skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scholz.

Modern Russia is far better at political subversion than it is at outright conquest. Every country in Europe has captive politicians and far-right parties being funded and enabled by Moscow.

Like Germany's AfD which - as a matter of record - has been cultivated, promoted, and steered in a pro-Russian direction.

Scholz is clearly playing the same game, obstructing aid to Ukraine in every possible way.

Geert Wilders in NL makes anti-Russian noises in public while threatening to cut support to Ukraine.

Portugal has Chega, France has National Rally and Le Pen, the UK had Brexit and Boris Johnson - who installed the son of a top KGB operative to the House of Lords.

The US has Trump and Maga.

And so on.

Every single one of these has proven Russian links.

Ukraine is just a distraction. The real war has been happening elsewhere. Many leaders - and most voters - still haven't realised what's happening.

And should Le Pen win in France and Trump in the US, that would leave the UK's one active nuclear submarine as Europe's sole protection against Russian nuclear threats.
Just a small bit of advice.

A lot of companies use recent employment as a filtering mechanism: if you have a big gap in technology employment, you might have trouble getting interviews.

I'd say to create an LLC on your own that serves as a consultancy and to put that on your resume that you're working with them to plug this gap. Register on freelance sites and take any jobs you can: even shit underpaid jobs. Make some money and get your skills a little current and use that to bypass the hiring filters.
So what, you crash the app? What if there's no API to say "there's no printing on this device"? What is the difference between a device where printing isn't supported and a device where a printer isn't set up yet? Showing an empty list of printers isn't a bad solution, frankly.
> Generally you avoid conflict by being scary, not agreeable.

As a rule of life, that's a pretty bad idea. I don't avoid conflict with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers by being scary.

In international relations, it's by far more effective to be agreeable. Alliances are far more stable than competitive balance between 'scary' countries. Look at the EU; look at Korea - which relationships are more stable, the scary or the agreeable ones? Look at Israel, where by far the most stable relationships are the agreeable ones with Egypt, Jordan, and the US, even now. Look at the US and Canada. The list goes on forever.
I love how these raw mathematicians consider something proved when they can understand, meanwhile the computer can prove it easily just by counting a finite number of bits. What exactly would be considered proof in this case? Any explanation only mathematicians can understand?
And less than a week after the interview with Putin. The comments section on that video is ridiculous.
And VSCode will still be around.
GPS Maps: Massachusetts family says Amazon vans keep driving through yard
you are reading that right!

"double plus ungood" as mentioned on the root.
Yep, a lot of places allow for 80hrs/2wks of "training". Crazy how popular those Agile/SAFE/AWS/Azure/etc. conferences are in a destination location, meanwhile engineers asking to have time prorated for some graduate coursework is unfathomable.
That’s… not react’s job?

React is all about efficiently taking state and rendering it.

We use mobx for managing state. We use Hasura for syncing. We use react for display. That works well for us and our requirements.
Okay but the Collatz conjecture is a little different in that there can't just be a one-off counterexample: it's a statement about a sequence. The counterexample would have to be either a cycle (that excludes 4/2/1), or a sequence of numbers that keep spiraling up indefinitely. And they've proven that any cycle would have to be very long[1]. Either way, it would mean trivially unlocking a sequence of numbers that happens to satisfy a very specific criterion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture?useskin=vec...
> This is a nice theory. It could be true, it's likely not.

I’ve done it / do it with taking products and services to certain East Asian markets. And sometimes scaled quickly at much more than 5x of the original revenue.

> You must be using better M&A brokerages/bankers than I ever have.

FEI is one such broker, and know people on both sides of transactions done through them that are happy. I haven’t used them personally, but that’s one example.

They definitely do due diligence.

> With respect, are you actually buying businesses? Or just doing contracted technical DD? It feels like you are missing a good chunk of the picture here.

Funny, I was about to ask/say the same thing.

