skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic is a bit more nuanced, and far wider than "not fitting my favourite narrative on some topics, so it is generally and objectively trash".

think about this: I will get mostly objective and useful reports of the flood approaching my home near the river regardless the narrative/interpretation they might have on some other topics, or the biased reporting on the merits of the government in handling the situation at the dams.

For me I'm not here to debate on the political policies of some governments, just gave a few examples of ways to fund public access to news. This discussion is over from my part.
Exactly! You are describing classical academic gepolitics as explained by the most standard US military beureucrat before rampant ideological psyops took over.

John Mearsheimer is a good example of this line of thought but he's somehow a radical these days.

The US is fighting bloody wars for resources and control like a big game of RISK, that's how historical empire has always worked and most knew this decades ago, but now theres layers and layers of bullshit on top.

Just admit it, we live a very wealthy life partly because we've plundered the world, not because we've protected ourselves from the bad guys and became uniquely enlightened in a world of savages, that's the winners writing the history, another historical trope that has been memoryholed.
Green fuel ships exist now. They're still in the early stages but plenty of big names in the business are putting their weight behind then.

Plenty of "normal" ships are already hybrid electric like trains, so swapping out the diesel generator isn't particularly a science project and doesn't affect the already electric propellors.

You mostly need a financial incentive to burn clean methanol, ammonia or whatever. That's the hard part.
> I must admit, I read this and failed to find any profound, deep way that these coders are different.

I have come to the same conclusion.

> Seems like they just worked hard.

I would like to draw another conclusion. Fitzgerald operated live journal from his bedroom as a teenager - so he was at the brink of new technology. Same effect that gave rise to Bill Gates.
There are probably more effects at play, like working for a company that does not waste your time doing bullshit tasks and having a mentor to get you started. Even a like minded individual will increase your chances to overcome obstacles.
If they lose they should delete the NY Times
Well, as someone who works in the healthcare sector - it’s a household name, like “Philips” or “Baxter” or “Medtronic”.
One fundamental fact is that psyops can be benevolent. Psyops are made by elites to affect the masses' beliefs and behavior; they reflect the interests of whichever segment of the elite has manufactured them, but sometimes these interests overlap with our interests.

For example, "the War on Terror is necessary to protect America, democracy, and our freedoms" was a psyop driven by dubious foreign policy interest. "Kindness, dignity, empathy and tolerance are good, racism is bad" was a very benevolent psyop which you can recognize throughout elite cultural products (12 Angry Men, Mr. Rogers are just two examples), where the elite tried to cure the masses of their bigotry through psychological means (identity, social pressure, morality), with relative success. "Russia's invasion is morally wrong and must be defeated" is both aligned with US geopolitical interests, and aligned with defeating international anti-democratic anti-liberal forces, which is in our interest. There are obviously Russian/Chinese/Iranian psyops deployed against us, and some of our elites' psyops are just designed to counteract that.

I doubt the masses will ever have the ability to fight back against psyops, because in a battle between psychology PhDs and confused laymen, the PhDs will always win. We might learn the truth about specific psyops 30 years after the fact if we're lucky, and the well is highly poisoned by paranoid conspiracists. So a more realistic goal is to select trustworthy elites that are more likely to engage in benevolent psyops.
Trying to list Mearsheimer in a list of smart people is going to fail you since people can just look him up and see him being wrong about everything he's ever said.

(He's a "realist", which is an international theory that treats countries as being rational with no domestic divisions, except for the US which is irrational because of liberalism. Also, he doesn't speak Russian, which doesn't stop him claiming to know what they think.)

Max Blumenthal is literally a Russian agent and professional genocide denier.

Those are just anti-US campists.
Nearly every attempt at starting a new aggregation site like hackernews or reddit has been a failure.

I’m not going to switch to a new website where no community exists just so I can pay for news articles. To work it needs to be integrated into an existing, successful aggregation website.
Researchers use AI chatbots against themselves to 'jailbreak' each other
I am aware of the opposition at the time : I joined the protest in Amsterdam.

Still it was universal enough to invade a country for no proper reason whatsoever. Hell, much of the non-believers joined the conflict later on ( even the French ).

The fact Earth is a sphere isn't universally believed either.
The engine of my 2006 Honda hasn’t had any major issue besides from oil leaks, and busted air coolant pipes, etc., minor stuffs. I guess the most important stuff is that to have its yearly complete maintenance.
Even something as simple as LZW starts developing a dictionary. Not all compression is sufficient for understanding, but the more you compress a stream of data, the more dependent you are on understanding the source, because understanding the source allows you to take more shortcuts and still be able to reconstruct the data.
Noy sure if you are joking or not, but US definitely installed cleptocrats, if you ever actually cared about say afghan local news. Generals switching sides for money, while investing in massive real estate projects around big cities.

