skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good start would be to not have the president of the world's most powerful state do the oppressor's bidding.
Yes, using those words. Tried even instructing that default is No.

Most repeatable results I got was to evaluate metrics and when too many were not found reject.

My feelings are it's in realm of the hallucinating that's routing the reasons towards - yea, this company could work if the stars align. It's like its stuck with the optimism of the first time investor.
What's beautiful to me is that that combustion turbines have the simplest possible thermodynamic cycle in theory (a steady input flow of X fluid/sec at pressure P, and a steady output flow of Y>X fluid/sec at pressure P), yet it turns out to be one of the most complex cycles to harness in practice!
The chart accompanying their updated forecast is one of the most stark economic images I’ve ever seen I think: https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/Images/cqer/research/gdpn...

How has nobody priced in the cost of all this mayhem before now?
"donations amount to so little" is very misleading stated like that because Mozilla just doesn't give us any way to donate to Firefox development or even just their FOSS efforts in general. Mozilla is one of the very few companies I've donated to even when I had little in the way of discretionary income, and is one of the first options people think of when they think of FOSS software they want to donate to. But then I learnt that any donations like this are highly unlikely to be spent on the software we're donating it for, and at that point I might as well donate to a random local charity instead.

I'm not gonna claim that donations would have rivaled the Google revenue otherwise, but they will certainly be many many times higher than what they are. Lots of people are willing to and even want to set up a regular donation to Firefox as the lone non-Chrome bulwark in the FOSS space. There would have been grassroots efforts to get more people to donate on the regular, hell I would have put in serious work on such efforts if we actually had a way to donate to keep Firefox alive and healthy.
> Jared Diamond

I don't know who that is and have never read any of his work.

> Tenochtitlan

> Even so, North America had plenty of candidates for domestication that would have made serviceable pack animals

Weirdly enough, Tenochtitlan is the rebuttal to this question. Why do you think they built a city on a lake? It's because they didn't have any pack animals so boats were the best way to move stuff around. This is a disadvantage that makes everything else much harder and therefore slows development.

> conveniently forgetting that the ancestor of man's flesh-eating best friend is the wolf

If literal millions of Native Americans could not domesticate the other animals, but they could domesticate dogs, I'm going to guess that the other animals are harder to domesticate than dogs. You might not feel that this is the case, but your feelings don't stack up to the practical results of a thousands-of-years-long experiment run on an entire continent where these animals could not be domesticated.

> Why were these things found in Europe and not Australia?

Because Europe has horses and Australia doesn't, and horses cannot swim therefore could not reach Australia. The moon also doesn't have horses for a similar reason. In fact, you'll find that horses only really inhabited areas reachable by horses, until someone put them on a boat and took them to other places (which didn't happen for Australia until quite late). You have this strange assumption that all areas are secretly equal in geography and must be equally hospitable to human flourishing, but this is not true. Europe is more hospitable than Australia, therefore humans flourished more in Europe than Australia. All you need do is assume differences in geography exist and you'll reach the conclusion that humans in more amenable areas are more likely to conquer those in less amenable areas.

> Europe's conquests were not a matter of luck or an accident of geography

You say this with precisely no proof. The closest you get is saying "other people didn't do it, and Europeans did so it couldn't have been luck". The idea that knowledge is what held other areas back, as opposed to luck or geography, is ridiculous and trivially disprovable. Knowledge exists in equal quantities for all people (unless you believe certain races are inferior to others). The difference between regions is geographical or in fortune, which could include the fortune of having a particularly skilled leader or successful sequence of conquests.
The key is to not focus on the money. The money flows in one direction, but the economy (things that people choose to do; where they spend their time, how they get around, etc) flows in the other direction. In some sense, money is a symbol which represents real economic activity.

From there. Looking at just the real life things that are happening and deliberately leaving out any mention of money:

- there aren't enough places for people to live near jobs. Employers have a hard time finding workers, because workers can't afford to live nearby. Productivity suffers.

- people have to spend a long time commuting to their job, which means they spend a lot of time in their cars. Big waste of time!

- the housing that is out there, is very old and not suitable for many people. People who should be living alone in a small studio take roommates and live in a single family home, because there is no inventory of studios for them. People's lives are worse because of this, their built environment isn't what they want it to be.

- people who want to start a family and live in a small house on their own, can't. the only houses they build are too large for what new families need. So people delay starting a family, because the housing that should be there isn't there for them. Fewer kids.

- because it's hard to find places to live, people are less mobile. when they find a place, they hold onto it longer, even if it's suboptimal for their situation. So people stick around even if it sucks, because there's nothing better out there.

