skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only high neutron low residual radiation would make sense, the risk is of longterm harm to their own state with radioactivity. This is "kill living things, leave buildings alone, mostly"

The bombs exist as a threat to keep other actors at bay. They have limited use in close proximity to what the user seeks to defend.

Look at the shape of the Gaza strip. There's little or no directional control to the yield, so how do you use a nuclear device effectively against the Gaza strip without damaging your own nation, if you are Israel?

Low yield weapons wouldn't deliver enough upside benefit. You can achieve the same outcomes with fuel air explosives.

They're a strategic weapon. This isn't a strategic opportunity which improves by using them.
Kind of feels like throwing out the baby with the bath water doesn’t it?
The California govt is literally suing Cisco for caste based discrimination. They clearly don’t think it’s legal.
I thought they can also sometimes identify via last name?
My issue with your statement is that you're pretending that this was a recent issue. This hasn't been an issue in over half a decade. Do we point out bugs in libraries from 6 years ago? Are we critical about what other languages looked like then? In my experience, Java is the only one that gets this criticism.
I think you're being too generous.

People used to talk about rules against commercial use, netiquette about Usenet posting, etc. And we knew why.

When along comes someone who doesn't care. That person isn't "shaping", like some influential philosopher, visionary, or noteworthy historical figure.

That person just happened to be the first total piece of fecal matter to come along, and do the obvious thing that everyone said was obvious, and with obvious outcomes.
> They all want ratings yes, but some of them try to get ratings by appealing to people who are smart, who value information over grief-mongering. Who value...

Not being divisive or confrontational but...serious question...which networks or are the "some" who have a higher bar?
r/combatfootage mods are very strained right now
Redundancies are not usually accepted into law, as a matter of jurisprudence.
Having roommates, or renting a room in someone's house, or living as a boarder, was not that uncommon in years past, especially if you were single. I'm not sure how common this still is, but I agree it seems that expectations for housing have risen.
Is not: "We will turn Gaza into a deserted island." Indeed, the corresponding part of the quote as Barron's has it is consistent with Politico's version, not with Al Jazeera's: "All the places in which Hamas is based, in this city of evil, all the places Hamas is hiding in, acting from -- we'll turn them into rubble."
I started writing software as a child, in the eighties. I only had access to various forms of BASIC and machine code. I switched to C in the early nineties, when I got access to Turbo C in middle school. Later, I got access to Minix, BSD, and Linux. I turned out fine.

I'm a fan of Dijkstra, but it's best to take his opinions with an appropriate dose of salt. He liked to be provocative.
My wife is South Indian, and her dad is a very proud Brahmin (I think that's the highest on the pole). He has mentioned it at least once or twice at some point when I was around him. We do not know if he discriminates anyone based on their caste or not, but he is a hardcore traditionalist.

(I realize this is an anecdote and it doesn't speak for anyone else).
That appears to cover consumers, but doesn’t cover employees. Is there another law that also refers to ancestry that applies in the employment context?
> it’s difficult to draw the line between interventions that prevent conflict and interventions that stir it up. Was the Vietnam War a U.S. attempt to halt a North Vietnamese takeover of South Vietnam, or was it the U.S. intervening in an internal South Vietnamese civil war? The answer depends on your point of view.

Why does anyone pay any attention to this blathering?
The thing I picked up from this is that it’s fine to have very short notes. The false starts with my engineering journal are, I think, partly because I write it like documentation. I should just write terse bullets. If I badly need to know more detail, that bullet and date is likely enough to excavate some commits.
My favorite Roman graffiti is “he who does not believe in Venus should gaze at my girlfriend.”
From what I’ve seen so far the purpose is to test structured thinking, not really domain knowledge, tho that is a part of it. I’m interviewing for a position leading a payments team - I wouldn’t expect a problem related to social media

Seems like the case study is supposed to evaluate:

1. How does the candidate react to the problem
2. How do they identify “success metrics”
3. How well do they seek guidance from leadership
4. How do they go about poking at the problem
5. How do they go about constructing and validating a potential solution

I’m pretty early in my prep, so take this with a grain of salt.

For context. My background is engineering with a few yeo as TPM, the position is to lead a technical internal product with many technical challenges that may as well be considered product features
The version of BASIC I learned (Applesoft) had little support for functions and no concept of scoping. Every variable was global. GOSUB acted a little like a function, but barely (no function parameters, and without variable scoping a parameter is meaningless anyway). Without these features, it was very hard to write a program of any size without it becoming a mess. I wouldn't go so far as to say BASIC breaks your brain, but it is almost antithetical to structured programming, and eventually you need to learn structured programming if you plan to write maintainable code.

There is also an argument against learning programming with languages that have no concept of a heap. I agree that a C pointer is a weird thing at first, and some people never get it. But I've softened my stance over the years. People can be productive coders without being bit twiddlers.
What would cover discrimination based on religion if religion was not in that list?

