skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> War? The EU didn't start a war when the US blew up nordstream 2.

As people, who most likely are outside of the intelligence community, we don't know who blew up NS2. Current lead suspect is Ukraine, although speculation ranges from the US to the Russians doing it themselves. Of course, if there's some substancial evidence aside from "Biden said something one time", I'm sure people would be interested. But before such evidence is presented, this conspiracy theory doesn't really hold water.

But let's entertain the idea some. Assuming that CIA or whatever did do it (again, need more evidence), why would they a) do it again, and b) do it for the sake of Microsoft of all things? At least NS2 can easily be seen as a strategic liability. Meanwhile, it'd be pretty nearsighted to do this kind of an op just because Microsoft is being held liable for bundling Teams and abusing its dominant market position with it.
Excellent article, IMO. I did have one thought here:

> Real-world policies frequently contradict their rhetoric, as seen in various domains: .... Unemployment benefits: Benefits vary widely across states, often misaligning with political stereotypes and cost of living differences (e.g., Texas offering more generous unemployment benefits than California).

One could make the argument that Reagan, being the tip of the metaphorical spear that was the austerity movement here in the United States getting his start as Governor of California, could explain the oddity. The movement gathered it's steam in the Golden state, after all, a big part of which was the spread of the (largely completely made up) notion of the welfare queen, and how people were living large on the Government dole.
I've managed to convert a few family and friends to Linux (PopOS) at this point. A lot of games run under Wine/Proton without issue and most general use (email, facebook, youtube) pretty much just works for them.

While not all cases, one might be surprised how many could use Linux without issue if someone else installs and configures it for them. Much like Windows is installed and configured by someone else when the system is new.
Was ready for a comparison between Sun and Psion!

PS: Had both
Official EU commission release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
> The innovative approach of Multilingual Retrieval Augmented Generation (M-RAG) overcomes traditional boundaries by not only retrieving existing information cross-language but also augmenting it through generative models.

So the normal query expansion used in RAG?
Have you seen that video yourself?
I have worked on this in the past, and still touch it from time to time.

This data comes from attribution data (https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/components/a...) and the installation ping (https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...).

Most of the Firefox installers/packages for Windows & macOS on https://archive.mozilla.org/ have a sentinel value for attribution data that indicates "this is a build that Mozilla produced and uploaded to archive.mozilla.org", and is considered to be from a known source. (Anyone that downloads directly from archive and redistributes will maintain this data and also be considered known.)

Downloads that flow through www.mozilla.org and meet certain conditions (most notably, Do Not Track being disabled) will have this data overwritten at download time with UTM parameter information (see the first link above). These are considered to be from a known source as well (our own website!).

I'm not an _expert_ on the analysis side of this data, but I believe that install pings that don't contain attribution data are considered "unknown". (There may be other cases that end up in the "unknown" bucket as well - I honestly don't know.) On Windows, there's a _shockingly_ high percentage of installs that fall into this bucket.
Luck, in essence, is a skill. Being in the right place at the right time.

However, this skill cannot be taught, cannot be honed, etc.

What can be taught or practiced, at least partially, is the ability to be prepared for serendipity.

You're absolutely right though, and plenty of people fail for many reasons including bad luck or for reasons they had no control over. As a society, we need to make sure that folks who do take a a chance but fail aren't left to rot and still are able to put food on the table and take care of their families.
Poker is the best analogy... for the entire life's success, not just entrepreneurship.

You've got a set of cards, some of them can be really good, some really bad. This can the country you were born, family financial power, genes, etc

If you have great cards and play poorly, you can still lose pretty badly. If you have bad cards initially and know how to take advantage of opportunities (new cards that are dealt), you can win.

Hard work is improving your chances for success, you'll unlock more opportunities and it's up to you how you handle them.
Followed by another “What?” section also left blank lol
Having studied complexity from a computational perspective (via Santa Fe Institute and 1st wave Cybernetics) and a natural sciences one (via Dave Snowden and Alicia Juarrero) my preference is to stay away from modelling complex systems particularly complex adaptive ones. There is value in modelling, but heed the advice that all models are wrong. If you want to understand why, take a look at Steven Wolfram's Computational Irreducibility and Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework.

As for your interest in self-assembly and emergence I would highly recommend Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action and Context Changes Everything - they are both tapping biological sciences to update and better inform our views of the world in deeply meaningful ways. The former changes our notion of cause-and-effect as the driving force in complex systems, stepping away from the Newtonian billiard ball frame. The latter expands on it talking about how constraints underpin the actions and dynamics in complex systems.

