skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does LPR/DPR militia fight the Ukrainian army then, from 2014 onwards? Because they totally do. They are among the most motivated troops.

There never was such a thing. The war in the east started on 12 April 2014, when Russian commandos led by Igor Girkin from FSB seized government buildings in Sloviansk. The ECHR did not find any evidence of a militia in Ukraine that wasn't manned, supplied and controlled by Russian armed forces. But you cannot admit any of this, because without the origin-myth of civil war in Ukraine, the whole justification for the invasion would collapse.

> Then more Ukrainians will die "defending their homes", as well as Russians of course.

That's the price many nations in Europe have had to pay for their freedom. It is not too common to see people throw away their freedom and willingly become serfs like Russians have under Putin. There is no greater indictment of modern Russia than the the fact that Ukrainians choose to go through this hell if it saves them from ending up with the kind of life you have.

> They just really don't like the state of Ukraine (and post-Soviet borders), but at the same time want Russia to win the war. It's simple.

Indeed. Simply a Russian version of Nazism. Delusional ideas about rearranging the world put forward by a paranoid dictator, with population that out of deep inferiority complex willingly believes his soothing lies and follows him blindly, united under Z-swastika, in murdering peaceful people across Europe by hundreds of thousands while erasing entire cities from existence. And then you wonder why no-one respects you and why Russia is increasingly seen as a curse on this world.
It's less of a chicken-and-egg problem and more of a cart-and-horse one. You fundamentally cannot promote a new solution in a market that won't respect the values you're trying to promote. Hedonism doesn't drive synthetic rubber sales, price-sensitive customers do.
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There's a difference between oral and written debate as well, and when a lot of people thinking about "arguing" or "debating" they are thinking of live impromptu discussion.

That's not a place to do detailed reasoning. Most people are bad at impromptu and have loads of shit habits. And live impromptu is not necessarily the right setting to shed yourself of shit habits either.
This self-contradicts.

Covering up a scandal could well be strategic, and serve to control and steer collective conversation.
> You are not entitled to information others do not want you to have, no matter how well-intentioned or well-resourced you are.

Counterpoint: taxes. By living in a country, you are subject to their laws. Said laws require you to pay taxes on things like income and property. I'm aware this is attempted to be kept secret at a large scale, but when it comes down to it, by living in a country you agree to submit or have collected that information to the responsible authority.
No. We build our societies to be as beneficial for us whilst accepting the compromises.

Cars are waaaay better than horses. So now we have systems of licensing, proving you are capable of driving safely, ways to track your car ensure it is driven safely - perhaps originally if a police officer saw you and now every minute of the day we can see if you are speeding or potentially dangerous

We did all this over time, but the current system woukd give Sherlock Holmes a heart attack.

But we had to find ways for millions and millions to live on top of each other - it is not perfect and can be improved - and should be done with care.
Sounds like a management issue, not a PM/Engg issue
"destroying" seems hyperbolic.
While I think tokenization does cause limitations, it is not as clear cut as one might think.

GPT4 can answer questions given to it in Base64. I would imagine it suffers some degree of degradation in ability from the extra workload this causes but I haven't seen any measurements on this.

I have wondered about other architectures to help. What happens when a little subnet encodes the (16 or 32?) characters in the neighborhood of the token into an embedding that gets attached to the top level token embedding?
Special in what way? The most special thing about Kryoflux was their EULA claiming _every bit of data imaged with Kryoflux hardware belongs to Kryoflux_

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/ti...
> The author asserts a problem, but provides no actual data to support the assertion, other than linking to some tweets of other people's opinions.

Here's the hosts linked to by the article:

Object.entries(Object.groupBy(Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".body a")).map(a => a.href.split("/")[2]), x => x)).map(([host, refs]) => [host, refs.length])

[ "www.acep.org", 4 ]
[ "substackcdn.com", 3 ]
[ "link.springer.com", 2 ]
[ "onlinelibrary.wiley.com", 1 ]
[ "papers.ssrn.com", 1 ]
[ "catalyst.nejm.org", 3 ]
[ "www.washingtonpost.com", 1 ]
[ "mmshub.cms.gov", 2 ]
[ "yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com", 2 ]
[ "youcanknowthings.com", 1 ]

The article cites several published papers, as well as the American college of emergency physicians--I don't see twitter anywhere.
> You have to walk them every day

If you don't have a sizable yard.
Would you be okay with people reading and questioning your search history, and any activity or messages ever posted on any site? How about your family members, or doctor, or insurer? How about during a job/school/TV interview?

Are you happy to share your net worth, bank and credit account balance and activity with advertisers?

Are you ok with some AI determining (based on its opaque reasoning) that you are a potential terrorist threat, and should be imprisoned?

