skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US diplomats knew this perfectly well and pushed for Ukraine to join NATO anyway.

The initiative for joining NATO came from Ukraine and not the US diplomats. Prior to 2014 the public support was too weak for it to happen. Popular support first shifted almost overnight from the majority opposing NATO membership to supporting it after Russia invaded Crimea and Eastern Ukraine in 2014, and shifted even more towards support after Russia launched the full-scale invasion in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations...

Neither invasion had anything to do with NATO. In 2014, Russia correctly judged that the international response would be too weak and made a successful land grab. After the spectacular American retreat from Afghanistan that mirrored the last days of Saigon, Russians again sensed weakness and thought Biden was too weak to intervene in Ukraine and decided that the climate was suitable for taking the next step in restoring their former empire in 2022. Planning for the 2022 invasion began around the time of US retreat from Afghanistan.

> It's like telling your friend to corner a vicious dog. The dog is not innocent, the dog is going to bite them and you knew that and told them to do it anyway.

This is a narrative propagated by Russians, and sounds convicing on the surface, but has little actual substance. Nobody's cornered. Russia's threats are bluffs, intended to paralyze you with fear and guide you into inaction, which Russia will then exploit, as they have done in Ukraine.

To continue your dog analogy, they are a dog that barks and barks, and bites only if they sense fear and weakness and see an opportunity to bite. Show strength and they'll back down. (And this is how you deal with actual dogs too; they smell fear from sweat.)
> the expectation you can immediately and synchronously interrupt any person and demand their full attention

Needs to end as soon as possible. Calling on the phone is one of the most rude things someone can possibly do.

https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/08/i-hate-telephones/
In the early 1990s, there was ZenMOO: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud.lp/c/GAFQ8FJIm5A/m...

You connect, sit around with all the other players -- and not say anything. The high score was for staying connected and idle the longest.

Occasionally, the mud will say something. Resist the urge to reply; it'll lower your score, and if you type too often/much, you get kicked off.

Every so often, though, it'll ask you something. If you don't respond within a time limit, you get kicked off.

Its website, where you can download a copy of the database under a LambdaMOO server: https://web.archive.org/web/19971011224937/http://www.zennet...
> This, plus the monetary incentives are the root reason it's still a problem.

I'm skeptical. I think "our network eliminated spam calls" would be a major, major selling point for a mobile network. Like I would definitely consider switching carriers if one of them genuinely solved the problem. Given the amount of mobile network advertising I see, there's gotta be way more money in actually fixing this and gaining new users, than there is in getting a couple fractions of a cent per completed call.

It's not even a hard problem to fix. Just have calls sourced internationally set to default-deny for every account. If a user actually wants to receive internationally-sourced calls, they can turn it on. The number of people turning it on would be so small, spammers wouldn't bother at all anymore. Then, prosecute anyone sending spam calls from within the US (I assume we are already doing this). Boom, you've solved the phone spam problem.

Now someone go implement it so I can start paying you for your superior product.
You are myopic in a focus on subsidies, and you need to consider both current costs, and how they are externalized from coal plants to the population, and what the cost will be in the future from the pollutants (carbon and others).

Policy has only started to make them pay for the cost of their pollution, and as they are being made too, it's become increasingly more expensive to run a coal fired power plant. Last one more than 100mw was built in 2013, and no more big ones are being built. The REAL market price of energy must include the cost of eliminating or mitigating these pollutants.

This is also why policy in the US since 2016 has increased the subsidies to renewables: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pd...

When the real price is considered, not just for global warming, but for public health impacts due to particulate and heavy metal and water pollution, coal is dead. It's only hope is to try and continue to externalize those costs on to all of us by crying about regulation and subsidies.

