skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Blaming Hamas is the mark of a seriously disturbed mind" Is missing a lot of context. Typically i think, he isn't blaming Israelis or Jews, but Israel as in "Israel's government policy of bombing children".

The others are from people i hope are banned.

>I wish I could bring myself to believe that.

The reason i said "a big part" and not "a majority", is because sadly i think what was a majority in 2007 declined in the last 13 years. My father cried when Rabin died. Since 2018 and what happened to the mosque esplanade, i think he has a hard time making any difference between the government and the people of Israel ([edit] i convinced him this weekend it wasn't).

> I'm trying to understand why so many just reflexively assume Israel is lying, to the point that raising any mitigating or nuance at all is met with relentless, seething hostility.

I always assume Israeli government is lying. Why? My father was born in Jerusalem-east, in a christian hospital, and his godmother (who was 25 at the time) is a Sister, and probably the most caring, forgiving person i know. She worked there for 50 years, at a school/hospital used by christians and muslims, operated by all three religions. The man who woodcarved my father's nativity scene, one piece a year for 18 years, was expulsed from his own home in the 2000s, by colons. The school/hospital was also expulsed, quite recently (2018 i think), with promises for "help" with relocation. Promise from the Israeli government. The staff is halved, as most workers couldn't follow the relocation. I went there once (family trip, except my father was forbidden to enter at the last moment). I discovered Haaretz, which is now my primary source for what happen in Israel. When they agree with Netanyahou, i believe him (and now re-read the 1rst sentence :) ).
Agreed re WordPress, although I haven’t seen their code in YEARS, so maybe their codebase has evolved too.

Re Taylor, if I was a billionaire (or at the very least, extremely wealthy), he’s one of those folks I’d write a no-strings-attached blank check to go build anything he wants—just a brilliant and overall great human. I used to be very active in the Laravel community many years ago, and even way back then, before Laravel was super famous (first Laracon days), I remember meeting Taylor and being thoroughly impressed. Over the years, on multiple occasions, I’ve heard folks at relatively large organizations say they adopted PHP solely because of Taylor and Laravel. Recently, when I saw someone mention in a post that Taylor has a Lambo now, I was so happy for him—it feels great to see him thrive after making the type of impact that he has.
I don’t agree — RSS was only ever meant really to show the title and some few paragraphs, maybe a photo — exactly like Reddit does. I for one would hate to scroll through that much content.
So ... the new compression code was never tested before it got deployed to production?
But AV (EPP) could detect a binary which was passed through a traditional vector, like phishing or gaining access to a "trusted" email account and attaching a compromised PDF, as a random example.

Just a reminder that I was originally talking about desktop Linux, and all of the additionally installed attack surface which that entails.

It would seem to me that it does not matter how "technical" a user is, they are still human, and some of the time anyone could fall for a well formed phishing attack. We all get tired, overworked, or click too fast, etc.

Not running AV on a desktop OS and relying on one's own superhuman technical ability seems like the exact type of hubris that would be ripe for attack.
I think one overlooked aspect of the UN is that it’s a way to gather a lot of diplomacy in one place. A constant mingling opportunity, if you will. As ugly as it is, still seems valuable to me. Therefore I don’t think it will be easily abolished.
(just kicking myself for not thinking of "gingerbeardman" myself)
Of course, you can also just initialize a top-level variable with the object returned by regex-compile and use that.
Pitivi – Free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface
I had one of these growing up. good fun was had bouncing the ball off of your own paddle, then turning knobs back and forth as fast as possible to make the ball nearly impossible to hit by your opponent.
Have you not tried Suno AI?

We are not that far away of AI creating perfect music for us.
Isn't this just a variation of "those who feel more productive during the day log off earlier"? Or reversing the statement, "those who feel less productive during the day feel compelled to work longer hours"?
.. Can they provide some feature that you come to depend on, and brick it when it suits them?
I like it, how could one make it happen?
Also relevant:

- "In 2018, Buckley and the other nine senior members of the editorial board resigned, claiming that MDPI "pressured them to accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrients_(journal)

https://www.science.org/content/article/open-access-editors-...

(This is the journal that accepted the OP study).
So to beat omg.lol's price you have to hunt for a bargain, then hope the price doesn't double in the following year?

Oh, and you also need to own a domain already, otherwise it's an extra 10-20 bucks per year.
I don’t know about the US, but at least in Germany, Amazon has lost control of its inventory many years ago. Fake products, fake reviews, empty boxes, etc. have been very common. There are also many products having no or faked safety certificates. So it’s not surprising that you can buy stuff like spy cams intended for illicit use on there.
I have been using Synthesizer V for a lot of my music and the quality is very high, even with little manual tuning. There are a lot of voices to choose from now, and they added a cross-synthesis feature which lets you use the voices originally intended for Japanese and Chinese in English, and they don’t have a strong accent (I do find that I have to mess with the lyrics input a little). Also SAROS is coming out which has experimental Spanish support.

