skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a user picks a presentation layer that displays å from noncomparable alphabets, but has them look identical - that's a choice they can and should be able to make. I think it's dumb but I'm not here to hold anyones hand.

It's the users choice whether 43616665CC81 == 436166C3A9, same for Café == Café. But they are distinct and separate choices. Text and bytes are separate things.

We accept that case sensitivity exists and whether a user/business/program treats them as identical is and should always be their choice to make.

There is abstract complexity in the problem, but the context in which text is used solves most of that.

If I have handwritten notes and I make a copy but write the second one in cursive and ask someone if they say the same thing - the correct answer isn't "we need to create a standard to normalize the presentation of text" - it's "be more precise in what you are asking".

Whether Café == Café depends on if it's written on a road sign, or a network packet with a fixed byte size.

Unprintable characters are not text and should not be stored in text fields. Neither are control characters, and as far as I'm concerned should not be included in any text encoding standard. Formatting and terminal processing should never be stored in-band, that's an obvious design flaw that should be corrected.

We already deal with ambiguity within ASCII re I vs l vs 1. Some fonts render those identically - Using those fonts in a passport is bad design. Saying we should avoid having to compare those characters at all because some people/systems might confuse them is misguided.

This isn't a true rebuttal of what you were saying but some of my next thoughts.
No, you prosecute and send for trial the people that committed the illegal acts. If that means deposing the acting president, the you do that - but you do it when you have the proof and a legitimate trial. Not the Constitutional Court inventing a power for itself that it doesn't have, based on vague wording in the Constitution (specifically, they based this decision on an article of the Romanian Constitution that says that "[the Constitutional Court] ensures that the procedures for the election of the Romanian President are followed, and confirms the results of the vote", with no further stipulations - article 146, paragraph f).
I have always wondered about that, there was this phrase that floated around in the Bay Area of "it can happen to anyone" so I always thought about the steps it would take for me to become homeless. I would have to:

Lose my job

Lose the ability to get a new job

Burn all my savings and assets

Burn all my familial relationships

Burn all my friendships

Get rejected by all social welfare programs

It feels like barring mental illness or drug addiction it would be a real challenge to end up homeless if you are trying not to be. I definitely sympathize with drug addicts because we had doctors liberally prescribing one of the most addictive chemicals on earth to people for 25 years, but I am also suspicious of the narrative that you just stumble into homelessness despite your best efforts.
I don't see how it could. "Build expensive nuclear plants because aggressors are less likely to target them while they try to annex you" is not a very convincing value proposition.
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If you don’t know the language well enough AI could lead you down the path of bad practices and you won’t recognize it.
I'm not them but I still prefer a text completion style of prompting rather than a baked in pre-prompt structure assuming only a 'chat' style metaphor of interaction.
No, they had to take a decision quickly and they took it. They knew that one side will cry foul, but the alternative would have been worse. Before you start mocking those ignorant low-trust eastern europeans, notice that a similar thing happened in Austria in 2016 where an election outcome was cancelled on illegal campaign financing grounds.
I don't assume China is right because the West was wrong; there's verifiable proof that China is better for developing countries, judging by their infrastructural footprint.
No, I believe it is true because it’s harder to find what I was looking for and it’s clear that the algorithm is skewed for political reasons and likely also economic reasons.
Delivering 100 amps over 240 volt is not an issue.
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> Let's hope the "CEO class" (for lack of a better term)

The term you are looking for is "oligarchs"
That's a good point, thanks for pointing it out.
Serverless just means it spins up a server on demand so I doubt there will be additional latency beyond the initial connection phase. The advantage of this is that it lets you host your own VPN only when you need it, so you don't need to pay for a subscription. For serious VPN users, Mullvad and co would likely be the better choice.

As someone who only occasionally uses VPNs, this is great and I will be purchasing.
Right. I'm the only one on the planet still using a belt-loop phone holder. :) I'm just old enough not to have `phone addiction` so I just wear it around and have no urge to take it out every 3 seconds.
I do plan to port more! I want to keep the base OS free of 3rd party code, but ports are really nice way to get things running that I have not yet written.

I have some ports locally that are not yet working. I have git, binutils, gcc, make all compiling but they are giving some weird errors. Probably a bug in my libc or syscalls.
Romania needs some more American political thought leadership. Such an neglected area.
Art design in the movie "Alien" (was it Ron Cobb?) borrowed from samurai armor for the space suits.

I thought it was Moebius (alias Jean Giraud) who designed the Alien spacesuits? E.g., see [1]. (Perhaps he did borrow bits of samurai armor styling, I'm not disputing that.)

