skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fremen jihad killed 61 billion people across the empire, including the sterilization of 90 whole planets, per details in Dune Messiah (quoting from a wiki, I don't have this kind of memory). It may be that life in the empire after this was over returned more or less to the same as what was there before, for those that survived - though I don't think the books go into any significant detail. Life on Dune was definitely better than it had been under the Harkonnens, but this is not necessarily true across the empire.

> Was not this the real moral of the story? Resist stagnant empire and explore the universe?

I think this is somewhat the general idea, but more specific. His main message is that charismatic leaders, even the ones with the best of intentions as Paul certainly was (and Leto II, though in a more complex way), are extremely dangerous and should not be trusted or followed. The empire overall would have been an unquestionably better place if Paul had been killed in the desert (except that perhaps the Bene Gesserit would have led people in an even worse direction if their plans had succeeded at the time). Arrakis itself would have been in a better shape if the fremen had risen up and overthrown their oppressors, but had otherwise stopped at that.
You are misunderstanding the attack. At 50+% of the hashing power, you are guaranteed to win a race against the honest block producers. The attack is a double spend: you spend a coin C to pay ADDR_A while mining a private chain that spends the coin C to pay ADDR_B (you can, of course, be ADDR_B).

One ADDR_A accepts your payment, you post your private chain publicly.
You coin C cannot be spent to ADDR_A and ADDR_B, so the chain must choose which one is it. Because you have 50%+ of the hashing power, your private chain necessarily has more work (generally simplified to "is longer") than the public chain.

You've now successfully double spent.

In fact: you don't even need 50+% to attempt the attack. I did some math recently I believe something like 40% gets you 75% chance of successfully executing the attack over a 10-block-period. The Bitcoin paper has the exact algorithm to calculate this, it is a random walk.
In the long run, society goes to 100% electric transportation due to global warming. Any analysis that treats this as a simple matter of consumer choice is going to miss the biggest driver of adoption.

Maybe some alternate carbon-neutral fuel for combustion is possible, but all the ones we’ve tried so far have lost out to electric.
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> That's a lot of what-about-ism

No those are facts. Simple as that. What is your contention exactly with what I said?

> what the fuck is your point?

Why the aggressiveness? We are all here to have a peaceful conversation. You may disagree with me and that is fine but we don't have to get at each other's throat.

> Do you really think the UK is as bad or worse then Russia?

You must have missed part of my comment if you are asking this question.

> Russia is bad, terrible even

That's from my comment.

> Of course we can and should criticize other countries

Exactly my point. I am criticizing all the countries that infringe on human rights and that includes Russia and the UK an whoever else engages in these sorts of things.

My point was that simply asserting that the West respects human rights when we know that that is not always the case is the like the pot calling the kettle black.

You can go and give lessons of democracy and human rights when you stop detaining your own citizens for arbitrary reasons and without cause and without having the right to be represented by a lawyer.

Now, if you think that this is perfectly acceptable in a democracy, then I guess we don't have the same concept of human rights then.
It would be helpful if you would identify exactly which claim you thought was extraordinary so that people could engage with your comment productively.
What are your thoughts on D? My experience is limited but seems like a very underrated language.
But why wouldn’t it? It seems sensible that Norwegians are more concerned with Russian aggression than the average westerner, so they would also disapprove more of trump, no?
Any sane person with an IQ >100, I recommend exercising 2a and forming local defense councils.
My org doesn’t host a security.txt file because the security@example.com email address been standardized since 1997:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2142
Yeah it's in a really bad spot on macOS still, iOS performance is a lot better. I'm sure all of this can be overcome but I'm not certain it's a priority for them.
In Rust you have to explicitly state that you're ignoring the error. There is no way to get the value of an Ok result without doing something to handle the error case, even if that just means panicking, you still have to do that explicitly.

In Go you can just ignore it and move on with the zeroed result value. Even the error the compiler gives with unused variables doesn't help since it's likely you've already used the err variable elsewhere in the function.
What's fake about not wanting to drive the swastikaar?
I've searched the text of the Memorandum[0] for that promise and couldn't find it there. Can you help?

[0] https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...
I would prefer a 2mm thicker phone with a larger battery over a detachable lens that’s just adding more ways for things to go wrong.