Yes, I buy businesses. No, I don’t do technical DD contract or otherwise (frankly, I’m not tech savvy enough to do that on my own — I can sniff out some bad code, but I let the pros do what they do).

I/we are on HN reply delay to prevent “flame wars”, even though I don’t think we are flaming. As such, I will stop here.

If you are what you actually say you are, I wish you luck and all the success in the world. That said, I stand by everything I have said above.
I call these personality types free software socialists, and free software communists. The free software socialists are my friends. The free software communists are not.
Interestingly, for the suburbs here in Melbourne they offered two options for grade separation:

1. Elevated rail

2. Trenches with no cover

A series of campaigners in areas with higher property values wanted the trenches for “privacy” reasons and in the end many of them got them but the elevated rail receiving citizens got bike paths, basketball courts, car parks, improved walkability, generally more public space.

Having experienced the two, the elevated rail is far better.

The totally new line they are building though will be a TBM.
I don't think you understand how businesses even work. If a company has to charge X amount to stay above water, and you raise wages, X has to increase. This isn't about some "constitutional right to a profitable business." It's that if the business isn't profitable, it goes under, and then no one has a job because there's no money to pay them with. Is that what you want?
2080 Ti 22G Memory. Custom Upgraded
it fits in a line. it's simple
Burning Heroes AI for Humanity Hackathon
"The latter list will be 10-100x longer."

And on top of all that the actual core editor is, once you get your fingers wrapped around it, just... the best. It can do so many things that other editors just don't do, it's responsive and fast, the buffer metaphor it works with is great (so easy to have the same file open in multiple windows at different regions, it's beautiful) and I love the tiling system for its frames, etc. etc.

In 30 years, we'll still be using Emacs, but VSCode will have moved on.
A historian and renowned Russia expert in my country (Estonia) commented that this was probably bad timing for Putin. Now, as a martyr, Navalnyi is much more of a disturbance to Putin's regimen than he would have been as an isolated opposition leader serving a 19-year prison sentence, which rendered him not a direct threat to Putin. Like the expert put it: as a political prisoner, Navalnyi was already simply forgotten by many. [1]

Somehow this got me flipping through a book by Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist extraordinaire who covered the Second Chechen War and was shot dead in Moscow in 2006, on the birthday of Putin. [2]

I want to think that the age of massive online information does make at least a slight difference as to how much of the reasons behind events like these see the light of day eventually. Rest in peace, Alexei Navalnyi.

1: https://news.err.ee/1609255851/historian-navalny-s-death-wil... (Interestingly, the paragraph on Navalnyi being more of a disturbance now, after being declared dead, was not included in the English version of this news story. This is quite surprising, since ERR is actually a very well balanced source of news. All in all, that story includes interesting takes on Navalny as a politician, too, by another highly respeced Russia expert from Estonia.)

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya
I've never ever noticed blurriness from downscaled integer up-scaled Wayland apps.

Blurriness is almost always due to use of xwayland.

These are completely unrelated technically.
If the problem you're trying to solve is literally generating randomness, you might look into custom hardware. I think some companies have devices to measure subtle variations in the output of tiny laser beams, as one example of how pure randomness can be quickly and continuously found.
Thanks for the clarification, you're correct. The nuance/complexity is that the platform developer must conform to a platform spec (in this case, the Windows API) that usually makes some underlying assumptions about the capabilities of the system that runs it, which may not always be correct.
For help in modeling the states and taming the complexity:

https://stately.ai/docs/xstate
The Haunted Juror
https://archive.ph/2024.02.16-123349/https://www.newyorker.c...
> The way they've worded this betrays the internalization of their suffering as a MS developer.