Definitely recommend looking up some Synthesizer V covers to see how realistic singing voice synthesis has become in recent years. It’s also free to try lower quality versions of the voices.
If the target audience for a blog is HN readers, then RSS is probably worth it (since HN readers use RSS, myself included).

The biggest issue I have with RSS is that by the time I find interesting blogs, they’ve stopped posting, so I never see updates in their feeds. But that’s an issue with blogs, not RSS.
> perhaps enough to encourage an independent party to conduct another study.

Is that an option that’s on the table? Or do we have to take the information we’re able to get and just interpret it critically?
> The ideal RSS feed has no ads which means no revenue for people working hard to create interesting things I want to read!

I don't see a problem with this at all, the best things on the internet are free and open source.

Everyone gets content for free and the author gets more views everybody wins.
Yeah I feel this way about llama.cpp too. Maybe not that exact wording, but its not the end all be all llama runtime like everyone seems to think it is.
I felt like this was aimed at me[1], so I added an RSS icon in my page's footer.

https://github.com/gavinanderegg/gavinanderegg.github.io/com...

I had assumed that an "application/rss+xml" link would be sufficient, but I get that folks would likely not assume that exists on all sites these days. As someone who reads blog posts mostly through RSS, I'm very happy to make this more explicit!

[1] https://mastodon.social/@gavinanderegg/111362850402497489
Practically speaking, what it translates to in this case is that your database goes to sleep when it's idle.

This means when you try to use it again, there is a cold start penalty.

You can architect your app around this a little bit, like having your web service "wake up" your database when you suspect one of your users is about to use it.

I enjoyed using Neon in a small project but the cold start was a significant penalty to the point where you might just want to send keep-alive transactions all the time, but it seems like they've made significant improvements to that earlier this year[1].

1: https://neon.tech/blog/cold-starts-just-got-hot
Stock Trade Typo Costs Firm $225M
> twenty between Doom 3 and 2023

> twenty

> Doom 3

WTF. Doom 3 is twenty years old?!
Dupe from yesterday (128 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579890
Maybe we can lodge a FISA request…
Thanks for the comments.

I don't have anything against debuggers, but I feel more natural to write into the code and this simplifies it.

TBH I haven't tried this or snoop heavily and the project was more of a curiosity of how the internals of python work after I found a relevant SO post.

Honestly I was surprised how easy it was.

If you actually want to use something like this use snoop: https://pypi.org/project/snoop/ it is more feature rich and maintained.
First place on a web search in...

Shanghai: https://www.smartshanghai.com/housing/apartments-rent/156977...

$1200.

Delhi: https://bnnbreaking.com/world/india/navigating-the-maze-of-b...

$330

Nairobi: https://propertypro.co.ke/property-for-rent/houses/in/nairob...

$20

Bangkok: https://propertyscout.co.th/en/spectacular-high-rise-1-br-ap...

$560

Lagos, Victoria Island: https://nigeriapropertycentre.com/for-rent/flats-apartments/...

$400

Ann Arbor, MI: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/condo,apartment_duplex...

A bit under $1000

It's actually quite all over the map.
+1 on CogVLM.

https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM

Recent discussions: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4350

It is the best open source vision language model out there that I'm aware of that's most comparable to gpt4v. Beats the pants off Llava1.5 and variants like bakllava.

There's a demo here http://36.103.203.44:7861/
> Look at this HackerNews: you have to click on links in the front page to get to the submissions, which are in different sites. Gee, how useless; if I have to click, I might as well just go directly to those websites and skip this HackerNews thing.

This analogy breaks down when you take into context what the purpose is for both sites.

HN: I want to discover new content that likeminded people find interesting.

RSS: I want to read what this person has to say specifically.
> If you use the development branch, you can't raise hell when there's a breaking change: it's to be expected!

If nobody raises hell on a development branch, the change will have a way of making it to the master branch.
> Why did Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi, and Yemen all attack Israel the moment it was created, and several times after that?

Since after Israel's founding, the Arab states have initiated war against it exactly once: the 1973 Yom Kippur war. (Technically, I guess you could count Iraq's 1991 rocket attacks as a second time?) In all other cases, either Israel attacked first, or Israel's opponent was not a recognized state actor.
It's a difficult plant to grow as it requires specific conditions. Though there are farms in the pacific northwest that have been able to cultivate it successfully.

Here is a decent paper that discusses the challenges[PDF]:

https://www.skagitmg.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Pages/Foo...
Regarding their "responsible" model, Meta's engineers aren't stupid. They know that:

1. No TTS audio output is tamper-proof. Their "safeguards" will be busted, and quickly. Whether via a small adversarial NN, some basic DSP, or just...holding a cheap recorder near your speakers, maintaining audio file provenance has no chance.

