though.

Its a miracle anyone of the libertarian priest caste is still alive to discuss this. Back in French king times, when a system failed it's people thoroughly, the mob roughing it in the streets would put the upper echelons on a wagon to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_la_Nation. The American citoyens are extremely docile, even going through the proper democratic channels with righteous anger.
Move from Telegram to Signal? But why?
Signal is very obviously compromised, likely a CIA honeypot.

Just look into their PIN + Intel SGX scheme. Or lack of open-source client with reproducible builds.
Lapce: Minimalist VSCode alternative without remote-side server when using SSH
I also use both extensively and I agree, Telegram has the best UX of any messaging app. The desktop app is QT I think so it feels very snappy compared to Signal's electron app.

Signal's iOS app is a native Swift/UIKit app and open source however, so I'd encourage you to report any bugs or issues you find: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
Looks really nice, covering already many use cases while still being much more lightweight compared to Chef & co.
The population was told that masks certainly work, in certain areas mandates made sure that compliance is very high >95%.

If we still could not find reliable evidence that masks are effective, then the policy makers should be told that.

There is very little you can do to improve mask wearing technique. We certainly explained these things to doctors, it made no difference in results. If you want to make more controlled studies, you can do that. Don't hold your breath however.

No, we should not continue requiring wearing masks because you are only doing that out of hope. That's not how we do things in medicine. It would be unethical. There are many medicines that show effectiveness in the lab but fail in clinical trials. We don't demand for those medicines to be used until we find more effective alternative. Many unknown factors could cause ineffectiveness in clinical trials, we don't need to understand all of them, just the fact that the drug failed to demonstrate effectiveness and safety in real life settings.

>> a more accessible alternative which is also as effective as masking becomes available

The point is masking was not effective. It has not shown effectiveness anywhere in the real world.
Most NUCs aren't anywhere near as large as a mini-ITX. The larger ones are the enthusiast models that nobody bought. The NUCs they actually sold millions of are the ones that are 4 inches square and an inch tall.
Yes, it’s unfair but I think it’s also necessary. Every big tech company I’m aware of has lagging rather than leading promotions. You need to already be doing the job at the next level and have demonstrated it through your work. For directors, that includes being able to build an org from scratch. Can’t demonstrate it? No promo, no exceptions.

The flip side of this is that most companies really don’t need so many directors and senior managers. ICs have had to deal with slim pickings at senior level promos for a long time, and I’m honestly glad to see some parity coming - even though would’ve preferred more promos on the IC track rather than few on the EM.

One final thing worth noting is that comp bands are extremely wide at these levels and have significant overlap. I’d be much happier in a world where good work is rewarded with better comp rather than pressure to take on a bigger role.
WhatsApp, Signal, Google Talk and others are also not banned/censored in Russia.
Until recently, Microsoft Outlook idiotically hid the sender's email address when reading a message, showing only the display name.

As it's the part that can be authenticated (DKIM etc) a stronger word than "idiotically" is also appropriate.
> OpenAI are doing tricks with the model output

Do you have any pointers to the “tricks” that are being applied?
There is a book on precisely this. Uncommon wealth: Britain and the aftermath of empire.
There is no mention of

- brown fat which dissipates calories.

- state of other mater transition trough the body (food, water etc.)

- procentage of fat vs muscle cells

You don't need those numbers to lose fat, only a belt and knowing your carbs and micronutrients.
Have you tried to find good engineers in Europe?
Interesting to see that Companies House struck off the company – just yesterday.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
> Last Updated: September 24, 2018

This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website "urbit.org", not the Urbit project.
Funnily enough, I didn’t have issues with Python’s dependency hell before working for AWS, not because we have more dependencies, but because… reasons.
"No second hand value"?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=NUC11TNKi7&_s...
What would be some of the alternatives? I don't even need a gpu. It will be a home server.
> N. Atlantic Sea Surface Temp resumes rise – now at 4.2σ above 1990-20 mean

Is ir good for bathing or do we have to wait more ?
This is a scam. It's a way to extract more value out of you than what they are paying you for (i.e. paying you for an E5 level, while making you do E6 work).
The web won't replace native mobile
Yield has nothing to do with colouring.
I think in your case you might get a better benefit of using pypy and its jit.

The way I look at Cython is that it is a tool that allows me to write C code using python syntax. The biggest gains you get is when you use annotation to specify use simple (C) types with their drawbacks (like overflow etc) and or python features like exceptions, GIL etc
Did you try pypy.org ?
> Random idea 2: Develop advanced solar panels that can efficiently harness energy from moonlight and starlight in addition to sunlight.

Even if you could get 100% efficiency from panels (today they are 30%) the solar power from moonlight and (much less) starlight is insignificant compared with the power of the sun.

> In average, we get 1 milliwatt from the moonlight which is 1/300,000 of the Sun's 342 Watts (averaged over places, seasons, day cycles). That's about the same what I got for the total strip of stars in the Milky Way – 3 parts per million of the Sun

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46838/how-many-p...
> Except drinking water (and lake tahoe water) is regularly tested.

Ask the Flint residents.

> The dog that isn't barking is the lead level results of these tests.

Tests results depend on the test procedure.