Those subsidies are an investment to avoid paying a radically higher cost in the coming years for public health and climate change disruption. The science and economic are very clear on this. https://www.lancetcountdownus.org/2023-lancet-countdown-u-s-...
Literally no duh. That's why it's impossible to totally correct model "lies" or image generation censoring after the fact. You need to retrain on better data.
Yes, it's solvable! Step one is to identify the problem, though, which is what this article is doing.
While I can't imagine this is very likely, another example might be ChatGPT or one of the other models starts leaking truly private data.
CMOS plus stochastic nanomagnets enabling heterogeneous computers
Pretty bad prompt to take action then, you know, the thing that makes it harder and less likely for you to take action?
Not arguing against JS being “good”

I’m arguing against being King. King of what?
Some of the other flavors/architectures are available now, too:

- Kubuntu https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/24.04/release/

- Xubuntu https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/24.04/release/

- Lubuntu https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/24.04/release/

- Budgie https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/24.04/rele...

- MATE https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/24.04/releas...

- Cinnamon https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntucinnamon/releases/24.04/rel...

- Unity https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-unity/releases/24.04/relea...

- Kylin https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/24.04/releas...

- Alternate "Ubuntu" Builds https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/
The major advantages of centralized systems in my mind are:

* No need to deal with duplicates (what if two indices provide the same version of a package but with different dependencies?)

* Oversight (the ability of most popular package managers to "side-load" from Git repo / URL / etc. "illegitimate" source has been a bane of my existence for a while). Being accepted into some "central" index means at least some (albeit usually not much...) degree of oversight. Being able to load from anywhere means exposure to spoofing.

Also, unfortunately, lots of package management systems in common use can be "subverted" to be used in a decentralized way. And, if it were up to me, I'd rather not have this ability at all than have to try to defend against negative consequences.
Prune Your Monorepo's Docker Build
In some applications it helps to be fluid in exchanging distance as time with time as distance.

http://dataphys.org/list/grace-hopper-nanoseconds/

and the field of play here isn't 1D linear .. it's somewhere sort of a bit slightly > 2D (elements can be stacked, there are limitations on how much and how close)
I think you may be underestimating how bad bot spam on web forms is these days.

It’s nothing to do with how well frequented your site is; any site that can be found by a web spider is going to get bot spam.

Of course you’re completely free to try it, and indeed it’s pointless to spend any more time debating it here. You really should just try it if you want to.

I guess what I’m saying is the reason most people find it best just to use a 3rd party platform is not because nobody can write “100 lines of code” to do it themselves, but because if they do that they experience the spam problem and just decide it’s not worth it. That was my experience.

That said, it may be easier to combat spam now with a classifier using an LLM or BERT.
> ... my aesthetic enjoyment ...

Without asserting that English would be a good choice of global language; this seems like a terrible reason to silo huge chunks of humanity from each other. There is an extremely good argument that we should all standardise on Mandarin Chinese with a better alphabet to promote good international communication.

We're in an era where nuclear-armed powers are fighting each other again. Unclear international communication could literally get us all killed. The aesthetics of everyone having their own lingo is not worth the risk.
It needs to be standardised and illegal to tamper with like tampering with mileage clocks in combustion engine cars. Also how it is calculated needs to be certified by a 3rd party.
thank you for the explanation! It really helped
I appreciate your point about generative AI exacerbating the dominance of major languages. It's a nuanced issue, indeed. While it's true that AI reflects the linguistic data it's fed, this doesn't necessarily mean it only perpetuates these languages without offering potential benefits to less-represented ones.

Consider the dual nature of technology: it can indeed centralize or decentralize. For less-spoken languages, AI and machine learning can be leveraged to preserve and revitalize them. Projects like Google's Woolaroo (https://artsandculture.google.com/project/woolaroo), using machine learning to help preserve endangered languages by translating them into more widely spoken ones, hint at potential pathways forward.