At that point you gave up on the smartphone doing everything in one device and might as well also carry around a separate camera, one that won’t be obsolete in 3 years due to a lack of security updates.
>Written by Donald Knuth

A discussion of the joy he found programming a machine with 2000 words of memory and 34 instructions.
What would make carrier strike groups effective in the situation? Given their recent record in the defense of Israel and against the Yemeni Red Sea blockade, one could argue that their era is over. The two most likely outcomes from a carrier strike group engaging with China forces are either a humiliating retreat, or WW3. I think US are smart enough to keep them at bay. Maybe station one in the area for monitoring the situation and assisting evacuation of Americans.
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It was lib Dems and labour that blocked going nuclear in 2013, France did it and are doing much better for energy
Isn't that what we have exception hierarchies for?
How could you forget about Pinball?!?
Because you need to proof read it and correct issues. Every time I have tried using LLMs to document something non-trivial there have been fundamental misunderstandings. And those are easy for the orginal author of the code to fix.
I always hoped they would release Fushsia XR but they went with Android XR.
I believe we are. And that is why we need to very cleverly design the systems that we employ and live in, so that the risk stemming from this weakness is minimized. Or checked, and balanced, if you will.
LLMs are amazing and probably as important a technology as electricity, the internal combustion engine, radio, or smartphones, but $61.5 billion can still be waaaay overvalued for Anthropic.
Yes, my wife recently lost a bunch of files on her iPad. The files just dissapeared and are nowhere to be found. Of course I thought that it must have been a "user error", but some research showed that this a bug that affects a bunch of people [1][2] (might only affect files that you've written into with an apple pencil).

If apple can't even guarantee the users documents, I wonder what else might be wrong.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255156283?sortBy=rank

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/19evmb8/files_disappe...
You’re saying we already gave them the equivalent of NATO Article 5?
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> In some places, of course it would be used to oppress minorities.

Not if the test and infrastructure for administering it is designed well to be resistant to this type of abuse, which it's possible to do.
Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.
Did you check your unsafe with Miri? It's possible you were trying to do something that isn't actually possible, locally speaking.

> I’ll point out is that TypeScript does full program inference

Do you have a citation for this? I don't believe this is the case, though I could be wrong. I actually spent some time trying to find a definitive answer here and couldn't. That said,

> Rust has made certain opinionated choices but that doesn’t mean that other choices weren’t equally valid and available.

This is true for sure; for example, TypeScript is deliberately unsound, and that's a great choice for it, but does not make sense for Rust.

> SemVer is easily solvable - don’t allow inference for pub APIs exported from the crate which also neatly largely solves the locality issue.

It helps with locality but doesn't solve it, as it's still a non-local analysis. The same problems fundamentally remain, even if the scope is a bit reduced.
> fungi overgrowth

Can you elucidate ?
"Staatsanwaltschaft Heidelberg" is not the name of a prosecuter, it just means Heidelberg's State Attorney Office, lol
> So now we can use your photo of your birthday party that you sent via webmail

Please read the second half of the text you quoted, where it says "for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox."

I cannot find a nicer way to say this, but a lot of people in these threads are essentially winding themselves up and then producing rubbish like this to fuel their own anger.

Mozilla have been clumsy sure, but this collective tantrum as a response makes zero sense especially now with given context it's clear they're not doing anything they haven't been doing for years.
That's not how I interpreted it: "...if Ukraine should become victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used." I interpreted that as either conventional aggression, or threat of nuclear aggression.

The language does seem really ambiguous though. I'm surprised it wasn't written more clearly.
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An actual lasting peace deal requires some sort of security guarantee, else it's not really a "peace deal", but rather something more like a capitulation. If US political leadership didn't have at least some solution for security in mind to begin with, then they wouldn't have been negotiating in good faith.

That said, Security Guarantees don't necessarily directly mean boots on the ground, certainly not straight away.

It could mean a deterrence framework where there a clear commitments that certain actions would mean certain responses, which itself reduces the chance those responses are necessary. Security guarantees can specify escalating measures before reaching an actual troop deployment. And European nations have already promised to provide the initial boots on the ground, though they really would like an American backstop.

The deterrence aspect is crucial - formal security frameworks often prevent conflict precisely because they make aggression too costly, reducing the likelihood they'd ever need to be activated.
Why not destroy the foundries, move all the TSMC employees to the US, rebuild them here (there is no surer investment), and let China have the land?
That is why your kids will eventually fight in World War 3, because you won't invest in a system to establish real peace globally by standing up to dictators who invade other countries.