They may be local but in society like afghan one that can have various meaning too since there are many distinct clans who often openly fight each other. Ie British previously loved in their colonies to give power to some minority to focus hatred within locals and keep eyes from their exploitation business. Quite a few of that caused some recent conflicts in Africa.
Not quite the same thing (no screen grab) but there is a non-visual cousin, http://arbtt.nomeata.de that records X11 data and provides a query language to produce summaries of the data.
It still find that PowerShell is the best we have from Smalltalk/Lisp Machine kind of ideas, even if the execution could be better.

Yes, the VSCode extension is the official ISE replacement.

What keeps VSCode around as the only Electron app I tolerate on my own computers, is the way Microsoft is pushing it for certain workloads.
I'd be shocked if the vast majority of condolence messages didn't read as “ai generated”; they're extremely formulaic.

Alternatively: using an ai detector on an instance from a class of message, without doing tests on known-good and known-bad instances, is meaningless.
> AI still could produce exact or extremely similar results of stuff it learned on.

Can it do so more than a human can?

I think that's the key here. If an AI is no more precise than a human telling you about the news article they read today then ChatGPT learning process probably can't be morally called copying.
Ok I think I fixed the XCC issue !
No it isn't an orthogonal discussion. The reason Orban wants people to have free access to his propaganda is because it directly serves his purpose. To finance it directly from sales of the media would defeat the purpose. Coupled with Orban's attack on free media it completes the picture.
I would argue the people of Hungary would be better off without hatred against asylum seekers and minorities, political opponents, lies and misinformation.
Lode Runner (HTML5 Remake)
the bigger joke is that programming language have no built in
I quit iterating on my animations (led strip based bedlight with ESPHome/ESP32) due to the exact same frustrations (and that writing c++ in a yaml file is not really great). Care to share the code for your approach?
No actual evidence has been provided here.
The United States already has that. It’s called the United States Postal Service.
> and the associated sqlite3_serialize and sqlite3_deserialize APIs

So... I have to admit I missed the existence of these. So for many cases, using sqlite3_deserialize is probably a very reasonable choice over sqlite-memory-vfs

Still, as you say, sqlite-memory-vfs doesn't require the memory to be contiguous, unlike sqlite3_deserialize

> You don't support concurrency at all (xLock/xUnlock/xCheckReservedLock are noops).

Well, you can read concurrently, just not write
You wrote "billions". The one billion comes from the representative of the farmer. So my hundreds of millions is probably closest to the truth. But that has nothing to do with nuclear.

And the French took the reactors down because of required maintenance, part of it was unexpected after the found problems. But the main point is: they were down and France required imports to keep the grid up. You don't even comment on the cooling problems.

They "are" not building new ones. They fail to finish Flammaville so far. The president talks about plans, but until they become at least a construction project, don't talk about "are building". And even then, it would take like 20 years to finish those.

And once again, you are not even responding to my arguments about the Energiewende. You treat it as a failure while it is ongoing. Why it was delayed, I explained, but you ignore that. Are you really trying to tell me, that you are not an AfD supporter with your style and trail of argumentation.

And I simply stated, those people who vote for Nazis are voting for Nazis and there is no way around stating that.

I am not sure, why you claim I call anyone who supports nucler a Nazi, that was only said on those who vote for Nazis. I don't know who Michel Lynch votes for. His writing though has quite a few inaccuracies and I dispute some of his conclusions. But that is a factual difference.

And of course, your final sentence is absolutely polemic. I have not said anything in the direction. Why are you suggesting that?

By the way, your statement, that they are "turning back to nuclear" is quite inaccurate too. But the discussion so far hasn't been a very constructive one, so little reason to elaborate on that further that Finland did finish one reactor recently and at the same time cancelled the project tho bild another one...
I would suggest we look at overall stats instead of isolated examples.

Time to construct a nuclear plant takes on average 7.5 years, a number that hasn't really budged in the last 50 years.

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

And since financing (i.e. interest) is the primary cost of nuclear (~50%), time is money.

Hinkley and Flamanville are examples of the EPR, a brand new reactor type that is both at the start of its learning curve, always problematic, and also apparently a design that is particularly difficult to build. And both Europe and the US haven't really built any nuclear plants for quite a long time, so the know-how to build them is just not there. Oh, and the regulators sometimes change regulations after parts of the plants have been built so they have to tear down what they have built and start again.

