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Right. Just when America pulls back, Europe should escalate. Awesome!

/s

Right now Europe needs time to build. The calculus has radically changed. They need to build out in a fashion that is massive, but also both quick and quiet. This situation is too serious for rash action. Especially where victory is not guaranteed.
Skype (the original product/service, before Microsoft's corporate hug of death) was an amazing piece of technology.

It was pre-cloud in every aspect, not only using P2P for actual VoIP traffic but also for contact list management and node discovery (via DHT and promoting random people's PCs to act as core nodes! Opening up Wireshark on my laptop when on fast university Wi-Fi with a public, unfirewalled IP was quite the experience).

It was also available literally everywhere: Linux, the Sony PSP, Nokia's Linux-based "internet appliance/tablet" series, Symbian smartphones, cordless landline phones in some countries...

I've long since moved on, but I do have some very fond memories of it being a lifeline to friends and family when backpacking and studying abroad in a time of horrendously expensive international/roaming calls.

Rest in peace!
Yep, yet nonetheless, it was an European initiative that helped solidify "Pan-Europeanism" as a doable initiative (it was also during the early stages of the EC turned EU).
Thanks for the suggestion. Are you doing something like this yourself? If not, where are you working? :)
Here are just some of the reasons Russia is hastening its economic demise:

- spending all of its foreign reserves and weakening its currency

- killing tens of thousands of working age men

- permanently removing hundreds of thousands of working age men from the workforce

- increasing the demands on social benefits for disabled veterans by hundreds of thousands of men

- suppressing the birth rate by staying in a protracted 'special military operation'
> i wanted to get on the machine where the application gets built and the easiest way to do this would be a postinstall script in package.json, so i did that with a simple reverse shell payload

From ToDesktop incident report,

> This leak occurred because the build container had broader permissions than necessary, allowing a postinstall script in an application's package.json to retrieve Firebase credentials. We have since changed our architecture so that this can not happen again, see the "Infrastructure and tooling" and "Access control and authentication" sections above for more information about our fixes.

I'm curious to know what the trial/error here was to get their machine to spit out the build or if it was in one-shot
What did Vance say addressed to the media that Zelensky shouldn't have responded to? I've watched the video a few times and I don't really get what you're talking about

https://youtu.be/O_BhxA1WDQY?si=7Ovl4-RpTCdi5ewZ
Yup, lex is an influencer. Outtakes from his interview with Zelensky shows his naive way of thinking about the world.
Well I'd argue that there was no such thing as 'friend' in the mind of people hosting that event. It was clearly abusive mobster negotiation tactics, immoral power play and profit extraction.
I'm sure the AI company will eventually let you bid to be ranked in the answers.
"How dare you refer to our weapons designed to fight in eastern europe against Russia. We need those weapons in the USA in case we have to.. fight... in eastern europe... against... russia?"
The truth is that as scientific problems become sufficiently complex we will need to trust a computer and what it tells us. And that computer acts as an abstraction layer for the knowledge in the same way that Python abstracts away memory management. This will allow us to conceive ideas that were otherwise impossible. To put it a different way, it used to be a department of physicists or glaciologists or hydrologists or whatever were happy enough talking to each other. Nowadays people are rather interdisciplinary and often those people are talking across departments trying to come up with new ideas. Eventually the complexity of the new idea will be such that you cannot conceive it without the help of a computer. At that time you will have to trust the output of the computer in the same way you trusted your colleagues. I suppose we already sort of do that with many computational tools. Like you have trust in the software we use to analyse data. People use python because the data science ecosystem is well developed and well trusted. That’s the problem with the current crops of LLMs. None of them are able to build trust as a knowledge abstraction layer. But when they do they will become very useful as you can ask them to do all sorts of things.
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It takes time to turn a big ship. Why would I be excited to see more spending into government agencies until I am sure of how they are operating and what they are spending money on. Once things are cleaned up then you can start spending money as needed to get the results you want. It feels everyone is near jerk like, you actions didn't improve everything immediately so they were wrong. The reality of all of this will play out over the next few years.
If you’ve already purchased licenses, have you considered using more “illicit” means keep the machines activated?
You’ll never be able to build a (large, complex) system that is consistently, inherently reliable over time and in response to change. You want to aim for such reliability but you still need troubleshooting ability.
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> Why did they try to invade Kyiv exactly? To take it?

Yes.

> If they do, then it requires military intervention.

Yes. That is the military intervention that Ukraine is continuing to take against Russia currently.

