skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don’t “hate” the BRICS.

Take away Western purchases of Russian gas for 2 decades and Russia collapses. Take away the encouragement of outsourcing manufacturing from the West to China since the 1980s and the Chinese miracle never happens.

People laugh at BRICS because the BRICS is a joke.

- Brazil is relatively stable but is a largely globally meaningless nation which does little more than export tourism and the Amazon. It’s highly replaceable in the world order.

- Russia is on the verge of collapse. Their strength lay in the appearance of their military strength. But they’ve struggled to defeat a country which didn’t have a military a decade ago and the modern 21st century technology whose sales they’re depending on is failing against Cold War NATO leftovers. They do have natural resources and could have spent the next few decades getting massively rich off selling gas to Germany but they killed that golden goose by starting a land war in Europe.

- India is a country with extremely high potential. Lots of people, enough educated people, etc. However, politics is a disaster, and environmental issues are crushing India. Yet India is poised to take off but their entire growth is based on trading and integrating with the West and yet India keeps ideologically resisting that like it has for half a century and instead aligning with BRICS, whose largest member China is currently fighting a territorial war with India and Indian companies cannot import products and have Chinese websites are banned in India and vice versa.

- China is a one of a kind country. Ridiculously strong manufacturing, extremely capable citizenry, etc. But China is fighting with every neighbor. No one trusts them. Least of all their fellow BRICS member India. And they’re facing a demographic timebomb and despite their economic successes people would much rather emigrate from China than immigrate to it. That’s not a recipe for success a decade+ down the line.

- South Africa is a basket case of an economy. And their politics just got worse. South Africa can enter the conversation when their government becomes capable of delivering widely available drinking water to their population and not have people thirsty because of political corruption.
The code is there and they're stoically implementing everything themselves.

The current ML ecosystem is people write papers and frameworks using cuda and then people complain that amd hasn't implemented them all on rocm, without really acknowledging that nvidia didn't implement them either. All the code is out there so that people could implement their work on amd and then complain at nvidia for it missing from their ecosystem, but that's not the done thing.

What would you have amd do differently here?
I don't think it will be the end because the vast majority of users will be completely unaware and/or indifferent to this - just what the parties behind it want them to be.

But you're right about the real bad actors, they already don't trust these platforms anyway.

That said, "grooming" in the broadest sense of the word happens on channels like Whatsapp, Instagram, even Pinterest for some reason because it's not blocked as social media by popular wifi filters.

Ex: girl (14) our son was friends with "had sex" with someone who claimed to be 18, but he recorded the interaction and used it to blackmail her to do more / other stuff. I don't know the details but that kinda thing happened via Whatsapp.
Changing the currency for the transactions would absolutely destroy the US dollar.
Don’t fret.

Those who wield power today have absolutely and completely forgotten just how brittle power is. They feel absolutely untouchable, and their self-serving remits are absolutely normalised to them.

Which is to say, this trajectory typically ends in violent revolt. You can only continue with edicts if you have complete control over all of the apparatuses of state power, and have a police state. If you rely on the illusion of power (policeman in your head, etc.), as most western democracies do, then a rude awakening awaits.

Demagoguery seems like a wise tactic until you’re upside down on a fence with your balls in your mouth.

So don’t fret. The pendulum will swing a few more times, but the bob will pop off the end of its tether and bounce under the awkward sofa of revolutionary change soon enough.
Pretty much all the environmental protection legislation we have in Ireland came from the EU. So yes, a benefit
Ada and Zangemann: a storybook about FOSS for kids (and managers, too)
> Yeah well, he is an ultra-Neocon and the Neocons said the Ukraine war would not happen […]

Perhaps the people who said those things thought Putin was bluffing, or that the response was going to be weak… kind of like it was in 2014.

> And yet by all accounts, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been shrugging off threats of new sanctions if he attacks Ukraine. Maybe Putin is bluffing. But if so, he has taken his bluff very far, keeping more than 100,000 Russian troops in battle-ready positions through mid-winter.

> Maybe, however, Putin has assessed that Western democracies’ threat to issue sanctions “like none he’s ever seen” is a bluff? He has some good basis to doubt European resolve.

* https://archive.ph/eizpt / https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/europe-rus...

Of course if one understood Putin and his world view, it is hardly surprising:

> Putin’s attachment to the old U.S.S.R. matters in another way as well. Although he is sometimes incorrectly described as a Russian nationalist, he is in fact an imperial nostalgist. The Soviet Union was a Russian-speaking empire, and he seems, at times, to dream of re-creating a smaller Russian-speaking empire within the old Soviet Union’s borders.

