skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"By my understanding Orthodox Jews aim for a 100% Jewish state"

Most of my family is Orthodox, I was raised Orthodox, and have a pretty clear understanding of Orthodoxy's views on Israel (which is generally pro-Israel). You are confusing various ultra-Orthodox (also called "Haredi") sects, some of whom are anti-Zionist, but not for the reasons you're giving — in fact, the largest anti-Zionist Haredi sect (although "largest" here is still only ~100k globally), the Satmar, are specifically against Israel being Jewish because they view pre-Messianic Jewish states as contrary to Jewish law. The Neturei Karta, an even smaller but more extreme Haredi sect (~5k adherents globally), go so far as to politically support dismantling Israel and replacing it with an Islamic state.

These are pretty niche groups within Orthodoxy, though, which is ~2MM globally; nearly all sects of which support the State of Israel.
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It depends on the criticism

If it's invalid criticism:

If it's from someone whose criticism matters: pursue the criticism and reach the truth through reasoning

If it's from someone who doesn't matter: ignore, make stuff

If it's valid criticism:

You learned something. You could have continued doing things the wrong way and been worse off for it.
You are in a position where someone cares enough to look at your work and take time to give you feedback.
> I mean if all it took was “keep distance and pay attention” why bother with turn signals?

Have you met BMW drivers? /s

You should be practicing defensive driving whenever you drive. It's what's taught nowadays and has been for a long while.

You should expect others to be driving at their worst. No turn signals, broken tail lights, erratic lane change, abrupt braking or acceleration, the whole shebang. Expecting the worst is the best way to ensure your own safety on the road.
I'll just leave this here on the doorstep:

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-ex...
You don't use or need missile interceptors to deal with bombers.
"Belief in heaven among the UK public has also fallen, from 57% in 1981 to 41% last year. But belief in hell and in life after death has remained largely consistent, at 26% and 46% respectively."

I guess one can believe in non dual afterlife.
Python uses BigInts, so it will go until it runs out of RAM, I believe.
My 1980 dissertation research on the scattering properties of Jupiter's upper atmosphere is in my attic, stored on a 2400 foot reel of 9-track tape, 1600 bits per inch, NRZI, if I remember right.

Maybe 40 Mbytes of data. It's archived with the write-ring removed.

Somehow, I don't think I'll try to rebuild the scattering matrix for Jovian cloud particles...
If you watch the vid, he starts out with the Ioniq's problem but then goes into discuss how their implementation actually meets the regs and therefore the regs are bad.
That has added advantage of preferring cars that are actually safer and not cars that filled some safety checkbox.
Trucks use exhaust braking because it's quicker than braking using the brakes without overheating. They can get away without brake lights only because the noise makes it obvious when trucks are exhaust or engine braking.
Scalable WebSocket servers with Python and AsyncIO
We have published our intended pricing ( https://pixian.ai/#pricing ), which is pay-as-you-go "s3-style" pricing, not subscription based.

Yes, there's a lot more than 20 competitors. Our goal is to hit an attractive point on the quality-price pareto frontier that they just can't match.

That said, marketing will definitely be a challenge ;)
IBM Baking Some Nice Optimizations to EXT4's Multi-Block Allocator
> Computers are not biological.

So what? Biology isn't magic, it's nanotech. A lot of very tiny machines. It obeys the same rules as everything else in the universe.

More than that, the theoretical foundation on which our computers are built is universal - it doesn't depend on any physical material. We've made analog computers using water flowing between buckets. We've made digital computers from pebbles falling down and bouncing around what's effectively a vertical labyrinth. We've made digital computers out of gears. We've made digital computers out of pencil, paper, and a human with lots of patience.

Hell, we can make light compute by shining it at a block of plastic with funny etching. We can really make anything compute, it's not a difficult task.

