skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would definitely not attempt to translate something like that in one shot - I'd read it and digest it for a bit and come up with a way to say the same thing without being unnecessarily obtuse, Thing Explainer style. mi nanpa e mute ijo la kipisi ijo li ken ala lon. ijo wan sin li kama la mi suli wan e nanpa. taso mi ken ala suli kipisi e nanpa. nanpa pi mute ijo la ni li ken ala: ijo tu en kipisi pi ijo wan li lon. taso mi nanpa e suli ijo la kipisi nanpa ale li ken. ijo li kama suli sin pi kipisi wan la mi ken suli pi kipisi wan e nanpa. kipisi li ken lili ale. nasin nanpa ni li ken nanpa e suli ijo e suli tenpo e suli seli. nanpa pi suli ijo la ni li ken: mi sitelen e nanpa la sitelen ni li ken nanpa ni taso li sama ala sitelen pi nanpa ante. taso nanpa mute la sitelen ona li suli ale li ken ala pini. GPT3 doesn't translate this very well, it seems to miss the fine points of grammar, but maybe GPT4 would do better
> he seems to be a very careful scumbag

He live-tweeted his attempt to jump bail and illegally cross the border.
The budget is also part of the insurance system. The problem is that you seem to think that resources should be expected (or demanded) to become infinite once healthcare is managed by the state. Insurance companies have turning you down for care as a priority.
> It’s also painfully corporate. It used to be Defcon attendees would make fun of black hat attendees. Now they’re the same people.

I'm confused about this part of your comment.. To my understanding "black hat" means that you are not caring about laws and ethics. Yet it sounds like you are using the word to describe the corporate security types?
Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days
Their current ETA for service restoration is another 2-4 days.

Despite the warning banner the uptime for customers on us10 instance which has been unavailable for almost a week now is showing at 100%.

They are compensating affected customers by crediting 4 weeks subscription but I must say this does make me wonder about their redundancy and recovery architecture.

Opshugs to the folks at Borgbase.

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> box-us10 offline for storage expansion

> We are currently experiencing a temporary outage on our box-us10 server due to an unplanned expansion process. We added two new hard drives to the server in an effort to enhance capacity and accommodate future growth. However, we did not anticipate that the expansion process would require the server storage to be temporarily offline.

> To prioritize the safety and integrity of your existing data, we have decided to keep the box-us10 server offline until the expansion is successfully completed. It's estimated that about a week of downtime will be needed for the expansion. We understand the inconvenience this may cause and sincerely apologize for any disruption to your services.

> Current progress: 26% (Sunday morning UTC)
> Date Created: 2023-08-11 16:17:36 (3 days ago)
> Last Updated: 2023-08-13 18:15:53 (15 hours ago)
He got locked up for sending pictures of Ukrainian military equipment to Russian intelligence.
Terrible advice. People are different, very different. They are good at different things and bad at different things. The key to success in life is finding the few things you are good at, and building on top of them. Also, finding things you are terribly bad at, and bringing them to a tolerable level.

If you want kids to be successful in life, you need to help them discover their strengths and weaknesses, not teach them to blindly follow the process that is more important that outcome.
I got fired from a startup for “not learning rust fast enough.” I had more professional experience than the rest of the team combined, had built a very similar product to theirs over the previous 5 years, and the part of the product I did work on had the most complete functionality, most test cases, and most complete customer facing documentation of all the features being worked on.

In the previous 3 months there hadn’t been a peep about my productivity despite weekly 1:1s and my frequent solicitations for feedback of where I could improve.

In the exit interview, I strongly suggested they may want to look into some professional leadership training programs. The founders were both 26. I was 42.

Since their founding 8 months earlier they had hired 4 and fired 2. I told them that probably would be a bit of a red flag to their investors.
Can't edit the post now, but if the second link is broken it was meant to point to this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-30/wall-stre...

Here's another related one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-c...
I have a congenital condition called Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA), and just recently in had to have a 4th open heart surgery, this time to replace a valve. I was lucky enough to get a tissue valve rather than a mechanical one, so I don't have to deal with blood thinners the rest of my life, but the downside is that they wear out anywhere between 5-20 years, depending on your lifestyle and other health conditions, which means I could be facing anywhere from 2 (if they last 20 years) to 11 (if they last 5 years) more surgeries, assuming I last another 60 years. The upside is that future valves can be inserted via catheter, assuming no unexpected narrowing of the arteries. That is a one-day, maybe overnight procedure, with a week or less of recovery, rather than the ordeals that a fully open-heart one brings.

I honestly think the hardest part is worrying about how much my spouse worries.

