skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NATO continued to expand right up to Russia's doorstep

NATO was literally founded on the USSR's border ("Russia", as a top-level sovereign, did not exist), it had nothing to "expand up to", on either the Eastern or Western side.

> despite repeated promises not to

Assuming any such promises were made (which only one dubious alleged instance is ever pointed to, so hardly "repeatedly" in even the best case), they were personal guarantees between individual leaders of the USA and USSR, not durable binding commitments (note the absence of a treaty, executive agreement, public document or even mere joint contemporaneous oral statement of any kind) binding governments to their terms beyond the term of individual officials and heritable after the fall of one of the involved states by some successor regime.

And even had such an undocumented commitment existed and had validity, it was implicitly nullified by Russia's attempts to join NATO.

> Whether or not this is "NATOs fault", it's clear that the Ukraine invasion was motivated, in part, by NATO expansion.

It's not clear at all that it was. For one thing, Georgia was invaded immediately after NATO complied with the Russian request in 2008 not to extend Membership Action Plans to Georgia and Ukraine, and Ukraine subsequently abandoned efforts to join NATO until after Russia invaded and purported to annex much of the country in 2014. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the cause of, rather than a response to, recent NATO expansion.
I think gp intends "fake" to modify "vaccine drives", not "vaccine".
The point is: if you sue claiming this model breaks the law, you lose your license to use it.

Apache 2.0 has a similar restriction:
“ If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.”
I was getting that sense too. It would not be difficult to build a desktop machine with a 4090 for around $2500. I run Llama-3 8b on my 4090, and it runs well. Plus side is I can play games with the machine too :)
Why do you think small companies are going to have more loyalty to an employee?

That's not my experience at all. If anything, they let go of employees sooner because the small company doesn't have the extra money around to pay them. If an employee isn't pulling their weight for a couple of weeks because of health issues, the small company can't afford that, end of story.

Large corporations are actually much more flexible and able to accomodate health situations in my experience, simply because they can afford to be.
Direct link to PDF : https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2024/06/RMI-C...

Powerful graphics about what's going on in the energy sector
By using the drivers you agree to their TOS. So yes, it applies even on your private network.
Maximum Type Safety and Error Handling doesn't tell the interesting bit that it uses the type system to track errors. (And I really don't know what Maximum Type Safety is supposed to mean in the first place)
Only 6% of the world's petrochemical usage is to make plastic. If we decarbonize everything else but merely burn every gram of plastic we produce, that's a win, both from a climate change perspective and from a plastic waste perspective.

Proper incineration is probably the most reliable, most effective way to deal with human waste.

Well made and managed landfills are also perfectly capable of dealing with human waste, but they are a long term project, and there's a lot of time for a dumb management or politician to decide you don't need to fund it as well and now a hundred years of hard work to protect the environment goes down the drain when your now improperly managed landfill is basically a superfund site.

There's less chance for one idiot to do long term damage with incineration.
(it's gradual and takes five years, not like a day)
The silent failure policy of OTEL makes flames shoot out of the top of my head.

We had to use wireshark to identify a super nasty bug in the “JavaScript” (but actually typescript despite being called opentelemetryjs) implementation.

And OTEL is largely unsuitable for short lived processes like CLIs, CI/CD. And I would wager the same holds for FaaS (Lambda).

In the end I prefer the network topology of StatsD, which is what we were migrating from. Let the collector do ALL of the bookkeeping instead of faffing about. OTEL is actively hostile to process-per-thread programming languages. If I had it to do over again I’d look at the StatsD->Prometheus integrations, and the StatsD extensions that support tagging.
That would be a disincentive to land ever being sold and I don't think we want that. It's gameable too: you just have one entity own the land, and then rather than buying and selling the land, you just buy and sell the entity.
Yeah agreed, some of the areas we have access to were 16c (PA) and up to 24c (NYC), doubled that cost in the analysis because of things like this
I don't think a "leak" would cause decompression sickness. Decompression sickness is caused by bubbles forming when pressure decreases too quickly for the body to expel now-excess nitrogen. A slow, gradual decrease would provide plenty of time to expel excess nitrogen.

A leak in a pressure vessel is basically how deep saturation divers re-acclimate to standard pressure, and they're making a much, much larger change in pressure (maximum of 14.5 psi delta on the ISS, ~429.06 for a saturation diver at 1000 ft). It's really a delta P of 10 psi though, since the American space suits are 4.5 psi. There's not really much point in talking about decompression sickness without a space suit; they'd die of lack of O2 or exposure even without DCS.