We're using electricity, silicon wafers and nanoscale lithography because it's a process that's been best for us in practice, not because it's somehow special. We can absolutely make a digital computer out of anything biological. Grow cells into structures implementing logic gates for chemical signals? Easy. Make a CPU by wiring literal neurons and nerve cells extracted from some poor animal? Sure, it can be done. At which point, would you say, such a computing tapestry made of living things gain the capability of "phenomenological experiences"? Or, conversely, what makes human brains fundamentally different from a computer we'd build out of nerve cells?
Thank you for the write up eatonphil.

I experimentally implemented Raft in Java but I am not very confident that I did it correctly.

I wish there was a way to implement stateful programs that guarantee "forward progress" and are "steady state systems". I think essentially a state machine that cannot be trapped in a state. Debugging the absence of something of forward moving progress or lack of causation is very difficult.

When there's essentially different actors in the system and they can interact with eachother by communicating, they each have a number of states they can get into. There's no guarantee that the system shall converge on a state that forward progress can be made. Maybe TLA+ is the right answer here.

YMMV but I think (my) reasoning over stateful systems is rather difficult, I think there's lots of hidden states that we cannot easily detect or reason about because they're in our blind spots. Especially related to synchronization. I think it's part of what makes multithreading and distributed systems so hard, because every component can be in a different state and if something is not where it is expected to be, the baton doesn't get passed to the correct state. If you check for something too early, you have a race condition.

If we could see in slow motion what was going on, an interaction between different actors, we could work out why something happens the way it does. But usually the logs are too numerous to get to this detail. I think animation can save us, but what does a Raft animation look like?

How often have you seen an endless spinner? It's as if a completion event was raised but didn't get detected and the system is waiting for something that shall never occur. I want this kind of error to be impossible. This is one form of hidden state that prevents progress.

I wrote an eventually consistent mesh protocol in Python and tested it with Jepsen, it is not linearizable because the consistency level is "eventually consistent".

I don't understand how Raft can scale writes or reads across multiple machines due to the round trip time talking to other nodes.
Slowing ocean current caused by melting Antarctic ice could have drastic impact
Our local parish had bad damage from a wind storm during Holy Week and has been closed ever since. The school building, which currently hosts a non-parochial school (where my kids go), is being shut down by the archdiocese at the end of the school year because the maintenance costs have grown excessive (it was a bit of a problem for the school because they only learned this in November and had assumed that they would have the lease renewed for at least one year at the end of this school year). While the pastor of the parish (which is a merger of this parish and another one about a mile away) has promised that the church will be reopened, I’m skeptical. This parish was the most moribund of the four parishes in the suburb where I live and sentiment aside (it’s where my wife and I were married and our kids baptized), it’s hard to justify keeping this parish alive (worth noting is that it’s the only one of the four that no longer had its parish school open—when they shut it down, they had around 50 students total enrolled in the school).
I'd like to suggest my new reactive JS framework called "react.js" not to be confused with reactjs.
Still too early to tell
Or just huge bargraph at back showing acceleration/deceleration of the car.
But when you have a 100 places all adding little slowdowns it can be difficult to realize.
API bug in OAuth dev tool opened websites, apps to account hijacking
Using the encryption provided by the drive seems like a terrible idea. What happens in 10 years when you want to retrieve the data and that company has gone out of business?
Of all the YouTubers out there, I wouldn't call out Technology Connections for padding their content. Sure, you can get a short summary of the useful information, but the show is about more than "short collection or facts". It's like saying "it's ridiculous that an episode of Mythbusters is half an hour, you can fit the results in a tweet!"
Yes great so let's not use any software at all on our machines! only things we can program ourselves or are open-source. what a dystopia we live in...
It's not off topic. You said:

> unlike the US they largely enjoy that right thanks to laws which are enforced

This is categorically not true.
China-linked APT targets US military comms as South China Sea tensions grow
It's not necessarily as bad as you think: https://blog.dshr.org/2022/08/optical-media-durability-updat...
The US being run by the libs at a given moment brings on the contrarian doomerism
This was an interesting point of view.
The range of opinions is huge. I got into an argument here on HN with a fellow American who argued that sidewalks are nothing but legalized trespassing. There are, in fact, many Americans who choose to live in neighborhoods without sidewalks, largely because they already drive everywhere. That said, for the past 30 years or so most new neighborhoods have included sidewalks.
Tesla is now in the insurance business. So it has a direct incentive to prevent crashes, as well as to make the car cheaper to repair.
Full disclaimer, I work on PostgresML, and I'm not a MindsDB expert.

They both do ML in the database, but we've been at least as focused on scalability for Postgres workloads as ML functionality, with our PgCat project. It's a pooler that gives us load balancing, sharding, failover etc to handle large clusters of many machines for application and inference workloads to scale horizontally.

OTOH MindsDB interconnects with just about every data source out there, which you may consider an advantage.
Sure, I suppose, but sum types (which I mention) eliminate all but Scala and Haskell from that list.
I've been dreaming for years that in some future I might be able to take an enjoyably-slow 'cruise' across Europe in such a thing.

YMMV.

- ed - for the record, the idea of going on an actual ship-based cruise does not at all appeal to me.
I don't see the difference from normal pricing, it's take it or leave it in nearly all retail contexts nowadays.
You or I can't make backups on pressed disks, but it is an interesting consideration if part of your archive consists of commercially released movies, games, music, etc. that could be stored as original Blu-Rays, DVDs or CDs.
It's a subsidiary of Mozilla. They all work at Mozilla.

It'd be like saying no Microsoft developers work on GitHub or LinkedIn. They all work for Microsoft. They're a distinct group within Mozilla/Microsoft, but they're not outside of it.
> Thank you for the summary. I understand how creators are incentivized by YouTube to produce longer content, but it is a bit ridiculous that this 30 minute video could have been 6 tweets.

This isn't even the worst example, because the additional content is at least part of the entertainment (even if not the most efficient).

Padding is par for the course among Youtubers. If you play a lot of video games, you'll notice this, because gaming news and tutorials are often done on Youtube.

There are a couple of different thresholds for algorithmic promotion and monetization - I believe 10 minutes is the biggest one - so a lot of videos are padded with filler content just to make the threshold.

You'll also see it on videos for "how to pronounce ______", because they can't monetize below a certain threshold, so they'll pad it with useless filler in order to make the video over 30s long.
No I’m not. I actually consider it a preferable outcome to the alternative which is a great powers conflict (WWIII) that would generate untold, potentially nuclear, destruction. If I found out the US did this I would breathe a sigh of relief and I’m sure I’m not the only one. So long as China thinks they have a realistic chance of dethroning the US they’ll take that chance. If the US fails to secure a Russian defeat in Ukraine that’ll only embolden China further. Ideally I’d prefer for the US to fix its own problems and retake its seat as the undisputed economic and moral arbiter of the world but I don’t think that is likely. My biggest worry is that the US believes its own missile shield hype and picks a nuclear fight that the US then loses (hint; everyone loses).
Going through this now and it's great
You develop thicker skin as you get more push back. Also don’t think your code is the best way, which comes from being open minded. If there is an asshole that really rub it in and call names, sure you let them know but mostly they won’t. In other words practice the above and you will be able to take criticism like a good team player
No, it's not common for B2B IaaS providers to randomly close accounts.
Sadly, its use in politics has shifted the term from referring to a brand of hatred to simply meaning that you do not agree with Israel's claims of victimhood.
I don't think that really changes anything, just restricts the effective criticism to that specific part that you did. Though I suppose the more it's intertwined the less it matters. I don't think anyone really cares about that one function in the company codebase that's been rewritten 20 times by different people, and far more about that part of the game they coded themselves at a gamejam.