Hopefully Shaun gets his surgery, and recovers well (took me about 2.5 months to get back to relative norma0lness).
I'm not saying you have to agree but it's pretty clear how the author arrived at that conclusion if you read the article.

To summarize: Firefox's shrinking marketshare is an existential threat to Mozilla. The vast majority of its revenue is tied to the search engine deal with Google that the author describes as quasi-charity. Linux is clearly a lower priority than Windows and Mac (and the author even says that it's logical for Mozilla to prioritize Windows/Mac). So if there is a substantial drop in revenue (like the Google deal falls apart or Google just decides to pay Mozilla less) then Linux will bear the brunt of the reduction in resources.

The author sees reliance on Mozilla as a risk
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106044
> There is currently no way, right now, to give financial support to Firefox development without forking it.

This is not true. There is no way to fund Firefox development by giving money to Mozilla, but you can send as much money as you want to Firefox contributors, incl. hiring someone to fix bugs full time, just like any other project.
The DMCA says it needs to be "effective," but then defines it as

>technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

Which sounds like basically anything they call DRM is DRM.
There are so many wonderful scenes between them, but that may be the best.
Which would be changing the paradigm away from implicit coercion, yes.

That would make it a different, entirely hypothetical, ill-defined language. A very clear strawman that isn't particularly worth fighting.

It would quite possibly be a better language, but it's not a thing you "just do" to solve footguns - it has pretty big effects on the language and ecosystem.
Looks like ML is getting better every day at solving the generalized inverse problem.
I guess the right click button that allows me to “save link as” is circumventing a websites lack of a “download this image” button?
I mean, would you? It is literally a defining capability for high level performance. Take a breather, enjoy success, but then look at it.

Though, make no mistake, there is a ton of variability in kids. I think I could reasonably do this with one kid, but I couldn't with another. And some kids need pressing, some don't seem to.
The fifteen minute city conspiracies drive me crazy.

Designing urban infrastructure to be people focused and not car focused should if anything be the liberation.
Just a sponge that was lightly dabbed
Deploying a Static Website with a Contact Form to Cloudflare Pages for Free
> Well, the EU, and Germany, have been threatening and punishing any member state that voted the "wrong way"

Works as designed, then.

What's the point of having a system of shared values if one member goes "Hey, let's, umm, kill all the left-handed people!" and your system can't defend itself against such actors?

What if those actors were paid by an entity determined to destroy your system by testing the extreme edge cases of your shared values?

Let's say Russia decides to troll your system by paying for staged Koran burnings in Sweden [1].
Now, a debate ensues about the tradeoff between freedom of speech/expression, and the value of not hurting people's religious feelings.

If your system gets weaker by such attacks, you need to strengthen the system by excluding or restricting malicious actors.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/27/burning-of-qur...
Lira (aka Coach Red Pill) believes that men shouldn’t date women over the age of 30 and that all women really want is family and subservience. When the war broke out, he started parroting Russian propaganda.

The comparison to Glukhovsky really doesn’t work.
It will also be released on Blu-Ray December 5, 2023: https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1681333005082820608
For $100: https://a.co/d/fyRfHEB
In April last year, I developed a Python scraper that monitors several job sites and boards, and sends new STEM-related job offers to a couple of Telegram channels using a webhook. That way I'm always on top of which companies are hiring in my country, and what they are looking for in terms of positions and technology.
I also monitor LinkedIn job offers, but when a new one comes from them, I try to find the original offer on the company site itself, and then add the company's job board to my bot.

I've applied to very few interesting positions and got a couple of interviews, but that's it, haven't changed jobs yet.

In any case, I've definitely noticed that some companies post job offers and conduct interviews just with market research purposes, they probably don't intend to hire anyone in the short term, or at all.
Llama 2 might by some measures be close to GPT 3.5, but it’s nowhere near GPT 4, nor Anthropic Claude 2 or Cohere’s model. The closed source players have the best researchers - they are being paid millions a year with tons of upside - and it’s hard to keep pace with that. My sense is that the foundation model companies have an edge for now and will probably stay a few steps ahead of the open source realm simply for economic reasons.

Over the long run, open source will eventually overtake. Chances are this will happen once the researchers who are making magic happen get their liquidity and can start working for free again out in the open.
You can't make this stuff up. The whole thing is completely surreal.
No, I’ve only been around the sun enough times to say about a handful of cities. ;)

The inference to draw from that statement is that it’s not an externality for Republicans in SD (ie they exist), so the idea they’d want the situation to stay bad or get worse is fairly easy to consider before posting a ridiculous, baiting comment.
Esperanto was intended as a sort of diplomatic language. It's got flaws, definitely. The sounds and spelling are very much from the creator's native Polish, a lot of important terms are rather obscure («Usono,» from "Usonia" is the word for the United States). That said, it is in the end relatively easy to learn, and it is easy to express the ideas of diplomacy, science, and civil society.

