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> [...] And asking US to protect Europe

To protect Europe from who...

Let's look at where we are with cold eyes (I'm European). Russian direct energy supplies to the EU have been cut, raising energy costs, all EU industries are affected, making it more difficult to compete with China and the US. Energy, which now comes also in part through expensive ships from the US, whom -surprise- is now able to threat to cut it off, increasing influence over EU politics, energy that it is now also paid with dollar currency, at the same time EU economic resources -that should be used for the internal development- are being asked to be diverged to buy US weapons through NATO.

So I would suggest to avoid the "US saving heroes" discourse. The reality sounds more like the US elite has benefited from the war (a big industry for them), so much that should be included within the suspicious list.

What pockets planned and backed up the Maidan rise that removed the Kremlin's puppet from power? Who aimed and intended such country to join NATO along years before this event?

Because can be guessed this aimed the psychopathic Putin to increase the violence of his mafia things, maybe someones expected this violence in invasion form, or another form that would drag Europe into the same position it is in now.

> Still not able to shield themselves from China

It would be interesting to read how one country has protected itself from China's dumping, among other things, considering the massive industrial companies and seaports the Chinese government already bought around the world, including the US.
if you trust social media companies (barf!) you can prove identity and request to stay anonymous. these are not mutually exclusive (of course IF at the beginning of this post is a big IF :) )
FWIW, I hear that CMU is a very good school for robotics.
There was also a lie of omission where they didn't mention the expansion of humans around Africa leading to that slave trade, nor the weather patterns at the time, nor the slave trade in other parts of the world, nor the Armenian Genocide, nor Tiananmen Square, nor that time that Mark stabbed me with a pencil in elementary school. That makes it so obvious they're pushing an agenda.
Be careful what you wish for. The wealthy white collar types who got rich perpetuating whatever the system is don't tend to fare well in those sorts of things. A lot of HN would wind up losing their heads or swinging from the overpass same as the French and Russian minor nobility.
explain how he (a private citizen) can give a 90 day extension on a deadline that is passed with criteria that can not be certified and had to have been already given to congress? Please be precise with terminology and facts in these legal matters.
> edit: what’s to stop community from re-implementing the worker component in rust and contributing it to the “pro” version?

The essence of Open Core suck, which Matrix has here committed to, is actively discouraging community work related to the bits that differentiate the proprietary version. History says any pull request improving the FOSS version too much, in the wrong direction, will be left unmerged.

This is how "communities" die.
Yes, they have been widely studied, which is how we know Blacks enslaved and sold each-other, including to Europeans. Though I don't blame your ignorance, as pop-culture depictions omit or even reverse this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_King#Role_in_slavery
Theres an implication that The Internet meant we have a commons connecting the world that no one country can completely restrict. But a commons too important to all modern societies to blanket ban. In theory we should be less susceptible to propoganda than ever since we can see multiple viewpoints and interpretations in minutes. As opposed to being beholden to maybe 3-4 mainstream news programs on television.

Human nature proves to fall quite short of that ideal, though.
The level of naiveté in this discussion is absolutely astonishing to me. People are seeming to forget that dysfunctional states (totalitarian, facist, the like) all are sprung from one common thread: control of the mind through propaganda. We already have evidence that the CCP or otherwise is manipulating Tiktok's algorithm to influence American minds [1]. This was one study, by one relatively small and underpowered organization. That's to say, there's probably a lot that we've yet to unearth about how the algorithm is manipulated; or how the CCP is planning to manipulate it to further their agenda at the expense of an American one.

It's simply unbelievable to me that a sophisticated community like HN is against a ban in the context of all of the meddling our biggest rival, China, has done in our country to our direct disadvantage. Russia and China's main M.O. has been to divide us; to sow discontent. And they've been pretty successful. Who knows if Trump would have been elected without the Russian election interference. Trump has been a divisive figure who has reveled in destroying social order and he has done so successfully; the amount of hate and distrust for one's opposing political party is at an all-time high in the US, and it shows. This is to say that China and Russia have already been very successful in their attempts. In China Xi likes to say that "The East is rising, the West is falling". This is completely his M.O. and part of his plan.

And now Trump, aware of all of this, is attempting to bring Tiktok back. Knowing everything he knows about it's use and potential future use of a propaganda machine. And knowing full-well that this is good for the East, and bad for domestic civil peace of mind and social order. And in the most Trumpian way possible, he doesn't care. And he's doing it for the most selfish reason possible--to feed his hero complex. Full. Fucking. Stop. This is such a glaring advertisement that he will do whatever he can to put his interests and reputation first over our country's and it's absolutely sickening.

