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genocide is an intentional act. Smallpox did 90% of the work and nobody lifted a finger, at the time nobody could have forseen the effect of smallpox on the native population.

After smallpox when the population of the Americas had been reduced by something like 90% they most certainly didn't need all the land.
Yes, it would. Maybe doing so would cause American government to change their actions. Or maybe not.
Move there, see how it actually is. I spent almost a decade there. I prefer USA, it's not even close.
Don't forget that Russia has been doing this for a long time. Chechnya, Georgia. Always the civilian population was brutely oppressed and murdered. He's always got some former USSR republic to exterminate. If anything it would be weird if he hadn't picked on the next one. The only difference is that Ukraine is a little bit closer to Europe than the others.

I'm not saying this means we shouldn't defend Ukraine. We should. But I am saying the outrage from the international community is a little hypocritical considering what Putin has been doing for decades. It's either because it's a little closer to our borders (and thus Europe is more worried about itself) or because they have valuable resources that our politicians suddenly care. I find that very sad. We should have cared before. Then we'd have saved many lives and this wouldn't have happened.

It's really got a very strong smell of "let's bring freedom to the middle east! Of course only where they've got lots of oil for us".
of course this was never going to last forever, we have more than 8 billion people in the world, if even 0.00001% of people wanted to do what you proposed, eventually own a part of a nation’s land, thats 80 thousand people.

that’s just not happening
Sorry, it is too late here to continue that discussion now. If I find the time maybe tomorrow. Or you could watch this talk [1], I essentially agree with the views of John Mearsheimer, so that talk might address your points. That one predates the invasion by seven years, but there are newer talks including post-invasion.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Here’s Solovyov

https://youtu.be/hULOZDqxv1Q?si=SAwB5ORJm5LM7vNk
Good, they can financially and
militarily support Ukraine instead.
Companies still have to follow state and local laws.
I've been working on learning PySpark this week, going through exercises to learn syntax and what-not. Avoiding ChatGPT bc I didn't want to be spoon fed anything. I couldn't figure out how to sort something in descending order. I searched SO for 5 minutes, getting out-dated answers or overly complicated solutions not needed for my very simple one-liner. Click over to ChatGPT, give it the line of code I have and say 'make it sort in descending', and spits out exactly what I need.

I haven't used SO in weeks prior and I think ChatGPT has pretty much killed its use case for me. Even two years ago, I would spend 1-6 hours/week searching SO posts depending on what I was working on.
Uh, Marcus doesn't "claim to be a scientist", he is a scientist. He has a PhD from MIT in cognitive science and was a professor at NYU.

Altman is one the making bullshit claims left right and centre.
America isn't overpopulated. The pyramid scheme you're describing is not a Malthusian constraint but the product of bad monetary policy privileging non-productive investments in real estate. There's still no better place on earth for normal people to build wealth, unless you're playing the digital nomad game.
Your evidence is that there are more billionaires when arguing there is upward mobility? We are talking about completely different things. Many of those people started out as multimillionaires and then became billionaires - almost none of them started out poor. And you're focusing on a tiny percent of the population and extrapolating that to everyone as though it's representative of anything meaningful.
"the only place where traditional economic intuitions still apply"

Which economy? In the US, healthcare, public schools in some states, and B2B sales come to mind as decent jobs. But I agree with the general sentiment - there do not seem to be great choices that support a nice life. Quite a few of my friend have to work multiple jobs or double shifts to make it work.
If Claude 3.5 was a base model*, 3.7 is a third iteration** of that model.

GPT-4.5 is a 1.0, or, the first iteration of that model.

* My thought process when writing: "When evaluating this, I should assume the least charitable position for GPT-4.5 having headroom. I should assume Claude 3.5 was a completely new model scale, and it was the same scale as GPT-4.5." (this is rather unlikely, can explain why I think that if you're interested)

** 3.5 is an iteration, 3.6 is an iteration, 3.7 is an iteration.
Nothing almost about it. This and the smallpox thing the sibling brought up are what we tell ourselves to feel better about what the truth is.
Yes, they have serious advantages from being on the defense, and a lot of other things working in their favor. I just mean that it was clear from the beginning that that was the thing that couldn't really be adjusted by aid (short of direct involvement of other militaries) and where the numbers were extremely not in their favor, so it'd be the thing to watch out for, as far as what might eventually force them to cede territory for peace or even to outright lose, even if foreign aid remained steady.
A gross oversimplification of anthropology.
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There are very many tests, leaderboards etc. for AI models, and while none of them are perfect, in the aggregate they might not be a bad measure of intelligence (perhaps locally, in an interval around current models' performance level, since people develop new tests as old ones get saturated).
Who wants to write it in a weekend with me?
Now do Hungary. Or Slovakia.
Well China's economy is currently tied up in a housing pyramid scheme that's gone burst.

