skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. However, the difference being that there was a 2014 revolution in Ukraine, and Ukraine did subsequently become aligned with the US, and the US is extremely aggressive toward its enemies and has been inciting anti-Russia hatred for many years. That border along Ukraine/Russia is a major existential risk. Russia will be at a severe military disadvantage if they lose that buffer. Ukraine should have remained a neutral buffer state.

I believe the US agencies have provoked Russia to invade, and this outcome was intended or at least expected.
https://archive.is/LbT6p
I still don’t get it.

My soldering iron is a hot piece of metal with a plastic handle. It works. What am I missing out on?
The EU has been declining in its share of the world market year on year - it should focus on stopping the decline, not adding more regulatory burden.
A Toyota Corolla is a pretty basic car. You can complain about the lack of features you’d have in a SUV, a pickup truck or a van.. and rightly be frustrated that you couldn’t do a job you need to do in a Corolla… but you wouldn’t say it is not a real car.

I don’t understand why you’d care. Unless you’re forced to use an iPhone or iPad of course. Then you don’t truly have an alternative (for the browser engine). That’s a reasonable complaint. But that’s a different issue.

Personally I find Safari is totally fine. It’s simple and nice. I use Firefox at work, where I sometimes use some more complex extensions. But at home I’ve never felt the need.
If you're unable to articulate why something is tasteless beyond "because I think it is", it sounds like you're sort of just making things up.

Which is fine. Clutch those pearls. But maybe examine your behavior as well?
Developers don't need to test in every distro, or even all the most popular distros. All they need to do is test in one distro. It will probably work in most of the rest and linux users expect that if something breaks they'll be the one tweaking things to make it work. Sometimes you'll get bug reports from those users saying "I had to do X on distro Y for reason Z" and you can act on those reports, or not. It doesn't matter.

Honestly, linux users don't expect more. There's tons of proprietary software out there supporting linux in this manner and it works out fine. Linux users are easy to please. The hardest people to please are the developers with Windows/Mac backgrounds who mistakenly believe they're expected to test on every distro and rightly balk at that.
Love this. Congrats and thank you for the writeup!
WonderJourney: Creating a sequence of connected 3D scenes from an image or text
> AI system can be anything from rule-based to machine learning

Then why call it AI?
While it's plausible xAI isn't just a wrapper, all the chatbots seem to a sort of not-very-selective digestion of much of the Internet's text. It seems they're oozing towards a muddy average of each other - "I am chatGPT/xAI/Bard/etc" is vaguely true for all of them.
Facebook was available in Russia up until the invasion of Ukraine. China doesn't directly block most such companies either, it imposes censorship and technology control requirements. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon operate in China, with Chinese subsidiaries, but they are nowhere near as dominant as they are in the rest of the world.
...and how many of those workers are making less than $50,000?
Which means it will be enforced infinitely arbitrarily.
And having a common language across the market.
You're just asking to waste your own time, and theirs, with that approach.

The police department will ask whether it was stolen from your porch. No? It was stolen from Amazon? Not a crime against you.

The insurance company will ask when it was switched. Switched before delivery? Not on us. We don't insure for that, only for what happens on your premises.
We in NJ who work in NY already pay income taxes to NY state even if we don't reside in the boroughs.

Instead of charging me $15 more to visit, go have Adams ask Hotchul for money if you want to reach further into my pocket.

But you can't, because NYC can't elect competent representatives. De Blasio, really? Adams' recent scandal? Just have someone who can negotiate with their own goddamn party.

So instead you bastards rob me.
I don't get why this salty rant got so much love on HN. It's vulgar and extreme to a level that I just don't care about this. If tomorrow, some video I had watched disappeared, I would move on with 0 fucks given.

Also worth noting rather ironically: at least for video entertainment, you can usually pirate discontinued content easily.

I'm sorry to minimize your reason for such a salty rant, OP, but I just don't get it. If there's more context as to why this is personal, that may help me empathise.
You’re projecting western individualism onto the situation. The correct analysis is to look at how the territory was partitioned between Arabs and Jews. Thats how Arabs themselves viewed it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War. Why did Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi, and Yemen all attack Israel the moment it was created, and several times after that?

Why do the Arab countries care so much about Palestine? It’s not like they go around spending their blood and treasure to protect other oppressed groups. Saudi just bombed the shit out of Yemen. The reason they want to get rid of Israel is because they view this as a matter of Arab territorial integrity.

My Bangladesh family is posting the paratrooper meme on my FB. Why? Because they view the existence of Israel as an affront to territorial integrity of the Islamic world. You cannot understand the situation Israel is in from a western secular point of view.
That's something! I'll try it too. Thanks <3
One of the best hacker movies ever. The involvement of Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) in the movie [1].