[1] https://filmsketchr.blogspot.com/2013/04/alien-concept-art-b...
> if you compare Intel's headcount with comparable companies (AMD, Nvidia), you can see Intel is really wasteful

AMD and NVIDIA are fabless. They are not comparable. It takes far more people to R&D a cutting-edge process node and run a dozen fabs 24/7 365.25 than it takes to design cutting edge chips.
I've had mixed success with evading regional locks for sports and other content with random VPN providers. Any cloud provider I've tried is immediately blocked. Pretty easy to do since they all publish their IP ranges. If you have friends around the world, an easy thing you can do is have a shared Tailscale network with exit nodes.
They’d probably just focus on laser printers.

Higher buy in anyway.
Not sure I understand? Obviously there's no way to avoid everything?

It's the exact same with every VPN, every provider. They can promise no logs yet turn on logging if authorities request it.

At least you can reduce the amount of information you give.
Ahrefs is the winner for me - it's not cheap but it's very good.

If you're budget friendly I'd look at With Telescope dot com. It's PAYG and very cheap, though not as good as Ahrefs
These are fun anecdotes, but I can't help but notice the egocentrism of Juan Parrondo calling out his own work as having historical impact and noting two terms named after himself in the same paragraph.

Sometimes I wish I had a little more of that self-important energy.
That's the essence of defaults: they're just better defaults, not an excuse to stop caring about what better settings to use once you have runtime performance metrics to guide whether they need changing and which direction to change them in.
Yeah you still need logs, but as a last line.

Metrics tell you when and what went wrong, but unless you've got lots of coverage, its less likely to tell you _why_
Umm... the few developing countries where Russia has a presence has been at the explicit demand of the local authorities. The same way Americans say certain questions should be left to the state, I think national governments should be left to choose who they work with.
To put it in context: Cascades is popular because it magically takes the same amount of time (~3 hours), has no traffic, costs less than a tank of gas, and puts you into downtown seattle without having to park and potentially have your car stolen.

That is to say.. people will take trains as long as they're truthfully better. We should work on making them better. Even the lovely people of Portland, as concerned as we are about the environment, don't take the train out of the goodness of their hearts.
If you want to stay in IT AND you are good with customers, then look into Presales Solution Architecture. The coding you do is for demos to customers or little example snippets. The main part of the job if talking through architecture with customers to help them through issues or questions using whatever your product is. I made the move about 7 years ago and I wish i had done it sooner. Also, you get commission, so it can be even more lucrative.
This is a bit like a football referee looking at the videos after a goal and deciding that it was a handball, thus invalidating the goal. It is not an easy decision to make but better to do it quickly.
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There is a huge problem with people portraying the problems as not connected.

A drug addiction problem is a fast track to homelessness for just about anybody.

And drug addiction will prevent anyone who's homeless from getting out because it sucks up any income that could be used to level up in any way.
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> just make the three letter agencies go dark then, and hopefully jobless too

Good. Red teaming. This is exactly what I’d say, too, if I wanted to tank a federal E2E bill. It splits the national security bloc by unnecessarily vilifying the IC, the one group that doesn’t traditionally bother with the lawful part of lawful intercept.
They do. My point is that for the vanishingly small number of use cases where you need to write application logic in PocketBase, and you need to write it in JavaScript, and you need to use unsupported super modern ES6 features, you might prefer Trailbase, but otherwise PocketBase is more polished at this point.
i think that diversity of perspective is better than only filtering for a specific bias. i dont know how many times i need to say it before you understand me. it is in fact YOU who is deflecting rather than addressing the point. you contributed absolutely nothing with your comment.
If you add AMD (design) + TSMC (fab) it's not that far off from Intel (who does both, and sells >3x AMD by units). Clearly there are struggles at Intel but the simple math doesn't explain it.
Well if AI is about to replicate the human, it learned from the best.
X, Meta, and YouTube are not indirectly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The end.
It is probably the same base model as Llama 3.0.

They mention postraining improvements.
I once worked at an architecture firm where one of the principles was problematic and my coworker who worked with him directly was constantly cleaning up his messes, etc. (Don't worry, the guy was just a tool, this wasn't an HR matter.)

I have always been a "hacker" at heart. Although I couldn't express my thoughts on the guy publicly, I DID add a new linetype to the file which sets them in Autocad which had a rude message about him. The scale was so small It looked like a solid line, but if you were in the file and zoomed in you could see it repeated over and over.

