skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would result in the US Navy returning to Cam Ranh Bay

I don't think that was ever on the table. Giving any country a base in VN would drastically affect it's tightrope of neutrality.

For example, they have strategic partnerships with US, China, Russia, Sourh Korea, Japan, and India in order to balance relations and maintain neutrality

One thing I'm scared is if Trump becomes president, because a lot of people in his orbit who potentially will become SecState aren't as publicly tactful as it is a quick political win, and might force VN to choose between neutrality or a side.

If VN is pushed to make a choice, they most likely will choose China just like Thailand+Malaysia did because no one wants a war over the SCS.

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The Armed Forces are pro-US, as much of the leadership started their career in the Sino-Vietnamese and Vietnam-Cambodia wars from 1979-1991, and the VN Navy has had multiple confrontations with China in the 2010-2017 period similar to those PH is facing today.

The MPS and Nguyen Phu Trong's faction (I call them the Northern faction because of Nguyen and his acolytes starting their career in North VN during the war to 1990s) are much more authoritarian, and more open to leaning towards China due to business and party relations as a lot of FDI in Northern VN came from China. The new president is from this faction.

The currently purged faction (who I call the Southern faction because Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Truong Dan Sang plus their acolytes started their careers in Southern VN in the 1990s). They are also authoritarian, but more business facing and more open to Western relations as much of Southern VN's FDI came from Korean and Japanese companies. VN was largely ruled by this faction throughout the late 2000s-early 2020s when COVID corruption scandals came front and center. Hoa/Chinese Vietnamese are fairly prominent in this faction as they tend to be prominent in business.

For now, VN appears to prefer neutrality and not having to choose between a side, but if push comes to shove, they will make the choice that will prevent a localized war due to leadership's memories of the 1940s-1990s.
I wasn't aware that "make decisions" meant exclusively "initiate legislation". You don't have to play coy, though: it is also middle school level knowledge that the parliament cannot formally initiate the legislative process. It's also written in the Wikipedia article I linked.

> The European Parliament has legislative power in that the adoption of EU legislation normally requires its approval, and that of the Council, in what amounts to a bicameral legislature. However, it does not formally possess the right of initiative (i.e. the right to formally initiate the legislative procedure) in the way that most national parliaments of the member states do, as the right of initiative is a prerogative of the European Commission.[7][8] Nonetheless, the Parliament and the Council each have the right to request the Commission to initiate the legislative procedure and put forward a proposal.[9]

What is your conclusion from this? What point do you want to make? Don't leave your readers guessing.
It depends on the size of the business.

For startups, subscriptions can stack up fast and it's the same as B2C, they can't afford it. Subscriptions are liabilities.

But for medium sized businesses or larger, it depends on how much value the tool provides but should be fine, especially if they can fire somebody now that a fancy AI does his job.
Enterprise pricing is a thing for a reason.
less and less. Most of the times i use bing's copilot to answer my needings and then from there on, I check on the links it shows me. Most of the times its sufficient for me. Big GOOGs results do not satisfy me anymore: The interpretation and overlooking of my searchwords is not an feature.
This!

I still hands on a couple of groups though the traffic there is getting thinner with each day...

It was simple. I wasn't forced with account (though would be nice/useful nowadays I guess with all the impersonation and whatnot), threading was awesome. Scoring+plonk was even more amazing. There was a problem with syncing what was read and not but that could be easily improved now...

I think I mostly miss scoring - it was such an amazing tool to manage/filter out desired content...
How will that work considering Steam is banning any game with AI content. Or at least it did until now.
AGPL is good because it means people can’t sell a hosted service out of this without open sourcing their fixes, which is the spirit of open source: but GPL was designed before there was so much internet connectedness.
"a European federation" != "The European Federation"
> It's in that whole collection of tweets, but essentially the contract which you sign on joining says that if you leave and you don't sign the exit paperwork then you lose your equity. You aren't told what is in the exit paperwork at this point.

Yeah, that sounds like the kind of shenanigans that I imagine happened (I didn't see it in the article and I may have missed it among the tweets).

This is the kind of thing you really should never agree to as an employee signing on, though I wouldn't be surprised if many never really knew about it. I also doubt it's enforceable.

> Whether or not this is legally enforceable, no idea, IANAL. It does sound like enough of a threat that most people would just sign though

I agree, although the amounts of money here are probably large enough that they should just have lawyers involved giving them advice.
We have a better chance of stopping a potential impactor asteroid, if it is detected early, than defending against a nuclear war.

We would have years to deflect an asteroid, but just minutes to react to a mass ICBM launch.

We have the technology available now to deflect asteroids (ironically, with nukes!), but no country has built up sufficient ballistic missile defence to shield themselves from a first strike.

