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The ICC doesn't claim 41 deaths were the result of war crimes. That claim is made by an irrelevant Wikipedia article that is undergoing an edit war. It was recently switched from "62,413 conservative estimate" to "41+"

ICC doesn't claim how many deaths are due to war crimes. GP is purposefully sowing misinformation
It wasn't a Chinese ship. It was flagged in China, which is like buying a .US domain name when you don't live in the US. It's simple to do. The captain is Russian and the company who owns/operates the ship is headed by a Russian CEO. The crew was not Chinese either.
> Maybe it’s a culture thing — most C# devs use IDEs. Not sure what PHP devs use, but I suspect tools like PhpStorm will make this easy to work with somehow. Devs using no-LSP editors will likely have a different view.

This is probably one of the big factors. I am also not a huge fan of “magic” even though I use IDE (vscode). I started off as a PHP dev, directly editing files on production server using vi. Any “magic” simply slowed me down.

Years later, now I can simply cmd+click to anywhere in code but it feels a bit off to me. Perhaps, I still miss my old days of dev.
> what I've seen doesn't really impress me

I suspect that most people who express this view haven't tried cutting-edge LLMs and tools recently. I've met a lot of people who tried early versions of ChatGPT and Copilot a year or 2 ago, concluded that the tools aren't impressive or useful, and haven't revisited things since.

It's wild what Sonnet 3.5 can do with a tool like Aider; if you have a commit-sized piece of work in mind there's a very good chance it will get it right on the first try.
> I don't have all of the facts when it comes to the ICC and its history. I know that it is separate from the UN, but I don't know very much about it. Therefore I don't know which alternative I ultimately land on.

If you can put in the time & effort required to make an empirical assessment of the ICC, go ahead and do so; then come back here and enlighten us all. Otherwise, this is just more of the same kind of denialism & deflection we're all too familiar with post WW2 from the many (and vocal) mass crime apologists.
So basically in other words what this means - is that if battery capacity was over-provisioned by mere 13 percent with battery firmware keeping it essentially hidden - then in effect there would not be any degradation at all.
You can easily construct a game board from a sequence of moves by maintaining the game state somewhere. But you can also know where a piece is bases on only its last move. I'm curious what happens if you don't feed it a position, but feed it a sequence of moves including illegal ones but end up at a given valid position. The author mention that LLMs will play differently when the same position is arrived at via different sequences. I'm suggesting to really play with that by putting illegal moves in the sequence.

I doubt it's doing much more than a static analysis of the a board position, or even moving based mostly on just a few recent moves by key pieces.
I've thought of this since GPT 3.5 - we're probably never going to live the science fiction plot of "uploading" our consciousness to a computer in the act of a transfer, and leaving our physical bodies to inhabit a new digital form. But today, right now, we can create an AI startup that asks a person 2,000 questions -- 10 a day -- and in less than a year's time, have complete prediction on their thoughts, mannerisms, textual behaviors, views and perspectives. Character.ai is an example of it in practice for all types of people, alive and dead, TODAY.

With its wide-ranging application, though, I find myself worried that this technology's natural implications for ignoring the sacredity of the mortality of one's intellect could be a dire consequence in certain situations. Bad people asking, "I wonder what {{other bad person}} would think about X" is a very real concern here.
I still remember vividly a self-made expert explaining to his friend, in the London subway, that "yeah batteries only last 8 years, then you have to swap them out, ergo electric cars are a dumb idea".

But I still trust in people's capacity to digest being utterly wrong ­— eventually.
Height is one physical attribute that helps, and professional players are mostly above average height for a reason. But also hand-eye coordination and fast-twitch muscles help even more. Many basketball players are very explosive athletes, because it's a sport with a relatively small play area and lots of quick movements are needed.