* https://archive.ph/qqcKH / https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukra...
You must be replying in the wrong place. I didn't say it was okay. I said knowingly forcing someone to do this is a good way to get a shitty cake.
> Why not castrate the offender have two strikes or even one?

That's orthogonal to whether or not we should implement a means to catch those that transmit child pornography.

Is castration intended to "cure" the criminal or do you think it would act as a deterrent? Would you consider castration for any kind of rape?

It sounds as though the next obvious step would be to amputate the hand of the serial shoplifter, etc. I'm personally not in favor of giving the state that kind of irreversible authority over our body parts.
Surveillance on internet use in China probably results in many visits to forced labour camps. Or worse.

Imagine the Chinese people agreed and voted for their great firewall, wouldn’t we all think they were fooled into sabotaging their own freedom?

But they never had the chance to oppose it. We do. And so who are the real dummies.

With how popular Trump is in the states, that makes me think dictatorship is just around the corner. Settling scores is coming.
I remember 15 or so years ago a colleague of mine ( in the nordics outside of EU ) wanted to purchase a photoshop licence for personal use.

It was a crazy expensive licence ( I do not remember how much but it was more than I made a month at that time I remember ) but she is a woman of principals and refuses to run pirated software.

It took her weeks to get the licence as Adobe did not distribute to personal user licences in our area at the time. Only crazy enterprise fee.

She managed to get a personal license through US after weeks of emails and phone calls.

I however pirated until the subscription model came out, initially I thought the monthly fee was kinda brilliant as it allowed me to actually legally run photoshop for a price I could afford.

Just buy the occasional month when I actually need it and then cancel for all the 10 months a year that I don't use it.
Seemed like a win/win to me.

Sadly someone at Adobe considers this a worse crime than pirating it seems and casual users are tricked into these insane contracts.

I sincerely hope this practice of a hidden cancellation fee is not only banned but heftily fined.
Nice! But even after they're commercially available, putting fibers into places has massive inertia, along the lines of ≥10 years… and on short ranges (inter-chip connections up to building/city networks) you really don't care :)
I'm surprised the law doesn't require operating systems to duplicate all network calls over to a govt sink.
This is more proof that the GDPR was nothing more than a part of the EU’s trade war on its best ally for defense.
They aren't suggesting that the war was orchestrated by the media, but that the war provided the media with an opportunity to wind down pandemic coverage.
Economics could solve it, if orbital manufacturing finds it cheaper to collect space junk for raw material than to boost it to orbit or mine it from asteroids. If we can defer it long enough to get to that stage an incipient orbital buzz saw may have a silver lining.
I doubt that child pornography is even the true reason behind these laws. If anything, that problem is at its lowest now in the entire human history, at least in Europe. And the form of "violence" these laws are trying to limit have to do with bytes going over the Internet, not directly with children being kidnapped or sold into prostitution. I'm not saying that these laws couldn't be used as tools to go after actual human trafficking networks, but their scope and the damage they do is vastly disproportional to that objective.

More likely, the true goal is to introduce novel forms of policing, and widen them bit by bit until we do become true surveillance states, where every word any citizen ever said is stored in some government archive.
That’s like saying “well, I can’t stop death so might as well keel over right now”. Even if it’s true that you can’t stop it (it isn’t, you’re just giving up), delaying it to the next time is still worth. Do it enough times and it works as if it were stopped.
> probably the biggest event of the year

At least in France, the upcoming Olympics are a strong contender. That and the surprise parliament election our president dropped on us; because he apparently didn't like the result his party got at the latest EU election, but honestly I don't see how he imagine he's going to get a better result this time around.
Being delusional, I would say that the only reason for the EU existence is to pass legislation that would apply to the whole EU, that would not be possible to pass even in a single country.

That's why the EU is structured in such a way that unelected and irresponsible people are given such enormous power over sovereign countries.

Previously, I thought it's about peace in Europe, more freedom for the people, but after such legislation is enacted, the EU is no more than a way to enslave the whole continent and bring it to the state not a single European voted for.
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My new favourite AArch64 CPU instruction: RMIF – rotate then merge in to flags
You serious? I nearly cried watching what was happening in Ukraine early in 2022.

You are making bad assumptions here.

But if you want to put it into perspective… think about what is happening in Gaza. Now compare to Ukraine. Russia has plenty of missiles and by comparison (even while absolutely awful) have shown much more restraint. I don’t support them at all though!
"I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2008) [pdf]
A controversial take but I'm in favor of this kind of legislation. Big tech platforms is currently taken by criminals, anyone pretending it's not is lying. They need to be regulated and it will come in the form of regulating users.

What's the alternative? Communication tools that don't have a central server. What's the problem here? This legislation has the potential to unlock a golden age for local-first software
In France:

- summer 2017, a law to limit demonstrations and strikes.

