skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is considered the establishment in Romania?

As far as I can see, modern Romania appears to be ruled mostly by the Social Democrats whose candidate came 3rd and was disqualified from the second round. They also appeared to have roots in the Communist era, is that right?

Can we say that this move was to save the Social Democrats? Who were supposed run agains't the liberals and win I guess, but this pro-Russia candidate came from nowhere and the 2nd round turned into pro-Russia vs pro-West, right?
If you account for TikTok's Project Texas, Zoom's Chinese background could be deeper.

https://www.telecoms.com/security/zoom-security-flaws-and-ch...
You jumped the shark on the Apple pricing argument. People will always complain about prices no matter how rich they are. That is a character trait for many.

I am amenable to your second talking point. I still think my perspective is a useful model to consider. Not "right" in any absolute sense.
I agree with the author. My work involves designing simulations for control. Yesterday, I asked GPT-4o to write a python-only simulation for a HVAC system (cooling tower, chiller on the water side, and multiple zones with air handling units on the air side).

It wrote functions to separately generate differential equations for water/air side, and finally combined them into a single state vector derivative for integration. Easy peasy, right?

No. On closer inspection, the heat transfer equations had flipped signs, or were using the wrong temperatures. I'd also have preferred to have used structured arrays for vectors, instead of plain lists/arrays.

However, the framework was there. I had to tweak some equations, prompt the LLM to re-write state vector representations, and there it was!

AI-assisted coding is great for getting a skeleton for a project up. You have to add the meat to the bones yourself.
Then they publish video with strikes on civilians in Russian Telegram channels and have fun.

Any specific posts you can point to?
Couldn't the constitutional court have acted before the election took place? Forbid that candidate from running in the first place?

The reason this looks sketchy in the first place is that it happened after they saw the election results, and one gets the feeling that if another candidate won they would not have annulled it.
> We are essentially all complicit

Empty statement that shirks responsibility when some are complicit orders of magnitudes more than others. Even among those not directly involved in fossil fuel industries. This matters. In Nazi Germany, someone working at a screw factory, some of whose screws ended up in military devices, was also complicit. Yet the morality is clear - they weren't sent to Nuremberg whereas others were, for good reason. Even though the war would have been near impossible with no screws available.
This seems like a confused analysis. As Enron and FTX both show well, personal criminal responsibility for high level executives and a "corporate death penalty" already exist and get used when circumstances warrant. The decision to use them is just made through a structured system of laws and penalties, rather than a subjective sense of which executives you feel are bad.
Built a tool to help busy parents book date nights
A colleague of mine was telling me how nice it would be to have some sort of AI agent that automatically booked restaurants for him. He and his partner live in Brooklyn with their two kids. Between work and family, they barely have time for themselves, so they don't have the energy to plan to go out every week on different places.

In addition to that, their only available time is a couple of hours on Friday night — which makes it even harder to get reservations at nice high-demand places.

So, I built a simple service that automatically books a different restaurant on his Resy account every week.

It works like this right now: you login with your Resy account, select a Resy list (e.g. Hit List), select a schedule (e.g. reservation for 2, every Friday between 6pm and 9pm), and that's it, the service will take care of the reservations for you.

I'm currently working on an AI agent to figure out what's the optimal time to make reservations on high-demand places. It's been fun!

Anyway, I figured I'd share it here to see if anyone else finds it useful.

I've added a Private Beta form if someone wants to have access to try it out.

It's pretty simple right now. Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!

https://dine-fy.com/
Anonimity isn't the only reason you might want a VPN. Access to remote resources, circumventing geoblocks etc..

Indeed for anonimity it's much better to take a commercial VPN where you're one of the many on the same IP. But for geoblocks it's better to have an IP they haven't seen before. Though cloud provider IPs don't fare well either.

But yeah it's a very steep price IMO. I guess they're not aiming at us techies though. We can figure this out in 10 minutes. Someone who's never heard of docker might consider it worth it.
We should just make the three letter agencies go dark then, and hopefully jobless too
> In the 1970s, Lang developed a modem with 8-dimensional signals, using E8 packing. This helped to open up the Internet, as data could be sent over the phone, instead of relying on specifically designed cables. Not everyone was thrilled. Donald Coxeter, who had helped Lang understand the mathematics, said he was “appalled that his beautiful theories had been sullied in this way”.

Sic semper mathēmaticīs.
My contact card is on the chip, so I can give people my info if they scan it with their phone.

Magnet I mostly use to make sure my laptop charger is plugged in all the way.

They're just kind of fun. I had a couple other magnets too, but they had a different type of coating and had to be removed when they started to leak.
Carbon offsets can help bring energy efficiency to low-income Americans
> I would not recommend eating a bowel of it.