And the fact that there is actual debate and discussion around this issue on HN is just such a shocker. Again, this community should know better about how dangerous propaganda is, amplified by the fact that it's propaganda from our most rapacious, unethical and conniving enemy. An enemy that is planning wars of conquest, who's starving and torturing parts of its population. You want that enemy deciding what your kid spends an hour a day watching on their phone, while you're not paying attention? Yeah, good luck with that.

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/the-ccps-digital-charm-o...
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> what parties elsewhere in the world make the modern GOP look center-right?

Loads of examples; Vox (Spain), AfD (Germany) and whatever National Front (France) is called nowadays, all take harder stances and are pretty honest about their want for centralization of authority (for example), for better or worse. Golden Dawn (Greece) is probably a even stronger ultra-nationalist example, but they basically have no support after getting banned.

Although I will say that is seems almost futile to compare left/right between countries, we all have somewhat different understandings of it...

> how do they avoid the civil unrest the US is seeing

What civil unrest? I'd say things seem surprisingly calm and the population almost pacified. We're starting to see some smaller embers of something starting, but compared to how things could be considering the circumstances, it seems pretty idle.
https://www.foodwatch.org/en/foodwatch-calls-on-european-lea...

There's also a problem of food coming from Ukraine - initially Poland allowed Ukrainian trucks to enter Poland as a transit through EU, as the sea passage was blocked by russians. That passage is no longer blocked, however, and there were incidents where it was detected the food was actually bought and processed in Poland.
glad you enjoyed!
Sure, use

{-# LANGUAGE GHC2024 #-}
You saved me from having to make this. Thank you!

Is the source available? Can this be ported to FireFox?
Ghost.org (the open source version, not the hosted one, as you mention). Optionally buy a domain name and point the blog to there via the settings. Thousands of people (and I guarantee you the vast majority are non-technical) run blogs like on WordPress or Ghost so not sure why you're thinking people would struggle.
Chuck Grassley, who is technically 4th in the line of succession behind the Vice President and Speaker of the House, is 91 years old
I think this is pretty awesome.

I like the multiple attempts it you miss the first call. Maybe add the option to check in manually. Sometimes I am in locations without cell service, in meetings all day, etc.

Also voice recognition to prevent a different party from answering/confirming in the case of a kidnapping or domestic abuse.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/30/aws-codecommit-quietly...

https://horovits.medium.com/disruption-ahead-aws-quietly-axi...
I think anyone who says democracy is good and the will of the people should be respected is implicitly saying that is not true. Implicitly saying voters are individual agents and not a mob.

Otherwise, if democracy is good and votes should matter and at the same time voters are a mob subject to manipulation... democracy is what? A system of government by whoever can do better propaganda? Why would that be good for anyone except those who do propaganda?

So yeah, I think many people are claiming that is not true.

One question I would ask if people are just a mob, who is actually pushing the buttons? Owners of media, political leaders, are also humans, no? They have the same weaknesses, at least in principle.

If you accept some people are different (those who command and control propaganda) then we must conclude that not all people are vulnerable to it, so maybe it's a spectrum. But still democracy sounds like a bad idea, as a majority are probably on the low end of the spectrum, and the majority rules.
Sure. A ROS system, being a collection of independent nodes coupled with a publish/subscribe messaging system, allows you to mix and match nodes for whatever. So as a researcher, it is great. It gives you a "good enough" robot for the 98% that is necessary infrastructure for the 2% where you want to experiment/innovate. In an commercial setting, yeah, you run into scaling issues all over the place. Also, the code quality of different stock nodes is highly variable.

So ROS can get you past your A-round -- but count on addressing scalability and stability issues as go. Which is why "write out ROS" is on everybody's to-do list.

In any case, learning ROS is well worth it. As a hiring manager, I know I can easily teach you our system if you know ROS already.
It might be default view but its filled with posts by people i don't follow
There would literally be an instant revolution by 50% of the US upon such an act. Let's please avoid the inflammatory rhetoric.
This is the platform that led to the proliferation of newspeak terms like "unalive" to circumvent content restrictions. Such speech restrictions were never a thing on FB, IG, X, or YT, yet this form of self-censorship has spread to those platforms anyway, because TikTok users have become so used to it.
And using BlueSky as an example of a "non-politicized" platform is even more inaccurate.
> voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to
manipulation by propaganda?

That is true, yet it's not incompatible with democracy. In the US
Horace Mann established the foundational link between education and
democracy. It's why civics and other forms of intellectual
self-defence are essential.

The problem with social media (and BigTech lazy "convenient"
non-thought) is not that it's a propaganda conduit as much as that
it's antithetical to critical thinking. It's more complex than simply
the content, it's the form too.
excuse my ignorance..

