skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine was the poorest country in Europe, and by most metrics, worse off than Russia before the war.

Sure, you can write all sorts of alt-history fanfiction about how great it would be if 2014 didn't happen, but that's just one of many possible futures.
I disagree. I think they are rather pleasing to look at. Especially compared to a coal fired power station.
> "I dont think brexiteers were largely voting on economic grounds - a point which is lost on most remainers."

You think remainers missed all the racism from the leave side and thought it was only about economics? Even when Boris Johnson's Vote Leave, Michael Gove and George Osbourne, Labour representatives, Green Party representatives, Nichola Sturgeon, and Unison reps were publicly condeming Nigel Farage and UKIP for their "blatant attempt to incite racial hatred" poster?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Point_(UKIP_poster)
And China made the US its source of income. The relationship works both ways. The consumer market in China is a disaster.
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)
Tiled logs are cool & Chrome are starting to forge a path towards adoption: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/HBFZH...
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Weird typo in that article:

> unless the U.S. rows back on its plans

Shouldn't that be "rolls", or am I showing my ignorance?
The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)
For services like this, I always use my own domain which can easily be re-mapped or hosted myself. E.g. "checkip.mydomain.com"
Disagree with the implication here and expect the opposite.

Ukraine peace (even an imperfect one) allows the US and Russia to work together to prevent Iran from getting a nuke. Ukraine won't get nukes in either scenario.

An ongoing war forces Russia to rely on Iran, limiting its ability to work with US (and China), on isolating its nuclear program.

DPRK nukes already exist and ROK is pressuring the US for permission for them (neither Biden or Trump want to give them).

I don't know of any other latent nuclear states.
Children of Dune is my favorite thus far (just finished God Emperor… and don’t intend to continue the series).

With that being said, Frank Herbert certainly (IMO) is a genius of pure vision and worldbuilding but he is a serviceable writer at best.

By the aforementioned fourth book, he no longer has anything to add to his consideration of prescience/fate and is increasingly focused on sexuality. And his writing on sexuality is about as un-sensual as I can imagine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought?wprov=sfti1#Pro...

Just so everyone is aware, Vought is the man behind the moron (the Donny). He is the architect of Project 2025.

His goal is to traumatize the civil service to bring about a re-christianization of America, which he believes can only be done by expanding the power of the executive branch.

We are living through the machinations of a religious fanatic.
Have you looked at Daylight? Friend of mine showed me his and I was super impressed. It's more of a full tablet than a strict e-reader, but very nice soft screen

https://daylightcomputer.com/product
Thanks for sharing, even though I don't use Algolia or Elastic but I love the idea of tracking Postgres Triggers and sending it to the queue and sending wherever you need it. Brilliant !!
They generally tend to work for a very long time, like for 5 years at least. That’s literally the reason Windows has a stable ABI. Linux generally breaks drivers every 6 months or so.
It takes time (typically some number of months) to get appointed as the executor of an estate, and then even more time for the executor to get effective control over the estate's assets.
Book recommendation: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Skip the neuro-"science" chapters and do the drawing exercises only. It really works!
Wow, Rude! It's obvious I'm 9 years old, thankyouverymuch!

...but also, I'm not constraining the discussion, you're free to ask any question. I'm constraining *my* question to the parts that I might be interested in so I don't waste anyones time. There are answers that I might or might not agree with, but the ones based in religion are based on logic I don't find persuasive.
Come on, you’re reaching here.
Cool. Obviously needs some work. Lots of artifacts. Something to build on though.

Lots of sour grapes comments from folks. Too bad. Not what I expect out of Hacker News. Glad people are pushing the technological envelope and exploring this space despite the strong negative emotions.
The US didn't end up in this position by fluke. It was a deliberate policy reaction to the nuclear weapons age. If you don't want everyone from Croatia to Canada equipping themselves with nuclear weapons and starting border skirmishes over water rights, the states that maintain a nuclear arsenal and international network of military bases have to step up and enforce the rules.

And yes, the invasion of Iraq on a paper thin pretext arguably was the beginning of the collapse of this equilibrium, and it's no surprise that North Korea reacted by doubling down on their nuclear program.

