skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine is in no need of further security guarantees from Western countries save the one guarantee that Russia will never accept: NATO membership. Without that – and the associated obligation to offer a direct military response to Russian aggression – it's difficult to see how any security guarantee could possibly extend beyond what Western countries are already providing.

Russia's key conditions for the supposed "deal" that you refer to were that (i) the size of the Ukrainian army would be heavily constrained and that (ii) Russia would have a veto on any response to future aggression against Ukraine. Ukraine rejected the deal because it would have been worthless.
https://lean-lang.org/about/ is an open source project
Corruption, as in individuals working in their own interest in a way that best provides them power and/or lines their pockets, is different than a grand conspiracy that a large percentage of that state is working together on a secret project that they have guarded from the public.

The government is not "an entity", it is layers and levels of elected and unelected officials working towards their own personal goals.

The idea that many of them do things that they shouldn't for personal gain is fairly obvious.

Ideas that huge numbers of them are working together in secret across both public and private sector to execute a singular master plan, fake a moon landing, mess with the population via brain wave broadcasts, spread chemtrails via commercial aircraft, etc. with zero hard evidence are on an entirely different level.
The practical way to get water to flow uphill is of course the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon - always amazing in its own way.
The distinction you're making is basically immaterial for the general public. The key takeaway for us is that hydrocarbon extraction is polluting groundwater and contaminating surface land. The exact reason for those negative externalities are important for regulators and industry to understand, but the general public doesn't care if their well water is toxic because the deframbulator was not halogented before exfinescing the sanestration fluid or because the subpermeable supertransverse formation was extereated. All they know and all they need to know is that regulatory mechanisms are missing or failing and our natural resources are being despoiled. That's all they need to know to go to their political representatives and demand that they do something.

Nevertheless, the exact mechanism is a perfect topic of discussion for Hacker News.
Major mistake, unless your company is building and selling CRM software. Focus engineering resources on core competencies and buy everything else off the shelf.
ok, this is super useful
>> If NATO actually invaded, they'd caught with their pants down.

The problem with that is that NATO is next door to Russia now. Nuclear deterrence doesn't work that well when it means nuking your foot.

Seen another way, Russia doesn't need ICBMs to reach London, Paris, Berlin...

But, really, try to think more carefully of what you're discussing: nuclear war. The threat to the existence of human civilisation from that is too big for macho politics and "we're stronger than them" braggadocio. As Chomsky pointed out once, and as aggravating as this is, that means letting assholes get away with murder on the international scene; which means not just Russia, but also the US, Israel, China, and who knows who else, in time.
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Thanks for the detailed answer - please turn it into a blog post! Excited to see competition and different architectural approaches to tackle durable execution. Wishing you all the very best!
If you're modeling one workflow for one team at one organization, it's always been trivial. Same as making an issue tracker.

The complexity arrives when you need to support complex and branching workflows, teams that model things subtly differently, organizations that model things radically differently, strongly opinionated stakeholders at key teams/clients, endless demands to integrate with external systems, etc
> The ability to seamlessly build business logic over the entire flow of a business is Salesforce's bread and butter.

While being able to update the platform seamlessly without breaking that logic.
For context (because he's too good to brag) OP is among the original creators of Apache Flink.

Question for OP: I'd bet Flink's Statefuns comes in Restate's story. Could you please comment on this? Maybe Statefuns we're sort of a plugin, and you guys wanted to rebase to the core of a distributed function?
Alberta has an orphaned well program to cover this (more likely the drilling company no longer exists vs. "skipped town") but even with the forethought it still doesn't work.
I’d say there is also the facet that Apple’s AI has strong privacy guarantees, and Apple has a good track record with privacy

Pretty much every other offering is a privacy nightmare, including MS and their recall and many folk don’t want anything to do with AI as a result
Attestation does not belong in a standard that's used with consumer devices. Make the payloads extensible so that corporations/gov can add their own attestation data as an extension if they want, but websites have no business being able to enforce whether I am using a Microsoft or Google approved device, and e.g. banks inevitably will unthinkingly add it as a "best practice" if it's there (they already do this with mobile apps). This decreases user security as the options we all know will make up the acceptable list are compromised with built-in malware today.
I don't know the exact context of what you're referring to here, but I think it can be seen as undemocratic to vote for parties that want to limit or abolish democratic institutions, or want to restrict who is allowed to participate in elections. While this might apply to parties at both extreme ends of the political spectrum, currently far right parties are much more popular.
I'm curious for the use-cases where people have to maintain a key over a long period where the choice of nonce can't be made strictly non-decreasing or otherwise prevent nonce reuse (per key).