Thinking back, I don't know if any files with that linetype went out to consultants, but if they did the consultants either didn't catch it or kept my secret.
russia beeing one guy in his 70s with nothing but books and box ahead of him
Pretty much what others said. You should read through https://wiki.osdev.org/Getting_Started and note that it will take a lot time if you decide to go for developing an OS.
According to vantage comparator, t4g.nano (the cheapest) is $3.50 monthly, but you (probably) need to factor in public IPv4, which is $3.60 if I calculate correctly, unless you do funny hacks with port forwarding via SSM. But this is irrelevant when you factor in data transfer.
I don’t agree with that analysis. The modern Supreme Court loves to wade into high-profile First Amendment issues, all the more when it’s actually a relatively novel application. They’ll take this case either to be argued at the end of this term or next term, and it will be subject to their analysis and whatever Trump decides to do with his discretion.
Which is sadly how it goes -- you have to be willing to take a stand against people without capital-V Vision sometimes. They'll only ever perceive what's right in front of their eyes, and only ever believe that what's possible is what's already recently happened (and nothing more).

Totally unrelated but now I wanna jab my elbow at Ariane 6 (rocket)...
I am reminded of the commotion over this way back in 2016:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

They said Trump won with Russia's help.

I wonder, are voters so easily manipulated that some other (hostile) country can make them vote like sheep?

And should people in the state administration (who are appointed, not elected) have the power to cancel valid election results because of suspected foreign interference?

What if they make a mistake? Will they ever be held responsible for it?
That would you require to make re-installations if your local app you develop against after every code change. Very few people will want to do that and it’s potentially very slow.

It’s also a step not needed by most other ecosystems.
Under your theory, could the Supreme Court have canceled the 2016 election result because of Russian interference?
So no evidence to show, except a "declassified document" allegedly proving that TikTok gave preferential treatment to Georgescu.

I'd be curious to know what preferential treatment means, how preferential, and how it balances out if we include treatment of all candidates across all media, but alas, that is not for us to know. Even Georgescu's opponent, Elena Lasconi, condemned the court's ruling as "illegal" and "immoral".

This just looks like a soft coup to me.
"The truth is that the Americans will eventually make themselves hated by everyone, even by their most unconditional allies. All the manipulations the Americans imagine are contradicted by events."

— Charles de Gaulle
Sure, but we've known for decades when inauguration day was going to be.
This is innumerate. HP made 53.72 billion in revenue in FY23. Eyeballing the executive compensation list[1], total executive compensation is maybe $50M. That means if the executives decided to work for free AND 100% of the savings went to customers (as opposed than shareholders, which seems more likely), that'd only drop prices by 0.1%.

[1] https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/tech/nyse-hpq/hp/management
Looking like that was the correct choice.
By most measures it seems Elon has made ~$70 billion dollars since Trump won the election, and he stands to make that look like a pittance once his cronies have taken over at NASA, the Department of Energy, and half a dozen other agencies that have slowed down his efforts with regulations and oversight.

27,900% growth in a single month and you come out the other side set up to loot the American government for at least the next four years? That’s a great investment deal by all standards.

Source:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/glob...
The main controversy here is the first amendment and which kind of scrutiny should apply.
Ah, so I guess the comparison is to Llama 3.1 405B.
Discussion (36 points, 15 hours ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335775
That would have been a good argument sometime while the campaign was still in progress. Once the votes were cast, any court would recognize this is a fait accompli. It's crazy to annull elections (a procedure which no law whatsoever, nor the Constitution, even mentions, it was invented wholesale by the CCR during their meeting today) based on campaign finance violations, even ones involving outside interference.

What would have happened if the interference were discovered only next year? Would you have been ok with annuling the elections after the new president was already in office? This is no different whatsoever, after the first round was finished.

I hated and feared CG as much as anyone, but this court decision is obviously crazy and undemocratic (as pointed out by the other candidate in the second round as well).
Nah, the value of having access to 3-month-old e-mails is that they're indexed in gmail, so if someone asks how much we paid for that widget 18 months ago you can get the original quotes in an instant.

Whereas if the data is in a bank vault, you ask the same question and the reply is "IDK, I think it was about $50-100?"
I believe this is a hype product that is built during yC startup mentoring to encourage quickly building and sampling feedback from potential users. We, hacker news, are the testbed for this project.

Disclaimer: This is entirely conjecture and I have no way to be sure it is ycombinator or any other startup leadership course behind this. Enjoy your hn conspiracy of the day
But minsk should have deterred
Ukraine can't retake what it's lost they have no men left.

You're extremifying.