With great power comes great responsibility. For generations, Americans preferred having a monopoly on geopolitical power. The USA can certainly give up its great responsibility, but beware the consequences, because the global calculus changes accordingly.
I didn't vote. I have various (bad) reasons:

- I live in a deeply partisan state where the outcome was predetermined: a disproportionate amount of those who didn't vote would have to vote in the opposite of those who voted (if I lived in a different state the pressure to vote would have been greater)

- I lack an easy means to get to my polling location and my state makes absentee ballots difficult to get

- I would have probably also needed to do some ID stuff (my ID is currently expired, for reasons)

- Registering to vote puts my name/address/registered party/etc onto easily searchable public websites like https://voterrecords.com/

My reasons aren't great but they're reasons. If there was less friction to voting I would have voted, as I recognize it's an important civic duty.
I think it's wrong to control any adult's medical decisions who has been found of sound mind. If you want to argue she is not of sound mind, demand a review of the medical board, but if they confirm she is 100% doing this rationally then it is not "saving" her, it is indeed merely a man exerting control over an adult woman.

[I do not consider fatherhood special in this regard-- the notion of men being entitled to a woman's medical decisions because of a familial relationship is something that should be questioned and challenged.]
> 1. China takes Taiwan quickly.

That is extremely unlikely to happen, Taipei has invested a lot in defense, and until lately the public in Taiwan at least says they would fight[1]. It's extremely unlikely that they will fold so fast that the US won't have to get involved or to choose to not get involved.

> 3. Taiwan successfully defends itself, repels the Chinese invasion, and possibly even takes back some territory.

That won't happen either. China has an incredible manpower and material advantage, they are unlikely to be effectively defeated. Even if Taiwan can deny the channel and prevent a landing they will still be effectively blockaded.

> 2. Stalemate. Taiwanese people fight bravely, and Chinese forces turn out to be weaker than expected. In this case, the US would be in a comfortable position to send aid and weapons to help Taiwan, prolonging the war to weaken China. With some luck, a regime change could happen without firing a shot.

It will take weeks before we can tell if there is a stalemate or not, and the stalemate will not be stable. If the Americans try to provide aid they will have to cross the Chinese blockade and they will have to fight to do so.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/most-taiwanese-would-defend-island-aga...
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And AI doesn’t make satisfying music. Music is partially derivative in the human sector, but only derivative in AI. That’s why it sounds like shit to reasonable ears.

It’s less than worthless.
See how I am still free to ignore any question you asked and answer just what I want?

Which would be: there is not really a need for stationary batteries to be expensive.
Show HN: Oliver's Army – A social network to kill the dead internet theory
We built this over the course the last 4 months. We hated misinformation, we hated bots, we hated loneliness, we hated corporate infiltration, we hated the destruction of our kids' mental health.

Read our Declaration of Principles here: https://www.olivers.army/declaration

Requester Mode -> Create and activate Requests to be sent and seen by anyone in "Responder Mode"

Responder Mode -> Respond to active Requests that get sent your way. You can filter requests by maturity, creativity and some safety stuff. More clever filters in future.

Observation Deck -> Watch the most interesting conversations happen. We're still building this.

We wanted an operating system type feel. We went with window management as we thought this was the most intuitive.

We're running with this tagline for now: "A next-generation social platform that connects people through real time conversations." but we think it's corny and want a new one; suggestions welcome.

Have a great Tuesday HN! It's a privilege to be here. -Brandon
> Intellectual property isn't real. It's a fiction we constructed

Regardless of my opinion about IP in particular, argument "X isn't real, it's a fiction we constructed" is silly. We have "constructed" things like justice, duty, charity, mercy, and a lot of other social and moral constructs, and it's good that we did. They're also just as real as potential energy in physics: it's not a material object that you can see or touch, but it greatly affects what happens in reality.
Gave me a chuckle!
So the hope is that Starnix can emulate Linux syscalls well enough, while gVisor has been abandoned in later Google Cloud stuff because it couldn't emulate Linux syscalls well enough. Uh-huh.
Thank you. It's too late to edit, but goodness am I embarrassed now. Very sorry, Kasey!
They want to be ready to invade by 2027. Very different.
Show HN: Vibe coding No BS app to convert any videos to MP3
I mean, Ukraine and Russia both export a lot of grain, so the war has definitely impacted a bunch of poorer countries.
Oh, and:

"The most powerful AI chips in the world will be made right here in America and it'll be a big percentage of the chips made by this company (TSMC)"

Donald Trump, 2025-03-04

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202503040017
This is promotion of piracy and trying to get the community to engage and validate it - if you can’t see the line then maybe take the time to learn that it exists and how to recognize it.
There's that emotional thinking again. _We_ started that war when we funded a coup there in 2013 and hand-picked[1] their rabidly anti-Russian government. We also funded and condoned their neo-Nazis, without whom none of this would work [2]. Mostly Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine disagreed with that kind of thing. After all, it was mostly them who elected the president that we overthrew. West Ukraine started shelling east trying to subdue them, calling it an "anti-terror operation". Russia provided "lethal aid". Things escalated. The conflict did not start in 2022. Suggesting that we can just go ahead and build tactical nuke bases right next to where ~70% of Russia's population lives, and Russia should just roll over and let it happen, is idiotic and reckless.