While generative AI may currently favor dominant languages due to the sheer volume of data available, there’s growing awareness and effort to make these technologies more inclusive. This includes not only better representation in training data but also the development of tools specifically aimed at language preservation.
Societal disruption. Shutting down transportation, power grids, fucking with the financial systems, backflowing sewage into clean water distribution, etc. Basically anything we could previously envision a state-actor doing with a Stuxnet-like attack. Time one of those during or after a natural disaster and you can compound the effect.

It also seems like it would be relatively easy to lay blame of one of these attacks on some country’s opponent and ignite a hot war as a result.
You're suggesting that this regulation will be effective in its stated goal and lead to unexpected outcomes.

I'm suggesting it's pointless because the coal plants are already uneconomic, and this rule is only impacting things in 8 years.

Developing nations might want to import cheap coal because richer nations no longer want to poison their children and want their fish to be edible during pregnancy and reason that they don't have that luxury yet.

But when America, Australia etc. are all trying to sell them exported coal because they are running cheaper solar at home, they might see another option.
Austral: A systems language with linear types. (2021)
Yep, you can check a thousand videos of those bottles with AI burning tanks, BMP’s, m777, etc. Or you can continue living in the Hollywood Metaverse.

My country is part of NATO. Nobody asked us. No referendum. No voting. Nothing. The political class is filling their pockets with money, while propaganda is beyond the level of USSR and Nazi Germany.

Some of us have military service behind our backs. Some of us lived under a communist dictatorship, and we know the smell of leftist bullshit.

Live in your tech bubble, but know that East Europeans see clearly who is the reason for this bloodbath. And when the time comes, we will not die for your corporations as Ukrainians.:)
I do like beat saber. And I liked Star Wars and Superhot.

They’re good. They aren’t killer.
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"SELECT * INTO table" is not ANSI standard.
Sorry, I should have mentioned I was referring to the protestant side of evangelicals. The unwritten rule on marriage there is the man always overrules.

Many evangelical fundamentalist churches, for example, use the material from The Institute in Basic Life Principles. On marriage it says,"A husband's authority over his wife is God-given, as is his wife's non-negotiable duty to submit to him; she must respect his position regardless of his "deficiencies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_in_Basic_Life_Princi...
Regular expressions are part of the language, so it's not so unreasonable that TypeScript should parse them and take their semantics into account. Indeed, TypeScript 5.5 will include new support for syntax checking of regular expressions[1], and presumably they'll eventually be able to solve the problem the GP highlighted on top of those foundations.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/55600
Transparency kills greed, but at the cost of privacy. Would you allow yourself to be monitored 24/7, if it meant all resources were justly allocated?
I'm James Betker.

Of course architecture matters in this regard lol. Comparing a CNN to a transformer is like comparing two children brought up in the same household but one has a severe disability.

What I meant in this blog post was that given two NNs which have the same basic components that are sufficiently large and trained long enough on the same dataset, the "behavior" of the resulting models is often shockingly similar. "Behavior" here means the typical (mean, heh) responses you get from the model. This is a function of your dataset distribution.

:edit: Perhaps it'd be best to give a specific example: Lets say you train two pairs of networks:
(1) A Mamba SSM and a Transformer on the Pile.
(2) Two transformers, one trained on the Pile, the other trained on Reddit comments.
All are trained to the same MMLU performance.

I'd put big money that the average responses you get when sampling from the models in (1) are nearly identical, whereas the two models in (2) will be quite different.
Corporate has learnt to misuse honorary or voluntary non-paid work in the software ecoystem and grabbing power.

For example one big media outlet could adopt Tribler. At first everyone rejoices because it is recognition but what if it turns out to be an attack? How is Tribler resilient against taking over from Corporate?

Of course, it's Open Source and everybody can fork. But still, could an attack be possible?
Intel has made lots of big promises, they have yet to catch us to TSMC
> Congress hasn't abdicated anything, they've delegated it, and they retain the power to overrule the EPA

Console yourself with this theoretical point, by all means.
Asking genuinely, what causes Ubuntu to be more of a treadmill from say Debian?
I find the WW1 parallel stronger.