Does it all make sense now? Why Ukraine shouldn't just let itself be invaded, in order to avoid deaths?
Fair, so long as you remember to practice framing / flow control elsewhere. Don't forget leg day!
> voted by >50% americans

Nobody in the last election got over 50% of the vote tally.
I think Emacs and Vim will be lower probability targets than VS Code, though.
Mountain Pass, one bankruptcy back, beat that problem. It took some new technology. The system is closer to closed-loop, rather than using huge
amounts of water and producing huge amounts of sludge in evaporation ponds.
That's what the mines in China do, and the sludge ponds are visible from orbit.

Here's the Sierra Club report from 2011.[1] They were OK with the mine.
So was the state of California and the US EPA. Problem solved.

Then in 2015, after all this was working, China cut the price of rare earths.[2]
Mountain Pass mine shut down, and Molycorp, the owner, went bankrupt. But
the equipment was stored and maintained. When the price of rare earths from China went
back up the next owner, MP Minerals, bought the assets and restarted operations.

This time, the new buyers made long-term deals with the US DoD and General Motors
to guarantee a market at a price at which they could operate. That seems to be working.

Much news coverage of mineral issues tends to lack background. Better info is available,
but it's on mining industry sites, in USGS reports, and in places most people don't read.
Punditry is cheap. Reporting is expensive.

[1] https://www.desertreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DR_S...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timtreadgold/2015/05/15/chinese...
The risk of China taking Taiwan by force, unprovoked, in the near future is vastly overblown, in my opinion. Everyone involved, including China, prefers the status quo. If there’s one thing to know about war, it’s that it’s unpredictable. China hasn’t been involved in a war for decades, and while its military looks good on paper, its actual performance in a real war still unknown. Failing to win or even losing a war with Taiwan would mean saying goodbye to its global dominance ambitions, and weaken Xi's leadership.

The Chinese are strategic and patient. They just need to wait a few more years until they are able to blockade the entire island for long period of time. Then they can potentially take the island without firing a single shot. they don’t need to take on this kind of risk right now.
> How did Russia end up being our enemies again, and will they be our enemies forever?

By attacking us.
Relatively speaking, the times were a lot easier when the UK was conquering the world than when it wasn't, but times being easy didn't stop it from being effective at conquering the world when it had a tech advantage. Times were pretty easy when it sacrificed a lot of men in two world wars where it didn't have a tech advantage (and could probably have afforded to weasel out) too.
Is that dumb? These transport animals basically make themselves. Self-replicating, way cheaper than robots, easy to replace when they break down. Don't need sophisticated software, etc. Just some training and sensory deprivation.

I wish humans would not involve other species in their sadistic ways of killing and maiming each other, though. Donkeys, horses, ... all benefited from war mechanization. Dogs not so much so far. Dutch happily train dogs that are then sold to allies to be used to attack, threaten, maim, shit and piss on, sodomize, and kill defenseless people. Bizarre.
With rhe number of dependencies and dependency trees going multiple levels deep? Third party risk is the largely unaddressed elephant in the room that companies don't care about.
Unless you need to deal with a lot of dumb tasks, unnecessary meetings and boilerplate, then you shouldn't need more than 40hrs, and in all honestly, 32hrs, as the more hours you push the worse they get. This AI race isn't going to be won with bulk hours, but quality hours and actually thoughtful ones.

Google is allegedly using large-scale changes, AI/LLMs to boost productivity, and have a large mix of good/great/awesome infra, so they shouldn't be stuck on mud needing to push 60hrs/w to be productive.

Awful way to signal despair.
I don't think it's particularly driven by religion anymore. The new puritanism is as much left-wing as right, and often atheist.
Well put. Idiots respect a man that yells and see it as power/strength, smart people recognize the person who is calm in face of that.
Many have detachable batteries - you could get a fire safe bag/cabinet to charge the battery in if that is a worry and store the bike wherever meets your (A) requirements.
Would accusing you of naivete cause "non-trivial psychological harm?"
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Ukraine has churned all their greybeards and middle age folks, and 18+ are the only ones not conscripted yet. (Hence Trump's comment that Ukraine is having manpower issues and has no strong cards left for negotiations)
WhatsApp these days also has native clients for Windows and macOS (UWP and Catalyst, respectively). They don't yet have all the features of the Electron/web client, but are getting there, and at least on macOS, I much prefer the experience.

