skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the post they're replying to:

> For simple diagnoses, it does a decent job coming up with the assessment and plan

(Somewhere, a medical liability insurance actuary just woke up in a cold sweat)

Yeah, personally I'd be looking for a second opinion.
Maybe Taiwan should consider chips to be a strategic advantage and refuse to sell them to the US for a while.
> Trump & Musk will walk out trillionaires

Or in jail. We’re not at the coup stakes of life and death, but we’re also like two months into this Presidency. (For what it’s worth, Trump isn’t currently being coup-ish. That’s been left to the pretender.)
> In this case, the US would be in a comfortable position to send aid and weapons to help Taiwan,

Trump made clear last year already that in case of a Chinese invasion, the US would not support Taiwan militarily: they would answer with economic sanctions instead.
Our local zoo has a vast <a href="thewilds.org">safari park</a> on a reclaimed coal mine out in the middle of noplace. They have much the variety of critters that you would expect, including rhinos, camels, and cheetah, among others. But they also have a small herd of Przewalski, and the staff regard them as much the most dangerous animals on the site. When we were there, the Przewalskis were carelessly allowed to surround the tour bus and the situation was treated as a near-emergency: half a dozen other vehicles were brought in to try to herd them away. It took a while.
No their economy is not larger than Russia, this is a common trope among people whose only way to reach reality is to irrationally use statistics computed by bureaucrats
+1

I worked on the Nest HomeHub devices and the push to completely rewrite an already shipped product from web/HTML/Chromecast to Flutter/Fuchsia was one of the most insane pointless wastes of money and goodwill I've seen in my career. The fuchsia teams were allowed to grow to seemingly infinite headcount and make delivery promises they could not possibly satisfy -- miss them and then continue with new promises to miss --while the existing software stack was left to basically rot, and disrespected. Eventually they just killed the whole product line so what was the point?

It was exactly the model of how not to do large scale software development.

Fuchsia the actual software looks very cool. Too bad it was Google doing it.
> Your list of additional parameters if anything supports that rather than arguing against it.

> perhaps you're trying to say that billions is obviously far too small, in which case I agree.

No, it doesn't, and I don't.

The processes that happen in a living brain don't just map to "more params". It doesn't matter how many learnable parameters you have...unless you actually change the paradigm, an LLM or similar construct is incapable of mapping a brain, period. The simple fact that the brains internal makeup is itself changeable, already prevents that.

> prediction may be a core element of our consciousness

No it isn't, and it's trivially easy to show that.

Many meditative techniques exist where people "empty their mind". They don't think or predict anything. Does that stop consiousness? Obviously not.

Can we do prediction? Sure. Is it a "core element", aka. indispensable for consciousness? No.
The second referendum had been planned long before, and then the Fukushima disaster happened, just a couple of weeks before the vote. A stark reminder that nuclear energy is not safe.

By the way, Italy had several nuclear reactors, but they were shut down after the first referendum.
That's a bit harsh. Maybe a bunch of political juniors thinking the system needed a rewrite by a bunch of folks foreign to the system. Don't write it off, it could work. Probably not though
Trillionaires over the ashes, worth it I suppose.

And one day they'll get into an accident, run into the wrong person, or die of old age and then what? Their legacy will be AI generated gold statues and maybe their name on a building.

If they ctually used that wealth to advance the human race (on the ground, not a hypothetical but infeasible future on another planet) that'd be another matter. A percentage of Musk's theoretical wealth can solve every American's financial trouble, give them an education, and make the US great again. But that means giving some of it away and they may need it for... What, anyway? What does Musk use his money for besides buying companies and spawning babies against their will?

At least MBS (an autocrat whose wealth and country are one) spends his money on stupidly large building and opulence like The Line and whatnot, which will either make the UAE the center of world wealth and prosperity, or which will be interesting to archeologists in 2000-4000 years.
> Building and working with this code will not be a plug-and-play affair. The namesake 1995 game and its hugely popular 1996 Red Alert sequel require some older dependencies, like DirectX 5 and the Greenleaf Communications Library (for a full build and tool access) and the Borland Turbo Assembler (TASM 4.0) to compile. Renegade and Generals, however, call for a whole lot more nostalgia: STLport 4.5.3, the SafeDisk API, the GameSpy SDK, the RAD Miles Sound System SDK, and at least eight more.

It is weird that they didn't open source the Remastered edition which already includes two modernised games that I assume use either new technology in place of deprecated versions, or just newer versions of those.

Seems very odd, I don't understand why they would want to keep private their own modernisation efforts.
> 3) Other than human intellect, there is little in the way of natural resources to obtain out of Taiwan. It's economy is manufacturing and export driven.