2. Impersonations have vexed humanity since the invention of vocal cords. Insofar as it's soluble, it's been solved -- authenticity is determined by a fluid mixture of context, trustworthiness, and the authority of involved parties & institutions. Always has been. Always will be. If I could drill one idea deep into every tech evangelist's head, it'd be: The solution to every problem isn't automatically "more technology." But hammers see only nails, so the vicious cycle continues, and society deals with the consequences (e.g. cryptobros decentralizing money...by slowly reinventing banks, but with more fraud).

3. This secret audio ID "feature" is probably harmful. It adds needless complexity. At best it exacerbates a false sense of safety because impersonation is trivial. Bad guys can emulate it on authentic recordings to discredit them as "fake." Nobody who'd actually benefit from such safeguards will respect them. News says this audio that affirms my confirmation bias is fake? Nah, the news is fake.

Meta knows all of this. Optimistically, I hope it's just lip service to concern fetishists; plausible deniability for the knife manufacturer when a bad guy uses one. Pessimistically, it might be pretext for an about-face on their OSS commitment. "Oops, researchers trivially broke our safeguards. Shucks. That's scary. Guess we'll build a moat instead of an OSS community. Think of the children or terminator or whatever works these days"

I suppose we'll see.
I never actually expected my rss reader to provide a place for viewing the content. I treat it as a notification service. There is usually enough info in the subject line for me to decide whether I want to open the notification in a browser or dismiss it as read.

In addition to a few blogs, I use rss for news pages (including hacker news front page) and to get notified about new package releases in pypi and rubygems. For the package releases, I just mark them as read as soon as I upgrade my virtualenvs.
It's the same in Japan, actually.
It can be grown in the PNW, in America. There are a few farms, e.g. https://www.thewasabistore.com/the-farm-1
Isn't it throwing the baby with the bathwater? In such a case RSS already tells you if there is new stuff and what already. If you follow a dozen of websites, not having to visit all them each time is already useful.

Or are all your followed website producing new content such that there's always something new when you check it out?
> Not an easy issue to think about or discuss from an objective viewpoint, if one can even exist.

Certainly so, if one has blinders to the history of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Of course a global empire is also going to export it's culture and values, and these include things like privatization of public resources and other impositions. As far as western domination goes, historically the missionaries handle the preaching of values, while the armies, lawyers and accountants keep the population in line.

Now, we have concepts like RTP ("right to protect") which is repeatedly and selectively weaponized to legitimize invasions and regime change over "human rights violations" while those same violations e.g. in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere are tolerated or even encouraged.

This isn't to deny that some freedoms in the West are hard to find elsewhere. But there are also numerous examples of people having more practical freedom than in say the US, for instance, the freedom to get quality healthcare without a job and without going broke, which works way better in e.g. Turkey, despite it's bad political situation.

In the case of Africa you have the legacy of colonialism to contend with. Africa isn't inherently predisposed to dictators and populists, it's a symptom of the dire circumstances of the various states which the West has a lot to answer for, in terms of maintaining corrupt structures, as well as continuing to reap the gains of resources mined in those states etc.

In sum, the West can share a great deal of the blame for the poor situation culturally, politically etc in a number of states with fragile/bad political situations in Africa, so to blindly assert "gee, it seems like the Anglosphere is the only folks who care about human rights" without considering this reality is naive at best.
There was also UWIN which came from David Korn and ATT. It is available as open source at https://github.com/att/uwin/.
My favourite word processor remains WriteNow --- which was ~100,000 lines of assembly.
A functor typeclass?
Even if so, the next gen model will fix it.
In my organization (embedded development in VOIP area) we revert breaking changes immediately, as soon as the breakage is identified.

Also, same in every company I've ever worked in that had any kind of process.
Note that this is not a fair comparison since that code is almost 50 years old, predating ANSI C and before even the 8088 existed.

Still, there is only one actual error in gcc 13.2.1 which is the use of =| instead of the later standardized |=. I'm not sure if that was a common thing back then or if it was specific to their C compiler. Either way, I don't think gcc has a switch to make it work. Switching that around in the source gives linker errors since it seems back then the way to print to or flush a particular file descriptor was to set a libc variable and then call flush or printf. If you had the right libc to use with it that one tiny change might be all you need. But you would likely need to set up a cross compile to be able to use the right libc.