Russia's economy is on such a war footing regardless of if it wins or losses in Ukraine, the economic shock of the end of the war will bankrupt the country. See Dutch disease.

And no one wants to host the Olympics, it's a huge money sink.

So it doesn't really pay, it's just bankrupts you. Even Trump's America is having massive stock sell offs and other countries dumping the dollar.
Sure they are AGI. Just let one execute in while (1) and give it the ability to store and execute logic rag-like. Soon enough you're gonna have a pretty smart fellow chugging along.
The US has successfully created a system that integrates the US economy with Europe, limiting Europe's choices and greatly enriching the US for decades... and then last week JD Vance in Munich yelled at everyone and claimed the EU was somehow stealing money from the US.

A++ gaslighting, great job.
So to pay for the war to stop a new Soviet Union, a bloc of countries that all fear their alliance will turn into a new Soviet Union, must become a new Soviet Union?

Might be a hard sell.
You've grown spoilt on an age of peace. But that kind of abject self-interest is probably the first to leave one in front of the chopping block, or worse, enslavement.
I’m glad my stupid joke served some purpose.
That they failed to successfully profit from their crime does not obviate it from being criminal. Skype was created in 2003, I do hope it's appreciated how much smaller the market was back then, on top of how bandwidth constrained it was.

On Hacker News of all places what I think gets lost in the monopoly conversation is that it's not just the consumer market you need to pay attention it's the _labor_ market. I always assumed that would more be more readily apparent here. I am often surprised to find out it is not.
I agree, and I think the OP does as well. Really, the Executor framework used here was to blame by not setting the uncaught exception handler to catch and propagate those exceptions by default.

But having shared, mutable state without locks or other protection should never have passed code review in the first place. I would look at that commit to try to determine how it happened, then try to change the team's processes to prevent that.
The Celestial Zoo (2001)
> DoH is a completely different story.

Yes. And that's why, in the context of misbehaving devices, carrying their own methods of doing DNS, I mentioned it.

> Now you are talking about browser based DNS systems, apple private relay and other related 443 based solutions.

No, not at all. Anything can use DoH. Doesn't need to be browser-based, nor using Apple private relay, nor anything of the kind. A device simply needs to be coded to make its DNS queries over HTTP. In a similar fashion to how it might have a hard-coded value for its DNS lookups, the developer can simply include a small library to do DoH instead. And that's not going to be so easily filterable by a rule for outgoing traffic / port forwarding.

I have all of my PiHole DNS lookups going over DoH. Have done for years now. Because when I originally setup my secure DNS, DoH was a better choice that DoT, because DoT was very much still in flux. And by comparison, DNS over an existing standardised transport is pretty much a known quantity. So that was my choice. And it works great.

So all of my network's DNS lookup go out over DoH... there's lots of DNS providers that provide DoH nowadays, including plenty of very big providers. My secure DNS proxy cycles between different servers.

DoH functionality is even just built-in to Bind these days.

In reality, DoH isn't in any way restricted just to the services you describe here. Far from it. It can be used anywhere. It's just a protocol. With plenty of destination endpoint support, out there in the real-world.

And if some device wants to control its DNS to that kind of level, then, beyond simply having a hard-coded DNS server value, using DoH is pretty easy.

No browsers needed, no Apple Private Relay needed.
Second time? More like fourth time. First there was Crimea, then Donbas, then the current invasion.
I don't think so. How many genocides can you think of on the scale of the Native American genocide? Such events seem rare to me.
Sure. We don't need incursions. They can stay and be nationalistic all they want.

We need to keep applying pressure until something breaks. There's a constant refrain of "Sanctions don't work. Please stop the sanctions." from the Kremlin.
I'd prefer a land value tax personally.

Capital flight is a thing. Land isn't going anywhere.

Economists including multiple Nobel laureates on both the left and right have been screaming for land value tax for almost a century for this and many other reasons.
The DOGE people especially seem to think their actions exist entirely in a vacuum, with no risk of future consequences.
It was a 40 minute long conversation and everything was fine until the last 5 minutes when Zelensky got mad about Vance talking about using diplomacy with Russia.
I'm more of a cat person.
It surprises and scares me how few people in the West understand this. It's because staring wars is how dictators cling to power, plain and simple. This is obvious to anyone who follows Russian politics. There's even a term "Crimea consensus", referring to the fact that annexing Crimea made Putin super-popular again after he angered people with his clumsy return to the presidental chair. In 2022 his rating was at all-time low again.