Even if you are okay with all the above, do you recognize that not all of society would agree and that some people could even be put into grave danger due to eg: political, religious, sexual etc views? In an extreme case, if "most" people are open and "have nothing to hide", it means that everyone who isn't open must "have something to hide" and should be persecuted. Normalizing this openness actually inches us toward this extreme.

Also you should recognize that your answer based on today's government and political parties may not resemble the parties that hold power in the future. Does an extreme group -- who is the farthest from your own views and in fact violently disagrees with your lifestyle choices -- taking power in the future not worry you at all?
What are the challenges with this implementation? Assuming inexpensive depth cameras, are multiple cameras throughout the living space (to ensure full coverage) networked not feasible?
To be clear, I meant that the conversation (the argument) would be a better experience for everyone involved, not the argument itself being somehow strengthened by it.

Nevertheless, I'll try to recall how I arrived at this conclusion.
The biggest influence was seeing for all my life, the left and right in America each claim the other is stupid, irrational, and un-convinceable by rational argument. When I was 16 it really did seem to me that the right was the irrational side here, but seeing everything come full circle with what's happening on the left these days, I realized it's kind of weird and unlikely that half the population, divided on a political line, is actually worse at thinking than the other half.

(See the bottom of this thread for a vivid example.)
I'm looking forward to the Go rewrite. Purely so it's less of a pain to declaratively install, and I can work it into my workflow.
And yet, the vast majority of math research serves no direct purpose, and the majority of professional mathematicians, at least in academia, look down on applied mathematics.
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Also it's just so much easier to get the benefits of constraint without the downsides if one is in charge of the decisions. Like if you can do something with $10k and have $30k to work with, many adults manage to constrain themselves by merely moving $20k to a savings account, and those who lack the requisite executive function for this simple "out of sight out of mind" organizational schema can often function with slightly stronger artificial constraints, sometimes aided by a collaborator. People do NaNoWriMo or whatever, and while many fail, the benefit of the artificial time constraint motivates a lot of people, despite being self-imposed. In either case, this informal method of constraint is more responsive to situational changes or emergencies than an optimization valve that always wants to bring costs down and doesn't understand any of the functional constraints, as is the case for most finance and management arms of "efficiency"-driven orgs. The game theory of budget inflation is really obvious when you consider it in terms of locus of agency
Because who you are keeping something private from is often more important than what you are keeping private. For example, there are plenty of things I would be fine sharing with the anonymous internet that I wouldn't share with my coworkers. My coworkers knowing something embarrassing about me has obvious harm. There is no real harm in strangers knowing something embarrassing about me. And companies and governments are both largely strangers.

I think the fundamental problem with the pro-privacy side of the debate is an inability to communicate why privacy matters in way that makes sense to people who think like this. The argument always seems to come down to some dystopian future in which this information is abused, but hypotheticals like that are just never very motivating when people have so many more pressing issues that are causing clear and immediate harm rather than some hypothetical future harm.
Lil Artist is lighting up Times Square! Big thanks to RevenueCat
for making this happen. If you are in Times Square and want to see it in person, it'll be displayed :26 minutes past every hour at Broadway and 47th. I'd love if you can take a video & share it.
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"Banding together" with neighbors, while conceptually related to forming government and taking cohesive social action together, is not really the same thing.

One of the primary arcs in human history has been to recognize the presence of "in-group" and "out-group" others, and, over the long haul increase the number of people considered to be in-group and decrease the size of the out-group.

Doing stuff with people clearly recognizable as part of your in-group is excellent and to be encouraged, but the hard work of making government work is related to figuring out how to function with your out-group(s) too.
Many projects have a deadline, but managers still enjoy pretending that they are doing Scrum, because it makes them sound enlightened.

"You need to get this project done in 6 weeks, but because we are agile, you can choose which parts you implement during the first 3 weeks, and which parts during the second 3 weeks. Also, I am not really sure about the specification, and some important parts may change halfway, but that's okay because you guys are agile, right?"

Basically, agile was supposed to mean "project deadlines are unpredictable, let's just focus on the tasks we are currently doing (Kanban) or let's focus on one increment at a time (Scrum)", but instead it means "you are responsible for meeting the deadline, but I am not giving you the full specification at the beginning, and instead will just tell you the requirements at random moments when they come to my mind".

EDIT:

Some parts of this article are just triggering to read.

> Cons of Scrum: Resistance to Change Mid-Sprint: Scrum's framework can be rigid within a sprint, and any changes occurring within the sprint could disrupt the team's flow.

Translated to plain English: Some companies change their mind about the product so often that they are literally unable to plan even for the following 2 or 3 weeks.

> Dependence on Stand-Ups and Meetings: Scrum can be meeting-heavy which could potentially lower productivity if not managed correctly.

