skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I addressed that. Take their guns and they can't shoot you.

I'm not a general. I don't know if the bombing was militarily necessary. The IDF high command thinks it was, and has proof that every bomb targeted a Hamas asset.

Israel has called again and again for civilians to leave. The vast majority did. They're not doing great but they are alive and safe, at least from Israeli attacks. International aid has been brought in over the past week.

You seem to imply there is an alternative. I explained why bolstering defense is not enough. I explained why doing nothing is not an option. I explained why this action will remove the threat, however temporarily. I agree with you that more nonviolent action is needed, after the dust settles, to achieve a more permanent peace. But for now, how do we address the immediate threat?
This page just goes into a captcha loop for me. I would have liked to read the article and see what problems they identify, and whether they distinguish between path dependence and creating a framework of knowledge that subsequent science can build on rather than starting from first principles every time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447794
Is it possible to rip off the devices and use it at your new location?
Nextcloud looks clunky but it certainly isn't heavyweight
Every time this comes up, I want to tell people they're in the lucky 10000 [1], because I get to tell them about Chaos Theory.

For a while Chaos theory was very popular. But this died down a just a little bit because who is happy with a theory that says you can't know things even in a perfectly deterministic universe? It's still a very useful and important thing to know about though.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
I saw more of the opposite - people dismissing him because of identity politics and just because he's a billionaire.

My impression was he had strict requirements because part of the design is about tradeoffs and cost and the reason this kind of thing takes forever and gets expensive is because of all of the arguing that happens during it. You end up with a design by committee and worse outcome.

I'm skeptical of the 'better designs' not having these tradeoffs.
This is the same type of logic used by police to justify civil forfeiture of cash in the USA. Drug dealers carry a lot of cash because they can't use banks, so anybody carrying a lot of cash must be a drug dealer and the cash must be illegal proceeds from drug dealing.

Not only has this logic severely damaged public trust in police, but it's been incrementally extended to seize money and property from many innocent and/or uninvolved people.

I'm not saying it will never happen, but we should not be punishing everyone for the misdeeds of the few. We should not be attributing anything to criminal activity that has not yet been proven to be criminal activity.
It's a crowded market and they are targeting planes that can replace jets for medium and longer distance. Which at least short term won't be electric. That would require breakthroughs in fuel cells that I think they are starting to conclude are a combination of expensive and impractical. And there's the whole notion that green hydrogen is more of a promise than a reality right now.

Battery electric makes a lot of sense for smaller planes and distances. But that's a very dynamic market with a lot of players and not a lot of clear added value for Rolls-Royce. Also, it's very different from their current market which is basically focused on jet engines for big planes. That stuff is just way out of their comfort zone.

IMHO, the commuter plane market will change quite dramatically in the next decade. Basically battery electric is not a drop in replacement for those planes. But instead that market will start shifting to much simpler and smaller planes that are dirt cheap to manufacture and operate. Basically the main cost is the battery and the maintenance. Add autonomous flight or at least vastly simpler operations to the mix and pilot cost goes down as well.

That enables flying with much more but smaller planes. Which in turn enables flying to and from much smaller airfields closer to where people want to go. With vtol, potentially even inside cities. Long term commuter jets (with fuel cells or sustainable fuel) won't be able to compete on cost for short hops.
Plus burnt jet fuel weighs nothing, whereas a spent battery weighs the same as a fully charged one.

It seems there needs to be a radical price difference between electrical and chemical energy before the virtues of the rocket equation are overcome for airline travel.
I just tried it locally with a 3070 and it was about 3 seconds per render. I'm far from great at this stuff and it was my first use of ComfyUI, so I don't know if that number could be improved on my setup.
Indeed. Heroku was hacked in 2022.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/heroku-admits...
Countries are now extorting American tech companies, that’s what’s really going on here.
Nice! I didn't know of this particular book and hence now have to hunt it up.
This is one of the dumbest things about GDPR and one of the reasons why the EU has a stagnant tech industry. Their own regulations choke their companies to death.
Yeah that’s just legalese to try to prevent the coming wave of lawsuits.

