skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the argument that makes the US special in this regard, in light of their seizure of Russian assets? Assets which might well end up being tagged for use waging war with Russia and supporting Russia's target?

It is hard to see the US system seizing its own assets to donate to the targets of US aggression in a comparable way. But for the sake of argument - impartial it may be, but it doesn't seem like the type of impartiality that is appealing to foreigners. If China goes for Taiwan they'll lose all their US assets for example; I doubt that sits well with them.
Yea. There's a recurring theme in Ted Chiang's works about the inability to change the future.
In a small enough group chat, yes, you can - and you should.
There were several in 2020; Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris etc. None of them got much traction, and once Biden got momentum after South Carolina, everyone coalesced around him because the main goal for Democrats was "Beat Trump."

In 2028 both parties will really have to figure something out. At least (hopefully) neither Trump nor Biden will be eligible to run.
At my first job out of college I wrote a client-side phone number validator for US phone numbers. I was quite pleased with myself at the time, but I'm sure it was crap in retrospect. I remember reading up on the North American Numbering Plan and being sure to exclude phone numbers with e.g. a prefix starting with 1 and the 555 numbers that are unassigned (which is not all of them, to be clear).

Sorry if you got stuck maintaining it :-)

As an aside, my fake phone number for bullshit store loyalty programs is 420-911-6969. CVS seems to cull it reliably, but other places have accepted it. I'm amazed that no human I've given that to has asked if it's actually my phone number.
I feel like this is the problem of do we send a spaceship on a hundred year journey or spend a decade trying to make a spaceship that could do the trip in fifty years.

The rate of improvements seems quick enough right now that if you started training a huge model now that you might regret spending all that money on an architecture that is obsolete by the time you are finished.

That said, if you keep waiting you never get around to it.

It would be nice to see a large parameter mamba family data point though.
If that's the case I'd encourage you to take away a few lessons from Salesforce:

1. IT is not your customer. The business is, and they don't know how to write code. Based on what I saw thus far; this is your biggest weakness. The only way to extend the platform at the moment is to self-host and write code.

2. Avoid baking crazy logic into the system now that you'll be unable to fix later *cough* SF 'standard' objects *cough* that will behave in very weird ways.

2(a). Person Accounts look like a good idea. But, they aren't; and never will be. They just create a lot of complications later when someone gets married or starts a business.
When you print the world's reserve currency, and currency can only be issued as debt, if the world economy grows faster than currency expansion, you'll have real goods/services deflation. It's a weird catch 22, the only way for the $ to remain the reserve currency is for it to continue being issued at a global growth rate, faster than a mature economy like the US can grow. International debts in $ can only be paid back in the same and that's part of the reason for rehypothecation, central bank swaps, and all sorts of other shenanigans. In turn that keeps US long rates artificially low.

The old adage holds true though, it's your problem when you owe the bank a little money. It's the banks problem, if you owe a lot of money. The same is true of inward investment into the US (or Russia or China). Who will end up owning that investment, if relations go south? The country where it exists not the investor, but debt is a negative investment. The Treasury can start issuing unsterilized currency (the trillion $ coin) and debase the currency any time there's a big enough issue, or simply not repay certain bonds. By the time that happens though, the international economy will already be a shambles. Markets end run this sort of stuff.

Milkshake theory is one way it plays out.
https://liquidity-provider.com/articles/the-dollar-milkshake...

If it really happens quickly, owning lead (or uranium) will be more important than owning gold. Hopefully, it's gradual and we eek through another few decades of global growth before it does.
Something doesn't have to be "officially" illegal for laws to suppress it. If the law gives no penalty for a false-positive block, but very high penalties for any false-negative failure to censor, then companies will be incentivized to err on the side of censoring legal speech.
Well, you could be right and yet, the economic consequences would be the same. Contrary to what you say, the freezing of said assets and their confiscation is on legally murky waters, and even if it was clearly allowed by Charter of the United Nations, of course it would require a voting on the security council or at least on the general assembly not just a gentleman agreement between the NATO countries, bypassing the only real source of international law: the UN.

The thing is. Does it matter? Can the US and its partners really enforce it? How do you expect other countries that are not in the western club to react? As I said in other comments, we no longer live in the world where the US is the single biggest commercial partner of every country in the world, we don't live anymore in a world where the US alone is 40% of the global GDP. Those days are over.
General Bots: Talk and create structured conversations [video]
> Chat works for a lot of things but I've never found it to be that great for socialising.

I think it works for some, but not others. I get something like 80% of my socializin' done via my various group chats - but I'm very heavily introverted. (And for what it's worth, I would absolutely loathe voice chats.()
Speaking from the perspective of a long-time renter, and current home owner. (well, the bank actually) Maybe I'm hopelessly corrupted by the system, but I'd like to try to understand.

