skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The end of Pax Americana won’t be sweet.

This.

Plus:

- America gets soft power in return, countries keep American interests in eye too. This requires understanding the concept of win-win versus the you lose-I win mentality.

- Economic contraction. There is not much growth and prosperity in a world of feuding dictatorships. Incentives in those systems are opposite to global well fare.

For American oligarchs, like for their Russian counter parts, there might be some insane short-term opportunities. Chances for the sharks, not for you though. You are fish.
I love how the other day when the Show HN[1] post was submitted there were a bunch of 'Oh what a great problem to solve with AI', when it was painfully obvious that it is not necessary... Is there astroturfing here or is AI the current hammer that everyone defaults to?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40635397
The software emulator was terrible, sadly. A whole collection of games didn’t work well.
Smoking is a carcinogen. As is alcohol and processed meats and the sun and a whole host of other things.

The point is that simply because the poster didn't get long Covid, that doesn't mean it's not something that people get. And it doesn't mean it's not attributable to Covid. While these people could be more susceptible to long Covid because they also have some other quality, trying to downplay either Covid or long Covid because of your individual experience is always a bad move.

And the biggest irony is that people will do that to downplay Covid while pushing "vaccines are dangerous" ideology despite far, far more people having taken any vaccine than having gotten Covid. And those people experiencing far far fewer complications from that vaccine.
There are much easier ways to sustain an ecosystem in the desert without bringing in technology like that.
The title should say "50 year old petrodollar pact between Saudi Arabia and US expires." Anyways, I'm curious to see what happens next. I can't see Saudi Arabia ditching the dollar overnight.
So you're spending time with your families and communities instead of working during the day then. That thing you're calling "forced socialization" has another name. It's called work. Your ability to have conversations with your coworkers and customers about your work is in fact part of most jobs that involve developing products. Most of us making over $200k don't just pull the code lever at the code factory all day and if your idea of what work in software is doesn't involve people, you've put a permanent ceiling on your career.
> Software isn't immediately life threatening

being a boeing whistleblower is though
> What semiconductor shortage? Who is affected by them? Russia is buying literally everything through Turkey, Kazakhstan and other ex-USSR countries

Which increases cost and lag time. It also means they’re restricted to commodity components; it’s even harder for them to have custom components fabricated.

Blockade runners have always been a thing. The point of the blockade is to increase cost, lag and uncertainty. That’s the difference between blockade/sanctions and siege.
I have somewhere a license for GetRight, which could do (imperfectly) a full download of a website (or just the .<ext> of your choice).

Is there a price for a one-off purchase? I am not even sure if I need this any more (I haven't used GetRight to download a full website for 10-15 years).

Don't hate me, but subscriptions, even as low as $10 are annoying. When I like some software I prefer to pay 5x and be done with it.
What is a typical R use case for you? R doesn't feel worth it to me. If I'm changing a word, cw is almost always better, unless maybe the new word has the exact same number of chars as the old word.
This is something that people without a manufacturing background often don't appreciate. Modern production lines are so efficient that it's frequently more cost effective to build all units of a product with the same hardware but disable some features in software.

I first came across this 20+ years ago working for an office equipment manufacturer. We had to add code for the service people to enable a feature in the machine that was already present (and pretty expensive to build), but not turned on until the customer paid for it. I remember at the time asking if it wouldn't piss customers off to know that they were paying for something that was already installed, but it didn't seem to faze the Marketing people in the least. Then again, the buyer was someone in a corporate office who would probably never actually see the machine anyway.
An hour? My annual training is typically about 6 hours of drudgery, and often about 2/3rds repeat courses from years previous. Great fun.
I agree that the Conservative Party won't fix what the Liberals did to Canada. I won't be voting Conservative. Never have, never will.

The Conservative Party will do what the Conservative Party in the UK did: bring in MASSIVE AUSTERITY. When people start defaulting on their mortgages en mass the government will step in to buy up all the dodgy loans. In, short the taxpayer will be burdened with this huge debt. The Conservatives will say they have to introduce AUSTERITY to pay down this enormous debt. That means savage cuts to services. Just like in the UK. Ten years of Austerity in the UK has turned in the UK into a third world country. The only thing that will "save" Canada from third world status is that it has lots of natural resources. Provided there is demand for them and that they don't give it away too cheaply.
Nuclear doesn't have a learning curve. Solar does: https://ourworldindata.org/learning-curve
Not sure what you mean by those links, but they seem to pretty clearly indicate that "turf" does not imply "artificial"; the meaning of the term always includes real grass, so using "grass" and "turf" as if they're mutually exclusive alternatives makes no sense.
I think as we continue to expand our use of space, it is crucial to consider the environmental impacts!
> Maybe even photograph each layer as you go?

