skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want an example of current events as it applies to the danger of religion take a simple look at the Israel/Hamas war.

1) Hamas jihadists cultivate decades of repression of the Palestinian populace into a spectacular terrorist strike on Oct 7th.

2) Israel, an apartheid ethnostate, where Rabbis call for extermination of Palestinians in response to the Hamas strike (after decades of dehumanization), drops a nuclear payload worth of bombs on Gaza - which kills thousands of Palestinians (but only a few dozen Hamas soldiers).

3) In the US, Christianist pastors and churches back the Israeli government's push to ethnically cleanse Gaza - primarily because apocalyptic prophesy requires Jews to be in the "holy land" - all of whom are prophesied to perish.

In all of these cases, all of the involved religions make the conflict unavoidable. There were steps to peace in previous decades but religious extremists assassinated key figures to prevent peace.

This isn't exclusive to this region or these religions, of course.
Interacted with the company, as in filed a support request, bought something from them, etc.

They already have my e-mail address, likely even verified. They're also somewhat normal companies, i.e. they have an address where the local DPA can send a friendly reminder, and while they will happily pass your (likely hashed) e-mail address to Facebook for ad targeting, actual selling to spammers is incredibly rare.

I often can't just filter the domain because I might actually need to deal with the company again (if I boycotted everyone who acts like a dick I'd be living in a cave).

Also, for many, unsubscribe actually works.
It's 2023 already, everybody has moved on.
and to think, before covid fell i joked i wanted to take the train from moscow to beijing then hang out in vietnam because they let you shitpost about china...

how quickly geopolitics can change -- head of the troll factory shot out of the sky, and the foundations of geopolitics embedded in dugina's skull.
They want to be the reason why the laws are created, they don't want to have to follow them.
> Where do you see a secure path, for any computing, especially high performance?

I believe POWER9 is the only modern option that doesn't use blobs? Of course that doesn't remove the possibility of hardware backdoors (nothing does, except maybe an electron microscope and a lot of free time), but that's a higher bar.
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> It’s slowly dying in every developed country because it doesn’t make sense when logic and science are applied.

It's not just the contradictions (with science, logic, it's own doctrine) that is hurting their numbers. Almost all the Christians I know have distanced themselves from the church and are embarrassed to be associated with the faith because of the way they see other "Christians" behave. If more Christians really lived their faith they couldn't act/vote/discriminate the way that they do. I can't blame my Christian friends and family for not wanting to be associated with that.

I suspect that the number of Christians is higher than the falling numbers suggest, because many just don't want to be grouped in with the loud people who plainly act in ways that violate the basic message of the faith.
it better be described as "spiritual ascension" or "weBust" or something
For GPT-4, the Wolfram Alpha plugin is great for any maths.
Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data
In the world? That's a bit of an underestimate.
Simpler method: just go visit central and SE Oregon.

* Maybe fly in to Bend. Nearby you can go up Pine Mountain to visit the observatory in the summer. Best views of the sky I've ever had... you're up at around 2000 meters, away from the city, with clear air, usually. You can very easily see the milky way and SO many stars.

* https://traveloregon.com/plan-your-trip/destinations/lakes-r... - dark sky park near Prineville.

* Steens Mountain & Alvord Desert - https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/destinations/parks-for...
I am not very familiar with this kind of stuff either but I have read through "Beej's Guide to Network Programming" https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/split/.
Which seems like enough to implement something like OP posted.

As for db's/other interesting things, I haven't read them myself but this site seems solid https://build-your-own.org/. If anyone has any real experience with this site, I would love to hear it!
You might want to reread the first sentence of the Constitution to see who grants the government the power to do anything.
Assuming for a second that you mean for this to apply to the event under discussion.

What you are implying is that Hamas was operating as a Warring Party, and treating civilians as combatants. Ergo they aren't terrorists by their own definition. Laws being subjective, selectively applied, and therefore meaningless in these situations.

Have it your way. Now Hamas has War. Moreover, it has insisted that civilains are combatants.

Lucky for the Palestinians, Israel is more moral than Hamas and will not operate in the same manner.

Frankly, counter to the apparent interests here of those here who are so offended by the terrorist label, Israel operating solely under terrorism law to bring Hamas to justice probably would have been better for the Palestinians. Though impossible.

But it's obvious that the actual motive here is to try to thread the impossible logic needle that says that Hamas should be left alone after 10/7 because of reasons. Which is a crazy fantasy.
Nah. There will be many survivors, even in the worst case.

