skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about being cocky. I'm not trying to play some silly "My superhero is stronger than your superhero" debate. It's about aligned incentives and raw experience.

While it is correct that when it comes to an actual Navy, we have numbers to prove that China is building ships way way faster, etc, to say that the US military is a paper tiger is simply not true, not in the way Russia's military was.

That's simply because (at the most cynical level) our defense industrial complex being intertwined with the economy has kept cycles of reinventing things (even if for profit-motive reasons, I said cynical). Don't get me wrong, there ARE countless stories about old equipment and such (and bloat like with the F-35), but also remember that the US has been fighting various wars pretty much continuously. That means getting to test out weapons and having troops that have real battle experience. Plus a modern war would involve whole virtual theaters (cyber targeting of infrastructure, etc) than "I have more ships than you" or "I have more tanks than you" – those all have the potential to level parts of the playing field.

Also the US has decades of experience building technologies like Stealth weapons (and using them in the battlefield in various wars and skirmishes) whereas China has been building these weapons largely by stealing US IP but hasn't really tested them out in real battle.

Ultimately we all have to hope that our shared economic co-dependence keeps things generally in check like they have for the past few decades.
what if the universe was never created, and always was?
As an end user, I love when web applications pass events through the DOM tree, because it allows me to easily create plugins by hooking on the same events. Youtube is a prime example of how to do things right.

Unfortunately, modern frameworks really want to use their own event channels, which makes hooking a pain.
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Note: ANY data storage needs auth. While SQLite's auth is limited, it's still auth, so while you are technically correct, I still expect this to be fucked up by coders, because sec is a bother. smh.
So if you're asking who stands to gain...

If you look at the tedious nonsense you have to go through to join the foreign services, and how hard it is to actually get in, and how long it takes to get a station somewhere... I doubt anyone would play that long game just so they could then fake some illness when they could just fall off a ladder at their local supermarket.

Similarly, if you've got some hypersonic death ray that incapacitates people from a distance and you can use it with impunity, why not use it on people who may or may not be in an adversary's intelligence service but are definitely employed by an adversary's government? Even if you get caught, what are they going to do, complain?

I don't particularly think that it is little-green-men with a sonic blaster, but I also don't particularly think it's just complaining complainers making crap up. It's a mystery and I'm interested in finding the answer. I'm certainly not "smart enough" to know something nobody else knows..

See also: Lyme Disease; ulcers
Everything bad that happens in America is a plot by foreign enemies.
It exonerates Americans from introspection I suppose.
For FY 2023, the IC was appropriated $99.1b. By your suggestion, the majority of their budget is off the books, which means that more than $99.1b is off the books. That's a pretty extraordinary claim.
> I'm very down on connecting directly through SSH without network access. The xz situation has validated this opinion.

Did it? At the point an attacker has remote code execution, couldn't they just as easily pivot into an outgoing connection to some command and control server? I don't see how some intermediary access point would have alleviated this problem. If the call is coming from inside the house, the gig is already up.
There seems to be something missing here:

> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct.

> In 1999, an equation used to calculate eGFR was modified to adjust Black people’s results compared to everyone else’s, based on some studies with small numbers of Black patients and a long-ago false theory about differences in creatinine levels.

> Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure.

so, is some racial metric reasonable or not? why are black Americans more likely to experience kidney failure - social issue, or biological?

was the study with a small number of participants repeated with a larger number?!
>As someone who has been in a fair few discord chats with soldiers, I'd beg to differ...

As someone that's spent a lot of time in darker places, I would agree.
How about wearing masks, minimizing in-person interactions, and funding medical research, during the height of the pandemic? Those seem reasonable.
> Polish law has some strict limitations on baby names

It's not that strict. It's basically ensuring that if you want to give your child a name it will need to be actual human name (recognizable as a name in Poland) not something offensive or random. It's basically a law to prevent parents from harming their children by naming them something retarded they found fashionable at the time.

It's enough that you burdened your child with life. Further harming it with a weird "name", the Polish law considers a bit much.

You can download a list of names of living Polish people who have national id number assigned (everybody?) here: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/1667,lista-imion-wystepujacyc...

