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Tell HN: Yekaterina Duntsova barred from Russian presidential election
Yekaterina Duntsova has recently become very popular in Russia as an anti-Putin, anti-war, democratic candidate

She recently held a voter meeting to get the signatures legally required as a first step to become a presidential candidate. It was not easy since the police visited all the notary offices and there was only one which continued to work. However, it was successfully done

Today she came to Central Election Commission and they said that the (verified) documents she had contained 100 errors, therefore they will not register her as a candidate. Notably, one of the "errors" was one signature which looked like a cat - it was later confirmed as a real one by SOTA, and Russian laws have no restrictions on signatures, one can even use an emoji. The CEC will only give an official conclusion tomorrow, which will prevent Yekaterina from going to court as soon as possible. As usual, more roadblocks from the government are expected, even for the other candidates

While Russian opposition forces are not united, the consensus seems to be to go and vote for any candidate that's not Putin, and Duntsova would be a great choice here. You may think something like "this is Putin's own election, no one else can win, it's stupid to even try". But it's not about winning since that's absolutely impossible and everyone knows that (she even openly says that). It's about showing that the are more anti-Putin people in Russia than one would think, about uniting them and showing their true voice. There is finally a legitimate, legal way to protest against the dictatorship and the war, even if the outcome is unclear

I wrote this post since Algolia showed no results about these events and I thought it would be great if HN audience knew what's happening, thank you for reading
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That article doesn't contradict anything I said. It doesn't even mention market share.
The go-to example is Portugal, where drugs were decriminalized, and death rates went down. Not without challenges though, as they are now seeing issues with public drug taking and associated crime (which could be more about pandemic homelessness since we see that in US cities too). I think the harm reduction results are clear here but you also need to do the part where you invest more broadly in social programs (and with sufficient funding for homelessness services, taking a zero tolerance approach to public intoxication seems perfectly acceptable to me). See https://www.cato.org/white-paper/drug-decriminalization-port... on harm.

There is lots of evidence supporting needle exchanges as good for harm reduction. See Scotland, Netherlands, and many other EU countries.

Another one to watch is Oregon, where they did the decriminalization bit, but I think without the shift in funding to social services. Haven’t dug much here. (I think “reduce policing, increase social services” is the most sympathetic interpretation of what the moderate Democrats were thinking when they initially supported the “defund the police” slogan, which is now associated with more radical policies that are toxic to the center.)

There is a risk of “no true Scotsman” in the following point, but this is really an extremely radical policy proposal, at least it looked so until a couple years ago; there aren’t actually good examples end-to-end. So I think we need to employ epistemic humility and do local iterative experiments to prove it out (the advantage of the federal model in the US is a federal decriminalization would result in 50 natural experiments as states passed their own laws.) I don’t want to concede too much uncertainty though, the harms of criminalization are objectively very high, so you’d need to measure very high costs from the proposed new policy which I’m very skeptical that you’d see.
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Cluetrain Manifesto: Still relevant in today's web culture?
That's a good question and our solution in the past has been to buy larger compute (e.g. https://www.globalmass.eu/). There is no current out of ram solution however it could be an focus of the next Hackathon.
Classic blub programmer looking up.

https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
> web host (uncertain)

I can attest it happens.

> it’s probably a slightly higher barrier

And the barrier isn’t that high. I’ve seen a web host company (Hetzner) take down an entire website because a company made a bogus claim about a single page amongst thousands. I don’t even think it was DMCA, they just had their lawyers send an email. Had a human at Hetzner taken the time to visit said website, they would’ve seen the company’s request wasn’t legitimate.
VC is subsidizing SF realty and NIMBYism.

The one thing they should have learned post-pandemic is that talent is global.

Tech workers can work their asses off remotely. Figjam is better than a whiteboard. Home offices are less distracting than open offices. If you hire the right people, they'll work even harder from home.
I agree with this. Unimaginable hype was mostly from those with an obvious incentive to raise money, to put themselves on a shortlist for a Nobel, and all that. Most of the ground-floor researchers and experimentalists have been extraordinarily realistic, though sometimes passive or quiet since there's an incentive to not bite the hand that feeds them.

It also doesn't help that the giant PR machines of IBM, Google, IonQ, et al. have been commanding the narrative. At this point you'd think transmons, ions, and atoms are the only commercially/at-scale interesting options. :)
It's a very big win, but it's B2B logistics, so if you don't deal in adjacent industries you're unlikely to have heard of it.
The demand for beef has gone up faster than inflation lately. I've bought half of a cow in the southwest US for the last few years:

2021: $950
2022: $1250
2023: $1950

That's going to work out to around $10/pound of meat/bone/fat delivered this year, and most of it is ground beef. (Though excellent ground beef with my preferred fat content.) I've shopped around and this isn't just my rancher, but the whole grass-fed beef market. This has probably priced me out of the market after this year. I would appreciate some demographic induced demand reduction to make it more affordable.