I'd agree that I'd love to see some convergence eventually in the complexity sciences world - but it is a new science relatively speaking - the divergence is a positive property in my opinion!

Keep up the energy, keep writing and keep researching! I enjoyed your post, it reminded me of the excitement I have for the field as a whole and the thirst I had for very similar questions! I wouldn't of guessed you were a 16yr old had you not stated it. Be prepared to have fundamental views changed and get comfortable with uncertainty!
Good point. We wouldn't be talking if there were no mutual exchange of value to be had.
My god yes. It's so, so bad...
An integer constant expression with value 0 is guaranteed to convert to a null pointer (in fact, the "null pointer constant" was traditionally defined to be precisely that). But an integer with value 0 that's not an integer constant expression can potentially be legally a pointer value which is not a null pointer. Which means, confusingly, that it is legal for this to print true:

if (((void*)0) != (void*)(0, 0))
puts("true");

(Conversion between integers and pointers is a lot less well-specified than many people suspect, and that's before people start pondering provenance.)
https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

That has reputable downloads, and the main page discusses paths to activation.
Aquihire for 5devs working on video. Some investors got connection and payday.
Gut microbes may influence how you handle stress
Both are necessary but neither is sufficient.
Why was he put in isolation? Seems harsh, especially given that he is not a violent criminal.
Indie games is one market where just being pretty good or competent is not enough due to saturation. It might have been long time ago, but not anymore. Same goes for most arts... Just how saturated market is is a big question to ask. With too saturated market you just really need to be both very good and lucky that is noticed.

In less saturated markets being competent and working hard enough to sell might be enough.
Threads are fantastic.

If people noticed the top message and they care they can subscribe and get notifications and it won't bother anyone else.

If something is sufficiently important people post the reply in the channel in one go. People can also tag people or groups.

Anyone who isn't using threads fundamentally misunderstands slack and is using it as WhatsApp/Facebook.

You can pin conversations and I agree that giving stuff names would be good but within slack, it would probably be too unwieldy. There's different patterns of communication and slightly ephemeral chat, which is often disorganised shouldn't be your long form. If you want, just copy and paste it but the forum/ticket thread probably deserves better quality.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40775301
> moving LLM inference closer to brain-like efficiency.

Yeah but the brain does more than predictive text.
It’s very likely the case their employer had configured some kind of feature set and logic to respond to the denial. Out of the box, Microsoft Entra doesn’t do that kind of thing.
Unschooling Is the Parenting Trend That's Pissing Everyone Off
Indeed; "Money is a way to keep track of the score" was explicitly stated in some of the entrepreneurial presentations I went to at the end of my degree, the first time I tried self employment.
The next version will support obsidian.
Since the latest version refactored the plugin with Manifest V3, the plugin doesn't support firefox. You can use the old version first!

https://github.com/webclipper/web-clipper/releases/tag/v1.35...
They mean the people who built and ran it.
This guy GDPRs... ^^
huh? Wikileaks used all reputable journals/newspapers to vet and publish doc that would ensure no soldiers or civiliands will be hurt by the disclousre.

How is that "fuck the system" ?

How is trying to uncover warcrimes a bad thing?
It's not hard work, nor luck. It's who you know. Then one could argue that "who you know" might be the product of either luck or hard work, which would be a valid answer. In any case, I believe knowing the right people with the right connections is the difference between having a successful business or not (at least in my industry)
Awful summary. There is very clearly a LV logo right in the middle of the wallet. LV is famous for their leather being absolutely covered with their logo, it’d be rather difficult to make anything that didn’t show it. (Unless you really were just wanting to repurpose the leather and used acetone to dissolve the coating. But that would not get you that sweet sweet youtube ad revenue – not to mention the revenue he’s getting for these fake LV items, which he would not be able to match with just “plain leather wallet”)

It’s really not a cut and dry case.
Show HN: RelayBeam – A multi-port real-time contextual messaging platform
Hi HN! I've been developing a communication platform RelayBeam, it is a multi-port real-time contextual messaging platform. With a unique multi-port feature; it organizes conversations based on context through the user-defined ports and hence offers a streamlined alternative to traditional email.

Why I am building this?
Traditional communication tools such as email and scattered messaging apps are inefficient and disconnected, leading to information overload and difficulty in staying organized and prioritizing tasks. Individuals and teams struggle to manage multiple communication channels and platforms for different contexts, this hinders productivity and causes frustration.

How RelayBeam solves this:
On RelayBeam, users can create multiple ports for different contexts and purposes of communication. It provides robust real-time messaging capabilities, through which users can easily communicate across various contexts, simplifying communication and collaboration for both teams and individuals. Whether it's coordinating with colleagues on a project, organizing social events with friends, or staying connected with family, RelayBeam streamlines communication and enhances collaboration from within a single interface.

