skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has clearly reshaped Europe and it's impossible to tell what the long term impacts will be. Some random thoughts:

1. It clearly strengthened NATO, with Finland and Sweden joining and member nations increasing military spending;

2. It revealed Russia's military as a paper tiger and exposed the rampant corruption;

3. It became apparent that neither Ukraine nor Russia could "win" militarily (whatever that means) after 1-2 years;

4. Barring serious escalation, it's now a war of attrition. Ukraine is running out of people to conscript. But Russia is hurting too. Bringing in North Korean troops is clearly a measure to avoid or delay another mobilization;

5. Thus far, the Russian economy has withstood sanctions probably better than anyone expected;

6. Russia has done long-term damage to their energy exports regardless of the outcome. Europe won't be keen to return to a dependence on Russian natural gas;

7. The most likely outcome for awhile seems to be that the West will eventually get bored and there'll be a negotiated settlement that'll cede Ukrainina territory to Russia, creating a land bridge to Crimea and guarantee a Russian port in the Black Sea (IMHO);

8. There clearly has been internal strife in Russia. Oligarchs are dying in car crashes an dfalling out of windows at an alarming rate. And this is beyond the one very public and short-lived coup attempt;

9. If Ukraine cedes territory to Russia, I very much suspect Zollensky will have to flee the country and it will go hard right, kinda like Hungary;

10. Less talked about is Asaad falling in Syria but it's significant as this was a port for the Russian navy in the Meditaranean. Russia had been forced to use this for repairs after Ukrainian missile and drone attacks on their Black Sea fleet. That is a serious loss;

11. Many like to paint Trump as a Putin patsy, even an asset. The truth seems to be far more complicated. For example, Trump had been banging the drum about the dangers of Nordstream 1 and 2 and European dependence on Russian natural gas back in 2017-2018. In fact, Germany conceded to pressure by the first Trump administration to build an LNG port because of this threat. Those aren't pro-Russian moves.

12. As much as Trump may want to end the conflict, there will be significant resitance to this because it's hugely profitable to the military-industrial complex. Fun fact: spending in Afghanistan in the last year was pretty much the amount spent on military aid to Ukraine in the firs tyear.

13. Ukraine is and always was too large to occupy so either that was never the goal or Putin didn't listen to his generals. I've seen estimates that you'd need a standing army of 500,000+ to occupy a country the size of Ukraine and it would be a quagmire like 1980s Afghanistan was for the Soviets;

14. So either the goal had to be gaining territory, installing a puppet regime (like Lukashenko previously) and/or it was ideological (the so-called "Duganist" argument).

15. Between China and India there will always be a market for Russian energy exports.
No there’s not, he killed himself before there was a decision. That doesn’t create precedent.
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They ban Apple from doing business and watch as the uk stock market goes into the toilet as companies scramble to get out.
Is that a prescriptive or descriptive law?
I mean this news broke today. It may be premature to declare that nobody will sue Meta. In fact I would cheerfully bet that someone will, and that they will spend more in defense/settlement than any 1000 individuals would.
More importantly, apple has customers in the UK. The business from captured apple users is more valuable than apple's privacy reputation.

This all seems very similar to RIM and the aftermath of the riots in the UK. The backdoors became too obvious for customers to ignore. Did not go well for RIM in the market afterwards.
yes and no. The reason we prefer going to C is because of C's massive adoption, whatever you're writing, if you cant use C with FFI, you can basically write it off. Technically C does has some sense of a standard, but not really, if you want to use C, its easiest to generate C and then use C with C.

You dont always need C, if you want to write everything in your preferred language, keep everything in Rust, or Julia, or Zig, or whatever, go ahead, you will probably have a better experience too since you dont have to generate bindings or any of that nonesense, but no one wants to rewrite OpenSSL or something like that in their preferred language, it's always going to be C.
Which is exactly why I’m making this point. If no government had requested a backdoor, they could’ve simply answered “no”. When you have to weight your words, it means you’re not at liberty to say whatever you want. That is itself a signal, and why warrant canaries are a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
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I appreciate that it has an LLM disclaimer at the top, but I don't see anything actually interesting here. "This one way of looking at software systems (ECS) is kind of like some parts of kubernetes". Not very substantive.
Even if you put that aside, the problem is you offer Hellwig two solutions and he NACKs them both.