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Fair enough: promise is too strong a word. But hints to that effect were given during diplomacy to ensure German reunification...

https://archive.ph/hyDhA

My point is that Russia taking Crimea and invading Ukraine are a consequence of NATO expansion to Russia's borders. The Baltic republics joined in 2004, while Ukraine and Georgia's "aspirant" status was declared in 2002 and 2004...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Aspiring...

And recall that Putin took Crimea in 2014 right after the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity

To say Russia's aggression was entirely unprovoked represents an ignorance of recent history.
imho Skype wasn't the only huge opportunity Microsoft had to win space in the internet - and it wasn't only Messenger, but their social space they had along with it. In there you could post statuses (even with pictures!) and people could comment on those. Sound familiar...?
So it sounds like you are saying it should be for Ukraine to decide whether to continue the war or not?
No one is arguing that the US isn't allowed to pull out.

But "negotiating" a treaty with the other side and then claiming that that treaty is the final word on the war is atrocious. That's what's crazy. Not ending US involvement, but trying to say that Ukraine must stop fighting.

Now, I also think the US should keep supporting Ukraine, but that's a totally different topic.
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It might be worth posting this on https://math.stackexchange.com/
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What a dogshit poll. There were three options given:

1. Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war.

2. Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible.

3. Don't know/Refused.

"Ukraine should surrender unconditionally" and "Ukraine should negotiate permanent security guarantees" and "Ukraine should fight its way into a better negotiating position" are all in the same bucket. This is maliciously bad poll design.
All of this fine, but surely in your context the efficacy of SSRIs should not imply the accuracy of a serotonin theory of depression. At best we know that the medication works, at worst we know that it's actively encouraging people to kill themselves, although the latter seems a little unlikely atp.

Having been on an SSRI myself I gave up on the hope of SSRIs forming the basis of real treatment decades ago. Bupropion seems less harmful but also seems to have similarly small impact.
Maybe they don't have strategic minerals, but they do have strategic democracy.
it's a corporate welfare programme.
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This is a petty excuse. We just witnessed how USA tried to force Zelensky (who is in a much worse position than Israel) to sign a deal, and he refused. Israel voting this way falls in line with who they are.
> whether antidepressants produce a genuine and useful pharmacological effect that is independent of the placebo effect, has not been established

As someone who has experience with antidepressants that goes beyond looking at numbers I can assure you that effect has been established very clearly. And it has nothing to do with placebo, only the second medication was the one that worked - it did more in three days than the first one after months on the highest dose.

These studies sound to me like the attempts to find out whether life exists on a planet by analyzing some light spectrum through a telescope. I am sure they are useful but they seem a bit blind to what's actually going on in real life.
Unsynchronized, shared, mutable state are where data races happen. You need all three.

This means there are three ways to resolve this:

* Add synchronization with locks, etc.

* Don't share mutable access, e.g. single-owner model with channels.

* Make data immutable: an insight originally from purely functional languages. I believe Google invested quite heavily in this model with Guava.

Rust lets you choose which one of the three to give up, and it also statically prevents all three from happening at the same time.
Lindsay Graham looks more like he pissed himself. So after he saw that bullying and the way the president conducted himself he couldn't be more proud? I've met some ppl, some crazies included, but none that distort reality the way trump and his supporters do. Is there like a crisis in the american education system, what is happening there?
> We have a magic algorithm that will make artificial general intelligence from just gradient descent, next-token prediction, and transformers

Which exec is this?
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I don’t see it at page #1 or #2
Your team should be reviewing Terraform plans before merging any infra changes.

I find this to be a very strange criticism and is probably indicative of a poor workflow or CI/CD system if anything.
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The American consumer gets a treatment that didn't exist yesterday and whose IP will be free in ~15 years for their tax dollars. A pretty reasonable give and take on the face of it.

(Not that polices to reduce the cost to Americans, especially relative to foreign markets, ought to be unpopular)
To follow your line of questioning, which I do appreciate, It would be that Russia has engaged in influence campaigns in the West, of course, but that we do that the West does this as a matter of course worldwide and our schemes are much more elaborate, anyway.

I also agree about in 5, Russia is convieniently riding a wave of populist conservatism which Putin (cynically, corruption-based, or otherwise) aligned with the Orthodox alignment in Russia. (Men/Women are different, global woke policy, SDG development goals etc) Many working class people are sick to death of effete urbane progressive politics (doesn't even really benefit any core economics) I would say this is a bigger propaganda play from Russia = Give sympathetic activists ammunition for cultural victories (that were fragile and brainless Western ideas anyway.)

