skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was gained? Weapons manufacturers stock price went up? What else?

Not security, we somehow left all of our weapons and vehicles behind for the Taliban to use.

We literally threw away decades of goodwill for... nothing. All that happened is our "enemies" are stronger and we are weaker and poorer.
$8T so far.

For the normal people out there who can't quite process numbers this big, let's put that in cognizable terms.

The US has an estimated 580,000 homeless people. If I'm understanding this all correctly, $8T would buy each and every one of those people a 13.8 million dollar mansion.

Bruh.
I already use sponsorblock, for the ads encoded in the video stream.
We eat soup once a week, on Saturday usually. I open the package (like this [1]), put it in a pan. Warm it up and... have soup. With a fresh baguette, some hummus or aioli or whatever. No microwave required.

If its frozen soup (made in bulk it is very cheap) then it just has to be put out early enough. A microwave could help to defeat bad planning or tough time schedule.

[1] https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi920/ah-rijkgevulde-tom...
This is Eisenhowers “Chance for Peace”[0] speech, for those wondering.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech
Yes, of course. Abolishing property rights is not communism this time around.
I've been using yewtu.be recently. It's pretty good! I may have to run my own.
Yw! I'm hard at work on https://www.propeldata.com/, but always curious to see what's going on in the WebRTC space :-)
The collapse in Treasury bonds now ranks among worst market crashes in history
If the manager isn't satisfied with receiving a "hmmmm, I can't think of anything in particular at this time off the top of my head" for most of these questions 80% of the time, then these questions require a level of introspection that would necessitate setting aside 30-60 minutes of pre-work for the meeting to do introspection and brainstorming, or what most likely happens is the report just makes up some bullshit on the fly that they think their manager wants to hear to "what motivated you this past month at work?" or "what are some ideas you have now that you’d like us to try implementing in our team?".

For those of us who are spending all of our cognitive horsepower just to keep rowing the boat forward and meeting expectations and don't have spare hours to just wander and contemplate lief and work and motivation and improvements to process or the team, this seems like a recipe for receiving random bullshit answers.

UNLESS - the manager were to schedule time for that pre-work, like setting 30 min on the cal for separately brainstorming answers and then 30 min immediately after discussing anything that came up. Which I _do_ think would be awesome.

But just saying "hey here's a google doc, any time you have a thought pop up during the next couple weeks jot it down" won't even work. You need to schedule and prioritize it agains the other tasks you are asking the report to work on.
When Debian 12 came out, I started moving everything to that. Finally finished this week.
Right, which OpenAI is trying to argue should not apply to their illegal downloading of copyrighted material for training use.
Can you be more specific? I am surprised Scylla got overwhelmed; it powers Discord.
Sure, but also as much as it may make you feel old, those polls were of people over 18 in 2003, and about half of the current US population does not fit that bill.

The effect is even more dramatic when you presume polls always skew older.
Have you checked in on Canada lately? They're not doing that great.

I'm not saying our system is perfect either; we need to get prices under control and incentivize actual competition in the healthcare industry.
The Great Traffic Surge
A Machine Learning Engineer's Tale of Resource Starvation and Memory Limits
One of the huge missing parts is meaning, and rephrasing your reading of a book into an AI "weights" language is, sorry, still very superficial since these aren't the same, just like you don't have some simple gradient descent optimization function in your brain, so you can't substantively say "oh, our brain just optimizes for something just like AI, so it's the same learning process, so same rules should apply"
How is that misleading? Soldiers have to be paid. If that's not a cost of war then what is?
No, but my reclining chair's motor interferes with the digital signal my TV recieves.
It's not working for me; installed f3d 1.3.1 via the package manager on Ubuntu 23.04 and when I try to open any of the STL files I generated with Inventor or Fusion that I normally open with/import into Cura just fine to interact with or print but all I see is a blank canvas.

EDIT

Trying it from the command line and I see the problem: a message is posted to stderr complaining that the file does not exist, probably because this is an smb path and it (f3d) is doing some weird thing trying to open the path itself instead of going through the default filesystem apis.

Copying the file to the local fs and then opening it with f3d works, so as far as I'm concerned, this is at the very least a bug in that f3d doesn't forward fatal errors to the UI and only posts them to stderr, which is hidden/swallowed by default when opening f3d via the desktop environment or by double-clicking on the .stl file (as no terminal is shown), if not to also mention a bug opening files from smb or network shares or more generally through the gvfs extensions.
That, plus not being willing to pay for infrastructure.
By the outer space treaty, ultimately it's the responsibility of the country that the company belongs to. If it was a german operator, it'd be subject to German rules.

Although of course since this is geostationary orbit, the point of putting it over a geographical area is to do business over that area down on Earth.