Track and swimming are where innate physical attributes have the most obvious benefits. Michael Phelphs had the perfect body for swimming. There is no amount of trainingg that 99.999% of the population could do to get close to what Usain Bolt ran. Most humans could not train to run under 4 minutes in a mile or under 2:30 in a marathon. They just don't have the right muscular and cardiovascular physiology.

Team sports are of course more complicated as other qualities come into play that aren't as directly physiological.
Walking doesn't mean never driving.

Every trip to a grocery store, restaurant, bar, friend's house, transit station, etc. that can be done by walking or cycling is one car trip off of the roads. That has benefits.

Of course some places are not suited to this. But there are places that could be, and those places combined have a lot of people living in them.

Dismissing the idea in all of America as an absolute is missing a lot of potential, and a lot of what is already happening.

And from my experience looking at real estate prices, houses in areas with good scores for walkability, cycling, and transit are very much in demand and priced higher than those without. There is at least some segment of the market that very much wants these qualities.
This is already extremely common. For example, my TV uses some sort of Roku-branded OS. They literally have ads on the home screen when you first turn on the TV. It's something I've struggled to work around, and eventually gave up. I just kind of avert my eyes until my Apple TV kicks in.

I feel like this should be illegal. It's kind of like billboards on the side of the road, it's something I never want to say but it's forced upon me. I bought your product, why is it allowed that you can just throw ads on it? I understand they sometimes sell these TVs at a slight loss to make up for that, but I feel like they should be required to sell the same TV without Ads for the same 3% margin added on. I bet most people would pay for the latter if it was provided.
I have some American "bicycle people" as colleagues, and most Dutch people certainly aren't "bicycle people" like they are, even if they cycle every day, just like how people just driving a car aren't necessarily "car people".
UN also confirmed that 70% of deaths are women and children.

For comparison, it's estimated that about 6% of deaths in Ukraine are women and children
It's not entirely speculation; South Africa certainly wanted to avoid it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/south-africa-asks-icc-...

> South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked permission from the International Criminal Court not to arrest Russia's Vladimir Putin, because to do so would amount to a declaration of war, a local court submission published on Tuesday showed.

Brazil waffled, too.

https://www.reuters.com/world/up-brazils-judiciary-decide-pu...

> On Saturday, while in India for a Group of 20 nations meeting, Lula told a local interviewer that there was "no way" Putin would be arrested if he attended next year's summit, which is due to be held in Rio de Janeiro.
I mean, yes. I can understand why protests happen, because our own govt is not currently acting in our interests.
Which is the equivalent of ~4,000,000 gallons of gas, or 10,700,000,000 Tesla powerwalls.

Bear in mind, however, that some napkin math suggests that this is gross overkill, 2,250365100 = 82,135,000, suggesting that even a fairly long lived person only needs a mere 2,650 gallons of gas, or ~7,070 Tesla powerwalls, and that the demon-core can easily supply enough lifetime calories for a solid large city of ~1,500,000.
big ass rectifiers

big ass solid copper busbars

huge gauge copper cables going around a central office (google "telcoflex IV")

big DC breaker/fuse panels

specialized dc fuse panels for power distribution at the top of racks, using little tiny fuses

100% overhead steel ladder rack type cable trays, since your typical telco CO was never a raised floor type environment (UNLIKE legacy 1960s/1970s mainframe computer rooms), so all the power was kept accessible by a team of people working on stepladders.

The same general thing continues today in serious telco/ISP operations, with tech features to bring it into the modern era. The rectifiers are modular now, and there's also rectiverters. Monitoring is much better. People are moving rapidly away from wet cell 2V lead acid battery banks and AGM sealed lead acid stuff to LiFePo4 battery systems.