One of the worst ways to eat anything
Could you give some examples of recent SCOTUS opinions that you think have a worse veneer of legal principles than the average veneer from previously?
I know that's the conspiracy theory, but shouldn't we be asking for evidence?
This is only somewhat related but this post got me wondering.

Can wireguard be used for a multi-wan setup/speed aggregation?
>Ukraine is losing (very very slowly, and can still win),

This is not remotely true, Ukraine can't retake what it's lost they have no men left. If it were true Zelensky wouldn't be contemplating ceding territory to Russia. It sucks but Ukraine lost in 2014 when the world let Crimea get annexed with no response.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/zelensky-says-for-first-...
The ruling actually spends quite a bit of time talking about the privacy justification as well.
Oh yeah, sorry. I'm missing documentation on how to access the GUI environment. You have to enter the GUI environment using `start-gui` command. After that doom should start by running `doom` in the GUI terminal.
Performance in the web emulator is really bad though, so don't expect much :D
All of that self-dealing is still in the context of development projects, rather than military and paramilitary interference.

Would you rather have imperfect, corrupt development projects or the CIA fucking your shit up and definitely not building any dams?
They weren't, the vote systems (which are manual, and were counted by ~150,000 people, representatives of the political parties, independent observers, and others) were verified and a successful recount was already carried out. If anything is clear, it is that the people's votes were correctly counted.
I have unlocked understanding Japanese and it blew my mind how pervasive advertisements are.

Most foreign people would just gloss over them but even most temples (say in Kyoto) have the names of companies which donated money plastered all over the place.

Even the famous tori gates at inari have cool looking Japanese text which basically says "Applebees", "Yamato Metal Industries", and so on.
We may not have gridfire or CAM dustings but I'm pretty sure that's how space combat will end up really going.

No cinematic Expanse-style Gatling gun vs inexplicably slow missile dogfights, just getting vapourised by something going 50km/s that was fired from hundreds of thousands of km away by something you never even saw.

The good news is at least those engines don't use physics we have access to - Inaros didn't need the whole rocks thing, he could have just fuelled up a freighter and brought it in at some fraction of c from outside the ecliptic. I don't care how good your railguns are, they won't hit something that has its own blueshift.
For a personal VPN a T4G nano is probably sufficient. You can probably have that up and running for less than 5 USD per month ;)
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I sometime use the word invested in the context of Bitcoin, but I don't really think of it as an investment. I don't know what a better word to use would be though. I think calling it gambling is needlessly antagonistic.

I don't know if I would even consider buying an NFT of a pointless thing gambling. There is a misguided expectation that just because it has a price tag it has value. The actual perceived value(as in market price) increasing reinforces that viewpoint, but it is an artifact of a pool of misguided people that has not been exhausted.

The point is, these people have an expectation of an increase in value. For most gambling there are two categories. The most skilled wins, and the House wins. There is no rising tide raising all boats. Believing that simply getting on the bandwagon of gambling will make you money is outright delusional.

'Investing' in NFTs, I feel is distinct because it relies on the sincere belief of a false premise. Participants believe that neither skill nor luck is a requirement and just being in the game is sufficient.

Coming back to Bitcoin, I think there are multiple levels of expectation based upon multiple premises. The premise that Bitcoin, one day, replaces money. I don't think you can say this is outright false, merely quite unlikely. Others believe that Bitcoin will, at least, retain it's value. This premise is on sturdier ground but also not certain.

You could think of this as skill-based form of gambling if you think that the skill is in the ability to more accurately determine the truth of the premises. That puts it in the same field as a high risk investment though.
> I am aware, and that behavior is despicable, but I still don’t believe that this puts all the responsibility for climate change on oil companies generally or Exxon specifically.

They should pay, they knew what they were selling and were misleading people now we are in a critical situation because of their actions. Individuals can do only so much and most of the people don't even really grasp and understand the implications of their actions, but gets appalled when they do...

You can turn the problem in all directions, the manipulation of public opinion to freeze any attempt at reversing climate change is actually a crime against humanity...
Back in the case of eggs you couldn't count on having the metadata until you ran setup.py which forced pip to be unreliable because so much stuff got installed and uninstalled in the process of a build.

There is a need for a complete answer for dev and private builds, I'll grant that. Private repos like we are used to in maven would help.
I think I said enough to demonstrate that Nietsche's influence on fascism and nazim is quite concerning.

I don't think you have actually, but let's give that a rest for now.

