skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Is there really any question that Americans have reacted negatively to Israeli war tactics?"

No, but is there a question that china still might try to influence and leverage it?
It's funny constantly see a kind of revisionist history where IBM is the misunderstood underdog with the superior technology that was destroyed by the big bad Microsoft. When in reality IBM is this poorly managed monstrosity that was terrible at software development and destroyed their PC market share trying to take back the PC standard and make it proprietary to them.
The immediate neighbors collected transit fees for Russian gas and oil. Ukraine itself collected transit fees for gas deliveries to Austria until very recently.

The Drushba pipeline through Poland was open at the same time that Sikorski congratulated the U.S. for blowing up Nord Stream. It remained open long after that. Both France and the U.S. were buying uranium from Russia until 2024. No complaints from Sikorski about that.

Nordstream was owned by Russia, Germany, France, and The Netherlands. There was a pipeline from the German terminal to Britain.

There are many hypocrites of the first order in the oil/gas game. In the context of this submission, it is appropriate to note that so called "far right" or "far left" parties are the only ones who point out facts like the above in public.

Voters notice this and blaming Russian interference is a very weak game that endangers the democracies in the EU.
I don't think it will boost the fertility rate in any significant way. I think the only way to really make a dent in low fertility rates is to incentivize mothers to stay at home and men to work full-time at least for the first five years of a child's life. I know people disagree with this, but it's worth considering if the declining birth rates are a major concern for the State.
Discussions about Tiktok are always dominated by the focus on privacy which is a joke.

The real problem is the algorithmic control this gives China to influence the populations of Western countries. But Meta was found to outsource content moderation to a Canadian company that outsourced Instagram content moderation to Iran.

This is not about privacy. These platforms have become the new media. Getting your news from profit-seeking American and Chinese companies is not ideal in the long run.
Interesting. I appreciate you taking the time to lay this out; as all I have to go off of is global news articles, if those misunderstand Romanian authorities, then I'm not getting good information.

So the annulation is indeed based purely on the social media algorithmic skew, then?
This phrase: "responsible for so many deaths" is doing a lot of work in your post. What is your theory of responsibility? Is it legal or ethical, and if it is the latter (as I would suspect), what framework and criteria is it evaluated under?

The answer is easy for a serial killer (obviously responsible for willful murder), a little more difficult for a soldier in war (directly responsible, but perhaps defending themselves and/or under orders), even tougher for a surgeon (maybe they could have been better at their job), and very difficult indeed for an insurance executive.
>Not speaking from personal experience, but I've tried a lot of the decensored models and they lose a lot in the process. They are noticeably, sometimes shockingly, worse. They also still refuse prompts in many cases.

Depending on what you do, on local you can modify the response, say the AI responds "No, I can't do that" . you edit the response like "Sure, the answer is " and then the AI will continue with the next tokens.

But I think you can build your own instruct model from the base one and do not apply the safety instructions to protect the feelings of your customers.
It seems like printer companies are overcharging for ink but they probably aren't. None of the printer companies are generating huge profits.

I believe people are probably buying the wrong printer. If they print a lot, they should be buying an ink-tank printer. The printers cost a little more, but the consumables are very inexpensive.

If they are infrequent printers, they should buy whatever cheap printer they want and then sign up for that companies ink subscription. You mentioned HP and they probably have the best ink subscription program. For light use it's $1.49 / month which is going to be enough for a lot of people. It's nice to never have to order ink.
Gary's DOS is also quite similar to the PDP-11 operating system.

I tried using CPM-86 for a while, and gave up on it. It was clearly inferior to MS-DOS.

Nobody has ever been able to show a sequence of code in MS-DOS that was ripped off from CPM.

Gary got first swing at the bat for a deal with IBM.

> Bill then bought Q-DOS (a rip off of Gary's DOS) for $75k

It was $50K. Some years later, Microsoft paid him a few million dollars more to settle any potential future claims Tim might have made.
I'll bite.

> For example, can you tell me if EU is about saving the environment and stopping climate change? If so why they are blocking the Chinese electric cars? Can't stand others making the world better place better than they do?

Because the EU is a bunch of democracies, and a few of the biggest ones do not want to accelerate electrification bad enough to threaten parts of their industry/economy right now. This tracks with the electorate; support for green policies is rather low across the board, almost every nation has different primary issues.

> Can you tell me if US is about freedom and respect of the international law, borders and trande? If so why they support Ukraine against Russian invasion and then support Israel who occupies Palestinian territories since many years?