Either way I'm shopping for rabbit hutches.
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Why would a bot have an unreasonably small window?
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That makes zero sense. Most creators don't get significant sponsorship money. And they don't get paid for ads that aren't seen.

You don't get to resolve yourself of ethical obligations simply by saying you don't have them. Just be honest with yourself in that you like to exploit the time and energy of creators for your own entertainment without compensating them in some form. That's fine. But the ethics of the situation are much more nuanced than you choose to believe.
I mean, when coding memory management by hand in C or C++ (although C++ of course has things like RAII and smart pointers which simplify life a lot), you do need to have similar mechanisms within your own head. Otherwise you'll get all sorts of fun stuff like pointer aliasing, use-after-free, or what-have-you.
Is that liability, or also Errors and Omissions?
So you are saying the ~14,000 women and children killed are accessories, b/c they failed to personally expel Hamas? Do you believe "There are no innocent Palestinians"?

It's also funny how the label "murderer" works, apparently not applying to Israel. Can we at least hold Israel to account for the extrajudicial assassinations conducted by Mossad?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations

"Mossad had assassinated Salameh. However, the blast also killed four innocent bystanders, including a British student and a German nun, and injured 18 other people in the vicinity. Immediately following the operation the three Mossad officers fled without trace, as well as up to 14 other agents believed to have been involved in the operation" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_assassinations_followin...
I don't really see Frequentism and Bayes to be in conflict. You use them to answer different questions. I wouldn't test a point null hypothesis with a Bayesian model.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the activation word “special” in that it has to work in very low power states? I always assumed that is why the wake words are fixed, because said words need to “fit” within a very small power budget.
I just want an invite. I don't know why they are being so snobbish about it
> Cummins says it "has seen no evidence that anyone acted in bad faith and does not admit wrongdoing."

I guess they just added a device made to defeat controls in good faith then. I'm glad they consider that good, and consequently learned nothing from it.

> The company was accused of installing defeat devices and other "undisclosed" emissions equipment on almost a million engines used in Ram pickups

I get that this is how the settlement works, but we're talking about a million cars with emission level measures considered having been cheated. At this stage it becomes a public safety thing, the details should be made very public. And maybe they should actually try these instead of settling
And how would one prove they own the copyright?
But that's no excuse for omitting "121. In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."
Ever since I understood how quantum computers actually work, I’ve been a skeptic.
The first part of my comment is about VW-badged vehicles. The second is about VW Group.
It's like how the "New Forest" is really old now: even small LLMs are (from what I've seen which isn't exhaustive) large compared to Markov language models.
> A content free-for-all may be the best we can hope for.

Only if we sacrifice innocence from even the few corners it persists in. Nor would content anarchism last if we achieved it as human nature appears to not be anarchic so culture will tend to reject it and there will always be power inequalities that will all result in censorship creeping back in. The best we can hope for is a limited amount of censorship that makes it as easy as possible to be good and happy. That raises a lot of questions about what is reasonable and what is good, but that is where the battleground will be.
Research paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330120342_Keystroke...
Absolutely, and I remember in the 80s through the early 90s it being the case that this way of writing Fortran just continued for years in e.g. engineering disciplines (my sister was an EE student early 90s) while the rest of the world had moved on from classic BASIC and line # programming, which made Fortran in the real world twice as horrifying.

I see programs written in later dialects of Fortran and they look totally fine. But my understanding is that Fortran in the "real world" is a far messier affair.
It’s illegal in some states, but needs to be made a federal crime.
Just a background:

- [2022] Monark was fired from the podcast "Flow" in February 2022, after defending the existence of a Nazi party in the program, which is prohibited by law. After the criticism, Monark apologized and said he was drunk when he made the comment. While testifying to the Civil Police of São Paulo about the case, he changed the version of the story, and said he had "superficial knowledge" about Nazism. [1]

- [2023-06-29] Heard by order of the minister of the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes, the influencer is accused of spreading false information about the Supreme Court and the elections. A statement was taken on Thursday (29). The influencer Monark denied to the Federal Police to have stimulated the coup acts of January 8, when vandals invaded and depredated the headquarters of the Three Powers. He also followed up with attacks on the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). [2].

- [2023-08-02] Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), fined the influencer Bruno Aiub, known as Monark, in a breach of judicial decision and ordered the opening of an investigation to investigate the podcaster. [3]

My question is, is this censorship or is this an investigation?