Let's say you wanted to live somewhere for like a year. If there were no landlords, how could you do that? Buy a house? I mean, I wouldn't have been able to afford that when I was in college. And I had different roommates each year. The paperwork would have been a nightmare. Just the closing costs and agent fees can be $10k. Maybe houses would be cheaper, and the whole realtor/title thing can be reformed too. Maybe you could flip your house ownership more like a used car. But if that's the case, where are these houses coming from? Who would build them and why? Or maybe it would be all government housing projects?

Landlords get a lot of hate. I've had a bunch of them, and most of them have been fine, basically. But like, honest question, what's the alternative?
As far as I am aware, the Yuan (essentially a unit quantity of currency) is fully convertible and can be traded, but the Renminbi (the currency itself) is not. It's a bit weird that these are not the same thing. It may not be possible to use the Yuan for everything you need without also moving some Renminbi around. However, you can use the Yuan as the unit on which the trade balance of a country is counted - $1 billion Yuan of oil against $1 billion of silicon chip for example - without any Renminbi changing hands.
> BRICS GDP in Purchase Power Parity terms

I'm confused as to how this is a useful metric in the context of choice of currency in international trade.

You can't trade between countries in PPP currency.
Mercedes-Benz is deploying 400 kW EV fast chargers with CCS and NACS cables
Last I tried there’s 2 major limitations, one is that the version on both ends has to be compatible, another is that it seems the wezterm at the host must be available in the system default PATH. This makes it hard to adapt to arbitrary remote systems that you have limited control of. Tmux+mosh doesn’t have these limitations (well I’m sure the mosh client and server must be compatible to each other but given it is so stable that the last 2 updates are 5 years apart there won’t practically be any problems).
I don't know about that. If a tech company categorizes its software engineers as R&D, my understanding (which could be flawed) is that typically would be CapEx but not COGS. In that case, high engineering salaries wouldn't be reflected there. That would help resolve the puzzle when tech companies have a high gross margin but a low or negative net margin, as many Bay Area unicorns did, for example.
True, but consider this:

People tolerate when natural processes kill very few people.

But they get very upset when human activity kill very few people.
If they want to be a pretend charity they have to pretend to act like one.
Surprised to see TipRanks on HN. That's not a real news source.
All of those are slower than json in many contexts. JSON parsing and serialization is very fast!
Civit.ai, discord, 4chan, and huggingface

Unstable diffusion is where to go if you want to get into the NSFW community.
Sorry, what’s the fix? Undeveloped land tax?
Previously in the DOS era, “terminal” would allow you to render to the video buffer directly and it allowed for an ecosystem of text GUI apps to flourish. Right now, this is largely impossible because modern terminals are really emulators and you have to rely on strange things such as ncurses etc. A better terminal with some nice features such as access to a virtual video buffer would allow for exciting new possibilities
> Most of your points are vague, opine or circumstantial and rely on an us-and-them sense of reasoning

That's what you did with "Most of the people I know".

The rest are literal references from actual Angloamerican establishments. You are literally contradicting what NYT, Reuters et al bluntly say. Take it up with them and tell them that they are wrong.

> I myself hold three citizenships and am part slavic, raised irreligious and to hold America in a very dim light.

Doesnt mean anything. You talk like an American nationalist who is devoid of the understanding of the reality outside.

> Nationalism is an infantile disease. The measles of mankind. - Einstein

Another irrelevant phrase, hard to understand what the hell does it have to do with the actual point.

> Chiefly your arguments about abstention from votes are totally logical: the countries who abstained are largely neighbors or economic vassals of China and Russia who do not want to poke the proverbial bear.

Its not about 'votes'. All of those countries increased their TRADE with Russia. Needless to say neither Brazil, nor Chile nor Malaysia nor Indonesia has anything to fear about Russia. The argument is unintelligible.

Its also hypocritical: When US satellites vote how the US wants, its 'democratic', but when other countries vote according to their already declared, clear diplomatic stances, its 'for fear'.

> Ask the Chinese how their real estate market is going

80% of 30 year olds and 90% year of 40 year olds own their houses, and they paid it with their own money. That's how it is going. Its going bad only in the publications of the Economist, WSJ and NYT because they want China to open up its real estate market so that American investment funds can fck the Chinese by buying up entire neighborhoods then jacking up prices to profit - like how they did to Americans:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housi...

99% of Americans will never buy a house in their lifetime.

This is a great example of how delirious you people became by feeding on the lies and bullsht of your media. The Economist incessantly lies about China, you people eat it line and sinker and blabber about "China's real estate market" even as 99% of you will never buy a house. You get your own real estate market in order first. Sheeshhh...