But if even if you did -- what would that "concern" be?
It was nice to see the author admit that his title was clickbait, but disappointing to see him wrap a whole essay around points that halfway beg reactions of: "OK, Boomer", with the other half being an example of an academic who cannot accept poetry as a cultural communication tool that follows its owns rules, and instead tries to claim his rules as the right way to be poetic.
There are many examples used as limb & joint protection for motorcycling and mountain biking. D3O, xmatter, SAS-TEC: brand-names of various non-newtonian shear-thickening substances used to allow flexibility and conforming to body motion but firming up under hard/sudden impacts to spread the forces. Not quite as soft or flexible as a fancy sci-fi material would need to be for a full-body armor, but certainly much more comfortable than the hard plastic materials previously used for protecting extremities.

These are often demonstrated by protecting a hand from a hammer blow, and I know from experience they are very adequate for protecting knees and elbows from trees, hard ground, and moderately pointy rocks. However, it's unclear if the shear-thickening is significant enough to protect against an actual sword strike or knife stab, and very unlikely that they could withstand a modern projectile weapon.

The idea is proven, but would need some further materials breakthrough to approach the level of sci-fi armor.
They just sell the config for $50 once off. You still have to pay the cloud provider too.
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"live threatmap of live cyber attacks blocked by BunkerWeb instances all around the world"

So this sketchy looking thing is also equipped with telemetry that phones home all the time?

No thanks.
I'd have much more sympathy for this point of view if Exxon and co had loudly shouted about the dangers of climate change from the rooftops and the public at large still ignored them.

They did the opposite of that, in fact, and continue to do. So I have no sympathy for any oil companies if they ever face any punishment. A vanishingly unlikely prospect by the way.
I don't recall what specific keyword they use, but this idea has been thoroughly explored in manufacturing businesses, probably for close to a century now. Having slack in the system allows you to adapt to unforeseen circumstances quickly and over longer periods of time, gives better results than trying to run everything at maximum output. If memory serves well, Andrew Grove dissects this idea and how it carries over to managing people in his book High Output Management from 1983.
We have the full right to assert any moral stance. Whether others find it "condescending" is really not my problem.

The reality is that the internet is not a good publication venue. There are lots of eyeballs and distribution is cheap, but getting people to pay is hard. That doesn't mean serving up advertisement is a moral response. Advertisement is met with ad-blockers and will continue to be. When that is too painful, people do skip the content.
Next up cats.
I guess we just don't see eye to eye on these things, which is okay. I freely admit that my employer isn't too sharp on its use of technology. But I also won't be convinced that folks like Red Hat and IBM aren't total bloodsuckers. :)
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No base model? disappointed.
His campaign messages weren't outright extremist, just your casual populism, impossible promises and a dash of dogwhistles. Once he won the first round of elections, people really started to look into his past and it's pretty insane.
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FYI, due to Llama's naming scheme, there is no such thing as Llama 3.2 405B. 8B/70B/405B models are either Llama 3, 3.1, or 3.3 (except for 405B which wasn't initially released), while Llama 3.2 only contains 1B, 3B, 11B (vision), and 90B (vision) models. It's a bit confusing.
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You definitely can, there are tons of VPS providers that don't require any personal information.
Three-State Solution: A Path to Palestinian Dignity and Cultural Flourishing
I think this used to just be called running software.
It's state sponsored media from a geopolitical adversary.

> Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded media organization broadcasting news and analyses in 27 languages to 23 countries...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...
I don't understand why you seem to agree with me but also said

> Logical ordering of events in a distributed system is a solved problem. The solution is vector clocks (or something like them).

A partial order solves the problem when messages are not simultaneous and so the partial order provides a total order. That there is in fact no total ordering of simultaneous messages doesn't solve the problem that users would like to have messages arrive in a consistent order without delay. This is unsolved, because it's unsolvable, therefore vector clocks aren't the solution.
Surely AWS is the worst choice for this given that bandwidth is the main resource that VPNs consume, and AWS bandwidth is ludicrously expensive. For the €5/month that Mullvad charges for unlimited bandwidth you can only get about 60GB of EC2 egress even in the cheaper regions.
I think you can negotiate the salary more efficiently if you have a second offer at hand and do want to stay in the same company.
Gen Z hates working from home (2022)
Hopefully this lands on Groq soon!
> If it's about protecting elections and propaganda, why not X and Meta and YouTube?

Because the government is not threatened by X, Meta, or YouTube. In many ways, it exists in their pocket. There's not a lot of looming dissonance between what those parties are interested in seeing happen and what the modern federal government (as run by either party) is pursuing, and at this point, those each provide far more value as an allied propaganda arm than as a hostile propaganda risk.

