skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No the transfer of defense spending to social spending was an explicit policy in the 80s/90s, that was refered at the time as "the peace dividends".

And the fact that it is diverted into social spendings is also significant, because it is a kind of public spending that is politically impossible to cut back. Even Trump doesn't want to touch that third rail in the US.

France's military spending, though not as low as many other european countries, is still a fraction of what it was during the cold war [1] and so is its military capability. It has big shortfalls of amunitions (a couple of weeks worth in a Ukraine-style conflict), and even though it has in theory advanced techs, it has it in numbers that wouldn't help in an intense conflict like a war with Russia (the number of operational tanks, cannons and planes is just too low and it would be overwhelmed). It is a military that has been downsized to basically two missions: nuclear deterence, and small operations in the middle east and africa against terrorist groups and milicia. That military is completely inadequate to face a threat like Russia.

[1] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/France/mil_spend_gdp/
I had to write one recently. One third page of code, multi-threaded. Really trivial, and no security nightmares as with overblown 3rdparty deps.
Canadian Iranian here , yes it’s a common name, even my dad was called “Ali” short for his full name “Alireza”.

Also I agree with everything parent said, we always go out, we even have trips with the 2-3 families and sometimes friends join as well.

Chess and Soccor are huge in Iran, you see kids running around in the street playing all the time and in the evening we have “parties” where people come to share food and then go out.

It’s very different from the West, I don’t even know what western nations would look like with that setup, it can get chaotic and there are many regulations that prevent these anyway like making noise outside after dark or kids being lowed to run in the streets with cars passing; not to mention the subtlies of not invading people’s personal spaces or coming off as a “creep” / annoying person here. In Iran no one cares and you just chat with anyone..
> Tons of them. Custom download page, to avoid seeing the old ugly Chrome'a download shelf at the bottom of the screen.

Just to make sure—you seem to be replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493152, which currently says:

> Which of your single use extensions was causing you to like things on Facebook?

Are you saying tons of your single-use extensions caused this Facebook liking, and a custom download page was one of them? Or was this meant to be a response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42492881?

(Or maybe something's wrong with parent links today. For me, on the main page, they are now turning into anchored links that don't seem to go where intended, which wasn't happening yesterday.)
I also chip in for the roads but I don't get to tell you where you can drive.
All the issues I experience on the internet are related to cloudflare. Only way around them appears to be: don't use Firefox, allow all tracking and ads.

Any site that throws cloudflare shit up infront of me before I either can get to the site or use a service are immediately discarded as a useless site.
Hah I wondered the same and found that same list.

Obviously it's easy to speak from my perspective where I'm fortunate that I don't have to worry about accessing food.. but even when confronted with that my position remains unchanged. Maybe if you were arguing about healthy/neutral drinks I would feel different, but I've had enough people in my life develop obesity and diabetes from addiction to soda to regard it as marginally better for you than alcohol and tobacco.

I hope I live long enough to see society in this country start revolting against HFCS/sugar and excess sodium in our diets, it's death by diabetes and heart attacks/strokes.
> because Terminal.app is indeed lagging far behind iTerm and other alternatives now.

iTerm always struck me as slow and bloated. I think it's just a matter of taste.
It varies by book genre, but there are clearly page number requirements for each sub genre.

A history book will not be best selling if its not a giant doorstop of a book. A narrative non-fiction book will be shorter and snappier because different expectations hold.

A fantasy book should be a tome, etc etc.

For non-fiction, editors very much do enforce these limits. A short history book won't be taken seriously, unless its repackaged as a different type of book.
> 1) This is an ego problem.

This goes both ways. I worked for a company where the majority of PR comments were of the "Well, _I_ wouldn't do it this way." form. In some cases, the "way" they were complaining about were direct versions of examples in the language library docs.

One specific case was a PR was held up from merging because I used the plural of "regex" as "regexen" and not "regexes". IN A COMMENT. <eye roll>
Our neighbors who had a flock of chickens also had a fox family living in a hollowed-out stump. Their chickens were safe because they had a really solid hen house but their game camera caught the fox mama repeatedly bringing back chickens from the neighbors that it had taken.
I honestly didnt really expect that people would latch onto the alcohol part of this so much.

> That said I agree that strict lifestyle prescriptions for people getting assistance are more often a kind of moral high horse than a useful policy.

Honestly, yeah. Just look at the comments.

So many of us take it for granted that if we want to "waste" money on a candy bar, or some other stupid little thing that gives us a few minutes of joy... we just can and barely give it a second thought.

