skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CIA training paramilitaries against Russia/USSR

In the case of Ukraine -- OSS training of partisan forces against the Wehrmacht would be an infinitely closer analogy.

The thing is, you seem to assume axiomatically that the CIA's training of stay-behind forces (a.k.a. "paramilitaries") in Ukraine after 2014 was intrinsically offensive, i.e. was done just to get up Russia's backside, for whatever nefarious purpose.

Well, I don't buy that axiom, the simple reason that after 2014 Ukraine had every right to defend itself, and creating stay-behind forces is just a standard way of doing that. Just as France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece and all the other countries in Europe had a perfect right to resist occupation by Nazi Germany via whatever means necessary and available to them, including the development of partisan forces.

as US CIA did with far-right paramilitaries in Ukraine.

Which "far-right paramilitaries" are you referring to? You seem to be confusing the stay-behind forces described in the article with quasi-independent militias like Azov. The two are entirely different, sharing nothing in common other than the slightly scary-sounding keyword "paramilitary" you keep latching onto.

Yet in your mind, they've fused into one and the same entity. Why is that?

It's also a war in which Russia invades a country in an attempt to bring it to the negotiating table to agree to permanently stop shelling two breakaway republics

Again, the Ukrainian regions on Putin's smash-and-grab list were never "breakaway republics" in the mold of Ossetia and Abkhazia, as has already been pointed out. There was no violent "conflict" of any kind in those regions until Putin's little green men began arriving in March 2014. There's just no analogy here. Doesn't matter how often you attempt to simply repeat it.

Nor did the 2022 invasion have anything to do with "stopping the shelling" in those regions -- that's just another talking point that people read somewhere and keep repeating and repeating, with no idea of what they're talking about, because there's simply no substance to it. In any case, it's definitely not why Putin launched the full-scale invasion.

Rather than invent fantasy scenarios that Russian orcs want to genocide all Ukrainians,

It's a fantasy scenario in your own head, because no one has ever suggested that Russia intends to "genocide all Ukrainians". That's just a straw man, with simply no substance behind it.

With that, I'm going to have to bow out, and let you figure this stuff out on your own. It's one thing to have different viewpoints about what these big awful governments and their respective agencies are up to. But we're nowhere near that kind of discussion. I just have the sense that you're extremely careless in your research, or are reading from very propagandized sources, or just not pausing to think critically about whatever stuff it is that you do read.
There is believed to be a software remote disable in the ASML provided machinery but it doesn't have to be effective - an invasion would cut off the machines from the maintenance they require https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/asml_kill_switch/
Survive vs. thrive my friend. IMO you’re surviving which … fine … but I don’t see the appeal. You even highlight that you’re not saving for retirement … doesn’t seem sustainable.
About Brian Bi
> corrupt GC state

I understand this to mean the runtime's internal state, not visible to user code. If so, in general we should expect almost any sort of crash mode to be possible. Seems fair enough to call this "memory-unsafe".
BLS numbers look pretty boring; Oct was +12000; nothing extreme either way. Am I missing something?
Which kind of oil does the engine need?
That’s because it’s not actually defense it’s offense and since we’re the worlds sole super power it’s extremely coercive offense.
The colors are ugly, there are too many of them, and the font is too thin so the letters don’t contrast enough with the background. It makes the whole thing look dingy and poorly lit. I think it’s instructive that nothing Apple did after Steve returned looks anything like this logo.
I gave examples at the end of my previous reply.
Joop Zoetemelk once famously said: "You win the Tour de France in your bed"

https://www.teamvismaleaseabike.com/longread/winningtogether...
pretty crazy that there is an act of Congress that concerns a single vegetable only
I’m not a parent, so I can’t speak too much to that. Though my first reaction is that a lot of parents are too protective to want play dates posted online for anyone to show up to.

If you had nicer homes signed up, I could see MLM people renting them out to host their gatherings to sell whatever it is they are selling… if it would be financially viable. I think that community has a lot of fake it till you make it attitude.

I wonder if garages or workshops would be an option. Some cities have maker spaces, for people who need some tools or space, but don’t have access to a shop or the money to buy a bunch of tool. Being able to find a nearby neighbor who has some tools and some space to build a one off thing could be interesting.

If specifically looking for things where events are posted and public, I think it then starts crossing into the Meetup space. More recently when I browse that site it seems more and more meetups require membership and are limited in the number of people that can sign up. I think this is inevitable, as few places can handle an unlimited number of people, and they want to keep out the creeps and weirdos.
Imagine how much nicer the world will be when the adults weren’t poisoned as children by a substance that makes you dumb violent and angry.
Yep, they've always happened. The Summers are very dry and hot, then the thunderstorms come...

