skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As OP notes, the 'Free Tibet' cause was very popular in the 90s when the US was not seen as being in a great-power conflict with China. So I don't think your 2nd sentence is correct. Your 1st sentence is just classic whataboutism
While it may be a staple of human society, I have always found the levels of alcohol consumption that are portrayed as normal in the media as excessive. Even when the alcohol consumption is being portrayed as problematic, it is often treated lightly.

Now I am not going to claim that this is a conspiracy. I am not even going to claim it is because of money spent on promoting drinking. For all I know, it may simply be a difference in drinking norms between the world I live in and the world those who work in the entertainment industry live in. That said, I don't think the levels of drinking seen in the media are healthy in any way, shape, or form.
The things I've listed are the uncontroversial ones. He presented said slaves to the king and Queen. His own son wrote a biography lionizing his father and talking about the gold quota. We have the court records of his governorship being stripped for brutality.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41825994.
China’s fight against religion and culture is about control. This is due to their modern support of Communism, which tries to eliminate every threat to its ideology (it cannot survive otherwise). That’s why texts on Communism and Socialism often call for the elimination of religion, family structures, etc. It’s not about fighting a “cult” for some virtuous reason. If anything, authoritarianism and Communism are cults, and the Chinese version was visible clearly in the cultural revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds). I’d also note that the absence of religion isn’t cult-free, and there are many cultish movements in the world even from non-religious parts of the world.

From the Chinese perspective pre-Communism, there would be no issue with Tibetan culture. But even if there were, it isn’t for them to care about or interfere with right?

As for your other comparisons. I don’t see cannibalism or Islamic fundamentalism (Jihad) as being comparable to Tibetan culture. Islam has explicit calls for violence against other belief systems. Tibetan culture does not. I can see treating Islam as a threat because of what it states openly, but it would be weird to group that with Tibetan culture, whether before or after Buddhism.
So then if the government buys pens and reams of paper, then it's the government subsidizing office supply stores? But it's not a subsidy if a corporation spends money on the same supplies?

My employer does business with the DoD and with private corporate entities. Both the government and the private sector spend the same money and receive the same products and services. I appreciate that you have a different perspective, but I have a hard time considering my employer "subsidized by the US government" just because the government purchases our product.
USAF now has Cyber Warrant Officers.
This happened with LLMs in a big way. Basically humanity surpassed some kind of AI milestone and we zoomed past the turing test in a big way. But thanks to social media everyone is sort of rolling their eyes at it.
Yes, HN is an English-language site so we change URLs to (hopefully) the best English-language source in such cases. I missed this one earlier though.

(Nothing against the magnificent Spanish language or any other language!)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This would be more persuasive if HTTP servers didn't already widely accept bare 0ah line termination. What's the first major public web site you can find that doesn't?
It’s also weird that Xinjiang and the Uyghur genocide get almost no commentary from the Arab Islamic world, even though the scale of violence against Muslims is far greater than the Israel-Arab conflict, by several orders of magnitude. To me it looks a lot like antisemitism - the smaller conflict matters only because it involves Jews.
'Phenomenal' tool sequences DNA and tracks proteins without cracking cells open
CyberCommand might be able to do something like the Navy nuclear-propulsion program: Enlisted "nukes" get enlistment bonuses and (if they "re-up" after their initial six-year enlistment) fairly-decent "STAR" reenlistment bonuses.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/06/23/big-enli...

https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Career/ECM/Nuclear/...
These aren't.
Author describes experiences that myself can fully confirm. Everything said in this article resonates very strong, including how time slows in observation. This incredible essay is a very organic, honest summary, yet without all the esoteric, of what a mindful presence can be (whenever achieved). A bliss retold in few paragraphs.

Indeed to let go of the worldly rush is truly liberating. What a pity it is not allowed to complement the scriptures with such insights.
That’s not justification, that’s anecdotal
Your shift of signifier here from WP Engine to Silver Lake is interesting. Clever tactic, private equity money is BAD! Unless it’s… I dunno? Black Rock p/e money?
That's excellent work, only nit is I think these were not the v3 raptors. I think they're just now starting production of those, so they still have a bunch of earlier ones they need to use up in these early test flights. This actually makes your calculation more accurate, as earlier versions will need a slightly longer burn time.
Fortran's implicit typing sends its regards from an IBM 704.
You wouldn't want to make something that can stand on its own and actually get complete the mission. How would you afford an army of Agile developers with inflated salaries constantly churning out code that solves problems that don't exist? How could you possibly pay back the VCs that poured millions into your company without ripping off the American taxpayer? If a defense contractor's website doesn't immediately show you what they make or can articulate the services they actually provide, there's a good chance are they are scam artists and should be in prison.
I don't think it's the main reason. People don't care whether someone is selling stuff they create on a platform. Big social media has been doing it for many years now e.g. Facebook and yet it's still there. You come to SO for answers, why would you care that someone is teaching some LLM on them later?
We have not even figured out single cell organisms, let alone slightly more complex organisms - why would intelligence be such an easy target?
How much in germany, which is what the post is about? How much in other countrie?