Differential cooling is an issue, and is one that isn't apparent until the layers have already been printed.

If their process actually works, whatever they are doing isn't trivial.
That's true. In 100 years when people see Winnie the Pooh they won't remember that it was once used to make fun of some chinese dude.
The incompetence level in the industry has increased. In the past perhaps more people were close to being technical. Now there is a deluge of nontechnical positions and management layers that contribute nothing. This increases cynicism.
I really, really dislike the "extremist" politics discourse, especially when it's from a position created by a mix of Atlas network [1] talking points and original radical centrism, al merging together a position historically French know pretty well, the extreme center [1].

As long as the executive power do not try to subvert the legislative, judicial or, in a more limited way, informative power, we can't call "extremist politics". Which is why i reject the idea that reactionnaries like the RN in France are still fascists as their rethoric against judges and informative power is really tame (they could be lying, making them cryptofascists, but this is subject to personal beliefs and not facts).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network

[1]"L'Extrême Centre ou le poison français : 1789-2019", Pierre Senna
Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person
No, it's different. See "Diseases similar to long COVID".[1]

Differential diagnosis is important because treatment may be different depending on the underlying problem.

[1] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/chapter/7#186
I do wish to add that while Villenueve was great, to me, the key man in this adaption was Eric Heisserer, who wrote the screenplay.

There's a really good interview of the changes he made, how the script came to be, and how he got Villenueve on board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDXlaa9JpuI

The anecdote about the most important line in the film is also really funny in that the line seems so deep and philosophical, but it came about almost entirely through improvisation at the last minute.

The whole thing is one of those rare cases where I consider the original story by Ted Chiang, the script by Eric Heisserer, and the film by Denis Villeneuve to all be complimentary.
Those years were amazing because every new console generation had a wildly different artisanal design. NES to SNES to N64 to Switch, Jaguar, Sega, PS to PS2 to PS3, Xbox... and then at some point they all turned into disguised PCs.
Finance influencers and online forums have been abuzz with this news the past few days but now that it is happened ... looks like nothing changed? Oil prices, the US dollar and the markets seem stable?

Is this one of those events that turn out to have been "much ado about nothing"? I'm not an expert in this area, curious if anyone has more insights into this.
Nah, SPEs are a bad idea at any frequency.
> Car is still a wealth marker.

Definitely not in the US.
Not the most earth-shattering revelation. Given how they’ve always needed to be dragged kicking and screaming to adopt more secure protocols, that should be obvious. For example, it’s been known that NTLM is easily cracked for over a decade, but they’re only getting around to phasing it out now.
It also lacks value as a data point because long term damage isn't the same thing as current symptoms.
Nobody's ditching the dollar. However Saudi Arabia and China significantly reduced their investment in US bonds lately. Also notice that the interests on US debt come dangerously close to the whole of US discretionary government revenue.

"May you live in interesting times" as the (apocryphal) Chinese malediction says.

edit : added missing "discretionary". My mistake (you know, a simple honest error, not a "lie" or whatever).
> expect control of most of them to fall into Chinese hands over the next 20-50 years

5 to 10 if the IEA is correct [1].

[1] https://www.axios.com/2024/06/12/oil-peak-demand-iea-project...
I think the flu data is somewhat difficult here. Most people do not refer to having had it if they didn't get sick. Yet, studies are showing from a third to a half of people with the flu will be asymptomatic. Which, is kind of terrifying to me.
What do you think the feasible outcome is of Ukraine caving and yielding territory? Do you really think Russia will stop at eating up Eastern Ukraine?

Russia believes that war is the best way to get what they want. If the war in Ukraine ends with a Russian victory it won't mean world peace, it will mean we wait a few more years for Russia to build back up before it's on to the next war of aggression.

Where does it end if it doesn't end in Ukraine?
But sill wood usage does have an impact on the environment too
Sure screw saving the planet, let’s give more money to shareholders instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxy-fuel_combusti...

It's not easy or free. Others are trying to do this as well.
One of the more enduring way of restoring the aquifer is to restore the riverlands the way it had been before we hunted out all the beavers. That is, to slow down water flow in the hydrological cycle so that it spreads out and meanders throughout the land.
Rust. Never mentioned. Shoehorned into every conversation anyways.
They said ARC should be beaten in the near future. I don’t think it’ll be as easy as they say since we’ve been using transformers for awhile and they still fail pretty bad at the test.
Pretty different if it's semiconductor engineers instead of the business school guys that would be covered by that sentence 99% of time.
I thought most of the authors nominated for PEN prizes this year were boycotting the organization and the awards were canceled? [1]. I guess Ted Chiang didn't withdraw his nomination like everyone else did.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246578813/pen-america-cancel...
thanks! I definitely hesitated sharing for a while due to that failure. Glad to hear you found it interesting.
Permissionless Collaboration
So, he didn't spend public money [0] organizing a referendum that the Spanish State tried to stop using violence [1]

[0] "We must ACQUIT and WE ACQUIT the defendants MR JOAQUIM
FORN, MR JOSEP RULL, MR SANTIAGO VILA, MS MERITXELL BORRÀS and
MR CARLES MUNDÓ of the offence of misappropriation of public funds."

https://www.poderjudicial.es/sfls/TRIBUNAL%20SUPREMO/NOTAS%2...

