skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is maybe an 80s world view at best. The United States government is extremely proactive and effective in providing international aid whenever a disaster strikes.

Lets take the 2010 Haiti earthquake as an example, which happened at about 4 PM. The US ambassador declared an emergency, the joint chiefs issued an order for support, SOUTHCOM initiated its crisis response operations center, and the newly formed Joint Task Force Haiti was setting up calls with local ministers before the Haitian president even formally requested assistance that evening.

At first daylight 3 surveillance aircraft were overhead surveying damage and identifying rescue targets, a US coast guard cutter that was in the area arrived in port to begin infrastructure damage assessments, and SJFHQ established a command post in country. By sunset US special operations has teams on the ground to assist with security, FEMA has an Urban Search and Rescue team rescuing trapped victims, and Air National Guard combat air controllers have taken control of the airport and turned it into the busiest single runway airport in the world for arriving aid workers and supplies.

By the second day hundreds of troops from the 82nd Airborne have arrived, the State Department diplomatic security service is in the process of evacuating thousands of American nationals, and multiple Global Hawk drones are providing real time video feeds to rescuers on the ground.

The third day the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrives where its deck is turned into a 50 bed hospital, and it would remain on station until the USNS Comfort hospital ship and USS Bataan causality receiving ship arrived the following week.

An IKEA hospital is an amazing thing, but it isn't worth shitting on the massive international aid operations most major countries conduct as "relief theater." India itself is among these, their light helicopters and skilled pilots were vital during the initial response to the Nepal earthquake.
Penn's Leadership Resigns Amid Controversies over Antisemitism
I would not like to have to concern myself with exposing government-compliant APIs when coding any arbitrary tool...the free market can reward good development.
> Of course, but since the Steam model works so well one wonders why everybody else is stumbling along instead of "just" copying it.

Because copying is theft. I kid...
Could you expand on what you mean by "jewish adopted family" structure? Is there something special about the way Jewish families were organized that led to rapid conversions to Christianity?
Of all the things to use an AI chatbot for, this might be the worst one.
On paper, sure.

I have fired offshore teams and hired US ones because I prefer people who think, care, look at the big picture, share their experience, and write quality working software, once.

Offshore software felt like someone building a car by spotwelding everything together for record times.
In both cases there is an uncompensated expense by the employee. Either it’s time commuting or it’s the office space. The main disagreement here is which should be valued more. In practice the massive rise in people voluntary working from home strongly implies most people value the commute time more than the lost office space. Arguably they should both be compensated, although HN consists primarily of salaried workers well above any minimum wage so that compensation is likely to come at the expense of cash/equity comp anyway.
That's certainly not my experience. Practically every rant about systemd includes the idea that evil corporations are trying to force it on everyone rather than letting them use some random login daemon whose last commit was in 2008.

Corporate interests are generally biased in favor of avoiding hyper-specific modifications that mess with their own economies of development scaling, not seeking them out.
Even when they genuinely have the best of intentions. I'm not sure who causes more harm, those bent on destruction or those stridently doing "good." They cause similar horrors. It's a wonder humanity persists.
As always, legacy means "it makes money and it works and it has customers", as opposed to the new thing that may or may not work or make money.
For the responsibility they’re undertaking, I would be happy for them to get paid even more and retire at 45.
If 200 people died after a db instance crashed, software would be equal in that regard.
> Traffic fatalities declined for the fifth straight quarter. About 19,515 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2023, a decrease of about 3.3% compared to 20,190 fatalities in the first half of 2022.

I don't see much correspondence with:

> In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, there were 503 air traffic control lapses that the F.A.A. preliminarily categorized as “significant,” 65 percent more than in the prior year, according to internal agency reports reviewed by The Times. During that period, air traffic increased about 4 percent.