The Ukraine war is the most clear-cut aggressor/victim situation in a long time, even compared to setups like the Vietnam war: There is not even a puppet government with any legitimacy that the Russians could be claiming to act in support of, and there is no credible casus belli either. It's just blatant expansionism at the cost of a sovereign nation.

Israel/palestine is a complicated mess-- it is basically a civil war of sorts, and the Americans DO support people in Gaza/Westbank a ton (humanitarian aid).

> Can you tell me why people should drink from paper straws when the rich fly private jets?

Note: The non-private jets are a much bigger problem actually, but since there's not enough popular support to curtail air travel significantly, the easy pro-environmental actions happen first.

> Can you tell me why the capital can go anywhere but people should be stopped at the borders?

Because the people inside those borders don't want other people with no capital wandering in. The capital alone (or its owners) they don't really mind as much.

> Can you tell me how the economy is s great when so many people suffer?

Can you be more specific on this? I'd say the economy is not great, not terrible, and its about the same for the people (talking about central Europe here).
There is nobody that is alleging the vote counts were illegitimate. Not the voters, not the courts, not the politicians. That allegation isn't even relevant to this discussion
The court must not have looked very hard.

The court isn't an investigative body, they take the evidence submitted. Perhaps TikTok was more careful to be truthful in court submissions than press releases.
Judging by their actions vs the west’s actions, China is far better. Be serious.
They should set up a reservation database and sell vanity UUIDs for trendy LA people
But is this an issue of them only building their own chips?

(Speaking of which, what does Intel do with old fabs for the past 20 years after moving to a new node?)
Well, technically "was". The entire trilogy happens because he stops being one.
> hundreds of TikTok accounts

I read a much, much higher number. One that suggests that TT knew exactly what was going on.
The main issue is he declared his election campaign cost 0.

Literally, that is what he declared he spent on his election campaign.

The million euros for the TikTok & social media storm that got him elected has to have been paid by someone though, and according to law this money has to be clean and have clear sources.

He does not have clear sources. Probably also does not have clean money. The source of this dirty money is what is suspected to be Russian-adjacent actors that wanted him to win.
Someone's about to learn about the Streisand effect
>No, I'm taking a step back and saying that if the law provides for nullifying the election, it's a bad law. It's an even worse law if no due process is involved (i.e. "nothing has been proven against this candidate in court as of yet, but we're going to go ahead and nullify the election because he benefited from foreign interference, as far as we can tell based on what our intelligence services are telling us").

Sorry, this is the constitution, it does not allow for years of appeals and dragging your feat. Are you really believing that the guy used zero funds and you need a court and 3 appeals to prove to you that he used more then ZERO funds ?
>The Training Readiness does sound a bit intidimating for someone who's starting from zero

I totally understand, however, I would say that is exactly where it is most useful. You don't need to actually know or understand any data, since Garmin crunches all those things in the background for you and distills it down to concrete advice on where you are and what to do next. You can really do well with just two metrics (the daily suggested workout and Training Status). You could just follow the workout of the day "Easy run, heart rate range x-y, 31 mins" or "Tempo run, warm up 10 mins, run 15 mins heart rate range x-y, cool down 10 mins" etc. And look at what your Training status is currently, which is things like “Productive”, “Overreaching”, “Maintaining”, etc.

You don’t need to understand about lactic threshold and what types of runs improve it or how high aerobic, low aerobic, and anaerobic runs affect different aspects of improving your fitness or how many rest days are enough. You don’t need to have the experience to know how to balance recovery and training and which factors to even look at. Was your status “Productive” most of the week? Awesome, you know you are improving. What is the next workout? Done.

I hope it works out for you and you enjoy running as a healthy hobby.
> For example, can you tell me if EU is about saving the environment and stopping climate change? If so why they are blocking the Chinese electric cars? Can't stand others making the world better place better than they do?

Personally, I think that the goal of a vibrant, thriving democracy is to allow and encourage participation from many groups of citizens. This will result in the government pursuing multiple objectives at the same time.

This necessarily means that you're going to have to make trade offs. Is it more important to have cheap EVs or is it more important to keep good jobs in country?

Maybe in this case we'll decide on good jobs in our country, and then look at other ways that climate change can be addressed. Maybe we won't.