I can imagine VPNs or other packetized communications potentially running into this problem, e.g. with N parties needing to encrypt messages under the same key to each other without coordination on nonces. The worst case I can think of is a large number of devices with a baked-in key and secure RNG but no non-volatile storage. They can't generate more than 2^48 messages with AES-GCM or risk collision.

Full disk encryption has always had a similar problem; generally a single long-lived master key that individual sectors or blocks are encrypted by, often without the additional storage set aside for IVs or nonces (which would break exact sector to sector mapping of encrypted virtual disk to plaintext disk). That leaves IV-derivation to be static per block offset/number, or key derivation on master key and block offset/number.

Devices without secure RNGs are also at risk (microcontrollers with no non-volatile storage that restart a lot, for example).

I'm curious if there are any other hard cases where nonce reuse becomes a risk in practice.
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Invidious isn't stable. YouTube keeps pushing releases that break it, and Invidious is too slow to keep up. Freetube and `yt-dlp` are the only way forward.
Nope. OpenAI's actually-open-source Whisper blows Nuance and all other legacy speech recognition tech away.
I'm not convinced the European Parliament needs to be democratic or powerful, but that people just need to believe it is. The EU is a talking shop, but on a continent that's suffered from war so hugely keeping everyone talking is valuable.

To keep everyone talking as a group, you need institutions with enough "weight" to orchestrate it, otherwise countries will peel off, ally up, and start attacking each other over all sorts of historical gripes again. A bit more like a localized and more integrated United Nations, than an actual government, perhaps.
California is not known for the bluntest of people, and the average Californian’s dating life suffers from this aspect, especially men. Given the business model of dating apps, their monetization strategy relies on men paying for premium features. Algorithmic manipulation has been disclosed many times by employees who work in these dating apps, in addition to online dating having become monopolized for quite some time now, with Match Group and Bumble owning upwards of 36% of global market share, and 85% of English-speaking nations’ market share.

A couple months ago, a French startup called Instadate AI (instadate.ai) opened up their first private beta in the regions of Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen. The startup was co-founded by two ex-Bumble engineers who previously worked in machine learning and matching optimization at Bumble.

Now, you may ask – how can AI help with online dating?

Well, Instadate – as indicated by the name – is an AI that works on top of Instagram. This was a smart move by the founders, because starting yet another dating app in an already saturated market was not going to be unique enough, but piggy-backing off of the largest organic platform in the world – that’s called working hard, and working smart.

The exact details of how their technology works are unclear, as they haven’t spoken on it – but the capabilities of their AI are well documented on their website accompanied by demos and screenshots of past successes.

However, they have spoken out on their matching algorithm, being the important sauce behind their venture. Instadate AI claims to leverage 1000+ data points in order to come up with what they call a “score”. A score ranges from 1-100, and the higher the score, the better the profile matches with your criteria. They emphasize the fact that their AI cannot be used to spam people – by design, and that rarely will more than two profiles match with the same pool of people.

Here’s the end results from a 3-week trial of their first user cohort (10 users – all men): https://pasteboard.co/AIToIrqmWrDw.png

Other than their website, they don’t seem to have much of an online presence yet – probably because they’re still working on onboarding beta users and improving the product in real time.
The obsession with telepathy via fiction is probably a large part of why people buy into Neuralink, despite it not actually doing anything new (other than eschewing ethical standards).

Musk's invasive BCI is so far, slightly less technically impressive than hobby toys you can build with exterior electrodes and nowhere near as impressive as the research from BrainGate that it builds off of.

It's baffling why anyone grounded in reality would lend credence to applying his "startup culture" approach to this field especially.
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In my opinion, after using several different oils (lard, crisco, flaxseed) that flaxseed works fine, i've heard it might be a little more brittle in the long run, but it certainly works. You need to polymerize the oil, my understanding is that to do that you need to exceed the smoke point of the oil during the seasoning process. I know kenji has advised against it but I've got a small little pan I use for eggs most mornings that I initially seasoned with flaxseed several years ago and it's held up just fine and is slick as shit.

I've seen some methods that use beeswax as well, both alone and in combination with an oil.

All this to say it's not 'poor information', it might not be the absolute best oil to use, but it does certainly work. If for some reason the only oil you have in the house is flaxseed, it will season your pan.
Sorta like Oracle, I'd add.
Early touch screens (capacitive?) were also not great. I remember iPhone's being pretty decent, although I don't think I had one until the 3, but my memory is a bit fuzzy from that far back! They could be frustrating to use, and often the usable area for interactivity was smaller than the actual screen, with issues detecting touch at the edges.
What happens if you have the RecoveryKey set, like the actual generated Recovery code? If that's set, can you always reestablish access?
I'm amazed that the six-sided dice is so old and yet we still use it since it's such a great tool to get a random number for a game.
reservoirs are big sponge-like rocks. The pressure has to go somewhere.
If the buck stops with the government, doesn't that mean a corresponding government investment into the security and robustness of open source projects?