He said: "I would do the scene if my wife Lori could meet [Robert] Redford"

[1] https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
OpenHermes-2.5-Neuralchat-Slerp
This is more of request for recommendation for sleep headphones.

https://www.meeaudio.com/M6G2

I bought a dozen of above headphones for sleep, cheap low profile that is very comfortable to sleep in. Lays flat, no hot pressure points. Only issue is they're wired, and josling in bed means every few months I kill one from wrecking their cabling/connector. They had a cheaper discontinued bluetooth version of the buds I was using prior, but battery levels dropped to less than 8 hours and the battery warning (alarm) plays at 200% volume. I see Mee has a few higher end buds with bluetooth adapter for $80+, but they're still wired behind neck format with proprietary connector that would be cost prohibitive replace to frequently, especially if UI sounds still offensively loud.

Wondering if anyone knows a cheap chifi buds with same form factor that can be paired cheap bluetooth adapter that has quiet UI sounds. I've done a few rounds of searching and have came up empty.
> If a party is the one most conservative and most authoritarian in parliament, it is completely fair to describe it as "far right"

This is a matter of perception. Far right is isually (literature) described as right, violent and collectivist (facist) wing. Which by the way is quite similar to communism, just with a couple principles changed if you analyze it seriously from individual vs collective rights. How "far right" is used in Spain and a lot of media is not like that at all. Far right is España 2000 and Democracia Nacional.

> They may not seem extreme to some people, but that only says something about the political leaning of those people.

Again, that is your perception. Your perception comes from the status quo, and seems reasonable from a social point of view. However, when the media uses a term incorrectly and politically so often, then it loses its meaning.

That is why it is a good thing to know what we have in front of us and call it by its name. Otherwise all words end up losing their meaning. Far right is often not what most media calls far right by standard literature terms. Maybe by propaganda terms. But even Popular Party or Ciudadanos was tagged as far right sometimes. That's just the political tagging game.

I'd rather see what parties propose rather than qualifying them as something. I think it is more useful for everyone.
That's a good point. Registered Mail isn't fast. In fact, it is, at times, very slow.
Intel works in Ava, it's just slow, for some reason.
I had a single phone interview with someone at Northwestern (a long time ago) where they were looking for someone to build a pen of developers to "partner" with MBA students to turn ideas into apps. I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
>b - your dietary preferences are already shaped by economics and global food trade etc. You never truly had a free choice unless you're a billionaire who was comparing ramen to caviar for fun.)

This doesn't make any sense. The popular meats that people eat are already the cheapest ones. While they're probably subsidized to some extent, I doubt the non-popular ones (caviar? kangaroo?) are going to be cheaper and/or better for the environment.
for many, it does exist in a vacuum. Others may place more weight into it.

>For example lets say your group of friend suddenly became huge fan of some unknown show, you didn't see it but they keep talking about it for days. You then notice that it costs $500. You indeed have the choice to not watch it, its not like you ever felt the need to before it has been mentioned to you, but won't you?

sure, life is all about compromises. I had plenty of rich friends take things for granted in grade school that my parent literally could not afford. I probably "lost" some rich friends because I could not engage in such actiities. Such is life.

I grew up not expecting to get everything I wanted when I wanted it. Practicing restraint and prioritizing my needs over my wants is a core part of my character. So hearing people act like they need to watch Game of Thrones but can't pay HBO or whatever falls on deaf ears. I simply never watched Game of Thrones, life did move on.

>As for your immoral accusation, its perfectly fine if you think this way, but I also believe that it is perfectly fine to think the opposite way.

I care more about hypocrisy than morals, and a lot of the "pro-consumer" arguments come off a hypocritical. They compare it to people breaking into your house but are happy in most other contexts treating the digital commons as different from a physical one, despite that cost of the commons coming from some often non-government entity.

And honestly, it's just the dishonesty that bothers me the most. Some just don't want to say they do bad things. At least own up to it. I pirate, sometimes I just don't care. I'm not a good person. There, easy.

>and ultimately if people aren't willing to pay for it I believe that it is fine for the company to shut down. Why should they be forced to pay for something they can access without causing any harm?

logistically, the company shutting down hurts the people who caused it the least. So I do feel bad. CEO has a million dollar eject button and the rest of the airplane of underpaid artists are stuck in a nosedive. Maybe I couldn't save it, but I at least don't want to say I didn't chip in.

morally, a company that produces value that has all of what is valued stolen is a downer.
Right. Which is why I said to get your blood tested yearly?
Tutorial D
> The original interpreted stack-based JVM model is really bad for performance

And we addressed that today by launching a copy of Chrome with every app?
> If it is already that hard for game binaries, good luck with apps.