There's a number of plants that have actually evolved to take advantage of the fires.
No. All the gospels were written within living memory of the events. The destruction of the temple dates the synoptics before 70CE.
If 5nm semiconductors were essential for some military core capabilities, they'd start building the whole production chain domestically in a hurry at eyewatering cost and probably finish it over budget and 15 years late.
The conclusion feels a bit AI-ish.
With many people who would be at risk for an enforcement action, odds are they will complain mightily whether the rules are implicit or explicit. It’s not that the rules are codified or not, it’s rules of any kind being applied to them that they find objectionable.

This isn’t universal as some people may be grateful if you approach them tactfully and let them know that others are having difficulty with them, as they may not have realized.

To be frank if someone has driven others away I feel an obligation to to the rest of the group not to shrink from addressing the matter. People whose participation is a net negative because other valued participants flee from them shouldn’t get endless opportunities to make others miserable.
Virtue signalling? How so? Far from it. In fact, I want to learn if we are spending too less thus living a bad lifestyle and whether we should increase it. This is high inflation era and things are different than 4 years ago. I am just collecting data and learning from comments. Thanks for your comment and perspective.
With kids?
This is very cool! I like the art style and the idea; it's a little reminiscent of Animal Crossing but simpler. The website design makes it feel a little like "spam," so maybe it's worth doing a little upgrade beyond a basic bootstrap template. Looks like it has great reviews on Steam. My only concern is that if it's a cute fishing game and primarily chatroom based I wonder how toxic it could be. I'm always a little scared of massively multiplayer video games.

Will definitely add to my Steam Wishlist and maybe buy it when I go on a buying spree for games!
Q is something that has been hypothesised, it has never been actually found. The Wikipedia article shows that it's definitely not universally accepted by any stretch.
I bet it's less of a RAM issue, and more of an orchestration problem. Making sure you have the latest version of every microservice and it's configuration.

"Oh it's not running locally, you need to also run service_18_v2.js, and include the right env variables"
that's not the issue -- it's much much more expensive to build a store on undeveloped land, even if it weren't restricted, than remodel an existing structure
Discussion (38 points, 8 hours ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045621
The government has over and over again proven itself totally incompetent at managing public forests. These should be sold to private owners who actually care for them.
Don't they send the copy editor to kill all the widows and orphans anymore?
Quite an effective approach:

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
Yes, this is not a permanent situation and not end of the world. My point was it is possible to live happy lifestyle in $60k to $80k with kids in VHCOL geos.
The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56
The Wikipedia article on "dating the Bible" list dates for the earliest known fragmentsb of the various books. If you want earliest complete copies it would be later than those dates.
That puts a "scary" VSCode blob on the remote-server. Some orgs do not like that, even if it's a "work" class box.
How much does a cable like that cost?

I feel like governments should be funding healthcare, housing and connectivity instead of missiles thousands of miles away from their borders.
Well done. You are commendable and I give you virtual accolades. Adjusting your way of life is the path forward.
Ask HN: CPU Sharing in a Cluster
Is there a way to share system resources like running `make` across clusters?

Say if I've about 20 CPUs from different nodes, can I use all of them while building?
I imagine the direction it's going is like this dystopian military psyops recruitment ad.

Ghosts in the Machine: Psywar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uNPZKJqbE8
Good idea. I will look into this.
Singapore is a normal billing location for semiconductor products. It's roughly 20% for Intel as well https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-sec-filings/xbrl_do...
Where did I make the case of process works? It doesn’t. there are hundreds of examples of promising medication that will never be approved because there is no money or will to do phase 3 trials. Often because those drugs fell out of patent protection during some normal, typical snag in the testing process.
I'd also point out the irony that if the NYT had hired staff with balanced and diverse perspectives, it might not have put itself in this ouroboros trap.
Is that with systemd logind? Why does logind interact with BIOS?

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2021-startx-systemd
We do get some tax refund with kids so roughly $60k to $65k are our expenses.
I don't like it but I can sympathize with Meta that they have no choice.

They can't prevent other militaries (i.e., China) from using it (even if their TOS says so) so the only military they are handicapping is their own (and perhaps some EU countries).

The US military will just use OpenAI or Claude instead of Meta if they disallow them.
Thanks for reading the paper!
Alas, that 'documentary' is long on insinuation and short on facts. As is typical of that auteur.
What's the name of this site again?
> Poettering actually took his idea to completion.

One of them. The others didn't work out so well. That's a curiosity in and of itself.

> A lot of people claim the same, but the proof is in the real life pudding.

Those claims are true. Those systems exist. People use them. Every day. I've got tons of business riding on them. Systemd's defaults are simply a non starter for any real production environment.

> Don't forget that geeks idealize perfection and especially minimalist perfection.

They prefer a system which leaves the options open. Systemd removes them in the name of simplistic cohesion. It's all based on the flawed idea that linux will ever be a popular desktop operating system if you just make it work like windows does.

