skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kissinger's book "Diplomacy”(1994) is incredibly good and well-written Must read for anyone interested in international politics.

To understand Kissinger, you must understand his worldview. He had an acute sense of tragedy, and understanding that things can go wrong in an instant. For him the job of foreign policy was very modest: to keep the most horrible disasters away by using power against power. By preventing the worst from happening, others had the opportunity to better the humanity. Cynical realpolitik was necessary to prevent everything from going to hell.

In the last 30 years Kissinger was not very consistent or well thought in his opinions in public. He just wanted to get included and consulted in the highest level, so his opinions were often grafted to be accepted. For example, the plan to invade Iraq was fundamentally against Kissinger's realpolitik world view. Neoconservative foreign policy is idealistic (spread democracy trough military strength) but Kissinger rationalized the invasion for neocons.
Completely agree. When I talk to others about Github Copilot/ChatGPT however, I am rather surprised to hear some of the criticisms. As in, it's unreliable, it's wrong, not good for beginners, etc. I don't understand that criticism at all. Yes, it's occasionally, perhaps frequently wrong, but so is virtually any other source of information. What's the alternative? Well, you Google your way around half a dozen websites, read through forum posts, bloated/incomplete doc websites, Q&A sites, etc. It's absolute hell to me, stuff that can take 10-15min on average to deal with, so comparatively using LLMs to not is like light and day. Maybe it's due in part to people being inexperienced and lacking the ability to independently judge whether content seems right or not, so I will admit you do need to be a bit of an expert to fully utilize these tools.

But even as a beginner--when I started coding some 10 years ago, I'd have killed for something like ChatGPT. Had some programming problem you needed to solve? You better hope that someone wrote something about it online, that it's on StackOverflow or been discussed on some other discussion board. Otherwise, it's up to you to splunk into StackOverflow, wait a week or two, hope you don't get ignored/downvoted, or try to find some IRC channel to post the question to. Comparatively having the ability nowadays to talk to a AI about the most niche programming concepts in your specific use case, in English, without being judged? It's straight up magical to me.
This feels like you are arguing a point that is irrelevant.

Are you saying that in Grid Iron there are no concussions? Hate to break it to you, but they are fairly common even before they broadened the definition last year.

Or are you saying that no player ever does a foul, or an illegal tackle?

If so, I'll link you to YouTube clips that disagrees with you.

They are constantly researching helmets and trying to reduce the chances of concussion, but ultimately wearing of a helmet introduces a risk factor, in the same way that that bigger cars make people feel safer so drive more dangerously.
I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com).

I still work on it two hours per workday, before my day job starts, but it now supports uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and JavaScript apps, as well as cron job/scheduled task monitoring, and has built-in status pages (https://hackernews.onlineornot.com for example).

It's been funny working in a "red ocean" (as MBA-types call it), competitors will enter the market with such enthusiasm, and close up shop a few months later when they haven't made nearly enough money to justify the effort.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of the "outlast" strategy as described by Justin Duke (of Buttondown): https://www.applied-cartography.com/goon-squad - my aim is to ship high quality code over a very long time, and the business seems to be growing faster and faster each year, so it seems to be working.
Thanks for the reply, it looks interesting.
> The only way OUT of the script was to say "I will cancel my order unless you stop"

Hanging up the phone is always an option. If you feel civilised you first say you are not interested and thank the sales person for their time, and then hang up no matter what they try to say. That is a way out of the script of course.
I didn't, I guessed and I might be wrong.
As an outsider, it seems like the lawyer population must be approaching 100% of Americans soon.

Is there anything or anyone Americans can't sue?
How good is it in comparison
Microsoft is certainly within the rights afforded to them by the curl license to do this, but:

> The provided functionality is certainly a very stripped down and limited version of the libcurl API. A fun detail is that the quite bluntly just link to the libcurl API documentation to describe how xCurl works.

is IMO a major dick move. It seems inevitable that doing this will cause users with questions about xCurl to seek out curl maintainers/forums for support with xCurl (as with the email that prompted this article), even though they have no insight at all into how xCurl works. And some of those people might not be very happy with the response "we have no idea - try contacting Microsoft".

Now, that might not have been Microsoft's deliberate intent, but I don't see how it's anything but completely forseeable, and should have been avoided.

(Yes, Microsoft need to credit curl with the copyright info and license, but the place for that is the "Credits" and/or "License" parts of the documentation, not the "Usage"/"API reference" parts.)
Only one level deep?

