skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's for propaganda purposes, tbh, so much as Putin genuinely deeply disrespects Carlson even while making him a useful tool.

On one hand you have a KGB guy, who has for decades promoted himself as loyal-to-the-end, burning documents in East Germany while the wall was falling and Moscow wasn't picking up the phones with his colleagues nowhere to be found. And who has gone to great lengths (like using chemical weapons on UK soil) to punish people he sees as traitors.

And on the other hand you have Tucker, a CIA reject who is now running interference against his own nation's interests, who presents himself as a journalist while knowing less about Putin than Putin knows about him, and who was as intrepid as a wet noodle in that interview.

Putin made him wait for 2 hours before it even started. I think he just enjoys dunking on people.
To Russians, it’s always someone else who is responsible. The will, organisation, and moral courage come first. Lack of secure communication comes after that.

If Russians had any of that, they won’t even need the communication means in the first place, to overthrow their dictator. When there’s a mass of people enough to fight the regime, the regime won’t even fight. They only fight the battles they believe they can easily win.

The truth is, Russians are, en masse, don’t care or even support all that. Those folks aren’t on Hacker News, they aren’t in any English-speaking communities as well. They barely speak even their own (complicated enough) language.

The so-called ‘liberal’ Russians try to persuade us that Russians en-masse don’t support all that, ’Putin’s war‘ they say [1], etc. But there are literally hundreds of thousands of Russian fight against Ukraine right now, and there are 400,000 dead [2]. They are Russians, aren’t they? Russians have the very long history of wars they started on their neighbours.

Is it Telegram being (possibly) backdoored or lack of Signal being too popular among Russians that stops them from growing in-house dictators and other murderers?

[1] As a very simple illustration, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395697

[2] You may need a translator for this, casualties is the first number: https://www.mil.gov.ua/news/2024/02/16/za-dobu-sili-oboroni-...
You can be addicted to mostly anything; ‘healthy’ (veg, sports etc) and unhealthy. I have seen many people ‘grow out of it’ which meant they replaced one addiction by another (or more than one), but the new ones are acceptable in society so now you are not an addict anymore (…). For instance, I know more than a few ex harddrug addicts who are now addicted to gaming, work, sports, alcohol (also a hard drug but somehow accepted and cheap), sex etc.
Recruiters and large firms tend to ask for a Word file. I sent the plaintext file (minimal markdown) I used to generate the pdf to a recruiter recently. They directly asked for a docx instead.
I will take you seriously.

If you act in good faith you are not responsible for bad outcomes.

There is no "if only I had ..." You can't go back, it's a waste of energy and you can't know what the outcome would have been.

If you knowingly did something wrong try to seek atonement.

Otherwise keep contributing to the world in the best way you can.
To me it doesn't seem that different. Downloading software, (cough) images, and documentation using ftp, reading news and discussions from uucp or nntp is much the same as stuff on the web, it's just a different interface.

The novelty and magic was being able to do it in the first place. Obviously the speed, scale and variety is different, but the basics remain the same: it's bits over a pipe with global reach.
Really? Did you try to learn something seriously with AI and compare the same process with a human teacher? And you seriously believe the parrot is better?

Try asking ChatGPT or Gemini about minimax plus alpha-beta pruning then change the cut-off conditions and ask it which one is correct and why and see it for yourself. Lookup the literature to see which one is correct.

And that’s only a very simple example of concrete facts/things. Now imagine the AI not only need to understand abstract concepts, it also need to understand your weakness/strength to adapt the examples/explanations, give you scaffolding and speak to your heart to become a good teacher. Good luck!
> because I have decades of experience with analogous or ancestor technologies (like C and C++, SQL, Unix)

I think a lot of people underestimate just how much knowledge transfers between systems within the same domain. I have nowhere near your length of experience, but even in just my time I've been able to pick up plenty of languages and frameworks and get going right away because I already learned the underlying concepts when working with other similar systems.

No one should be starting from scratch every single time they start something new, and the larger your variety of experience the faster it's going to get each time you start with a new language/framework/system in that domain.
Makes me wonder if the same is happening to us right now, through the competence crisis:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377778
I’m not sure, there is something meaningful and rewarding in doing even hard work to make life better for the people around you, or creating beautiful things from the sweat of your brow. A future of forced endless leisure sort of sounds like a dystopia honestly.
> That your utility function may be off model from the most doctrinaire possible interpretation of the theory does not seem to me the same as saying this is not an example of a theory.

Sure, I don't want to get into a definitional argument. However, any VNM utility function can be the exact opposite of anything you propose as good, just by inverting the comparison order. If you have numerical outcome scores that could be as easy as my score =: 0 - your score

> (Did you mean to reply to your comment rather than mine?)