DC fuse panels can come with network-based monitoring, ability to turn on/off devices remotely.

equipment is a whole lot less power hungry now, a telco CO that has decommed a 5ESS will find itself with a ton of empty thermal and power budget.

when I say serious telco stuff is a lot less power hungry, it's by huge margins. randomly chosen example of radio transport equipment. For instance back in the day a powerful, very expensive point to point microwave radio system might be a full 42U rack, 800W in load, with waveguide going out to antennas on a roof. It would carry one, two or three DS3 equivalent of capacity (45 Mbps each).

now, that same telco might have a radio on its CO roof in the same microwave bands that is 1.3 Gbps FDD capacity, pure ethernet with a SFP+ fiber interface built into it, and the whole radio is a 40W electrical load. The radio is mounted directly on the antenna with some UV/IR resistant weatherproof 16 gauge DC power cable running down into the CO and plugged into a fuse panel.
Some light weight ORMs do not require you to define all the properties ahead of time. They pull the field names from the table and generate the model record on the fly for you. This generally lets you prototype really fast. Laravel's Eloquent is known to do this. It's also useful for derived SQL fields when you use custom queries or join from other tables. Also kinda fun to do it for properties backed by a method. As in $record->isDirty will run isDirty() under the hood for you. All these things can be documented with PHPDoc and static analyzers handle it just fine.
I think it does matter, because it's another indicator for intent.

If the starvation is a "simple" side-effect of the combat situation, but you're working actively to alleviate it on your own volition (by doing your best to let in aid organizations, etc) then it's obvious to see there is no intent to it.

If, on the other hand, you have to be pressured by the international community, including your closest allies for every tiny step in the direction of letting in aid, and you will immediately jump two steps back as soon as the pressure eases slightly, then it can be inferred that you really really want the starvation to happen and your only problem with the situation is getting away with it.

(Not even starting with all the government officials who spelled out the whole intent explicitly in public, documented quotes)

> Like if someone is accused of murder, but doesn't because a friend told them not to, we don't throw them in jail because they decided not to murder for the wrong reasons.

The problem is that the murder is happening here and the friend is trying - badly - to convince the person to pull out the knife.
What a coincidence, an ad giant (Google) controls my current TV's OS and I had to accept a EULA to use it.
Also, there is a time and a place for things.

Breaking API changes in a minor version update sucks and is often an unexpected time sink, and often mandatory because it has some security patch, critical bug fix, or something.

Breaking API changes in a major version update is expected, can be planned for, and often can be delayed if one chooses.
It’s happened enough that I suspect there’s a rarely-seen race condition somewhere in the Arc code that runs HN.
> Well, I did see for myself.

What, specifically, did you try? Like what LLM and what tools around that LLM?
It’s kind of crazy to assert that the systems understand chess, and then disclose further down the article that sometimes he failed to get a legal move after 10 tries and had to sub in a random move.

A person who understands chess well (Elo 1800, let’s say) will essentially never fail to provide a legal move on the first try.
What We Learned Migrating from Webpack to Vite
Wow, this is extremely cool! Only problem, the JS slows my Firefox almost to freezing, is it normal?
Good. At least we can at agree on one point. Let's narrow it down to targeting civilians then: the "World's Most Moral Army" isn't less guilty.
Very much this
It's normally incredibly difficult for employees to disrupt at massive companies that would be the type which runs a data center. Disruption usually enters the corp in a sales deck, much like the one Oxide would have.

It's stupid, but that's why we all have jobs.
If North Korea does, why not China?

Also worth mentioning that without the United States the present continental European militaries would struggle even against the battered ground forces of Russia. Can't really fight back with GDP of your service economy alone.
Indeed, it does involve redefining genius as a "state", or "flow", or "trajectory".

When I say it's not primarily genetic, many people wrongly assume there's an entirely explainable and replicable way of accessing this state. There isn't.

The 20,000 hours rule is a bit misleading, because who gets to invest 20,000 hours into something? How do you create this drive, this trajectory? You must have a good hope that it'll yield something worth the effort.

This is why the injunction to "work harder" so often misses the mark.

However, even if only a tiny fraction of the population will end up becoming a "genius", it's very important to debunk the myth, because the real story has valuable lessons for everyone: it gives concrete and pragmatic indications on what one should be on lookout for.