Here's John Mearsheimer telling you _exactly_ what was going to happen, in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bKivSjoAg
Fraunhofer Institute did an in depth study into the costs of nuclear. That it is cheaper is a myth.

Nuclear is a distraction to defocus from renewables and battery tech. There’s a reason this kind of nuclear propaganda is all over TikTok amongst right wing social media.

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/veroeffentlichungen/studien...

https://www.unendlich-viel-energie.de/projekte/erneuerbar-st...
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I believe there is actually a recent userland project that disassembles and recompiles 360 games for x86...
The former should be

dig -4 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com A +short
dig -6 @resolver1.opendns.com myip.opendns.com AAAA +short
Hard to have a strong consumer market with 17%+ youth unemployment.
I recently had to setup a Mac and the App store didn't let me add an account, it always asked for my billing details and then complained that the fields where empty when they weren't. As a workaround I had to perform the billing setup on an Android (!) phone using the Apple Music app...
Yes, but that buffer cannot and will not last.
Instead of jq .ip, please use https://ipinfo.io/ip

This API endpoint has its dedicated stack and infrastructure to support unlimited lookups.

Also, for IPv6 connection use: https://v6.ipinfo.io/ip

PS: I am the DevRel of IPinfo.
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One project strongly resembling this was called NTIS, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, detailed in a 2011 O'Reilly Radar piece by Alex Howard, now only available via archive:

"A Manhattan Project for online identity: A look at the White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace"

<https://web.archive.org/web/20110506083805/http://radar.orei...>

In part:

The NSTIC proposes the creation of an "identity ecosystem" online, "where individuals and organizations will be able to trust each other because they follow agreed upon standards to obtain and authenticate their digital identities." The strategy puts government in the role of a convener, verifying and certifying identity providers in a trust framework.

I'd learned about this in 2018/19 as Google+ was shutting down, through a Search Engine Journal piece (leveraging Howard's earlier article heavily), similarly only available as an archive, with the original article substituted in place with another at the same URL. This one by Kristine Schachinger:

"In Memoriam: The Rise, Fall & Death of Google Plus"

...Google was only going to be one of many identity service providers for a program run by the Federal Government called the NSTIC, or National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace....

<https://web.archive.org/web/20181220165659/https://www.searc...>

I'll note that neither article makes a direct link to mobile phones / smartphones, but clearly as those became widespread and individually identified with a single person for the most part, use of phone numbers as unique identifiers became widespread. Indeed, on Google+, over four billion accounts were eventually compiled, those being automatically granted to every registered Android device through about 2016 (the practice stopped about then). Google increasingly required phone numbers for account registration and recovery, "bribing" G+ members with "vanity" account names if they'd supply same.[1] The use of phone numbers as account validation tokens on numerous other services is now widespread.

________________________________

Notes:

1. I resisted the bait. Ironically, the vanity names couldn't be mapped back to the 20-ish digit UUID that otherwise identified accounts, and those who did make use of the nonnumeric IDs were largely excluded from archival efforts to save G+ content when the service shut down in 2019. I managed to create at least two backups of my own (non-vain) content, for what that's worth.
I don't think that is the problem for Sonauto V2, on the contrary it is more a challenge that the model is too consistent with preceding content.

Here are a few of my songs, I think they are fairly consistent?

https://sonauto.ai/song/e2e3d210-69b4-4ad7-96d1-fb5744d0c648

https://sonauto.ai/song/a94e04a9-7b74-4b87-b5ed-ca3e8d2798d0

https://sonauto.ai/song/55a36595-c60a-4346-81d8-6f03ebe690ff
Totally agree that there are better ways to build a program to beat tic tac toe. I'd expect an LLM could probably write the code itself with a few turns of the crank (it wrote most of the code I used to test this). The point here is to test the G in AGI: how well models can generalize to new tasks.
> They have $57T in debt, look at that number, it is 3x their GDP.

Where are you getting this $57T number from? Most sources put it closer to $2.5-$3T max

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202312/29/cont...
Would you say the same thing if it was the US?
Something I never see anybody discuss is that China is completely dependent on imported oil and the U.S. has the strongest Navy in the world. Unless I'm missing something, sanctioning oil deliveries to China should actually work in a way that sanctions don't really work against Russia, since Russia is a net energy exporter (bringing up Russia since I think that's the natural comparison for whether sanctions work). From my cursory research, China has a small petroleum reserve, hardly imports any oil via pipeline from Russia, and an industrial economy ceases to function almost immediately without oil.
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This looks very interesting, thank you.
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I think the reason for this gap are the differences in scope and novelty between codebases. When you need an LLM to write a piece of code that's been written a million times before (e.g. "find the normal vector to this plane", "find the highest scoring user") it generally produces decent code.

