skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like nobody knows how to build things anymore.

The Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Germans, etc might disagree. There's a lot of people out there who seem to be able to build very high quality things fairly quickly. It seems like it's the Americans that are struggling. We have for a long time, actually.

I would argue we just have a shitty building culture. We chase trends, cheap out on materials and salaries, overcharge for services, ignore maintenance, and shun process. We're way more interested in the shiny and shooting by the hip than the boring careful measurement. Growth is more important than quality to us. Greed and the new are our gods. HN is the pulpit. Laziness is the ladder on which we climb toward the heavens, ignorance our fuel. Watch this, I'm going to reinvent the wheel! We won't be able to roll on it but we can sell it for a bundle before it collapses.

It doesn't seem this way because we have so much money keeping us afloat. Like Google, the company renowned for its tech culture, but really makes most of its money selling eyeballs to Nike and Kraft.
Suggestion when quoting: put two spaces in front of each paragraph - turns it into monospace and looks a bit like a pullquote e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439315
TIL, I actually didn't realize that. I stand corrected.
LOL @ "functionally copied" it. Are you trying to claim the idea as an original invention?

The MIT license is for the code artifact; if you want to control the IDEA you'd need much stronger measures like a patent.
Thanks for sharing this, and for explaining his contributions to those of us who didn't know him! RIP.
That just means that doctors need to handle fewer patients.
Another good trick is to label each outlet and light switch with the number of the circuit breaker its connected to. Things such as a big label on the valve: "MAIN WATER CUTOFF" are also a good idea.

Centralized documentation is great, but who reads manuals?
Do these layoffs include any of the C-suite / execs / upper management?

You know, the people directly responsible for the company's situation? Accountability? No?
Lots of surrounding countries have experience with "temporary" shelters for people driven out by Israel from the lands Zionists invaded and purged. Why should they not be concerned now as ever?
> I think I've become addicted to the tactility of making the coffee as much I have to the caffeine.

You are not alone. Making pour-over coffee (from whole beans) is the first thing I do each morning, and I have several cups a day. Caffeine has no clearly noticeable effect on me, however, and I sometimes feel that I don’t even enjoy the taste that much. It dawned on me that the obsession is completely with the physical process, routine, and the fantastic aroma it creates.
I genuinely can't tell if you're trolling or not.
I did a version of the potato diet from mid-2022 to early-2023.

Lost around 27kg although I've put some back on since. Been meaning to restart it to get back down again.
There is no proof of baby beheading. Can you provide any?

For the rest of your post it is so much unsubstantiated propoganda, that appears to be solely put forward to "somehow" excuse the deliberate state murder of many thousands of civilians, disproportionately children and women, in this I'm unsure whether you are the victim or the perpetrator.
100B, 220B, and 600B LLM models on HuggingFace
I’ve mostly been wondering when the 0% interest 12 month financing for stuff was going to go away. That was the only thing I’ve used it for.
Bitcoin is on its way to $0, probably within 40 years.
Nice! It's nice to see a company make an employee-friendly movement here, as opposed to many of the other big players forcing their employees back into the commute rat-race.
nothing productive to add, but man that sucks.
So... they both need freshwater. I agree that there is plenty for residents. and I'm annoyed at the silly stuff they ask people to do, like lather up in the shower with the water off. but agriculture is pretty important for everyone.
It's the American dream writ large.
Real estate agents always have a narrative about why you should buy now. For example, if rates are rising, a good story is that other people are holding back from buying due to rising rates, therefore buyers are sitting out, there is pent-up demand. This was your last change to get in before prices explode when the fed tapers. We know this is wrong with hindsight but it was widely believed. You can’t expect people to predict the course of the bond market.
5 years aint too bad, on google their standard n1 class still runs Haswell in some cases which came out 10+ years ago
Yeah, this is terrible. A robust divorce rate is must for healthy growing economy.
Even if we accept that "80% of the journalists were killed in their homes" at face value, that doesn't mean anything if 80% of overall casualties happened in their own homes.

And even if that number is substantially higher than average, sometimes these things happen by chance – numbers are funny like that. Or there may be some factor other than "being a journalist" that skews this figure.

It's a very strong claim. I don't expect air-tight evidence, but you really need something stronger than a very weak "surely it can't be a coincidence?!" like this.
The point is that they won't make the same mistake again
those exploiting power have no interest in becoming "saviors". trying to appear as one does not last long as victims as in human nature soon looks for someone to blame- often the most visible
That's all good and well, but people have been living together after divorce for a long time. This article seems to be nothing but anecdotal data. You almost had no choice but to do this before the '60s. Divorce has always been expensive, and people choose to cohabitate for financial reasons. Perhaps people have been cohabitation after divorce at higher rates since the Fed has raised interest rates, or perhaps not. But it would be nice if this article would show some statistical data over the long run on this. Do we even have any reliable data on rates of cohabitation after divorce?
Hope you bought that guy a beer.