Does time go faster in the smaller one?
I'm not sure, but he could be referring to the case filed against Media Matters. In any case, you're right, nobody will be forced to come back and yelling the f-word after them will likely not persuade anyone either. I think Musk has principles, but they reliably go down the pipes when he's losing it, which seems to happen regularly.
Ah hah, neat!
For a normal person, nothing.
For a billionaire, what ever they want to throw their money at.
What is the point of wrapping absolutely portable single-file program into a Docker container, honest question?

Looks like cargo cult for me.
Try multi account containers mozzila extension. Works great.
From the sounds of this blog post, in retrospect I think Daniel finds it remarkable too!

> It is an MIT license that I was unclever enough to slightly modify many years ago

(emphasis mine)
Multi account containers is a extension developed by mozzila.
How do you compete to find customers in such a crowded SAAS segment which is uptime?
I prefer to use "peripheral economies". It's even more pejorative but it shows the way and better describes the situation.

"Third world" actually seems like an euphemism to me. It makes me think of a race and gives you the false hope of improving in the future by just playing along the same game.
If however a given piece of work is good but is produced with a tool that drives down the average quality of the field it may be reasonable to ask that people not use the tool, even if they produce good work with it
Can't say I'm surprised that this is my most downvoted post! HN, classy as ever.
Which is a tragedy, it's the reason why city cars like Puegeot 107/Citroen C1/Toyota Aygo (basically the same car, different brands) are not produced anymore.
Well ChatGPT doesn't 'grok' anything, really..
Which ones? You mean russian puppets like Orban and Fico?
How does that follow? Firstly, he likely understands the “other side of the debate”, but even if he didn’t, how does that preclude him from understanding modern Kissingers?
Great News for the peace of the world.
Unfortunately doesn't work on the Arc browser and presumably Orion, or any other browsers which put pop-up windows into a new tab instead.
Quoted in the article:

> xCurl differs from libCurl in that xCurl is implemented on top of WinHttp and automatically follows all the extra Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK) requirements and best practices. While libCurl itself doesn’t meet the security requirements for the Microsoft Game Development Kit (GDK) console platform, use xCurl to maintain your same libCurl HTTP implementation across all platforms while changing only one header include and library linkage.
I feel it’s worth noting for others who have tried copilot before and was not impressed, I’ve experienced a massive abilities increase within the last two weeks, both speed AND quality wise, that took it from kinda useful to being able to autocomplete code using a homebrewed convoluted framework
Open source supply chain security at Google [video]
Is that a reference to EEE? I feel like it is, but the capitalisation is confusing me, and now I'm wondering if I'm missing the actual intended meaning.
Osama bin Laden, for US

Saddam Hussein, for US
A few ways:

- Building a better product than the incumbents

- Showing up, doing the work, every single day

- Refusing to compete on price

- Marketing until it feels like it's too much, then marketing even more

Easier said than done, of course.
Dumb question but those any percent over 100 mean?

I know 100% is full cpu usage, but what does 700% mean?
I love that game, was about to mention it, glad somebody else already did it.
It's also becoming an European thing, I've left a separate comment for it but the latest environment-related regulations are the reason why very small cars like Peugeot 107/Citroen C1/Toyota Aygo and the Renault Twingo (the recently announced EV version is a very expensive marketing gimmick) are not produced anymore.
This sounds feasible, this is how I would do it to save on costs. But then it can be a bad user experience. And as far as I know, you have the virtual background even when using a potato to stream.

Maybe if the device is not good enough then they push it to the server side?
Same (FF on iOS)
Interestingly, it appears that Microsoft has been caught violating SEC regulations at least 6 previous times, and that's just what I turned up in a cursory search:

2023: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/activision_sec_settle...

2019: https://techcentral.co.za/eoh-microsoft-ensnared-in-sec-corr...

2013-2019: https://fcpa.stanford.edu/investigation.html?id=156

2013-2016: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/ex-microsoft...

1999: https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/sec-investigating-micro...

2002: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2575713/microsoft-sec-...
I thought about something like this as well. Maybe it can suggest new routes so you can know new streets. It could work by vibration (1 vibration right, 2 left) like some running apps do so you don't even have to look at your phone and can focus on what is in front of you.
I don't see how the link clarifies things. simdjson is fast enough that JSON decoding can approach single-core bandwidth capacity, but it doesn't follow that a JSON-heavy load is bandwitdh constrained. In fact the existence of simdjson points to json decoding being compute bound.
Vertical integration can take us to dark places, but it can also provide incredible product experiences.

