skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another point is that even if you did want to prepare, eg by learning an old form of the likely language--you wouldn't be able to speak it, but you'd be better-equipped--you wouldn't know which one. A thousand years ago, Google suggests (ok, actually Quora, but I couldn't find better numbers) there were c.2 million speakers, out of a total population of at least 200 million - in other words, all languages with over 1 percent of the population, and possibly (taking a higher estimate) with as little as 0.5 percent of the population speaking it, criteria met (former) by Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Vietnamese, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Marathi, Telugu, Turkish, Hausa, Tamil, Swahili, Nigerian Pidgin, Tagalog, Punjabi, Korean, and Javanese, and, for the latter, in addition to all of the languages of the former, Amharic, Bhojpuri, Burmese, Gujarati, Italian, Farsi, Kannada, Lingala, Malayalam, Thai and Yoruba.

You can't even rely on languages being somewhat similar (French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are close enough that, given the amount of change, you probably can get away with learning just one of them; if you were really reductionist you could take one Indo-European language, one Turkic language, etc). Even being maximally reductive, the number of languages you need to learn is still 9, 10 if you go by the upper estimates (the Tai-Kadai family, represented by Thai, being optional). That's a lot, especially given that this metric lumps languages as separate as English, Bengali, and Farsi together, or Hausa, Arabic, and Amharic (and Maltese, for what it's worth). And that's just to have a decent shot at understanding a thousand-year-old version of the lingua franca!
My point is that for engineers like myself, it's much easier to read code if I can also have access to debugging features.

> The Chromium code is assumed to be already working and does not need debugging.

Even if it doesn't need debugging, debugging features can help engineers understand the code better.
Right now, I'm just looking for something that looks and acts like the ChatGPT-UI (lowest learning curve).

Our team is very diverse and has no IT background. So we don't use collaborative tools (except MS Teams), but that doesn't stand in the way of productivity - it's powered by chaos.

Thanks, I'll have a look at TypeMind. It's disappointing that the tool is closed source and that no modifications are possible or permitted. I briefly add in my requirements that I would like to have a self-hosted open source tool.
“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.”

— René Descartes
When you learn how Russian intelligence community operates, you realize that this isn't as much a defense of Durov...

This is another way of trying to inflate an incident, to create "an elephant out of a fly"(as they say in Russia)

This has little to no relevance on freedom of speech
This 10000000%. They treat their employees like shit. Intel lost literally their entire red team to Oracle of all places over (at least) pay. Intel has a complete joke pay system that is like something out of the 1950s, underpays substantially and docks that already low pay based on certain qualifications like having a college degree (sorry Steve Jobs!).

I have zero interest as a taxpayer in bailing out their crappy company, let it fail or succeed on its own merits like the companies all of their employees moved to because they were better at retaining staff. Modernize your staffing system to hire competitively or die.
> "I think we forget that the four and five year olds are learning arithmetic. The little professor. The six year olds are getting Speak and Spell. You better look out, there's going to be a generation coming, that will know how to spell."

> The seven-year-olds, of course, are learning BASIC, running the computers. I know one man that bought a computer and took it home, his son is teaching him BASIC. His son is seven. Of course I know another guy that took a computer home, now he has to apply to his three children for computer time."

> They're tremendously bright and they are out there, the brightest youngsters we have ever had."

As a GenXer who was a 10yo computer nerd programming BASIC in 1982, I'm proud to know that she was talking about myself and my peers!

But then she goes on to predict that the brightest kids will come from rural areas because they have "good schools". No idea where she got that idea from - I moved from a city to a rural area around that time and the education wasn't any better and my access to computers was totally gone. In my experience, most rural areas, especially in flyover states, neither had the money for a computer lab, nor the teachers that knew how to use them.
Read the charging document.

Complicity - Administration of an online platform to allow an illegal transaction in an organised band,

- Refusal to communicate, at the request of the authorised authorities, the information or documents necessary for the realisation and exploitation of interceptions authorised by law,

- Complicity - Detention of the image of a minor of a child-pornographic nature,

- Complicity - Dissemination, offer or making available in an organised tape of images of a minor of a pornographic nature,

- Complicity - Acquisition, transport, holding, offer or disposal of narcotic products,

- Complicity - Offer, assignment or making available without legitimate reason of equipment, an instrument, a program or data designed or adapted for the attack and access to the operation of an automated data processing system,

- Complicity - Organised gang scam,

- Association of criminals with a view to committing a crime or offence punishable by 5 years of imprisonment at least,

- Money laundering of crimes or offences in organised gangs,

- Provision of cryptology services to ensure confidentiality functions without a declaration of conformity,

- Provision of a cryptological means not exclusively ensuring authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration,

- Import of a cryptology means that does not exclusively perform authentication or integrity control functions without prior declaration.
Is that similar to how DWM does it? I heard some people complain that tricks like these are not compatible with some free desktop standard. I am not familiar with it though, which is why I am asking.
I dunno.