Great story, thanks for sharing.
Housing prices have the potential to be infinite due to the infinite cost of producing redundant land.

The land on which houses sit can't be produced. Someone owning all the existing land would ask for any payments and couldn't be refused unless the consumers wouldn't want to live anymore.

So when we are talking about housing, we have to be careful about qualifying the price as a bubble. There's underlying value underneath that can warrant any price.
Israel doesn't have an unlimited amount of bunker busters. I think a lot of the destruction is from more conventional precision munitions. The bunker busters are reserved for bunkers, deep tunnels, etc.

This question is one of the talking points of the Pro-Israel side. It's not that bizarre. But yeah, as talking points go, it's shallow/simplistic. The idea is to demonstrate that Hamas couldn't care less about Palestinian lives. They don't invest in any shape or form in protecting the citizenry or making the lives of Palestinians better. It's also meant to contrast with how Israel invests in protecting its population- lots of shelters for a much larger population, Israel has been building shelters in various forms forever. During most of the cold war Israel has been facing enemies with fairly unlimited resources as well, rockets, ballistic missiles, large air forces, even artillery (the north of Israel used to be regularly shelled by Syria way back). So it is actually possible to use shelters as a layer of defense.

Israel's more recent strategy of reinforced spaces in every house/apartment (started IIRC when Saddam Hussein decide to lob Scud missiles at Israel) has worked fairly well so that could be replicated in Gaza. Israeli buildings have taken direct hits by rockets from Lebanon and Gaza with pretty decent survival rates even when the building itself was practically demolished. Though that might require using the concrete for something else than tunnels. Oh no, another talking point.

The better strategy though is not to get into a situation where you're being attacked with bunker busters or try to separate civilian infrastructure from military infrastructure. Other ideas is that when you're warned about an area becoming a subject to aerial bombardments you move away. Sorry, more talking points.
I’d take a windowless dorm if the price was right. My shades are always closed anyway.
They do know roughly how long it takes to take care of a patient & should be set up with overlapping shifts and to be winding down towards a normal shift (i.e. no new patients) so that there's no handoff of a single patient but no one is working long hours. Some patients might take longer than a single shift, but handoff is inevitable at some point. You can improve your handoff processes but you can't improve the decision making of someone working a 12 hour shift.
It has been my experience that there are good and bad engineers from all origins; Americans do not have a monopoly on it in either direction, nor does anyone else.
More details:

https://www.silabs.com/documents/login/presentations/design-...

I’m having a surprisingly hard time finding EU regulatory limits for Z-wave non-LR. ISTR some source saying that the FCC had a much stronger limit on power spectral density, which is where the -1dBm limit came from, and the EU may allow something higher.
As of right now, Marcus is yielding 4.4% APY while Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX) is paying 5.3%
As in the recent dropping-Itanium discussion, what's the goal of trying to run the _newest_ versions of things on ancient environments? Nothing about the msys2 that's available right now will be different for Windows 7 setups in the future...
Obligatory relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1782/
Teaching History, Teaching Peace?
It's hard to argue against the proposition that ransomware is a canary for security vulnerabilities. Depending on how much commercial espionage it reduces, it may be a net cost saving in the long-run.
and rightsizing was the "new" mass firings.
Can confirm. Source: I used to work for NASA, and I'm a private pilot. There are literally millions of electrical connections that get made on aircraft and spacecraft on a regular basis and I can't think of ever hearing of an incident caused by one of them being made backwards. (Now, mechanical connections getting made backwards is not unusual. That's why you check to make sure that the flight control surfaces move in the right direction as one of the last checklist items before you take off. Every. Single. Time.)
This is a helpful way to think about it. Though, is the problem of having an incomplete definition the same as lacking a unique name? Maybe the solutions are different, and the author points out that made-up names don't cut it. Is it instead more of a catch-22 situation?

The other dimension implied here is the timing of when variety is introduced. If all the options were known when the system was originally designed, the issue may have been more clear. So then the other problem is that, when the need to distinguish between cases first came up, the solution was designed for only 2 cases. And if there were only ever those two cases, the solution presented would probably be the most efficient.

The solution to this incremental scope problem is a lot less clear to me and something I struggle with personally in scientific computing projects. When variety #2 pops up, how does one decide whether to restructure everything in case of a variety #3, or take the quicker (potentially more efficient) path and avoid unnecessary complexity? Assuming I've done as much as I can to anticipate and constrain my needed functionality. It somehow feels like I end up losing either way.
No, that's not at all right.
They'd probably prefer an honest work towards a political solution, like https://www.972mag.com/hamas-fatah-elections-israel-arroganc...
> inspired by Le Corbusier

Say no more . . .
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Its interesting to me why dead children somehow matters more than the average dead person. In fact, I would argue that 30-40 year old person dying is worse than a dead children because of the opportunity cost. It seems to me children dying is worse because there's a perception that they are pure, and that the older dead person have probably "sinned" and deserved it anyway.