> As I look about my house I notice zero Russian inventions, products, or brands, save some postcards

Yeah. Your house, in your self-induced ignorance and delirium with all the disconnectedness from the rest of the world, does make a statement about actual countries and geopolitics. Like the 'China real estate market' delirium. The country where 99% of the people will never own a house are yammering about the real estate market of another country and denigrating it. That seals the discussion. Well done.

I will leave you people to dabble in your drivel.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA16/5933/2022/en/
Leave it to Japan to make a satellite out of wood. So cool. Their innovations in woodworking are very impressive. I’d love to see a picture.
Norway Isn't Bowing to Threats of Capital Flight
> Also, Freedom of speech doesn’t mean acceptance of hate.

Yes it does. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
Tesla, Musk sued by shareholders for breach of fiduciary duty over AI threats
The great tragedy of the slow migration away from Bugzilla is the death of the quip list. The list of bugs may have been long and intractable, but at least there was a funny quip at the top. A personal favorite from a former employer was:

"Giving the Linus Torvalds award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."

-Richard Stallman
Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board
Interesting, where was this reported?
As someone who isn't in law, medicine, or finance but must from time to time pay for legal services, medical care, and financial advice, I'm not happy there are lawyers, finance people, and doctors who make $500k. I'm doubly not happy when I have to compete with those people for housing and other goods and services.
Without interacting with it myself, none of this is surprising.

I have used excel in the past, and I am a long term python user. But if you asked me today what I really wanted to make my life easier and ultimately a product or business better using only excel?
I would ask for lua or scheme. I don’t need a batteries included environment embedded into a spreadsheet. I just want sane syntax for common functionality which does not require arcane knowledge and long forgotten wisdom.
I still don't understand the interest in these capabilities. Makes me think of many kids in the 80's playing around with synths - most of them work on banks now ; )
https://archive.ph/go3oH
Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) Across Orbits
That's not entirely correct. NATO is not a threat in Putin's eyes.

What they want is the gas that was going to be produced in Ukraine in 2013, a year before they invaded. They also took resource rich areas.

The proof for this is easy. Russia clearly stated they have no problem with Finland joining NATO. A border of 1340 km and Finland has one of the strongest army's in Europe.

https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-russia-no-problem-finl...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-can-finlands-armed...

What he originally wanted to keep, is resource dominance over Europe ( eg. Gas) as leverage.

And that's why a half a million Russians are dead.
I'm sure this is just a coincidence:

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/01/04/califor...
If there was a model with buttons that was $1000 more than a model using a touchscreen to turn the wipers on and adjust the AC, I would absolutely pay the $1000.

I don't think I'm alone in this.
>legitimate website with a malicious owner.

The situation is this: You go to some web store. You click "Sign In With Microsoft" (or Google, or Facebook, etc.). You expect the site to be able to know your Microsoft/Google/Facebook email address. You don't expect the site to be able to take over your entire Microsoft/Google/Facebook account.

So it's a site you trust enough to use, but you don't trust it enough to give it control over your other accounts. This phishing attack gives it control over your other accounts.
I advice to join the RISC-V Foundation, participate, and get what you want.
The way the system used to be in the USA, area codes only had 0 or 1 in middle of it. So only +120 & +121 would do USA until they shifted in 1995 to have USA area codes w other numbers in the middle. I'll guess any of those little islands only get subsets of the number space to maintain comparability.
Once I almost got ripped off fromthis, someone called an adult number w a domestic area code that went to Guyana in South America. I had American Long Lines block all foreign and all pay numbers, they knew if was a foreign porn number and tried to get their cut. I refused as they knew it was international and worse they knew it was porn. I knew to block as my roommate was still in college and I assumed issues would arise with out those blocks.
Kenbak-1 the first "personal computer"
Yeah my kid still invades every night... should have mentioned.
Due to some strange mental interference this raises memories of the proverbial stance on life being considered a terminal disease spread by sexual transmission with a death rate of a full 100%, for which no cure has yet been found during so many thousands of years...
Downvote all you want, denial.
> how powerful the xbox360 was

Interestingly, the Xbox 360 (Xenon) CPU cores were based on the Power Processing Element (not the Synergistic Processing Elements) from the Cell processor.

From [0]:

"When the companies entered into their partnership in 2001, Sony, Toshiba and IBM committed themselves to spending $400 million over five years to design the Cell, not counting the millions of dollars it would take to build two production facilities for making the chip itself. IBM provided the bulk of the manpower, with the design team headquartered at its Austin, Texas, offices. Sony and Toshiba sent teams of engineers to Austin to live and work with their partners in an effort to have the Cell ready for the Playstation 3's target launch, Christmas 2005.

But a funny thing happened along the way: A new "partner" entered the picture. In late 2002, Microsoft approached IBM about making the chip for Microsoft's rival game console, the (as yet unnamed) Xbox 360. In 2003, IBM's Adam Bennett showed Microsoft specs for the still-in-development Cell core. Microsoft was interested and contracted with IBM for their own chip, to be built around the core that IBM was still building with Sony.