While I feel less strongly about this Xbox/printing example, I remember Bill Gates saying "I reboot my computer every day" which is a similar mindset-- this culture has been forced to adopt a certain form of "hygiene" due to that same culture NOT adopting hygiene preemptively when they built their systems.
Your question seems orthogonal to the situation. The three files posted seem to be the minimum amount of information required to reproduce the bug. Fair use encompasses a LOT of uses of otherwise copyrighted work, and this seems clearly to be one.
Just like the US can stop this war at any moment by dropping support for Ukraine and pressuring them to negotiate. Or can't they?
I assume the negative reactions are due to the large Apple user base on HN. Most of these people are likely so used to being told "this software was built for a version of your OS released 2 years ago so you can't use it anymore, tough shit", they've come to expect it.
> the land cost, density, and regulatory environment

Cheap land, low density, lax environmental regulation?
Yeah it’s definitely expressable but non-obvious
Trumpism is an ideology that overgrown its founder: there are members of Congress, governors and other politicians who share his mindset. It is the Republican Party of 2020s, not just an insane businessman, who will throw global security under the bus. All those pointed reminders will mean nothing until it is too late.
Maybe gaming will finally take off on iOS. Downloading games from the App Store never felt right.
I mean in France, you've got Marine LePen. In the Netherlands you've got Geert Wilders. Robert Fico wanted to take Slovakia back to a past when oligarchs dominated the state. PiS wanted to turn poland into the arsenal of the EU and got a really good start on it, etc.

Nationalism is having a renaissance since Trump won in 2020, but it turns out overall to be a terrible way to run a country.
Great project. Got me thinking that we all have these management systems in our computers now (intel me vpro, amd psp) potentially compromising privacy.

But, they don't appear to be useful in remote management. To the extent that this external device is necessary. Is that correct and/or why?
Only if you try to publish it as an iPad app. See also: https://hacknicity.medium.com/how-iphone-only-apps-appear-on...
I'd argue the biggest impediment to good cycling infrastructure is the low utilization of the existing cycling infrastructure. I had a friend who insisted that most people want to cycle to work, but they are lacking the infrastructure. If we only build more bike lanes and bike paths, more people would choose to cycle instead of drive. The thing is, my city has an extensive set of bike paths. They're really nice and are a viable way to get places. They're also rarely used except for exercise or leisurely strolls.

Given most bike paths in my city are empty most of the time, why would we spend money on more cycling infrastructure? The low utilization - not a social perception - are why spending more money would be a waste.
Targeted Intel OneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out
WEF: These are the most vital waterways for global trade
Thank you for insulting my intelligence by assuming I don't understand fractional reserve banking. My point remains. A government does not have carte blanche to inject money into an economy without hyperinflation beyond a certain point.
Eh, this is at least a little different. Startups talk themselves up to investors where they need to convince the investors that they will be really valuable at some point in the future. This is compared to tax authorities who are only concerned about current value, which is often essentially zero when it comes to startups.
Navalny will be remembered, just as Boris Nemtsov is remembered.
Aside, I just realized Vimium doesn't get disabled inside iframes on pages where it's disabled, nor can you disable the iframe domain from the parent page since the iframe regex won't match the parent url. I had to disable the whole plugin for "x" to work in the iframe. Seems like an oversight on Vimium's part.

As for the game, it's satisfying to ratchet down to the 39 second threshold for the gold medal by figuring our drifting. I realize I was overdrifting and easily beat 39 seconds once I stopped drifting much sooner along the turn.
And yet - AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold...
Any LLM/GPT system is fundamentally stochastic, so yes, kind of? But it's hardly a "trick" to come up with a way to make them work the way we want them to work.

An LLM is based on the idea that there is some very complicated function

y(t) = f(y(t-1), y(t-2), ..., y(t-K))

for any sequence of text tokens t(1), y(2), ... and some huge context size K.

We fit the model by attempting to find an approximation of f() with a low badness score (called "loss"). We also don't usually want the absolute lowest badness score, because there is always some tradeoff between between minimizing loss on the specific test data that we happen to have, and preserving the ability to generalize to content outside of the test data.