I think with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, you have a good competitive landscape to work with right now. All of these players already making their own chips. ~4 solid verticals that are somewhat compatible and highly competitive with each other in large, mostly-overlapping regions.

Honestly, things feel pretty OK to me when you factor it all in. If it was just Microsoft or Apple doing the vertical chip thing and they were going absolutely hockey stick over it, then perhaps. But there are several competent players doing this now.
Oh that's a huge dick move. And this behaviour you mention, "people seeking help from libcurl for xcurl" is an already documented and detrimental problem. You can see why Sqlite temp files has an extension of "etilqs". That's a grandiose example of this. That was not even a documentation link!

https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d/src/os.h#L52-...
I had one of those and it turns out they don't have true four wheel drive, but rather an antilock rear differential. It is controlled by a sensor that can freeze in icy conditions and fail to engage. Living in Montana, we had to sell the otherwise perfect truck for something that could reliably get up our driveway in winter.
Deploy your models into a Kubernetes cluster and let them fight for resources to death? A modern Roman Gladiators circus with Models?
Great idea!

(It doesn't seem to allow 'steering' of the ball by varying where it hits the bat, though?)
The issue is that I realized I wasn't going to stop in time while depressing the brakes, but just barely. That was when I pulled the e-brake and put the car into a spin, trying to burn energy. By that point, I was probably only doing 20-30mph. Thus I came to the train tracks almost parallel, but skidding along the road. My goal, as I was doing it, was to clip the train and get pushed along vs. shoved from the side. Then put the car in park to hopefully absorb as much of that impact as possible since I figured I might either die or lose consciousness. I wanted to be found on the road, instead of in the swamp on either side of the road.

I was incredibly lucky that day, there is no doubt about it, but, I also did a lot of insane driving during that point in my life. I knew how to handle that car in a variety of conditions from rain, gravel, snow, and ice and any mix of them.

Did I make the right decisions during those fleeting seconds? Possibly, possibly not. One thing I did have, was options. Options are something that has been taken away over the years through weird UX choices.
It definitely used to all happen client side, if your graphics stack was messed up, then those tools wouldn't apply those effects.

I haven't used those tools in a couple years, but I doubt it's any different now. I know that Google Meet (the tool I use nowadays) still does it client side. Every now and then I break something when updating my Nvidia drivers on Linux and I can no longer blur my background.
I think his point is not that this being the underlying goal. Instead the China’s foreign policy is designed based on the analysis that inevitably at some point, China will be the predominant power in Asia. The policy is not designed to realize the goal, but prepare / accommodate the inevitable future (which makes no sense from a cost-benefit model because you do something for the sake of its result).

> one can't help but noticed Xi's much more conciliatory tone in the past few month

It maybe more relates to the fact that diplomas advocating for a more hawkish foreign policy being slowly wiped out from the power centre after mid 2021. Though a full swing policy change may only possible after the first plenary session of the 20th Central Committee (which was October 2022).

Xi never hides that he is just reading what was decided within the party for many of these foreign policies. SCMP has reported that during the Xi-Biden meeting for any issue not directly related to China, he will read the notes.
If they can keep up with the AMD and Intel CPUs they list, then that's actually pretty impressive and actually useful. There is a lot of people still daily driving 5 - 10 old processors just fine, it's absolutely plenty for a office desktop or even light development work.

I would like to see actual benchmarks though.
Did you miss the part about inlined calls? I was saying that if it weren't for these issues we could have them turn into a single instruction without worrying about perf.
From your experience, what's usually done when new projects start?

What I've seen, people focus on the business requirements and only the obvious risks. That's for the regular projects.

I have seen Munger's proposal in practice. In form of intentionally breaking production (in a controlled manner) to uncover unknown issues (similar to Netflix's Chaos Monkey), and in form of think tanks with senior engineers who take time to think about potential reliability issues.

What Munger describes is exactly the latter approach. From my experience, it's done very rarely. And never in some companies. While Munger advocates to do it for every project.
>But I also don't see where those have actual benefits at the moment

???

Fucking... killing cattle, maybe?
Ask HN: Is it worth it to continue building this laravel forge OSS alternative?
Hello, I'm building an open-source alternative to Laravel Forge (screenshot). Initial providers: AWS, Scaleway, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Source control: Gitlab.com, Github.com, Private instances for both.
Features: Deployment through CI, custom SSL, Cron jobs, queues, databases etc.