But on the flip side, this type of code is intrinsically less valuable than novel stuff ("convert this signed distance field to a mesh") which an LLM will choke on.
Not really..

USA will not have a hostile cuba, just as Russia won’t have a hostile Ukraine, and China won’t have a hostile Taiwan on its doorstep.
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I'm the editor in chief of Standard Ebooks and currently I read on an older Kobo eink reader, the Aura One.

When using their Kepub format, Kobo has the best eink renderer on the market. I believe you can also install Koreader on them.
You forgot Poland. :-P
the joke is that contrast is a ratio, and any number over zero* equals +inf. I've seen similar lines used in OLED advertisements during 2010s, despite many OLED having non-zero minimum intensity. It's a reference to those.
I've generally found it to be within a factor of 2 of hand-tuned C. (It's literally autogenerated C.) But implementation matters, and I doubt we're going to check your work here in the comments.
Russia hasn’t been able to conquer Ukraine in three years primarily due to US support. Now that US support is falling away, Europe can only compensate for a minor portion of it. One important part that Europe can’t replace anytime soon is military intelligence, including satellite reconnaissance, but also advanced air defense systems and fighter jets. It would or will take many years for Europe to be able to provide anywhere near the previous level of US support.
https://archive.is/N0m9N
Outside of ethical systems with heavy religious influences, what kind of society doesn't accept one's autonomy over their own body?
You mean the same civil service that was against Brexit from the start, still tries to justify it being a bad idea? Amazing.

You even didn't include the paragraph prior to your quote:

"It's also clear UK services exports - such as advertising and management consulting - have done unexpectedly well since 2021."

I realise Brexit was a horrible shock for the middle classes that they are still coming to terms with, but I think long term it will be neutral or positive. Now that we have a more pro-UK president there is even scope of trade deals with the USA replacing some of the "lost" EU trade.
That recites a book from a Trump hating Guardian reporter.

Why would the CIA let him become president if they actually had something on him? Why would they let Gabbard (also called a "Russian asset") become DNI if they had something on her?
Your point of view is important, I wouldn't want it to be misinterpreted or any of that sort.

What you're saying is:

1. You tried to end your life.

2. Because of the intervention of other people, most likely your family, that didn't happen.

3. You wish that didn't happen and instead would prefer to be dead.

Right?
That's not true at all. Black on a projector is still projected light, especially with a DLP which have the worst contrast ratios of the 3 projector types (DLP, LCD, LCoS).

What he is making here is a dual panel display. There are actually some LCD monitors that use this concept of 2 separate panel layers each providing their normal contrast resulting in a multiplicative effect.

For the video posted here, the DLP is probably at best 1000:1 and the cheap old LCD is also maybe about 1000:1, so you get about 1 million:1 which is a lot, but not technically infinite like self-emissive display that can turn off the pixels completely for sections of the picture like OLED and microLED.
2210 isn't a Windows 2000 build even, but a Windows XP prerelease
I really don’t know what point you’re trying to make. I am 100% in favor of capabilities and think it leads to better decomposed software with better security boundaries (provided the software engineers put in the work to separate components across process boundaries and the APIs make it convenient to do so).

All I said was that capabilities don’t solve the spyware problem and they largely don’t. They help protect you write software that itself can’t be hijacked to become uncontrolled spyware due to a compromise but if I am selling you software with “malware” bundled you’re going to have a hard time isolating the functional and “malware” bits (malware here being defined as software against the users wishes and intents).

You’ve extolled the benefits of it and they’re great and I think I largely agree with all of that, but it’s completely irrelevant to my initial point that it’s not a silver bullet for the vendor intentionally bundling malware into the code they’re distributing.
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The question of orderly shutdown still remains
I wouldn't get a lot of these as an adult. And some are just plain wrong.
“The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of his skill goes leisurely about his job, and accomplishes much though he works as if at play. On the other hand, the workingman who is without confidence attacks his work as if he were saving the world, and he must do so if he is to get anything done. The same is true of the soldier. A well-trained and well-equipped soldier will fight well even when not stirred by strong feeling. But the untrained soldier will give a good account of himself only when animated by enthusiasm and fervor.” - Eric Hoffer
And the reason there's 17%+ youth unemployment is because there's a weak consumer market!

This is what happens when you structure your entire economy around exports: artificially weak currency, capital controls, artificially low wages, etc.
I can finally live my dream of running a domain controller on my gamecube