It's a HN thing.
> I think that's actually Russian propaganda

Not at all. Are you joking? Multiple governments in Europe issued warnings to the population that they should prepare for war. Sweden is even re-opening Cold War era bunkers for the population to hide in case of attacks, and old military bases are re-opening.
Pretty unlikely, most of the vehicles would have been acquired third or fourth hand sans manuals - see link for details.

All that aside, myself and many people I've known for many years have a combined several hundred years experience with a wide variety of vehicles going back to the 1930s - the corrosion issues with the CyberTruck as described are unusual - few people expect birdshit to cause permanent marking unless it's washed off immediately - common experience dictates that washing it off once a month (or less often even) will do just fine.
Parts of the German government party SPD are long term friends of Putin and need to be dragged by their feet for every inch of the way. At least the chancellor changed course - luckily otherwise there would be no support at all. But he is still fighting a fraction in his party of Putin friends - there is a "governor" of the government party SPD in power who took money from Putin.
You're taking the word "thought" too literally. Presumably they're referring to "information", as in "bytes".

Your best bet is probably looking up on topics related to DRM or anti-piracy in general.
> America used to win in such circumstances

It looked like that you're treating Hollywood-style cultural export as competition, and your conclusion is "America is losing control because of the involvements from China-backed films", believing the evidence is clear given how rare China was shown as "an adversary in a film"?

If what you said were pure true, that "US domestic market is now often funded by international interests" is the reason for current reality, which in turn implies that "US domestic market" is a complete sellout, then why Hollywood won't accept investments from the Persians, and then introduce some Persian superheros that sometimes randomly goes "Allahu Akbar"? The are huge money in this, why the US domestic market won't make it happen?

Maybe you're looking at the wrong direction. Maybe Hollywood (and US culture) is losing it's shine because by now, thanks to the Internet and medias (Vox, Vice, John Oliver etc), people starts to see the reality that America, behind all it's sparkling glares, also has quite a few flaws. Maybe China don't often get picked as an adversary simply because Americans just subjectively don't hate Chinese THAT much.

Here's my perspective as a Chinese: the exporting of cultural is more of a test than competition. It's a tool that communicates the cultural aspect of the exporter, to see if the importer welcomes it. It's a good tool if you want to infer the inner compatibility of the two parties, but it does very little beyond that.

Just to knock you out of your "winning" mindset: the movie Saving Private Ryan maybe resonate very well amongst Americans, after all, it's an true American hero doing American hero things. But in Chinese people's eyes (the eyes of the rest of the world, really) the movie just don't feel the same. Everyone got their own heros back home, you know? Funny enough, after watching the firm, I asked some of my friends whether or not they will save their soldier colleagues under similar situation showed in the firm, many of them answered solidly "Yes". To clarify, they were not thinking about saving Mr Ryan, instead, they were thinking about saving CHINESE soldiers Mr Zhao, Mr Qian, Mr Sun and/or Mr Li, maybe even under direct gun fire from Mr Ryan. That's something you might want to think about the next time you bring up your theories on the "victory" of America media exports ;-)
People like to think that all those crazy end-of-days cults just disappeared and were replaced by rational scientists. But that’s not how culture works. The apocalyptic impulse is still with us, but has found new outlets.
singular they is preferred on Reddit but not here, learned hard way
Why would the vast majority of people watch a human YouTuber or other kind of charisma-based influencer when they can choose from infinite custom generated ones that always provide exactly the content they want at any time, look and act just like they want them to, and listen to feedback perfectly, and interact with them on a one on one basis?
This assumes there's a remote set up called "origin" - also an arbitrary name ;)
Thanks, I was looking for that name.

Interesting examples:

> San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – 2012 manifesto against using the journal impact factor to assess a scientist's work. The statement denounces several problems in science and as Goodhart's law explains, one of them is that measurement has become a target. The correlation between h-index and scientific awards is decreasing since widespread usage of h-index.

> International Union for Conservation of Nature's measure of extinction can be used to remove environmental protections, which resulted in IUCN becoming more conservative in labeling something as extinct
your coworker isn't "wrong" but that scale is off. If Quest 2 is a 0, Quest Pro is a 4.5, Quest 3 is a 6 and the AVP is an 8.

(edited) I still could not program for 2 hours comfortably on Quest 3. I can do that on the AVP
> I actually think being a generalist (to some degree) can actually be helpful, because it allows you to think in multiple modalities, where as someone who specializes in something is less likely to be able to break out of their thought patterns.

GP mentioned the two-part "jack of all trades", but there's a relatively modern third part to it that expresses this sentiment: "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one"
at that point what are you testing? allocation/deallocation? Nothing is actually happening unless you depend on constructors/destructors when you use reflection to gen a mock type or real value type to inject. Or do you mean just assert true that all getters are not null?