Screenshots:
- https://ibb.co/02NL3Sf
- https://ibb.co/Vj4fYq3

The idea is to allow community to add more providers, and shape up a good open-source alternative to Forge.
I'm halfway through, the question is : is it worth it? Or am I the only one who thinks it's a good idea?
Thank you very much for you honest opinion.
Oxygen Not Included, Don't Starve Together, Factorio, Age of Empires 3, BF3. I don't play that much anymore, but I love these games. Oh and chess, of course.
The judge who would give them punitive fines and forcing them to pay opposing party expenses.
It is a classic computer vision problem: image segmentation.
There are open source tools like rembg (https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg) which call into pre-trained models.
It is also easy to train your own model, I've used code from https://github.com/SkyTNT/anime-segmentation with my own data to train an image segmentation model to separate objects with really good results.
> It seems inevitable that doing this will cause users with questions about xCurl to seek out curl maintainers/forums for support with xCurl

I doubt this will be a large number of people. If xCurl is only available via the GDK, then you get access to it you need to be working for a company that has developer contract signed with Microsoft. If you are such a dev, you will also have access to the Xbox dev forums which _should_ be your first stop for GDK-related questions.
Mobile phone use is just a symptom. Everyone fiddling with their fancy in-car radio with distracting bright flashing display in the 90s was just a symptom. People fixing their hair in the mirror in the 70s while driving was just a symptom.

It doesn’t matter what distractions you remove - ban eating and drinking (even water) while driving, impose ruinous fines for those caught… none of it will work.

You need to address the root cause, not the symptom.

The root cause is unspeakable. You will face extreme repulsion if you choose to openly discuss the root cause in this society because it would mean tough questions for our cultural identity.
The gp said there's no way a board can stop employees from leaving and the one I was replying to started with "that depends" and suggested it was a question as to whether the board "believed" employees held all the strings. Though reading it again the parent does seem a bit non-sequitor from the gp which was strictly talking about what the board physically could have done, as in what options they had. The options they had don't really depend on any particular belief - they couldn't have made them stay thanks to the civil war and stuff
I am not American but I read this again and again. The most correlated reason, I have read, is that the police explicitly stopped enforcing laws in many places, in reaction to some larger political event. I forgot which.
One would hope that ai will completely replace the tumour that react is.
There was no upside to this.

Much like Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Oktas acquiring Auth0, it is just market consolidation.
Here's a challenge: try looking outside the US borders.
The guy died at a age of 100 dude...
Not sure if it’s still a thing, but the STI in the mid-00s had a physical slider wheel on the driver side console that changed the pitch of headlights. It was probably a geeky race thing, adjust the pitch when you add weight to the rear maybe?

Either way, it’s genius. I don’t know why that isn’t offered in more vehicles.
It depends on what you mean by production! I am using Supabase in a hobby-level project that's "in production" (aka live on the internet). Supabase uses Deno to deploy functions. I am currently using Supabase functions (which are Deno Deploy functions) for both an API (interfacing with data not in a Supabase database) as well as some web-hook listener fuctions that keep Supabase accounts in sync with Stripe user IDs.

Overall, no issues or complaints. It's always a bit odd coming from npm/node into something like Deno, but the differences are really trivial. I believe Deno has become much more compatible with Node since I really had to update the project, so the differences are probably even smaller now.
China has had the most dramatic rollout of nuclear. Less nimby and regulations. It could be considered a best case scenario:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-nuclear...

And it pales beside the accelerating output of solar and wind:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-prod...

Which is the main reason why China, surprisingly, is on track to have peak CO2 emissions this year, 7 years ahead of their schedule:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...

It's a very dramatic demonstration of how your entire thesis is wrong. You should look into it.
Heh, oops. I thought precision and went with Swiss. How thoughtless.

And I'd assume the answer is spending a few billion dollars developing a couple of EUV machines over a long time. It isn't like a billion dollars is much money and the Chinese economy is reaching the point where people will be looking to muscle in to precision manufacturing. It isn't like cheap labour is an option any more. They've already overwhelmed the Europeans in a bunch of phone and computer related areas so there is evidence that the Europeans probably can't maintain a competitive edge if the Chinese want to get good at something.

Honestly, given what happened with the iPhone and Nokia I don't know how anyone is placing faith in the Chinese not being able to catch up. European tech companies have a history of looking unbeatable until they're just knocked completely out of the race. If anything the threat is that Europe won't be able to keep up with Asia.
VW problem. My missus' VW Polo has the same problems. I did work out that a brand new, known-good cable and working out that pressing and holding the power button to hard-reset the dash would get it to finally start connecting every time (or connect properly after it's done its "I'm useless" failure mode)