You actually got me thinking looking at some of the nutrition labels on some of the alcohol I have in my fridge and honestly, I could see the argument. At the end of the day it should the their decision and trying to draw arbitrary lines due to health or whatever just isn't helping anyone, likely just leading to embarrassment or anger when they accidently add something to their cart that isnt covered.
Your link is talking about reception strength. What are the powers at transmit?
The beverage that is best for you is also the cheapest. Water. From a tap. They may have less access to certain types of food but when it comes to beverages nearly every food stamp user in the US has access to clean, cheap, good for you water.

It is absolutely true that food deserts exist in the US and they tend to occur most often in the poorest areas. But eliminating soda, candy, and such from the food stamp program is one good way to give them a lift nutritionally. Which in some cases can translate into a lift out of poverty.

When your welfare programs perpetuate and reward patterns that keep people in poverty it's fine to blame the program. Asking tax payers to pay for other people's bad habits is bad. The purpose of these programs should be to help them make forward progress. It should not be to subsidize a continued fall into deeper poverty.
Correct. So why is OP excluding alcohol.
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They aren't blocking anything. They are just asking nicely not to be crawled. Given that AI companies haven't cared a single bit about ripping of other's peoples data I don't see why they would care now.
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Right but the criminal isn't the person trying to have their medicine delivered in this scenario. It's a compromise in the quality of the medical apparatus because the policing apparatus can't or won't do its job. A same medical apparatus should be independent of enforcement activities or else patients will always receive suboptimal care and services due to the now mixed goals.
Not likely. Things have to get much worse.
They might get into the micro-licensing game too. More power to them.
Pink Floyd wrote some questions down on note cards and asked random people in the studio, recording their answer. The Beatles were part of this, but their answers were too guarded and weren't used.
Half (if not more) of the leadership on andruils are from palantir. Schimpf was a senior director there and his wife was the head of infosec at palantir in the last decade

It always looked to me like palantir was the software side and Andruil was the hardware side of the same basic business.

These articles of the two companies “teaming up” always amused me because if you know the players from Palantir’s growth phase it always looked like the OGs from palantir jumped to a new startup for another cycle of unicorn funding when the ride was ending
As an aside I have foolishly never once thought that you could pipe both stdout and stderr to another program at the same time. You learn something new each day.
To play devil's advocate:
"* There's no incentive whatsoever to "sneak something in" and if you do so maliciously you'll be fired and maybe prosecuted depending on the damage."

How would you discover the snuck in code in a timely fashion?
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I don’t think that was ever true. A Stammtisch is not primarily about drinking, with something more refined on the side as an excuse. But I can imagine raging alcoholics like to believe that.
At this point, this sort of response to an AI post on HN is just fancy wet-compute auto complete.
That's a very superficial way of looking at the universe.

Existence is not limited to whether or not it's observed. Brains have evolved to only gather the minimum amount of information required to keep the organism alive in its particular environment. But there is an unfathomable amount of complexity in the universe, even in the things we _can_ perceive.

For 3D modeling specifically these details don't matter, which is why we're able to approach photorealism. The renders look good enough to fool our brains into thinking that we're looking at the object as it would appear in the real world. They're a good approximation of visual aspects, but they're far from a good representation of real world objects. We don't have nearly enough compute for that. We've only recently gained the ability to model how light behaves in the real world in real-time, and even that is an approximation.

Anyway, Infinigen looks like a cool product. It's great to see classical simulations instead of AI for a change.
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Growing up in Rochester, NY, where Xerox was founded and has/had the most employees... I'm just glad to hear they have enough resources to acquire something. Been a rough couple decades.
Lexmark was the supplier of Model M keyboards for a while, after IBM spun their printer & keyboard business off. Which they later spun off into Unicomp (pckeyboard.com) who still manufacture them in the town of Lexington.

If you've never used a Model M, they're beasts. Great mechanical feel (they have buckling spring technology). And they're heavy enough to not slide around on your desk.
Nope, makes sense to me. Seems unreasonable to conclude the dataset is not compromised now.
Yeah, probably right. If you want a great rabbit hole, look up "Common Crawl" and see how a great academic project was absolutely hijacked for pennies on the dollar to grab training data - the foundation for every LLM out there right now.
Superfeedr is pubsubhubhub.
Broken clocks can still be right once a day for a game of whataboutism.
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Trade jobs are already well paid. Maybe you mean that the rest of us will figure that out.
This was a greenfield app. For all I know by now accommodating edge cases that almost never matter has made the thing unusable.
I want to see and/or collect discount codes for things
The main factors that cause health insurance to be problematic are beyond the control of even top executives. Sure, they can do some things to slightly improve processing of prior authorization requests and claims. But any real change would have to come at the public policy level, such as breaking the link between employment and coverage. That will take a sustained effort to build political consensus.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/12/12/oscar-health-ceo-on-fi...
Knowledge worker productivity has increased in other ways over the decades. Increases don't always lead to mass layoffs. Rails made (and still makes) many many web devs much more productive than before. Its arrival did not lead to mass layoffs
> I am dreading the inevitable onslaught in a year or two of language model “proofs” of the Riemann hypothesis which will just contain claims which are vague or inaccurate in the middle of 10 pages of correct mathematics which the human will have to wade through to find the line which doesn’t hold up.