Why do people keep spreading misinformation?

E.g. Taiwan grows and produces some of the best tea and coffee in the world. High end tea leaves costs more than some stock grants here. China tried for years to replicate it and has some success but definitely still far off.

Taiwan is renown for many things - not just semiconductors. It's just you might not know about it. A lot of your every day life might have something to do with Taiwan.
This is Nuance, Microsoft acquired them in 2021 :)
"Free world" my ass. As a European, the US has always been my favorite country and I've been basically universally pro-US all my life. The Recent US decisions managed to turn it 180 degrees for me, in a matter of basically a couple of months. As I consider myself to be a more or less statistical normie, I assume theres many, many more people like me. So: fuck US & eat shit, go suck Putins dick while the EU & the rest of the true free world should focus our efforts on getting nukes, investing in military and intelligence, and leveraging new drone & radar technologies. Theres honestly never been a better time, geopolitically and technologically, to wane off of US-dependence.
I would classify ITER as basic research instead of a commercial nuclear power plant.

I didn't know that Enel operates nuclear power plants, that's interesting, but they seem to come from an acquisition of Endesa and have been constructed way before that acquisition, and from designs of foreign places. So they aren't modern generation reactors that one would want to build from scratch.

As for the Slovakian nuclear power plant, it's a russian design as well.

I don't doubt that Enel could operate nuclear reactors of foreign design, where Canada, Russia and France have strong capabilities, but if the design comes from a different country, do you really achieve the independence goal?
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That's the reason I posted it, my coworker went and had a great time, and over lunch we started investigating some of the history and I found it fascinating.
> 200 is less than the 400 requested,

That's irrelevant. Otherwise, requests for 400 bytes against a resource that is actually only 200 bytes long would never be considered complete and would be disallowed to be cached.
That’s what the successful decades long Russian psyop would want you to believe.

I’m not talking primarily about agent Krasnov allegation from a top Kazakh ex-spook (though that is an actual possibility), but about the well known Russian influence operations by financing what used to be extremists (both far-right and far-left) across the West.
> implicit coherence that exceeds statistical expectations

What do you mean with this? Do you have examples? Whose expectations? And what are those expectations?
So cut those people. They will continue to be a problem. Can’t fire them because of the rights of federal employees? Get the law changed.

Actually solve an actual problem, not wave a machete around cutting the government in half.
I have no doubt that it can be cut down by 50% without adversely affecting anything long term.

As long as you don't care about American soft power, or the many lives we save with our humanitarian programs, you may be right. If you do care about these things, then you're already demonstrably wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-ter...

More children are going to die, around the world, in the immediate future. Sorry, eggs, this guy has an omelette to make.
Mozilla legal apparently think otherwise. They have been spooked by the recent California legal movements which can apply the label "sell" to behaviours we wouldn't normally consider selling user data, like setting the default search engine.
Well a few thoughts. I feel like your question is trying to excuse reckless disregard (at best) as mere incompetence.

I don't think if you sum up all the value on all the leases of wasted buildings it would be a drop in the bucket against the psychological damage (e.g. distrust in the system) being caused by this administration. Like unless it's more than 1% of the national budget (i.e. > 67 billion a year) then it isn't worth the chaos.

And a competent administration that wanted to end leases really shouldn't have started RTO, so let's try not to fabricate plausible deniability here.
I know what I'm doing later today!
Those systems already exist and they are not llm scribes. Check out nant health eviti, and others.
Some people care about justice, you clearly don't.
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produzione_di_energia_elettr...

This says that up to 25% of electricity is imported during peak times, and as of 2016, Italy was the third-largest net importer of electricity after US and Brazil.
> (...) returned to ethernet cords in piles around the floor, random wires sticking out of walls, and motion-sensor lights that weren’t working correctly

I don't understand that part, maybe I'm missing something - what happened there? Why would the abandoned workplace not look exactly the same as they left it? Where did the ethernet cords appear from? Someone stole TVs from the walls?
Yeah, unless this is someone at the FSF, you don't really get to tell your attorney what tools they use. Sure, FSF could try and find someone who aligns with their beliefs, but often that's not feasible.
Idk man. If the last 17 months (or the last 20+ years) wasn't gonna do it, what use is drawing a line at all?

America is deep into a terminal decline. Every system which could help it pull up is rotten. Its last slim chance at redemption was a few years ago; now the window is closed.