Asking why an entire country doesn't do 100% of the things it could to address a single issue seems almost intentionally naive.
Try asking that after spending a while living in a tenement building with 3 people per room and frequent outbreaks of dysentery and smallpox.
> adjust economic policies accordingly

What do you have in mind? My understanding is that this is not something there is much of an economic solution for short of canceling benefits (pensions / medical care)
How physics moves from wild ideas to actual experiments
This reminds me of Steve Jobs's famous comment to Dropbox about storage being 'a feature, not a product.' Zuckerberg - by open-sourcing these powerful models, he's effectively commoditising AI while Meta's real business model remains centred around their social platforms. They can leverage these models to enhance Facebook and Instagram's services while simultaneously benefiting from the community improvements and attention. It's not about selling AI; it's about using AI to strengthen their core business. By making it open, they get the benefits of widespread adoption and development without needing to monetise the models directly.
The CT isn't great as a large SUV replacement for moving people, because it lacks a 3rd row. It's also not a great ICE truck replacement due to EV trucks having terrible range when towing. But as a tech bro who doesn't do "real truck stuff" and is done having kids (2), you're right, it's a car with a big trunk.
Except that the VA health insurance is unironically one of the better options in the US.
More and more targets can be hit in Russia as well, hopefully US sends even longer range missiles and returns the favor
My time is worth a lot of money and 2x 4090 is more work, so it’s net more expensive in real terms.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but I suppose it's because the article is an opinion piece and there have been several major threads about the story already.
Great question. IANAL but my understanding is that outside of some specific regulatory requirements in specific industries you're free to put these policies in place as long as you do it before you have any expectation that you're going to be sued.

That's another reason to bite the bullet and put these policies in place now: once you actually have a specific fear of being sued it's maybe too late, because at that point changes to your retention policy could be construed as interfering with the legal process.

You can also have your policy exempt certain categories of documents (like financial records) and that's okay too as long as you're consistent about it.
There is a Delta direct to Amsterdam just because of Nike and Adidas.
First, as far as I can tell you're equating likely foreign state propaganda with what appears to be a diffuse meme organization so they can't be assumed to be the same thing.

Secondly, for political messages it should be clear who the message is coming from! If this organization is coordinating messages that should be public (though from looking them up it sounds like they are already fairly public with it).

Open, fair, and honest elections are important. People always whine on about what the other side is doing but I want that fixed, too and I would gladly work with anyone that wants to fix both but sadly it's much more common to see continuous deflections to the other side (because they know their side is indefensible) rather than a desire for real change.
Yeah, it was so frustrating.

Some guy from Eastern Europe: "You don't know Russians. Let me tell you about my experience with them..."

Some guy from Western Europe: "LOL, I see you believe American propaganda completely uncritically."

The guy from EE: "What? No, I was telling you what happened to my family..."

The guy from WE: "Let's talk about how America sucks instead."

Seems to me that for many people Russia wasn't even a real country, just some boogeyman that American propaganda made up. Then they suddenly woke up, and now they are like "oh no, we must not escalate!". Guys, you don't even know that making concessions to Russia is the fastest way to escalate. (You didn't expect North Korean soldiers attacking a European country, did you? That's what you get for your non-escalation. There will be more.)
Weird thing to focus on. What do you think their profit margins would be with a $10 CEO, and why?
Linux and Chromium seem at the edge of the current scale of "ordinary" open-source software. I think perhaps one should also take into account how much money would be needed to be able to build the thing in reasonable time.

Building Chromium sounds awful, but I'm not sure I'd really need to buy another computer for that. If I did I'm sure I wouldn't need to spend billions on it, most probably not even millions.

For LLaMa I definitely don't have the computer to build it, I definitely don't have the money to buy the computer, even if I won the lottery tomorrow I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have enough money to buy the hardware, even if I had enough money to buy the hardware I'm still not sure I could actually buy it in reasonable time, nvidia may be backlogged for a while, even if I already had all the hardware I probably wouldn't want to retrain llama, and even if I wanted to retrain it the process is probably going to take weeks if not months at best.

Like I think it's one of those things where the difference in magnitude creates a difference in kind, one can't quite meaningfully compare LLaMa with the Calculator app that Ubuntu ships with.
The great tracker blocker conundrum – Technical – Vivaldi Browser
People still live like this today.
This is excellent.

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I'm going to take this one if no one minds, please select something else for your purposes.
Yeah but the consequences would be for that rich person, wouldn't it? Not the candidate themselves
> show up to meetings, do good-enough work and be polite and friendly to your coworkers...as a lower-than-average-performer

I'd argue that this shouldn't be considered 'lower than average' performance. It should be considered average. And based on some companies I've been at, that should probably be considered above-average.

I know that's often not the case by managers and executives (hell I just saw an article about a CEO that is running an AI startup and tells people in interviews that they're expected to work 84 hour weeks[1]), but employees should really push back and insist that this should not be considered 'below average' performance.