You see it all the time, "40 dead children, how could they do this? these are just innocent kids!". What? And those 40 adults weren't innocent?
Bubbles are perfectly circular, and natural.
Even if your open source code is on GitLab they can still be used to train Copilot. Most permissive license allows you to train AI models using them. Any license that forbids AI training would not be considered "open source" under most definitions.

Being on GitHub just makes it easier for them as they don't need to manually clone it from a different service.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38452493
Fewer patients doesn't necessarily get the patients they are handling out the door faster.
> you may literally see your life's work go up in flames.

Incidentally, this happened to Lewicki a few years later when Planetary Resources' first satellite blew up on an Antares rocket:
https://www.geekwire.com/2014/rocket-carrying-planetary-reso...
I guess the idea is that if the problem was incompetency they will find some other way to mess up as opposed to a genuine mistake made by a competent person.
And with a cheap projector you can shine those pictures on the walls for X-ray vision. BTDT.
Large/Small are not correlated to value/growth. I for instance, invest pretty much all my money on ETFs such as ISCV, that invest on companies that fit the small and the value criteria. Over the decades, these two factors combined seemed to be the ones that on average gave the most returns.
This tiny spinal stimulator could someday have a big impact on paralysis
Very cool.

Also, in Farsi tomatoes are called "foreign plums" and strawberries are called "foreign berries"

i.e. gojeh farangi, and toot farangi
Some intuitions about large language models – Jason Wei
They built loads of condos in Vancouver which were only advertised for sale overseas in Asia. Residents in Canada weren't given a chance to purchase.

40% of Canadian Federal MPs are landlords.
Why can't they live in Palestine?
I have been considering this but haven't arrived at the right platform to use yet. I've considered Notion, Confluence, and other such things. Ideally I want calendar integration where we all know who has what appointment on what day and various other documented things about the house, mainly for our own needs, cat sitters, etc.

What tools do people use for this stuff?
> The issue was resolved by moving behind a dedicated DDoS mitigation service, and the attack stopped at the end of the day.

Step one, create DDoS mitigation service.

Step two attack random high traffic sites with advertising and covert DDoS attacks.

Profit?
I think most of these go way back to 1948 though. Do you have any statistics about how many Palestinians from the west bank and/or Gaza these countries have taken in over the last 10 years? Also do those countries give the Palestinians citizenship? I think other than Jordan the answer is no?
> Other peoples in the region can kill with impunity and no one will report on it at all. Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc... silence is the game

It's been a few years, but for MONTHS we saw nothing but news about killings in Syria and Iraq: at the start of the Syrian civil war, and then later during the rise of ISIS. Yemen, Lebanon, and Afghanistan have also been widely covered, albeit less so.

This claim is factually a bullshit conspiracy theory.
I think it is pretty common all over third world. In US it maybe strange thing.
Correctly recognizing the go nowhere, pointless nature of video games is not "edgy".

Video games have narrowed you. It's time to stop letting them do that to you.

Break free of it.
I wish I could upvote you a hundred times.
No, it just means that if they sue you, they're pre-committing to not try and foreclose on your own generated outputs by claiming they're derivatives that they would then own.

Of course, this is a water sandwich. If model outputs are derivatives of the model, it'd be difficult to argue that the model itself isn't a derivative of all the training data, most of which isn't licensed. So if anything, this covers Stability's ass, not yours. There's also the related question of if AI models - not their outputs, just the models themselves - have any copyright at all. The logic behind the non-copyrightability of AI art would also apply to the AI training process, so the only way you could get copyright would be a particularly creative way of organizing and compiling the training dataset.

Remember: while the "AI art isn't art" argument reeks to high heavens of artistic snobbery, it's not entirely wrong. There isn't a lot of creative control in the process. Furthermore, we don't give copyright to monkeys[2], so why should we give it to AI models?

"Noncommercial" isn't actually a thing in copyright law. Copyrighted works are inherently commercial artifacts[0], so if you just say "noncommercial use is fine", you've said nothing - and you've invited the legal equivalent of nasal goblins[1] into the courtroom. Creative Commons gets around this by defining their own concept of NonCommercial use. So what did Stability's lawyers cook up?

> “Non-Commercial Uses” means exercising any of the rights granted herein for the purpose of research or non-commercial purposes. Non-Commercial Uses does not include any production use of the Software Products or any Derivative Works.

Uh... yeah. That's replacing a meaningless phrase with a tautology. Fun. The only concrete grant of rights is research use, and they categorically reject "any production use", which is awfully close to all uses. Even using this to generate funny fanart mashups for your own personal enjoyment could be construed as a 'production use'. Stability could actually sue you for that (however unlikely that would be).