The Sun expanding (or changing in any impactful way) won't be a problem for hundreds of millions of years. Nuclear war could be triggered today. The US is literally sending about a hundred billion in weapons (total) to kill the soldiers of a nuclear-armed belligerent state... right now!

Pendemics tend to fizzle because pathogens that kill too fast are self-limiting. Merely making people sick is selected for, because that leads to increased disease spread by the infectious -- but alive -- victims.

Societies, politics, and commerce have been more stable than ever in human history, and are become more stable over time, not less.

A cure for cancer in the next two decades is looking increasingly likely. Techniques such as individual rapid gene sequencing, custom mRNA anti-cancer vaccines, CRISPR/Cas9, AlphaFold 3, etc... are building up to a toolkit that will eventually allow us to treat pretty much any human illness, possibly including old age itself.
The only difference is that MATLAB has more operators like matrix multiplication in addition to element-wise multiply, but that applies to Julia too.
What’s always missing around this subject is the use of superconductors as energy storage devices:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene...

Tangential, high density energy storage also means things that go kaboom by intent.
There was some minor discussion in this direction in the thread about email 2.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392709

Bad service drives out good service just like bad money, for some reason. Centralized beats decentralized because convenience. The convenience is what they're paying to entice you to come into their home and let them eat your brains, and every single person falls for it, probably including you and me.

Classic Usenet is still around. If you have an email address, you can get an account on Eternal September. There aren't that many users. You can be one of them.
LLMs will get marginally better. But the pace of progress has already slowed down considerably, we're just seeing better usage/productization of what was already there.
> I wish steam would expand it's steam to steam self streaming to cover usage out of local lan.

They've done that with their Steam Link apps in 2019: https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/14/18266000/steam-link-anywhe...

The initial pairing has to be done on lan I believe, but will work afterwards through Steam. I remember trying it with a Raspberry Pi even. Steam itself will also work as a client and not require the initial pairing setup.
Nobody forces you do not use the Apple Store, Apple Pay, Apple Music, Apple Siri

Competition COULD make Siri improve, competition could make the Store better etc.

You did not told me why you reading the text "if you buy your subscription from our website cheaper" is harming you? Are you having trouble with extra usefull information, I am not aware of this health issue.
I subscribe to this theory. In that case it's not necessarily unprovable though. We will eventually figure out how to make electronic devices resonate with the field just like our brain does.
The UK is largely unchanged from before Brexit. Its economic performance is similar to the rest of Europe. It continues to trade with and cooperate with other European countries, whilst also building stronger links with the rest of the world too (see Aukus for an example).

The predictions of all the bad things that'd happen on leaving were all incorrect. There was no 800k job losses, closed airspaces, trade wars etc.
Okay, then every program demands every permission. Your choice is to let the program use your camera or to not use the program. And some of these programs are probably very important for your livelihood, so we know what the outcome is going to be.
Show HN: KardsAI, an instant flashcard mobile app powered by AI
Reminds me EVE Online most basic scam: "Quitting EVE, send ISK and I will send back double". Often times increasing multiplier if you send big sum.

I always wondered how many people can fall for it, but given how prevalent the scam was (chat in main trading star system was 50% this scam back in days), I assume non-zero.

I guess it targets new players, but they have the least amount of ISK to be robbed off, I am still surprised it was/is worth the effort.
Docker Compose Profiles
First, ~10-20% of residential home sales are new (the proportion swings widely year-to-year), with a non-trivial fraction of their costs going to materials and labor.

Second, 5-6% of the typical sale go toward the agents and closing costs. Again, this is money that leave the system.

Third, if some of the sale proceeds are applied to repaying an existing mortgage or to finance a home purchase, this is neutral as far as the "investor-backed mortgages create money" argument goes.
You can, but it doesn't work very well.
Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs. browser responsiveness
Usenet has a few hard problems, no? Mostly related to moderation. You want to be able to edit or delete content, either your own, or, if you are a moderator, other content which turned out to be illegal later (which already implies content moderation before allowing content to be published). Spam is another big problem.

To avoid impersonation, you'd have to sign everything, which I guess is possible, but experience shows crypto done properly is a huge pain. We already see how unsatisfactory this works with email.

Plus, does usenet scale as well as, say, reddit? Sometimes heated threads are more like comment streams with probably dozens of comments per second.

How can these be solved with a few improvements?
I asked a question

So you think life style choices/abuse/etc is not a result of body chemistry? You know, that thing that drugs change:)
I'm not sure this does split up the GPU. One of the listed self-hosted requirements is "Your Nvidia GPU should not be attached to a running X display server." Sounds like exclusive GPU use to me.
HN is very US-centric, owing to the location of Silly Valley and big tech.

Utah, LDS central, is right on the other side of Nevada from California, and California and the Bay Area is the nearest interesting/fun place for those fleeing SLC.