It misses the point on what computing is entirely, but hey, as long as it's "complete" implementation of this flawed vision I guess that's good enough for some people. And yet we're still no where near windows.
What a time of dreaming big…
Logically speaking if they weren't taken they would have been destroyed
I'm not saying it isn't reasonable, just that it serves a different role in Rust than unsafe/JNI would in Java: there are things you naturally want to express in Rust, not having anything directly to do with interfacing with external code, that want `unsafe` in order to (carefully) bypass shared xor mutable.
The much better good is to object to anyone new living in the neighborhood and then making the place a good investment opportunity. Ideally, you also say things like “X is full! Transplants go back!”

If you’re in a Democrat state use the word “transplant”. Otherwise use the word “immigrant”.

Then if you’re in a Democrat state put out a sign saying “All are welcome” and stick a COEXIST sticker on your car.

Republican state? Jesus sign outside about him loving everyone.

Now that is True Good. Or as they say “unalloyed good”.
Why trumps turn trump was clearly more resilient to china then Biden if anything now before new president is best time to invade
> China doesn't want the model of a free, democratic society of chinese people to exist, because it proves that the CCP's authoritarianism isn't the only "good" model.

Can I ask what led to you generating this idea?

As someone in Taiwan it really stood out to me as an odd take.

First, considering Taiwan to be a democratic society of "Chinese" people is odd. The vast majority of Taiwanese wouldn't use the English word "Chinese" to define themselves. There's interesting wordplay happening in Mandarin for a lot of words that the CPC now translates to "Chinese," such as 漢人 華人 vaguely for "ethnicity" and 中文 or 漢語 for language. There's a long conversation to be had there about the CPC engaging in cultural imperialism and Han supremacism as an alternative means of imperializing Taiwan and elsewhere, but I want to stay focused on your message.

Second, the CPC of course doesn't think their model is authoritarian or bad, so what do they have to fear from Taiwan? Propagandic messaging regarding Taiwan is, depending on your level of engagement with "Communism with Chinese Characteristics," either "Taiwan separatist and bad enemy" (low engagement) or "Chinese people on the Taiwan island are enslaved by capitalist overlords and being used as western pawns" (high engagement).

I really doubt that the CPC feels "challenged" by Taiwan, their language never speaks to it.
Of course. All teachings point to same truth. The truth cannot be different.
Why those specific things? Why not eg bread or circuses?

The standard economic answer is that governments should at most finance public goods. But nothing of what you mentioned is a public good. (Well lobbing missiles at foreigners perhaps is a public good, but not one that's necessarily worth funding. Just like a light-house in the middle of nowhere might not be worth funding.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)
Yeah. Also see reviving Jesus by Adyashanti.
It's fugly and orientation is messed up; the weird angle is OCD-triggering.
They should just have taken the square with the "NEXT" letters, rotated it so that it's straight. Would be a lot better.
Hey thanks for asking, we should make that more clear. Generations that aren't private may be featured in our public, community catalog here https://www.magicpatterns.com/catalog
It is ideological, but it isn't anything like China thinking that a "free, democratic society" is a threat. China has gotten incredibly rich under the CCP, the average stance is that its a great model. China thinks of Taiwan as a rogue province because of nationalism. A country of ethnic Chinese is both a reminder of the century of humiliation, and an affront to the idea of China being the nation of Chinese people. It is no different than Italy desiring Istria or South Tyrol, or Germany wanting Alsace Lorraine.
Up from average of 40
Is this a bit and I'm missing some context?
That's why the public also owns all off-shore oil rigs and cruise ships currently at sea?
While my comment wasn't about the feasibility of pressed CDs for a mass blackout event but just an example of long-term integrity of existing digital media, it's unfortunate that a forum (MyCE) dedicated to tracking integrity of user-writable optical discs unexpectedly closed a couple years ago due to the webmaster pulling the plug.

It had users who carefully performed benchmarks on media for more than a decade to see which types and makes held up best over time, along with best practices. Few have the interest or patience for such things so it's unfortunate to just have such info vanish.

I will add though that what's missing from the discussion is Blu-Ray, which allows up to 128GB per disc. (I only vaguely recall reading some critique of BD DL discs so can't say how it might compare long term though, apart from the greater cost at such capacities.)
> I thought the under-mentioned beef China had with Taiwan was the fact that the ROC took (and retains to this day) all the priceless cultural artifacts. The CCP would like those back in order to tie themselves to China's history.