Learn how RelayBeam works with some examples at: https://relaybeam.notion.site/RelayBeam-17806e37846c4eba80a2...

I have released the beta version and it is live at: https://relaybeam.com

Feel free to use it and let me know what additional features you would like to see!
Ha, that's another thing that grinds my gears. Teams, Teams (Personal) Teams (new)... WTF people you're supposed to know what you're doing here.
If you can identify a “moment”, then it’s the wrong moment for OTA
Show HN: Url Knife
True but not mutually exclusive with having social finesse, e.g. being “suave.”
Yeah, FWIW, this kind of bag fee is very common in the U.S. as well, with the same effects (though perhaps not in northern Michigan). In fact, single use plastic bags are outright banned in many parts of the U.S. I guess I'm not sure what GP means by "No one ever talks about paper bags."
Lot of people here are saying luck is a huge factor, which it can be. However, you still need to put in the hard work to have something ready for when that lucky opportunity does come knocking. So in summary, your 'lucky moment' depends on the prior hard work that's been put into whatever it is you're making.
True status is your impact on the world, both realized and potential. Being able to waste thousands of meals' worth on food for a mundane everyday item is a cheap approximation of that.
It's anchored on the left. ${name#subdir/} will turn 'subdir/abc' into 'abc', but will not touch foo/subdir/bar. I don't think bash even has syntax to replace in the middle of an expansion, I always pull out sed for that.
Yea, it certainly isn't all one or the other, but people are on average quite bad at estimating the precise degree to which we have control over uncertain outcomes, and tend to wildly over or under estimate based on emotions, biases and superstitions.
New Axobject-Query Maintainer Faces Backlash over PR to Support Node.js 0.4
Cells Are Starving for Creatine
Hi folks. The team at Vercel has a great guide for migrating CRA to Next.js manually (https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/upgrad...). We converted this guide to STEP so that you can run it as an AI agent automation on Second (https://www.second.dev/).
This has been the way for years and is not news. It is hilarious that anyone on any os, with any browser might search "how to take back control". To not have your bank account frozen, or the CPS come by for a visit.

These windows users are and have been trained not to think. It is best to keep them locked in and unaware.

My gripe is that an os that generates revenue isn't getting taxed. Like coin mining or in game loot drops.
One of the products I built was profitable because I sent a tweet to some guy, he answered, gave me the contact to some other guy that was in charge of purchases and he told me send me a proposal, which he later accepted.

I would call that 99% luck, because I had done that before in multiple occasions but no one answered.
The most beautiful words I've read today.

Can everyone please use Mattermost, Slack, or Matrix chat?
Very sceptical of the claims that they don't lose any performance. Sounds like wishful thinking without enough effort put into measuring the performance loss that has to be there due to the heavy quantization. They even dropped computing the entire matrix addition, only focusing on some parts of it. If the benchmarks used don't show a quality drop, then that's because those benchmarks are not able to properly measure said quality drop. (edit: typo)
Whelp if I’m too stupid too read, then I’m definitely too stupid to replicate her results.
The issue is not that "Microsoft bundled Teams" but rather that Microsoft came to companies like mine at the time and essentially said "We are deprecating Skype and we are offering this resource-hungry, bug-ridden program called Teams as only replacement. You don't have to use it, but we'll bill you for it anyway".

They knew full well that the average IT department would not approve paying for a second tool and offered no "discount" if you didn't want to use it. It was take it or take it.

My only complaint is that this didn't happen sooner, but I'll cut them some slack for not taking swift action during the notably-unremarkable year 2020.
Most likely they see it as cheapening their brand.

Seeing a luxury product being cut up for parts makes people see it as a sum of those parts and not a handcrafted luxury product.
Not "Mongolia" the country. It landed in China, "Inner Mongolia" is the part of Mongolia that is a Chinese province (hence 'inner' in the Chinese name).
That's not true.

If you do `5 / argc`, that's only undefined behavior if your program is called without any arguments; if there are arguments then the behavior is well defined.

Instead, the presence of UB in the execution path that is actually taken, renders invalid the whole execution path (including whatever happens "before" the UB).
That is, an execution path has either defined or undefined behavior, it cannot be "defined up to point-in-time T". But other execution paths are independent.

Thus, UB can "time-travel", but only if it would also have occurred without time travel. It must be caused by something happening at runtime in the program on the time-travel-free theoretical abstract machine; it cannot be its own cause (no time travel paradoxes).