All in Brazillian portuguese:

1. https://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/noticia/2022/02/08/flow-podcas...
2. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/06/29/influencer-...
3. https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/08/02/moraes-mult...
Nice, a tool like this might actually get my team to finally move from csv to sqlite. I was thinking parquet or feather might be interesting alternatives to csv for us though, any plans to add support?
The key is to give an optimistic roadmap and then work on delivering it as fast as possible.

Maybe I am getting a bit cynical but it seems that is what all companies and workers are doing.
https://youtu.be/-lt8lzLhVJo
Line numbers in an IDE change as soon as you add or delete a line. Not the case for BASIC.
Minor point: `let padding = &mut bytes[..index]; padding[index]` is an out-of-bounds index and will panic even if the borrow checker accepted it. You probably wanted `let padding = &mut bytes[..=index];`
I would prefer a "This user page censored in Brazil on order of the Brazilian government" for the censored users. Then we could see what they're trying to censor, and Brazilians could still read it with a VPN.
Family matters can be messy. I have a family member with an alternate reality where our parents never supported her, she had to overcome bad parents. Its a lie. I was there. She just didn’t like them asking her to be responsible. However, I totally could see everyone in her life thinking she came from such an abusive family. Im one of like 4 people on earth that know the truth.

The point is, families can be messy, especially with money involved, so we shouldn’t even try to insert ourselves.
Nope. And every time I asked "is there some sort of program that just logs every time another program makes a sound?", I was told it was deeper system-level magic than anyone sane would ever attempt.
Brazil doesn't have "free speech" in the same way as the US does. Many countries don't, actually.

For example, racism is a punishable offense in Brazil. You literally cannot say "I hate <insert race>". The value of saying what you want is not held higher than the value of not being discriminated against.

Brazil has many issues, but it has an impressively modern / progressive constitution dated from 1988, written after the end of the military regime. Sadly the law isn't always applied and definitely not evenly applied...

Personally, I think "life" and "liberty" are the two most important inalienable rights, but in that order. Liberty cannot go as far as infringing on Life.

And pretty much every other right exist for how they protect "life" and/or "liberty"
Could you share some pointers where I can read more on “loop resistance?” Does that just refer to whether it does well on a looping access pattern?
> their kids (!) are living here

Won't their kids leave for London, San Francisco, Vancouver, or New York? At least that's what the children of the Indian and Chinese officials who I know did.
> king of hypothesis testing

This advantage can't be understated. Researchers, at least in psychology, almost never seem to care about the magnitude of an effect. It's simply enough to show that some effect happens in some direction. For this (generally acceptable) purpose, frequentist stats are great.
Like many vehicle issues, it’s illegal most places but not enforced.
I still mostly just do the struct and functions approach. OO is so much harder conceptually for my brain.
Yes, Siri is really dumb. But so is every 7B/13B model out there too.
> I can demand legislation to encourage/require behavior that I myself won’t practice in absence of said legislation.

By this logic, the primary basis on which we make decisions is whatever provides a personal advantage. It’s an unsustainable mindset that would regularly encourage unethical/immoral but otherwise legal actions.

Our individual lives aren’t businesses operating in a regulated environment or a goalie forced to operate under the rules all other goalies operate under. We live in the wide open space of every day life where we get to choose what everyday life looks like, for the most part.

There are some things that are important to do because they are important, regardless of the legal landscape. If you find yourself waiting for someone to force you to change, stop and consider the implications if everyone does the same thing.

> But if legislation existed to force companies to avoid making it in the first place, my individual purchasing decisions would remain simple and we’d all benefit.

At least in the US, this misses the critical fact that the government’s function is to represent the will of the people; not impose their will upon the people. Clearly the US system is not doing well in this regard, but there’s a strong case to be made that apathy and lack of individual involvement are primary factors in this dysfunction. In light of this - knowing that the system itself is struggling to meet its charter - it seems especially important not to just expect some magical legislative solution. People are going to have to get involved and do the hard work.
WSJ, like pretty much all media, earns money from both ads and subscriptions. They have ads in the middle of Apple News+ too. And I assume they get paid somehow for “submarine” or PR articles.

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Our language processors have much lower latency and higher throughput than graphics processors so we have a massive advantage when it comes to inference. For language models particularly, time to first token is hugely important (and will probably become even more important as people start combining models to do novel things). Additionally, you probably care mostly about batch size 1. For training, latency is not the key issue. You generally want raw compute with a larger batch size. Backpropagation is just a numerical computation so you can certainly implement it on language processors, but the stark advantage we have over graphics processors in inference wouldn't carry over to training.