Realistically, nuclear war is not an extinction threat. For that, you need heavier stuff like antimatter missiles or engineered pandemics.
People rightly disapprove of the AMD and Intel blobs and do what they can to disable or remove them, but at least those have stable interfaces that don't decay when there is a new kernel version. Basically every x86_64 processor ever made can run the latest version of the Linux kernel. Would that it were for Qualcomm.
> My reaction there is to remove the reporter from all lists because the amount of damage a single spam report can do is immense

Sounds like it's working as intended.
There is a third approach besides "lambdalith" and "one lambda per route", it's making one lambda for a group of routes, for example you could group them by first segment of their path (all routes starting with /users/* in one lambda, all /orders/* in another, etc). Then, inside the lambda handler, you can use a routing library to select the right method.

This worked for us because it mitigated the shortcomings of the other two approaches for example:

- lambdalith: very long build times and long deploy times (due to the high number of lambdas)

- one lambda per route: lack of permission granularity (as opposed to creating different IAM roles for different lambdas); lack of granularity for memory/cores configuration means you are missing out on cost optimisation; also, as the API grows, it soon becomes necessary to adopt some framework like Express or Fastify to keep things tidy.

EDIT: reworded last paragraph for clarity.
> Some of those I understand enough to conclude they are wrong.

Sounds like you may be justifying your conclusions instead of the other way around.
Around the time re3 got public interest.
Sorry to pour cold dihydrogen monoxide on their press release birthday cake: It's not sequestration, so it's not all that useful. Take all the process losses to use the inputs as electricity directly, be it charging EV batteries or directly with mass transit motors.
I think it's fairly clear Wei is right, given that the paper cited earlier really doesn't make the case that emergence isn't happening, it only makes the case that other measures exist by which improvement is linear, and thus not ALL metrics have emergent growth.

As an aside, Wei's point at the end of that post about what happens with CoT's effectiveness at different model sizes is particularly brilliant.
I only exist as an educated person who can make a middle class income and live a normal life because of public education. My single mother is an experienced and gifted teacher, but would not have had the time to educate me. We could never have afforded to send me to any private school.

My only chance for a normal life and education was public school.

A huge amount of americans are poor in time and money. The only option their children have is public school. Their future is entirely dependent on a public that is willing to invest in them so that they even have a future, one that isn't just "wage slave at walmart". Sure, it often doesn't work out, it's a struggling system that has been abused and ignored for decades, and it fails millions every year.

You know what doesn't help any of those millions of kids? All the wealthy families sending their kids to private schools or homeschooling and removing their property taxes from the public school system. Society will not be a better place for your kids if they are individually 10% better but 10% of the children born in the US basically have no access to education.

The advocation of "School choice" as conservatives are currently selling it is about taking away the chance I had at a middle class life. It's about saving a few thousand dollars for already privileged individuals at the expense of swathes of people like me who were at least average intelligence who had the audacity to be born to a poor mother.

If you think public schooling in america is deficient, then let us fix it.
Racially fair pupil measurements for smartphone cameras in the far red spectrum
Not necessarily. For me it’s a subset of “answer it yourself”: it’s a way of asking myself “what is my potential? What was I put here for? If I had a perfect parent, what would they expect of me?”
Hidden or not it still is one.
Not sure of your logic.

What I'm saying is not that I haven't read her work and made my own opinion on it. As a matter of fact, I have done so and I consider several elements of her reasoning as being pseudo-science (yeah, I know, you will say "then you did not understand", what a surprise).

But of course, if I say "I have read her and consider she does pseudo-science", you can answer "then you are just politically biased: you say it is pseudo-science because you ideologically don't like the truth she is telling" and we are not moving at all.

So, to avoid this impasse, my argument is rather: "you say 1) she never does pseudo-science, 2) her work is very rigorous, BUT even a bunch of people who are ideologically agreeing with her are saying that number 2 is incorrect".

My point is that, based on the fact that you demonstrably twist the reality on point number 2, I cannot really trust you, and you appear as being the one biased. If you are the one biased, of course you will say that she never does pseudo-science. If you are biased, I cannot trust you to present the robustness of her work realistically.

It does not mean it is the proof she is doing pseudo-science. The reason I think she is doing pseudo-science is because I have read her work.

Finally, I would like to point out that the "every critics can only be liars, you have to read by yourself" is itself is a big red flag.

In a normal, pro-intellectual world, an author will never say "you have read what my colleagues said about me, but this is worth nothing, you absolutely need to read yourself directly my work, every discussion about my work is somehow wrong" (this idea is obviously very stupid when one realises that the people that the author says don't know what they are talking about are people who read themselves directly the author's work in the first place). In a normal, pro-intellectual world, the best analysis of someone work is a mix of the author's work AND what other people think about it. Authors will be welcoming analysis of their work, because their work is of good quality, so these analyses have no reason to misrepresent the work.

