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Not at all, you can have attrition of your forces whilst making meaningless advances. Attrition doesn't mean stalemate.

They've made these advances of a few square km, at the expense of tens of thousands of lives. This is the meatwave tactic and is not sustainable. At that rate they'd need the entire polulation of Russia to make any advance on Kyiv.
Who would the competitor be in this case? The bots hurt the TF2 community but Valve obviously earns the vast majority of their cash elsewhere.

My understanding is that the bots are run by teams of trolls on secondhand hardware that would otherwise be useless.
Relatedly, not providing kids with cell phones to start with isn't as bad as it first sounds - even the kids recognize the benefit of being without:

https://www.thecut.com/article/phones-teens-screentime-restr...
> Our goal is to replace humans in any domain where data work is required: data collection, preparation, analysis, and interpretation.

Nice that they say up front what their goal is. Not to help humans or make humans more productive. They explicitly want to make humans obsolete. I hope they fail.
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So it's hardly "go east". You're going momentarily east, then southeast.

It is interesting what a "straight line" really means, though, in different contexts. I would have to say this is a poor puzzle, though, filed under cheap word tricks & ambiguities.
I know I was when I was 14. Weren't we all?
What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade.

2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom.

Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising money is your priority I do think you should ride the wave. Being contrarian sounds romantic, but don’t expect funding from people who disagree with you.

The most charitable thing I’d say about YCs AI focus is it’s hard to think of a startup idea that couldn’t benefit from AI in some way.
15 hours seems not that much considering an iPod nano can do 30 hours (according to Apple)
Ford restores grandeur to Detroit train station that once symbolized decline
My biggest issue is gaming, as anytime I try doing anything with Proton I find myself screwing around with it too much which defeats the purpose IMO.

Otherwise I would’ve switched long ago, as at the very least the development environment is much nicer in Linux.
After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted
> everyone understood what was going to happen

I disagree here. OK/Cancel only make in the context of the text in the dialog, and are only clear if there are clear negative and positive actions. Even when there are clear positives and negatives, it's almost always better to just label the OK button with the actual action. Save, Revert, Close, Send, etc., are always better than OK.
The problem is that if you have 2 years of experience and the job wants 5 to 7 how to compete with all the laid-off people with 10 years of experience
It’s worse than that for e.g. alcohol and opiates. The organism lets the addict know in no uncertain terms it needs the substance. It’s not a choice the mind does unless you’re a zen master or something.
This is really sad.

Meanwhile Mozilla busy spending half a billion USD/year on "better projects".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
i suppose i could have said that korea, the eu, and the usa have recently reduced their permitted levels of phthalates to unjustifiably low levels, but given the fact that we're talking about products made in prc for export to south korea, the other random jurisdictions in the list hardly seem relevant
I need instant comms in an emergency situation maybe but outside of oncall I don’t see it.

But I’m not a gadget guy and it took me long to adopt smartphones
First, great job on the weight loss! Those are two major accomplishments, and you shouldn't get down on yourself for not being able to maintain something your body has evolved to avoid. If you did it before, you can do it again, but it might just take longer.

I'm 42 as well and looking to get some sort of GLP-1 agonist as my A1C just popped up to 5.7 after being normal my entire life which is a huge warning sign for me. I've cut out processed carbs (all white bread, sugary snacks, etc) and junk food/fast food, and upped my walking to 4+ miles a day. I'm noticing "slimming" but not weight loss. We'll see what happens with my A1C, but I am excited to get a little help. I'd like to lose ~40 pounds over the next two years.
Very exciting. The ideas behind Nix are so good and everything else so bad. It seems like a lot of people are trying to solve this by building abstractions on top of Nix, but I'm really skeptical that is the solution. As crazy as a full rewrite is, I hope someone succeeds!
> made it easier to raise VC in other trending areas because all of the low-quality "me too" startups have gotten pulled into the fashionable AI orbit

You are trying to say "adding IA to the pitch won't improve a founder's chances", but what you are saying is "granting money to founders that didn't add AI to their pitch improves a smart VC's chances".
It is your life to live, but if your actions disgust you, why be that person?

I had no interest in smokes/vapes at 14 years old (or now, for that matter). What would I have gained by seeing restrictions on them when I was 14 years old?
The author chose a non-default theme with apparently low contrast. They should simply use a default theme or a better custom one.
That’s definitely a more interesting proposition to me (and a bit different to the parent comments).