AFAI-remember years ago Trump was "fired" out of presidency before end of mandate, AND banned in biggest social networks.

Now he is playing president before officially entering a mandate, AND around that those same social networks bosses are cringeing - just in case?

That's two things, one that the exact boundaries of period of the mandate doesn't seem to matter, and second, the social-media BS-dancing thing..

so who's in charge ?
This seems like a vision of the future not far from how people in the 1950s pictured 2000s.
I think it's still an important tool. Even though the tale isn't new, TikTok is a modern and popular way for those younger generations to share their opinions on debated topics. I think that's why banning the app has been viewed so intensely as suppressing voices. In earlier decades there was no global app with an information spout that could be turned on and off per region.
Is there such a thing as an impossible protein?
Thank you very much and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'll absolutely look into cloudlfare now that my site is getting more traffic - I need to learn more about security anyways so this is a great opportunity for me!
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he will usher new age of global peace as much as my fat neighbour will not eat the cake for his birthday
> Furthermore, releasing the source code wouldn't help, since regular people aren't able to understand what it means

Releasing the code does help. Joe can't open up his car and fix the engine control code, but the local repair shop can and they can also understand it and raise to a journalist "huh this manufacturer pushed a new version that'll make it stop driving if you service it at the workshop of a competitor" or whatever the car equivalent of this tiktok algorithm concern would be

The second problem you mention, I fully agree with: verifying whatever they publish. Client source code, you barely even need because it'll just be a front end for what the servers decide to show you. Verifying that what they say the server code is, is really what the server runs, that's the hard bit. But claiming to be open could be a start; something we can find discrepancies in and push for further openness

Whether this will solve the national security concerns and help with the youth mental health crisis that's often linked to social media, that's all way beyond my expertise and I have no opinion on the matter. Just that, in general, not everyone needs to understand everything in the world for it to be useful to publish
They only have one option for the next two years: Impeach and remove. GOOD LUCK LMAO
You chose a side by submitting that comment due to the implication and probability distribution of the next thoughts that will occur in someone's head upon someone reading it.
I think you are misunderstanding the dangers of 'the algorithm'. It does not simply show you more in the same vein as what you have already watched, it is designed to provoke a reaction in you. To make you watch more content, or to post comments, engage in arguments and debates, all to keep you on the platform to make you watch more adverts.

The way it does this is to not show you more of what you have already seen, it is to identify what gets you worked up, and to exploit that by showing you progressively more and more extreme content. It highlights more provocative comments to you that are more likely to make you post an emotional response and engage in a long intense debate that causes more clicks and posts, and feeds more of your emotion back into 'the algorithm'. This is a dangerous spiral which can easily turn somebody who might have a weak opinion on something, into a mouth frothing raged keyboard warrior.

This is very powerful and dangerous, and it is purposely designed like this.

Allowing the Chinese government to have this power over young US minds? Thats what this is all about.
Are they really doing that?

Because yeah, they say that they are doing all the time. But it's not something simple to do (I'd say "possible", but well...) and I'm yet to see anybody actually explain how.
Anyway, how many TRUMP coins did this cost them?
“That fact that it was a drop in the bucket for them makes it that much more outrageous, not less”

I disagree. I get the point that you’re making. That they could have more easily NOT done it. But I would be a lot more ensconced if these people were putting up 50% of their net worth on these bets.

And again, I fully agree that they shouldn’t be able to trade individual stocks. In my past I was a dev at a private wealth management company. While working there I was completely barred from trading individual stocks because it’s possible that I could have come across nonpublic info in the company because they would do internal audits for some entities. It made sense. Congress is an even bigger deal because they literally write the rules of companies that can affect stock prices. I was barred because I could have passively found nonpublic info, but they can actively cause the situations that cause price movement.
Except that no one voted to give up this liberty nor purchase this "safety". The oligarchs determined that they wanted to purchase power and "elected" to take our liberty.
What evidence did you expect them to disclose? If it's a matter of national security, it's not going to be released publicly.

> The whole episode shows a disregard for the US constitution and mountains of legal precident on these matters.

I disagree. There's plenty of precedent for this, we have laws on the books for over 100 years that prevent foreign ownership of American media. In those days it was newspapers, radio and later tv stations – in fact those laws a large part of why Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen.

This law is just the modern version of those previous laws. You might disagree with them, but there's plenty of precedent.
I would say when Facebook arrived. But it wasn't so much "shift to corporate-owned", it was more that it allowed non-techies to put stuff on the internet for the first time. Us techies, we already had our hand-coded html web pages hosted at some (probably commercial) provider.

I think the answer is "usability". Look at all the community-made, non-commercial projects. They tend to suck because they weren't built for you. They were built for people with similar high investment into the thing they do, for experts or power-users. For them it works.