You make a gun and say it’s for responsible use only but sell it anyway without any checks and balances.

Which congress folks are gonna get lobbied the most for providing more immunity?
The fuel mentioned in the article — "sustainable aviation fuels, or SAF" — is biofuel I believe, not synthetic fuel.
Unfortunately the lesson some people learned from google glass was ‘be sneakier.’ Hence the design of these.
Not really comparable, is it?

This is more akin to not liking sharp rocks, but choosing to throw yourself off a cliff.

It's not like the sharp rocks at the bottom of that cliff are waiting for you as you live your life frolicking across gentle meadows. You have to choose to go and climb that cliff and throw yourself off the top of it.

No-one is forcing you to use their service.
>None of that relies on the computer having choice in the matter.

Most normally functioning people would not feel the need to punish a tool for being a bad tool. Some may find catharsis in damaging some object that has frustrated them, but usually they later recognize the absurdity of their outburst. The point is that we all generally recognize that there are legitimate and illegitimate targets for "punishment". The question is whether people are actually legitimate targets for punishment despite our intuitions on the matter.

>you can hold someone guilty of "being bad" just as easily as making "bad choices"

Sure you can; nothing is going to stop you from smashing your PC to bits next time it crashes. The issue is whether it is the all things considered correct choice.
And yet WaPo advertises on Reddit...

https://advertisers.mediaradar.com/the-washington-post-adver...

>Last ran on Reddit on 11/1/2023.
>Until a significant change in battery density, electric planes aren't going to be a thing.

There's a big caveat there though. Current aircraft engines are extremely expensive to operate and maintain, regardless of fuel costs. Even a simple GA piston engine would cost more to operate than a small commercial EV aircraft's motors. Replacing turbines with electric motors will provide cost savings that actually make small commuter flights economical again. Kerosene and jet engines aren't going anywhere for the long haul flights. But the future for electric aviation is in the sub 300 mile regional commuter market, where it's faster than a train and has the simplicity of catching a bus.

See Eviation Alice for an example: https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a41453056/eviation-e...

Today's battery tech is just barely good enough at this point to start becoming useful for these kinds of flight profiles.
Haven't tried it yet, but I'm interested to see if https://zenithmmo.com/ becomes such a game.

(VR MMORPG with good reviews, especially the mechanics, needs balancing work)
I was there. I watched Linux from the beginning, including the minix-list discussions.

The only thing Linus 'copied' (rather, modelled) was the initial directory tree layout and some of the names of the core module filenames - none of the code.

Linus was interested in MINIX, no question - and motivated to write his own kernel - but he literally did not fork MINIX.

In "History of Linux" this falsehood is addressed - and it has to be said is amazing that you are parroting even still today:

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

I challenge you to find the code, from MINIX, that Linus copied and then modified and called it Linux. This is what forking means.
"Almond milk" is referenced in the 1390 book "The Forme of Cury"
Hydrogen could be the fuel of the future. Go for the moonshot, a space elevator.
> Thanks for your comment and perspective. I wasn't aware JEOL and others had 100 kV competitors suitable for imaging biological samples under cryo conditions.

Just to be clear, I think the Tundra's market ("entry level" or about 1.5 million) is actually relatively under-served. The bad behavior is Thermo coupling their entry level microscope with a bunch of software restrictions that will prevent adversarial interoperability with other vendors, something that has not been the case in the past. Their previous entry-level line, the Tecnai Spirit 120 kV, had a full scripting package and could run SerialEM/Leginon, etc, and use Gatan or TVIPS or AMT or any other camera package.