It doesn't contain names that only a single citizen has.
My Mac Pro desktop used to wake up whenever I used a MacBook Pro in the same room. Obvious thought was, maybe the laptop was sending wake-on-lan packets for some reason. Turns out, the carpeting in that room tends to create static buildup, and my MBP's charger was not grounded. Touching the laptop would send a mild discharge into the wall line, tripping something in the desktop's PSU to wake it up.
It's not widely agreed upon that this was due to mitigations, and there's unfortunately no evidence they slowed down COVID either. All claims that mitigations slowed COVID fall apart when examined carefully (often they aren't even real, they're just model predictions being presented as if that was the same thing as empirical evidence).

Rather, there seems to be some mechanism by which some viruses push out others. This can also be seen in how new SARS-CoV-2 variants would often rapidly exterminate the prior variant within weeks, instead of co-existing.
It was in October or November, I think. The book doesn't add much to the first edition, I was quite deceived.
I haven't seen anyone argue that "large US corporations are essentially insulated from US law by dint of being multinational". Rayiner claimed merely that:

> the US only has jurisdiction over these companies to the extent that it’s a big market. But in that sense domestic companies aren’t any different from foreign ones with a large US presence.

Surely you'd agree that large US corporations are not meaningfully European, and yet they are also subject to EU law. That's how we ended up with cookie warnings on everything and the current fight over alternative app stores on iPhones.

In particular, the latter example is the EU enforcing a version of antitrust law on US companies. That shows that "[EU] domestic companies aren’t any different from foreign ones with a large [EU] presence." I can't think of an example of it happening the other way around, but I think that's mostly because US law is much more permissive than EU law.

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Edit because I'm "posting too fast": This didn't refer to "enforces US antitrust law". It referred to "USG breaks one up". That hasn't happened in so long we have no idea what a modern multinational corporation might do in response.

I agree "will" overstates the claim.
Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?
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How would owners possibly know that a compromised component has been added ?

And we have decades of experience that the majority of people simply do not care enough to learn about the intricacies of their products and would prefer vendors do that on their behalf.
Both the best and worst dev I’ve ever hired were non-tech background bootcampers.

Are there some diamonds in the rough that will become all stars? I think so.

The question is: Can you tell the difference during screening process? I doubt it.
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Like everything else in this world, its utterly and completely unfixably broken: There is no way you can have complex huge dependencies properly.

The best most paranoid thing is to have multiple networking layers hoping they have to exploit multiple things at once, and whitelist only networking for exactly what you are expecting to happen. (which is completely incompatible with the idea of ssl, we would need a new type of firewall that sits between ALL applications before encryption, like a firewall between applications and the crypto library itself, which breaks a bunch of other things people want to do)
Let me offer you a scenario: you want to build a UI web component that uses state, but you want it to be usable in both Svelte and React (with solidjs). The current situation is that it's a massive pain in the ass, because you have to move all of the state out of your code into a "driver" module that you can swap out for each of the frameworks you want to target. The entire architecture of your library is made worse (less readable/maintainable, probably less performant, harder to contribute to) in order to have a single set of UI code.

All of that goes away when the plumbing for handling state is standardized by the runtime.
> AI seems ideal for a hero image on a blog

No, no, no!

No "hero image" is better than an "AI" generated hero image. I see them all the time now, and all they've done is train me to ignore them. Whenever one generates a flicker of interest, I look and there's no there there. It's like seeing a delicious bowl of ice cream, taking a bite, and having it turn to ash in your mouth. Not a fun experience.
Apparently my parents didn't know what to name me for about a week and eventually settled on Daniel, in this spelling it was a very unusual name in Soviet Union at the time. I think they liked some famous polish actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Olbrychski.

A more slavic spelling of this is Danilo but it was even less popular than Daniel.

I knew only one other Daniel and he was a son of family's friends and apparently named after me. I didn't much care for him, but that's beside the point.

Coming to USA and it was a bit sad to no longer have a very unique name. It's okay though, my last name is very unique...
Record player needles are surprisingly durable if you don't really care terribly much about fidelity.