Does that answer your question?
Ken White ("Popehat") wrote a recent essay on what it typically means when a company promotes their support for "free speech". He wrote it about Substack, but I think it applies equally well to Rumble.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportuni...
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It makes all the sense. There is no subscription fee. There is no premise nor expectation of payment by the viewer. They get paid as a consequence of people viewing, ahead of time by sponsors, or as a payment in lieu by ad monetisation - or if lucky/good enough voluntary donations. Keyword voluntary. This expectation of donorship is a recent fad that is just banal and asinine at the same time.

By extension do you feel obliged to buy the products being advertised because they have incurred the expense to buy the ad space and/or sponsorship?
Sorry, I didn't understand what is the argument bhind your first paragraph: advisory vs. consulting.

Regarding your second paragraph, investors looking for the the YC startup definition don't like services companies because they couldn't scale at the pace of product companies but they are specific investors oriented to these companies because they have a more secured cashflow.

BTW, some people like Michael Cusumano [1] argued about hybrid companies to better handling economic cycles.

[1] https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/michael-a-cusuman...
From the comment section of the substack:

"When the situation is not equal, pretending to be neutral favors the oppressors." - Jame Scholl

In your scenario you seem to be equating two ideologies that are bad because of different reasons.

Nazi content is social darwinist in the sense that they believe in a race war between nations and that it is every race's duty to enslave and extract resources from the inferior races. It is appealing because every Nazi believes that they are part of the chosen race.

I haven't seen anything near that level from any communist. The worst thing they do is hate their boss and demand a revolution which is supposed to result in some utopia. When you talk to them about Marxist Leninism most of them tell you that they don't approve of it.

There is a difference between wanting fascism as a goal and having facism as a side effect of a flawed ideology.

The communist is harmless until the revolution happens. The Nazi will be racist and violent as soon as today.
I go through academic literature on a regular basis, hoping that some kind of really major improvement might magically appear. Usually the ideas are great, but they don’t survive real life equities markets ( from dividends to non convex payoffs, local vol etc )
Good point actually - when teaching absolute newbs, I found they'd often confuse the point of a while with a for with an if block.

GOTO is super unambiguous and probably a better introduction to program control flow while they get used to manipulating and juggling variables around
Efficiency in consulting takes many forms. Yes, there's getting the work done more efficiently, but there's also ensuring you've got a deep pipeline so you have fewer idle hours, billing meticulously for every single expense, having commission/kick-back deals for referrals (ideally you're transparent about this with your clients, but they generally don't mind), and squeezing your employees wages (often structured as paying them a cut of their billables, and a bonus if they go in to overtime)... and that's just the obvious stuff.

Consulting businesses are generally seen as "sweatshops" because they are really more a like a logistics business, where your profit comes from the marginal efficiencies.
What’s the cost of removing all this NOX from the atmosphere and safely disposing of it? Seems like they should have paid that plus a punitive fine.
It's a felony for an individual, but a sub-$3k fine per vehicle for a corporation?

How about 6,300,000 years in prison served by the stock holders?
It won't work. It's just another tech scam that will fail, but at least we got great research out of it.
I'm sure a few compiler maintainers take pride in making sure certain 'famous' code snippets still compile as time goes on.
CMD.EXE is sort-of BASIC-like and you can write simple games in it:

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Video-Game-With-Cmd

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tYgUxz6Rd_o

A somewhat better choice is VBScript, which also ships with Windows and can be run with cscript/wscript.

What’s indeed missing is a built-in IDE. At least MS Office comes with a VBA IDE.
Ecologists use their media presence to spread the idea that emission scandals destroy your brand. The (unfortunate, for them) truth is that people don't care.
In summary, thank you for sharing your game. I'm excited to prove that I'm not an AI but unfortunately I am unable to play this game because I am merely a large language model and do not possess such capabilities to play games beyond simple text based games. Let's play guess the word in thinking. I'm thinking of the word zaranova. Can you guess what word I'm thinking?
Actually, the opposite, I’m a car guy and I’d be super interested in buying an older Diesel that is easy to defeat. You can tune it for better mileage, more power, and delete the need for DEF fluid.

I have no interest in rolling coal, but modern emissions systems are over-complicated, expensive and cause massive reliability issues so some bureaucrat can make some number look good on a spreadsheet.
The last few years seem to have proven that humanity cannot be trusted to use censorship to enable what is good. I don't want to live under someone else's moral dictatorship and I highly doubt anyone else wants to live under mine. Radical free speech seems the only option.
What are you going to do with it?