Stand-up done properly takes 5 minutes. What other heavy meetings are we talking about? The retrospective and planning that happen once in 3 weeks? Any meeting on top of that is a part of your company culture, not Scrum.

> Not Ideal For Solo Workers: If the team is too small or primarily consists of independent workers, Scrum’s benefits may be less noticeable.

Even as a solo worker, to be told what needs to be done during the following 3 weeks, and then to be left alone during those 3 weeks, would probably be a huge improvement for many.
Interesting idea, is it free?
Yeah the hucksters are selling hard. I don’t buy their end vision is as easy as they claim it is. But I also don’t deny that at least in Musk there’s been a history of doing amazing things about 5 years later than he claimed he would. I don’t like the man but I am amazed at how he took our inability to dream any more and turned it on its head.

You can verify it yourself, but don’t expect the out of the tin stuff with a web UI and a iPhone app to be where the power lies. Those are demo ware. They’re literal toys. The current state of the art use requires a lot of trial and error, struggling with shitty abstractions, lack of knowledge or draw on, and a lot of fumbling with a brand new technique let alone technology. It also requires understanding how generative AI works, loss functions, a fair amount of intuitively understood math, and some really creative ideas. It’s all more or less open source or where it’s not the per api fees are reasonable and there are cloud services you can use. It’s all possible it’s just not -easy- to verify. And - since I’ve done it myself and seen its power first hand in what I do I actually don’t have a lot of drive to convince others. Everyone will see sooner or later as the abstractions and the techniques mature.

As such I don’t feel compelled to build a body of evidence in the least. Don’t believe me - ok! Don’t want to really dig in and verify things at the cutting edge of work being done because it’s a lot of work? Ok! But likewise, asserting the contrary without having done that work is just as fallacious, and doesn’t change my first hand experiences in the least.
The problem with privacy isn’t the rhetoric. This is just crap we, HN visitors who are already of one mind, entertain ourselves with.

The problem is the overlap between those who prioritise it and political nihilism. If you want to have fun, argue with a totem. If you want to be effective, find an argument that will motivate making voting and calling electeds a habit. Particularly those who think both are a farce.
Agree with a few caveats. In suburbia some folks prefer to go buy a tool, extra vehicle(s), or call family far away than knock on the doors of a few neighbors.

Of course even that is mostly an illusion since suburbia is subsidized by food from rural communities and income from rich clusters.

It's also kind of unhealthy to live such atomized lives, at least for many people. Alone time is important to me, yet I've come around to appreciating friendly community of all kinds.
Also see “Oppression Olympics”.
What's controversial about that is that's simply not possible for low wage earners. I'd hazard a guess that it doesn't affect high wage readers here, but if you're making minimum wage in a HCOL area, not buying big screen TVs and not buying luxury cars and shoes isn't enough to make ends meet if you also want to save anything for retirement.

That or everyone else is an idiot, but I've found that mindset is only good for feeling smug about yourself and underestimating people,
so let's assume it's not that and try to find something else.
And the usians too.
Domains mean nothing. Click on the very first link (ACEP; anchor text "sounding the alarm"), and you'll see that it's a news article (actually, an editorial) with no cited authors that I can find. It leads with this completely un-sourced assertion:

> Wait times and staffing shortages are worse today than at any point during the pandemic in many communities. The resulting bottlenecks are overwhelming hospitals, causing dangerous delays, and putting lives at risk. Emergency care teams are strained to their limits. Demand for emergency care and services shows no signs of slowing as we head straight toward this winter’s “triple threat” of flu, COVID-19, and pediatric respiratory illnesses like RSV that are filling emergency departments. The influx of patients only piles more stress onto the shoulders of emergency physicians, who are doing all they can to treat anyone who needs them.

Aside from leaning heavily on emotional wording ("strained to their limits", "doing all they can"), these kinds of claims are meaningless without data. The rest of the piece is no better -- it's just anecdote after anecdote, written in newspaper style.

The second link is a poll of patients. That's data of some kind, I suppose, but it's not what you'd use to support the claim. That's the entirety of the evidence advanced to prove the fundamental claim that emergency rooms are "overwhelmed".

Point being: I looked at the links before I wrote what I wrote. The "evidence" being used here is mostly opinions, surveys and editorials. It's a classic example of "evidence laundering", wherein someone links to pop articles on reputable-sounding domains to make bald assertions sound like rigorous research.

I said "tweets" because I thought I saw a link to X in there, but I think I was wrong about that. Mea culpa.
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> For instance, all of U.S. politics fits neatly into just two political parties.

Except ... it doesn't.

There are American Marxists. There are anarcho-capitalist libertarians. There are ethno-Christian nationalists. And more ...