>It sounds like the situation with EPU/SerialEM has some similarities to the situation in data processing for single-particle reconstructions with cryoSPARC vs the open academic software packages. Not just the use of open licenses for code, but decades of algorithm development and open discussion in the literature clash with the potential to use patents, closed formats, and general lack of interoperability to give a single provider an effective monopoly. Maybe simply having commercial funding for UI development and testing will be enough to drive most (new) users to the commercial platform. One positive development in this area was the recent release of software for motion correction and CTF estimation under permissive licenses (https://github.com/czimaginginstitute). However the trend, at least in PDB depositions, is decidedly in favour of closed-source commercial software.

It was nice to see MotionCor and AreTomo go open source. Generally, I'm less concerned about the reconstruction side because the file formats are pretty well standardized (despite being awful), so there's no lockout. I love RELION and EMAN2 dearly, but, particularly RELION needs to throw a FTE at a UX designer. CryoSPARC is just so much easier to use, easier to manage, easier to onboard folks. RELION really is a nightmare of complexity for new users.

You seem like you have quite a bit of experience - I'm curious what your background is?
I agree, the economy we live in is a made up one. It's basically fake. It's not based on any of the things you mentioned though. It's based on credit. I've argued against credit here on HN a few times but in hindsight it should have been obvious to me such views would not be accepted in a startup friendly forum. After all, startups are a low interest rate phenomenon.

Still, the concept of an economy is not made up at all. Economies arise naturally wherever there is scarcity and people gotta figure out who gets the limited amount of resources available. Some metric is going to be used to decide that.
Same thing for many websites in France but I didn't find any track if it being challenged in court.

I doubt EU lawmakers planned for this approach to defeat privacy laws, it's definitely against the spirit but this will need an update. In FB case if you pay they 100% still track you anyway, they've been pretty clear they don't care even if they get caught.

Another angle against FB moving to a paid access system would be they could be considered public service due to how omnipresent the service is in day to day life, but lately it's probably more true for their other services like Insta or Whatsapp.
Note that glibc has a similar problem in multithreaded contexts. It strands unused memory in thread-local pools, which grows your memory usage over time like a memory leak. We got lower memory usage that didn't grow over time by switching to jemalloc.

Example of this: https://github.com/prestodb/presto/issues/8993
An article from Forbes giving tips that are implicitly stating you should stay in an abusive relationship? I'm not surprised.

While these aren't bad tips per se, the article is sorely incomplete. Where are the tips on how to escalate? Having conversations with management (and/or peers) on why bad behavior is being enabled? Where's the tip on leaving?

My last job had a brilliant asshole. Within a year it was clear the management knew and did not want to do anything about it. Every person in the team was tolerating the poor behavior. So as soon as I wrapped up the project I was working on, I switched teams.

He continued to be a headache in that team. Finally, about 2 years later I found out that one person who had suffered significantly was thinking of quitting. I let him know that if he wanted to escalate to HR (specifically for harassment - it was getting that far out of hand), that I had kept notes of his behavior (with dates, etc) during my time there. He decided he would escalate and informed his manager. The manager said "Give me a bit of time and let me deal with this." Soon after, the asshole went on vacation and soon after that it was announced that he had decided not to return. Whether he was fired or convinced to quit - I don't know.

The real question is: Why do things have to reach the point of harassment before action is taken? If you're in that sort of org, don't stay there. It will be a magnet for such folks.

I do feel sorry for the guy. We had lots of points of connection (as per this article). I did empathize with him on many things. He actually campaigned to get me that job! He could have been a great employee if he changed his world view and behaviors a bit. But social proof was against him and there was no one he looked up to who could mentor him on his behavior.
Job losses likely at Volkswagen as the people's car brand becomes uncompetitive
1. They have very detailed guides on the hardware here [0], which should tell you a lot of information you may need to know.

2. However, I think a large part of the price tag is really the cost of R&D, and once this gets out of prototype stage and goes into mass production price is bound to come down a lot. Compared to a lot of other robots, $20K is much cheaper. For example, compare Boston Dynamic's robot dog, Spot, which is around $200K iirc.