Especially since the NYT blames the latter on "A nationwide staffing shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work six-day weeks and 10-hour days."
"It happens during a collapse of the imperial order.....with the French Revolution"

That is also ahistorical. In 1789 the court of King Louis XVI of France was struggling to find the money to pay for a bureaucracy of 500 people, but just 5 years later, in 1794, a revolutionary France had a bureaucracy of 5,000 people. The bureaucracy grew by a factor of 10 in just 5 years, thanks to the Revolution, which seized the property of the Church and sold it or taxed it, thus generating revenue that the King could never have dreamed of. The dramatic expansion of the bureaucracy almost allowed the French to catch up with the fast growing bureaucracy of Britain. Likewise, the Communist Revolution in Russia, after 1917, brought in a complex system of committees vastly more convoluted than anything the Tsar could have ever dreamed of. See here for some speculations on this theme:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/is-communism-inevitable
In my state it's illegal to drive any vehicle on a highway where it can't exceed the speed limit by 5 mph.

I assume there's some exception (probably involving the orange slow vehicle warning triangles) for things like tractors.
Yes I had some beans stuck in the grinder after trying the technique, I guess you could try to push them in or remove them somehow but it makes the whole process take more time and laborious to make sure you dont end up grinding old rancid beans the next time around
I wonder if this explains why trying to copy and paste text out of a PG&E bill would always come back as gobbledygook when I used to receive such bills in the past.
This article is pathetic. It doesn't even mention the threat of being laid off as a source of motivation to work harder, which I suspect is the real mechanism here.
Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration
It says the job is no longer available
It really depends on the house, if you have low thermal mass home then airing it out would definitely lead to a substantial thermal loss.
> But I'm sure a significant number of retail jobs are nearly as stressful.

Ok you lost me there. Which part of retail work has you responsible for the lives of 200 people at a time?
Aerospace things have to be like this or they just wouldn’t work at all. There are just too many points of failure and redundancy is capped by physics. When there’s a million things which if they went wrong could cause catastrophic failure, you have to be really good at learning how to not make mistakes.
I rarely reboot my workstation; it's often in hibernation for days or even weeks until a security update is waiting for a cycle. Despite this, my Firefox on both Windows/macOS consistently maintains my tabs, each running smoothly in their own containers without any issues.
This conception unduly desecrates the dignity of any leaders who genuinely converted and falls into the category of a "hot take" by my estimation.
+1 AppImages. And the beauty is you can make them portable by creating a folder with the same name as the AppImage and append .home to the end, and boom: portable software. For example

image-editor.AppImage
image-editor.AppImage.home (folder, all settings are stored there)
You need to have perfect dark to take the reference image, so even on the mirrorless ones you end up having to close the mechanical shutter to get it done.
Software engineering today reminds me of how the 80s were with stock trading. Lots of money getting thrown around and blown on stupid shit, and then seemingly overnight the credit crisis tightens belts and computers make the trading floors of NYSE and others obsolete. They were getting paid stupid amounts of money because the work they did was making someone higher up EVEN STUPIDER amounts of money. Just like the tech industry today. Google SWEs make $300k/year because the CEO is making some comparable-to-their-level multiple of that. In this case, the shareholders are paying the SWEs through stock options because they speculate Google shares will appreciate even more. History will probably reward those who sold their GOOG when it vested.
White Americans and white Boers were forced to treat colored people as their equals. Eventually Jewish Israelis will have to treat Palestinians as their equals too. It's exactly the same, except the level of extremism we see on the Israeli Jewish side is extremely high.
Apple's statement: "At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading privacy and security technologies designed to give users control of their data and keep personal information safe. We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage. These techniques posed significant risks to user security and privacy, including the potential for metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks. We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users."
Seems this was a general export item resulting from the 1990's crypto restrictions. The article mentions 100 countries using them. That would be agencies for whom it didn't matter, yes, (ambulance, corp security, etc) - but also everyone else who could not afford anything better but for whom security actually mattered. Not every country can afford to roll their own for this kind of stuff.
Perhaps, but I did review the material before I posted it. Did you?
Here's a great article that links to a lot of research: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...
I'd love it if you also provided a console wide setting for y-axis look inversion : - )
This is profoundly simplistic and overgeneralized. Religious tolerance was rarely strong anywhere in the pre-reformation (really pre-Liberal) periods. The Greeks and Romans have a long history of purging undesirable populations based on religion or ethnicity. Some pagan groups were famous for their tendency to massacre other pagan groups based on different god-worship, and Japan, China/Thailand's histories share this trait. To say nothing about the Assyrians, Babylonians, Scythians, etc.