So, if it was a German company, but was doing business in the US, the US could use access to their market as leverage for a fine.
You used the word accident and called out an example of the US citizen killed.

In fact, we had military and private contractors commit war crimes, and even the ethical folks did things that contributed to millions getting displaced.

We redefined how we classify male civilians. If you’re a male and end up being in the wrong place, you’re just another casualty and classified as a militant.

Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush clan did some truly horrific things. Kidnapping people with any kind of trial. Dropping bombs in Western Pakistan on weddings because there’s some suspected leader of an organization we don’t like, even if they simply aren’t terrorists but don’t want America in the region.
it's the other way around: booking.com is leaving its bills to hotels unpaid, and makes a fortune that way
Textbooks aren't somehow banned from libraries. You'll find lots of textbooks in public libraries, school libraries, and other libraries where they can be read without paying for the book.

Now if you are saying they obtained the book from illegal sources that is a valid argument. But the issue there is orthogonal feeding the contents of the books into an LLM. It is legal for me to view and photograph the Mona Lisa. If I break into he Louvre to view the Mona Lisa, the issue isn't that I viewed the artwork. The issue is that I broke into the museum.
The hotels are required to have the same price on direct contact as they post on hotels.com so no. But I can be certain that there is actually a room waiting for me when I arrive. I have been standing there enough times with a booking confirmation in hand but the hotel not finding any booking and out of rooms. So far they managed to get me somewhere to sleep even though they have had to pay to house me at another hotel a couple of times.
> But what does it mean to say "the Greeks" disseminated their knowledge better when virtually all of what we have comes from Roman citizens living centuries later?

That Greek knowledge and culture survived the collapse of their prominence? Similar to the Romans after them and Babylonians before them.

Greek had been a lingua franca in the major ports of future empires for centuries [1], and Greek remained a spoken and written language in the Byzantine empire (the same was not true of ancient Egyptian or Babylonian – which were supplanted by Greek or other Aramaic languages during the hellenistic period).

I think at least as much credit is owed to the inheritors of Greek culture (Romans, Byzantines, the various Arabic empires), for preserving source material and references.

But I think Greece was seen as the original "filter" for civilization because it was both "successful" and comparatively extroverted to the great civilizations that came before.

Basically, it's what you said in your middle paragraph – wide availability, accessibility of language and culture. In other words, "better dissemination". :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_colonisation
Honestly unsure what is taking them so long to try this; it’s difficult but totally possible technically, especially for YouTube. Is it because of something like the ad network can’t verify the creative separately from the hosting site?
“A database of X” is the new “GitHub Awesome X”

Of course we have databases of officially-classified and registered things (taxonomy, nutrition, geology, package managers = databases of libraries), as well as arxiv, IDBNsb, IMdb. But now we have databases of online resources people have to go out and search for:

- This

- Programming Languages: https://pldb.pub

- Databases (software): https://dbdb.io

It’s only a matter of time until someone comes up with a database of databases of other things
Agreed. I have an HP Color LaserJet Pro and the toner is expensive, but lasts forever if I don't print and the quality is fantastic as well. Plus, they have automatic duplexing which is a must have feature for me.

Newish ones like mine even support AirPrint and NFC printing.
Case law in the US is that a computer copying something into RAM is a "copy" under the copyright act, and can be copyright infringement (MAI v. Peak Computer), the issue is whether making that copy is fair use, or otherwise authorized. Joseph P. Liu's "Owning Digital Copies: Copyright Law and the Incidents of Copy Ownership" is a good overview of the issues. I don't believe the law has substantial changed since he wrote the article in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp....

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol42/iss4/5/
You're confusing atomicity with sequential consistency. The former guarantee is perfectly compatible with caching.
So 8T injected into the American manufacturing businesses in forgotten by the god states.

And the world (India & China mainly) got to enjoy super cheap oil and grow at unprecedented rates.

So yeah everyone hates wars, everyone apart from the victims seem to like the benefits.
The linked thread doesn't say exactly how, but I can construct some way in my head:

Final 32-bit store effectively stores two 16-bit values or'ed together as high-16 and low-16. You can get this without any shifting and simple addition and the proper values. If these two sixteen bit values are calculated along two very different paths which have different lengths, the compiler might opt to spill one of them early, only to reload the spilled value just before the final addition.

From there it isn't too hard to see some liveness analysis determine that the reload, addition, and immediate store affect onlye bits of the final store, and you can remove parts of it.

Pure speculation on my part that this is what happened, but all of these intermediate steps are performed all the time by modern optimizing compilers.
It is fully possible that we have accumulated better technology while still pushing the climate to exponentially more dangerous states.
When did advertisements become the universal currency?
Right, but courts are the only ones that can make a fair use determination.
How does Lima compare to something like Docker Desktop?
It really wasn't for oil though. Iraq was likely revenge for an attempted assassination of Bush Sr.