I wonder what the response of working mathematicians will be to this. If the proofs look credible it might be too tempting to try and validate them, but if there’s a deluge that could be a hug time sync. Imagine if Wiles or Perelman had produced a thousand different proofs for their respective problems.
The name "dynamic programming" has never clicked for me. I've looked it up I think multiple times over the years, and I think oh "recursive" or all the code I've written in Lisp/Elm. The distinction seems relatively "meh" to me.
That's not necessarily the case, depending on how their pipeline was set up and what their VCS supports.

For example, you can always `git mv` the Java file to the Kotlin file and only then transform it, which keeps your history.
Main-Main Replication: LiteFS

Streaming Backups: LiteStream

Just missing logs and, well, for me, graph database.
Frankly, I'm not sure what the point of the parent's comment is. Experts can be dumb and ChatGPT is dumb so it's an expert?

> People who are experts (PhD and 20 years of experience) often have very dumb opinions in their field of expertise.

The conventional wisdom is that experts are dumb OUTSIDE of their fields of expertise.

I don't know about you, but I would be very insulted by someone passing judgement like this on my own work in my field. I am sure that I would doubt their qualifications to even make the judgement.

Are there experienced fools? Sure. We both probably work with some. To me they are not experts, though.
> many ended up at OpenText

I really want to know what the deal is with OpenText (formerly MicroFocus). If you're not careful they will eventually buy your business and you will disappear.
> I’d really like to know what exactly you are looking for? There is no such thing as “free” and no browser extension will give you something for free. You are paying, one way or the other…

Sometimes there are really-free things. Old-style open-source software is a collection of such things. Extensions, at their beginning, were too, and some of them still are. As far as I know, for example, there's no 'gotcha' in uBlock Origin (although there is the 'gotcha' of knowing to look for them instead of the myriad other solutions that are non-free).
Pretty much. The reason why these "leaks" get mentioned so much is because the idea of leaking classified documents on a video game forum is mildly amusing. The game is popular among people enrolled in the military, so it's not implausible that someone would leak documents for laughs and clout.
>> my friends and I would have pooled our cash and bought a used phone.

one phone shared between a bunch of friends is not the problem. The problem is a phone "owned" by you, and then used to access social media.
ie the phone is just a conduit to social media, and social media is the root of the problem.

>> Maybe I was just a bad kid, but if my parents had done something like this, my friends and I would have pooled our cash and bought a used phone.

Cigarettes and alcohol were (and still are) banned from kids, and yes kids certainly got them when I was growing up (and I'm pretty sure still do.) That doesn't mean those things should be accessible to kids, used at the dinner table, or in bedrooms at home.

>>Any parent-driven solution would be seen as the parents being ridiculous and unfair by the kids, at least at first.

This is not a suggestion I am proposing. It's an approach I'm seeing being implemented, and the kids are better off for it. Given the very clear harms we are seeing with children using smart-phones, and social media, for the last 15 years or so, I expect this will gain momentum.

Clearly you can parent your own kids however you like - I'm just reporting on what I'm seeing.
Android has all of these features?

iMessage = Google Messages (with RCS), works on web too

AirDrop = Nearby Share

Find My Friends = Google Maps Location sharing

AirPlay = Chromecast

WiFi password sharing = WiFi "share network" -> QR code

iPhoto sharing = Google photos sharing
Xerox is essentially a Lexmark reseller at this point. You can look at what Xerox technicians are posting on reddit if you need evidence:

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/15sa0q4/why_do_th...

As per a comment there, even the toner cartridges are the same, with the only difference being the chip used.

This acquisition should make Xerox into a company that builds its own printers again.
I know it’s pointless but now I’d like to see a fibonacci implementation that returns these runtimes as the result.
I too found an extremely unlikely % of iphone users when checking access logs.
If this was true in general all social networks would be interoperable.