The technique here is an improvement to that process of finding a good approximation of f(). The specific technique here is to adjust the loss to mean something more specific than "error rate on predicting the next word in a sequence."

The entire basis of the principle is that the loss function controls what the model learns. If we want it to produce more sentences that look a certain way, we introduce a reward for generating sentences that look that way. If we want to avoid certain kinds of outputs, we introduce a penalty for generating those kinds of outputs. From there, it's just gradient descent. Better outputs produce lower losses, so the model starts producing better outputs, without us having to really know or care about what the model is doing internally.

The technique of RLHF is similar along those lines. We discourage the model to hallucinate by having a human review its output and report when the model hallucinates, so we can impose a penalty for hallucination, and thereby shift the model output in the direction of not-hallucinating after many such rounds of "learning".

Is it a fundamental shift in how LLMs work? No. Could it possibly lead to improvements? Yes.
Is it an issue that needs fixing?
No, Irongate was very much internally developed by AMD. AMD was well aware of the "sketchy" nature of ALI/VLI/ULI/SiS and knew it was giving them a really bad rep so they undertook their own designs.

AMD chipsets were not as successful in the marketplace because unsurprisingly the AMD-chipsets cost more than the Taiwanese ones, and motherboard vendors (who are almost all based in Taiwan) stuck with their existing vendors. The dual-socket AMD machines (K7-based) pretty much all had the 760MPX on it because I think only AMD had a multi-socket chipset that was reliable.

AMD also inhereted a lot of DEC engineers, so it was no surprise that K8-era their 'HyperTransport' was really 'Lighting Transport', developed at DEC.

Interestingly, Micron had also developed a chipset for AMD in this era but never released it.

nForce was also not re-licensed from ALI/ULI that I recall but I have far less insight here. nVidia at the time had a 'total system play' in mind so they were attempting to do GPU/audio/network/chipsets for AMD & Intel and got designed into original Xbox (x86-based). Jensen I think used NRE money from MSFT to fund a lot of the nVidia chipset work.
The context of this thread appears to be US based, so a national health system is not applicable in this scenario.
To be fair, that's not emacs. I'm a huge emacs fan, but its startup is awful compared to vim & friends.

Yes, you can use emacsclient, but that's a bit of a different thing and has its own disadvantages.
The comment you responded to was nearly as far as you can get from ad hominem. Yes they mentioned the Republicans, but not as a reason for their arguments. They attacked the republican plans and strategies.
Realistically the hidden costs of AI are huge. Microchips are the very peak end of manufacturing complexity and require an entire global supply chain in order to produce. While there are other uses for microchips, automation is the ultimate use, and AI is the current pursuit. I would argue you could consider the entire global tech economy as being part of the cost of AI. The real costs are huge.
My dad praises Putin as a good leader. He sees Putin as someone who is merely capitalizing on the weakness of Biden, and that Putin was scared of Trump. In his mind, Putin invading Ukraine is the fault of everyone who voted for Biden. It's stupid an illogical, but it is his legitimate opinion on the matter.

He's not even a fringe case either, just your standard old dude who parrots whatever crap Fox News is spewing.
Fantastic article
After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Germany quickly moved away from nuclear power, with the last plant closing down in late 2023. Germany leads in renewable energy, but this swift change has left them with a big gap in energy security that might last until 2038.
> If you believe the western media, the west no longer believes in or upholds its values, and watches while Russia pushes westward while China builds up a military and eyes Taiwan, both more than happy to destabilize the middle east in pursuit of their goals.

> The west needs to wake up, we're slowly sliding towards a world conflict. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

I think there's an essential connection there: The West's values and their power, and peace and freedom. The West's power comes from its values, not only because it captures the hearts and minds of others but because the power freedom and universal human rights gives to its own people.

As many in the West disparage or undermine those values, they are doing the work of Putin and Xi (at times, I'm sure, led by their disinformation campaigns).