[1] https://spanishpolice.github.io/
I think there is a meaningful difference between

* "I don't think this information should be censored, and should be made available to anyone who seeks it."

* "I don't want this tool I made to be the one handing it out, especially one that I know just makes stuff up, and at a time when the world is currently putting my tool under a microscope and posting anything bad it outputs to social media to damage my reputation."

Companies that sell models to corporations who want well behaved AI would still have this problem but for the rest this issue could be obviated by a shield law.
this is great advice for people who want to have no friends.

You should care about what the people you respect think about you, because they are people you hold in high regard. They matter. The key is to dismiss the opinions of people who suck

> unless they are your immediate family

this is a terrible exception. Sometimes your immediate family sucks and you shouldn't care what they think of you (imagine that you're gay and they're all homophobes)

as with most things, there's a balance to be struck. Sometimes you should care what other people think of you, if you don't want to be bitter and alone. Other times it's better to let the haters hate.
England disengaged because they could not afford to run their empire anymore. They ended up as a vassal state of the USA. They were lucky because they remained in the same general cultural area. I wonder whom the USA will be a vassal to.

BTW the UK and France resisted that disengagement when they attempted to keep Suez from Egypt in 1956 but that expedition failed, also because the USA didn't like it.
How Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees worked on it
Covid doesn’t reactivate the Epstein-Barr virus. What it does is it weaken the immune system further by depleting ATP and GTP. That weakening of the immune system stops our immune system from suppressing EBV.

Because exercise alone can weaken the immune system enough to Reactivate viruses.
It's the difference between a caption and a description. Both are useful, just in different settings.

A visually-impaired person reading the newspaper just wants to know that there is an image of, say, George Washington and John Adams. What do they look like? What are they wearing? What is the setting? Probably not important, it's just decoration for the article.

On the other hand, a visually-impaired person who's shopping for clothing might come across a t-shirt with a print and want to know what's on there. What colors are used? Is there any text? Are there logos? Stuff like that matters when you're choosing clothing because you don't want to end up looking like a clown.
Oh it's sad they didn't choose a German name for their game
knowingly? yes.
This is the key to why “nothing is better than a best guess” is the right approach.

Answers that appear to be right can be worse than no answer at all.
Yeah, the book has thought-provoking take on evolution
If this causes major shifts, I don't imagine they'll be apparent on day 1. Its not like Saudi Arabia was eagerly awaiting to burn some major bridges with the US. Check back on day 365, or day 3650.
> People have gotten the message

The generation of young people in the 1960s thought this. Then the generation of young people in the 1970s thought this. Then the generation of young people in the 1980s thought this, and so on. I'll be 50 this year, I've gotten to see it twice myself. I've started reading about it historically (Days of Rage by Burrough is informative and neutral tone).

Capitalism isn't a cancer. It's just a framework that gives you enough liberty to succeed or fail. Many fail. Many who fail spend years pouting about it, waste what little time they might have for any second attempts.

> They're going to learn the hard way now.

"They" won't learn anything. They don't have to learn anything, but if they did, you don't have any leverage anyway to be able to force the issue. They're out there busy creating a world, right now, right this very minute, in which they don't need you or other malcontents at all. They're satisfied that they can create this world and soon. And they're not penciling in a place for you or those like you to exist within it. And you have no leverage. What leverage you might have managed to squirrel away before, you rejected it. You reject it now, even in this comment. There's that nagging little thought in the back of your mind, that if you were to try to fix the system from within the system, you might discover you no longer worry so much about fixing it, right?
Western construction business is incapable of delivering what they promise. They build something that resembles it, which is not good enough for nuclear reactors. The inspectors see something that does not match the specs and is full of of flaws, and they tell the construction company to dismantle it and try again. That keeps repeating, the budget runs over, and the construction takes decades to finish.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022421/

Until 2022:
"A total of 81 articles analyzed confirmed cardiovascular complications post‐COVID‐19 mRNA vaccines in 17,636 individuals and reported 284 deaths with any mRNA vaccine. Of 17,636 cardiovascular events with any mRNA vaccine, 17,192 were observed with the BNT162b2 (Pfizer−BioNTech) vaccine, 444 events with mRNA‐1273 (Moderna). "
It's common knowledge clipboard audits of the perfunctory type skew towards security theater and are the most likely type to be performed because they're cheap and mostly automateable.

