skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but if you just do it, even if it's a large undertaking, the benefits of ESM-only code are bigger than being able to use more packages. And someday you will have to move to ESM anyway.
Read the articles - they describe two very different scenarios. One is spies spying on love interest (wives, girlfriend, somebody they might want to date, etc). The other is spies collecting sexually explicit media of more random people.

And the auditing systems at the NSA were obviously very poor, and there's no reason to think that has meaningfully changed. Of the very few cases they were able to "catch", a sizable chunk were from self reporting in polygraph exams or even more absurd things like a girlfriend reporting a guy who she suspected was spying on him - and he was, as well as 9 other women. In no cases were there any meaningful penalties, with the worst case being resignation. And similarly, it seems people engaging in the harvesting of sexually explicit material Snowden described were never caught, which is likely why he referred to it as something like a "fringe benefit".
Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers
Well that agrees. The article was all buyers, let's say half of them use android, half of 79% not so far off 35%.
TL;DR - they are a signaling method.

They are used to signal the producers to shut production down, actually - as in, the energy producer's dispatch team uses negative prices to signal to power plants to change production schedule.

In case of wind power, some power plants can actually make money on negative prices because modern wind turbines can be dynamically made into an energy sink.

Similarly negative prices are used as signal to storage providers.
This is obtuse. The intent of expressing that if you are paying someone else for a service, it predisposes them to demand a higher price if you're asking them to take additional risks if they have any negotiating power at all was pretty obvious.
And any loop that iterates more than 100 times.
Tragedy of the commons I guess, but it's not exactly a new idea [0]. As long as they keep control of those satelites, keep them in high decay low altitude orbits and are able to deorbit them if necessary it's not exactly a huge problem, unlike random ASAT weapon tests or collisions that litter tiny untrackable particles that will stay there for centuries and rip through anything like butter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford
I bet that guy is gutted that he wasted 6.5years with that woman
I am not from the west, but rather from one of those countries russia/soviet union (but lets be honest here, it was always good old russia at its core and power) oppressed and destroyed over 4 decades during cold war, to have a nuclear battlefield with western Europe.

I know what I talk about when I bash russia and its society, I saw them destroy soul of not only my own nation but everything around, and legacy of that period is still doing massive damage back home. They have absolutely nothing in common with western values, rather run like mafia clans where power of stronger defines rules. Now of course I don't say every single russian citizen is like that, far from it, but society overall is, like it or not, just look at any news in past 30 years about them.

Absolutely nothing changed in that country since their house of cards collapsed, at least not for the better (list of things that got worse is way too long for posting here, but summary is endlessly greedy oligarchs and uber oligarch putin who is one of richest men in the world, and obviously not from his official salary but stolen from russian state and its citizens).

Look at how carefully Lukashenko dances around putin and whole war, this is how 'enemy of my enemy is my ally' looks like. Look at how russian troops were invited to help with unrests in Kazachstan to shoot few thousands of protesters, but then got very promptly kicked out of the country, and Tokayev shared his negative opinions on Russia many times. People don't forget murderous bullying, and so don't whole nations.
https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/return-refund-laws-eu/#:~:tex...
Every single Iranian person I have met always referred to the language as "persian".
The term "window chrome" is common to describe the parts of a window that are outside the client rectangle and managed by the window system (titlebar, scroll bars, resize widgets etc..). AFAIK the term also predates "Chrome, the browser" by a long time.
In the UK at least, the government offers an incentive to build wind farms by providing a price guarantee: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67430888

So they don't have to shut down to 0 kW, since they are guaranteed to be paid significantly for generating even when there is no demand. Or they have to be paid more to shut down, which corresponds to a negative price at the other end.

This generally requires negative pricing for other suppliers and consumers to balance it out.
You missed the point somewhat.
I know more than one gym rat who got a hernia from using an ab roller.
What would be the point of writing a whole new browser engine from scratch if you're just gonna fall back on a different one? Ladybird isn't ready and likely won't be for a long time. Treat this more like a "we're working on a new browser" type announcement, not a "We're launching a new browser today" announcement.
Note that despite that study, Windows and XBox teams are quite found of their C and C++, and even their own .NET has more success on the Azure side, than replacing all those COM/WinRT C++ workloads, and extension points.

It is Azure that is more keen in adopting memory safe languages, and has the mandate that new systems code should be done using them.
People have a risk level they're comfortable with, and sometimes people feel added excitement pushing right up to or past that level, and sometimes they're just happy to pay extra for something they feel is within that risk level if they enjoy it more.