No more time for games. It's time, as you say, to wake up and stand up for our values.
Plus, society takes all kinds. If everyone is required to have the expertise of a software developer in order to enjoy the "right" not to be screwed over by closed-source software, other areas will suffer lack of personnel. Healthcare definitely comes to mind.
How web3 music artists are using blockchain to connect with fans
I suspect that we won't have the computing power or neurological understanding to create such an AI anytime soon. Even if human thought can be reduced to networks of chemical-filled membranes, the timescale and population involved in natural selection, and the resources consumed to live and reproduce are immense. I think we would need to find a far more efficient scheme to produce emergent intelligence.
> Even now with a handful of users, I already uploaded some music to my personal library and shared some playlists with other contacts.

Your own personal music that you've created? Cool, but you're one person who also happens to be running this project. That's not the basis for a business decision.

Someone else's music? That's just sharing songs online, and while I'm fine with people sailing the seas, charging for the privilege doesn't seem right to me.
Apps aren't being compiled here. Apps already exist and new platforms and platform functionalities are being made available.

Launching platforms is an eternal chicken and egg problem: You want to launch a new platform. Users want apps before they buy into the platform. Developers want users and a guarantee they will spend money before investing time and money building apps for the platform. If you're really really rich, you can literally pay developers to write apps for you, but ask Microsoft how that went with Windows Phone.

Instead, the most reliable way (I said most reliable, not reliable) is to leverage an existing group of apps onto your platform. Maybe you have a phone ecosystem and want to get into tablets. So you take the already existing phone apps in your store and let them run on your new platform.

There is no recompiling. There is no build.

There is no "build" because the source code was lost when all of the company's assets were sold off in 2002.

There is no "build" because the developer made a game, put it on your app store, moved on to the next game and has no interest in supporting this game that isn't providing any significant new revenue.

There is no "build" because this is FooManager 6.0, the company that makes FooManger wants everyone to buy FooManager 7.0 and isn't making any further changes to 6.0.

etc. etc. etc.

Binary compatibility is what matters. Nothing else is of particular significance.

In addition, if recompiling an app for your new platform yields compile errors and requires work (as opposed to targeting a new platform version in a manifest and just hitting build), developers on your platform are significantly less likely to spend the time to do so.
I believe inability to do arithmetic correctly is more common in folks with maths and other STEM degrees
> the function for installing a printer can return immediately with a result code that means “The user cancelled the operation.”

I hope this is never shown to the user, because one of the most infuriating things that can happen is when the computer tells me that I did something I actually didn't.
> React is all about efficiently taking state and rendering it.

You sure about that? https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/packages/react/s...
> You’re pissing off one set of residents immensely rather than every resident in the area sequentially. The marginal harm you do to yourself by pissing off residents is diminishing. Better to piss off fewer voters.

This is the kind of thinking that leaves us mired in the past, unfortunately. As soon as these projects are completed everyone loves them and completely forgets about any minor transient misery a couple of restaurants were caused. Compensate them and move on. The billions of dollars saved using cut & cover vs. a TBM sets up a heck of a compensation fund.

There's this real unstated mindset now where nobody should ever be inconvenienced, ever, no matter how mildly. It really holds back urban development. People will get over it.
Baldur's Gate 3: Patch #6 Now Live
Really cool! I made some pico8 games with my son, which were fun but nowhere near as good as this. Nice work.
Oh nice, we’ll get a new shitty Marvel movie every week now.
Fallout 3 was unplayable (without mods/patches) on Windows 10 for many years because of its dependency on "Games for Windows Live" from Windows 7
this paper, without failing, makes me cry.
Any historians here who can comment on when people first started selling their businesses? And when did the notion that you build a business to sell it, first emerge?
I've never mentioned React, nor really alluded to it (though it is one piece of the complicated problem).
Yes! That's it!

I was a little off on the number but I knew it was along those lines.

Thanks.
The Selfish GPU