I agree that unit testing for the sake of KPI's is the wrong approach and unit testing functionality (as a means of documenting it, proving it still works as intended) is far better.
A turning point for Linux kernel CVE numbers
I'm extremely glad that more and more distributions ship alternative bootloaders as first-class alternatives, the excessive complexity of grub2 has always added far too many failure points and required far too much active maintenance.

integrated with all update hooks automatically, vs "I guess we have a package with just the binary somewhere, go figure out the rest on your own"
When I was growing up they just traumatized us all into thinking our houses were going to burn down all the time and we'd frequently find ourselves on fire necessitating rolling around on the floor. Also, quicksand and outrunning alligators.

Then again, that is the reality they're in now, so there's an argument they should be spending a good amount of time getting ready for that. I'd rather they not be sitting there pikachu-faced when the rate of human migration skyrockets so they decide to just start killing them all or something similarly stupid.
I'm much less concerned about the impact of AI than about climate change and ecological destruction.

A radical shift in the distribution of work and wealth is long overdue.

I'm sure our children will be better off for AI if it can help us get through the coming war, famine, plague, and "natural" disasters.
This was about the Xbox printing subsystem, right? Of course they can implement that.
> That upper bound has since been lowered in 1999 to 1.38922 * 10^316 here: ...
>
> but I have no idea if it's possible to actually write down all the digits of the current best upper bound.

I'm probably missing something that should be obvious, but why wouldn't it be possible to write down 317 digits?
I’m not sure being honest with children about something that impacts them so heavily is the wrong move here.

Traumatized or not, I suspect teaching children about the problem in clear terms will lead to a better informed generation of scientists, lawmakers, and voters. Hopefully they make and stick to better decisions then those that came before.
He has a little daughter around and he's staying with that concoction around his face, so that said kid won't be able to see her dad's eyes but instead she'll get to see that electronic thingie. Very bleak.
Is there a no-Xitter link? I wish people would get a regular blog on a service that doesn't require an account.
"Decent" feels like the correct word to describe the RGB30.

To be clear, I'm ultimately glad I bought it, and it's germane to this discussion that the release of the RGB30 is what got me interested in PICO-8 in the first place (I had apparently purchased a license years ago as part of the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality on itch.io and didn't even realize it until late last year). Also, the 720p 1:1 display is one of those developments that in retrospect feels so perfect for this form factor it ought to have been obvious, but it was a weird move at the time and they deserve full credit for taking the risk.

Having said that, I want to love this thing, but I just can't. Mainly because the D-pad sucks. It's not unusable, but it's worse than my Miyoo Mini and Anbernic devices, worse by a mile than my 8BitDo controllers, worse still than my Hori Fighting Commander, worse than even my Steam Decks (which have sort of weird D-pads themselves)... you get the point. It's annoying that the device on which I would prefer to play 8 & 16 bit games at a 1:1/8:7 resolution has—out of everything I own—by far the worst controller for exactly those games.

The ergonomics also leave a bit to be desired. Again, like the D-pad, it's not so uncomfortable as to be unusable, though I much prefer pairing it with a 3D printed grip I bought from ComfortGrips on Etsy¹. That obviously makes it a much less pocketable device, which isn't a big deal for me, but might be for others.

Finally, I hesitate to critique the software experience, because on the whole I'm incredibly impressed with how much improvement I've seen (both in terms of quality and frequency of updates) to JELOS in the nearly five months I've owned the RGB30. But the fact remains that that confusing preference conflicts, occasional crashes, frequent sleep/wake flakiness, ridiculously bad battery drain when asleep or even fully powered off (which thankfully has been cleaned up in recent updates)... they're all just facts of life with the RGB30. It was honestly kind of shocking coming from OnionOS on the Miyoo Mini which is absolutely rock solid in comparison. But that's obviously a less powerful device with a completely different form factor.

Anyway, as lagniappe correctly pointed out, PowKiddy makes budget devices, which means they're generally inexpensive enough to take a flyer on despite their limitations, and the RGB30 is arguably the best thing they've ever made.

1. <https://www.etsy.com/listing/1602072205/powkiddy-rgb30-comfo...>
There's a lot of speculation about whether OpenAI Sora has a 'physics engine'
Yes, that is a good one.

Googled and found a few versions. Here is one:

https://thestorytellers.com/the-businessman-and-the-fisherma...

Also see who thestorytellers are a part of (at the top).
It sounds like it might be pretty hard to exceed 3.3K PPI and yet it's not nearly enough. Would it be possible to pull the headset a little further off the face and just counter balance it to get better PPD?
> It seems like our careers could just be snuffed out instantly with little recourse available. I say "seems like" because I have no idea if that's real or perceived but it's very hard plan ahead.