H: I don't want to support multilanguage codebase
R: We'll have a maintainer verify R4L is behaving properly.
H: I solved issues because they were unified.
R: Rust will be mirror of whatever C is, and you're free to break it, R4L will maintain it.
H: No.
Different Wikipedia communities have different governance policies. In the math wikis there's generally a rule that small fixes are not allowed. This stops people from arguing whether slightly better explained sentences are the right edits.
If not Europeans, who elects the officials in EU that determine energy policy? Also, your graph shows a substantial decrease in domestic energy production.

If Germans want cheaper energy their only option is to elect other politicians. It's the same problem in Norway. People vote for politicians who do everything they can to increase the price, and then they whine that inflation is sky high. You get what you vote for in a Democracy.
They have so much bandwidth and never seeded anything? Damn leechers! That is not fair use of torrents at all!
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That's my overall point of view too. Regardless of infinite technical discussions about one or another, if Alice and Bob can't live together than just don't get married.

Why spend all this energy on conflict and drama to no end? If one language/technology/group is so much better then just fork the thing and follow their own path.

I'm actually not defending the C guys, I just want to leave them alone and let "Nature" take his course, if they die on obsolescence, then they die. who cares..
At what point will we have to assume that any systems touched by doge are compromised/backdoored?
A physical coin is biased?
Too late. It's clear that Elon/Trump are going to ignore judicial orders
Boo hoo.

We are trying to advance civilization here. To accumulate and make available all human knowledge to date. And you stand there with your hand out to stop this? You are a villain. There is no sympathy for you.
That's almost what I'm asking, knowing what they mean would help that some. It's almost peak irony when I saw people repeatedly tweeting about someone else's "virtue signaling". I honestly don't know what the difference is between whatever they thought the first person was doing vs. their action.
Not just "various physical phenomena", but "physical phenomena that have stabilised and persisted structure over time".

I feel like you buried the lede in your post. People studying these physical systems are generally excited about the shared features, in my understanding
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I wouldn't call it libertarian either.
I don't know how it works on a detail level. Nobody is talking about price increases. I buy electricity on a nordic (https://www.enefit.lt/en/privatiems/elektra#/) market already.

It is viewed as a positive thing in general. The politicians that were against this development while it was ongoing are silent.
What's the alternative to copyright then? Anything I create will be instantly reproduced and sold for less than I can afford to by some entity far larger and more efficient than me.

> Level the playing field, incrementally, for everyone else who isn't a trillion-dollar corporation.

There is no level playing field when you have individuals and trillion-dollar companies in the same market.
Indeed, especially because Krita is terrible for a lot of what I think of as "image editing"; I'd much rather use Gimp for work like that. Though I do quite like the recent AI stuff available to Krita at the moment; e.g. there's a plugin that lets you "object select" performed by AI, so e.g. you click on a person's shirt and it selects the shirt, or add other parts of the person (or draw a box) and get the person themselves, separate from the background. Or click on a bird, or speaker, or whatever. And you can use the ai-diffusion stuff to remove it, easier than the old heal tool techniques. (The selection is of course not perfect but a great compliment to the other selection tools that more or less overlap with Gimp's, but I prefer Gimp's knobs and behaviors after the selection. And I'm sure Photoshop has similar AI stuff by now, but I remember over the years it's seemed like a lot of stuff crops up in open source first. e.g. I think for quite a while "heal" / "smart patch" was just a script-fu plugin..)

I just appreciate that there are many options, and can talk to each other pretty well. If one becomes unusable, I have others, and sometimes there are newer ones. I did a stage banner project last December but I had Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape all open at the same time. (With a quick use of an old version of Illustrator in Wine to export into an illustrator template matching the dimension outlines and particular color space the printing company needed...)

Photoshop tried to be the everything tool, and it probably is and will continue to be the best kitchen sink (and if I knew it better and had a license, it probably could have sufficed by itself for my project), but for any specific thing there's going to be something else that's better for at least that thing (maybe even one of Adobe's other products, like Illustrator). Krita isn't competing with Photoshop so much as with Photoshop's usefulness in drawing and making art, and in that space are also Clip Studio Paint or Procreate on iPads, both quite popular with hobbyist and professional artists. Gimp isn't competing so much on the art creation side (or even making simple animations like Krita lets you do more easily) as it is on the editing and manipulation side. And when editing camera raws, you'd use Lightroom/Darktable/RawTherapee. Inkscape is vector graphics, a whole other use case and competitive landscape.