There's always external influence, but if you're involved you obviously added something and in most cases it can be scrutinized on its own merits.
City walks are typically paid for and maintained by the property owner. Suburban sprawl means a lot of sidewalks frontage to pay for.

It's ultimately a matter of American's being silly about taxes and paying for public goods.

We go without because taxes are evil, public goods are socialism. We literally allowing our dogma to lessen our life expectancies and cap our quality of life. It's a sort of a unique American mental illness we refer to as freedom.
Why did you choose to build this on Val.town?
Yeah, they dont. Contradictorily so, since the part of the Turkey that is geographically in Europe is larger than many European states both in respect to surface area and also in respect to population.
China has legal right to hong kong, not to taiwan. Completely different situation.
It is the same problem. My main issue with how it works is that typically tokens (and cookies) are valid until they expires. You browse some service and then it can be used by anybody for hours after that. And the methods for securing JWTs are either more tokens with shorter expiration time, using sessions or token black lists. Which kinda kills the beauty about having signed tokens.
How we transform credit card transaction descriptions into API-consumable JSON
There was a clear large explosion on the ground while the Patriot was no longer intercepting. This wasn't just debris getting through.

That said, it's not necessarily due to failure to intercept that this happened - we have video of 30 interceptors being launched in rapid succession, and it's likely all 32 interceptors in the battery had been launched and expended when the final strike and explosion happened. So it's more of a successful saturation attack than an interception failure.
Fire Hits Digital Realty Facility in El Segundo, California
Israel actually does multiple levels of warning before issuing strikes against shared civilian/terrorist infrastructure including leaflets, audible warnings and so on, and only then fires a payload.

Palestine has dropped more rockets on their own people than Israel has even sent their direction.
That's Interesting (1971)
I punch a pillow. J/K.

Personally, there's nothing you can tell me that is denigrating or unflattering about me that I don't already think about myself.

I am a short, fat, brown skinned, unattractive male immigrant of average intellect.

I already beat myself up quite a bit so it makes it very easy to accept criticism from others. It also keeps me constantly trying my best because I never feel like I'm secure in my standing that I can just relax. Keeps you humble too.

But at least I saved a ton of money on my insurance by switching to Geico.
Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
What? Since when are we doing that? And also my comment says nothing aboht that.
Here's an example where NPM compatibility allowed me to use Deno where I otherwise couldn't:

I've got a personal blog that had been on Node. I wanted to port it to Deno. I ported all the server code to be Deno-idiomatic, I dropped dependencies in favor of Deno standard library functions etc, it was great.

But I needed a markdown parser with specific special features that my corpus of existing documents already used. I researched Deno-native ones, I found one or two half-baked markdown parsers but none that supported the features I needed.

So, with a little fiddling, I got the (mature, featureful) NPM markdown library I'd been using before, working directly within the Deno version of my site. Markdown in -> HTML out. Everything else is lovely pure Deno code, and this one small piece of functionality didn't become a show-stopper because the team chose to support what I needed.

I tend to be an idealist in my programming - that's why I like Deno - but the absolutism I'm seeing in this thread is bizarre. An ecosystem is a huge asset, and you don't rebuild one - especially one as vibrant as NPM - overnight. It takes time, and in that time people can stop caring about your runtime and just use another one so they can get on with their lives. Projects like Deno are beholden to network effects; if you shun the network, the project dies.
The AB patterns in the article remind me a bit of the sequences which occur in “The anti-pattern game” – a game I invented for a course I took in modal logic. The game produces sequences where no pattern repeats more than twice in a row:

● ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ○ ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ○ ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ○ ● ● ○ ● ○ ○ ● ● ○ ● ● ○⋯

I put a brief description up on it here:

https://hakon.gylterud.net/antipattern/
Some of us still have semi-intact attention spans. TC caters to that kind of audience.
Ask HN: Where to start for Fine-tuning a GPT4All model
I'm trying to fine-tune a GPT-J model from GPT4All.