Also, the Taliban offered an unconditional surrender but Bush rejected it.

Now, instead, we have tens of thousands of young men who watched their little brother/sister/cousin/mother/father get blown up by American machinery, many of whom have never heard of 9/11.

It's just unfathomably bad.
If only they would crack down on all the scam ads. I still get deepfake ads purporting to show Elon Musk and Martin Lewis promoting crypto and the like.

No amount of reporting by me and even reporting on by mainstream media seems to make a difference.
This process predates DMA, and given that it's the cartel office and not a data protection authority (although from what I've heard, the German federal DPO was much in favor of this effort), the angle was more about competition than privacy. The quote in the article drives that home: "Google’s competitors do not have these data and are thus faced with serious competitive disadvantages."
They were scanning books they had legally-obtained copies of.

OpenAI is very often downloading whole books which they do not have licenses for. Publicly-accessible does not equal legal to download, in US copyright law.
In that case presumably the other country would be responsible for issuing a penalty, assuming symmetry in a fair world (which is a fairly questionable assumption).
I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
I started using Ncdownloader (which works on top of yt2k) extension for my Nextcloud installation, so now I just copy paste video url and get either an MP4 or mp3 in my cloud where I don't worry about ads.

I think their argument that they do this to "ensure that its content creators are compensated for their work" is not genuine given their practice to de-monetize the same content creators with no explanation or, apparently, for their political views. For example, California Insider youtube channel was demonitized and I suspect that this is because Google was unhappy with the narrative.
Why didn't you consider bitonic sort? It's also a comparison sort, and it's typically the fastest one.
> It's my inbox, so I define what I consider SPAM

That's like saying: it's my back yard, I'll decide which laws apply here and who can deal drugs here

It's nice to decide on one's own what legislation should look like, but that muddles the detection of real spam. You are signaling to your email provider that this email should never have been sent and that the sender is dishonestly sending garbage around. If the email was legal in your area, I would say the problem lies there, because no amount of spam button pressing will solve the problem if they continue to have a commercial advantage by sending unsolicited commercial email.
Why would booking.com keep you as a customer if you're going to chargeback? Many retailers seem to treat a chargeback as some sort of horrible unforgivable curse.
It should be fair use imo
I guess that’s why grubhub faked restaurants’ websites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321260
Please determine if these images fall under fair-use provisions and, if so, leave them in place.

Bad actors - whoever they may be - need to see your rights constantly reasserted.
A fascinating look into the mind of a Joe Rogan listener ITT.
I read about some of the torturing that has been done to those prisoners... I don't think there are words that can capture the sheer insanity of it all. I .. can't imagine how anyone could do something like that to a living being.
Make the goddamn YT Premium "family" plan work with Google Workspaces and I'll sign my whole family up today.
Yes, and plenty of people write criticisms of entire song lyrics or poems, effectively republishing the entire thing.

This is actually a huge area of debate on Youtube as Google often errs on your side of the argument (they can choose to demonetize whatever they want), even if they work is technically not infringing.
Seems like a platform base comprised of users who neither want to watch ads nor pay for an ad-free experience is not primed for success
Eventually this will require smarter and smarter neural networks to decide if something is an add or not. This technological warfare might lead to a simulation of the universe. Ar we an adblocker?
Not caring whether or not you're right wing doesn't make you any less right wing
Yeah, the "if we killed them they must have been terrorists" policy was gross.
Youtube has become garbage and it was only a matter of time before Google's lack of identity infected it as well, you can now search for a video and only get shorts and other algo suggestions completely unrelated to your search.

My guess is they're going to quickly back down on that...

I tried the iphone for a year before going back to android and I just stopped using youtube there, you quickly realize how unnecessary you find it, because there is no way in hell any same person is going to endure a 30 second ad for the garbage content you find there now.
I suppose it also depends on your position on DoH as well, as a I know some folks don’t like the idea of clients avoiding local DNS resolvers when using it.

The simple answer is that DoQ, and Quic, are more efficient at connection establishment when setting up a TLS connection it reduces the total round trips for TLS from 6 to 3, which is pretty assume for reducing latency.

While Google developed it, I don’t think there is anything inherent to it that makes using it any different that using TCP and/or TLS like people do today.
It's because the Russian people support what Putin is doing.

"public support ranging from 55% to 75%, with relatively little fluctuation"

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-stron...
This is a new way to be anonymous too. Someone post something true but nasty about you? Have LLMs cook up dozens of preposterous stories - you're secretly a rodeo clown, you write childrens books, you built a castle in Rome, you once drank a goldfish, etc.