You could have said "they don't have enough people". But instead you had to dial it up to "they have no men left".

No matter what is actually happening on the ground -- you definitely won't be able to make heads or tails of it, if you keep confounding yourself with rhetoric like this.
Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees
If people want to set up a Debian environment where people are mixing RTL and Hanzi I see no reason for that to be prohibited.

Debian has opinions but I disagree that they should extend that far.

If my employee Zalgo-fies everything. I don't file a bug report with Debian. I just fire them.
Depends on the company, but even Disney has their merch knocked off in large amounts.
Make them move their headquarters back to Washington or North Carolina, so the team has to be around the engineering staff instead of insulated from them.

After the MD merger everyone knew it was bullshit they were moving to Chicago. The move to the DC area is equally bullshit.
I think the fear of foreign influences poisoning our democracies through social media is a very legitimate one. But then, why limit the debate to PCR-owned TikTok? Arguably, Twitter/X was way more instrumental in the election of Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly praised Xi Jinping [1], Putin [2] and other despots.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/21/trump-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-praises-...
No, this is not a thing in Romania.
There is just too much money printed from Covid in the system so it gives the illusion of growth into speculative investments - this serves Blackrock’s story and business very well.
However, lies eventually catch up: dot-com, mortgage crisis, covid, now AI… the market is a lying machine
We'll have to see the replacement election to decide that. Will the population change their vote in response or not.
To be blunt, the null hypothesis is that consciousness is not required for AGI.

One example of a correlation between AGI and consciousness without any theory (let alone a testable theory) for why there would be causation does not constitute evidence.
Not really, and all the money needs to be declared anyway. I'll give you an excerpt of relevant law text, some stuff removed as there's a lot of fluff:

Election campaign expenses shall comply with the following conditions:
a) come solely from contributions by candidates or political parties;
b) they shall be incurred only with the prior approval of the competent financial trustee;
c) they must fall within the limits provided for by this law;
d) to be made by electoral competitors only for the promotion of their candidates and electoral programs.
(2) The collection of electoral contributions and the payment of electoral expenses may be made only through bank accounts notified in advance to the Permanent Electoral Authority.
[...]
(11) Candidates' contributions for their own election campaign or that of the political party that nominated them may come only from donations received by candidates from individuals, from their own income or from loans taken by them from individuals or credit institutions.
[...]

In the event of the commission of an offense provided for by this Law, in violation of this Article, the sums of money related to the electoral expenses incurred in violation of this Article shall be confiscated and paid into the state budget

The financing of the electoral campaign, directly or indirectly, by natural persons who are not Romanian citizens or by legal entities of a nationality other than Romanian, is prohibited, with the exception of financing by citizens of Member States of the European Union who are domiciled in Romania and are members of the political party to whose electoral campaign they are making a financial contribution.

Translated with DeepL.com
I'd like to train myself on this "The Atlantic" story, but I've been blocked by a paywall.
Thanks! I used to have an old dictionary that traced the evolution of the letters, it was quite cool. There is a book 'Textual Scholarship' by Greetham that goes deep on the more modern letterforms like Uncial. I haven't cracked that in a while.
The basic theory of MBTI is that it doesn't really matter what degree of introvert you are, it's the difference between introvert and extrovert that matters, and that there's not really a group of people who are neither introverts nor extroverts (which is how it differs from other personality theories, including the one it's based on).

Granted, this part of the theory doesn't really get explored much in its usage in popular psychology.
Europe is just getting adjusted to the new reality and the reality is not black-and-white.

Russians didn't discover magic words that they use to hypnotise people and make them vote for pro-Russia candidate. In fact, everywhere in the world the incumbent politics are losing ground because the system is in crisis and people are looking for a change everywhere and Russia appears to be able to propel politicians who are closer to the their politics simply because the incumbent ones screwed up.

Is America different? Just a month ago in the American election – those who are anti-establishment and pro-Russian won.

US and Europe will go through a soul searching and hopefully will come out of this in a better shape. It has to go through this because the ideology collapsed, economy doesn't perform and the hypocrisy is unbearable anymore.

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?

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?

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

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

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

The west is in crisis, the ideology doesn't hold and the economy doesn't provide and all the Russians have to do is to point it out. They don't use spell, they just tell what everyone sees. This needs to get fixed, let's hope that the damage wouldn't be too big.
Yeah I've just never seen one, and don't have a Rivian, so it never came across the media I consume. I'm in the Houston area, and they only have 3 in Texas, none of which are near me. Only one is on a freeway that I may likely encounter.