Video games are some of the most complex and most difficult pieces of software both to build and to get right. Modern games are coded so poorly that driver makers have to release patches for specific games.

It's the gamedev world that can't get its shit together. Valve settled on an Arch-based distro for the Deck. The specific distro doesn't matter since Steam already establishes its system requirements and comes with a runtime.

Beyond that, I really don't see the issues you're talking about. Generally, any issues you have are fixed by symlinking the correct .so files. This is a side effect of targeting a specific version of software instead of keeping to its more base features. That's on the dev, not the user or distro.

You act like Windows has never had ABI breakage or versioning problems. I'd like to see the specific issues you ran into; maybe there's an easy fix like a symlink.
Whats the difference between this and JS Shadow Realms? At a glance it sounds similar
Thanks for your remark! I never thought about it. I suspect it will drive down the number of downloads? How do you think it will be beneficial?
There is no iMessage app. There is a Messages app that implements two systems: iMessage and SMS/MMS. iMessage is the system whose security model is being discussed here, and the security model of SMS/MMS is mostly irrelevant to it.
The HN comment base was including ChatGPT's training data, iirc.
What about mozjpeg?
I wonder if the actual desire is to be able to buy a set of cloned keys. I.e. instead of having each key be unique, be able to buy a set of N keys with identical private key. Or the ability to create such a set yourself with a special initialization sequence. This would give you your high-availability backup, but means you cannot revoke the first key if lost. So it seems like you'd really have to trust the other hardware protections and PIN/lock features if misuse of a lost/stolen key is a concern.

Periodically, I try to think if there is some other expected UX you might want that is somehow neither cloned nor independent keys. Like some hybrid of secret-sharing and group key schemes. Have a set of N keys which know about each other and can act individually to authenticate for the same identities, including for new identities enrolled by any key in the group, as in the case of a cloned key. But, include some capability for k out of N keys to "vote out" a member from the group in order to revoke the lost key and prevent it from authenticating any of the identities in the future.

I am not a cryptologist, but I can't really imagine any crypto mechanism to actually produce this combination of effects. A fully distributed group registration and authentication effect during normal use, so enrollment via one key can be followed by authentication using another. But at the same time, allowing ejection a member from the group to prevent future misuse. I can only imagine this as a protocol, where every authentication for the group would have to consult some centralized ledger or revocation list for the group membership. It could be decentralized/federated in a sense, but would require some kind of online check with the "latest" ledger state for a given key group.
Show HN: Unofficial Google Play Store API
An unofficial API to explore android app metadata from Google Play Store with ease!
> Then you are stuck using basically a browser wrapper for your UI,

AFAIK, Flutter compiles to native code, no browser needed.
>because those will have inevitable civilian casualties. Probably mass casualties

I suspect civilian casualties will not be a concern of the US in such a scenario, even if the US carrier group is a military target.

> Otherwise the only other good option is total commitment, and praying for forgiveness.

I think that "total commitment" can be done, in theory. I suspect that the US and probably UK achieved the ability to follow enemy SSBNs before the end of the Cold War. A first strike by SSBNs to minimize delivery time followed up by other delivery vehicles, combined with SSNs taking out every Chinese SSBN. In theory.
That's the idea, yes.

It is not really about the techniques used but about what you are using these programs for. If law enforcement used, say, the average brightness of a picture of someone's face as a basis for suspicion, it could hardly be called AI, but it is nevertheless a highly concerning usage of technology and shouldn't be given a pass just because it is not advanced enough.
Sorry, actually went to the website itself and read up on QuickJS - the repo wasn't clear due to lack of read-me.
What language independent allocator? I'm unaware of any memory interfaces in programming languages that aren't specific to that language.

What would you use instead of malloc and free?
What’s so good about imitation foods? Change my mind… m
It looks to me like adastra22 gave a real-world illustration of the following quote from the article:

If the question is: How much money do you need to be happy? The answer is always going to be: More.

:-)
There’s always another encoding, all you prove is that there doesn’t exist a proof in the encoding you selected less than the length you specified, it does nothing at all to disprove the existence of a short proof in general.
That seems like a possibility. But if I was a user (and I am admittedly not), I would be _less_ likely to continue with their services after something like this. This experience would not instill confidence in me that any of their services would be stable.
I agree mostly, but there will always be the fringe lunatics that will need mod intervention. And then there's the spam issue.
> All the dangerous uses of AI etc. are already there and used all the time all across the globe from China to the US.