[1]: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/greptile-daksh-gupta-8...
France under de Gaulle is hardly a bastion of freedom and liberal democracy, I have a hard time taking anything he said or did post-WW2 seriously
> The campaign funds were not declared, it looks to be funded by Russians and Chinese, no proof so far but it seems quite credible.

Because of what you wrote in this sentence, he was not democratically elected according to the laws of the country. He was elected through a tiktok campaign funded by foreign (dirty) undeclared money.
And support autoscroll too, if possible (where you click middle mouse to scroll)
When your astroturfing is targeted at an election, and you get caught, the election can be annulled to ensure its integrity. What's the problem here, exactly?
You know why I don't work for a trapping and pest control company? Because structurally they kill animals. They go around with tools of destruction and end the lives of animals. Its the function of their existence.

Do you know why I don't work for a _for profit_ health insurance company, who's stated goals are explicitly to make profit by slicing out some amount of premiums that are not spent to provide healthcare in a world in which total health expenditures can be* effectively infinite? Same reason.

Also this tends to do it for me:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...

Do CEOs run companies or don't they?
Control of spatio-temporal patterning in a multicellular synthetic gene circuit
I'm wondering if they are ever actually going to go live (i.e. paid for and reasonable limits), we've been waiting since June!
The international marketplace of ideas may pose some risk of allowing the American system of government to fufill its potential as a representative democracy, but the officials in Washington face no hazard greater than that. :-)
Typical, I'm always late and the good ones are already taken
So problem here is no one will define a group, and a system will not automatically say if religion = foo then bar. Things will just statistically start going this way. Might not even be negative bias. If people with college degrees start appearing as less likely to commit fraud, then it might become biased toward degrees, discriminating against those who truly need help.
It is hilarious how bad the media is about guns, but understandable when gun people for the most part are also bad about guns.

It looks to me like a subcompact with no booster in the can. He is already dropping the gun to rack after the first shot, he knew it would need it, but it isn’t the welrod’s twist and pull.

Good for B&T sales though.
Western governments hardly operate on a shoestring budget, rather they've spent generations spending profligately with the assumption that massive sustained economic growth would bail them out without having to make any hard tradeoffs. That strategy has worked out ok so far but it has always been a fragile one and we might be entering an era where it fails to work in many places.

The transition to much lower deficit spending certainly won't be popular and might go catastrophically poorly. I actually think there's a pretty good chance that things will go quite poorly, but there's no reason it has to be so.
So any third party can spend a bunch of money without the knowledge of the candidate that they purport to support, purposefully not report it, and then that candidate can be disqualified?

If that's how the system works, it incentivizes abuse.
I wonder how that could be exploited.
The note of several of them as being defaults for a web app kind of sets expectations for me. These are defaults for maybe you're writing a web app and want it to be a bit more like MySQL or Postgres. They aren't defaults for using SQLite as an in-memory cache on a complex piece of analysis.

SQLite is an amazingly widely used piece of software. It's impossible for one set of defaults to be perfect for all use cases.
Growing up in Russia in the 90s, assassinations (usually of folk associated with various organized crime groups, but also the occasional journalist or politician) were fairly common. As I recall, usually the person would get shot with some common weapon - often milsurp TT - somewhere in their daily routine where there aren't people around, e.g. on the stairs in their apartment building. But sometimes you did get more spectacular hits; there was that one time when a local crime boss was shot with a rifle while dining in a restaurant, through the window.
Okay, then planned retirement communities in expensive-to-insure parts of Florida paid for by Baby Boomers' retirement and pension funds aren't going to pay for themselves.

Either way, we have externalities between the people actually making the ink cartridge and the people buying the ink cartridge that drastically inflate the price.
reminds me of https://libraryofbabel.info/ (which seems to be down at the moment try Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20241112121646/https://libraryof...).

It's a fun implementation inspired by the short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel and "At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters," though the character set is limited (no dash) so you won't find these UUIDs there.
I'm curious if you have tried taking care of a young child 24/7, it is exhausting work. Some mothers are able to do it, but I find it really helps to be able to alternate between childcare and work, to give me a break.

I do think that remote work is great for mothers though, as it makes pumping/nursing more doable, whether we are working or not.

Perhaps the government can provide more subsidies for quality childcare.
Staying with the sinking ship analogy, by patching your sinking ship you will avoid sinking, which is a really big problem.

I know what I'd choose givin the option of avoiding sinking, and possibly dealing with unknown and probably minor consequences later; or dealing with a potentially deadly sinking now, and avoiding unknown (and probably minor) consequences later.