As I was saying in my first comment: the majority of the people are "neutral", they don't have any reason to go in a crazy fantasy that she is pseudo-scientific just for fun. The fact that she has a bad reputation is not due to fringe extremists, it is due to the fact that the majority of neutral people sees how she behaves and what she says. So far, people who are judging that the robustness of her work is really good always end up, what a strange coincidence, also agreeing with her on her opinion. If her work is robust, people who disagree with her will recognize that her work is robust. But here, it is the opposite, even some of people who agree with her opinion admit that her work is not that robust.
Being a part of a technology wave and having strong intuitions about it, yet not being able to fully realize your vision due to opportunity gaps and limitations in advanced programming expertise, can be extremely frustrating. This sums up my sentiments regarding the recent developments in LLM.
After experimenting with Langchain and Llama-index, I quickly realized they were suitable for quick prototyping but not for production. They were highly opinionated about certain methods, such as RAG and agents, which reduced flexibility when working on a custom full-stack application.
It's the distinction between something that requires personal consent: my own decision to be charitable — and something that doesn't: my obligations. If I owe you money, you can use force to get it. You can't use force me to be charitable.
Couldn't this easily be solved with a WW3 prediction market? Why try to find proxies for such an event when one could speculate on the outcome directly? It's simply a more efficient market.
Think of the trust fund children.
Until a government organization or close enough public need arises where a new loophole would be created PDQ? Also "close all the loopholes" has a ridiculously poor record in law. On the one hand, people with no incentives, on the other people whose entire line of work is to extract the maximum result of whatever the law happens to be.
All of Jet Lag The Game and DankPods are shot on iPhone and they look fine. It doesn’t look like some ultra high quality movie production but they also don’t stand out particularly looking bad, it’s completely fine for the content m
Non-paywall version:

https://archive.is/RG2Mg
For a company yeah, I would definitely consider the ccTLD. As an individual, not so much
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of investing.
Getting it to not output additional text is not something that it can do super well at the moment, unfortunately. We'll work on that.
At least in my country the homeschooling is ballooning as parents don't want the LGBT stuff and DQST forced on their kids but also don't want to be accussed of being a bigot when they raise issue with it.
Well the CSS transition wouldn't run at 60 fps, it would run at 120 fps, no?

An animation that looks slick at 120 fps might look too fast/slow/complex/whatever on a common 60 hz screen. So if I was still doing this sort of development, I'd prefer to be working on a 60 hz monitor.
> NY Times can't block you from buying their newspaper

This is not true, beyond discrimination against protected classes. The New York Times is a non-governmental business. The First Amendment freedom of association is freedom to do business with anyone, or refuse business to anyone. A newspaper company can ban whoever and refuse to sell to whoever, so long as no government or government official coerces the company to do so.

> One wrongthink on twitter can get you banned from there

As a non-governmental company, Twitter has a First Amendment freedom of association. Twitter can legally ban you (not saying should ban you) from viewing a government's posts so long as no government or government official coerces Twitter to do so.

The government official should mirror the contents of their social media posts on a freely accessible government website. I would favor a new law requiring mirroring and archival in this vein.
There is one case where differentiating makes sense: Sometimes users sign up for newsletters, want the newsletters, would re-confirm if asked... and later change their mind and no longer want those newsletters. Here, marking as spam is unreasonable.

In most other cases (e.g. newsletters sent based on a tiny pre-checked checkbox or without asking for consent), the spam button is of course the right tool.
Businesses ostensibly buy them "to get work done on them" but they actually tend to do so regardless of the work, and they're often truly awful day to day form factors loaded with so much crap software that getting work done on them could be considered lucky. Everything has tradeoffs; rapid serviceability, good deals, and high specs, are all useful traits, but if they come at the cost of introducing friction between the operator and the task, then that's usually ignored by business. Sometimes that's a great tradeoff and no friction is introduced, but that's rarely part of the consideration in a top-down hierarchy where purchasing decisions are made by some other department en-masse.

There is some threshold of computational demand and cost past which the specs dominate other factors, but before that I personally consider friction in various circumstances to be a higher priority.
Uh, oh. Bought and/or stupid politicians will want to make LLMs that are not centrally controlled illegal.
First, you offer technical solutions (pipelines, branching...)..
The cost of having multiple teams branching and merging the same code base can be significant. It's often not as easy as you make it sound.
Is it a right or left fold?

If left, then tail call optimization would really help performance.
> No, it isn't, it's about basic facts: poverty kills people.

Either you misunderstood me, or that's bad faith. I said that we need sobriety: we need to stop consuming too much energy (and increasing the rate at which we consume it).

I also said that if we don't get our act together and control the transition to a world without fossil fuels (and hence with less energy), then it won't be sobriety, it will be poverty. Obviously, nobody wants poverty, and I know we do agree on that. Don't make me say what I haven't.