OTOH, a few SCAP baselines I've seen contain good shit.

Standardization and change control with deep, vigilant internal and external review help because infosec is a cross-cutting concern requiring holistic, defense-in-depth controls, checks, and application. Also, avoid a Tragedy of the Commons scenario originating from an attitude of "it's everyone's responsibility" by having a dedicated security team with the resources, authority, and accountability to pushback against unsafe practices, and monitoring and remediating problems.
> While Germany has been able to cut dependence on Russian gas

Wasn't that by using coal plants?
Yeah, what?

"If you're young, handsome, educated, and cartoonishly well-endowed, you might be qualified as a gigolo to an unfaithful heiress!"
> Really the big issue my ear has with Opus is when there's loss.

That would definitely complicate things. Going by the test results that got cited on Wikipedia, Opus has an advantage at 20-24, but that's easy enough to overwhelm.

And the Opus encoder got some other major improvements up through 2018, so I'd be interested in updated charts.

Oh and 1.5 also adds a better packet loss mechanism.
Mon-Fri is "living the life" time.. working, shopping, chores, everything that 'must' be done.

Sat-Sun is 'family & friends' time and activities related to family & friends (no chores). That includes BBQs, walks, cycling, etc. Nothing 'must' and all the 'wants'.
Michigan State researchers say honey bees can detect lung cancer
While some people do left Russia many are returning back because there are very few countries that make it easy to immigrate there from Russia and in some of them there are no jobs or no one hire english speaking staff.

Unfortunately west do nothing to deprive Russia of it's human resources. If only EU and US offered easier path for immigration there would be literally 100,000 of IT personnel who would happily left the country.

Lont-term country is gonna be in terrible conditions, but not because of people leaving.
How do you get invited in good groups? Like, if you don’t have a friend inside already.
Phone ear speakers are quieter than they used to be, so if the other person isn't talking clearly into the mic, you can't crank it up. I switched from a flip phone to an iPhone in 2013, huge difference. I had to immediately switch to using earbuds or speakerphone. Was in my teens at the time.
> checks are always worth the squeeze

This is simply inaccurate. You can spend months and hundreds of millions of dollars running scanning electron microscopes over all of your parts - no one does this, because it's not "worth the squeeze". The question is where to draw the line, and I have no idea what your opinion is there.
True enough, that is why I never talked about high level strategy at work, it wasn’t my job, I was a pure tech guy, and in very narrow areas.

But this is not work, this is HN. I posted some unpopular views here and most people here disagree with me. I am good with that! It still feels good to express my opinions.
Wait, what? You've successfully asked a stranger if you can take over driving their vehicle – presumably a vehicle they rely on for their income and one you're not insured for – and they've said yes!?
A key thing is that the US is now the biggest oil producer, so the exact agreement is less important since the US uses more of its own oil, with the money never having left the US in the first place
It's the performance vs programmability tradeoff.

The article references it.

As one goes back in console history, the performance to achieve contemporarily visually-stunning results required exotic architectures + hand-tuned code.

Over time, state of the art PC + GPU hardware improved, to the point there wasn't a functional difference vs exotic architectures. Additionally, the cost of developing leading-edge custom architectures exploded.

Microsoft really pushed this with the original "PC in a box" XBox, but you saw the console OEMs outsource increasing parts of their chip solutions after that.

Why keep / buy entire chip design teams, when AMD will do it for you?

Especially if the performance difference is negligible.
From your linked article:

> But the event was canceled when nearly half of the writers and translators nominated withdrew their books from consideration. The awards will still be granted to those who did not withdraw.
This is certainly true in the short term. Enterprises extract value from the capabilities that are most reliable in the present. They are likely not building things that “might work tomorrow if the next model release is good enough”.

No matter how capable models become, they will always be better/faster/more reliable with high quality data underpinning their responses.
> they are far from running out of this stuff(soldiers of any kind with any equipment) before the west

They destroyed their veterans in the opening gambit. Mowing down unequipped numpties at staggering loss ratios isn’t a problem for Kyiv so long as its ammunition supplies are assured.

> Russians have criminal level of tolerance for lost lives

Russia is an empire. Moscow isn’t sending its children to the front, it’s sending Siberians and Chechens.

The mobilisation was politically difficult for Putin and damaging to Russia. There aren’t that many more Putin can pull off while retaining the public’s favour.
IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries
I live in Phoenix, and have seen the tree planting.

There is a lot more that could be done that is not done. From my eyes, it looks more like, there are X number of trees that need to be planted and they are planted to fulfill those goals.

There is little in the way of consideration for sunlight patterns, rainwater patterns, microclimates, planting methods, etc.