The argument here is that ancestry already covers caste so it’s unnecessary.

Adding caste, assuming Newsom’s argument is correct, would then be the equivalent of adding religious denomination because an Evangelical Christian is concerned a Catholic is discriminating against them.

And most likely that would never even see the light of day because people would reasonably argue that’s already covered under discrimination based on religion.
Pretty sure this is privacy related. Just enable more verbose logging to see all your personal details in said logs again.
The syntax is different and I don't remember who compiles the binaries, but as a primarily Windows sysadmin, tcping is literally the first thing I put in my %PATH% on a new jumpbox; even ahead of dig, believe it or not.

(After that it's Russinovich's sysinternala suite.)
Caste discrimination is not limited to the Indian population. As a matter of fact, ancestral caste is not a concept introduced by Hinduism or Indian culture (look up "varna", which is native to Hinduism and is not necessarily assigned by ancestry).

The word "caste" itself derives from the Portuguese words "casta".
I am hoping that this type of research leads into ways to create highly tuned and steerable models that are also much smaller and more efficient.

Because if you can see what each part is doing, then theoretically you can find ways to create just the set of features you want. Or maybe tune features that have redundant capacity or something.

Maybe by studying the features they will get to the point where the knowledge can be distilled into something more like a very rich and finely defined knowledge graph.
Not Indian, but from observation in America, Indians get weirdly interested in specific information about the other party's hometown and family when making workplace introductions. It only happens between Indians and the same questions have never been asked of me.

I assume this is how all the caste stuff surfaces.
there are many videos of Netanyahu speach today, including afp youtube channel, I couldn't locate this phrase.
So much better.

It's from a time when Democrats were casting doubt on the "Trump Vaccine" to advance their political agenda, only to do an about face once Biden was President.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZnmbGPzR0
I don't understand. There are plenty of legal ways to get heavy psychedelic drugs. Why wouldn't they just legalize them all?
Affiliate links break that entire model.
And if fish could fly they’d be called birds. What about until then?
Regardless of the merits of this law, your take is very simplistic. All laws are trade-offs and they achieve their purposes imperfectly and with side effects. Not to mention the administration of the law (the justice system) is far from perfect.

Just to give a perhaps contrived example based on what the GP said. We can imagine that companies start worrying about the caste of their employees (or just if they're indians) when they otherwise wouldn't, and constrain their actions lest they be exposed to higher legal jeopardy down the line.
That was an awesome read. Would love to see a similar breakdown of the (even older) Norden bombsight [0].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight
Good question. See my earlier comment.
Debugging my daughter's broken e-reader
I quite like Mosalingua: https://www.mosalingua.com/en/

Much more focused on vocabulary, and learning things that you will use in daily life. And less gamification as well.
> The law would literally prohibit everyone from discriminating on the basis of caste. There's nothing arguable or debatable about that.

I'm not debating the literal law, I'm debating the effects of the law. Harsher sentencing for crack cocaine literally applied to everyone of all races. But... yeah, it was done that way to target Black offenders, sentencing them more harshly for a couple rocks than White stock brokers got for a kilo of powder.

Just because a law technically applies to all, doesn't mean it does so in practice.

This law does target Hindus. They may have a pervasive problem, but I'd prefer the solutions to be neutral to nationality or religion, like the ones we have now. Step up enforcement of existing laws so you can deal not only with caste-ism, but also sectarian strife among other groups. Shia or Sunni, Catholic or Protestant, Orthodox or Reformed, etc.
I feel like the designers of this would feel the same way about the current solution involving sand that has been imbued with the ability to think.

We take for granted the abstractions and mental models/tools we have to manage the complexity of the current paradigm. No doubt, the engineers who created this had their own structures for understanding the complexity at work here.
f2d does seem like float-to-decimal (edit, typo). My brain is off for the evening but might that part have a misplaced parenthesis? They f2d() the random number but then multiply it by the higher-precision expression (previous day's volume / 1 billion), which will give 8 numbers after the decimal in USD as in the tweet they posted. Still, it's fewer digits than without the call I suppose.
FEHA covers this. Between the two, consumers and employees are already protected.
What is this guy’s background? He seems to act like an expert and speak authoritatively on literally every single subject.
You didn’t miss anything, and Apple continues to be committed to Swift for development on Apple platforms for the foreseeable future
Doom Emacs is minimal. You can configure it in pretty much the same way as vanilla Emacs without it getting in the way. I never felt my configuration was harder to maintain because of Doom. There are also modules you can enable that brings in a lot of packages, but they're purely optional. Personally, I find those modules to be sane and helpful.

Also, adding evil mode won't address half of my requirements for a baseline Emacs experience. There are performance optimizations in Doom that I wouldn't otherwise have known to put in my own configuration. I'm grateful there are people who are taking care of such details for users like me.