Games that try to tell an interesting story, the real arty stuff, all that might not be able to use it well.

But Minecraft with good NPC’s, all the open world stuff, that seems like it could be really fun and cool.

How much time did people spend actually engaging with the deep and thoughtful narrative in Skyrim? And how much did they spend just enjoying the world? The latter could be really enhanced with an AI DM, in the medium-term, I bet.
I don't know if I should be sad that the West is trending towards treating humans as China/Russia/Iran/NK do, or if I should be happy that geopolitical powers have one less thing they disagree about.
Oh great, a robot that can take a punch and then beat me to death with a stick.
Because you can't exit vim? :-)
It really isn’t. It’s simple game theory. People want to live in nice places. So they will all want their public housing in a nice place, but people generally like the same places, and that doesn’t really work for 380 million people. Someone will have to live in Mississippi, but then that also locks them down since we aren’t using market anymore to determine who gets to live where.
You must also have missed the constant smearing of protesters as anti Semitic by American public officials, as well as mainstream media alike.

Because I can assure you that coverage of pro-Ukrainian protests as unpatriotic happens in Russia too.
One problem with paying people significantly below market is that some of your people will be disgruntled and will optimize for working as little as possible without getting fired.

Soon enough there are entire groups whose culture aligns with cutting corners and pretending to work.
Causes and consequences of US teacher strikes
No, your time horizon is too short. Prices go up in the short term, which increases profits, which incentivizes competition, which brings prices down in the long term. A few years of increased prices is worth increased efficiency over decades. Prices are going in most industries, US markets are generally quite competitive.
For context, folding clothes is a traditionally difficult problem in robotics you do as a benchmark for how capable your system is. When I worked for a manufacturer less than a decade ago, we were still deciding against doing it at trade shows because the reliability wasn't high enough yet.

The fact that it's hard to get right is the whole point and why the Twitter post is emphasizing that it's being done with very little work on cheap arms.
I guess so? At least if police reaches out to prevent/stop/investigate a crime where you as an administrator are able to help, and you don't respond, it may be argued that you are complicit.
So we don't do it anymore.
"Brutal."
Did the study also touch in aromantic people?
> If you’re bad enough at your job to get fired you basically are a fraud.

Depends on who thinks you are bad enough and how they came to the conclusion.

If your boss thinks you are bad enough - the question is why do they think so? Is it laziness, incompetence, or merely small nonsense that the boss couldn't accept retroactively? Is this all via stack rank or fake BS quotas? What is it?
GNU Emacs Reference Card [pdf]
The Communists of the 20th century should have used it in their sales pitch. After all, redistribution is all about democratizing access to money, capital, and land.
I hate to say it but their minimum configs feel like a pricing scam. Like the price of a hotel room before taxes & fees. Even store employees will tell you that you really have to go one level up.
Is French law somehow special or superior compared to other countries legal systems?
This is awesome, big fan of seeing more rust robotics happen and challenging the status quo of C/C++/Python in robotics
I doubt that's needed. 1TB is great and all, but unless you're downloading games or handling a lot of media, you're unlikely to use it all. I don't think most people need that much, and will get by just fine with 512GB or even less (my current work laptop for software dev has a 256GB SSD, and while I could use more if I wanted to, I don't need to think about disk usage, even with a small Windows 11 VM on the same disk)
For anyone who skipped subtraction in school, 16 GB minus 4 GB for AI still leaves you with 12 GB usable. And AI won't be running all the time.
This is how the GM bailout was structured, though the government ended up selling their stake in GM after it was rebuilt.

Based on the performance of the companies that the US government does own, this seems like a really bad idea in general. Amtrak has been a money pit for special interests for decades and the USPS is only profitable because they have a legally protected monopoly they constantly abuse to shove spam into the same mailbox where I occasionally receive bills and jury summons (to the point where my USPS service is easily at least 90% spam).
Is Durov even charged with anything? As I understand this release, he is being detained for questioning on an unnamed person being charged to several offenses:

https://x.com/jsrailton/status/1828125807035756706
if staff are leaving for lack of meaning, there may be a related factor. pandemic policy wiped out an entire layer of the economy, where the only bars and restaurants that survived were polarized between well capitalized franchises and absolute bottom of the barrel money laundering operations, and the part of the service business that was cool and desirable where people wanted to work- and was a source of local belonging and meaning for staff- all went out of business. those businesses were culture.