If the average business leader remains as unable to precisely express their desires as they are now, our jobs will be just fine. 80% of the work is in the wisdom and experience to ask the right questions to tease out what people really want and consolidate their conflicting desires.
sometimes the market bears political incentives
You don’t think AI generated content creators are a threat?
Seems the news here is just the study and approval for frostbite; nothing special about how it works?

> Iloprost is a medication used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), scleroderma, Raynaud's phenomenon, frostbite, and other conditionss in which the blood vessels are constricted and blood cannot flow to the tissues. This damages the tissues and causes high blood pressure. Iloprost works by opening (dilating) the blood vessels to allow the blood to flow through again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iloprost
I think it's fine for it to be either, as long as we recognize that unless the creator tells us their intent, our interpretation is just a interpretation and may or may not even intersect with theirs.

My son is 14 now, and draws plenty of things I enjoy for their actual appearance, but I know most of them are scribbles or practice to him, and I don't try to analyze them for intent that I know usually isn't there.

Meanwhile, two of his pictures from when he was smaller that I know he did with intent, because he told us, and we wrote it down, are scribbles to me.

Shapeless blobs.

One of them I quite enjoy on a visual level, but while to him it was a fox, to me it is a red swirl that while visually pleasing in no way is anything like a fox.

While I wouldn't have it on the wall if it wasn't my son's, his intent behind it does not make it better.

The other is hideous, but his intent was to paint his mum and me, abd so I love it.

For that one the intent is what gives it value to me. That is a rare exception.

But only because he told us, and because of the emotional value of that.

He could've given us any random painting and said the same thing, and it's value would be the same. The "art" in that instance was his statement.

I also know from discussing his drawings with him, that whether he enjoyed a given drawing or I enjoyed seeing it, often correlates poorly - many of his that I enjoy are things he dismisses completely for reasons that does not affect my enjoyment of them at all.
Energy security like from the US? Germany spending billions to switch to US LNG as fast as possible just to be gut punched. Russia delivered gas without problems for 50+ years, the US is not able to deliver LNG reliably for 1 year:

"The U.S. has become the biggest exporter of LNG to Europe [..] U.S. President Joe Biden last week paused approvals for applications to export from new LNG projects to review the climate change and economic impact of such projects." [0]

The only energy the EU can really control is solar, but probably has not enough room for panels to replace LNG with green hydrogen.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-export-pause-...
This is from MS , so it works better than other attempts for other OSs? I tried a few Mac, browser and linux attempts and they were unusable; clicking in the wrong place, having no clue what to do etc…. And can this handle a browser or is that off limits (considering how many projects tried that and failed)?
When faced with a regulatory issue in the USA, I often look at EU regs for reference. Here is their inquiry on the "revolving door" issue:

https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/155953
I feel like the future pretty much has to be more local, in person, and human, and as much as you can interact with the internet as a utility rather than as the main source of interaction in your life it is for the best. That’s probably the best lesson you can teach your kids if you don’t want them to be part of society that just sort of permanently falls into the internet, always plugged in via goggles or brain implant and fed AI generated content, never to return. It already seems like there’s a group that is basically terminally online and it seems like it’s only going to get worse.
There's one thing that doesn't quite add up. If a gradual loss of seafaring technology was the reason for the islanders' isolation then the people on the African coast must have lost that technology as well. Otherwise people would have continued to travel from Africa and reintroduce the technology to the islands.

It seems extremely unlikely that the technology was gradually and seperately lost on both sides.
Simplest solution? Don’t have any setters.
HN might not be the best place to ask, though. There's a heavy bias in favor of open-source tech, which explicitly allows any use case (which implies allowing military uses).

Also there's frequently a lot of comments which sing praises to SQLite, which was created literally for military purposes (according to Wikipedia, at least, so take that with a grain of salt).

What I mean with all this is, even if those examples are not related to art, there seems to be a general bias to the opposite of what you're asking for.
Well at least you guys are lucky enough to have kids. There are us unfortunate ones who happen to just graduate at the wrong time. We, are eternal juniors, with niche skills within a narrow CS domain. So competition is extremely high for us.

We would be lucky if we get to survive next five years. There is no way for us to get into something tangible, if we are resident of relative south (asia, SA, Africa). Surviving for the next day in the developed world is the game we play.

How about home country? What is the point when globalization floods the local market. We were wiped out there, hence we had to leave. Everything we want to do, giant corpos do it cheap or for free. In relative south of the world, people lack money. So data privacy doesn't matter. The concept of paying for software doesn't exists.

In the developed side, existing is a dread with no hope. There are enough competent people joining the field who get more priorities. For eternal juniors like us, please show hope. Pretty you may find it difficult to relate to any words here. Anyone born in the west are taught to find their purpose, other countries not so much. It's all about money because money solves 99% issue over there.

Username checks out.