It is not illegitimate in any way, and I think you are making a bad-faith argument.

American stands strong with Ukraine. The only Americans who have left the chat are those who were never American to begin with.
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As a matter of fact, strongest has the capacity to enforce rules. My statement still stands
US spends trillion in vietname,iraq,afghan etc
while people can't afford housing,healthcare and living paycheck to paycheck

its hard to care for other people when your basic needs is not fullfill
There were native builds of Word and Excel for Alpha that came with 4.2 and 97, but nothing else non-x86 except for the 'pocket' versions that came with Windows CE.
Get with the program, hippie!
> The difference is that China is on Trump's enemy list

Until the right Chinese person sucks up to Trump. Maybe someone with a less ..ehrm. . Asian look that Xi? (I don't know why, but Trump seems to admire Putin and despise Xi. . could be for all sorts of reasons, I guess)
"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers wont drown".

A rather British statement from From Swallows and Amazons; a famous children's novel in which a group of children are let loose sailing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons
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A much bigger reason for the collapse was that the planned economy and distribution (plus military spending) failed to produce enough basic goods and quality of life for many started dropping.

To the extent that party elite started building their own, parallel universe of food, summer camps for kids, apartments, shops, etc. closed to the ordinary people. It was clear to many people that the Soviet road, as followed, goes to a variant of a North Korea lifestyle.
And it's not bigoted to point out a completely absurd phrase.
Can you share the name of this excellent new paper that you are using for your letters? Thanks!
I should have written it up. I could still, but I’d need to order one of those thermostats and do the teardown again.

At the time I was just focused on why my buddy was having to replace 200 thermostats in ten years. It turned out you could just cut out the battery with a pair of dikes and jumper the leftover positive post to 3v to get basically unlimited lifespan, so he did that instead of replacing the thermostats with new ones. Afaik most are still working fine.

Helping him out is also how I figured out the defrost timer disintegrating gears thing. When you do things at scale, things that seem random in onesies practically scream at you. It made me appreciate the value gathering data…you can find the patterns at lower scales.

The car air vent thing I figured out on my 94 Toyota 4runner. The air vent crossbars that keep the vanes in alignment with each other all failed over a two year period. A minor annoyance, but it makes you feel like you need a new car lol. I popped them out and found that of all of the plastic parts, only the crossbars were exceptionally brittle. Suspiciously, the bars also had what looked like date codes molded into them. None of the other pieces had numbers at all. I just printed new crossbars.
i've got some issues with my older iMac from 2015 after my internal SSD failed and i'm booting from an external that all appear to be software related with little I can do about it as my Mac is out of support, even though these issues must have existed previously, it's so frustrating.

-- On Monterey no disk images will mount and no external drives or SD card. Everything is fine on older versions of OS, some forum posts suggest others with the same issue, but without any resolution. The only way to get DMG images to mount is to use a third party mounter like FastDMG, upgrading to Ventura fixes the issue with Disk images and my SD card, however this is not an officially supported OS for my model, so I have to use OpenCore Legacy patcher to achieve this. External drives still do not mount, the OS just doesn't see them at all, even in the recovery mode for these OS versions However running another MacOS inside Parallels I can access them, so they must be accessible somehow.

-- This is all perhaps caused by my firmware being out of date, i'm running 173.0.0.0 and it should be something like 530.0.0.0, this is updated with the operating system, however it has been found that on custom order macs with SDD's rather than the standard fusion drive, such as mine, the firmware update fails due to it incorrectly looking for a drive via the sata port. Apparently this is fixed on 195.x but you have to open up the iMac and plug in a drive into the Sata port just to get it to do this.

Extremely frustrating considering I paid a lot extra to spec this model up but due to Apple's mistake with the firmware updates (Or other unknown issue) I'm left with these problems. Since the machine is no longer in support, Apple aren't interested in helping.
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I think this strategy could possible work with the US taking Greenland (although I think that plan has been abandoned) but there is no way that Taiwan would accept such a small amount.
The damages caused by small electric vehicle users is not material when put into the context of all vehicular violence, where cars overwhelmingly dominate.
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Good public transport is the key part and I can tell that in most European cities, not the capitals that everyone visits when they say they have been on country XYZ only hanging on the city center without even venturing into the suburbs, that is quite far from where they were supposed to be.
> GPT 4.5 also has a knowledge cutoff date of 10-2023.