(Speaking of old/dead software, I remember using Xara Xtreme LX for a while, it was really slick...)
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That point was a few days ago.
I think you and other in this thread are mixing up a few topics.

The grids are being disconnected from russia but that doesn't mean that estonia was dependent on Russia for electricity before that

Looking at this https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/import/est/all/... it seems like even before the 2022 war Estonian imports from russia of electricity were close to zero

The concern with having the grids connected to Russia rather than the EU is that Russia might exploit this in the future (inducing instability on the grid for instance) so switching to the EU removes that risk

As for the US and ME monarchies, this applies more in general to the EU as a whole which depends quite a lot on imports for fossil fuels, but not all dependencies are made equal and at least for now Saudis and Americans haven't been invading countries in our neighborhood so I'd still take them over the Russians

The ideal scenario would be reducing as much as possible that dependency which is why there's a bunch of interest in renewables, energy efficiency and nuclear across the continent
> By banning Apple from doing business in the UK.

As someone else here said, Apple would 100% call this bluff. And you can be certain the UK won't have the US to put pressure on Apple for them. All the would happen is the UK Apple users would be with an expensive paperweight.
It's relevant if the claim is stronger than the submarine moves in water. If instead one were to say the submarine mimics human swimming, that would be false. Which is what we often see with claims regarding AGI.

In that regard, it's a bit of a false analogy, because submarines were never meant to mimic human swimming. But AI development often has that motivation. We could just say we're developing powerful intelligence amplification tools for use by humans, but for whatever reason, everyone prefers the scifi version. Augumented Intelligence is the forgotten meaning of AI.

Submarines never replaced human swimming (we're not whales), they enabled human movement under water in a way that wasn't possible before.
i find it very 'rich' that a crowd that would never accept firm fixed price work (we do 'agile', it has to be flexible .. we need time to explore options ...) is so down on cost plus.

'cost plus' is not infinite money. there is a budget, performance is evaluated every quarter. every increase is reviewed. the additional money has to be appropriated.

firm fixed price is how the government buys low risk. For lack of a better analogy, a waterfall development. Requirements are clear, the technology is well known. From the beginning.

cost plus is how the government buys systems that have never been made before.
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This is cool! I'd be interested to see it include more jurisdictions (I'm from Guernsey which is low tax but high rent, and I wonder how that evens out.)
They have,

https://www.redox-os.org/

https://tockos.org/

Also note that many of Rust 4 Linux contributors are Microsoft and Google employees that would like to upstream their changes, they already have plenty Rust on their own Linux derived systems.
old books? i can imagine the shit/hallucinated-like generative AI we would have if the training weight was restricted to public domain stuff...

i think when chatGPT was around version 2 or 3, i had extracted almost 2 pages (without any alteration from the original) with questions that considered the author from this book here, https://www.amazon.com/Loneliness-Human-Nature-Social-Connec...

now it's up to you to think this is okay... but i bet you are no author
When the Chinese exploit them... :\
Isn't this the same stuff that got them into one of the biggest anti-trust cases ever, where's the government when we need them. I hate this country.
Except perhaps for people living near the border in Northern Ireland, "going to the EU" for warranty work is a completely unfeasible suggestion. It's not exactly a short or cheap journey for most of us!
The word is C++ performance comes from asm-like simd integration that can be not as mature in other languages.
We have plenty of drama on C++ community as well, rest assured.
Any specific whacky examples?
Oh definitely, and if I implied otherwise I did not mean to.

I stopped developing open source software because I got tired of dealing with getting people in my email demanding things from me despite it just being a personal project to scratch an itch, so I understand that a developer may not have the time to set up infrastructure to offer a modern experience over IRC. If that's the case a project is in then I agree - actually developing the project is more important.

It's more of a lament that things aren't the way that they were, not a demand that everybody cater to my preferences.
I'm confident that the Frenzied Flame / Chaos [0] in the game Elden Ring is loosely based on it, yellow themed, Eye of Yelough, etc. May chaos take the world!

[0] https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Frenzied_Flame
As opposed to the usual unselfish ones?
They don't go directly to binary. They go to LLVM bypassing the C front end.
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You want even more consolidation of power?
> we get customer data exports from legacy systems as CSV or XLSX

Convert the xlsx to csv. Every database system out there has blazing fast import of csv files.

As a sql wizard, I prefer to use sql to clean and re-shape data. So my first goal is to get the data into a sql DB as quickly as possible, no cleaning, no re-shaping. Just a raw dump. Now the data is in my house. I clean and re-shape the data with batch update/insert statements. Finally I batch insert to the target tables.