All three of the original partners had agreed that IBM would eventually sell the Cell to other clients. But it does not seem to have occurred to Sony that IBM would sell key parts of the Cell before it was complete and to Sony's primary video-game console competitor. The result was that Sony's R&D money was spent creating a component for Microsoft to use against it."

( From the WSJ )

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150129121858/http://www.wsj.co...
Reuters article with more background https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/moscow-exchange-stop-...
I love group chats, but I’d instantly leave or mute any of them forever if “good mornings” ever became a thing there.

And I’d like to suggest an alternative to a mindless “good morning”: Actually share something noteworthy or check in with the people in there! Share an observation of your surroundings, an article or cartoon that made you (actually) smile etc.

Too hard/time consuming? Then the “good morning” was disingenuous/formulaic anyway and likely served no purpose.
Land value tax, property tax which excludes the building. Forces speculators to pay society equal to the value theyre wasting
For most of the rust tools I tried—not this one though—they provided precompiled static binaries that is so easy to deploy to any systems, including ancient distros (like RHEL 7).

So it is easy to solve this problem—just provide pre-compiled binaries on GitHub Releases. I believe the rust ecosystem made this relatively easy.
What is the maximum rate of human progress?
>In what fields is the government 10-15 years ahead of consumer tech?

Antenna design.

My employer is building specialized antennas for the military that, once the research, design, and infrastructure has been paid for and put into place by the department of defense, will filter down into enterprise applications and then finally consumer goods.

Dynamic metasurfaces, dynamic polarizations, and dynamic multiband rx/tx for antennas are all coming, eventually, to smartphones. Just got to get them a little smaller and a lot cheaper, but that's coming.

All paid for by AFRL, DARPA, and NRL grants.

I don't work in the field. I would never tempt insanity by working in RF. I just reap the ESPP benefits from my employer raking in the cash by licensing out its tech to various OEMs.
Part of me wonders how much of this is hardware vendors releasing unusable hardware. I don't know what the hangup on the RPi is (that seems odd, given how prevalent Linux on the RPi is) but that & the keyboard RGB LEDs seems like your bog standard "the hardware can't or if it can, the vendor didn't bother to document anything". The FOSS world has done an incredible amount of work reverse engineering over the years, but the behavior of HW companies are more to blame, and that's not a problem you'll solve with tech.

But hardware vendors have for years, and still do, just say "our use case, or the highway, you don't really own the thing you're buying." And there's not much out there for one to "vote with one's wallet" on it.

"FS can't store a file in two spots" … I want to accuse OP of being a Windows user, but they're obviously not [only]. So that's … an odd critique?

I still think hierarchical+symlinks beats trying to tag stuff, and I've lived through enough decades of AI trying to tag stuff and deciding things like that Mozart is "Rap [explicit]". I don't have the mental capacity for it. Just give me the dumb hierarchy with (sym)links. (And bind mounts.) (But I wouldn't oppose an OS trying it.)

"Let's ditch all IPC" … buuuut adds IPC right back in. Okay :). I suppose it's "only message passing". (And I do think message passing is a great default, and what most things need.)

"Native apps are bloated". The most bloated apps I have are all the Electron ones. I don't think most people are concluding this...

I'd love a multi-item clipboard, but the devil is in the details: sensitive items and large transfers.

> it's the pure text nature that bothers me. Instead of chaining CLI apps together with text streams we need something richer, like serialized object streams (think JSON but more efficient).

You have to consider the bulk cases. But very much yes; I wish at least that Unix had settled on typed bytestreams, like MIME+stream, and some form of content negotiation. Unix scripts are rife with examples of `a | b` where a & b speak different formats and I feel like it took forever to get good tooling around strongly specified formats (instead of just bullshitting with awk/grep/cut/tr/etc.) with tools like jq, yq, xsv, etc. I just wish applications could just have a means to understand "oh, I'm getting this kind of data" or "I have no idea what this is, and I shouldn't just GIGO".

> In our new OS every window is tab dockable. Or side dockable. Or something else

Have you tried a tiling WM?

If you design an OS ... make the FS Unicode only, and ban "\n" from filenames. Life will be simpler.
The problem with LLMs is there's no apparent analytical theory and no way to scale up from small results. The only way to find out how fast the spaceship is is to build it, make the whole journey, and then see how long it took.
Almost all small to medium countries started efforts to create or find alternatives to SWIFT should be a clue.

The efforts started after weaponizing dollar.

Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, ASEAN QR settlement, Direct currency settlement. Even mBridge for settlement between BRICS was launched just a couple days before the end of petrodollar agreement.

Current SWIFT settlement is not going anywhere but everyone is starting to wait and see.
There is a lot of that.

But there is far more.

Kara Swisher is on Threads, for instance.