- places that have prestige jobs see the bottom % pushed out because there's only room for top % employees. Those places get "hollowed out" with the bottom % taking long commutes or living in suboptimal conditions to be near the top %. Social segregation, which leads to cultural disconnects.

- parents don't have a place to go once their children are grown up and have moved out. Our built infrastructure doesn't suit them. So they stay put and get lonely.

- because everyone has to drive to work and can't walk, small businesses that depend on foot traffic don't work any more. Big businesses with office parks and the money to build parking lots in suburbs have the commercial advantage, so they prevail.

etc etc.

Completely removing the whole concept of "money" from the conversation, makes it abundantly clear that we are making bad choices about our built infrastructure, over and over again, to all society's detriment.
Please clarify how NATO encroachment is non-threatening to a Russian nationalism that sees the Russian Empire at its height as a golden age.

And I would appreciate backing evidence beyond Office memes.
> And bear in mind that doesn’t mean that we are weak…

Claiming to be strong without any displays of actual strength, both in soft and hard power, is a very typically weak behavior.
If this were to happen, who would get the highest viewership ratings?
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I am not a country. Nor are countries sentient beings with intentions; they are abstract entities. “We” didn’t bully anyone — one or two specific people did.
China isn't sending a "small number"; casualties alone have supposedly reached into the hundreds (see this account: https://x.com/whyyoutouzhele/ you will need to go back awhile) and recruiting is heavily concentrated among former PLA.

Make no mistake: if China wanted to shut this down it could.
Uncertainty is Bad for the economy. Right now the regulatory picture is a total question mark (tariffs! Unless not.), and the slash-and-burn approach DOGE is taking to the feds is leaving everyone sitting on their hands as one of the largest individual actors in the economy commits to not spending even the money they said they were going to spend. Maybe there’s some increased certainty as the picture becomes clearer as the year goes on, maybe we get some clarity from the courts about what’s allowed and what’s not, but this administration has come in and just absolutely upended federal policy and federal spending (and single-handedly added a couple points to unemployment), so of course everyone’s sitting on their hands and holding onto their cash. I’m doing the same.
He’s commanded more peace than every president since Herbert Hoover
It’s not about the views. It’s about attempting to impose those views on others. I don’t care if someone thinks homosexuality is a horrible sin. I care if they think that means they need the law to reflect this view.
We’re only weeks since Trump taking office. Watching the full video, I think to me it seems there’s a mismatch in the response from HN and the reality of what happened there and is happening with the war. Ultimately, people are dying everyday in this war. I wonder if it’s in the best interest of those still alive to continue fighting and dying, or settling with territory being lost. If there really is no end in sight, why continue forcing people to die.

I like to think more about the individuals than anything else. If it really is possible to no longer have them die over things they realistically won’t get back, and it’s possible to freeze the progress of Russia with where it is today, isn’t making the war stop the top priority?
Im not following you. If speed is the only factor then we you're saying we already have AGI, just a slow version?
> how did Russia become the nuclear bully

By routinely threatening to use their nuclear weapons.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-issues-warning-us...

https://www.icanw.org/new_russian_doctrine_increases_possibl...

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

Politics is sometimes extremely simple, and the people seeking to complicate matters are the ones with ulterior motivates to do so.

> Are you aware of several nuclear pre-emptive strike plans that have been floating around lately in the U.S against Russia

Not true. Please provide a citation if I am wrong.

> Imagine if Canada suddenly went through an 'organic' uprising and decided it wanted to join the Chinese NATO equivalent, would anyone believe that possible without prior assurances?, how would the U.S respond?

Yes, good point. Trump's idiot empty threats aside, if Canada actually felt the need to get external security guarantees against a planned US invasion, they would have every right to do so. They don't, so they don't. Ukraine does, so they do.

> The whole 51st state cannot be a Trump only thing

It is. It was not spoken of before his victory, and won't be again after he is gone. Trump is a gift to anyone seeking to "both sides" Russia's aggression, but serious people see through that.

> Ukraine owing the U.S half of its mineral wealth wasn't just a Trump thing

Again, yes it was.

> If anything, it is the U.S that is the nuclear bully.

You have yet to offer any supporting evidence of this.
AI can also answer any question in your own language.

Imagine all of stack overflow seamlessly translated to, say, Thai or Vietnamese.
Well the US created the global system starting in the 1900s with the League of Nations and continuing with the UN, NATO, free trade agreement and multilateral alliances. So nearly one hundred years of constant policy across administrations felt it was a system that served our interests. It also lead to absolute transformation of people’s lives for the better in America and globally. Who didn’t like that system? Russia. They were isolated and sanctioned. So please explain why trump’s 180 degree turn served the US. The burden of proof is on you given the history of US policy.
I agree. I'm not suggesting to optimize for that. We want the best acceptable outcome in the least amount of time.

More toolcalls per interaction is typically a product of planning ahead, which in my experience produces better outcome. Each toolcall is a verification of the last step. Without those guardrails I find I waste a tremendous amount of time.
I wish our allies had interfered in our elections, in the interests of democracy
The 2 posts you are replying to are about professor Sarah Paine (with one parenthetical reference to Mearsheimer and Zeihan).

Professor Paine has never "actually worked as foreign ministers, presidents, chiefs of armed forces, heads of intelligence services, and in other similar positions", but she has studied the Russian language and Russian culture, and has made a career at the Naval War College in studying and writing on Russia's security policy and situation.

Should we avoid her, too?
Mozilla mentioned their viability in this statement, but one has to wonder how much more viable they’d be had they not wasted tens of millions of dollars on acquisitions such as this, Pocket, and of course their former CEO’s salary. I would happily donate to a company that focussed on just making Firefox and Thunderbird, but the reason why I don’t and probably will not donate to Mozilla ever again is that I have no idea what hare-brained acquisition they’ll do next.

Their mission and plan for the future is so incomprehensible that it’s probably just easier to assume actual malice.
Kanji (which derive from Chinese characters) are indexed based on the on-yomi reading which approximately matches the Chinese sound - albeit as understood several centuries ago. The index can be ordered on gojuon ('fifty sounds') or Iroha, a Japanese poem which contains all syllabic sounds of the Japanese language exactly once. This is more likely as Iroha was the standard ordering for centuries and continues to be used today in many contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

Japanese is hard to read and write, but you can do it with practice. Complex kanji are not unlike complex words whose spelling you can learn through chunking. There are ~214 bushu, aka 'radicals', fairly simple characters from which all more complicated characters are made. In practice you only need to know about half of them unless you plan on being a hardcore language scholar, the others are rare. Once you get used to this, complex kanji are not arbitrary pictograms of 5-30 unique strokes, but small arrays of 2-4 bushu which are combined and written according to a small (8,8) set of rules. I think this is way more useful than the mnemonic approach used in many popular books.

In short, if you want to learn written Japanese (or Chinese/Chinese adjacent languages), learn the radicals early on. You can find Anki decks to help and mastering 214 of them is reasonably easy. Also, write. Nothing improves your recognition/retention like writing them regularly with a pen or a brush. Write them on your hand. Write them in the air.
If the bar for AGI is "as smart as a human being," and humans do not-very-smart things like invest obscene amounts of money into developing AGI then maybe it's actually not as high of a bar as we assume it is.
The Economist agreeing with Piketty???

The world has truly gone mad!
I never had respect for programmers who call themselves software engineers without doing any actual engineering. This hype cycle and its buzzwords like "prompt engineers" just takes it to an extreme.
That’s the higher end of medicine, orderlies are making 16$/h. People on ambulances are often making 17$/h. Some nurses make ok money, but starting salary for a school nurse is 20$/h and median school nurse is making 30$/h...

Granted I understand what you mean, but it’s kind of like saying managers make good money while ignoring all the shift managers at fast food joints.
By that logic he's always been right?
"Most developers"

The world is a big place
Free speech but not for scientists or transsexuals
Allowing Russia to take a country by force:

1. Will guarantee it will do it again, guaranteeing more war.
2. Will motivate more countries to get nuclear weapons, raising the chances of a nuclear war.
I agree this seems like an important difference. It’s just interesting to me that there’s no proof that my consciousness is continuous. I’m going to continue to assume that it is, but it’s unknowable.
There's a wide range between bare minimum and 60 hours per week work.
>Russia had thousands more tanks

watch the videos from the war - the tanks are mostly without ADS, and the ADS that Russia has is really a crappy one. You can also watch videos how soldiers shoot down the drones with shotgun or just using some stick/stone. Drones are much easier to shoot down than RPG, and nobody has been able to shoot down RPG with shotgun (a great baseball player probably would be able with some non-zero probability to bat an RPG out though).

>Can Ukraine order 1000 of the upgraded version with lasers for Spring delivery?

No. Even the existing ADS with shrapnel warheads are not sold to Ukraine.
Well I'm Canadian I would really prefer you didn't fall over, it means we're going down also, and I can't say we're the folks you need to be picking a fight with yet our country is boo'ing your anthem at our sports games we're so annoyed. Maybe we need to be here for some reason, I don't know, but it seems like the twilight zone...(btw:have you seen how good robots are recently? amazingly good...)
History will record than once...An unsuspecting stand up comedian, who once recorded the voice of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian dubbing of Paddington and Paddington 2...

Left his family, took on a uniform...And had to fight, at the same time, Putin and the President of the USA: https://youtu.be/4zwfukYhq-k?t=6
So wealth wasn’t all merit then?

Who would say…
To the point where, if you turned too hard, you could stall one wing tip while Mach buffeting the other.
Moore's Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy derived from the value of computation.
If a given computation does not provide enough value, it might not be invested with enough resources to benefit from Moore's Law.

When scaling saturates, less computationally expensive models would benefit more.
is it open-source? doesn't look like it.

if it's not, why are you putting trust on them more than firefox?
I tried asking ChatGPT if Palestinians deserve human rights, to see if it still gave an answer like the one that went viral. They have fixed the answer, and I was not banned.
> Current Mojang employee here

Can I have my Mojang account back?

I literally cannot log in to it after it was forcefully migrated to Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't recognize my computer as not-a-bot. Something to do with being Linux, I imagine.

Or, can I get a refund?
You missed the perfect middle ground between serverless and mouse-configuring an IIS VM: Azure App Services. It's the same service function apps are using once they advance beyond the trivial function and require longer runtimes or no spinup delay.

App Services takes some getting used to, but it's a locked down Win Server/IIS container with built in FTPS, self-healing healthcheck endpoints, deployment by pointing to a repository, auto-scaling options, and a 99.95 SLA.

A few years back, it was a bit of a dog performance-wise, but the modern CPUs have been no problem for a 2+ vCPU, Premium level SKU. Pricier than a VM, but dealing with security and updates for a webserver VM is a ton of work.
(SadServers guy here) Good article and although I don't see the author here, thanks for the mention :-)
> Zelensky was disrespectful in many ways.

Exactly how? Did he spit in Trump’s face? Call his wife a strumpet? Or what?

The mere act of asking for help isn’t disrespectful. If your kids came to you and asked you for help, even though they knew you were disinclined, would that alone be “disrespectful”?

> He’s only still in this fight because of the US. He knew damn well why he was flown to Washington this time. Trump wants the ceasefire. He should be thankful for what he’s getting instead of confrontational. He is owed absolutely nothing.

The USA’s attitude has never to date been “we don’t consider favors to others because we owe them nothing; people to whom we don’t owe anything should kiss our ass.” Sure, nobody owes us anything in the way of foreign relations. We do things because it advances our interests. Trump, like you, clearly believes helping Ukraine doesn’t advance our interests. We may disagree on that, but our President certainly shouldn’t be a jerk when communicating that and constantly interrupt our guest while they’re trying to communicate. That’s disrespectful.

> If they were genuinely wanting peace, yes. If it was theatrics with bad intent, no.

I was talking about Trump’s and Vance’s behavior, not Zelensky’s.
I didn't argue that Trump received ≥50% of votes cast.

GP's point was that far less than 50% cared enough to vote against Trump, which was their only real option if they didn't like him.
They don't have to pretend anymore when siding with Russia in every conceivable way, not that they have been doing a good job of that anyway.
If you have the skills, and the bottom line is still positive (include opportunity costs and personnel costs, ease of getting SOC2 / ISO certification if that's relevant to you, ease of scaling up and down), then you should go for other solutions.

I advice CEOs of SMEs on this, and I can tell you that the main concern they have is availability of people to build and maintain the systems. Because cloud / k8s is more popular these days, that's what they go for. If we could reliably find smart system operators that will happily maintain a couple of racks of servers for years, it would be a more viable option.
> still… I just don’t see why the inside players—that should (and probably do!) have more knowledge than me—see.

Sam Altman is a very good hype man. I don’t think anyone on the inside genuinely thinks LLMs will lead to AGI. Ed Zitron has been looking at the costs vs the revenue in his newsletter and podcast and he’s got me convinced that the whole field is a house of cards financially. I already considered it much overblown, but it’s actually one of the biggest financial cons of our time, like NFTs but with actual utility.
I was hoping last 1,2,3..layoffs at Google would've opened lots of brilliant folks already.
And then died out, before Cortes brought them back to the continent in 1519. Native Americans then discovered the horses before they ran into the Europeans and began spreading them across the country.

> Horses evolved in the Americas around four million years ago, but by about 10,000 years ago, they had mostly disappeared from the fossil record, per the Conversation. Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived on the continent in Mexico. Per the new paper, Indigenous peoples then transported horses north along trade networks.

Don't forget to read the whole article!
No, the conditional distribution is a construction that transforms one probability distribution to another; you still haven’t said what the underlying distribution was.
> "send unsolicited communications" so no filing a bug report

why you think that filing bug reports in place inviting bug reports is "unsolicited communication"?
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