And the most common issue can be solved by bending it back down so it rides the groove again.
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That would be possible, yes, but it’s not the current situation. And since we can choose how we proceed, I would prefer my proposal, i.e. that the SSH daemon be split into two separate projects, one daemon handling the initial connection, locked-down like you describe, then handing off the authenticated connection to the second, “inner”, SSH daemon, which also does the authentication, using the same credentials as submitted by the connecting user. This way, the connecting user only has to have one key, and the network topology does not become unduly twisted.
I seriously considered using Grayskull. My desire was driven by the interest in NeRF and Gaussian Splatting, for training whose the Grayskull arhitecture (at least, on paper) could considerably outperform NVIDIA.

I decided against it for three reasons:

R1. Grayskull is a chip that they made in 2020 ([1]). They already have 2-3 newer chips generations available internally (Wormhole, Black Hole, Grendel), see [2].

R2. The price of the cards is high. It does not look like a too good value, even if judging by paper specs, and then the reality will always correct that down.

R3. The primary Tenstorrent founder recently left the company to start a competitor, Taalas, while taking some of the Tenstorrent talent with him ([3]).

I decided to wait until at least Wormhole cards available for purchase (hopefully, at a better price), before committing my time and money to Tenstorrent, even if just for exploration.

1. https://insidehpc.com/2020/05/tenstorrent-ships-grayskull-hi...

2. https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tenstorrent-blackhole-grendel...

3. https://betakit.com/tenstorrent-founder-reveals-new-ai-chip-...
This. It was a nice toy, but people moved on when they realized it couldnt do useful valuable work
I'm not so sure. To me it seems people just could not stand masks to the point it actually created ongoing planetary scale mental health crisis. :shrug:.
Where did forces and fields or equivalent systems come from?

If your answer is some variant on "just because" then you don't have a better theory than some kind of necessary causality or contingency, in fact you have a mere absence of contemplation altogether.

I never imagined "don't think about it" as being the metaphysical basis of the scientific enterprise though and it's hard to imagine science getting as far as it has if it were.
>In contrast, rents are a more reliable indicator of a shortage, no speculation there.
Take a look at the Bay Area. One major distortion: property tax is fixed at the time of purchase. So all these people who bought a house in 1980 are paying yearly taxes at the 1980 rate. This compels people to hang onto the property at all costs, what a lucrative rental cash cow. Of course this also means tax revenue via property tax is skewed heavily to be paid for by new buyers. Imagine paying property tax on a 2 million dollar house, valued at 80K.

This creates (a relative) oversupply in rental houses in the area due to people who intend to hang onto their homes forever. Naturally the area is very strong in NIMBYs seeking to retain home value, plus the political environment, is people who love the environment, so they will shed no tears if no houses are built in order to protect and preserve the pristine natural empty fields of the region.

That's all to say the home buyer/seller dynamics in a region indirectly influence rental prices - vis a vis whether the person deciding to "not live in this house" chooses to simply sell the home or to rent it. This creates a little mini- supply/demand factor interacting with rental prices.
Is the fund actually owned by OpenAI the company or OpenAI the non-profit? I thought it was a separate entity that basically had the name and Sam's ownership attached, and was owned and operated separately.
Does this work well on screenshots of a desktop or webpage? We’ve found a lot of the document segmentation/layout parsing models and tools are very tuned to really paper docs only, the kind of thing you’d see in a research paper or shared pdf, not able to handle the text layout that happens for modern applications and webpage UIs. We’ve been cobbling together our own techniques because of that.
“Even if it was the NSA, why would they hide that capability”

Perhaps you’re not familiar with what NSA historically stood for: Never Say Anything.
I was curious and yes I was mistaken.
Could Pet Rocks Be Conscious?

I mean, really. I feel like having a method of sensation and an ability to react to those sensations is a fundamental basis for "consciousness" and if you can point to the sun or the Local Cluster's sensory apparatus, I may listen to the rest of your (the Editorial You, not the commenter this reply is attached to) argument.

Otherwise, we're just pointing at complex things and saying "does haz Conscience lol?"
> The rise of nazism in America says we are already too late.

This isn't a new thing, unfortunately.

Given that the KKK has been around for 100+ years — and the fact that the Eugenics movement really started in the United States[1] (so clearly so that Hitler mentions it in Mein Kampf), Nazism & Hyper-Nationalism have been in and out of fashion for over a century and we are still here.