It makes sense.
So the takeaway is that Mormon teachings caused her to forego what might have been an extremely successful career by staying home full time with her children.

Having children has a huge impact on many people’s lives. Are Mormon women far more likely than the general population to stop working after children? My hunch is that they’re probably slightly more likely to stop working, without a huge statistical disparity. But we need this statistic to have a productive conversation on the subject instead of just stereotyping an entire ethnoreligious minority group based on one personal anecdote.
That was even better than expected.

Thanks for sharing!
GeForce Now works great. I subscribed for a while to play Cyberpunk 2077 on a remote 4080 and it felt like playing on a local computer. But with much higher settings and framerate than I get on my local GeForce 1080.

> Finally, there is no way in hell a working adult will find time to play 4+hours day, every day.

Don't make the assumption that everyone live their lives exactly like you do.
> I was reprimanded for calling Saigon Ho Chi Minh City and later for calling Ho Chi Minh City Saigon

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If someone has lived in the north for several years, call it HCMC. If someone has lived in the south for several years, call it Saigon.

If you're in Hanoi or Haiphong, call it HCMC.

If you're in HCMC/Saigon, call it Saigon.

That said, most VNese in VN don't care.

> I don't want to be involved with politics

Most people don't. It's stressful and outside our hands.

> Vietnam which suffers from severe air pollution especially from vehicle exhaust -- the worst being in Hanoi -- is the adoption of electric vehicles manufactured by VinFast

A lot of the pollution around Hanoi+Red River Delta is because of coal power plants and the fact that it's surrounded by mountains trapping all the smog (sort of like Milan and Los Angeles)

There might be more adoption in Hanoi (wouldn't be surprised as VinGroup is from there and PSU employment is much more prominent there) but at least in Saigon/HCMC and a couple other southern+central cities, they weren't as prominent.

Most people had motorbikes and those with cars were largely driving Korean+Japanese brands (Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Hyundai)
In the EU != by the EU. By EU I'm referring to the governing bodies, ie my reference to the EU regulating things.

If you re-read what I said with that in mind, does it make more sense to you?
You're welcome :)

I very nearly missed it on that page, despite already being aware of the detail from other sources.
> That’s because companies want you tethered to their servers.

It is slightly more nuanced, IMHO. For enterprise software it actually makes sense to use browser based software, because it saves the IT department a lot of hassle with local installations and version management.
""People, when they perform a behavior a lot — especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource the control of the behavior to the environment," Neal says."

This seems correct. Our mind goes into autopilot. But the article does not give practical solutions to break the habit except to say that change your environment.
Not an astrophysicist by any stretch of the imagination, but it's definitely an object that's worthy of close research. People are for sure doing that research as well. It takes time to produce serious scientific research though.
They'll send in Jean Claude van Damme
actually i'm building one cron monitor. Can you help me what one needs in the metric ?
I wouldn’t say that. I am from Europe and I’ve never seen as much diversity as in usa.
GPS is only one of three currently deployed satellite positioning systems, why aren't planes using the others?
whoa, I just learned usenet was started in 1980. this is incredible
Looks Like Arch Linux Is Going to Officially Support ARM/RISC-V
The more i've studied i've come to the opposite conclusion.

Nature is >99% magic and though some tiny slices of human friendly interfaces of reality are replicable much more is chaos, weird emergence, fields, probabilities and stuff so bizarre to our mammalian logic that we might as well call it magic, god, the simulation or just bleeding edge physics as the whole field is getting weirder and weirder.

The whole notion of natures beauty stemming from some replicable, controllable and "no magic" scenario is a very "homo sapiens" desire for order and control.

We know close to nothing, and therein lies the beauty in my eyes.
Sovereignty was part of it, another, pretty big, part was "to get rid of the bloody immigrants"
It's not like they'd be involved in fashion design in any way.
I'd somewhat favor the "women were dressed by servants" theory. While noting that, historically, female servants were extremely common - in even fairly modest middle-class households. And that women who merely aspired to having a servant to dress them would still support that convention for clothing.
If you really have a handful of customers all the time, it is really all you need. You might even not need the feature at all. I will probably include adding attachments to the invoices a paid feature, since it takes storage in the cloud.
Google Declares the End of the World Wide Web
A parallel copy of Usenet is used for piracy, with a posting volume measured in double-digit gigabits per second. It can probably handle Reddit.
> Warren Buffet supports this idea for retail investors.

Everything that Buffet says falls into one of two categories: [1] He has no relevant knowledge. [2] He/Berkshire makes money from it.

[2] Is the most common. (His railways transport oil. His insurance companies make money from the inheritance tax, a tax that his estate won't pay. Etc.)
The use case you describe hardly describes what most workers do though. That's a robot Butler, not a desk worker who takes calls and fills out forms based on what the customer on the other end of the line says, or a factory worker (where automation has already been replacing tons of dangerous jobs without AI since the advent of engineering really).