If this is as bad as it gets then it wasn't so bad.
I think no large games use an engine as-is, they will always extend and change it in some ways to make it fit their game. Besides the question was not about AA/AAA games. Unity also did not fill that segment. The question was whether Godot will be able to fill the space Unity has. And I don't think it can currently. But with more development it definitely could. The last time I used unity I was very appalled by how bad it actually was, I admit this is something like 5 years ago but I doubt it has changed.
Note that my comment is directed specifically at /s and not at sarcasm in general. I understand very well that given the diversity of opinions on internet it can be challenging to tell it appart. So I agree that in many case one should abstain. But if you go ahead and still use it, please, by all mean, don't botch it. Better to double down and make it obvious or ridiculous than this silliness.
No mention of JPEG XT or JPEG-HDR?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XT
They've gotta have this down to a checkbox by now, right?

U.S./Non-U.S.
I'm honestly not sure what I would use an admin for if you gave me one. A lot of what an executive admin does is dealing with the calendars of people who have far more demands on their time than they have time. And getting the status on various projects from people. Generally speaking, other than travel sometimes, I don't really have a lot of "Make it So!" tasks that I could delegate to an admin/assistant.

There are things that I'm not good at that I'm better off not spending time hacking at to do a mediocre job--e.g. web stuff generally or design--but that's really something else.
On the technically advanced end of the spectrum you'll find John MacFarlane [1], professor of philosophy at Berkeley and creator of pandoc [2]. Some people are just amazing.

[1] https://johnmacfarlane.net/

[2] https://pandoc.org/
> You are adding an additional constraint that wasn't in my initial comment.

No. I'm showing that your conclusions don't logically follow from the premise.

> My point is that if collection and processing is regulated then that covers AI.

No. No it doesn't.

> but my whole comment was that this wasn't needed. AI is just a tool, it's just automated processing.

And that, too, isn't entirely true, precisely because AI is a tool, and a different one. We always adapt or pass new laws and regulations for new, significantly different, tools.

For example, just because you can process data doesn't necessarily mean that you can process it in any way by any tools available to you. "GDPR allows you process data" does not immediately imply "this data can be processed by AIs". There is a reason why I was "adding additional constraints". Because these constraints are why additional laws and/or regulations around AI are needed.

For example, one of the stipulations of the AI Act is [1]: "AI systems shall be developed and used in a way that allows appropriate traceability and explainability, while making humans aware that they communicate or interact with an AI system as well as duly informing users of the capabilities and limitations of that AI system and affected persons about their rights". The reason being stories like this: https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-wa...

That stipulation alone isn't covered by any existing laws. There are bits and pieces here and there about various processes in various contexts, but this act brings them all together in one coherent form applicable to AI systems (which are appropriately broadly defined in the act [2]).

Or, there's an entire Article 5 explicitly prohibiting the use of AI in sensitive and outright harmful areas. Including things like banning them for large-scale suveillance except in very narrow scopes. Note that, again, there's undoubtedly pieces of this scattered around various regulations, but this one makes them clear and make them specifically applicable to AIs.

That's why I keep repeating: no, the fact that someone allows to collect and process data does not immediately imply that this collection and processing can be done with AIs. Where applicable, this law references existing ones.

[1] Quoting from this excellent article https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...

[2] Annex I: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...
Such a platform is doomed to never take a step forward because "oh no, something changed and now I have to increment my dependencies".
Not exactly true, up until 2022 Google, Meta and others operated in Russia and were competing with Yandex and VK on a more or less even playing field
Why call anything AI?

It's become commonly accepted to mean any algorithmic system.
It's probably better to use an accepted umbrella term rather than multiple specific scientific ones in this case.
Mine was Soldier of Fortune. It blends smoothly between high alert and sneak-around segments, eg. tracks 2 and 3 on the first level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_14lp1U2w&list=PLALRZSnKU7...
The "democracy must allow scam referendums" fallacy has been discussed "ad nauseam" before. Here and on many other places. The term has been heavily weaponized by separatists and some of us are really upset to hear that BS again. Is like groundhog day.

In any case is time to shut my mouth with apologies by the rambling. Lets better return to the real theme here.
> Poroshenko was the guy who signed the EU deal in 2014, immediately after the revolution.

It was prepared, negotiated and ready to be signed before 2013 by previous president. The fact that he refused to do so in last minute was what started the peaceful protests by students.

The beating of protesting students by militia caused the following events.
If anyone is interested, Walter Isaacson has a great book called "Innovators: that touches on this and many relayed and interesting stories.
Browsers have all been downhill since Lynx.