So IMO the key question is how to find motivation or time or money to solve someone else's problem, without being forced to maximize the money-making part. Because by now we can see exactly what happens when money is the primary goal. Everyone starts with good intentions (solving a problem), but the incentives are so powerful. If you don't follow them you'll start to struggle, long-term, or get out-competed by someone who maximizes the money-making part of the job.
It sounds like your nephew has a project in mind. Start there with the basic dependencies and that will start laying out a competency roadmap which looks a lot like a curriculum.

Quick aside: Automate small/mid business manufacturing? Admirable, but will probably choke on the scale problem, so I think the journey will be vastly more interesting than the destination...which is good! Turns out there's a lot of robotics that can be broadly applied.

* Manufacturing --> robotic manipulation, controls, actuation, sensing, decision-making

** Robotic manipulation --> Linear algebra, likely Python and/or C++, some simulation tools

** Controls --> Manipulator platform, drivers, physical- and protocol-level choices

** Actuation --> You want to pick something up right? Air powered? Electric? Probably not hydraulic, but worth mentioning?

** Sensing --> What's your sensor suite? RGBD? LIDAR? Forces-torques? Combination of the above?

** Decision making --> FSM? Behaviour trees? Purely functional?

Repeat the decomposition and you'll probably be able to get down to the basic level of the robotics hierarchy of needs.
Agreed with that and I’d add that it’s about the complexity of the problem you’re solving & thus how easy to communicate the focus areas you want the team moving in among the whole solution space. Post PMF, there’s just way less context to transmit to get people working effectively.

But there are also certain companies where there’s less you need to talk about. For example companies or orgs doing fast follows. Once “What we do here” is well defined, let people WFH & work remote, they’ll be able to work it out.
This is a thoughtful reply. But, if it's just propaganda games played by the elites, I suppose another way to ensure informed outcomes might be literacy tests. Or property ownership.

I guess more than anything I'm just surprised that it's the "threat to democracy" crowd that would be taking such a cynical view of democracy. They're admitting that Trump's propaganda was just better than theirs. Which is, in some ways, hilarious.
you can definitely check-in manually if you wish!

Thanks for the great feedback
I thought about this too. In no way do I suggest it's an actual solution, but I wonder if some kind of reporting could be used as leverage to help appease US leaders towards a solution that doesn't require banning the app or handing it over to them.
They are accused of being basically a doomsday cult for intellectuals with an extreme fanatical focus on AI doomerism.

They also have a huge number of really unusual social norms including using their own ultra nerdy lingo with lots of obscure fiction references in regular life, widespread polyamory - and often vocal disapproval of monogamy, outspoken rejection of sexual norms including group sex parties and raising kids communally in polyamorous group homes, rejection of all political correctness, and willingness to discuss normally taboo topics in casual conversation.

In a lot of ways it reminds me of the beatniks- they're basically throwing out all of the existing culture, and trying to create something entirely new by trial and error, sometimes with quite bad results.

I've learned an awful lot of good ideas from the community that I've applied directly in my career as a scientist, and attended a few events in person, but personally wasn't able to connect with the people, I always felt like an outsider and I also found a lot of their blatant rejection and reinvention of virtually all social norms somewhat disturbing in person. There are also a lot of really kind, open minded, and brilliant people in the community- and I personally think most of their concerns over AI are well founded, but not everyone agrees.
Guy lost his job.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-...
Left wing parties elsewhere are losing too, mostly because of immigration. Meanwhile the welfare states are collapsing in the UK, Canada, France and Germany because the birthrates and lack of economic growth can't sustain it.
Have you not listened to what he has clearly said? Including plans to pardon folks for Jan 6th?

Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be some kind of ‘emergency’ this time.

There was no ‘instant revolution’ on Jan 6th. Near as I can tell, if that capital police officer hadn’t shot the woman climbing the barricade…

But then I watched it live on CSPAN, so I got to see it for myself instead of being able to be told afterwards that I didn’t see what I saw.
The core of the UNIX time is seconds since epoch, nothing else. 'Day' has no special place at all. There are calendars for converting to and from dates, including Western-style, but the days in those calendars vary in length because of daylight saving switches and leap seconds for example.
> The same can be true for gpus, just add a ton more memory and watch them fly off the shelves.

Yeah... for datacenters and people attempting to jump on the AI hype train. Meanwhile your everyday regular gamer has zero chance competing for GPUs with the infinite money coffers from AI.

Seriously, the sooner this crazy bubble bursts the better. I thought the shitcoin mining days were bad but at least everyone back then knew the game for GPUs was over once the first Bitcoin ASIC was released, but now? No end in sight and frankly I'm pissed.