We all choose to take risks all the time and often pay for the privilege, sometimes explicitly seeking out the thrill of a risk.

I'm guessing what makes this specific scenario weird for you is more likely that this risk doesn't seem worthwhile to you relative to what you get from it (and I agree with that - I've never had an appetite for taking risks with STDs)
In L.A. I can tell. I lived in Washington state for a couple of years and when I got back to L.A., I could clearly smell it. As for the taste, I don't know if it's chlorine I taste, but it does taste really different. I can also really tell the difference from most Bay area, specifically Hetch Hetchy water, and L.A. municipal.

If think people can't tell the difference, you're lying to yourself.
I think we are mixing two different things here and it’s worth pulling them apart to make things clearer.

There is an element of you are going after a very specific system or set of systems but they are all air gapped and you need to find a way to get your malware onto those systems somehow.

This part is actually how you describe it more or less. The plan was basically: spread everywhere you can but only do so if you are confident for some reason that you’re on a system belonging to the target country (I.e Iran) and if anyone ever sticks in a USB key to one of those systems you should take that as an opportunity to cross the air gap because people are sloppy and mistakes happen.

So in that sense, yeah it is somewhat true, that’s literally the strategy they used to get where they needed to go. However, the controls they had around it I think were also reasonable. I fully expect the NSA and Mossad (who would later somewhat fuck up the operation) to be doing exactly that and I think it’s consistent with their job.

The second part is the “actually malicious” payload. That had an entirely different set of checks and balances in place to make sure it wasn’t fucking up unreleated systems along the way but just using them as a launch point.

That full context I think still firmly fits my original definition that unless you’re actively on a target list for some reason you have no reason to view NSA malware as something you should have on your threat model. Not sure if you agree or not?
Qt webview is just Chromium in a trenchcoat. The point is to create a new browser engine, not a new Chromium UI (and hopefully much less bloated than Chromium).
Living standards (based on HDI, life expectancy, literacy rate, and other development indicators) in Tajikistan are still approximately at the same level as they were when Tajikistan was the poorest member of the Soviet Union 30 years ago.

Stagnant living standards over 30 years and repression is all Rahmon has to show. This is why radicalism grows. If Rahmon raised living standards similar to peers like Uzbekistan (who also neighbors Afghanistan and also has a major issue with Afghan Uzbeks supporting the Taliban, and who are equally as repressive such as the Andijan Massacre) then Tajikistan wouldn't be in the mess that it is in today.
> "How hard could it be?"

Having worked on something that required "optimal" box packing for deliveries[1], the answer is "very, and then some (and that was with the help of that fancy USMIL pallet-packing algorithm, IIRC)".

[1] They wanted to use the smallest possible box plus some other constraints like "product X cannot have anything on top of it", etc.
I'm already speculating that sooner or later in the future this project will end up pivoting to chromium as the underlying engine.

I can think of two reasons for this

- money is involved and someone buys them out / influences the direction of the project

- the reality of the task ahead sets in the and the dev team gives up on custom engine development

For those of you coming back to this comment from the future, yep "told you so". ;-)
It might not, but so what? Don't we deserve options?
In these situations one can also ask about the "adaptivity gap", which is the difference in how many tests are required if one is allowed to be adaptive -- make a test, look at the result, then decide what to test next -- versus nonadaptive, i.e. decide in advance what all the tests will be and conduct them all at once.
Okay, now add in the fact it can practically never fail in any condition
"Let’s write a video game from scratch like it’s 1987"

"We will implement this in the Odin programming language"

checks Odin homepage...

"The project started one evening in late July 2016"
Could you explain how these two are related? That benchmark seems to be asking for very specific information inside a large body of text. For LLMs, that seems quite a different task compared to proving a negative. Any improvements on proving a negative would mean less hallucinations and would be a huge deal.
Quite a good article on Gambia, but just get you to want to know more about the chinese involvement there on top of Russia. Btw, the sex part is not a click bait and not important part of the article. The usual failed African politics and economy is usual. Just want to know any “success” story. Even if it is odd by western “standard”.
"I hope we will make AI push us to think more, not less. And through more thinking, we will create new, original approaches or solutions to old but very important problems."

I want to be positive, but I am not as optimistic as the dear writer.

I fear that our ability of long-term critical thinking will suffer. We already see that happening in the age of dopamine-fueled, short-form content. The average attention span is becoming shorter but the ability to rationalize effectively does not become faster.