3. But that's also why we need more projects like Dobb-E on these robots! Without the right "apps" home robots will never catch on properly to get to the point of mass-production.

[0] https://docs.hello-robot.com/0.2/stretch-hardware-guides/doc...
Yup, and those three links don't provide a clear answer against it either.

For example, the ICO link specifically states that it's OK to make a customer rewards loyalty card dependent upon tracking -- a clear exchange of allowing tracking explicitly in exchange for cash equivalents. That's still consent freely given.

A lot of the limits around consent are described with regards to employment, because there's an imbalance of power there. But that's irrelevant here.

The clearest prohibition is around "coupling", e.g. you can't make a purchase of an online grocery order contingent on sharing your data with third parties, because there's nothing "necessary" about that to fulfill the purpose.

But it seems pretty easy to make the case that tracking is "necessary" for fully effective advertising (ads without tracking perform much worse). So either subscribe for no ads (thus no tracking), or accept ads (and accept tracking). There doesn't seem to be any imbalance of power here, because you don't need to use Facebook the way you need to keep a job. Your consent is freely given, just like with a rewards card.

Although at the end of the day, the law does seems vague enough that it will be useful for a court decision to clarify it.
Ask HN: How can political bias across LLMs be factored?
Political bias is measurable and significant across models(and probably changing over time for closed-sourced). In search of objectivity, what are the best ways to account for this abstraction(s)?
This would be a less-than-an-hour hack/prototype for a competent frontend engineer, FWIW.
That's a totally bizarre definition. Having worked on a high-performance in-memory data grid for the last eight years, I can guarantee that you'll get all the fun distributed systems problems even with a single code base. That definition also excludes pretty much all famous distributed systems like most databases, messaging systems like Kafka and Rabbit etc.

What you seem to be getting at, isn't distributed systems, but the totally self-inflicted pain of a service oriented architecture
Even if free will doesnt exist, we can punish people for moral enforcement.

Morality doesnt disappear if you remove free will. You still have humans with a diverse set of values, and a diverse set of responses when confronted with decisions.

If you have values and morals, you can compete to force compliance from others, and punish deviation.
Why is hydrogen plane a joke?
Have you seen our logo? https://dobb-e.com/mfiles/logo.svg
When you can't charge over night, then standing for an hour on a charger is absurdly inconvenient. Like returning from touchscreen phone to rotary phone and screaming progress.
Adam D'Angelo, OpenAI Director Who Helped Oust Altman Now Key to OpenAI's Future
Can you explain why we should this over https://github.com/pkg/errors?
I'm generally confused by how much "ATS-friendly" matters, or what that even means.

On one side of the coin, it logically makes sense that ATS systems would help recruiters pare down the list. I'd assume there is some auto-rejection happening, but how sensitive is it (getting rid of clearly unqualified candidates vs. rejecting marginal candidates vs. actually qualified but still rejected due to not being ATS-friendly)? You here about job postings getting thousands of applicants and it seems like it would be impossible to go through those by hand.

On the other side, I see lots of posts from recruiters saying ATS's do not judge resumes and everything is done by the recruiter. These posts seem to be very skeptical of anything saying it will optimize your resume for ATS's because there is no need to actually do that.