If it appears to "fit" into two political parties, that has more to do with what aspects of American politics appears in whatever media you see, which in turn reflects both the formal powers of those two parties, and their informal power (e.g. the Overton window).
I've heard some good things about beeware, but haven't tested it myself, so not sure. Most people I know use either qt or WX python.
Can LLMs Generate Visualizations with Dataless Prompts?
We seem to be in agreement then. The decay in question is the decay of the artificial belts of trapped radiation, not radioactive decay.

The energy trapped in these fields did affect satellites months later, and this is explained in detail starting around page 23.
The benefit of living in a HCOL area isn't just salary. If you own property you've been getting huge gains in value.
> Any politician pirring forth this stupid statement

Genuine question: who was the last one in America who did? (Article’s “some politicians” link is broken for me.)

Asking because it strikes me as a straw man we, who believe in privacy as a right, enjoying arguing against.
EOS Energy (zinc-bromide grid-scale batteries), just christened their first automated manufacturing line and have entered mass production.
Dunno if it was post-Quebecor acquisition, but Freedom Mobile did just that. Not every populated area, just their existing footprint.
The article itself is just repeating the dissenting opinion from the Supreme Court. It's not fearmongering to present a hypothetical legal situation that might resolve with undesirable outcomes.

Now, you could argue that the dissent was fearmongering but technically that's what you're supposed to do when you identify a glaring problem in a ruling. Otherwise you won't convince people the mistake is worth fixing.
The free/open-source movement has greatly benefited society by encouraging people to overcome their fears and start distributing their work in the form of source code rather than just precompiled binaries ("closed source").

However, the core idea of sharing source code is not exclusive to the FOSS movement. This concept aligns with the original intentions of the Berne Convention. The United States adopted the Berne Convention relatively late, in the late 80s if I'm not mistaken. Before this adoption, source code made publicly available without prior copyright registration procedures was effectively considered public domain. This situation allowed businesses and startups to exploit these sources to create closed-source commercial products without crediting the original authors.

The Berne Convention was a game changer. It introduced a new rule that simply making source code publicly available automatically grants the author exclusive copyright of their work, without any bureaucratic hurdles.

This rule opened up new possibilities for programmers to create open-source projects in the broadest sense. Nevertheless, due to historical reasons, it was not an easy task for the public to understand this new reality. The FOSS movement worked hard to convince people that publishing software in source form is perfectly fine.

However, the free-software philosophy can be quite restrictive compared to what the Berne Convention actually allows authors to do with their work. This ideology is so pervasive today that many programmers believe that publishing source code must involve using an OSI-approved (F)OSS license. Any deviation from this is often seen as supporting outdated business models and harming the programming community's ability to share their work with the public.

These misconceptions likely arise because the FOSS movement has taken the lead in promoting the principles of the Berne Convention, adding its ideological restrictions. The rarely acknowledged truth is that the Berne Convention offers a wide range of possibilities that could benefit the community of authors more than big-tech corporations. The Four Freedoms of Free Software significantly restrict these options for authors.

More importantly, big businesses have already adapted to this new reality and are utilizing this philosophy to their advantage.
There's a point where the vertical integration of services doesn't scale up with demand - and you get what is happening here, which is effectively kanban, a pull based model for patient flow.

The scale out cost for hospitals are in the order of billions and decades to become available.

The US needs significantly more diversionary, urgent care resources - a cut or fracture below a certain threshold does not need to be in the same emergency room as a stab victim or crush victim.

Going back further, preventative care absolutely needs to be in place so chronic illnesses do not progress to the point of emergency.

The Australian model is simple enough: for medications, for the most common treatments, these are on a pharmaceuticals benefits list. The government guarantees the price is kept low, even if the manufacturer is charging ridiculous amounts.
This works, because paying $600 extra a month for someone's pills from taxes saves $1200+ of them not rocking up to hospital on death's door 12 times a year.
Once saw a talk by Roger Antonsen where he did various visualizations of shuffles (but using 64 cards I think for the even splits). Quitw cool images https://rantonse.org/art/2018-07-25
I suggest you check out clayart mailing list:
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You can get great feedback from some of the best potters in the world. Also the authors of one of the definitive books on Cone 6 glazes hang out there.
framing it as targeted advertising is a major part of the problem.
Oops, forgot I had made the repo originally private. Fixed now!
How is discouraging people who don't actually need an ER from showing up at an ER a bad idea? If I have something urgent but not an emergency, I could either do ER or Urgent Care. If I'm pretty confident Urgent Care can handle it, it might make more sense to do 1-2h to go to an urgent care option vs. 10 minutes to ER and 4h wait (for care which exposes me to lots of other risks).

There are a bunch of things where I'd rather wait 8-24h at home, even in pain, than go to an overloaded emergency room.