It's not fully teachable up to genius level, but the directionality is teachable and extremely valuable.
The First AI Street Hawker
I'm hoping that my car's battery only lasts for 7.9 years. It has an 8 year guarantee :D

Then I'd get a new one and my car would be practically new for 8 more years.
Nvidia Is on Top but Does It Have Anywhere to Go but Down?
Sure, but people fail at mathematical reasoning. That doesn't mean people are incapable of reasoning.

I'm not saying LLMs are perfect reasoners, I'm questioning the value of asserting that they cannot reason with some kind of "it's just text that looks like reasoning" argument.
If the profits or barriers to entry are less favorable they might be disinclined to do that.
I think you're trivalizing the ease at monitoring your diet for someone who has never done this before. 'Macros' as a concept is foreign to probably 90%+ of the population I suspect. Unless you go extremely strict on calorie/macro counting, it will just be hard to know exactly how much you're taking in. It basically becomes another hobby for at least a few months until it becomes somewhat natural to do.
Thanks! yeah, k9 is pretty cool. It's more that fargate in EKS looks like normal k8s than anyhting else, but thanks for the follow.
This would be a much different training task than LLMs. The reference to it being possible with large LLMs is just a proof that it can be done.

The reason its different is because you are working with a finite set of token sequences, and you will be training the model on every value of that set, because its fairly small. So hallucination won't be a problem.

Even without ML, its a lengthy but P hard task to really build a python to C translator. Once you unroll things like classes, list comprehensions, generators, e.t.c, you end up with basically the same rough structure of code minus memory allocation. And for the latter, its a process of semantic analysis to figure out how to allocate memory, very deterministic. Then you have your C compiler code as it exists. Put the two together, and you basically have a much faster python without any dynamic memory handling.

The advantage of doing it through ML is that once you do the initial setup of the training set, and set up the pipeline to train the compiler, to integrate any pattern recognition into the compiler would be very trivial.
Couldn’t you also require a higher tier license for large and dangerous cars, just like motorcycles require extra privileges?

Allow anyone to own a sedan or compact SUV with up to 200hp. If you want to own something larger, you need an “oversized vehicle” endorsement. And if you want to own something more powerful, you need a power-level endorsement. And maybe you need to pay extra to have those endorsements, and they can be taken away if you are reckless.

It could be a grandfathering system too, so not to disrupt the entire market. Automatically grant partial endorsements to people who already have those vehicles when the law goes into effect, but require testing within 5 years or when registering any new vehicle that meets those criteria.

But cars and trucks are incredibly dangerous and it’s ridiculous society has basically zero restrictions. (I own a “small” truck and would be happy to have it restricted if it means the roads start to become safer for cycling and walking)
>Oh they still haven't figured this one out at knowyourmeme?

Why not contribute your knowledge there, instead of (or in addition to) here, where it will surely be forgotten about?
If that was the case, Putin shouldn't have holed up in Russia during the BRICS conference in South Africa earlier this year.
From the announcement:

>decisions allowing or increasing humanitarian assistance into Gaza were often conditional.

I may be misinterpreting legal jargon, but "conditional" implies Israel often didn't want to allow humanitarian assistance unless Israel received something. This isn't allowed under international law. Relevant excerpt from the announcement:

>This finding is based on the role of Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant in impeding humanitarian aid in violation of international humanitarian law and their failure to facilitate relief by all means at its disposal.

Parties to conflict are expected to facilitate aid, not just allow it, and definitely not set conditions.
If Microsoft is the wrong answer Kodak, who squelched their own digital photography stuff because they made so much from film, is a classic cautionary tale about a company getting too wed to its business model and allowing itself to become obsolete.
Based on the numerous atrocities committed by the Russian army on a massive scale, the narrative that absolves a portion of the Russian people and culture from responsibility, while placing the blame solely on their dictators, is no longer seen as credible...
I appreciate and approve of this detail applied to many interesting design features of an otherwise banal collection of junctions.