Would love more perspective on this issue.
The db connections were poorly managed. Each query started by starting a new connection. It then checked if it failed, slept, retried, then ran. There were several queries called in loops, so the connection pool was always dry. The code spent most of it's time sleeping. Then the queries themselves were highly inefficient, bad joins, no indexes, etc. It was satisfying to fix the mess.
A cheap Chinese EV uses LFP batteries, which have a much lower fire risk than Tesla's nickel batteries. And Gasoline cars have a 10X higher risk of fire than a Tesla.
Yes, SDXL Turbo can do inference in a single step.
Send me an email to the one in my profile - I'd be happy to chat a bit. Not sure a structure is the best way to get the information you're looking for.
The battery in my 2017 work-supplied MBP exploded, and they replaced it with a 2019, which has even slower single core performance. In this economy we're not buying any new machines, just stockpiling old ones from layoffs as reserves. So I'll be stuck with Intel for the foreseeable future - assuming I have that sort of job security.
SafeTube – a focused YouTube and Vimeo video player without distracting content
One can be rich (have a lot of money) without loving money, or to the point of the gate explanation, relying on money instead of God.
>Since the late 19th century the Corps and Canadian engineers have continuously tweaked the two cataracts to balance opposing goals: harnessing power and maintaining natural beauty. Today, up to three quarters of the Niagara River runs beneath the falls on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border via massive tunnels to hydroelectric plants, rather than over the towering brinks

Didn't know that. Fascinating. Would like to see the falls before all the diversion.
When men landed first time on the Moon, the average age of engineers at Mission Control was 28 years old.
‘This principle runs through most of the AI sector today. There’s going to be a lot of value generated that just accrues to society, and isn’t captured by any private player. Which is wonderful, by the way—this is how technology becomes one of the few “free lunches” we have in society and macroeconomics.

‘There’s also going to be a lot of value generated that is simply captured by existing industry incumbents, using their market power and scale. That’s not a free lunch for society, but is also just how capitalism works and often still generates “surplus” (Econ speak for “good stuff”) for society.’

The first paragraph is also just how capitalism works, and it arguably works better than other systems at generating uncaptured value.
E-fuel is different from SAF that is described in this article. E-fuel is carbon-neutral and SAF is low-carbon (made from tallow, algae, etc).
Hmm, I am using it for years and can’t quite relate to your passionate hate.

With regards to box ticking, that is probably something you need to do if you want to compete with Gsuite and O365. Both have sales teams which are influencing some decision makers in organisations wherever they can.
If you give these people the opportunity to say ‘Ha, we can’t use Nextcloud because it does not support XYZ’ then they will. You never get fired because you bought IBM.
It is very difficult to get through this barrier. Sometimes you need to put a bit of lipstick on your pig, because others did it as well.

Plus, XYZ might be implemented half-aresed in Gsuite or O365 as well.
The unfortunate aspect of what you are positing is that we cannot capture the opportunity cost of Munger’s actions, and so therefore your argument cannot be disproved. As a corollary, I also wonder if Bill Gates’ shepherding of his personal charities is actually any better than the alternatives. Lionizing ultra-capitalists represents an opportunity lost for a more wholistic and democratic economic system. Glad you found someone to motivate you to work smarter.
Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, Crusader Kings II and III, Baldur's Gate I and II, Rimworld, Cave of Qud, angband, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Do you think Microsoft executives are somewhere asking GPT-5, or whatever nextgen LLM they have access to, what they should do next?
I think newspapers received an explicit carve out a little while back, which is where I think it's quite fair to call out the EU on a bit of hypocrisy.
Mostly agreed here. We love our EV...for short drives. For longer ones, we have an ICE minivan.
How to work with someone who:

1. you have to work with remotely, and

2. never reads your entire e-mails, only the first sentence or (if you're lucky) the first paragraph.

Any ideas?
Seems like this was a terrible waste of time for a foolish feature. A major miss for product.

Why not decide if it's generally seasons or episodes that need to be sorted above and introduce a simple tag to accomplish.

IE: Black Mirror S4 is given a promo/priority flag and any season marked promo is sorted to the top.
There is a decline in big mind blowing conceptual shifts in media, like we experienced in Star Wars after decades of Spaghetti Westerns. Social and conceptual shifts are happening in real time, out in the world now. The big media build up to change has been reduced signficantly.

Goldeneye could have been more thrilling if the trailers withheld the reveal of Alec Trevalyn as the bad guy.

1995 was a year where most people couldn't look up movie information on the internet... going into the movie theatre blind, it would have been awesome to get the secret revealed on the big screen.