Increase noise to drown signal.
Instead of reflecting on what was said you take a moment to defend Russia — it betrays the fact that you don’t really care.
> I do understand this push, and honestly I'm surprised it took them this long.

I'm not too surprised it took this long -- the % of viewers who are on a PC, not a phone, and technically savvy enough to install an ad blocker is relatively small, so it wasn't worth the effort.

But now, with the death of ZIRP and the demand that these tech companies which were experiencing infinite growth somehow continue to grow infinitely, they're very much in "squeeze blood from a stone" mode.
Hundreds of thousands of lives and unimaginably vast fortunes were both thrown away. In exchange, a few thousand people captured a small amount of that spending and got somewhat wealthier.

But even then, most of that was captured by only a few families.
Similar in Israel and Thailand, they upfront say it'd be more expensive to book at reception. I wonder if it's only different in US.
I was so enamored with the clean styling animations that I couldn't process the article.
I appreciate that they include interest payments and obligations to veterans. Those costs are rarely considered when "defense" spending is discussed.

I was one of the many people who protested the Iraq War. In fact, the final protest I attended in February 2003 was the largest single-day protest in American history (though the first Women's March may have beat it). Not that it did any good. Both political parties and every ratings-hungry corner of the media was cheerleading the march to war. CNN must have had staff working overtime to make all those war-themed transition graphics.
There are many kinds of errors. It's helpful to have specific names for specific kinds of problems. Otherwise it's hard to discuss and fix.
>Is immigration actually meaningfully impacting party demographics?

Yes. I will edit in a few examples from several countries in a moment.

It's worth noting, however, that interest displacement/dilution is still an issue even if it doesn't force/induce party clustering.
Individual parties shifting policy priorities/implementations/strategies to cater to new voter bases to win power results in a relative deprioritization of citizens.

The fundamental dynamics at play still apply.

If the largest demo in a nation only occupied, say, 40% of it's voter base, a coalition of the other demos can override them and (if the competition is polarized enough) will eventually realize the dominant strategy is to actively reduce that groups numbers and power to secure the position of the coalition and the individual power of each of it's members.

Its entry level conflict theory in practice.

Edit:
Sources.

Overall trends in party affiliation(USA):
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/26/what-the-...

Immigration trends in party loyalty (USA):
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...

Trends in immigration settlement patterns:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-findi...

Trends in voting patterns by settlement region:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-...

The takeaway here is that immigration flows to areas with shared want/need profiles and elevate the national power of those demand slates, displacing power from alternative slates.
Whether this good or not depends on if the demands of immigrants overlap with your own demands. If they do, you are empowered. If they do not, you are disempowered.
I have always opposed these wars, and I use "we" to position myself in them. History has shown that we were right to oppose them, and in fact were justified in using much more radical resistance than we did. My "we" is contrition and repentance for not doing so.
Isn't retaliation for chargebacks a violation of most merchant contracts with the credit card companies?

The one time I have had to request a chargeback I was basically told to contact the financial institution[1] in case the merchant tried anything funny.

[1] In this case Nets A/S who acted as a middle man between my bank and VISA. But I assume my bank would have said the same thing if they had the agreement directly with the CC company.
why? is there a real alternative? (no there isn't)
Sponsorblock does this well for sponsored segments, it even works on yt-dlp and you can download a video without the sponsored parts.
Eccept that is breach of contract with the booking service and can cost them the contract[1]. Since everyone is using booking.com or hotels.com, they will quickly shut down due to no customers. Hostage situation.

[1] At least last time I looked into it. Haven't had a change to travel since a few years.
Our CorpIT has that and fine tuned it to perfection. No one complains now. So it's possible.

Unfortunately they still do MITM which breaks connections regularly.
Here’s a pretty thorough investigation I watched about it a while ago: https://youtu.be/ZtecNyXxb9A?si=o6Lyb6KhtogsXeLh
I didn’t live in the US during that time, and I even know this isn’t true. Heck, just talk to any Muslim American who was working or growing up during that time period.
As I've aged I've transformed from a Ron Paul libertarian to more of a "Strong America" moderate liberal.

It's very seductive to believe that the world is a nice place and none of its issues will ever show up at our doorstep if we just leave the rest of the world alone. But sadly the world will always have strong powers and they will set the rules. I'd rather be on the winning team. If someone is going to be the world police/power-broker I want it to be us.

That's not to say we are perfect or don't need to improve. The US is deeply flawed and has caused a lot of trouble over the last century. But I'd rather be in the position we're in now vs having Russia or China be the power-broker with an even greater list of failures and abuses.
It might be able to do this with the Bittorent V2 format as the hashes would be per file.