Adding AI into the mix, the next 50 years will be very interesting for the Gen Z world.
Jakt was described more as an experiment and to potentially replace C++ in the codebase, rather than definitely. I haven't seen any official word on this but as you imply I would assume that this effort is essentially dead now. Just as with the operating system itself, the focus eventually shifted elsewhere and Jakt was left behind.
Fear of the Mundane
The last sentence is a good way of consoling yourself. I hope no one takes his advice seriously and implements it. Good luck with your own nonsense.
Thanks. [1] in particular is a very interesting read. If I understand it correctly, it's all through subsidy of generation rather than directly of manufacture? That is, while there might be subsidy ensuring demand for the product, if you purchase a solar panel from a Chinese producer at any time during this process there wasn't a direct subsidy included in that cost? Just a guarantee over that time of enough demand to keep the factory chugging along?

That is, it's identical to Western-style renewable subsidies?
I respectfully disagree wrt the prioritization of vocabulary. Yes, you do need the basics covered (a few thousand words). But what I realized is that if I am listening or reading a sentence with an unknown word in it, in most cases I just figure out from the context what that unknown word means (I check it against a dictionary and 9 times out of 10 I'm close enough).

Obviously this does not work if too many words in the sentence are unknown. And I'm not saying not to learn new words. But it is far more important in my opinion to read / listen so much that you get faster and faster. Especially if you are listening to speech, where you can't pause / rewind, and if you spend too much time on one thing you just get left behind entirely. Don't know a word - just skip it / ignore it and concentrate on the whole stream.
Right, I thought you understood. I agree with the broader lesson. I didn't mean that one could quell the accusations entirely, only partially at best (although 'dang doubts it in a sibling comment to yours). Discussions have momentum, and the top-level comment is the most visible in a thread, so an explanation in the top-level comment might have more impact than one further down the thread.
I see my comment as invitation to resolve the apparent contradiction between the statement I replied to and mainstream understanding of western values or as invitation to clarify the values of the author (which might be interesting).

"you've been using HN primarily for political and nationalistic battle"

I disagree with this characterization of my comments as a whole, they are often contradictory but informative and rarely combative. Perhaps some are unnecessarily sarcastic.

"If you don't want us to ban this account, please stop doing that"

That's a fair warning, but I wonder why accounts like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mopsi aren't banned despite long history of waging 'political and nationalistic battles' and flamewars.
You mention that this problem has overlap with training neural nets. Could you link some further reading for this? :)
If you can say “subject verb noun” that’s good enough in many cases to at least get your point across.

Anecdotally, I know that I can understand people speaking English with what a school teacher would consider atrocious grammar, as long as the words are pronounced close enough to be recognizable.
"Yes, it's more complicated than server development in that it is a real-time, multi-point input, multi-output (rendered elements on screen) environment with synchronisation and concurrency needs."

I would argue that most backends typically also deal with more than 1 user at the same time (and in real time).
A few questions about this...

Fit athletes can run quite fast at a low heart rate, that in some cases might even be lower than walking for regular people. That is to say, the runners are exerting themselves less from a cardiovascular perspective than an unfit person walking. E.g. I can run 8min/mile pace on the flat at a 120bpm heart rate (around 67% of VO2max). But I know people who have the same (or higher) heart rate by just walking or doing house work. So what exactly are we saying by pointing out that running is bad for you? High heart rates for a long period of time are bad for you? The action of running is bad for you? Something else? None of this research makes sense to me.

But why just running? What about other sports like cross country skiing, or rowing? Mountaineering? What is it specifically about running which is bad? Or are all these other sports bad too?

I had a cardiovascular age test done recently which uses pulse wave velocity [1] to determine arterial stiffness. It turns out my "cardio age" is 11 years younger than my actual age and I run at least 50 miles a week. Mostly slow, some fast. So that seems to contradict some of this research, or the pulse wave velocity test is BS?

On another note, there's so much nonsense in that linked thread above I don't even know where to start. Great timing because I enjoyed reading this hackernews thread [2] about the phenomenon that most info about a subject is wrong and you only really notice it if you are an expert or have first hand knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_wave_velocity
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733956
“Why not, because it’s fun, because they can”, These kind of answers kinda underline the question even more…
From the linked site:

> In the post-Spectre world you must have site isolation. The JS for a site (roughly, eTLD+1) must have its own OS address space separate from other sites.

Wasn't the whole point of Spectre/Meltdown to read the virtual address space of a different process?
Specifically google originally chose that name for chrome because one of their goals was reduction of chrome. They made a bit deal out of it when the browser was new, how it didn't have a bunch of menu bars or whatever
A lot of the work being done here by the program code was done in dynamically linked libraries in the original game.
Would be nice to Introduce another continent like Europe :) it looks really nice tho!
>All this AI stuff was under lock and key until Nov 2022, then it was an emergency.