Imperial Germany, a nation of good people corrupted by colonial ambitions, draining the youth of Oxfordshire into the wasteland of the trenches.

It also better fits Tolkien’s personal experience and the pre Cold War publication of the Hobbit.

I suppose Ukraine’s also the modern conflict most similar to WW1 as well.
Because the GPU market is so competitive, low-level technical details for all modern architectures remain proprietary.

Except for Intel, which publishes lots of technical documentation on their GPUs: https://kiwitree.net/~lina/intel-gfx-docs/prm/

You can also find the i810/815 manuals elsewhere online, but except for an odd gap between that and the 965 (i.e. missing the 855/910/915/945) for some reason, they've been pretty consistent with the documentation.
Let me get this straight, you're on a version released 6 years ago and complaining it's not supported anymore?
A startup founder lying to get juicy government contracts? Say it ain't so!
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Hmm,, <looks at python>, Hey, anyone remember Lisp?
Used this to build a confetti inbox for Shortwave's April fools [1] a few years back. Really run library, and easy to integrate.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ROTg3KcoIA
> I detest ELI5 as it's managerial nonsense.

I thought it came from Reddit, which is about as far from ‘managerial’ as one can get.
I took the Andrew Ng Coursera machine learning course in 2015 and to this day I still remember him saying this in one of the videos. At the time he was talking about various versions/optimizations of gradient descent but he essentially said that tweaking the algorithm will only make your model ~1% better while doubling the amount of training data will have a substantially larger impact (use any old algorithm but just throw more data at the problem). That's why it was already evident back then that Google, Facebook, etc were sitting on a goldmine because in the long run those with the most data, not the brightest PhDs will win this race.
Your timeframe is a bit off. Piston powered aircraft were not in use in the US military 30 years ago. 30 years ago was 1994. We had B2 bombers, and the F22 was in full development.

Also Boeing was developing the F-32 (which lost out to the F-35) in the mid 90's, so it's conceivable that an engineer on that program might still be around in some role.
My landline provider offers a "call-control" feature. When someone calls, if the caller number has not been accepted before, a voice asks the caller to enter a randomly selected digit. Only after this has been correctly done is the call permitted to go through. Probably deflatable, but it has eliminated my robocalls. The only downside is that legitimate robocalls (eg: doctor's reminder) might be blocked if I have not whitelisted the number.

Simple solution, and I am surprised at how well it works.
The idea on Permutation City is way crazier than a mere computer simulation.
Mainly stopping whatever is worsening myopia (pauses from screens and looking at something far away, more daylight) and also incorporating orthoptic rehabilitation.
Is it immutable, as Fedora?

The new installer looks nice!
The AI would be left, but there's no reason to expect it to have a human appreciation of the world. It might just be a brutally efficient self-replicator, basically a sociopath. It wouldn't need beauty, love, emotions or anything like that. That seems like a bad outcome to me if we get replaced by such a creature, just as bad as a scorched earth.
Seems like a good way to make the same mistakes over and over.
Nobody has been censored, I did not call you a creationist, and I did not dismiss you.

If you say or write things in public, you can't reasonably get upset when people engage with you with either criticism or nuance. When someone says anything more complicated than "yes", it doesn't mean you're a victim.

I think if you re-read this thread more carefully, you'll see that we're even pretty much on the same side. /smh
Me neither, for two reasons. One, I was a DJ briefly as a young person and digging crates for new discoveries and hidden gems is still as fun as ever. And two, I exercise a lot, and you can only run to the same song so many times before it loses its juice (at least temporarily).
Agreed! And I hope we continue to see such efforts to address language representation. I don't think hope is lost, far from it, I'm just trying to answer OP's question about why reflecting the current state of languages can be a problem.
This is the exact creation of a global monolith that I'm warning against. People hate the companies in power, but believe creating an even more powerful entity will magically address their concerns. That's only true when you get to the largest conceivable entity.
I just moved my newsletter[1] away from Substack to Ghost over the weekend - the writing experience is better, especially SEO settings. Substack has grown way too complicated (just look at the settings page) and useless (the social features), it still prompts you to post your links to twitter/facebook anyways (implying that's where the traffic comes?). At this point Substack's value prop is non-existent.