Yes, it's actually a bit more complex than that. Russia never stopped being an empire, it's codifed in their culture in many ways. Yes, there are personal inclinations of Putin. He said in his first ever interview when he got some minor post on SPB government that the Bolsheviks' greatest mistake was giving autonomy (however nominal) to the soviet republics. So those are the reasons too. What's not a reason in any way though is geopolitics. Feeling threatened by NATO, needing this or that resource, access to this or that body of water, fighting Western colonialism (!) - those are all bullshit reasons invented for propaganda.
Based on trump's wants around Canada and Greenland it doesn't sound like you'll be very isolationist, more like a bully.
read blog post, got to link for downloads, got the
android, orgzly from fdroid, figured it out, and am useing it for a trip with a lot of steps and stops tommorow
it seems intuitive and poke and see what happens friendly.
> It was also available literally everywhere

I remember trying to run SkypeKit on my Kindle. Didn’t get it to make calls, but I think it received chat messages!
It depends on the language. It's so easy to generate warnings in C/C++, other languages they are rare or it's easy to avoid them.
And as we all know the only valid assessment of a foreign policy prescription the median American's opinion.
Shit, I would have chosen richer parents if you'd just told me before I was born.
Also it's not enough in my experience to just give the money, also time. And not too much money, gates famously gave 10m "only" to each child
If pensioners have most of the wealth, then they should pay those working class people higher wages to take care of them in their old age. That's one factor of many in to end this disenfranchisement.
Putin is a threat to world stability and should be treated as such.
So, Russia, Ukraine and Belurus lost to Afghanistan.
you use a language where you have all your deps local to the repo? ie go vendor?
https://archive.ph/HnYWh
Inflatable envelopes in space are challenging (micrometeoroid damage). The envelope, and thus the gas, need to be hot, lest T^4 swamp R^2. It's feasible to cool a reactor to low-pressure gas (Mars atmosphere [1]) using forced convection, but that's cold gas and IIUC the heat exchanger is comparable to the size and mass budgets of a radiator. So attempting a steelman of a set of forced-convection radiators on poles, hosing hot gas against the envelope... hmm. Big picture, this attempts a low-mass heat transfer construct, using a large-scale low-pressure gas flow, where the cold-side surface is nearly as hot as the hot-side, and is extremely mass constrained (thus flat-ish). Seems hard? Fun thought experiment - thanks!

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Uh https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-nazi-ss-veterans-hold-an..., https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-ukrainian-national..., https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-estonian-far-righ..., https://defendinghistory.com/sebastian-pammer-reports-on-neo...

That's just the first page of search results. Are you sure that rehabilitation of Nazis isn't welcomed in Europe?
If the land had been the basis of North American prosperity there would have been civilizations there capable of resisting European colonialism.
Saying we're more interconnected and that it's important to support stability doesn't mean that I support US hegemony, the domino theory and the need for military intervention everywhere. In fact I'm quite against US military action abroad, certainly in places like Iraq and Vietnam where it had no business being. But in this case, if a country like Russia is able to push its way into Ukraine unopposed, it does threaten the stability of Europe (a place where warfare was almost continuous going back millennia) which is a ReallyBadThing for Europe and for the US (and I don't mean for US hegemony, but for the US economy and wellbeing).
Even if the land was "shared", settlers still stole it for themselves.
100% agree. But if 30% of the US showed up on the streets, that would already be unprecedented.

But somehow, people feel better doom scrolling and feeling powerless. It's kind of a nice excuse to not to do anything.

That worked most of the time, in the recent past. But it looks like we're at a major turning point in US history.
Is there a guide on that? Would love to check it out!
How does this research help us win naval battles? Should Elon and his DOGE friends cut it?
Although the analogy between European nation states and US states is very weak, it's hard to resist pointing out that different parts of the US are also not aligned on politics.
Have you ever wondered why the US is able to spend so much on its military? Ever wondered why the US keeps on printing the dollar that's not backed by any gold reserve and other nations still give you real things such as food, resources, goods in exchange for it?

Here's a hint! It's your military. To put it bluntly, European nations and other US allies pretend the dollar has actual value and the US in turn guarantees security and backs the world order based on the rule of law.

Looks like the US is looking to pull out of its end of the deal. That's fair enough, being the world's policeman is sure a heavy burden to carry. I just don't see many people recognizing the implications for the US economy.
it's certainly interesting, I'll give you that
> We do have a couple disabled by default in the config, but it's still a lot of warnings

A lot, yes, but definitely a lot more than 2 that you still don't have enabled. Might be worth looking into them if you haven't already -- you will definitely disable some of them in the process.

(And I assume you already have clang-tidy, but if not, look into that too.)
I watched the whole press conference. Here's the summary:

- It was amicable for the first 30 minutes.

- It went downhill when Zelenskyy asked Vance slightly hostile questions saying that Putin would not honor the cease-fire.