> The degradation of road surfaces is caused almost entirely by automobiles.

Given the fourth power law I find it hard to believe that larger vehicles, especially good vehicles , are not significant.

Even without wear, surfaces deteriorate. You cannot claim that pavements and cycle lanes are zero maintenance, or have negligible costs to build.
Which cases will it permanently block?
I didn't really get that, his point was that you could no longer find independent review sites. "world's most comfortable chair" is just the kind of thing someone might search for when they want reviews by people who've actually tried out chairs.
Native Americans have far more consideration than Tibetans do. They are free to live per their culture. They can practice their religion. They can use their language. They are afforded every right American citizens are. There are several hundred Indian reservations, totaling something like 2.5% of US soil.

This is by no means a justification for the genocide of native Americans or a way to say they’ve been made whole. But there is simply no fair comparison between their situation today (despite huge injustices in the past) and the situation of Tibetans.
Can OP please tell me how to abolsih CR while in Raw Mode? Did he forget about it, or am I just unimaginative?
Why is it bad? Seems clear enough.
The California Coastal Commission has no authority over a Federal (Military) launch range so there's no need for real concern. Yes using people's personal opinions for denial is illegal, but it's moot regardless. So I'm not sure SpaceX could sue for any damages.
I don't know. It's possible that it was merely a bug, and maybe it was fixed at some point.

But it's also not something that would cause noticeable issues on a network. Apple devices performing slightly better wouldn't be a big red flag. There are many reasons that this could be the case, from a better implementation, better testing, better HW (antennas), a different OS with a better TCP stack, etc.
BeagleY-AI SBC review with Debian 12, TensorFlow Lite, other AI demos
Isn't using alcohol to address loneliness and isolation a recipe for going into a pit of desperation?
That is a different version. The ones launching/landing on Earth are supposed to be caught by arms similar to the booster.
Stop making alts to spam your conspiracy theories everywhere
I could not possibly disagree with this more strongly or violently.

In short - shutup and deal with it. Is it an extremely mild and barely inconvenient nuisance to deal with different or mixed line endings? Yes. Is this actually a hard or difficult problem? No.

Stop trying to force everyone to break their backs so your life is inconsequentially easier. Deal with it and move on.
Already exists, Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. They absolutely trash orbit by planning very badly and over-packing habitats.
Fwiw, GPT o1 helped me figure out how a fairly complex use case of epub.js, an open-source library with pretty opaque documentation and relatively few public samples. It took a few back-and-forths to get to a working solution, but it did get there.

It makes me wonder if the AI successfully found and digested obscure sources on the internet or was just better at making sense of the esoteric documentation than me. If the latter, perhaps the need for public samples will diminish.
Neat, the URL uniquely encodes the map state. Here's a maze I made:

https://victorribeiro.com/isocity/#KQIXEikNDSYlGCQoKScpHB0pF...
I'm not sure that answers my confusion. Even if I am just proving it to myself, why does the occurrence of a not probable event prove the existence of many worlds?
Re whitespace: ... or use the w=1 hidden query parameter: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/files?w=1
I never felt the "need" to drink to "get through" things, and I really haven't had a particularly charmed life. I just drink beer or wine because I like it – that's it.

If drinking is a coping mechanism that works for you: great, hope that works well for you. But for many people it's not.
New Quantum Computing Paradigm Could Make All the Difference [video]
Recent and related:

DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821939 - Oct 2024 (66 comments)
Both. A single person can be great in some areas and a malicious loon in others. In fact, great success in one field can provide the self-confidence and capital to be a catastrophe in others.

But also keep in mind that Musk isn't personally designing and building everything SpaceX does. The staff at SpaceX deserve more credit than they get, especially Gwynne Shotwell.
It’s just occurring to me now that some of the more beautiful beaches I know of in my area, with natural sand deposits that aren’t suffering from erosion, are also oyster beds. At low tide the beds are exposed. They extend another 20 meters out to the ocean from where they’re visible, give or take a few meters.