the people working in indie cafes were not the people working at starbucks, and the people at the fashionable neighbourhood restaurant didn't move to a chain or sports bar, they just left the industry. people who can afford to leave do, and the ones that remain aren't the people owners want to grow a business with.

there are some other elephants in the room that mckinsey is paid so very well to talk around, but even their view comes down to the reason people aren't working in service roles is because there has ceased to be opportunity and dignity in them.

between the general class of recently appointed managers and the increasing social desperation of potential employees, closing all those independent businesses and flooding cities with desperate people has caused the bottom to drop out of the middle class and, yeah, the people you thought wanted to work for you are getting the f' out of dodge.
Retrofuturism is always fun. In a similar vein, I'd like to recommend https://paleofuture.com/.
To the version that gets booted up it is a continuation of your experiences though. If we start drawing lines between a perfect copy of your thoughts, brain and whatever makes you think and act like you, taken at for example the moment of death that says that's somehow not you. A lot of normal things like cell replacement and unconscious periods or other things that change your mind like brain damage look very similar to the death and digital copy divide.
I don't think the incentive of this is to destroy the human joy of the game or create a static circus for you to explore. Something like this might give us the ability to focus more on our friends and less on assessing whether they can do what they're saying. As a DM, I get your concern, but I think tech like this could really make sessions more immersive.

I personally love to focus on combat and sometimes miss the nuance of storytelling. Something like this could help nudge you to remember to cater to your players that also enjoy RPing more than picking their spells during a fight

Would you like this more if it gave you the ability to type as input and see the response so that you could use it as a DM tool?
Old ThinkPads wear like iron. Even some of the newer Lenovo ones with the crappy keyboards. I have one such from 2014, it was some guy's DJ machine before I bought it and it still works great.
The empty houses are definitely sold. They are just being held since the return on an unrenovated unit is higher than a renovated one. They are speculating long term, and being landlords doesn’t give them much. There are also apartments that have been sold but are never being lived in before the building is torn down and rebuilt, but they’ll still make their return regardless.

As for the USA, yes it isn’t as bad here yet. But it’s getting there.
Lizards.

Tyrannosaurus means "Tyrant lizard" in greek
Start mining.
Yeah, but trying to create a perfect analogy is like trying to improve the poundcake, just isn't worth it.
The main "backdoor" to Signal is that having access to the phone can leak all of Signal's data. If the phone OS is backdoored, then Signal is already compromised. Anyway, the point is not to make it impossible to exfiltrate data, but to make it as hard as possible.
There's also a group that's against the Federal Reserve, but that belief system tends to be congruent with the "taxation is theft" group
Can't you set the resolution to whatever you want?
IMHO, it’s the government which should understand how capitalism works and to not try interfere with the market …
Busy day in this niche industry!
Is it worth it to be right?
I figure in an enterprise setting, machines get replaced within a few years?

I simply don't trust these latest machines to last without a particular issue happening. There's a fair amount online from the repair shops guys who are repeatedly encountering this issue. It seems like some kind of buck converter fails earlier than expected due to being run closer to its limits, and when it goes it dumps 13v into the SSD chips, destroying them, and bricking the machine, requiring SSD desoldering and component replacement, which isn't cheap or easy to fix. What % risk is unknown, but if the failure appears to be MTTF being reached early, then the longer I hold onto the machine the more likely I will encounter the issue and I don't fancy the risk...

My 2012 11" MBA is still absolutely fine, its the machines after 2016 to now that have the same issue.
you may enjoy my friend nathan's http://postscriptcode.com/

he says it's more like forth, i disagree
Just this morning, there was a story on CNN about a cold case hit and run from 1989 being solved because of DNA on a joint left in the stolen car.

It wasn't even solved because detectives were actively looking at it - they received an (incorrect) tip, and decided to just check out what else was in the case, and ended up sequencing some DNA left in the vehicle. I imagine there are hundreds of thousands of such cases out there like that.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/us/charlotte-nc-cold-case-sol...
Those are allegations. Durov being directly involved with CSAM in any way is not something I've seen substantiated.
That increases performance but it doesn't save any RAM.
Cash for catching scientific errors: bug bounties for academic publishing
You should also look into who's screaming bloody murder following his arrest. Basically, all the usual Russian characters - the foreign ministry which somehow managed to put together a protest super fast on the weekend, all the Russia TV personas, "independent journalists", and the Western useful idiots - Musk first among them. That would never happen for a regular "dissident".
> How does that prove that Telegram as a whole is not secure?

It depends on what you mean by "as a whole". I mean that Telegram by default can read all your private chats, unless you manually enabled e2ee and suffer from related bad UX. On Linux desktop (and phones) it doesn't even allow to enable e2ee at all.
I'm going to confess something: I still do it oldschool. A single box with a SQL server and a webserver running on it. I've taken courses in Docker and whatnot but never applied them.