But China and the US have directly competing interests in many places around the world, and the radical changes that both countries have undergone in the last 80 years have set the stage of a fresh contest of power. Obviously, both parties would like to navigate that contest in the best position possible. Allowing your anticipated opponent access to unmediated, private communications with hundreds of millions of citizens in an already vulnerable democracy is not a great position to be in during that contest.
Agree. But they're well in second and third compared to Calvin & Hobbes. :)

I also think Bloom County deserves to be on the list of all-time greats.
Money and nukes. The worst thing Europe did was get addicted to cheap Russian gas. It was a trojan horse that encouraged governments to look the other way.
Clean the nozzles instead, either via the driver or from the front panel. Less wasteful of consumables, and you get a test pattern after each cycle to confirm whether the head is good to go.
I was linking the proposers day video not as a direct answer but rather to try and show how that specific aspect is connected to all the other research going on on this topic as well.

And they even mentioned in that video that TA2 is the particularly hard problem.

And to address your question I linked the teaming page which does go into what the teams are pursuing to solve that problem. One of the teams addressing the specific issue you brought up is the USC team. They are developing electric field stimulus systems to drive regeneration of optic nerves along with real time imaging/monitoring equipment so that they can control said stimulus to drive regeneration along the paths they want.

TA2 is very big/broad and a lot of different teams are taking quite different approaches at how to address aspects of TA2.
Its (at least for now) $50 once, then however much per month, your chosen cloud provider charges you for a server.
Running an agent on every server that reports back to the master server is a huge security vector.

Running a daemon on a server that scrapes data is also a security vector.
it certainly will lead to proliferation . somewhere in some Pakistan mansion there is most awkward reunion of russias neighbours bidding for nukes. latvia 5million, khazakstan 10 milliin, who raises the bid. One way or another donbas is russias last conquest ..
> If this isn't "murder" or "killing" in your eyes, then maybe we just need a new word for the callous abdication of responsibilities that you signed up to provide for profit, when doing so results in the deaths of thousands.

We already have a word for that, it's called "capitalism".
> given jQuery and React aren't even remotely aimed at solving the same problem?

Both are used for rich UI experiences.
Eggs did not contain setup.py files. The metadata like for wheels was embedded in the egg (in the EGG-INFO folder) from my recollection. Eggs were zip importable after all.
Based on my testing, this model is significantly better than other Gemini models especially with programming/math related tasks. The current Gemini models are pretty useless for anything related to programming/math, but this experiment model puts Gemini ahead of GPT4o, and pretty close to Claude 3.5.

The major problem with Claude 3.5 is you can't have conversation with a large amount of text because you will constantly hit rate limits and it's very annoying.

This model with a 2 million context window is probably the best model right now for programming.
What is his stance on Moldova? Doesn't pan-Romanian nationalism have a strong undercurrent in Romanian politics? And how does that play in with Romanian-Russian relations?
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> Note the court does not say foreign actors don't have First Amendment rights.

Is there a precedence on foreign actors (either inside or outside the US) having First Amendment rights?
A lot of the problem seems to be driven by a desire to have editable installs. I personally have never understood why having editable installs is such an important need. When I'm working on a Python package and need to test something, I just run

python -m pip install --user <package_name>

and I now have a local installation that I can use for testing.
Microservices don't make sense (part 2)
I see many comments signaling the facts are not known and the situation confusing. Here is a summary:

In the election, a previously unknown candidate had a massive TikTok campaign and got the first place, qualifying for a second round. The campaign funds were not declared, it looks to be funded by Russians and Chinese, no proof so far but it seems quite credible.

A recount was decided and performed, no change in results. So the Constitutional Court, highly politically biased (appointed by the parties that lost), decided to annul the result and do it again.

That guy was democratically elected. This is showing how fragile the entire idea of democracy is, people elected a really bad guy, but they voted for him by the millions. Practically democracy was trolled big time. The guy has no chance to win the finals, every other candidate's voters will vote against him, it's just trolling.
He declared 0 campaign budget and he ran a campaign estimated at millions of $ in the last days before the election. Also the videos were not marked as campaign ads. These are illegal under Romanian law. The court took a courageous decision.
"When possible" in this case being simply don't enable the WAL if your use requires transactions across multiple attached sqlite DBs.
> One does not need to be a sock puppet to believe that the justification for this ban is shaky at best.

Totally agree.

But dismissing TikTok as merely a “dance video app”, even as a semi-joke, is disingenuous.

To mock American patriotism on top of that, despite there being plenty to mock, doesn’t really make the post seem like it’s focused on compelling rhetoric.
>I still haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Gary Kildall.

You mean try to encourage him to take a good deal and instead Gary blew it? How is that Bill's fault in any way?
"Benign" in a clinical genetics context means "the variant is not linked to observed phenotype in patients". Patient lives their life without disability, reproduces without issue.

Not really productive to imagine scenarios to unlock some hidden use. Sometimes junk is junk. Evolution is not hyper-efficient in the short term, stuff happens.