[0] In the eyes of the law. I actually hate this opinion, but it's the opinion the law takes.

[1] Under ISO 9899, it is entirely legal for C programs with undefined behavior to make goblins fly out of your nose.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
A _lot_ of Microsoft's open source projects are basically ghost towns. EF core and the SQL server driver appear to be maybe a handful of people, and there is a disturbing amount of "the only person who understood this is gone so we can't fix it.". Get into some of the more esoteric projects and you're lucky if there's someone dropping in to accept a PR once a year.

I'm assuming that every dev ends up consumed by endless rewrites of the Azure client libraries.
They've already botched major events, like the death toll from PIJ's accidental strike on Al-Ahli Hospital. There's also an ongoing concern about "Gaza Health's" practice of including Hamas fighters in civilian death tolls. They're the best numbers we have or are going to get, so they can't be ignore, but their reliability is probably not a good hill to die on.
A pair of hoverboots would be nice.
Well it sounds like you don't want people to be able to copy your ideas. Probably releasing them under a free license isn't the way to stop that.

May I ask what your motivations are for open sourcing it at all?

Also I don't want to seem like I'm defending their actions, and I don't think any other commenters here are - copying your idea, directly or not, and then responding the way they did, is very toxic. But, unfortunately, this is the 'risk' one has to accept when open sourcing stuff.
Thank you! Regarding performance, TPU v5e which was benchmarked in the MLPerf results and showed impressive performance/dollar, see https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/performance-p... which has more details. Combined with k8s & GKE, TPU v5e workloads can leverage auto-scaling, for example setting up autoscaling based on traffic, so workloads can scale down rapidly when not in use, increasing cost efficiency.
Sumo fighters eat a single meal a day. Without context and knowing how big are their other meals, it's pretty hard to make sense of these stats.
(I work for Fastmail). I'm not quite sure what to make of this. We believe our search is generally as powerful as Gmail's, and in some ways more so (see all the things we support here: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591213-Sea...), but we're always happy to hear ideas for improvements.

> no partial matches

To make your search fast, we use an index. This means we match on stemmed whole words by default (so a search for "bus" would match "busses", but not "business" for example). We also support prefix matching, if you end with a `` (e.g. "bus" would match both "busses" and "business"). We cannot support pure substring matches. This is exactly the same as Gmail as far as I can tell (although their stemming algorithm is probably slightly different). Gmail also doesn't support prefix searches as far as I know, just stemmed whole word matches.

> no matches for spelling mistakes

I see if your result has no matches in Gmail, it applies spelling correction and shows you what results this produces instead — I agree, this is a nice feature, I'll add it to our ideas bank.

> weird indexing of some sort of email content (attachments?) that leads to a match when there is absolutely nothing related in that email

We index the contents of attachments (again, as does Gmail I believe). By default we search everywhere, including inside attachments if you just search for a word. Most users find this helpful. If you want to restrict to just searching the message content, you can do so with the `body:` operator.

> it has no idea about the context of the search to improve matches, like 'flight' being possibly related to e.g. travel

I'd love to hear more about how you expect this to work. Searching a Gmail account on the web for "flight" doesn't seem to do anything special I can see, but maybe it does so in their app?
Presently reading through a review—looks like a great recommendation! The charges he levies against modernity are pretty damning but not at all untrue.

We're not all that dissimilar from the Israelites who were repeatedly condemned to the status of remnant, to be ruled by unjust kings, conquered and displaced by other nations, yet forever snubbing the will of the Most High. We've just swapped more obvious idols (on occasion) for ones less so (except money).

Thanks!
At a major brokerage firm I accidentally hit prod with a testing script that did several millions of dollars of fake FX test trades.

The first thing mentioned in the post mortem call was “No one is going to blame the guy who did those trades. It was an honest mistake. What we are going by to do is discuss why a developer can hit the production trading API without any authentication at all”.
> It seems fair to say that you ascribe more importance to rigid fidelity to a 200-year-old document than to addressing the practical challenges of keeping a nation together, as circumstances change over the decades

The requirement to follow the written text follows from the very nature of a written constitution. It’s not a matter of preference or priority. If I have a car rather than a boat I’m going driving rather than sailing, and it doesn’t really matter that the bridge is out and I have to go the long way around to cross the river.

The other approach isn’t an alternative way of following the law. It’s a way of intellectually justifying breaking the law.
I don't necessarily see how this is treacherous. Most Israelis, at least at and around the time of founding the state of Israel, were European immigrants. Some of the founders of Israel weren't even religious. Of course, it's safe to assume that at least practicing Jews carried over some traditions and, perhaps, values from their non-western origin, but it's not like fifth generation Polish Jews were in all respects non-westerners by the time they moved to Israel.