I think the second-order effects are precisely why this is interesting.
Old New England houses had a "keeping room" attached to the kitchen, a small heated seating area for people to sit and chat with the cook while cooking.
A popular theory a few years ago is that people who believe in extremely unlikely and sometimes nonsensical explanations of current events are actually too shrewd. They understand better than most that all of the information they receive is compromised for the benefit of powerful others, but in the desperation for information that isn't mercenary, they turn to random gurus who aren't connected to or knowledgeable about anything.

You see that impulse a lot on HN and other forums, when they decry some study as "biased" because the author of the study is well-known to believe that what the study shows is true. For them, the people who initiate studies would ideally be people with no knowledge about or interest in the subject that they are studying. Anything less than that is obviously an intentional manipulation.
My wife was anemic (vegetarian) for a long, long time. We use close to 100% cast iron these days, and she hasn't had an iron issue in 2+ years.

And as another commenter said, it lasts forever. My favorite pan has been in my family so long (at least 5 generations) that no one really knows who owned it first.

Most people I know who have had issues with cast iron either buy bad cast iron, or don't know how to season a new pan - an old pan can be re-seasoned in about 30 minutes, but a new pan will take several days, and possibly some sandpaper, to get its first good seasoning.
I agree that the availability has always been a big program. I always wanted a pi zero w but never could find one at list price.
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Allegedly also Coca-Cola, Drummond and even some local companies like Postobón have been involved with paramilitary groups and sponsored crimes against civilians - and haven't faced any consequences. But this is a good precedent.
If any of you like me had no idea what a Calm company was: https://www.outseta.com/posts/calm seems to explain.

In summary - it's about how the company is run - not that they make apps to help you meditate.
Among the modern CRM players like Attio, Folk, Clay, etc. how does this compare?

Anybody tried all of them? It’s impossible to get impartial info on software these days due to all the scummy affiliate marketing/paid-influencer/“Top 10 Best” crap that has taken over Saas.
https://archive.ph/SMt6X
Is cell sites per capita a relevant measure?
Huh, interesting.

I've never used our Alexa for shopping. If I said something like "Alexa, buy more filters", even being very clever and looking at my order history, it would still get something wrong. And then I'd need to use another device to actually make the order.

While it seems to work fine on the speech recognition part, in that Alexa understands the words I say, it never seemed good enough to actually navigate a task like ordering the right kind of filter.

I knew there was some behind-the-scenes scripting going on, but I didn't realize just how much...

We mostly use our Alexa for kitchen timers, reminders, and video calls with family. Occasionally for playing music too. No, I don't want to subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited.
The Foundation series is premised on an achievement in the social sciences (soft) but is considered "hard sci-fi".
Not at all like Slow Ventures. Slow Ventures is a traditional VC firm!
Page title: AI that gets you dates on Instagram

Guidelines: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mine usually goes:

"alexa lights" (works 50% of the time)

"ALEXA lights"

"ALEXA TURN LIGHTS ON"

I still love Alexa though, or more accurately, voice assistants in the home. It's just brutally out of date speech recognition and answering.

Always been a mystery why they didn't make it any better in the last 5yrs.

I've long wondered what the Alexa team does all day, but I've had friends who worked at Amazon as devs and I'm pretty sure it's "find as many ways to do nothing as possible".
not saying the name is great. I am just saying maybe you don't want to get sued by a huge multi-billion dollar giant who likes to sue.
Author here, totally agree with you. Changing the preprocessor directive was just the way I fixed it way back when.

Of course, the real fix is to use a proper constant.
The laptop is bricked, won't boot, won't charge, so pretty frustrating. I really liked it when it was working, and I still have hope that they will warranty the issue.
The CIA popularized the "tinfoil hat conspiracy nut" as a reverse-psychology trick back in the '60s as part of Operation Mockingbird.

The government had seen promising results in its experiments to control human emotions via radio-wave emissions, and they wanted to deploy this technology on a national scale. However, one recurring problem was that thin films of conductive material, such as aluminum foil, had a tendency to scramble the control waves and render them useless. In response, the CIA launched a massive press campaign intended to smear and delegitimize the wearing of tinfoil hats, with the ultimate goal of preemptively convincing the public not to wear them via threat of social ostracization.

Considering the widespread mockery levied at the tinfoil community today, I'd say their efforts have worked quite well.