China and Japan used to have a lot of Esperantists before WWII, for that reason.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670575/

> After World War I, the League of Nations considered adopting Esperanto as a working language and recommending that it be taught in schools, but proposals along these lines were vetoed by France.

It may be Eurocentric, but it's hell of a lot easier for diplomats to learn than English or French!
Did you use gdb in CLI mode? It has a TUI mode that's really really helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI (@2:30)
The Nazi's playbook, however, is to disable the institutions that ensures its survival, as a first measure as soon as they take over.

The trick is to figure out the day before it's too late.

Last time, for example, it didn't work.
Hadn’t seen this. Neat!
Because it's a famous fact. It's included in "natural flavors" -- it doesn't list any of its flavorings, obviously.

When New Coke was introduced in 1985, it replaced the vanilla with vanillin, and the Madagascar economy crashed since that's where the vanilla comes from. Then when Coke Classic was (re-)introduced, it brought back the real vanilla and the Madagascar economy recovered. At least that's the story that keeps being repeated -- my understanding is that Coca-Cola won't officially confirm/deny since they keep all their flavorings secret. (It's not like I work for Coke or anything.)

Just google "new coke vanilla madagascar" and you'll find where it all comes from.
"The largest drop in life expectancy in recorded history"?

Life expectancy dropped by 2.56 years between 1990 and 1999 in Russia. Not great but not even close to being historically significant.

Life expectancy in the USA dropped by nearly 3 years in the space of 2 years between 2019 and 2021. More than the entire 1990s in Russia.

Or if you want to see what an extreme drop in life expectancy looks like, it dropped by 16 years in between 1940 and 1945 in Germany.
ukraine banned all political parties… in ukraine being for peace talks is a crime.
When they talk about "the elites" they are talking about a cabal and yes, it does exist. Vanguard and Blackrock created this environment by simply owning more real estate (via other companies) than anyone else. This, combined with their ESG score, is absolutely toxic to "the little guy". They tell their constituent publicly held companies that they're losing big on real estate and the next day 2,000 articles on the reason remote work is terrible come out. This is further compounded by one of the major avenues of reaping back money from startups is VC owned property. There isn't conspiracy here. Blackrock in particular is well known as a major buyer of real estate holding companies.

Expand that from strictly finance to other facets of life and you'll fine similar cabals. Groceries? Yep. News? Yep. They do exist, and it's not simply self interested self-made individuals at the helm. They are a product, not the genesis, of the very real so-called Illuminati you occasionally hear about.

EDIT: Fastest downvotes in the west wow. Open-minded HN showing their open-minded progressive mindset again.
terrible idea to fetishize effort. this leads to self-abuse and things like participatory economics. not to mention inefficiency and, in the extreme, famine.

is the world so well off that results can be deprioritized and take a back seat to energy expenditure? and if that's the case, give me back my incandescent lightbulbs.
When a post includes a paragraph like this I'm not sure that I'd say the person is actually running their own single-person Mastodon server:

> I use masto.host for Mastodon hosting, and it’s been great so far. I have nothing interesting to say about what it’s like to operate a Mastodon instance because I know literally nothing about it. Masto.host handles all of the server administration and Mastodon updates, and I never think about it at all.

In addition to that it seems that they've opted for the top-end package, which seems like it'd be overkill with just a single-user onboard.

That said, seems like there are some pretty significant Mastodon limits even if you let someone else do the heavy-lifting.
I didn't say anything about the wage price spiral. One category that has had above-average inflation is food away from home. That's mostly driven by wages of the workers, not wages of the clientele.

The pesky law you mention is indeed the issue. Not enough people are willing to work in restaurants, and/or not enough people are willing to modify their habits to avoid eating in restaurants when the prices increase.

Whether "printing" money was a cause of generalized inflation is a matter of debate. It's hard to argue it didn't have some effect, but I think you'd probably expect the inflation to have been worse if it were just dependent on the amount of dollars in the system. Given the tightness in the labor market and reduced workforce participation, it seems to me that the pandemic was a large-scale, impromptu test of the UBI, and society failed it very badly. Turns out people will actually not work if they don't have to, and robots are not yet prepared to pick up the slack.
The Rise of Child Influencers: Nurturing Talent or Exploitation?
> I'd like to save this quote.

$ vi ~/quotations.txt
these hype cycles make twitter hard to justify for me. Too many ups and downs that often result in nothing at all
In 1831, the year of Tocqueville's visit, Nat Turner's rebellion took place in rural America, a part of what would eventually became the deadliest conflict in the republic's history and the closest it came to perishing.