In doing so the ROC saved a great many artifacts of Chinese history. Many that remained within PRC territory were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

As for the modern era, I don't believe there's "beef" about cultural artifacts. The PRC and Taiwan exchange cultural artifacts for their respective museums: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7892178.stm

Now if we want to get into the real fun nitty gritty rumors we could talk about how the KMT may have brought over a lot of gold and hid it somewhere in Taiwan...
Some people pay for Facebook's services, especially the advertisers. (But also some users in the form of corporate in-house Facebook.)
there was nothing horrific about the jobs report. It was bad news, but we get bad news everyday.
C++20 comparison in Qt (even with C++17)
Of course another store could open -- but it greatly raises the barrier to entry if the competitor has to build on new land from scratch; most won't do it. Or maybe they'll open some small store that isn't really a threat to the Vons

> when you read something that's so comic-book-villain evil, something about the story is being misrepresented or is just wrong

seriously? companies pull stuff like that all the time to try to shut out the competition. It's not much different than Microsoft bundling IE with Windows to kill Netscape -- forgoing revenue on something it could charge for, to kill the competition and then have a pretty lousy browser for a long time
What I wish I had known as a programmer moving to Berlin
Same goes for plane parts and other export-restricted things. Not sure Nvidia can do anything about it.
installing arch is just partitioning a drive and pacstrapping

it is in NO way unnecessarily difficult

there's even an archinstall script for the lazy

just because there is no gui installer != unnecessarily difficult
There’s also a short "Making of" documentary available on YouTube. So moving and inspiring.
This study is just awful. Can we stop funding epidemiological studies with little to no reproducibility? At least use more frequent objective sleep measurements, and account for confounding variables.

- They openly acknowledge they "can't say that poor sleep causes dementia" aka they established a correlation but no direction of causality

- There's self-reporting bias where participants were "asked about" their sleep patterns

- There's selection and survival bias: the participants were around 40 y/o, the ones that remained for 10 years might be different than those who dropped

- The sample was for a cardiovascular disease study

- They didn't control for unmeasured confounders other than "age, sex, education, health and lifestyle factors"

- The 1.6-2.6 years of brain aging were measured using ML algorithms and this is a small enough effect to be within a margin of error...
I am reasonably familiar with it, you're missing mentioning why the US defended Taiwan initially. The US stopped any formal defense of Taiwan in 1980, not to the 1990s. During the period it did have a defense treaty it was within the context of creating an anti communist bulwark, and such defence treaties (even with highly suspect partners) was the bread and butter of geopolitics in the Cold War. It was not because of some deep love of Taiwan or democracy, in fact Taiwan would only become a democracy after the defense treaty was terminated. And "ardent supporter" is a very tricky term, the US signed a declaration for the One China policy, which is completely against the idea of Taiwan as a separate nation(although at the time the KMT and people largely did not view Taiwan as an separate nation).

The silicon shield is undoubtedly a significant part of the calculus around Taiwan, especially wrt direct military intervention. Successive administrations have clearly shown their emphasis on maintaining access to key strategic resources (the Middle East and oil).
I think that's just how pages are when you write them in plain-enough HTML and aren't overwriting the DOM with JS all the time. The web browser keeps track of your scroll progress and has the page in its cache (like frankjr said). You can disable JS altogether and it'll work the same.

It's a modern anomaly with JS frameworks that we've hacked and over-stretched the DOM so far past its original design that basic things like going forward/back need explicit JS handlers that rarely work all that well. You shouldn't need any state in JS to store basic navigation. It didn't used to be that way, and arguably shouldn't be that way for simple text-based sites like this. Maybe it's just becoming a lost art these days =/
Not so. Cornering the market is what every company would attempt to do if there weren't regulations that restrict their ability to do so.
Not there yet (or maybe I am, going by my country's average male lifespan), but after years of wondering what the fuck sometimes happens I finally realised what mostly causes sleep issues for me:

- not getting rid of screens at least 30 mins before I hit the bed (60 is ideal)

- not getting tired/exercise enough during the day

- sleeping in the afternoon and anytime during the day more than 40-50 mins

- having coffee after 4-5pm

- having dinner after 8-830pm (though this is minor and I am not really sure it affects much)

- and this is the biggest culprit of all (or maybe second worst - next to screen time): even though it's past my sleep time (1030pm) not actually just getting down on the bed and close my eyes and just try to relax even though it seems maybe I am not sleepy. This also applies if I wake up before my wake up time and I do not force myself to go back to sleep that is at least "kinda" pretend i.e just lie down closing my eyes.

What helps:

- reading myself to sleep (paper books are what I read, so not sure about e-readers)

- hot chocolate (half glass) after dinner but 10-15 mins before hitting the bed

- allergy medication (when it becomes unbearable for me) :D (no it's rare for me to take that and I don't take without asking my doctor)

- listening to rain/thunder sound on my phone from a distance

- if there are things pending or things bothering in my head → then heading to my ToDo list "TCOT" (abbr. for take care of this) in Reminders.app and log/dump it there before hitting the bed → I have noticed that those things usually do not bother me at night then (but I don't have much personal/anecdotal data on this either)
Is it even possible for civilians to buy enough data center nvidia gpus to train an LLM? I thought getting just one was pretty hard