Also, I still think you can probably build something (or rather, many, many somethings) with existing tooling to accomplish exactly that.

> A bigger LLM won't fix everything

I'm not sure if there's a camp that says it probably won't fix anything, but I'm in that camp if it exists.

If you think about how humans actually work, I think a basic, non AGI LLM routing information to different agents/models is closer to how most humans behave (when productivity is their goal).

E.g. a person's behavior is driven almost entirely by the current context they are in most of the time.

It's not that our minds become overexcited by loads of previous information and we magically are able to do other specialized tasks, we decide based on context what specialty in our toolset best fits the scenario.

> The money's a funny one. Global GDP is about $85,000 bn/yr so if someone can spend $50bn on getting AGI and taking it over it's a bargain. But if you spend $50bn and just get a loss making chatbot then less so.

If that's true then the same could be said of just dumping $50 billion into grants/research/funding for education around AI so that developers worldwide have an easier time developing AI enabled technologies and services.

At least with that plan, there is extremely little risk of creating nothing more than a chatbot (and extremely low risk of tech companies monopolizing labor the same way they try and monopolize everything else; I don't have much faith that if a few companies automate all or most labor that they'll redistribute wealth)
After a sustained, serious, painfully slow effort fighting against all harsh critics since 80's and 90's. A long-life work that can be undone at any time by arsonists, furtive hunters and populist politicians. Iberian lynx conservative efforts only started really as a serious project after recruiting the woman that had been saving American polecats from imminent extinction by breeding them on captivity. All this projects are slow.

I any case is a typical 'warming hearts' pre-election message.

The goal is to mobilize the small part of the voters that still care for that in the next European elections. The worldwide trend goes in the opposite direction in rural Europe; even if we know about the environmental and economical services that the lynx brings [1]

[1] (There is a strong suspicion that European lynxes are critical for the survival of Eurasian Cappercaillie, as they effectively chase off and banish most of the smaller predators from entering their territories).
This site isn’t even trying, they just shove random reviews with the exact address in your face on the front page.
> There is also a vicious circle here, because the primary audience for a new programming language is existing programmers -- people who are already accustomed to using programming languages with English keywords. Folks who have trouble with English keywords probably aren't working as programmers, so their voices are not heard.[1]

This is a problem way beyond english and programming languages.

[1]: https://yarchive.net/comp/english.html
Rather than using provocative and apparently biased word "mansplain", you'd better actually explain yourself, like, using well-formed sentences. This is HN not Twitter/X
It’s interesting, the grass is perhaps greener on the other side. My wife is planning on staying home with the kids when we have our second, and there’s a part of me that envy’s that freedom from worry on having to provide, being able to spend hours with our daughter while I may get a couple hours a night, our daughter is much closer to her mom already. In twenty years, the software I’ve written will likely have been long replaced — the bond invested in our children will be there forever.
Prices were high two years ago, but that is no longer the case. A lot of solar power came online last year. Currently the price is negative:

https://www.eon.se/el/elpriser/aktuella
Can you breed them with other very similar cats in captivity to introduce genetic diversity, then keep breeding them with more Iberian lynxes so that they're mostly still Iberian lynxes?
Just count the number of official languages.
To me, both Outer Wilds and The Witness were absolutlely savourable, and I made a point of never looking up anything on the Internet while playing these games. That would rob me of the feelings these games were designed to impart.
I thought the main reason of the shortage was that suddenly everybody worked from home which disrupted the finely balanced "just in time" production and distribution? (eg highly simplified, there was always enough toilet paper produced, just of the wrong type, and the rest got stuck in "transit")
What assumptions make it less than profitable at $20? If the hw costs are $1000 and if you'd need a hw setup per every 5 subscribers, you'd get $2400 in 2 years for $1000 in hw investment. Power, bandwidth and other costs are something but doesn't sound obviously unprofitable to me.
That is certainly the case, but seems to be perfectly legal. This scheme is implemented by a number of companies, but most charge only €2/mo or so.
The US military also has a volunteer fallback HAM radio network:

https://www.usarmymars.org/home
It might not work as well as you expect: the air temperate may be low, but because the pressure is close to a vacuum the air is also a great insulator, and your material is in stronger direct sunlight.

Also politically speaking this may just be a non-starter: on paper, we can already build a conventional low-resistance[0] ground-level planetary power grid for very reasonable prices and material requirements, but much smaller projects connecting Europe to the Sahara have stalled.

[0] 1 Ω at 40,000 km

[1] material costs of a few hundred billion USD, a little over a year of current global aluminium production, more to actually install it
Microwaves Not Made in China
Shout out to Wolf, which on Linux actually allows you to run multiple sessions on one GPU: https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf