skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it's not a substantive critique. I agree that copyright is useful. But I don't think it is so useful that much of the world's knowledge creation stands to be lost, which is the alternative.

And, the copyright exists because it's a societal benefit -- it is considered to encourage the creation of knowledge, art and so on -- it puts significant limitations on the rest of society. So, when we're evaluating, we need to evaluate both whether we're getting the benefit of copyright that we "pay for" and whether increasing or decreasing what society pays would be a net good.

I'd propose that in the case of books, approximately zero books don't get written because of Anna's. In fact, some pretty thoughtful authors like Cory Doctorow feel that piracy increases their net writing and impact.

So, increasing enforcement seems like it would have no net benefit on adding to our world's social capital. On the other hand, it is clear that when data (on paper or digitally) is held by only a small number of hands, it is often lost, full stop. Television archives from the first fifty years of broadcast TV, whether US or England, much less I imagine, say Poland or East Germany, are largely gone. And in places like England that had criminal penalties for illegal TV watching, I'd guess that more is gone. You can search for a recent story about this regarding Dr. Who -- the BBC had dumped a bunch of Dr. Who tape they didn't want in the (60s?). An unnamed employee saved it. Which was (and is) illegal in England. The BBC has asked for it back, but can't/won't promise there are no legal repercussions for the person who saved the data.

Enforcement like that is a net negative in my opinion; the question would be moot if we had a full archive on Anna's of every Dr. Who episode.
After WW1, in the treaty of Versailles the German Reich, having just lost the war, was made responsible for starting it - it played a part in starting it, but was hardly fully responsible. So its successor state got a huge amount of reparations forced upon. Calling that out was a part of the appeal of the Nazis to the germans.

Now, how that is related to freezing assets from Russia I do not see. Even if interpreted as some kind of reparations, the lesson of that time was not that all reparations lead to a later war. Rather that humiliation will lead to resentment which can lead to war later. Huge and unjust reparations can be a part of that, but that's hardly the scenario we see today.

Macron is (understandably) deeply unpopular in France right now, seems like that seeps into the judgement of his actions here.
You realise in a propaganda war, parts of each sides propaganda are bound to be objectively true, right?

It's not like one side just lies and the other side just tells the truth. This isn't a movie.
https://pytorch.org/blog/hitchhikers-guide-speculative-decod...

https://colab.research.google.com/github/sanchit-gandhi/note...
I always thought that Russia should join NATO. Stop with all the flirting.
I wonder how much success would have some subscription option (at least for small amount) like maybe $5 per year?

would that be more than my data are worth?

I really like Firefox and u would like it to improve over time and as this is one of my main tools for my work I could consider to spend a little on it
5% is not generous. 5% is conservative. 10% is historical for the S&P 500. 12% is generous.
Seemed appropriate to me as comparing the "first core to use full-width AVX-512 datapaths"; my interpretation is that AMD threw more R&D into this than Intel before shipping it to customers…

(It's also not really a comparative article at all? Skylake-X is mostly just introduction…)
Would you also disregard ancient philosophy, or religion? Modern psychology seems to rigorously prove out profound ideas the ancients had about the human mind, yet these ideas were written down thousands of years ago. Why would it be that people from hundreds of years ago would be so divorced from our reality?
If your stuff can fit on a single server at home, and are comfortable managing it, by all means do! It’s definitely way WAY cheaper, and if budget matters, that’s great. Nothing wrong with that IMHO. Obviously you can’t 100x overnight, but that’s realistically not gonna happen. And if it does, then you can start to migrate, which probably won’t be that hard, because it’s just impossible to make a single machine anywhere near as complicated as a cloud setup.
Title is: Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist
This is equivalent to giving up a lock in between though, I think.
Why? Some accounts believe Russia will break by the end of this year as its terrible financial situation catches up to it. People are starting to doubt if they can even launch a nuke any more. It seems wise to me to push a bit harder to see if you can tip a military adversary over the edge and force a full capitulation, rather than giving them time to recover.
Why is langchain still used, thought that not needed, can it just be replaced with some type of custom ETL functions. Or is that still defector ways to interacte with llam?
Yes, as a teen I thought it was so absurd that the world wasn't deeply disturbed by the rhetoric and actions of the neo cons back then. Today, I would gladly take those idiots back.
On a second reading, that app is for switching on the "classic" behavior of bringing all windows to the top. There's something odd going on here as half the commenters, including me, complain about exactly that as undesired and what their Mac OS is doing without that app. Now which is it? Maybe is has to with using multiple monitors, like I'm doing? I've got to investigate more.
It's been US policy for years to beg NATO members to increase military spending, it took the war in Ukraine for them to finally do it.

Part of NATO's charter is literally "spend minimum 2% GDP on military" and it was just ignored for much of the time.

But honestly I don't know why this entire comment section has turned to NATO NATO NATO. Ukraine isn't in NATO. And if the Budapest Memorandum is what you're referencing, France and UK signed too. It's not as if the US hasn't contributed to the war already.
Let’s be honest though: there has been an immense amount of propaganda on both sides. How many times has Ukraine reportedly embarrassed Russia, knocked them back on their heels, been within weeks of winning? All with young beautiful people on the front lines singing patriotic songs?

Russia is certainly the aggressor, let’s make no mistake. But I honestly can’t make heads or tails of what is actually happening in Ukraine because of all the universal propaganda
That assumes that any amount of capitulation would have persuaded Trump to support Ukraine, and that any reasonable deal could have been reached. I obviously can't say what could have been, but every sign Trump (and those in his administration!) has given up to this point indicate that there's only one outcome they support, and that's Ukraine surrendering all or some of its land to Russia, along with a deal barring Ukraine from NATO.
Just earlier this week it was charging me for some mysterious "api management service" --- it was such a pain in the ass to cancel. I had no idea what it was about. I contacted support, got them to supposedly reverse the charges and reported the credit card as lost before the charges went through just in case. I just wanted a damn api key and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to find it (I work at a cloud computing company, I do this stuff for a living and I still couldn't figure it out).

It's an obtusely confusing interface with opaque pricing that you can just magically sign up for with innocent sounding names. It's like the dark pattern people from Intuit came on over for a house party and got drunk one night.
Are we giving up our bases? Sending all personnel home, disbanding some brigades or a fleet? No? Then we are not saving any tax dollars. We’ve just made it more expensive to maintain our global empire.
I had to Wikipedia the memorandum to even know what it was, but wasn't Obama president in 2014 when Russia first breached it? Asking honestly, was that not a crucial failure but Biden's response (or lack of one) in 2022 was crucial?
How I didn't deal with professional heartbreak
Oh you guys finally managed!? Cool to hear! I guess Azure must've gotten better then, back when I was there, the conclusion was that Azure simply wasn't mature enough to host Minecraft yet.

Again, this is a while ago: I remember when I started we were just starting to replace the old yggdrasil servers with the new micronaut based system which I think is still in use today?

I still remember that application fondly as the best architectured piece of software I've ever worked on. I hope all is well!
Yes, expired ammunition and equipment waiting to be recycled.

Bradleys waiting for scrapping at Red River Army Depot, Texas

expired ATACMS https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/10/05/m39a1-atacms-for-uk...

3 million DPICM waiting for expensive disposal
Is this surprising?

High exam scores are an indication of discipline and good prioritisation - factors that evidently reflect on the physician's professional performance.
Garuda Linux has been hosting their own Firefox Sync server for a while now for
their FireDragon browser [1]:

defaultPref("identity.sync.tokenserver.uri", "https://ffsync.garudalinux.org/token/1.0/sync/1.5"); // --> FIREDRAGON CONFIG

(They seem to be running the older non-Rust sync server though. [2])

[1] https://firedragon.garudalinux.org/

[2] https://gitlab.com/garuda-linux/infra-nix/-/blob/main/docker...
It is an expensive way to do self hosting, yeah! I guess one reason is, sometimes it’s easier to just use one of big N clouds – e.g. if you’re in a regulated industry and your auditors will raise brows if they see a random VPS provider instead. (Or maybe not? If you’re doing that kind of audits I’d love to hear your thoughts!)

> Isn't at least half the point of AWS to use their SaaS thingies

It is. (That’s how they lock you in!) I think it’s okay to use some AWS stuff once in a while, but I’d be wary of building your whole app architecture around AWS.

I’m in the self-hosters camp myself :-) I’m building a Docker dashboard to make it easier to build, ship, and monitor applications on any server: https://lunni.dev/
Based on hours of past experience, the solution to this particular problem seems to be to give all the doctors a cane and a bottle of Vicodin.
And let's remember that most of the Ukrainian refugees have been hosted in Europe [1], something for which I am proud of being European. This has a monetary cost that Trump's administration seems to ignore when they keep saying that the US have spent far more than Europe to help Ukraine.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312602/ukrainian-refuge...
humans like multiples of 5: inspired by Real Estate cloud infra
Europe produces alternatives to Patriot (Aster). And ATACMS are not crucial in any way, these days it is Ukrainian produced long range drones that do the most damage behind the lines.

Starlink is where it would hurt though.
I get the nostalgia for XP, it was the first windows consumer edition that didn’t suck, but for a server OS 2000 was so lean and easy to manage it makes me wonder how MS lost to Linux. Back then, it was a genuine competition, now you’d have to be crazy to choose windows to deploy anything.
One note on last example, "memory leak":
GC for C is awesome, but I wish there were an optional way to ensure it is not doing anything, for example by having the program panic/warn if an allocation was GC'd that was not free()'d before. (I understand it cannot be disabled for safety reasons, to track free()'d pointers)

This would be handy when writing programs for both Fil-C and Yolo-C. A developer would use Fil-C with all the nice diagnostics and for safe release builds; and if a user does not want Fil-C for some reason, well.. they can use regular C compiler. But this can only happen if the program does not rely on any Fil-C-only features, like FUGC.
You can define a CSP header to only exec 3rd Party scripts with known hashes
Do you have any examples of “Summary comments, LLM output and prepared linkathons”? I’m not sure what a prepared linkathon is at all, and I wonder if the other two are as bad as you suggest, and maybe seeing it would help.
More valuable? More valuable… to whom?

In human affairs there is no such thing as absolute value.

The reason is simply that it is inevitable as much as gravity is inevitable.

Making a moral law against gravity isn’t going to get you very far.
Third, if US owns the resources and Russia tries to seize it, US would have legit reason to send their troops to Ukraine.
So you have some good points about soft power. Yet at this time as I look at Americas GDP Europe is playing less and less of a factor in it. So as I said the juice may no longer be worth the squeeze. Also what is the point of soft power in Europe when we are being over run by immigrants? America needs to look to itself first. We can't be a strong world power for much longer if the issues at the southern border continue. I know no one in the world cares about Americas problems, they tend to ignore them and view us as something to use or get something from. Yet we have not only a right but obligation to look to ourselves first.

Ukraine is not and has never been an friend or ally to America. We were one of many parties to an assurance that we wouldn't level them if they turned in their nukes. We have given them aide in their time of need. There was a deal in place for more aide and the President of Ukraine came in, in athletic gear mind you, and reneged on the agreement and started grandstanding and threatening the US President in the Oval Office! This was a HUGE mistake, he basically said to America I do not respect you and spit in our faces. I know many people do not see it that way around the world but if a world leader comes to ask for aid from the country they are completely dependent upon for their survival and their plan is threats and leisure attire how is that not disrespect?

I mean fair play for being bold and all. Yet that was unwise in the extreme.
No!

> Out of these functions, only SipHash provides significant security guarantees in this context; crafting collisions for the first two can be done fairly efficiently.

You can craft collisions against SipHash also trivially. "significant" is not significant, and using SipHash would also make it much slower, comparable to a linked list search.

The only fix for DOS attacks against hashtables is to fix the collision resolution method. Eg from linear to logarithmic. Or detecting such attacks (ie collision counting). Using a slower, better hash function is fud, because every hash function will produce collisions in hash tables. Even SHA-256

https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/?tab=readme-ov-file#secur...
Why have your data sitting on a timebomb when quantum risks are just around the corner.
Self host if you care about your data!
This and insufficient taxation of higher income brackets is basically my entire politics these days.
I haven’t read the article yet, but back when I tried to get to over 100 GB/s IO rate from a bunch of SSDs on Zen4 (just fio direct IO workload without doing anything with the data), I ended up disabling Core Boost states (or maybe something else in BIOS too), to give more thermal allowance for the IO hub on the chip. As RAM load/store traffic goes through the IO hub too, maybe that’s it?
> [...] and S3, and you’ll be fine in any cloud

Except Azure - AFAIK it's pretty much the only cloud provider that doesn't support S3 API, see e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1183760/...
Sending money to Ukraine saves US money. The equipment that Russia is losing means the US does not need to maintain as much military as before and fpr the cost of 90B US can permanently save maybe 30% of its mil budget going forward, especially is Russia clearly looses. One more year of support to Ikrain would destroy most of gerund Russian equipment and set it back for years.
Venture capital bets on returns. It's not about some objective and eternal value. A successful investment is just something that another person will buy from you for more.

So yep, a lot of time, they bet on trends. Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, several waves of AI. The question is just the acquisition or IPO price.

I don't doubt that some VCs genuinely bought into the AGI argument, but let's be frank, it wasn't hard to make that leap in 2023. It was (and is) some mind-blowing, magical tech, seemingly capable of far more than common sense would dictate. When intuition fails, we revert to beliefs, and the AGI church was handing out brochures...
Maybe Trump isn't actually working for Russia/China, and is just waiting for the people of the US to start a gofundme to buy him off so he goes away.
They don't use different bars to become a doctor. Once you're in medical school, everyone passes the same tests and goes through the same process.

Show me evidence that doctors of a certain race are allowed to have lower test scores than some other races in order to pass all of the requirements to become a doctor. I don't care if they give anyone a leg up to get into medical school, we've already agreed that we should let anyone who can pass the stringent process to become a doctor should be handed a "Dr." for their name and sent out to the world, so if there weren't any artificial barriers to having unlimited doctors, then it wouldn't matter who got into medical school or how as long as they passed and became doctors eventually.

We should want more doctors, not argue about who shall become a doctor. All this fighting about the DEI boogeyman is allowing rich pricks to pick our pockets and steal our national resources for themselves.
When I'm stumped troubleshooting production problems, I try to think how I can get more information out of the system.

Exporting telemetry events with a wide set of attributes to an observability platform is a great approach which can provide an extensible way to expose additional information about the events.
I highly doubt anyone has a mental model of the all the code they're working with. You very often work with code that you kind of understand but not fully.
Oof, this won't help you, but I recall sending a very angry email to me new corporate overlord in the Xbox org for blocking me from using their web services if my user agent said Linux.

This was during the "Microsoft <3 Linux" campaign, and I think I cited that and then told em Minecraft would not be able to move forward with Xbox account migration until they stopped such idiocy.

Since I was the dev tasked with migrating Mojang accounts to Xbox accounts, I felt I had at least SOME credibility to my claim that it was blocking me.

But honestly, modifying my user agent was easy, it just pissed me off.

They did fix that the same day tho, so I guess the believed me!
Actually it ended only the Kosovo war, which started few years after the wars with the victims you mention ended.

Can't argue with NATO forces effectiveness in that operation though.
As a Canadian that EU join comment is laughable. We've had a border with France way longer... We aren't getting into the EU on some silly Island no one cares about border... Don't undermine yourself with such silly nonsense
I’ll see if I can get around to adding the SQL this week
> It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

Do I understand it correctly that they can now use everything I read or type in the browser as they please, including for AI training?

Considering that I do most of my work in webbased enail, issue tracker and other internal tools, this sounds like a direct violation of my NDA.
Impeach Trump.
It's amazing to me how many people working in artificially simplified fields look at real world mechanics and think it must be simple. Only the models are simple, and they are still impossible to solve analytically, with tensor projection mechanics as freshman methods. FEM is used on anything beyond a toy model and everyone building things knows that the ability to obtain and assemble materials is a far bigger constraint than measuring any ideal material property. Carbon fiber composites and single crystal nickel rotor blades are actually convenient simplifications. Properly designed they allow for more ideal structures and lower the dimensionality.

To give an example. TI built a multi $B business on DMD micromirror based projection systems. The millions of mirror hinges which oscillate at several kHz in each projector are built from thin film Aluminum under several % strain. They were most of a decade in and most of $B of investment before it was shown that the hinges happened to be thin enough to be single crystal in the high strain region allowing them to operate. Aluminum fatigue models weren't something the EEs were worried about, and they happened to be right!

Complexity is built on abstraction. Some things are VERY difficult to abstract. Solving coupled electro-thermo-mechanical equations for heterogeneous 3D objects is one of them.
Re: Ed Zitron - here is his recent piece that the parent is referencing: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/

If you find yourself agreeing, I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.
Reducing Latency by 83% with Esoteric Linux Process Flags
Such an amazing amount of details. Really impressive! You make the web a little bit more fun
Volodymyr, congrats. This is crazy fast. If not super great at long context coding tasks. I tagged a few problem responses.

I'm curious about something that has analogues in image diffusion models -- you can see diffusion models, depending on how they are working through their latent space, sometimes try out and then move on from a feature in an image as it fits less with what's around it.

Are there analogues for Mercury? Does it try with a token or set of tokens, and as parts of the response fill in move on from them? Similarly, this architecture seems like it would have real problems inserting a needed token in the middle of a bunch of relatively high confidence generated tokens.

Can you give some insight / thoughts from the frontlines on these?
Then shouldn't $280 became $280\times 10^15 = $280000\times 10^12 = $280000tn dollars? Why $81tn ? Even if the currency is Brazil real, it should evaluate to about 48,000 trillion USD.
Russia is more likely to use nukes against US if Russia wins in Ukraine.
Trump and his administration seem hell bent on undoing everything that's held the world together since WWII. We in the US are going to pay the price, as we lose the privilege of having the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency, while at the same time our nations institutions are destroyed from the inside in a deliberate act of sabotage.

We're going to see our standard of living drop by 80% or more because of this. 8(
Or diverting nascent discontentment toward a manufactured enemy (that does the same in his own fiefdom), 1984's style.
Somewhat relatedly, I've always appreciated Go adding some runtime checks to detect race conditions, like concurrent map writes. It's not as good as having safe concurrency from the ground up, but on the other hand it's a lot better than not having detection, as everyone makes mistakes from time to time, and imperfect as it may be, the detection usually does catch it quickly. Especially nice since it is on in your production builds; a big obstacle with a lot of debugging tools is they're hard to get them where you need them...
it's not even about support, Trump wanted to extort Ukraine out of their resources without giving anything back. He failed to do so.
You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.
I'd honestly love to know what from this particular interaction (Z & JD) makes him more appealing?

Ignoring any other reason or policy how did this interaction impact your thought process?
I agree with you. You put on your own oxygen mask before you can help others. The US has debt interest payments of over a trillion dollars a year - totally unacceptable. We can't keep funding a war that can be willingly ended.