Current recommendations for space walks are a 4 hour denitrogenation period breathing 100% oxygen, and that's pretty cautious. That's based on the denitrogenation rate of the slowest tissues; it could likely be done significantly faster without presenting dramatically increased risks of DCS, and especially so if you only need to avoid type 2 DCS where the bubbles present a risk of dying.
Scammed Out of $2k on Amazon
Stanford's top disinformation research group collapses under pressure
One hint too many! I have been taught that "it's ${LOCATION}ing" is the english equivalent of « il pleuvine », and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40244602 ought to have billions and billions of connections. (none of which involve Leontine S)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhdMPkA0YM&t=120s

(as for me, one of my friends is on the faculty, studying among other things quiver varieties, which brings us full circle back to Penelope, who set up the competition with Odysseus' bow. If it were an asian recurve bow, it makes sense that the suitors might've tried to string it backwards, and if it were a horseback bow, the draw weight for its size might easily have been such that only someone who knew the foot trick for stringing would've managed)
It's not in a data center, it's in his home.
Apple Deployment of 3B Param. AI Model on the iPhone – How They Do It?
> The OECD has done research on computer skills and even email is difficult to manage for most people.

Yet nobody actively prevents them from doing it, or even running their own e-mail servers. There are many things in our lives which are dangerous and fairly difficult for average people yet are and should be left unregulated and unsurveilled.

There are ways to protect the user from making dangerous choices without proper judgement, also to counter the threats as they materialize.

I don't object recognizing the danger though. I've read border security services of some countries happen to install spyware on travelers Android devices this way.

I believe there just should be a not-too-easy (while perfectly legal, not ridiculously complex and not breaking anything itself) way to unlock certain policies, lock them back and see what's set for people who know what are they doing. Making the whole system more transparent can also help to notice and sanitize it when it is compromised.
> One thing that is clear to me is that we’re vastly overestimating the “intelligence” of LLMs, if it even makes sense to use that word in this context. We’re being fooled by their apparent capacity to produce human-sounding text.

Who is this "we"?
Sadly I don't think software engineering is one of the skillsets that will keep you employable, I think it's gone forever
I’m curious how well this creates new tests.

Also nice to see more Go based LLM apps
Hard to pin it on any one thing unfortunately.

I notice it goes up when I’m doing as much as I can of the following: get 20-30m sunlight, talk with friends in person, avoid alcohol, work out, and be more active in building my life (vs having it built for me). Also, doing necessary emotional work with a counselor. All of those IME reduce my low grade anxiety.

It’s basically all eating your vegetables stuff. Way more impactful than any supplement or protocol.

N=1 and all that. HTH
I was kind of embarrassed by my handwriting in my mid twenties. So I spend an hour now and again over a couple of months practicing. I was amazed about how little it took to improve. My motivation for practicing, was way higher than in elementary school for sure, but having now observed my kids and their friends reach adolescence, I believe that general fine motor skills keep improving into adulthood. So “age” likely played a part in my improvement as well.
Classic. Instead of fixing the problems so there are no angry customers just make it so the angry customers can’t be heard. What could possibly go wrong.
This is probably a very stupid question, but could GitHub claim to be, in effect, an app store, and force side loading? Not saying they would do that...
The funny part is the original case that got Elon's pay package revoked was that the board was around the board not being independent enough. So the same board going & reapproving a pay package doesn't seem like real remedy for the case against Elon's pay package.

> Judge Kathaleen McCormick threw out Musk’s pay package in January, ruling that the board members had been insufficiently independent from the Tesla CEO while negotiating the package.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/14/e...

If this stock starts being liquidated at any significant volume, the stock will also definitely drop. Even if these holdings are to be doled out & possible exercised, it sure seems like the company could hire & keep a lot of great people with this stock holding.
A PDF download: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qdmcw
Show HN: One-click data pipeline for modelling e-commerce profitability
Hi HN,
Here is the open source repo of the data pipelines built in dbt to model profitability at the level of an order.

Covers sources like: Shopify, Facebook Ads, Fedex, Paypal, Manufacturing Costs, VAT etc.

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Hope this is useful!
They're well-funded and desperate to get you to use a non-free programming language. If you go down this route, expect to pay rent per line per second when the free party is over.
It’s about RAM, I think. Only A17 Pro has 8GB, which we can infer is the new baseline.
If it hallucinates the wrong info about a mushroom, YOU might end up hallucinating.
how do y'all feel about AI-generated tests? I gave it a shot with ChatGPT on a side project and it saved me a ton of hassle. Like, I wouldn’t have written those tests myself. Trust-wise, I was still a bit iffy on refactoring, but hey, better than no tests at all. Overall, seems like a win for low-risk stuff.
Inactivation of Avian Influenza Virus in Raw Milk at 63°C and 72°C
> How long did this server take to build?