Normally, I avoid configuration frameworks. I don't use them in tmux, vim, or zsh. But Doom was the first configuration framework that I enjoyed using.
Seriously?

I don't think there is anyone that insane even in Israel that would nuke a bunch of folks with AK 47's on Mopeds and Toyota trucks. What would that even accomplish, you would lose any support you have from the entire world.

Although Israel does not have a decent army, they are considered powerful because they have only fought poorly armed opponents and civilians for the last few decades. They have not been tested in many decades. A true test would be fighting Egypt or possibly Iran , a country with 1000's of tanks, artillery , ballistic missiles, etc. Like Ukraine is fighting now. Maybe then if you were going to lose and cease to exist there would be a possibility of using a Nuclear bomb.
Kinda like a digital approach to the goals of Harvard's Glass Flowers collection?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Flowers

https://huh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
"You'd need a perfectly recorded chain of history of the dig."

Yeah, but how do you perfectly proof in the first place, that it is really you asking those questions and not a implanted computerchip in your brain, or that you ain't living in a matrix? (Or me)

The philosophical answer is, you cannot.

But you can indeed donate to research, that they can hire more people, to check integrity in various ways, because generally, they are very low on funds. So yes, making fraud is an easy way to get reputation - but exposing fraud is as well, so personally I do trust them in this case until proofen otherwise. Because I see no indication of fraud here, do you?
More flexible than Windows isn't exactly a compliment.
Aisha Wahab is an first-term Sen and an Afghan Muslim. So, one of the things that has always bothered me is if this was driven by some kind of Hindu-phobia or other agenda.

Obviously it can be argued that she was championing a cause dear to some of her ethic Indian constituents, but still.

I think it’d be similarly odd if a first term Hindu Sen were to champion the cause of Shia/Sunni discrimination, or the discrimination against Ahmadia Muslims or Orthodox Jews or whatever. All of which are already covered under existing laws.
Okay.

Where do you expect US generals to get jobs?

Foreign militaries?

McDonald's?

Blackwater?

I understand the military-industrial complex, I just don't know if senior military officer job selection is really the thing to be surprised about or get upset over.
from my experience IT people normally worship windows for some bizarre reason, which imo is a joke of an OS compared to the other two
Neuralink implant ruptured monkey's brain
Fine-tuning Llama 2 70B using PyTorch FSDP
If you wanted to save lives, you would focus on the low hanging fruit in the 43K deaths per year, not the 2.5 deaths per year. You could save 5 times more lives by banning all vending machines in the US or by making them safer when they fall than by banning AutoPilot, since they directly kill about 13 people a year by falling on them.

That's not even counting the number of lives potentially saved by AutoPilot because human drivers cause 43K/deaths a year.
Good old-fashioned PhotoShopping an image will be a lost art some day.
This is an up to date discussion of useful techniques for training large models.
this was dismissed for lack of any evidence.

https://theprint.in/opinion/dismissal-of-cisco-case-proves-e...
> chances are 99% of Mac owners have never opened system logs.

Because on a Mac it's not necessary in 99% cases
Not sure why you are downvoted, because this is spot on. You can tell many people on HN nave never worked in an enterprise environment. As a developer I would love to have a Linux laptop, but a Mac is as close as I can get. Companies do not have the resources or wherewithal to manage and secure 3 or more disparate desktop platforms.
You have just confirmed my point.

There is no EU country that has a Council like that. Heads of state very often don't represent the majority of a country.
No, it is not.

If I propose adding "don't be sneaky little hobbitses" to the MIT license and people don't want to add it, is it evidence that we have sneaky Hobbits infiltrating the software developer community?

Or something more serious, people who are against the PATRIOT Act are evidence that we need the laws and they are not patriots, anyway? Is it the level of discourse we want?

You take what's in the bill at face value and believe it has only positive effects, and don't even consider why others might be against it.

NYT mentions that the bill "would make South Asians (...) more vulnerable to unfair accusations of discrimination."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/us/south-asians-are-divid...

My attempt to understand their argument: imagine you are from India, living your life, conducting interviews, working to the best of your abilities, then someone sues you, alleging that you only didn't hire him, because of his cast. Now, you'll spend months if not years trying to prove that you didn't, while people around you will believe the accusations and start treating you like a casteist bigot. Then, as this gets more and more common, companies stop hiring people from South Asia because they don't want to deal with this.

Now, is this true or is it their only argument against it? I don't know, but you can see how people could be against it for other reasons than "oh I want to discriminate so hard and this bill won't let me".
I learned Dartmouth BASIC on a timeshare in 1981. Variable names are single letter, or a letter and a digit. All variables are global. No function headers. Branching by GOTO. It means that modularity and structure are virtually impossible.