The problem with this granular obsession of a deep Russia conspiracy inside the US is that you aren't even really aware about what the propaganda they are saying on their side and not really cogniscent that Western foreign policies engage in pretty ugly propaganda, unlawful killings as a matter business.

Russia propaganda is simply more advanced version of the type of propaganda we were doing anyway. It's just that you don't see your own side as capable of misinformation, influence peddling worldwide and they are guilty of it.

EUROMAIDAN was a Western intelligence op — and you worry about what; a few scary Facebook ads? Is there a particular piece of misinfo on RT you are concerned about?
Leszek Miller is entitled to his opinion, but it’s not representative of what’s being said in Poland. Whether Zelenski gets to keep his job is for Ukrainians to decide.
What's the point of more recruits when the existing ones don't get enough training and adequate equipment? Ukraine needs weapons far more than it needs manpower.
> ll due to one orange man being voted by >50% americans to do exactly this. Why I don't get and probably never will...

Not agreeing is one thing, but it is a remarkably easy decision to understand - people go to WWII because every single war since then has been a disaster for US interests and outcomes (I think every single, certainly most). The last time the US had an unambiguous win by fighting was 70 years ago when they got involved in a fight very late. Since then all the warmongering has made America poorer, they don't achieve anything good and generally make the US worse off.

They made a call that they don't trust the military industrial propaganda and they want to see some peace happening for once. Pretty solid decision too; if we can all have normalised relations with the US after Iraq then we can stomach Russia misbehaving in Ukraine. Escalating a land war in Europe is stupid and its been a mistake every other time the Europeans tried it; even in WWII where they claim to be justified. The blood-lust left everyone closely involved broken and it'd have been better if they found a more peaceful route to ending the violence. The fact that they failed to negotiate something doesn't mean it was impossible.
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We are more interconnected, and Kissinger and the GOP agreed with this, but they are just evil German Socialist Democratic Party. His observation is well taken, but its a false flag to equate it with the entire neocon, unalive and steal at any cost philosophy:

They are not the same: Clearly they are not the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30iht-edkissinger...
This strategy will also make the rank-and-file at your vendors hate and distrust you, so proceed with caution.
Doesn't surprise me whatsoever.

All Chegg has going for it is a database of answers for homework assignments that typically use per-student randomized numbers—so students have to recalculate their specific answer manually by following the steps—and "verified tutors" that constantly give wrong answers to even highschool-level math questions.

Every college student I know uses ChatGPT (and now DeepSeek) for tons of assignments, usually via the free plan.

Once you experience that, it gets really tempting to cancel that $20/month chegg subscription and never look back.

I find professors pitiful fearmongering over 'the big bad ChatGPT' a little funny, such as when they insist they "have secret tools to detect AI usage" and "it can't answer the questions correctly anyway", so "you shouldn't even try it".
In addition, since their adblocker isn't an extension and doesn't care about extension APIs, they can do things even Manifest v2 Chrome extensions can't. For example, full-fat uBO can't do CNAME uncloaking on Chromium due to API limitations, but can do it on Firefox which has the APIs. Brave is Chromium-based, but since Shields isn't an extension they've built CNAME uncloaking into it.
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178831 (Yesterday, 393 comments)
I agree, I'm just sad it has come down to this
Good:

- no cloud service required, can run on local Nvidia GPU

- outputs a single stream of text with the correct reading order (even for multi column PDF)

- recognizes handwriting and stuff

Bad:

- doesn't seem to extract the text within diagrams (which I guess is fine because that text would be useless to an LLM)

OP is the demo page, which lets you OCR 10 pages.

The code needs an Nvidia GPU to run: https://github.com/allenai/olmocr

Not sure if the VRAM requirements because I haven't tried running locally yet.
> I don't mean to rain on your parade, but humor me for a second.

Feel free, this is no parade for me. And if anyone is taking me seriously*, they need serious alternatives to my beliefs.

* which would be their first mistake, as I'm a software engineer not a geopolitical military analyst

> I mean we get rid of Putin, and the next guy is worse

What would "worse" look like?

Putin is already at war, has a massive propaganda network and fake elections, yet still feels unable to have another round of mobilisation due to the internal political fallout.

Putin is already threatening nuclear weapons, has already updated doctrine — "The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia." - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4v0rey0jzo

The only way to be worse, is to actually use them.
> The energy policy of most European countries was clearly mismanaged

Still is. That Germany continues to leave their nuclear fleet fallow in the face of this is absolute insanity.
Ukraine checks all the boxes for exploration by Oligarchs, North Korea does not. Kuwait had oil, Iraq