-summer 2020: LPR, that incite scientist to shut up, and limit their autonomy while strengthening administrative power over them (students tends to protest laws like this).

But usually, how you do it: you make a 'protect the children' law, or a 'counter terrorist' law, and you expend it's reach with executive power, that how Macron does it. Is it authoritarian? Yes.
Isn't there a law - or intelligence agency mandate - that does that already? See Snowden, FISA court requests, etc from 10+ years ago.

I ask "does that already?", but the way these things work is that they are not allowed to publicly say whether they channel messages to intelligence agencies. If you're doing things that intelligence agencies may find interesting, you already wouldn't be using these services.
collecting objects at orbital speed from any direction is a tricky engineering challenge.
> and a delegate

And then you mock the delegate?
Super power != powerhouse. Brazil is already a powerhouse and potential regional hegemon.
Undervolting mostly helps with power consumption under load.
This google Controlled opposition line is so tiring and inaccurate at this point loool
Because we don't live in the middle ages and have human right laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity
Yes, there would be no liquidity.
I'm amazed by how cells know what to grow 'into' as well - especially since stem cells seem to be able to grow into just about any body part?

>>and thus can learn some things("instinctual behaviour") easier than others

I don't understand this - Isn't 'instinctual behaviour' something you don't have to learn? Also, I wonder if there's a limit to how complex a behavior can be 'encoded'? like bright colored animals == poisonous. That requires being able to tell a say a toad from a bird, what a color is, what colors = poison, etc? That seems like a pretty complex behavior...Do we have any idea what the limit is for complex behaviors in genes?

Thanks!
It is kind of obvious but I think it is worth mentioning out loud regarding whether how to classify something as essential or accidental complexity is that where it ends up falling is only easy to tell in hindsight. Recently I finally realized, after working for almost 3 years in a problem, that it could all be framed as graph problem. This simple change of frame dissolved hundreds of lines of code into `reduce(find_shortest_path(graph, start, end), some_op)` style single lines. Now I understood that what I was previously doing was manually crafting paths through this informally defined graph across nodes I knew had connections. The ratio of comments to code was about 5:1 to make sense of it. Before that I believed all of it was true essential complexity but looking through the right glasses it really wasn't. The lessons for me (some of which I seem to have to constantly relearn) where:

1. It may only look complex because you are not thinking about it in the right way.
2. The right data structure/abstraction has the power to turn the worst spaghetti into a shining beacon of simplicity.

An important corollary is that if it looks complicated is probably because you don't understand it yet. Tautological yes, true, also :D

Not trusting myself on what is essential complexity and insisting on hitting my head against the wall until I found a solution has served me well many times in my life and career.
https://fastest.engineer uses Primate
This is a weird take.
> People say 'instinct' by never mention what that means or how it works :-P

Have you never been afraid of spiders or snakes?

https://www.cbs.mpg.de/Fear-of-spiders-and-snakes-is-deeply-...
Optimizing 3D Graphics in C: Legacy of Quake's Fast Inverse Square Root Function
Yes, you can build fully server rendered web apps with Phoenix. You'd need HTML templates for that though, so you shouldn't use the --no-html option.

--no-webpack is deprecated as Phoenix uses esbuild now but see the docs: "--no-esbuild - do not include esbuild dependencies and assets. We do not recommend setting this option, unless for API only applications, as doing so requires you to manually add and track JavaScript dependencies"
Yes, it's subject to court review... Five years down the line. Meanwhile they will force member states to act according to it. If they refuse they will sue them!

This is exactly what happened with the Data Retention Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

>According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities.

First passed: March 15, 2006

Came into force: May 3rd, 2006

The law was introduced in Romania, but a year later the constitutional court struck it down. In 2011 the European Commission sued Romania for not implementing the law and fined them for it. This forced Romania to sign a new law in 2012, which was also declared unconstitutional in 2014.

>On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive invalid

And the kicker is that the UK has tried to implement a similar law domestically two more times.
DeepSeek Coder V2: An Open-Source Model Rivaling ChatGPT-4o in Coding and Math
While the V2 made use of a key element of inertial navigation systems (the Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer [1]), it was apparently only used to cut off the motor when the desired velocity was reached (the other elements of the control system guided it on a trajectory which curved from vertical to 74 degrees as a function of time, with the azimuth determined by the positioning of the rocket on its launch stand prior to firing.) Consequently, the performance of modern inertial navigation cannot be deduced from V2 accuracy (or, rather, the lack thereof.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGA_accelerometer
I think there is no passive voice. If you prefer to replace "Then it did happen" with "Russia attacked", that is of course fine.