You can read more about Operation Mockingbird here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Indie.vc, which had a similar model, also shut down shop for a while due to capital constraints. They've since restarted the fund though.
Small plug of company I love (not paid or anything). Field skillet is literally the best cast iron I’ve ever used. Their skillet size is truly sublime for breakfast stuff and smash burgers
> Imagine trying to run a startup where you knew you were going to be stuck at a low-six-figure revenue for 10+ years, meanwhile your customer base, feature requests and support tickets just kept growing every year. That’s what running Calm Fund on the fixed management fees of our fund sizes looks like. You can operate a business for a few years like this, but you need a pathway to growing out of it and right now I don’t see that.

It seems as if the Calm Fund could not be run calmly at the scale it was.
This _highly_ depends on your field and what you're working on.

Working on the latest and greatest social media website? Sure, ship early, ship often.

Working on medical devices? You better not ship a prototype.

Working on hardware? Too expensive to pivot from learnings, better get it right the first time.

Working for NASA? You better get it right the first time and predict all future issues that might be possible, and you better document it 9 ways to sunday.
Being on an island, it seems like loading it on a barge would be more efficient.
But the "better" languages have their own problems. UI calculations tend to need to mix int/float frequently, and the calculations can get fairly unreadable from all the casting (and I'm the sort that religiously casts to floats in C++ because I get burned on this). Swift, in particular, was particularly bad about this (Swift 5; I can't remember the details). Then there are things like `total / n` when calculating an average. Obviously you want `n` to be an int, because incrementing a float is a bad idea, but now you need to cast `n`, even though `total` is already a float, because they don't match.

I tend to prefer the casting, because I had spending a bunch of time debugging 0s and NaNs, but sometimes it makes things look unnecessarily ugly and hard to read.
Can you suggest (1) How to get it working on a Mac, (2) alternatively, how to get it running in a Docker container (on a mac)?
The 'Coffin Homes' of Hong Kong (2017)
GPU companies providing inference on open source models (like deepinfra or togetherAI) are doing so at an extremely competitive cost, making me think that the API pricing of the big players right now is profitable.

(for example, deepinfra has wizardLM-2-8x22B at $0.65/1M output tokens, compared to $6/1M output tokens for 8x22B by Mistral - and of course Mistral has some more expensive, closed source models that perform better)
Those are the factors that make the tradeoff easy for me. I would vastly prefer direct accountability for my own fuckups, because that means I have the agency to do something to fix it.

What makes me want to put my head through a wall is when I fuck up, and four layers of people above me are the only ones allowed to fix the thing, but they don't, so I keep catching flak for my fuckup without any way to stop it and fix the thing. I have many more heated conversations with those managers, which typically leads to the door.

When I fuck something up, rarely is anyone more upset about that than I am. Nobody's dumping more heat on me than I am on myself, so bring on the heat-- as long as I have the agency to fix the problem.
thanks Kube said it lot better than I did here. :)
Ultimately, the mind control vision came true far beyond those cold warriors' dreams. The answer wasn't chemical or subliminal or mind-ray like they thought, but tailored, addictive, adrenaline jolts of a/b tested, emotional, persusive jolts, infinitely scrolled in a social proof setting. And the victims seek it out, you don't have to force it on them.
And after his term as Utah Attorney General will Mr. Reyes be a marketing executive for TikTok? With a headline like that a lot of kids are going to want to sign up.
They haven't lost yet. Alexa is still the top conversational system appliance for most households right now. A smart speaker is almost an essential device among my group of friends. Siri on HomePod is still subpar for basic kitchen tasks like setting timers, adding items to shopping lists, and creating reminders. I don't even think Google has a current device that competes in this space.

I really want HomePod to be better at household tasks such as managing shopping lists, timers, and reminders, but it's not there yet. As soon as the HomePod can replace my Alexa devices, I'll be all in. I have a HomePod right next to every Alexa device in my house, and I'm just waiting for Apple to turn on their "Apple intelligence."
no, because the fire is too cold
> For now, the concrete supercapacitor can store a little under 300 watt-hours per cubic metre – enough to power a 10-watt LED lightbulb for 30 hours.

> The power output "may seem low compared to conventional batteries, [but] a foundation with 30-40 cubic metres (1,060-1,410 cubic feet) of concrete could be sufficient to meet the daily energy needs of a residential house", says Stefaniuk.

This made me suspicious, because it sounded too low. But it turns out it's true ... for an average British home that's heavily dependent on gas.

40 m^3 * 300 watt-hours/m^3 = 12 kwh. I.e. 500 watts for a whole day.

Apparently the average American residential electricity use is 10,791 kwh/year, which is ~1,231 watts, whereas the average British home is only 2,700 kwh/year which is ~308 watts. I had no idea that the difference was so large.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/energy/guides/average-bill.html
Totally. Luckily, these #defines are often easy to grep for.