People can still make a living there, but not without feeding a beast which is looking to eat the world.
They had luck, depending how hot this summer gets some nuclear facilities have to shut down again because the water gets to warm or they don't have enough water in the cooling water source.
> this could very well be the end of the Free West

Europe seems to be realising it must get its act together. Europe + Canada + the Americas have a hope in hell of containing America if it goes off the rails internationally. (When Trump & Musk tip the economy into recession it will be tempting to drum up a stupid war. My guess would have been Iran. But who the hell knows.)
Many archiac court systems still demand filings in MS-Word.

The export features in Libreword is pretty good.

https://help.libreoffice.org/25.2/en-US/search?P=Docx&DEFAUL...
Europe just isn't a particularly seismically active and then only it's mostly southern Europe.
I wouldn't be surprised if we stretch it further than 46 years. All previous estimates have been under-estimates. Still, it's a bit like stock market bubbles. During a bubble bears are wrong many times and right once.

Your estimate for coal is probably low, unfortunately. There are vast amounts of it in places like Alaska and Siberia and elsewhere in the Arctic, maybe Antarctica too if that melts enough. We probably have enough carbon to destroy the world if we really don't give a damn and decide we don't want Florida. We have quite a lot of gas, too, which is not nearly as bad as coal for climate change but isn't great if we keep using it forever and at huge scale.

The bottom line is that transition to electrified everything powered by solar, wind, hydro, nuclear (maybe fusion too eventually), and geothermal, is inevitable. The question is the timetable. Oil will be the first fossil fuel to go. It's already many times more expensive per kWh as a source of energy due to the difficult of substituting it for internal combustion engines and aviation.
That's great, maybe the wait times for an appointment will be 60 days instead of 6 months in some of those places.
Which is why they are pushing so hard/fast; they need to destroy the right things to make sure they cannot be stopped.
The world is lucky that Zelensky is the President of Ukraine and not somebody like me - given that Ukraine does have plutonium from its power plants, i'd be already making the warheads (technological difficulties? they were solved 80 years ago and with the modern tech the 3 years is more than enough to produce something working).

That is also notable in the context of Trump yelling at Zelensky that Zelensky is supposedly playing with WW3. If anything, by not making nukes Zelensky shows an, unreasonable at my opinion, restraint here.
Can you point to some of the stuff (presumably doge) that you particularly approve of? Id like to better understand this perspective
> But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.

To assume good faith here I'd have to assume wherever you are you've never donated blood?

When you donate blood you've lost a pint of fluids. They give you something to drink to work on rehydrating.

The sugar in the juice and the sugary snacks are to help give you a bit of energy since... you just lost a pint of blood.

Which is to say this is pretty standard everywhere. It's not payment. The ice pack after my vasectomy wasn't "payment for population control". It's healthcare.
Sure, but as a percentage, this sort of thing isn't that remarkable in hardware or software.
Ah it's a pity that they don't hire that many in Canada, especially in Quebec.
You are approaching this from the wrong direction.

Air forces, navies, and drones cannot conquer a country. For that, you need ground forces with plenty of heavy equipment. Which can only cross the sea in slow and vulnerable ships. To stop them, you need long-distance firepower with large enough warheads. A carrier strike group is the least vulnerable way of delivering such firepower.

The job of a carrier strike group would not be defending vulnerable targets, as in Israel or the Red Sea, but destroying them. Its job might not even be engaging the attacking forces. It could be a reserve force beyond the reach of the initial aerial campaign but still close enough to move in when the actual invasion starts. It could even be a force that remains neutral if the actual invasion never comes (unless China attacks it first).
Europe did help in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and now that Europe needs the US's help, silence.
Actually: it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
> Well-timed populists.

not really. The referendum was planned long before Fukushima, but then Fukushima happened at just the right time, reminding voters just in time to vote against nuclear.
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> if you squint right, the bios could be considered the actual OS and dos just a shell on it

IIRC this is by design. The operating system consists of two components: the Basic Input/Output System is specific to a computer model and provides routines with a standard interface to access the computer's peripherals, and the Basic Disk Operating System provides higher-level routines and human interfaces based on that. This was in CP/M. Then it was possible to produce alternatives to BDOS using the same BIOS interfaces.
> A stark reminder that nuclear energy is not safe.

For some nebulous and often politically-charged definition of safety.
Just off the top of my head:

* Verify the ages of people using the site;

* Verify that there is no CSAM;

* Verify that there is no child-grooming;

* Verify that there is no terrorism;

... and more.

Anyone running a site that has user-to-user interactions has to provide risk-assessments for each of:

* CSAM;

* Grooming;

* Terrorism;

* Under-age access to porn;

* Modern slavery;

... and more.

For each of the above there must be written policies about how the limitations are enforced, and the procedures taken for each of the risks identified.