But after Russia attacked there were several Neocon interviews where they acted surprised and did frame it as "We did not think it would happen" in a very casual way.
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I disagree with that interpretation.

BRICS expansion has essentially blunted it, as every expansion require unanimous support of [edir: the founding] all 5 members.

There's a reason Turkey (opposition from India due to it's military support for Pakistan) and Bangladesh (opposition from China due to Sheikh Hasina's dependence on India for sanction relief) weren't accepted.

Every state that has been accepted in the expansion is a state that has strong economic ties to both China and India, thus canceling out any potential bias.

- UAE's 1st and 2nd largest trade partners are China and India

- KSA's 1st and 2nd largest trade partners are China and India

- Ethiopia's 1st and 2nd largest partners are China and India.

- China is Egypt's largest import market, but India is one of Egypt's largest export market and is Egypt's credit guaranteer.

The addition of Malaysia follows this pattern as well.

BRICS has become as meaningless as APEC, because India ended up doing the same thing that China did to APEC in the 90s when Jiang Zemin unilaterally declared it cannot be a Community like the EC.
Would you prefer a different word? Facist also works. Xenophobe, racist, hater, etc also work. "Migration critic" is probably a more neutral / politically correct word.
Oh, indeed, they're adding a quantum resistant layer. Nice. Not sure it's in production yet.

https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/
You are overestimating the real power of the EU parliament, everything is finally decided in the EU council. The parliament is more or less kind of a political theatre without the powers you would expect a parliament to have.
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And it's really unbelievable how political parties in the EU (and US) who won't shut up about the threat from the extremist right gaining power also seem to have no fear of giving their enemy these tools.
And then you wind up with the mirror-image problem of ambitious and avaricious people using politics as a path for their own advancement at the expense of others.

Why not both, if both were on the table? I.e. incentivizing competent people to seek office, while decentralizing power and properly constraining the reach of any single office.
This is nothing but the second law of thermodynamics.

Viewing friction as the principle of increasing entropy helps.

You can think of a graph with nodes being the states of various systems including humans, software services, database, etc., and edges being dependencies between them. Reducing the states directly reduces the entropy. Reducing the dependencies reduce the rate of increase of the entropy in the system.

This directly leads to various software principles like separation of concern, parse not validate, denormalisation, state reduction, narrow interface deep implementation, KISS, readability etc. All of these reduce friction.

As such I find the "Addressing friction" section in the article lacking, but it does highlight some useful points.
Maybe that was possible 10 years go, they now require that you put up a web page for your domain with a valid German imprint (most importantly: your full contact information).
ARM has confirmed the possibility of an attack on systems with Cortex-X2, Cortex-X3, Cortex-A510, Cortex-A520, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A715 and Cortex-A720 processors, but does not intend to make changes to the CPU to block the problem[0], as how the MemTag architecture means that tags are not sensitive data to applications. Chrome's security team acknowledged the issues but won't fix them, as the V8 sandbox isn't designed for memory data confidentiality, and MTE defenses aren't enabled by default.

It's mentioned quite early in the paper but there's a prototype toolkit on GitHub[1] if you want to jump straight into that.

[0]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/109544/latest

[1]: https://github.com/compsec-snu/tiktag
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Everything you've done in your post, DNS already does for you.

Versioning is done via the zone file's serial.

You can just create a backup via

dig @nameserver axfr ledoma.in

And you get the zone file. By comparing the serial to your previous one you can tell if anything was changed.
To add to this, undervolting isn't about idle clocks, but temperature and power control under load. I typically only apply them to "turbo" boost clocks, which are a frequent cause of thermal throttling even with water cooling.

Intel's 13/14th gen CPUs draw significantly (~70-100W) more power on boost, which can stress the VRMs in otherwise correct pairings and lead to current/EDP or power limit throttling. Lowering the voltage at certain frequencies can allow the system to sustain higher clocks without performance degradation.
FYI, 84% of ID has voted pro chat-control in 2021.

https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463&eugroup=ID
I'm pretty sure that collecting objects from a field of debris where every object is moving at speeds of up to 30,000 km/h relative to other objects, in random directions, is much more of a scientific challenge before even looking at economic incentives for it.
Meet up in real life I suppose. This is one of the examples where if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, but I'm aware this is a broken statement to make because a new government may decide that something that was OK to talk about is now no longer OK to talk about.

When I am elected God-Emperor, I will banish discussions about apple pie recipes, and all those that have been involved with apple pie recipes and discussion thereof will receive a Stern Talking To by the newly formed Agency of Apple Pie Suppression.
It is possible that they genuinely thought that Putin was bluffing. But that would be further evidence for the historically very poor predictive abilities of the Neocons, at least if you compare their public statements with outcomes.

What they think or intend in private is another issue.