I live in Denver, and daily appreciate how much self-harming behavior is built into American road network design standards. It's truly stunning.

Consider reading the book "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System"[0]

I wish he'd titled it as "the transportation system of the Greater United States". I emphatically disagree with the use of "our".

Anyway, american road networks were designed, funded, built by people who wanted to accomplish ethnic cleansing, and I think it's plainly obvious that this is the case, so it feels strange to even talk about it sometimes.

to my knowledge, no one in the netherlands road design system has been recently thing to accomplish ethnic cleansing, so their road networks can develop towards/with mutuality.

in the USA, at minimum the founders/originators of these systems were openly supremacist and spoke openly about what and how they were doing. I.E:

> If we [road funding authorities, municipal authorities, and their political supporters] could build a highway through their neighborhood, we could get rid of some of them, and make it harder for the rest of them to exist, and we'd see less of them either way.

the "they" was always an ethnic group. The playbook of these supremacists was to squish all people within that group into a tiny compression of humanity, then attack it directly, using the normal tools of colonial empires.
Requiem for the Volunteer Open Source Contributor
I've known Peter Neumann through his decades-long work on the security of election systems. These authors are legit.
It also has multiple entries for the words "crucial" and "essential" which LLMs love to insert.
…SNIP…
Game: You have 8 actions remaining. What do you do?

Me: That should not have counted as a used action. That information should have been provided initially. Please provide all relevant details.

Game: You are absolutely right, Detective. My apologies. That shouldn't have counted as an action. Let me reiterate the details of the scene, adding a crucial element I missed earlier. …SNIP… You have 9 actions remaining. What do you do?

I like a game I can argue with and win.
that's just it: create a venv, pip install it from pypi, try to run and get the missing data/theme.json error.
A fun thing about this work is that it's following different threads than the remote timing attack research in cryptography follows; high-end remote timing in cryptography involves some signal processing work, which isn't really present here. Which means Kettle's attacks are likely to get more powerful.
Some additional anecdata (and actual data) is that Chicago has the highest cyclist increase out of any city in the US as a result of better infrastructure being installed [0]

The anecedata is I see far more people biking year round in Chicago (even in the pretty brutal subzero January/February temps) than I ever can recall.

Granted it's a very flat city without much elevation changes, but there's definitely the spectrum of extreme heat in the summer and extreme cold in winter that doesn't seem to stop anybody

[0] https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/05/28/cdot-built-it-they-ca...
That raises the question og whether they study factored this into their analysis. Don’t carmakers already overprovision?
Yes, HMB is another compound that would be potentially very beneficial during catabolic times such as extreme weight loss. The typical dosage would be 3g/day.

Examine has done excellent write ups on all the research related to it, which can be found below. They recently paywalled the bulk of it, but it's still on the wayback.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240310004421/https://examine.c...
Bad companies demand estimates.

Good companies just live by a Steam clock.
What a weird comment. Are you trying to argue by analogy that a decent fraction of the population are not capable of literacy? It seems self-evident that low literacy rates have nothing to do with innate ability. I see no evidence to suggest that math is any different.
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I do agree that people will assume xyz/xyz is more authoriative than some-org/xyz, but I think there is benefit to knowing that everything under xyz/* has a single owner. The current approach is to name companion crates like xyz_abc but someone else could come along with xyz_def and it's not immediately obvious that xyz_abc has the same owner as xyz but xyz_def does not.
Judging by the name and by these opcodes

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/7cb77385d38b96377...

it seems to be intended for character set conversion especially JIS.
Why should I blame MySQL? It's the PHP developers that decided to introduce it and not change the name, plus have several functions that don't do the right thing as well.
It depends on the kinds of attacks you're thinking of. For the stuff Kettle is doing, probably yes. For cryptographic side channels, probably no.