Maybe that’s coincidence. There are also immense beaches in places like tofino where no such beds exist, but the beaches are huge and sandy without particularly evident erosion. They are the work of much larger tidal and current systems though, so maybe a different beast altogether.

Oysters are so much fun to harvest with kids. Throw on a mask and snorkel, grab a catch bag, and swim around looking for the perfect size for cooking over a fire on a rack. Kids are awesome at it. You can feed half a dozen people easily with half an hour in the water. It’s a bonus if there’s sea asparagus nearby. Bring some lemons and corn on the cob or something similar and it makes for an incredible evening. My best memories of this are on Cortes Island in BC. There are some magnificent oyster beds all over that island, but relatively few (especially that are safe to eat) here in Victoria.
> but once you get a few hundred feet inland, or some elevation, [surge is] not really a problem.

[more clarification than correction] Along the US gulf coast, surge will travel miles inland thru waterways and drainage basins. When it's over, many places drain right away while some can take weeks.

Depending on the storm, an area can get multiple surges.

> Hurricane wind speeds are comparable to tornado wind speeds, except the storms are so much bigger.

[same] Inland wind risk is closely tied to wind field size and relative position to the eye's direction of travel. We're 30 min inland from the gulf. Every factor about Milton (@36h out) was a factor in our risk calc. With Helene, we didn't have to calc anything. But that weekend, we drove the 30 min to help clean/gut houses on the coast.

And to support your synopsis, I describe cat 4/5 landfalls as x hour tornadoes.

> Then the incredible amount of rain they generate can create devastating flooding, and this can happen hundreds of miles from the coast

In the mid 90s we did relief in Athens Ga (from Alberto I think). Storm remnants parked on the GA/AL border for 2 weeks. Six hundred dams broke and the river thru town became over a mile wide. We were mucking out a church on the top of a hill. A road ran from the church, down the long hill to the river. The road was lined with homes that had been fully submerged for 2 weeks.
Knowledge gained from experience that is not included in documentation is also significant part of SO. For example "This library will not work with service Y because of X, they do not support feature Y, as I discovered when I tried to use it myself" or other empirical evidence about the behavior of software that isn't documented.
Thought crime, huh.

He merely observed that the extreme left has a lot more space in politics than the extreme right. Why is it that nazism is banned while we have so many literal proud self-admitted socialists and communists in this country who not only walk this soil completely unpunished but also form organized parties, get elected, get appointed to the supreme court? The judge who held him guilty for calling him a "fatty" is the perfect example of one.

Anti-nazism laws are unconstitutional. Constitution says that "any and all" censorship of political nature is prohibited. Nazism is a political party. Therefore censorship of nazism is prohibited. It's that simple.

So why is it that nazism is literal thought crime while socialism and communism, far more harmful ideologies, are allowed to flourish with complete impunity? If they're gonna ban nazis, I demand that they also ban communists and socialists. It should be a literal thought crime to advocate for anything related to that nonsense. And any form of socialist organization should get all involved sent straight to jail.

That's the point that was made. Allowing that crap while simultaneously banning nazism is a contradiction. His only "crime" here was trying to resolve the contradiction by arguing that nazis should be allowed to organize. That's not what we really want. What we actually want is these socialists and communists in jail.
But is that not also a common issue with many IT companies? The technical career path is short and the higher levels on that path are already supposed to work more on powerpoints and meetings than on code.
Haskell is by mathematicians and for mathematicians. I know this sounds absurd but many actually find it to be the easiest programming language for them. I've met mathematicians who claim they were not able to code until they found Haskell.
I wouldn't be too worried and making personal judgements, he says the same thing you are (though I assume you disagree)
> I wonder if (and maybe this is already in practice), there's an opportunity for warrant officers in this context ... The warrant officers were, I believe, paid less than the staff officers, but there's no reason to think the military can't provide additional pay. Retention and sign-on bonuses for expertly-trained cyber warfare and other compute-related activities warrant officers could be something to consider.

Already in practice, but a WO's salary can't compete with private sector pay.

The Marines gives Cyber personnel an officer level, because the marines are very budget constrained so they don't have the money needed to send personnel to upskill, and wants to attract people who can hit the ground running.

> Of course you might say, well sure but then you know you really aren't making as much as that engineer who is pulling $180,000/year + bonus/equity, and you're right, but in a similar vein I'd say yea and you can only fly an AH-64 in the military....