It might well result in less repetitive background chatter & stock comments from side characters without taking focus away from the primary content. Especially if those background characters could react a bit better to progression in the plot.
I feel like being fully immersed in tech makes it that much more obvious. My children barely watch TV and we plan on waiting for smart phones until as late as possible. They’ll have a flip phone once they need to call for pickups from sports and such.
gpus reign supreme for games and scientific, and none of them are x86; larrabee failed. and you'd be surprised at the 3-d kinematics and control systems that people do with microcontrollers
If this microwave drill is vaporizing rock, how do they keep the vapor from re-condensing on the drill, wave guide, and shaft walls and eventually closing up the spaces between them causing things to get stuck?>
It's Yotta: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/yotta

and its just not getting picked up on this site

all the submissions on this have little to no comments
Exactly. A “dumb” phone seems to be the answer.
Isn't that simply the principle of particle-wave duality? When particle/wave in field X interacts with field X, it behaves like a wave, but interactions with other fields are quantised.
> 6-foot distance was not just a recommendation

Yes it was:

> The guidelines are not mandatory

source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-school-reopening-guida...
I added the releases at the specific request of 1 large finance firm, a top 3 American bank by size. They requested it as their procurement department trusted downloads from github more than timestored.com. It probably sounds insane to you (or anyone sensible) especially as the downloads are digitally signed but I could write essays on the crazy hoops large firms ask you to jump through to provide software.
No I don't. If you want to nitpick, then for starters the Ukrainian parliament didn't go through the formal impeachment process (which requires 4/5 majority), because the Ukrainian constitution has no provisions for a situation when president and cabinet ministers just burn documents to hide tracks, run away into another country and become internationally wanted criminals.

Instead, the parliament passed a declaration saying that the government had abadoned their duties and called for early elections, and did so within the bounds of Ukrainian laws, and with an internationally recognized margin of majority for such drastic steps. There is no domestic or international case for calling early elections a coup. The whole "coup" sob story has been dead and buried for a long time. The transition of power was as clean as you can hope to get in a severe political crisis.

If you are looking for something to call a coup, then the Russian invasion of Crimea was a textbook coup.
“Spokesman Wu Qian of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Defense Ministry recently said, “The Chinese military is ready, alongside the Russian military, to uphold justice worldwide.”

This means the US might have to face both China and Russia at the same time.

Wu Qian highlighted that China’s military strength could match all of NATO’s conventional forces, sending a strong message to NATO countries. “

Maybe the iPhone 16 is the last version.
Didn't done foundation donated them their software engineers?
Pigeons are still farmed.
I'm still waiting for Vulkan rendering path in Firefox.
Other studies disagree as well too.

These excerpts from [1] sum it up kinda well (I recommend reading the full article, it makes a few additional points not listed here):

"“My biggest concern regarding the scientific study of porn is that a noticeable subset of researchers come at these issues with a focus on harm in their minds. They try to establish ways to confirm that porn is causing whatever harm they already believe exists,” he says. “The field needs more people who are willing to look at the data and leave aside their politics and their issues.”" [1]

"Voon says. “What we do know with porn is that there are some patterns that are consistent with an addiction – but some that are not. We need much larger epidemiological studies to know for sure.”" [1]

"A meta-analysis – a study of studies – published by Malamuth in 2009 found that hundreds of papers from the 1980s to 2008 were fairly consistent in linking high rates of porn viewing with violent ideas and behaviour. But here’s the caveat: not all men respond to porn in the same way." [1]

"For most men, consuming porn will not cause them to view women differently. But in those who already are predisposed to hold sexist views or to behave in an aggressive fashion, porn can exacerbate pre-existing and dangerous propensities. In this way, it’s just like any other drug."

"Alcohol, for example, is in many ways comparable to porn because it is ubiquitous, socially acceptable and legal."

“For some people, alcohol can truly ruin their lives,” explains Malamuth. “But for others it can be mildly positive, such as providing stress relief or enhancing their sex lives. It depends on the cultural context – and the individual.”

"The field is riddled with misconceptions and biases that are not supported by the data, she says."

"Despite concerns that porn can decrease libido and lead to impotence due to ‘tolerance’ and ‘desensitisation’, research published by Prause in the journal Sexual Medicine in 2015 shows these worries to be unfounded."

"“The most well-replicated and concerning harm is reinforcing rape myths in men who already believe them,” says Prause. Such that if you take a woman on a date, she owes you sex. Or that women secretly want to be coerced into sex."

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/is-pornography-h...
I dearly love my N95 duck bills and always wear them while flying. I'm not really worried about COVID now, but why would I want to risk getting from anything? A cold could ruin my trip. A few hours of discomfort, but I'm uncomfortable anyway.

I was surprised that the airlines were repeatedly trying to get people to remove their masks one time I flew on the tail end of the epidemic. Will they bring me chicken soup if I get sick?
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Some Muslim countries base their daylight savings on an Imam observing sunrise (or not) at a particular time.

The DST offset isn't known until that moment.
I'm pretty unsure about CU, but the context is the film was created by a political action committee to get standing so they could challenge election law, it's not like they were a bona-fide commercial film-maker (which is why the FEC blocked the film in the first place)
Ask HN: Should orgs limit the number of languages/frameworks?
My teammates have been working on a collection of documents [0] about developer platforms and we've been talking about limits organizations can impose on acceptable languages and frameworks. Curious what HN thinks, how do you handle cases when there's an unused language that might be better suited to a business use-case?