About 3 days [from 0 and iterating multiple times to the final solution]

> How much time does it take to maintain and make sure all the security patches are applied each month?

A lot

> How often does it crash and how much time will be needed to recover it? Do you keep spare parts on hand / how much is the cost of downtime if you have to wait to get a replacement part in the mail?

All really good points, the exercise to self host is really just to see what is possible but completely agree that self hosting makes little to no sense unless you have a business case that can justify it.

Not to mention if you sign customers with SLAs and then end up having downtime would put even more pressure on your self hosted hardware
That's also one of the more notable incompatibilities of zsh - by default it treats $a the same as "$a", and you're supposed to use arrays if you want multiple words. Although I'm not an expert - maybe ysh and zsh differ in the details here?
Paywalled.

Can anyone tell me: Under what kind of pressure, and applied by whom?
This is what I've heard as well. They started with one cell, when it failed internal expectations they switched to two cells, then when they heard the rumors of what Microsoft was doing with the Xbox 360 they ran to Nvidia to get a real GPU.
I did this too. I bought the 2021 version of World Book, specifically. When my kids ask questions, we use the encyclopedia to find the answer. My oldest taught me how to use the subject index. It fits in two milk crates. I find it comforting, as I grew up with a set, too. Except, the set I had growing up was much older.
Oracle is shutting down its ad business
Apple gives developers a way to nominate their apps for editorial consideration
so now the actual content of what the customers are saying will adjust to be more harmful to compensate.
Failing to acknowledge the very real emotions your company has caused a customer, who is paying you. Classic!
When the story is "The Hubble is falling!" they call atmospheric drag an "unexpected phenomenon". So perhaps its no wonder they can't account for it when preaching Kessler.

"likely to stick around for centuries" would be a wonderful factor to take advantage when engineering long lived platforms like Hubble. Wonder why no one has?

see also: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/impacts/satellite-drag
Additionally, if you use Gemini/ChatGPT via the VertexAI/OpenAI API instead of the consumer frontend, it become much less moderated, which typically involves running another LLM (among multiple moderation tools) on the response from the underlying LLM
I would be extremely weirded out if I took a really angry tone with someone and they completely ignored it. It would probably be infuriating to some too if they continued sounding really chipper and positive and the customer is really upset. It might have the exact opposite effect and customers might just start saying toneless but very mean words to get their point across.
IMO the better paradigm is coming from enterprise applications like Anaplan. Cells are not the right abstraction to work with numbers. Most of the time you work with multi-dimensional quantities (eg revenue by product, geography, month).

We’re working on a more approachable implementation of that paradigm at https://causal.app
When you say "in practice", you're thinking of artificially operationalizing it and how one would force that through medication or whatever. Of course that would be hard to sensibly apply in practice! How would you distinguish a traumatizing experience from a manageably negative one in time to formulate a prescription, how would you prescribe wakefulness to someone who didn't seek it themselves, how do you know how much wakefulness is appropriate or what other trouble you might be causing by artificially amplifying it?

But if you step back, the real "in practice" is the thing that bodies already do. Sleep is often a mess after truly shocking experiences, and this mechanism suggests some reason why. For the folk that need scientific studies to justify things that their bodies naturally want to do, this is the study that says it's okay to toss and turn and have weird sleep hours when something bad happens.
Not the OP, but first of all you need enough time. If you constantly have only 5-6 hours of sleep per day then there is nothing what would help.

But if you have enough time than you need to try everything, beginning with air quality, noise and light reduction, bedding quality.
Agreed. A “healthy stock of virtues” does not mean a stock of healthy virtues.

We need a few more decades of inflation before anyone can rightly claim to become a billionaire without fucking people over.
The article suggests this is unique to opera, and classical music in general has not suffered as badly. I ran across this very interesting discussion today arguing that concert pianists of modern times measure very poorly with the greats of the early 20th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdiIVaqg_M
I can imagine, how would you improve it though?

Concurrency, runtime, tracked errors, functional composition, dependency injection, etc there's lots of problems that the ecosystem solves.