It practically forced you to write obfuscated code, and programs larger than a few dozen lines become exponentially harder to manage. Imagine the worst code you've ever seen.

People who got good at coding in this way tended to develop mental habits that had to be un-learned when they moved to a more advanced language such as Pascal, as I did. With that said, beginners in any "scripting" language can evolve in the same way, if not taught some better habits. I've seen some Python programs that were as bad as my BASIC programs.
I sort of suspected to be something along those lines but, wow… that is unfortunate.
Texas Grid Operator Gave Bitcoin Miner Millions to Cut Summertime Power Use
This might be a dumb question, but is it possible to take something like WASM and make it run on HVM?
That was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Port_Service_Multiplexer
https://nitter.net/Osinttechnical/status/1710794984322916572

> The IDF has issued specific instructions for residents in 7 areas of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to predetermined points. Targeted text messages are also outgoing.
"Everything requires this" does not mean "this is always available"!
you guys should do erlang/ (or a elixir) pretty simple functional languages that already have a lot of ergonomics around concurrency and parallelism! that would be awesome :)
I don't think this is very good logic. I'm not South Asian, but I can understand not wanting to be subjected to the judgements of a majority who neither knows or cares about the nuances of my culture, yet has to judge me through the lens of that culture.

The amount of times in these and other threads where people just try to explain the culture by simply analogizing to American history (X are the [Black|Mexican|Jewish] people of India) is ridiculous. America is not a macrocosm for the rest of the world.
When your fridge breaks, you don't look at the logs and try to diagnose it yourself, you take it to a repair shop.

Well... Won't the repair person want to look at the logs??
Updated Debian 11: 11.8 released
Clearly he’s running for President. And if you get behind Weiner’s policies it’s a guarantee you’ll lose since he’s a toxic person to most of the country.
He briefly taught economics, but had apparently set his sights on being an economics "commentator and pundit" (seems redundant) long before when he entered grad school. Like most economics bloggers/columnists, he seems to consider himself an expert on absolutely everything. Tiresome it might be, but perhaps HN isn't the best place from which to throw stones. ;)
Updated Debian 12: 12.2 released
Yes that is the goal, but I'm not familiar enough with it to judge the complexity of such project. I do know GHCJS demanded tons of resource and efforts, so I do anticipate it will not be a simple task. That's why I want to support simpler languages like Elm and a Python-like language first...
> Is it just the meddling, superiority complex, and halting of technological advance?

For the most part it wasn't much more deep than that, although one more subtle point was that there were also a lot of comparisons between the chaotic and unstable climate of Trisolaris due to its multiple suns and the perceived political / cultural disorder and division in the US, in contrast to the stable climate of Earth.
Let’s also not forget that congressmen/women also work for consulting/law firms afterwards. Chris Dodd is an example I can think of top of my head.

Point is - it’s common for people in public service to get gigs in private sector after their stint
do erlang! (or elixir!) instead of python :)
If they are being paid a generous pension, I can’t see why it’s unreasonable we expect them to simply be retired.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know)

Because you can get Windows to never drop thumbs.dbs without much hassle.
CA is already psychedelic.
That's definitely an aspect that got worse during these 20 years though, and Apple has no incentives to reverse the trend. If anything, there C* suite explicitly advocates for a more iOS like model all across the board.

Parent's comparison point was linux, but I'd argue current macos isn't that far from current windows.
>Please do try to avoid the bending of words, intentional or otherwise.

Ironic considering that the original claim was:

>Many climate scientists sounding the alarm get attacked and silenced (and activists get killed!)

But the source you provide only mentions "environmental and land defense activists".
I’m more surprised that 80%+ of generals feel they need to work after their discharge.

The presumption that employing former generals impacts the military spending budgets is, if true, a failure of the legislature and the budgetary councils, not these former government employees moving onto private sector jobs.
> their systems

It’s my system.
what product? AWS mostly sell services and Bedrock makes sense as an API
>You're begging the question. Polyamory doesn't imply instability any more than monogomy does. I know people who have been in decades-long poly relationship.

It’s doesn’t logically imply it. But statistically they are much more unstable. There’s studies that show 90+% of open marriages end in divorce.
This is like complaining that someone like Vint Cerf or Guido von Rossum isn't quitting technology to go to law school. When you have 30-40 years of experience up to literally the executive or C-suite level in a field, your best bet in your 50s is to stay in that field. And for General Officers or Flag Officers, that field is the defense sector.

Sure, it's always needed to have ethics safeguards when people involved in contracting switch jobs, but domain expertise is a thing that's valued. And as much as it's an uncomfortable truth for some people on the internet, working in defense is not a dishonorable career. And while corruption in the so-called "military-industrial complex" exists, based on my 20 years in uniform, I'm not sure it's worse than in other sectors of the economy.