[1]: https://www.signalstalk.com
?. This comment makes no sense, why can't you upgrade Ubuntu? You don't have access to root?
> absurd talking point

You can call the reality of the situation "absurd" all day, but you'll not be driving much improvement.
Why wouldn't it be possible? My friends know what when I show up to a party, I usually bring a drink or a dish or something. There's no centralized database for this, they know because they've eaten and drank those things. We don't use tokens to keep track of this, but we could. The situation seems similar with seeding.

It's just not commonly done because you have to build and maintain a web of trust for it to to work, and that's often a level of user responsibility that's hard to cultivate. But if you need that web of trust anyway (e.g. for filtering out ads ad other disinformation) then you might as well use it for consensus about who is a good citizen and who is not.

(I have no idea if this is Tribler's approach, it's just on my mind because I've been designing something quite like Tribler, and it's my approach.)
Why are you stuck? Ubuntu supports updating over major versions.
Shaped charge warheads begat reactive armor begat tandem charges begat active protection systems.

I could see microwave-based APS (probably powered by a high energy consumable?) proliferating.
Maybe "trite" wasn't the right word. More like a tautology.

I guess you could call it "folk wisdom" but it seems more like a restating of the obvious to me.
Really useful, thanks a bunch!
TikTok reward-to-watch feature suspended after EU threats to block it
And the first letter in the XML acronym shouldn't even be X.

Obiously the JS API should be called ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransportProtocolRequest
Ah, but which one is smaller?

10.4 kB Minified, 4.2kB Minified + Gzipped
https://bundlephobia.com/package/canvas-confetti@1.9.2

28.3kB Minified, 7.4kB Minified + Gzipped
https://bundlephobia.com/package/party-js@2.2.0

caveat: I don't know how bundlephobia works, it might not give the best representation of the final size of the package. Probably doesn't take into account code-splitting or being able to import just what you need. I'm just using it as a quick and general overview.

Looks like confetti one beats it by a few KB gzipped so either works depending on which one has the feature you need, unless you're really trying to squeeze those kb.
With shovels and washing machine chips I see:)
Please open any map and see.
Easy way: Check Weeb Union channel. But please, be seated.
Comments about the marketing driven nm measurements aside, this still looks like another solid advance for TSMC. They are already significantly ahead of Samsung and Intel on transistor density. TSMC is at 197 MTr/mm2 wile Samsung is at 150 MTr/mm2 and Intel is at 123 MTr/mm2. This 1.6nm process will put them around 230 MTr/mm2 by 2026. When viewed by this metric, Intel is really falling behind.
Yep not sure if I would have been up for it either at that age. She's always been much more of an adventurer than I would ever want to be.
Yeah I felt kinda hoodwinked. I read their blog post and felt quite outraged. Google stepping on the little guy, “they provided no explanation” etc.

Then I scroll to the bottom of the thread on hacker news, saw this comment, and “oh, that’s why”.
They didn’t even take down the SEO spam before complaining about being caught.

I really don’t think I could trust any “privacy focused” email provider that relies on such deceptive tactics to promote their business.
Not at all. Substack is not a global entity, we could start by having the US government taxing them more first.

"They will just move elsewhere", you'll say, and the response will be "Fine, then the US government can tax US-based customers and employees of the "foreign" Substack."
I find myself caught out more often by incomplete where clauses — paranoid dry runs with rollbacks have saved me more than once.

Also fwiw DataGrip asks for confirmation before running an update or delete without a where clause