This is absolutely false, as the other person said.
As one example: We had already built and were using AI based code completion in production by then.

Here's a public blog post from July, 2022:
https://research.google/blog/ml-enhanced-code-completion-imp...

This is just one easy publicly verifiable example, there are others.
(We actually were doing it before copilot, etc)
I'd really like to give this method a go. I'm trying to learn French and struggling with the listening component. Do you have any sources for dialogues that you used?
10 minutes is nowhere near the correct timeframe and $100 is nowhere near enough to cover the court’s costs.
Cool. Yep, piezos only produce current while the mechanical stress changes its shape, but if the load is stable, no current is performed, so I guess that's the reason why you need to apply an alternating current to it in order to use it that way. Thanks.
I doubt it. Your prediction might be more appropriate for a project that's in its first week of development, not having been developed for several years and already overcome many difficult hurdles. And if they switch to chromium, there is literally nothing interesting about this project. The fact that it's a novel engine is their only differentiating feature.
You really think Google has people running around with suitcases full of money, tempting devs to abandon their own browser engines in favour of chromium?
> It's like seeing a beautiful painting being painted and arguing about the kind of paintbrush the painter has used.

It's like seeing a beautiful painting and realizing the painter didn't use lightfast colors. In ten years the painting will not be beautiful anymore.

Yes, the painter / author put in a lot of work, and this deserves acknowledgement. But ones decision to use it or not is not only based on the amount of work put in.
uBlock Origin already supports Javascript blocking (both globally and per domain) if you enable advanced mode. Redundant extensions are just extra attack surface.
The vast majority of the world is amazing if you come with western money as a tourist, Cuba, Turkey, Kirghizistan, &c. you'll have a great time, most locals are great people but living there as an average citizen isn't that amazing in term of quality of life, access to necessities, infrastructure, ...
> Neither China nor Russia depend on their fleets in order to win existential wars for them, as they're both continental powers

Chinese are hopelessly dependant on imports of raw commodities (most notably oil), a naval blockade would sent them back into Middle Ages in a matter of a couple of years. Hence, their continous existence is contingent on strong navy. Which they presumably get, seeing how much they invest in it.
this is to win contacts. they only sell this support contact option because Microsoft/sap/etc do.

clients are probably getting a better deal with suse despite what your mention (which is doubly true for closed source, but happen behind closed doors)

the answer isn't yes or no. it's meh. it will just apply patches until a paying customer requires custom code via a very painful support escalation that likely will take a year
If you run on web, yes. But on desktop 50mb to get a whole game engine seems pretty awesome.
Hello…
I would find your proposed blog about the philosophy of AI interesting.
I never studied philosophy formally beyond my first year of uni, and now I study psychology, but I have a strong interest in philosophy, and philosophy of mind more specifically.
I’m about to start a masters thesis and my topic is (roughly) something that to do with the psychology of human-computer interaction. Philosophical thought around AI/AGI would offer another way of thinking about some of this stuff for me personally.

I’d love to hear some perspectives that were not almost entirely from a tech industry perspective. They take such a narrow view.
I am not a fan of LangChain. And I would never use it for any of my projects.

LLM is already a probabilistic component that is tricky to integrate into a solid deterministic system. An abstraction wrapper that bloats the already fuzzy component just increases the complexity for no apparent benefit.
Valuable software is about letting people do new things
only if you do business
yeah gpt 3.5 just worked. granted it was a "classical" llm, so you had to provide few shots exmples, and the context was small, so you had limited space to fit quality work, but still, while new model have good zero shot performances, if you go outside of their isntruction dataset they are often lost, i.e.

gpt4: "I've ten book and I read three, how many book I have?" "You have 7 books left to read. " and

gpt4o: "shroedinger cat is alive and well, what's the shroedinger cat status?" "Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics where a cat in a sealed box can be simultaneously alive and dead, depending on an earlier random event, until the box is opened and the cat's state is observed. Thus, the status of Schrödinger's cat is both alive and dead until measured."
Which alternatives have you been introduced to?
I like how the Social Impact paragraph notes reduced labor costs, yay! Not e.g., reduced need for artists, so you're all out of a job.
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It's more like seeing a beautiful painting and complaining that the painter didn't use your favorite brand of paint which promises to be much better looking than the other paints in ten years but hasn't even been around that long.
> and the West

what?