It's hard to say which of these features is particularly more important.
Does it? It doesn't change the content, just the tone. If I were a call center operator I might want something like this
> performance is slightly better than VLC player running on the same device

Interesting, this was back then with .NET Core 2.1, right? Codegen quality has massively improved since then, the difference is particularly stark between 6, 7 and 8 if you use structs (7 -> 8 goes from simplistic enregistration to physical promotion that closes the gap with LLVM in some scenarios).
I'm getting pretty tired of this new sport of "let's come up with these 'gotcha' AI questions so we can create inane headlines like 'Google AI might kill you!!!!'".

This is just so dumb. Humans famously misidentify mushrooms all the time. If you die because you've eaten an AI-misidentified mushroom, I just have to wonder how you made it through life this long.
The problem is that younger generations are just as impressionable as previous ones, but now they have a surveillance state and advertising apperatus aimed squarely at them.

So now young men are pissed at the world for being not a fairyland like they were promised, and are getting absolutely riled up by grifters who are the first step in the right wing recruitment funnel and now millions of young men think the reason the world sucks is women, immigrants, and having emotions.

Not a great outcome.
This sort of sensationalist title and article are a great part of the reason why models are nerfed by training them to output absurd disclaimers.

Nobody should expect that AI can be relied upon for anything where the cost of an error is catastrophic. This should be obvious, but if it's not, it should be stated ONCE before one gains access to an interface. After that, losing anyone who fails to take notice and suffers as a result is no longer a catastrophe.
Ok this is cool and all but where do I put my breakpoints now when something unexpected happens and I need to debug production code?
Am I missing something? If the polyester is recycled, then it was going to be disposed of -- and ultimately break down -- anyway.

Using recycled materials of any sort reduces the consumption of new materials. This is a net positive for the environment, absent any extremes in the use of recycled materials. (i.e. extreme energy consumption or harmful chemicals used in the recycling process)

Cotton is what most people think of as a natural fiber, and even its use can entail a high environmental cost.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00476-z
Really? I used to get a lot of messages from recruiters. Now I haven't received a single one in months.
Software developer and firefighter. I love it! I respect the work you do very much, thank you for your service.
This is a training improvement over the Aloha project from the same group, which iirc, got to about 80% accuracy after 90 training examples
Having those skills is probably rarely reflected in the pay check. Whoever goes this path must either accept being overworked or negotiate well.
If you integrate with existing tooling, it won’t do this optimization. Unless of course you really go crazy with your setup.
I'm having trouble parsing tfa; does this mean the sun is at "solar maximum" now, and does this also mean we may be in for some more frequent and intense auroras?
I think "for businesses" is probably the caveat here. It feels like a trope to mention it at this point, but I think the world would suffer greater consequences if, say, the Linux kernel broke.

I'd also argue that Excel isn't really the most "powerful" per se, but the most accessible and convenient for sure.
Turning the Tables on AI
Optimizing Charm's biomass processing with peanut wagons and bounce house fans
Advocating for allowing people to die (or otherwise be harmed) because they don't understand any given info space is immoral, no matter how "obvious" you feel that info space is. This is a very common emotional reaction to a wide variety of topics that represents an unrealistic ideology that simply isn't compatible with developed civilization. Other examples include: Internet/data security, industrial/mechanical/electrical safety regulation, self-driving cars, nutritional health, and many more.

This doesn't mean we can't have AI, but it does mean we need to mitigate the problems it presents. And that does not necessarily mean we must attempt to edit/moderate the AI itself (unless we develop effective ways to do so that don't hamstring the AI, but that seems intractable, and may never happen) - we can also address problems like this at other levels (UI level, social level, etc).

As technologists, it's our responsibility to not fall into the common trap of obsessively defending a technology against pragmatic non-technological problems related to it. If you find yourself saying something like "it's your fault for being stupid", that's a very reliable red flag that you might be falling into that trap.
> Its not a hard problem, [...]. At its core its structured events that carry two GUIDs along with them: a trace ID and a parent event ID. It is just building a tree.

I've always wondered, what's the point of the trace ID? What even is a trace?

- It could be a single database query that's invoked on a distributed database, giving you information about everything that went on inside the cluster processing that query.

- Or it could be all database calls made by a single page request on a web server.

- Or it could be a collection of page requests made by a single user as part of a shopping checkout process. Each page request could make many outgoing database calls.

Which of these three you should choose merely depends on what you want to visualize at a given point in time. My hope is that at some point we get a standard for tracing that does away with the notion of trace IDs. Just treat everything going on in the universe as a graph of inter-connected events.
Ah, the old

My
Dear
Aunt
Sally

vs.

My Dear
Aunt Sally

debate. :)