Yep! Imo, there will always be some attrition to the private sector due to the pay differential, but making Cyber roles reservist friendly solves this issue. (<-- already starting to happen)

Also giving the option to enlistees to upskill helps solve the human capital gap, plus builds their loyalty to their service and minimizes attrition to a certain extent. A dedicated Cyber ROTC might help as well, just like how the NSA has a similar program. (<-- slowly starting to happen depending on branch)

Honestly, the best solution is to probably convert CyberCom into it's own branch, just like the USSF, because that at least allows Cyberwarfare to not be treated as an afterthought due to service/branch commitments. (<--- probably not happening in the near future sadly).
What makes you think that the changes made will increase relative to baseline by more than 10% increase in housing stock over 100 years?
Not nearly as orthodox/fancy, but I spent quite some time playing Forth in Lisp:

https://github.com/codr7/cl-scrl

https://github.com/codr7/snabel

https://github.com/codr7/fipl

https://github.com/codr7/lila
> So then if the government buys pens and reams of paper, then it's the government subsidizing office supply stores?

If the government is a particularly important customer: yes.
[I'd pointed out that hiding behind a car's engine block is not optimal and likely a waste of cognitive and physical energy but the "you don't have a clue" statement by wakawaka28 rileD me...]

wakawaka28 says >"...the alternative is to likely get shot through the vehicle or get shot in the back running away..."<

I beg to differ: odds are very much against getting hit at all while fleeing, hiding, or even while staying and doing nothing!. Why?

1. The world is BIG, bullets are small and- there's lots of room to run and/or hide. Furthermore:

2. Few can shoot a firearm,

- fewer can shoot accurately,

- fewer still can shoot moving objects,

- fewer still can shoot a fleeing person and

- next to none can kill/disable a fleeing person.

Sorry to burst your bubble, Deadeye. Do the math!8-))

wakawaka28 says >"...Summary: You don't have a clue what you are talking about. The cops, many of whom are combat veterans on top of their police training, DO understand the threats."<

The average police officer can expect to serve out his entire career w/o having to draw his service revolver in self defense. I am fairly certain that few police officers/veterans understand probability in the real world. But they are good men (mostly) and women and a (somewhat selected) cross-section of society. They, for the most part, pay attention to where they are directed.
We're talking about servers and clients here. The best way to ensure things work is to adhere to an established protocol. Aside from saving a few bytes, there doesn't seem to be any good reason to deviate.
Restic 0.17.1 was released last month. The home page says "During initial development (versions prior to 1.0.0), maintainers and developers will do their utmost to keep backwards compatibility and stability, although there might be breaking changes without increasing the major version."

So worth a peek but still under construction.
> If you can basically simulate a human brain

Based on the evidence I've seen to date, doing this part at the scale of human intelligence (regardless of cost) is highly unlikely to be possible for at least decades.

(a note to clarify: the goal "simulate a human brain" is substantially harder than other goals usually discussed around AI, like "exceed domain expert human ability on tests measuring problem solving in certain domain(s).)
> What social contract? That's a convenient fiction, but no one ever agreed to any social contract anywhere. My adopted home of Singapore goes a lot harder on private initiative than Thatcher and Reagan ever dreamed off.

Do you chew gum when you are at home in Singapore? No, you don't, because it's illegal. Did you agree to that, were even you given a choice? No, of course not.

Singapore is more authoritarian than most liberal democracies. That means you do as your told. That's the social contract. If you disagree with the people in power to loudly, you got to rot in jail. https://www.smh.com.au/world/lee-kuan-yew-a-towering-figure-...

As it happens, Singapore got lucky. The people in charge are good at running a country efficiently. In particular, they didn't line their own pockets too aggressively - certainly not in a way that was out of line with liberal democracies. The Singapore it's an outlier compared to other authoritarian countries. Generally, once politicians eliminate the competition, they use their control to milk the economy for all they are worth.
And as Marvin Minsky taught us, which is probably one of the most profound insights in the entire field, talking seems like an accomplishment to us because it's the least developed part of our capacities. It's so conscious a task not because it's a sign of intellect but because it's the least developed and most novel thing our brains do, which is why it's also likely the fastest to learn for a machine.

Moving as smoothly as a cat and navigating the world is the part that actually took our brains millions of years to learn, and movement is effortless not because it's easy but because it took so long to master, so it's also going to be the most difficult thing to teach a machine.

The cognitive stuff is the dumb part, and that's why we have chess engines, pocket calculators and chatbots before we have emotional machines, artificial plumbers and robots that move like spiders.