I've heard the theory that's intentional, because after roughly that point the internet training data became full of AI slop
> This isn’t feasible. Last I tried to support old systems on my app, the vendor (Apple) had stopped supporting and didn’t even provide free VMs.

Why do you need "free VMs" as a professional software company. A couple of legacy machines is pocket change comparet to the salary of even a signle developer.

> Windows 10 is scheduled for non-support this year (afaik).

So? People are still releasing new software for XP. It's not that hard.

> On Linux glibc or gtk will mess with any GUI app after a few years.

glibc provides extreme long-term backwards compatibility so isn't a problem as long as you build against the oldest version you want to support.

gtk is a problem but also doesn't change as often as you are implying - we are only at version 4 now. And depending on what software you are building you can also avoid it.

> If Microsoft, Google and Apple can’t, why the hell should I as a solo app developer? Plus, I have 5 platforms to worry about, they only have their own.

So that your users have a reason to choose you over Microsoft, Google and Apple.
100% depends on how it’s written. It gives a ton of flexibility regarding incorporating “magic variables” which can lead to incredibly abstruse code. The language motto is “there’s more than one way to do it”, and that’s implemented to a fault.
The steps I followed to get my first users (at 5k now)
Everyone wants to know how to get their first users because going from 0 to 1 is the hardest part.

I know because I’ve been there myself, we all have.

Since I’ve passed this point I feel like I owe it to the community to share how I did it.

It’s what I would’ve wanted to know when I started out and was struggling.

So, here is the simple path I took to reach my first 100 users:

- We wanted to solve a problem we experienced ourselves and had an idea for a solution.

- Instead of jumping straight into building, we started by talking with our target audience.

- We shared a survey on our target audience’s subreddit asking for feedback on the idea and trying to understand their process and pain points.

- This got us in touch with 8-10 founders and their response was positive.

- We spent around 30 days building an MVP based on the idea and the feedback we had.

- We shared the MVP with the same founders who responded to our first Reddit post and did a launch post on their subreddit.

- From this, the first users started to come through the door.

- To continue the early growth, we posted and engaged in founder communities on X and Reddit.

- The posts included: building in public, giving advice, connecting with other founders, and mentioning our product when it was relevant.

After two weeks of daily posting and engaging, we reached our first 100 users.

And that’s it.

This is the simple path we took to get our first users.

The reason I prefer this method is because it doesn’t cost you any money and you can ship fast and start improving the product based on feedback.

That’s how you get a product people actually want and will pay for.

Once your product is off the ground you just work on constantly improving it so people stay as customers and tell their friends about it.

That’s pretty much all we’re doing and it’s gotten us to 5,000 users now.

For the curious, our product is called Buildpad, and I like comparing it to having an AI co-founder.
The "electric" share here includes plug-in hybrids which, if we're nitpicking, have an internal combustion engine.

Doesn't affect the overall conclusion as even if they were all hybrids the number of cars with internal combustion would still be lower.

I'm very, very bullish on EVs, they're going to take over the world rapidly but this graph isn't great support as you can't see the exponential rise very well and it's swamped by other data inluences.
Capitalism works, but simply working is not a very high bar. Slavery also works for production, for example, or rape is working for reproduction. What we are aiming for, and yes, this should have been more explicit, are much higher standards.
>>for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

So you "Mozilla" license my data, but i am still allowed todo anything with my data..but so are you (Mozilla) right?

What are you trying to explain here?

Why do you think open source software, or any software for that matter, should have the right to put a license on MY data? You (the software) are the processor, not the creator, they want to change that by feeding a processor to create an AI creator based on wetware creations...for free.

Imagine a Mill, Lathe or 3D-Printer would do that.
These kinds of questions would fry my brain. I seriously wouldn't know how to respond to such stupid open-ended questions.

> Can you share an instance where you had to learn new tools or technologies quickly?

If you work with technology it's your fucking job to learn new things every single day?

> Can you tell me about a situation when you made a mistake?

You make fucking mistakes daily, but unless you are a retarded moron you just learn, adjust and move on?

> Can you give me an example of when a major change forced you to re-plan an ongoing project?

Have this person ever worked on a project? Not a single project have ever gone according to plan EVER in the history of humanity!!! But you fucking deal with it because that's what you are getting paid to do!
> the old hands mostly don’t fight evil changes (and there have been tons of evil changes recently)

Can you elaborate?