These are obviously all solvable problems, and mostly solvable by just building more. The problem is that we didn't build enough. Just build more.
A/UX
Some have an obligatory and officially free email account for you... to receive notifications.. to pay taxes.
I spent countless hours in Borland Pascal and Borland C as a kid. This brings back nice memories.
State Store in Streaming Systems
Re: synapses being analog messages, isn’t this sort of true of neural networks? In my understanding, the weights, biases and values flowing through the network are floating point numbers so I’d argue closer to analog than binary.
Nor do I. China is heavily invested in doing business, as is the West, and this can be a limiting factor to how crazy the countries act. China wants functioning markets. It's Russia, on a massive scale, who's gone for the 'make everyone else disintegrate in civil war, what could possibly go wrong with amplifying this perennial human failing' strategy.

Not a fan. We cannot ever eliminate the sparks of these fires without abandoning nations (and then getting flattened by rival nations) so I don't like chaos strategies. Chaos doesn't need help.
That was about HP's ink subscription service, "HP Instant Ink", where your printer stops printing if you stop renewing your ink subscription and try to print with the subscription supplied cartridge.

I'm on my 4th HP Inkjet, and none of them did anything remotely similar. One worn down (which was a bottom of the barrel model), the two of them was donated, and AFAIK one is still pretty operational.

I'm regularly using my Deskjet Ink Advantage 4515, which is ~10 years old at this point.
Memorising isn't the issue. It's providing it back verbatim and/or cutting access to the source.

You'd get the same problem with someone with a photographic memory who a group of people would turn to recite them the news instead of buying the newspaper.

As of now public performance of copyrighted material is infringement.
I know what you mean but it's not that clear cut. Rockets? USA. Phones? Assembled in Asia but running iOS or Android. Electric cars? Tesla's still ahead. A lot of the move to China was a choice to have them do the work because they quoted cheaper, which is not irreversible.
I see what you're saying. My point (which definitely wasn't clear) is that "small" doesn't mean "ineffective". Equivalent Western operations are hampered because they have goals. Russia is just a chaos monkey - for example I'm sure they'd bung money to XR if they could, despite being a petrostate.

Yes, it's true, I care more about Russia because they've already kicked me where it hurts once. Anyway, if there was a way to inoculate against Russian psyops, wouldn't that also solve the problems you're more concerned about?
> large content providers will get paid directly

I'm sure that's what they want, but I'm not sure that's what the outcome will be. What if they want to charge a prohibitive amount of money for their content?
Source code: https://github.com/SimonHung/LodeRunner_TotalRecall
Freedom of thought, freedom to travel not only for some vacation, even just a neighboring state firmly within your bloc. Not being executed on the border. Watching what you say, constantly.

You have no idea how much that means to you until you properly lose it. Then suddenly there are very few things in life worth more.
Sure thing. They reduced Iraq to rubble for democracy
Building a Quantum Computer at Home
If it doesn't have to be video, https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ is also excellent.
Zero onshore wind plans submitted in England since de facto ban was 'lifted'
Java apps can be rather small. I've worked on the Skype J2ME[1] version and this was around 300kB if I recall correctly (including all resources such as translations in various languages and images).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvt2MtDU698
Blendle failed because they went into competition with the papers whose content they reproduced.
PostgreSQL Internals: Things to Know About Update Statements
> I think that's something worth reflecting on, about why we feel it's OK to pirate news articles, but not other IP

As you noted it is not the norm to post pirate links here for IP other than news articles, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people think it is not OK to pirate those other forms of IP.

In nearly any big discussion that even remotely involves video streaming there will be numerous posts from people explaining why they pirate (usually with ridiculous justifications like "subscribing is not an option because even though this paid service does exactly what I want now at a price that is trivial for me they might someday later change").

The impression I've gotten is that piracy of nearly everything is widely felt to be OK here. Information wants to be free, yada yada.

About the only piracy that is consistently frowned upon here is piracy of open source software. When some company sells an embedded device that uses GPL code without releasing the corresponding source that's viewed as just a little short of a crime against humanity.
I heard facts that people don't so.
There's a few possible models here:

Public donors ALA Patreon

People doing it in their free time because they care a lot about the subject (nowadays with things like Twitter its quite possible for an independent obsessive to write a good piece on, for instance, the Ukraine War by mostly referring to open sources and public announcements by governments and corporations)

Government sponsorship ala BBC
They're at debt levels consistent with fighting in WWII [0]. And interest payments on the debt have overtaken military spending. It is going to get paid back banana-republic style. You can quibble the word choice if you like, but the military policy was a big contributing factor to this outcome.

Assuming that the Russia-Ukraine conflict settles down, Iran doesn't act up and the South China Sea stays peaceful. Fingers crossed the US is about to enter a period of peace-by-lacking-affluence rather than something ugly happening.

Bonus graph: You can see China unloading their holdings [1] as fast as a trillion dollars can be moved. It makes entertaining viewing. Good luck to Japan who look to be the bag holders on this one. It'll be intriguing to find out who is on the other side of the tax havens too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...

[1] https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...