When you're hosting a single-node cluster, what value do these docker-based tools offer? Is it the fact that you can use a dockerfile to declare your OS-level dependencies consistently?
Julian Assange case shows things change when it comes to big politics.

> On 5 February 2016, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had found that the UK and Swedish governments were holding Assange in arbitrary detention by initially keeping him in isolation at Wandsworth prison and because the Swedish prosecutor was conducting its investigation with a "lack of diligence". The Working Group said Assange should be allowed to walk free and be given compensation.[113][114][115] The UK and Swedish governments denied the charge of detaining Assange arbitrarily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
No, it doesn't reduce latency.
It goes both ways.

Mathematicians will take a moment denigrate Geometric Algebra as "linear algebra with a uselessly nonstandard notation", ignoring that we should prefer a less awkward way of structuring linear algebra than "pseudoscalars" and "pseudovectors".
I also pay my crypto taxes. They need to replace "non-compliance" with "non-enforcement" in this article.

In fact, I would love to see some of the "lol taxes" people have some enforcement action taken against them.

The only reason wage-tax "compliance" is so high is because there's a system in place to automatically extract as much tax as possible and make you file a refund for the difference.

I think you would find equal amounts of "non-compliance" in any cash or barter based business.
If these +1000 humans remain similar to us, then I imagine they will resurrect people for much the same reasons we would do so now, if we could:

- Proof: At first, dead people will be resurrected just to prove that it can be done.

- Research: The dead person was a witness to / participant in a historically significant event about which historians want to learn more. Or is a semi-random choice for learning about life at a particular time and place.

- Fame: The dead person is a historically significant figure and people want to meet them / profit from them.

- Connection to a living person: The dead person is identified as a direct ancestor of someone alive and they are curious to meet them, or they feel a responsibility to bring them back.

- Connection to the resurrected: Resurrected people will want to bring back their family and friends, and may push those in control to make this happen.

- Ethics: Some people and cultures may come to think they have a moral obligation to resurrect as many people as possible.

- Just because: Someone with the means to thought it would be cool to bring a random person back and see their reaction.
Airborne communications stations could address the 1/3 of world lacking Internet
"What's your quibble here? The use of the word unfortunately?"

Yes, that's the quibble. 'Unfortunately, you need to do resistance exercises if you want to grow substantial muscles'; 'Unfortunately, you need to stop watching porn like crazy if you want to have normal behavior with men/women'; 'Unfortunately, you need to stop stuffing yourself with food if you want to be in decent shape.'

For the first two examples, 'unfortunately' seems out of place. But for the third example, food, it seems reasonable. And it is because gorging on food until you lose your wits has been normalized, but there is nothing unpleasant about having a normal relationship with food.
Oh no! We’ve democratized Photoshop, how will we ever survive?
I guess biggest reasons are:
1. Famous person
2. Someone to study
3. They really invested a lot of money into this, we have a law
IBM Shuts China R&D Operations in Latest Retreat by U.S. Companies
Pick your economy-ending force in China:

- Xi's cult of personality and curtailing of capitalism

- A Taiwan invasion attempt that brings massive blockades and boycotts

- Demographic collapse from decades of poor fecundity

- Financial house of cards / property crisis

Zeihan used to be a cuckoo clock of saying this stuff every year, but recently most of the poo-pooers have gone quiet and even started saying things that quietly agree with him, so I think China doomism is entering mainstream policy planning.

China is undeniably being far more militaristic and aggressive in recent years, and this combined with the COVID shock has led to a large rethink in policy and a questioning of outsource manufacturing reaching the point of sharp security concerns.

Globalization being "over" is debatable, but the notion that the world is in a post-war "new history" is dead with the Ukraine war and China's increasing aggression.
There seems to be a feeling that implies "telegram being unmoderated is a public benefit that outweighs the negative impact."

I'm not understanding the logic there. CSAM not being taken down after a request from law enforcement is an awful thing.

I've also read that you get bombarded by drugs and sex trafficking if you search locally, which is seriously yuck if it's true. Does that really happen?
Telegram operates in France, this is sufficient.

Edit: By "operates" I mean its services are accessible from France. If an entity cannot or will not comply with EU laws (e.g. GDPR) they can block clients from the EU. I regularly come across such websites with geoblocks (a few times a year).
This right here is why you pay. I've alternatively walked into places where no one was responsible for updating and managing these tools and they degrade into yet another problem. It's still cheaper and more efficient.
I think toxins distribute in various areas with different amounts in the body. Eating the flesh should have less than some organs I guess. Cats probably eat everything and they are quite small.

After a while the toxins wear off.
Because they lobby against advancement of renewable energy?