I've download some, but not all, of the explanatory and guidance documentation and it amounts to around 1100 pages of legalese so far.
I love pencils. I collect them, nearly every gift shop will have a £|$|€1 customised pencil. I buy one everywhere I go. I also get people to buy me a pencil if they want to get me a gift as they're cheap. I have 2 collections, places I've been and gift from places family/friends have been.

I will leave them to my children when I die, they can use them or throw them out...
Yes i do that :) but now i also need to tell that to my family constantly. Its not like you need to change it once, you need to change it for every single album
> It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage.

"If only the Tsar knew"
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> How would you rephrase it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254469

> I'm also a non-native English speaker, and the bit you provided sounds very easy to understand because of how it's phrased.

Thanks for your point. It felt to me like reading overly verbose code. Not wrong, but not effective.
What a garbage "article."

From the garbage pile: "Could the FSF not find any law firm that, in addition to talking about or for Free software, does not use .NET, OOXML, and almost everything Microsoft? Even in 2025?"

One, no you cannot. Lawyers live in the world of Microsoft Office. Two, one does not choose a law firm based off the tools they use.
> why are we spending massive amounts of money for office buildings while people work from home?

Valid point. But if that's the problem, why don't we get rid of the buildings and save the money, rather than force people back to the office so we have to keep spending money on the buildings?
As Portuguese, and regarding how things work there, regardless of whatever achievements get acomplished, the ways how to do business and handle bureaucracy walls aren't very far from stereotypes, even if it was improved during the last decades.

I assume same applies in Italy, given that we share some of those stereotypes.
Can We Please Stop Comparing Russia’s Economy to Italy’s?

Who's comparing Russia's economy to Italy's? Apparently Lindsay Graham did in 2014. CNN in 2022.

I like this article because it made me think about Russia and it's economy in a way that I didn't fully appreciate before. The article calls out an argument that compares Russia's economy to Italy's economy, using nominal GDP as a measurement. This is supposed to be a Western attempt to brush off Russia as a small(er) player than it really is, but that is a skewed perspective. The use of nominal GDP, especially in times of conflict (and war), does not fully encompass all of the resources that a country is capable of summoning and utilizing. Russia's oil and gas resources, as well as production in wheat, corn, and other earth metals provides it with "substantial leverage" on international markets. Furthermore, when the measurement used to compare the GDP is purchasing power parity (PPP), Russia's economy is more like that of Germany, than Italy. Taken together, the PPP and Russia's domestic production capability, and it seems to make sense why Russia's economy has not completely faltered in the face of sanctions imposed by the West. Could we say the same for Italy? Or even Germany?So all though, CNN is not wrong to make the claim that Russia's economy is equivalent to Italy's in nominal GDP, that comparison fails to take into account the economics of reality. And that's the very definition of propaganda.
No offense, but do you have kids of social media age and, if so, are you 100% certain this is true for them? I know I can’t say that for my own.

One of my kids has a very addictive personality. Great kid, smart, gets good grades. But 100% addicted to YouTube. He will lie straight to your face, sneak an unlocked phone to his room, and watch 22 hours straight of random videos.

I shudder of the day he discovers internet pornography. He has no natural defense mechanism and he’s up against billions of dollars and decades of research on how to stoke addiction (aka “engagement”)
>What are those engineers doing currently, then?

Italian companies that work on reactor design, decommissioning and technology commissioned by foreign countries, for example.

>Russia is still the second largest source of uranium for the EU, making up a quarter of imports

The vast majority of contracts are multiannual, the EU will rely much less on Russian uranium export once they expire. Italy has no reason to sign them with Russia.
> Medicare negotiating more drugs

I don't care what side you fall down on, the only reason someone would rollback Medicare negotiating drug prices is so that they can make more money on their big pharma stocks.

I can't believe a bunch of grown adults voted for this shit.
Also see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatpack

(First sense.)

It's a fairly common word in English.
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> The second reason was to improve performance when copying large amounts of data to network share where the same files are often copied over and over again but to different destinations

This explains the iteration of FIFA and MADDEN each year.
how many companies will actually adopt 3FS now that it's open source?

not a hater, just know that theres a lot of hurdles to adoption even if something if open source - for example not being an industry standard. i dont know a ton about this space - what is the main alternative?
The checks and balances part no longer exists, so definitely feels like it’s over.
Lovely, thanks for sharing. A reminder that we still have a humanity within ourselves worthy of being tirelessly sought.
Tesla electric car sales plunge again in Australia – Model 3 down more than 81 p
I have yet to see where Mozilla confirmed that is the only thing they are doing with data. The ToS gives them more power than that. They could limit that by updating the ToS. But they are not doing that.
Human microplastic removal: what does the evidence tell us?