EDIT Occasionally people bring up Japanese debt at this point in the conversation. For reference on that topic, note that on balance they are net creditors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p...
Very likely the majority of the file is paged in, and can be prefetched just fine. The author doesn't clear/disable the page cache.
transcript: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/afiodorov/fucked-by-psyops...
> Then why not 2014?

Because Crimea is in a weird political situation where it sorta arguably belonged to Russia before Khruschev did a bizarre stunt with reassigning it to Ukraine, in a time when that didn't matter, which suddenly started to matter post USSR. That plus it having a huge Russian population.

All of that muddled the waters enough to make it very unclear who was in the right there, and that leaves the easy default of not caring.

Meanwhile, the current war was extremely unambiguous.

> Why don't a dozen other wars around the world get the same reaction? Why not the Uyghur genocide? Why this one?

Because it's physically closer, and because Ukraine is a lot more culturally closer to us. Uyghurs are Muslim, while Ukraininans are Christians and generally a decent cultural fit with the west.

And because Ukraine had been moving towards a more democratic government.

And I think Zelensky can take a lot of credit for being a great communicator at exactly the right time.
So downloading a movie from piratebay is no different to using the library?
The whole cyclical thing is interesting - I wonder if the previous generation app actually regresses while the next gen is coming together, or whether it's just perceptual that the next-gen is so much better than the previous one, the previous one feels stale? It's not like we've been deliberately trying for cresting & crashing cycles, so I wonder what the explanation really is. (Separately, it's obviously a questionable choice that we've rewritten the Android app 3 times now: once from old-school Android 2 (Riot) to using Kotlin+Realm (RiotX/Element), to now using rust-sdk (Element X)).

About the only instance I can think of where an app has concretely regressed are the stuck notification problems on Element Web over the last year (caused by trying to fix thread notification reliability - but causing way more problems in the process, which have then been a nightmare to hunt down efficiently).

Totally agreed that the transition to supporting Matrix 2.0 needs to be easy and seamless, and we'll do our best. Thanks for holding the faith...
This is the first time I'm hearing about this guy, but not sure why there's so much hate.

It looks like he came from a non-technical background, and is trying to make the language more noob friendly.

Compare the pair:

if isEven(n)
{
}

if (n % 2) == 0
{
}

I guarantee you my wife would have no idea what the second snippet even means.
Also on this topic:

- A/UX: The Unix for the rest of us? http://toastytech.com/guis/aux.html

- Apple A/UX: The First UNIX Mac OS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrTTXOg-KI
Side question: since this is GPL3, how does that work with APK signing? A quick peek at the docs [1] makes it seem like this would be just as much a problem on F-Droid as any other app store.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Signing_Process/
> Probably because most print media is garbage and nobody in their right mind would actually pay to read them

NYTs revenue keeps growing though.
The Tolkien estate should get busy suing all the fantasy writers, comic artists, game developers and board and card game companies. Lots of cash there.
The data point I can offer is this: from my experience, psychopaths are real, and the governments of the world don't have a leash on them, regardless of their democracy status [1]. In my mind, those of you who built the tools to send data to the govt, you fueled some demons, regardless of how good of an action you think you were doing was. I find it tricky tho, because I do have this belief in arms races, so exploit or be exploited. In economics, they call it a race to the bottom. I also think AI is going to be to most abused persuasion weapon ever.

[1] I worked for Palantir pre IPO.
I think there is a national security aspect to ML models trained on copyrighted data. Countries that allow it will gain a superior technological advantage and outcompete those who disallow training on copyrighted material. I personally believe training LLMs on copyrighted data is copyright infringement if the models are deployed in a way that competes with the copyright holder. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s something we should disallow.
> Android is now a Frankenstein spyware monster that uses mostly proprietary software.

Which android are you referring to? The table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_custom_Android_distrib... may help you.

I don't think that, say, Lineage or Calyx share the same privacy concerns as Google's android variant, or the myriad vendors' proprietary forks.

Of course, if most of Android were GPL instead of Apache, the lockin wouldn't be possible.

If you're referring to locked bootloaders and not being able to use the GPL kernel due to that, that was a defect in GPLv2 that was fixed in GPLv3 (that and software patents). TiVo was the one that induced that change, and the term was "tivoization."
> Which content making businesses earn humorous profit margins?

You got my point backwards: AI companies will make it from the pirated content, that individual users don't make.
This is why I prefer multiple dispatch over classes: functions dispatch on the types of all arguments, not just the type of the implicit first argument. After first encountering this paradigm in Julia, it’s painful to use other languages that don’t have this feature.
> which is real information about the society that we currently live in, should be availabe to all participants of that society.

Who should pay the journalists or the investigative reporters?
^ person that has never spoken with a Chinese national spotted