You may value a product like that more but imo it’s not the way it works in practice.
The fact that humans make mistakes has little to no bearing on their capacity to create monumental intellectual works. I recently finished The Power Broker by Robert Caro, and found a mistake in the acknowledgements where he mixed up two towns in New York. Does that invalidate his 500+ interviews and years of research? No.

Also, expert historians, philosophers psychs, etc. aren't judged based on their correctness, but on their breadth and depth of knowledge and their capacity to derive novel insights. Some of the best works of history I've read are both detailed and polemical, trying to argue for a new framework for understanding a historical epoch that shifts how we understand our modern world.

I don't know, I think I know very little about the world and there are people who know far more and I appreciate reading what they have to say, of course with a critical eye. It seems to me that disagreeing with that is just regurgitated anti-intellectualism, which is a coherent position, but it's good to be honest about it.
Intersting, I didn't realize there's a relationship.

But Wikipedia says:

> Lexmark was formed on March 27, 1991, when investment firm Clayton & Dubilier completed a leveraged buyout of IBM Information Products Corporation, the printer, typewriter, and keyboard operations of IBM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark
> if not for the resource requirements, complexity, and the upgrade treadmill.

this is what makes it a joke
I understand the strategic advantage for offline software for elections and nuclear power plants. For security reasons you can't depend on outsiders, and you've got long term budget to support in house teams.

However in terms of longevity, in the consumer space and corporate space, third party SaaS is much more stable and reliable than offline software. How much of the data from offline software do you keep from the 2000s or 2010s? You changed computers and the data is gone. Yes, many SaaS providers pull the rug, but usually it's fine and you get a chance to migrate the data?

If I had to place a bet on whether the files on my desktop will outlive the files on my Google Drive, I wouldn't take it.
> heavily tracked

As in the flights or the hardware?

I've always thought drones would work well as ambush devices i.e. don't make a long flight to a target but stash within a few seconds of flight time.

If it's the hardware then is there not much of a DIY scene anymore? I assumed the tech was mostly in the components e.g. cameras/motors/batteries rather than the integration. I'm not a drone person but when I cast my eye at FPV racing drones, it seemed they were building their own with off-the-shelf components.

> radio links

I see Russia heavily using fibre-optic drones these days and they blew my mind. When I heard of "wire-guided missile" I assumed it was some term-of-art and never conceived they literally laid down wire. I understand you can buy kilometre spools of the stuff for a few bucks so I guess it's in consumer's reach.

Ah, I've just realised the "Ariadne's thread" weakness of using fibre-optic for something covert! Maybe the launch site can hop to another connection though...
Which of these leads to 1 sentence per paragraph? I found this incredibly hard to read.
Insightful comment. The thing that's extremely frustrating is look at all the energy poured into this conversation around benchmarks. There is a fundamental assumption of honesty and integrity in the benchmarking process by at least some people. But when the dataset is compromised and generation N+1 has miraculous performance gains, how can we see this as anything other than a ploy to pump up valuations? Some people have millions of dollars at stake here and they don't care about the naysayers in the peanut gallery like us.
> Worth noting that I trained formally in Buddhism under a teacher for a few years. I’m not unaware of all this

You trained personally for a few years and yet you make such sweeping statements/strokes that a neophyte is prompted to point out basic facts about this practice (apparently an adequate retelling since you don’t bother to correct me)? You might think this bolsters something (?) but I think the case is the opposite.

It helps to point out exactly what part that you are talking about (apparently not the Vedic gang). In fact this initial reply (just the above paragraph before the edit) seemed so out of place. Okay, so what are they talking about?

> And the Vedic version of suffering is all full of love for reality, not wanting to delete it by smashing a button

Oh, so it’s about the small wish to commit biocide.

It’s a clear category error to talk about love/want/hate when it comes to that statement. Because that’s beside the point. The point is clearly the wrongheaded, materialistic assumption that suffering will end if all life would end by the press of a button. And if you think that life on the whole is suffering? Then pressing the button is morally permissible.

It’s got nothing to do with hate.

It seemed interesting to me that someone would have such a “Schopenhauer” (not that I have read him) view of existence. You don’t see that every day.
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So many people have and are making so much money just doing mundane business things.

It’s quite a change from the fast moving world of tech startups.
They are still in the same tiny niche
> Please promote Firefox extensions. Chrome and Google are on a dangerous trajectoryin ruining peoples lives.

Unfortunately, Firefox is on a trajectory of "imitate what Chrome's doing." I certainly no longer trust Mozilla as I once did. They're probably better than Google, but they've made it clear they're going to make decisions for market share over respecting their historical ideals.
So, not in perpetuity.