0. https://developer.app/expectations/code-neutral/
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> Winston Churchill would be represented by hanzi that would be transliterated Wensuteng Chuerqilu.

reminds me of one of my favorite throw-away gags in George Alec Effinger’s A Fire in the Sun, a cyberpunk novel set in future Arabia, a character quotes “the great English shahrir, Wilyam al-Shaykh Sābir”
I would argue that the fast part isn't optional for web apps (where "transpiling"), but it can be in many other instances.

I write a lot of data-pipeline code in Python that mostly runs once a day. Does it matter if it takes an hour to run instead of five minutes? Not really, as long as it's ready to go for the next run.
An AI that could listen to what is happening in a company and tell people what they need to know would be very useful.

An AI that learned the state if things and could point out contradictions would also be very useful.
I'm always amused how articles like this say "Ticketmaster" when they mean "Live Nation".
I didnt know this was a thing. I used ddg and found https://teamwork.tf/
For anyone who's interested
Toyota, Honda, and Mazda all apologized for cheating here, not just Toyota.
> This is very close to the hype of that era.

I'm too dense to grasp the site's mathematical propositions (I don't have the mathematical grounding to understand Borel algebra not to speak of Borel Hierarchies). So it was no wonder I had a lot of trouble discerning how what it proposes was materially different from expert systems, inductive logic systems, and Cyc. The associative memory layer seems to be picking up some lessons learned from Generative AI, but I'm not clear on that. It will be interesting to keep an eye on this project and where it takes us, and see if it makes more sense when someone comes along and dumbs it down for Blubs like me.
This appears to be huge. Win-win-win for fast LU factorization!
I believe the Servo project is not apart of Mozilla anymore. It's apart of the Linux Foundation.
I was in London on a wet dark winters evening on my way to such an interview as it was 20 years ago. I rang the recruiter who had fixed it up and said I am not going. The company had stayed late to do it, he was furious and probably they were too. I just couldn't face the banality of it all any more. I felt like a performing animal and didn't want to do it any more.

I found work through people I knew. I never did one again.
Not touching windows “the start menu has ads” with a 10 foot pole.
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If English was written like Chinese - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30577536 - March 2022 (7 comments)

If English was Written Like Chinese - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462118 - Feb 2009 (32 comments)

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Exactly. This guy doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between "content" and, um, music. It's an MBA's take on the arts.
This is currently the biggest story here in Michigan. As a native Detroiter I was anxious to take one of the tours but didn't move fast enough as they were sold out in hours. The concert that Eminem is producing sold out within minutes.

I remember visiting the station with my Dad in the sixties when it had not yet declined. Took a train there in the early seventies and it was already in decline. Ford spent hundreds of millions more than they planned. The windows were all blown out, much of the decor had been looted. It took them months to pump out the water in the basement only to find a second sub-basement that was also full of water ;<(.

On the plus side Ford made a public request for people to return what had been looted with no questions asked and got back 80% of what they wanted and even a few things they never even knew they were missing.

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Given that this is a British news agency I understand the comparison. But what with Poland? From the graph it looks like Poland is leading in battery production in Europe. Poland??
GP is victim blaming, a perennial favourite with a certain type of person. The fundamental attribution error[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Is Metamorphosis really about burnout?

https://howtolivetherestofyourlife.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/...
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> So, are states like Texas, which need age verification, gonna ask for it for X too?

I believe that the Texas law applies to sites where more than 1/3 of their content is sexual material harmful to minors. I don't know exactly how it defines "sexual material" and "harmful to minors", but I suspect that Twitter does not qualify as such a site.
Except it's not meant as a drug you take for life, as it will require higher and higher dosages in order to get the body to respond.

The problem isn't the results, the problem is the factors that caused the obesity. I'm for it as long as it comes with healthy lifestyle changes as that's the only true way to have a long-term impact.
It's great teeing off after dinner in Scotland.
I'll ask the team to add this as a feature.
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>As a result, GTK and GNOME’s design language clashed together. Instead of being as general-purpose as possible, GTK as a cross-platform toolkit contained an entire design language intended to be used only by a specific desktop, thus defeating the purpose of a cross-platform toolkit.

This is one of the things I like about Flutter. It supports both Material and iOS UI guidelines. There is also an ongoing effort called Blank Canvas[0] to provide easier support for creating arbitrary UI themes (although you can already do this albeit more difficultly). Being that Material looks awful to me (as an Android user, even) I'm glad that they support different UI Designs/guides.

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Yes, Rust macro-based, used for defining process-variables for distributed control systems. We can define hierarchical identities with strong types, poll frequencies, cache TTLs, and other metadata that gets serialized and brokered. It's been quite successful (IMO).
If people took risks building out ideas they "felt" were the right thing, the world would be a better place for you; but not for those people.
The opposite: "GTK had the unique case of bundling GNOME’s design language into GTK, which made it far from generic [...] Thanks to the removal of GNOME widgets from GTK 4, [...] developers of cross-platform GTK 3 apps that rely exclusively on general-purpose widgets can be more confident that GTK 4 won’t remove these widgets, and hopefully enjoy the benefits that GTK 4 offers".
sure, but how realistic is that, really?