My understanding is that most of the compatability issues on Linux are due to not having the right libraries rather than the kernel not supporting older system calls. It is just a lot of not that fun work to keep things working and no one is that interested (instead, some people just use decade old versions of Linux :/ and the rest use package systems to recompile stuff). NetBSD had better practical binary compatability for a long time, although I think some of it was remove fairly recently since there isn't much commercial NetBSD software (there was one lisp binary from 1992ish IIRC that some people were still using and I think that compat was kept).
TFA specifically called out chemistry.
I smile out of respect on calls when a subject matter lead says

a. they've gotten as far as they can given incomplete inputs/scope

b. and they're not going to prioritize further meetings until the lead provides what they need

Not being a "team player" in a fuzzy sense is actually "helping the team" prioritize efficiently!
I wrote one a while ago and have been maintaining it since: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/

It was fairly popular on HN when it first went live: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293488

It has a section on discovery: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#disc...
>q.com is the first domain that actually works

its an honest mistake, please forgive me.
I agree they’re still magic. Ever since I had my first Amstrad coming up to 40 years ago, I’ve been enamoured with them.

My point sort of drifted off into nostalgia a little, but I think there was something in the scarcity of it back then - probably helped somewhat by growing up in rural NZ.
You didn’t address that I already participate in democracy. I’m just realistic in my actual capacity to execute change, which is inherently largely local, so I focus on local change.
Article still called out chemistry.
Even before reading this I definitely got vibes of "Wine makers find drinking red wine has benefits" or "Starbucks finds that coffee is the ultimate health drink" etc.
If we could somehow make AI output deterministic and predictable, maybe. At the moment all it does for me is manage to make a 20GB GPU feel inadequate while every output is a loaded dice roll-- the opposite of what you're considering.
For an explanation/backstory on this see:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-pcgeos-found-a-5th-...

I _really_ wish someone would port this to the Raspberry Pi.
Simulatrex – LLM-Based Simulations
Simulatrex is an open-source project focused on Generative Agent-Based Modeling (GABM), utilizing large language models for more accurate simulations. It's designed for researchers and developers interested in exploring human behavior and social dynamics. GABM in Simulatrex enhances agents with cognitive capabilities, allowing for more realistic decision-making processes in simulations. This tool is particularly useful in social sciences, policy analysis, and digital service design, offering a platform for innovative and relevant experimentation in a variety of settings.
Dupe of yesterday's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584336
Yes, cold starts is a surprisingly stubborn problem that has many layers. We got it down to 100-200ms. Recently as we move compute from containers to VMs we starting to see more missed so we regressed it a bit.

It is theoretically possible to get it to 50ms range.
Have you tried recycling the old battery and putting a new one in? The physics of commodity lithium ion batteries are immutable. /s
I was expecting a way nastier hack where we can't zap the header so we turn e.g. "I-Can-Do-Fancy-Compression" (which triggers the bug) into "X-Can-Do-Fancy-Compression" which is the same length but doesn't match and so the bug isn't triggered.

Or even, since the bug is in some C++, we can try "\0-Can-Do-Fancy-Compression" and maybe the C++ code thinks this header is empty because apparently it's still the 1970s where Bjarne Stroustrup lives.
Oh! I must've really misunderstood your comment, my apologies, I thought you were talking about someone today!
At some point time difference kills any productivity gain. West Coast to West Europe is barely workable even if everyone in the "secondary" zone is self-sufficient.

However, hiring engineers from Latam could indeed be an option to replace US workers if they can't offer an edge. The issue here is the language barrier.
Fwiw, many feeds provided by Mastodon instances are available as RSS. Same for other Fedi software, like WriteFreely.
Seems like a good internet product that triggers with your will. Import rules could be a hassle, but if I were a vineyard or distillery, it might be interesting to leave a case, a cask, or a wheel to heirs. The option to sell it might be attractive as well.
Last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38132218
Because they were already undercharging. During the low rate years, investors said they wanted growth, not profits. Now they want profits. Expect a lot of consolidation and rising prices over time. Unity was a harbinger.
Proving or disproving a claim is the purpose of a study. At this point, it's out of the researchers hands and up to other research teams to replicate the research and confirm or deny the results.
It's eye wateringly expensive because the mortgages is paying off mortgages for buying skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan in the 90s, despite have pretty crappy dorms and student facilities and they've been pushing BS cow master degrees that are in the $140-170k range for 2 years while diluting traditionally strong like Stern. And the exit opportunities aren't that impressive unless you attended Stern undergrad.

I've had plenty of friends attend there for grad and undergrad, and I also had the choice to attend for undergrad years ago, but decided against for the reasons above.

You'd be better off attending a regional program that is specialized in your disciple than NYU.
By % of cost it's 99.9% compute cost and 0.01% data costs.

In terms of "secret sauce" it's 95% data quality and 5% architectural choices.
Don't even bother teaching them English. They'll learn that naturally at school, tv, internet, friends, etc.
There's nothing compassionate about allowing people to become dependent on government handouts.
Check out the Kagi Small Web: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that at a fairly shallow depth the seawater is at a constant temperature of 4 degrees Celsius, because that's the temperature where the water is at its densest. Global warming may push this depth a bit lower, but I can't see how it can impact the seabed.
You were fortunate to have one of the few computers it would actually run on.