Now the thing is that you seem to vastly underestimate the power of fossil fuels and the difficulty of nuclear power. Do you even know how one would "reverse the chemical reaction that takes place when fuels are burned"? Sounds to me like you don't have much knowledge in chemistry, do you. Note that I am not a chemist myself, I just had a specialization in environmental chemistry at university. But what's for sure is that reversing a chemical process is not always easy, and this one surely isn't.

You can't just throw ideas out there about "reversing chemical reactions" without having a clue how much energy it takes to do that. Energy is not infinite, it's not that hard to grasp, is it?
>This is a money grab

Found the person who hasn’t been tormented by a player with chronus

DRM is bad though. The cognitive dissonance on this one shall be the tipping point
It’s not the dopamine, it’s the GABA that the dopamine releases that they are really craving.

People don’t get addicted to dopamine, they get addicted to GABA.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23034651/#:~:text=GABA%20is%....
Taking stock of the connected devices and software that I am familiar with, I'd say there is a strong correlation between detailed user tracking and worse UX. It seems weird at first glance but I think there are some solid explanations for why that might be.

Data analysis is difficult to perform and understand well. It is easy to draw mistaken conclusions or to twist results to show the conclusion a person wants, and using detailed numbers can lead to a false sense of confidence in the results.

Companies are first and foremost optimizing for their benefit, not the user. Detailed tracking can uncover interesting ways for a company to make more money at the expense of the user.
As an interested adult wanting to join the sex industry, I am exploring avenues. Personal research into the mechanics of OnlyFans took about two weeks to figure out. It’s a curious system with several, very significant positives - only to be drowned by the bad actors abusing legitimate tools thet honest creators barely engage with.

The full report is coming via my Medium page but this is to raise the profile and find avenues of interest to detail or further consider.

Y’all are my intended audience.
Robert Garner is writing a book on the history of Ethernet; I'm leaving those historical details to him :-)
What about weight-sensitive applications like aviation and shipping?
> Your city and neighbors don’t want to be responsible for or have to deal with your house falling down because it was improperly constructed.

Why on earth would the city or the neighbors be "responsible" for that?
There is no objective way to measure most of the above. Cannibals really did exist - not in large numbers. People really did sacrifice their kids to the gods. I'm willing to state both of the above are wrong.

Note that I didn't state everything on my list is wrong.
> However, you cannot its ignore downside either. The same culture promotes fear of the “other” ie different religion, different ethnicity / race, different political ideology, et al.

That has nothing to do with religion. These are facets of human nature which find a way to express themselves in all societies regardless of religion.
Can't you do most of what scrub would do with something like:

find . -xdev -print0|xargs -0 cat > /dev/null

(ideally replacing cat with something that continues after errors)
It's even worse; many cities have opted for blue, narrow-band LED street lighting in recent years which is actually missing so much from the color spectrum that your vision operates worse within the lit areas, and it gets harder to detect boundaries between objects and motion. Not to mention it screws with peoples' circadian rhythms.

What we have is a situation where our city, state and federal governments know jack shit about the science behind proper lighting or why it's so important for both people and wildlife to get high-quality, whole-spectrum, 10-25KHz+ PWM lighting.

And contractors take advantage of this, charging exorbitant amounts of money for intentionally sub-par lighting systems. It's a crime against both nature and humanity.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-streetlights-are-giving-neighb...
Do they own a lot of buildings? I thought most of them were long-term leases. Their balance sheet only lists $3 Billion of property assets and equipment [1]; that's not that much office space in the tech capitals of the world.

[1] https://investors.wework.com/news-and-events/press-releases/...
It depends on the co-op. Some meet every day, in which case yes it's effectively a private school. My kids used to attend a co-op that met once a week for hands-on, group learning activities. The rest of the time, they were doing their course work at home.
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Dumb, uninformed question here, but are there not some sort of For Sale By Owner systems that cut into the huge percents in closing costs? Or is the issue that you have to pay the buyers' realtor fees too and that's unavoidable?

I'm trying to figure out why nobody's figured out "DIY MLS listing as a service without having to pay for a realtor". Maybe everyone who does this just gets a realtor's license or something.
Sigh. The PR department of universities are about selling IP, getting grant$ to fund their toys, and sometimes attracting PI's and students to do the work based on the university's reputation.
One of the biggest, most important roles of public schools is to pry children away from their parents and give them baseline floor of education and independence (as well as force them to interact with the public, giving them context for what's normal and presenting opportunities for abuse to be discovered), no matter how crazy or abusive their parents are. The education can be pretty mediocre, as long as it achieves this goal.

Letting parents opt out of public schools means that the most committed abusers get to sidestep this safety valve.