- Then Vance responded in a more hostile manner saying Zelenskyy should be more thankful and that he shouldn't be litigating in front of the press. And everyone started fighting.

Honestly, the 3 of them acted badly. Both Zelenskyy and Vance started it. And after it was started, Trump just accepted the fight instead of trying to end it. It's sad this ended this way, especially because the press conference was going well for the first 30 minutes.
Is Google paying Mozilla to sabotage themselves?

Stay in business, so monopoly arguments can be brushed aside.

But slowly erode privacy on the internet. And slowly lose user base.
I do some game development research on reddit sometimes, and with fairly high frequency I find the highest quality results are something like 10+ years old. Occasionally I find something insightful in more recent threads but it's often heavily downvoted or hidden; it almost seems like difficult-or-controversial-but-content-heavy-meaningful answers automatically get thrashed by readers.

Just commiserating, I guess...
Its almost like they’ll start paying for their own defense
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The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them.
The Russian-leaning world remembers this event differently, they think of it as the US unilaterally bombing Yugoslavia, taking out a Chinese installation full of Chinese nationals, and facing absolutely no consequences or ill effects.

This was one of the factors that guided Putin's thinking when he took Crimea.
I actually think we should be quite cautious about this. It's essentially seizing dollar assets. It might provide a big boost for China's efforts to get the world off the dollar standard.

(I'm a strong supporter of Ukraine, host refugees in my house, and have donated to Comebackalive.ua, so this is not because I'm neutral in this war.)
And who actually makes that much?

Or are you counting also VC money into that "profit"?
> western Ukraine land is lost

Surely you mean eastern Ukraine?
So thoughts and prayers basically. Thanks for nothing.
As far as I understand it, Mr. Krebs is _absolutely_ an expert on cyber sec.
Hi. I'm an electron app developer. I use electron builder paired with AWS S3 for auto update.

I have always put Windows signing on hold due to the cost of commercial certificate.

Is the Azure Trusted Signing significantly cheaper than obtaining a commercial certificate? Can I run it on my CI as part of my build pipeline?
Stag Hunt
A big part of the problem is that too many people want and/or have to live in very tiny portions of the country: major cities.

There is a lot of cheap land and even a lot of cheap houses for those willing to live in a different place. Even many of my friends in Seattle, for example, have discovered that if they move 30-60 minutes away their housing costs plummet dramatically. This has opened the door to many of them moving even farther away, unlocking an entire new world of affordability.

There was a brief moment where all of this looked like it was a very real possibility for many of us, but the rubber band is snapping back with remote work and now many are being required to move back to those few cities again to find the best jobs.

> but promising everyone that if they "work" hard enough, they too can set up their heirs, is pure marketing.

I don't think most people believe that you can just work hard and then have generational wealth for your heirs. That feels like a strawman argument. Generational wealth has always been a difficult feat for the few, not something we promised everyone could achieve.

However, people also underestimate the power of compounding for retirement savings. Obviously not helpful to someone working at McDonalds and trying to pay rent in a big city, but people working average mid-life jobs at average salaries who consistently save $100/month or more can amass significant retirement wealth over 30-40 years. Not "generational wealth" or "setting up your heirs", but enough to make big contributions to education, helping kids with emergencies, possibly leaving some non-trivial inheritance. This happens all the time and continues to happen with millenials, as it will happen with Gen Z. Again, not literally everyone but to suggest that it's out of reach is really out of alignment with the reality of what we see people earning and saving.
https://youtube.com/shorts/MqA-hUeYvb0

Millionaires too.

The last bit is sus though. "Only inherited after making a million". Sounds like it would include born rich, high education, basic necessities covered, can work on startups without worrying about earning a salary, many such cases.
Remember that old study (which got flagged here!) which claimed Musk tuned the algorithms in favor of republicans starting on..... the day of the assassination attempt? Laughable!

Well that old study got referenced in this study.

"science"
And since there is no un-owned land remaining, the market price for land will match or exceed regional population growth worldwide forever, unless a whole lot of people start dying.

Land use is a complex topic, but you’re basically right. Everything good—not just land but social opportunities—is spoken-for and what we’re seeing in South Korea and Japan is probably the best solution: peaceful natural attrition and non-replacement of capital’s reserve army that is unwanted labor.
Your criticisms seem to attack the less important bits. If Marcus' view was the majority opinion, your comments might make sense. But the AI and AGI hype is everywhere, and we need a great deal more of "correct-but obvious" commentary to pierce the hype bubble.
The good news: depersonalizing is more than half of the challenge. The bad news: it's way easier to come across as personally pejorative than one imagines. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

In any case, thanks for hearing me out with such patience—if it were always this easy, I'd...have more free time!
Sad day for freedom loving people.