It has contrived to survive Tammany Hall and Gritty (so far).
The events in Europe: All the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) events, or then also OHM/SHA/MCH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Contain_Hackers) etc.
It would be, if AfD was credibly anti-democratic, e.g. if there is evidence they support restricting or dismantling democratic processes, such as regular and free elections, balance of powers, etc.

I don't know if there is such evidence, so no judgement on AfD.

However, it seems very often media in west write "protecting democracy" when they actually mean "protecting political power of centrists/liberal democratic parties". Some people even genuinely think that it's democracy only when that part of political spectrum rules.
What if banning parties like AfD is the institution that ensures democracy's survival?
Both you and the person you're replying to are correct. These are not mutually exclusive factors. (Well, except the part about egypt: that was assimilated after Anthony and Cleopatra's defeat, not after Pompey's defeat. Caesar allowed Cleopatra to remain a client monarch.)

Interestingly, that disasterous campaign you mentioned by Augustus to try to conquer up to the Rhine was done exactly to address the difficulty of defending Rome's extended borders. He felt that it was important for the empire to achieve its natural borders, just the same as France sought to do after the revolution.

However, even had those natural borders been secured, it would have done nothing to address the internecine strife that was was instrumental to the decline and final collapse of the western empire. It is necessary to look at a combination of both internal and external pressures to explain what happened.
I think Notion/Office 365/Airtable scared them a lot.

Office 365: Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft products, this is actually a fully featured online version of Word, unlike Google Docs which has a subset of the features and layout.

Notion/Airtable: A good portion of the use cases for Google Docs/Sheets (at least in your run of the mill tech company) are better served by Notion in terms of better structure, components, templates, and so on. The hacks that I have seen people do to get around limitations in Google's suite of products just to do something fairly conventional is a shame.
Ooh, thanks for mentioning that, I’m ready to re-visit!

I wonder if jungle1 and teamjungle are ported? Those were the first maps I made for any game (and I had no idea what I was doing).

I fondly remember a conversation with a random person in a bar, about a decade ago. Somehow, they brought AQ2 into the conversation, pointing to my creations as their favorite maps (without knowing I made them).

That was a good feeling :)
Generally apart from break clauses (usually midway through a lease) companies are liable for the full lease cost and can't give early notice for termination.

In accounting terms, leases according to IFRS 16 are recognized as a lease liability and a contra right of use asset for the full term of the lease.

I'm not 100% certain on the rationale of an impairment (as it could be construed as no longer useful) but if these companies aren't using these properties, auditors may force them to impair their leases, meaning large write offs and accounting losses.
> I'd be pretty annoyed, as a child or not, if at every turn I'd be asked to retrospect about an accomplishment or even a failure.

I’m the complete opposite. I might be irritated if people made me relive a sore defeat too soon, but I love “stewing” in the victories.

If people ask me “amazing win man, how’d you do it?”, I’d revel in retelling the story, especially if I took a shot and was clever. “They all said my way wouldn’t work but I showed them”
If you’re reading, the capitals are different, so that’s 52 letters. In the real world you may encounter cursive, so that’s 52 more letters.

So to read English, you’re looking at 104 distinct characters, and that’s before you discuss diphthongs and digraphs.
> we believe most companies prefer locally installed solutions to cloud based ones

We've also seen a strong desire from businesses to manage models and compute on their own machines or in their own cloud accounts. This is often part of a hybrid strategy of using API products like OpenAI for rapid prototyping.

The majority of (though not all) businesses we've seen tend to be quite comfortable using hosted API products for rapid prototyping and for proving out an initial version of their AI functionality. But in many cases, they want to complement that with the ability to manage models and compute themselves. The motivation here is often to reduce costs by using smaller / faster / cheaper fine-tuned open models.

When we started Anyscale, customer demand led us to run training & inference workloads in our customers' cloud accounts. That way your data and code stays inside of your own cloud account.

Now with all the progress in open models and the desire to rapidly prototype, we're complementing that with a fully-managed inference API where you can do inference with the Llama-2 models [1] (like the OpenAI API but for open models).

[1] https://app.endpoints.anyscale.com/
My point is, why would you install and run a web service locally when you could just install a native PDF app?
I don't know that is a great definition any more. A straightforward implication is that China is capitalist. Which isn't necessarily wrong, but rather demonstrates that it's focused on yesterday's arguments.

Meanwhile I'd say most critics of "late stage capitalism" aren't bemoaning the private ownership aspect itself. Rather they're criticizing the wealth concentration, industry consolidation, and government corruption that large accumulations of capital symbiotically buy and benefit from.