[1]:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-guarded-gate-daniel-okr...
On what grounds do you consider it more likely that an historical person rather than the book of Ezekiel inspired the author of the book of Daniel to use the name? How do you explain the lack of other texts about this person if he was that popular and important?
Car factories recall millions of cars sometimes. If Boeing were to recall the planes instead of paying the CEO $62M, my assessment of Boeing and my reaction would be different. Yours?
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Broadly speaking, there are two capabilities that are going the way of the dodo bird:

1. Software Development

2. Infrastructure Planning

Software Development is going the way of the dodo because the pipeline is drying up for Junior Developers. Now just about any Senior Developer with Copilot can be that fabled 10x developer. A lot of those Senior Developers still have decades of career remaining. Software Development is therefore a dead career to be going into. Anecdote: I have friends who are hiring, each open position is now receiving thousands of applications. We read here on HN about seemingly competent software developers who've spent months if not over a year now looking for a job.

There are two forces causing Infrastructure Planning to go the way of the dodo. One, is Cloud Computing. The other is Infrastructure Planning outsourcers - and the automated tools they're utilizing for infrastructure management. They come in, they setup your data center, and then install tools for you to use to automate the management.

What should you be looking into then?

Architecture. Whether it's Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, Software Architecture - we need architects. But your game had better far exceed Visio. If you don't know how to manipulate architecture models in tools like Sparx, and you don't know architectural languages such as BPML, SysML, and ArchiMate - then you're getting left behind.

Cyber Security. The laundry list of what you need to know to be competent in this field is too numerous to list here. Added bonus - very few college programs are teaching this stuff so there are very few people in the pipeline and there's a huge demand for their skill. This will likely be a growing field for years to come.

Data Architecture. I see this field as separate and distinct from the architecture I mentioned above. At the end of the day, it's called IT - Information Technology, and data is the new oil. Those people who understand how to manage data flows, data provenance, data storage, data analysis and so forth are in high demand. I look for a lot of this to start getting automated, but I would think it has at least another 10 years of legs under it.

But software development? We can see its end coming. Let me put it this way, there are still going to be software developers but what they do and how they work is going to be fundamentally different from what we've been doing for the past 40 years.
Could you maybe give me an example of what is concidered an optimal use of LLMs.

Maybe a prompt to GPT
> https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/91

> Justine was kicked out of llama.cpp for introducing changes before the rest of the maintainers approved them.

I followed your link and found nothing regarding this. What am I missing? Seems to me that you're just casting aspersions w/o backup.
As a parent of young kids, so much this. Many of these toys have a 3-way switch, Off, On-Volume Low, On-Volume High. The high setting is way too loud, and the low setting should be the high setting. And then there'd be a new low setting, lower than the original low.
Which works fine for something simple like "if I eat too much sugar I get a tummy ache". It's harder to do with something that is hard to detect, like pancreatic cancer, or a symptom that could be caused by a huge number of things, like feeling tired. The first problem is the one that's trying to be solved by the solution in the article.
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You need data to confirm the assertion that collapsing hives spread disease? Since you're so married to whatever chip you've got on your shoulder you apparently need a reminder that sick bees drifting to other hives and robbing out deadouts are both a thing I've appended a list of follow-up reading for your benefit.

Martin SJ. The role of Varroa and viral pathogens in the collapse of honeybee colonies: a modeling approach. J Appl Ecol. 2001;38(5):1082-1093. [doi:10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00662.x]
Rosenkranz P, Aumeier P, Ziegelmann B. Biology and control of Varroa destructor. J Invertebr Pathol. 2010;103 Suppl 1:S96-S119. [doi:10.1016/j.jip.2009.07.016]
Graystock P, Blane EJ, McFrederick QS, Goulson D, Hughes WOH. Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees? Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl. 2016;5(1):64-75. [doi:10.1016/j.ijppaw.2015.12.001]

With that out of the way not -all- breeding programs rely on artificial insemination, maybe you've heard of Mike Palmer? You know, the guy that basically singlehandedly mainstreamed keeping nucleus colonies as an apiary management strategy? Or Randy Oliver? No? Your loss I suppose.

Go salve your feelings somewhere else, I'm done.