Here is what I need:
1) a specialized llm that could answer specific prompts

Here is what I don't have:
1) A GPU
2) A training dataset

I understand that to fine-tune a model, I will need to generate this specific dataset. I have ideas about how generate it but I don't know in what form it should be such as column names, file extensions, etv. I know that I might need to rent GPUs from vast.ai but I don't know where this dataset should be stored and so that I could train the model remotely.

Is there a beginner's guide to crack this down? I'll be very grateful for an answer.
Hyundai/Kia will do the minimum necessary to comply with the local laws.
Really? I don't know if you wanted to really want to understand what it is or you are from the cult of anti AI.

This is just announcement for the fundraising. See its landing page for what it actually does. It has full code examples in the main section, which makes it very clear. It has many more examples throughout the landing page. Also the docs seems to be of quite good quality.
That looks fantastic! I've added it to my Google Map of museums to visit (1200 and counting).
My project had me visiting a bunch of farms. I'd interview the farmer about their antibiotic use with their sheep (specifically extra-label drug use). We'd then collect stool samples from a variety of the sheep to test for antimicrobial resistant bugs. I went to University of Guelph, but I feel like most of the farms were on the east side of Toronto.
Ask HN: Best way to find / research startups launched in US in last 12 months?
I am wondering what do you guys use to find out the startups being launched in US. Any pointers would be appreciated.
What about plugins for Appliku? I.e. I wanna add a specific monitoring service, how does it work?
I have set up auto1111 just as a hobby to make art (if it's okay to call it that) for myself.

Surprisingly (?) my convoluted setup is slowly becoming this actually useful toolkit for various tasks I sometimes need to do.
The DeviceScript project already provides a WebAssembly VM: https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/api/vm
Google Trust Services ACME API available to all users at no cost
> We've yet to hear him really explain in a coherent way why piracy will suddenly plague the global oceans just because the US Navy won't patrol as consistently.

He always explains it in very coherent terms that no other country has a navy capable of overpowering pirates on the deep sea. The fact that it's plain obvious bullshit doesn't make it incoherent.

Personally, I think it's very valuable that he puts it on every video of his. It has a very effective impact on audience selection.
> My comment was about if it's starting to exist, EU regulatation won't stop its power and influence.

it... might?

it possibly existing in the future is not a good reason to lay down and just surrender control of world governance to ChatGPT today
I stopped using GA (didn't want to bother updating) because of it. It's also unclear for me, but I assume their tracking snippet included some non-GDPR-compliant code that, by being inline, could not be solved by simply updating the contents of the remotely loaded JS file.
Thanks for clarifying, I definitely should have used "Ultra-Orthodox" then.

The extremists are usually just the loudest and the most extreme phrases get the most media coverage with usually bad context, ... which can be summed up as missinformation, I fell for.
Why is it unnecessary? Isn't the primary goal of brake lights to inform people of deceleration and the secondary goal to indicate when a vehicle is locked stationary?

Showing a speeding vehicle behind you that you've lost control and should slow down is well within the conops of brake lights.
> How is "I am not a perfect coder" really different from "I'm inherently flawed"? Being flawed just means you're not perfect.

If you believe that your coding ability is an inherent part of you, then they are not different. If you believe that your coding ability is an ever-changing attribute of you but not core to who you are, then they are very different.

If x is 5, then x + 5 and 10 are the same thing. If x is 3, then x + 5 and 10 are not the same thing.

A good question to ask is which model is more useful, or which model is more likely to lead to various outcomes you might want. "Me=my code" is pretty good for producing top coders and winning competitive situations. It also tends to produce burnout and assholes. You aren't stuck with always using one or the other, either. A lot of people start with "me=my code" when younger, then switch partially or fully to "my code=my code" later when their initial model starts leading to conflict and inefficiencies in a system larger than just one or a few developers. (Or they start finding value in non-coding pursuits.)