So the "time-travel" explanation sounds a lot more scary than it actually is.
luck is getting to the first page of HN with such a basic and empty "Article"
> a 70B model would fit on an RTX 4090
With this technique, it will not, because it uses a custom FPGA, not consumer GPUs
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
-Coleman Cox

“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

Hard work lets you capitalize on small opportunities. Without it you'd need a 3-sigma occurrence to benefit. Of course, those are the types you hear about, because they make great stories.
You don't have a Candy Crush or Office 365 shortcuts out of the box?

edit: I mean they had to remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to save space...
It seems like it's just a part of aging, sadly. My dad was using computers at MIT back in the 60s before hardly anyone else had ever seen one. I had access to a computer at home my entire life even though the most basic monochrome green PC compatible was $10k in today's money [1], and I remember him using an acoustic coupler modem to connect to some network (a BBS?) at triple digit baud through the actual telephone handset, long before the World Wide Web even existed.

And yet now ... he barely does anything with computers besides play freemium mobile games on his phone. Doesn't email too much anymore, doesn't have online logins to just about anything (like his bank accounts), and can't handle basic debugging of tech issues anymore. I think people just give up at some point and stop trying to stay current with this stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable
Microsoft not being able to make up their mind resulting in a cluttered and nearly unusable UI? Who has ever heard of such a thing?!
Strongly agree about Debian. I'm a longtime Arch user, but it causes headaches when you let a machine get too far out of date, and I wanted something I could put on the stack of old laptops in my closet. One by one, I'm migrating those to Debian Stable. It doesn't matter that everything is a major version behind; these laptops are now single-purpose machines that I rarely boot. They will always be behind regardless, and they might as well be behind on Debian Stable. It works flawlessly, and it's quite simple to set up at this point.

(Also, having ancient single-purpose laptops is fantastic. I have one for recreational programming, and that's all I use it for. I have another for curating my music collection, and one for games. They don't need to be fast, or up to date, or power efficient, because I don't use them all the time. But when I do use them, it's nice to have them set up just so for the thing I want to use them for.)
Interesting, did not know that. Punks seem to like biology it seems ..

"Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University."
My spiciest take on tech hiring
Totally tangental (and paraphrased):

> often I don't see negative qualities in myself until they are exhibited by another person, and it makes it easy for me to recognize that negative quality and never take part in it again

Quite the self-awareness and wisdom! I've seen people change and become better because of this exact effect.

Reminds of the quote:

> A smart person learns from their mistakes; a wise person learns from the mistakes of others
Indeed, a lot of people don't remember but back when spell checking was a new thing, there was genuine concern over whether bundling it with word processors was anticompetitive.

Or if Word and WordPerfect should be sold without spell checkers, and they'd need to interoperate with third party ones.
And remains a solid use of a single jukebox credit.
The overkeen title editor is one of my pet peeves about HN.

There’s something quite arrogant about how’s it’s configured which I can’t quite put into words
And I guess the next one will be OpenAI trash (aka Bing chat enterprise or something) bundled in O365
The art of saying no without saying no
The repurposed leather from the old LV bags has the LV logo on it.
By this logic the function below would be UB. It isn't.

void f()
{
int d;
bool divide;
std::cin >> d >> divide;
std::cout << (divide ? 1/d : d);
}
This title was a challenge to fit the limits. Original title: "New axobject-query Maintainer Faces Backlash Over Controversial Decision to Support Legacy Node.js Versions".
> why etcd NEEDS more than 2

The consensus algorithm (Raft in this case) requires that a majority agrees, so you need to have an odd number of nodes (and 1 wouldn't make sense, hence 3 is the minimum, and in practice works very well).
Saying 'No': How Conflict Avoidance Varies Between Cultures
> holly fucking shit, you are SO patronizing.

Perhaps (it is a subjective matter, in more ways than one, and some more importantly than others). What of it?

Or another way of looking at it: which is more important in the big (geopolitical or otherwise) scheme of things...politeness (deceit, ignorance, rhetoric, etc) or truth/accuracy? Don't forget, lives are literally on the line. (Something else I find funny: sometimes lives being on the line is important, other times it is not. It is amazing how inconsistent humans are, even on the very most important matters.)

> their comment is ok

Is this to say that it suffers in no way regarding the specific phenomena that I am asking about?

And if not:

- what does "is ok" mean, precisely?

- do you believe that it does not suffer in any of these ways?

> and i fully understood their logic.

If you did not, would you necessarily be able to know? (Can you realize the architectural problem you are in?)

> I cannot say the same about yours.

What specific "logic" of mine are you referring to here?