> what’s the most frustrating

Every import job is a custom scenario. I feel special tools don't give you much. You have to understand both the source and destination data to clean and re-shape it. Tools don't have that understanding. AI is less than worthless. At the end of the day you have to roll up your sleeves and start shaping data.
Do you have a source for this with proof?

Or is it just cause someone said so.
There’s nothing particular to AI about your comment, it’s a general downside of IP.
That's why you should go straight to the treasury's RSS feeds.
> I have a question. Instead of fighting an uphill war in the Linux kernel community, why don't Rush developers just make a new kernel or fork their own?

Because their primary goal is to widen the community and reach of Rust, with "preventing memory error class bugs in the kernel" a secondary objective.

After all, the Rust additions, if properly designed, can be maintained in an out-of-tree fork that tracks the main Linux repo. If they did that, there'd be no one to block their patches but themselves, and yet they don't do that.

Rust is more about community than Linux is. Within the Rust community they make it very clear that it is vital that everyone goes the same way, while the Linux community has had, for decades, people each doing what they or their employer are interested in.

These two communities are not going to mix well, TBH. A community in which every member is a vocal prosyletiser isn't going to mix well with a community which prides itself on "Show Me The Code".
Not the biggest fan of naming things after communists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin

He may be most know for being the one signing the order for Katyn massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
I know we're going off topic but I remember hearing about this, and reminded me then a similar case in Paris where the Eifel Tower was being sold too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa.
People here are very passive and used to being pulled around.
It's insane how far people's rights have eroded already. No right to protest, no right for privacy - what's next on the chopping block?
A model is not a backup.
I read this and thought, I wonder where LLM's fall in the range...I think about the quality of LLM's more than I want.
Come on publishers! This is your chance! Now you can really show, how you will treat all copyright infringements equally and not only go after easy target. Show us, how you spend all that money in a lawsuit against Meta!
The 80% charge limit will dramatically extend the lifespan.

It turns out the top few percent is what really damages the cells - which means there is always an inherent capacity vs cycle life tradeoff.
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Almost certainly. The college-age stooges are the type to brag about their work and deep access. Perfect targets for foreign intelligence to turn them into assets, witting or not. Money, women, status, drink; any half-competent intelligence officer will know exactly what buttons to press with Elon's goon squad.
Yeah, I'm reluctant to trust these paid online LLMs. I want to run my own, but they're all far too big for that. Except Deepseek, which can apparently run on a Pi with an eGPU, and is apparently better than ChatGPT at coding. So running that locally should be possible and helpful and make you totally independent from whatever shenanigans these AI peddlers want to impose on you.
> The kernel developers are the ones doing the actual work, which legitimates their opinion of doing things.

Both sides of the argument are kernel developers here, though.
This might sidestep the current order, but the U.K.’s lawyers will just write a new order.
the only entity that could _maybe_ rein it in would be Congress, specifically the Senate.

Even SCOTUS, by the time it gets all the way there, the damage would be done and it would take years to rebuild.

A complete clusterfk by design.
Women writers started doing it to hide from sexism when judging books by their covers, and then men started doing it to imitate great women writers. Now it's traditional in literature.

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> they would have (temporary) custody of the keys

No, they would have had custody of the keys. Meaning it would still be true they cannot (now) access the data.
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Agreed - it seems this is to be expected. There is bound to naturally be some "reasoning" / self-reflection / self-correction data in the base model training set. For the most part text on the web is going to be the end result of reasoning rather than the process itself (with reflection, correction), but there is bound to be some "but on second thoughts ...", and "that didn't work out, so ..." etc.

I've never seen it myself, but I've heard that Sonnet 3.5 occasionally self-corrects, although nominally not a "reasoning" model (OTOH, Anthropic don't like the "reasoning" label, and prefer to refer to a continuum of abilities). Presumably this is just a reflection of some such data in the training set.

Of course, as with anything else, the LLM is just predicting based on patterns it saw during training, so any "self-reflection" it generates isn't the model itself reflecting, and there is no reason other than luck and prompt vs training set similarity to expect that this will be valid/useful reflection/reasoning.

Where RL comes in is encouraging goal-based behavior (predictions) so that any reasoning step(s) and/or process (entire CoT) are more likely to be coherent and result in a valid CoT, and it seems this will often result in emphasizing reflection and self-correction where needed to keep the CoT on track.