The second part is also simplistic - The conversion of Rome into a "Catholic" country has more twists and turns and varied greatly across Europe and Asia. There was no true single church. The reasons for individual conversions were varied - some truly believed, some saw the tactical or strategic advantage, and some reflected their own population's beliefs. Some where given power if they converted. Much of the early conversion to Christianity was driven by women, not men and was household based. Even at a macro level it's instructive to look at the Germanic tribes, the Huns, and the British. All of whom had very different paths to eventual membership in Christendom.

Dan Carlin has a easily approachable set of podcasts about this, that I highly recommend.
Hum, it's not unstable at all.

I do agree that there's something wrong. But the reason it's structured this way is exactly because it's stable. It is what you get by letting people settle with minimum interference.
Are those extensions really what matters in comparing to a Zen core?

I assumed these cores are lacking in the OoO/speculative exuction/branch prediction department. It makes them smaller so it's cheaper to have many of them, but won't be as fast as any state of the art x86 cores.

Special extensions don't generally automagically get utilized even when they are present...
Thank you for the reply. From other comments, I have decided to go with Firestore because that's faster and I am comfortable with it too.

I just have one concern though, the user will be interacting heavily with the flashcards while studing and I want to store that info for the algo. Should i go with an on-device database for it? or Firestore can handle it?
I think the difference here is whether we're considering the plausibility that there aren't any security violations versus the overall frequency and severity. Centralization significantly increases the chance that all the systems involved will be safe; that's what makes it so useful for individual organizations, where centralizing their operations wouldn't attract significantly more bad actors to try breaking their security than decentralizing.

But if we have centralization on the scale of a society, then anyone interested in any of the groups using that centralized source of secure data storage/transfer will be drawn to look for the flaws in that source. And there are always flaws, either technical, legal (as with the government spying mentioned elsewhere in the comments), or otherwise. And once any group manages to infiltrate that one source, they get access to everything dependent on it.

Sure, decentralized security is harder to get together, meaning we have an initially-high violation rate that decreases over time (though this can be supplemented by security-conscious users taking their own steps to protect their data).
But centralized security at sufficiently large scales essentially guarantees a breach impacting everyone within its domain; and the kind of trust that would be required to sustain such centralization also anti-correlates with users independently adding additional layers of security to their systems.

This seems like a much greater risk than just accepting that users who are "impervious to education" will be vulnerable to certain social-side exploits, while everyone else will be reasonably safe.
You can enjoy the luxury of developing top-down, bottom-up, or sideways or whatever mainly because of the tools and environments that you have, and those were mainly developed bottom up.

Code you re-use is often ready-made bottom pieces.

Some code you reuse calls your code, like frameworks. They are middle.

You might be writing a plugin or extension to an application; then the top is decided and you're making some middle or bottom thing.
Trippy – A Network Diagnostic Tool
With the rebate this year I was considering it, but after a test drive I didn’t like the screen only interface and lack of Android Auto, Car Play
Sigh. I think you're right.
Gibbon's writings are really not taken as gospel (hah!) truth anymore and are not really supported by any historical research more modern than the late 1800s.

Gibbon's core thesis is that Christianity caused the downfall of the Roman Empire leads him to reject quite a lot of evidence that the Roman Empire was a nasty, nasty place well before the Huns sacked Rome.
“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us.

“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added.

https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...
That's true. The users have a high motivation and a lack of resources, so they wouldn't worry about app size or installing the app. However, the UI has to be friendly and non-fatiguing. As you said, I will focus on the frontend now and use firebase to avoid complications in the backend.

I just have one concern though, the user will be interacting heavily with the flashcards while studing and I want to store that info for the algo. Should i go with an on-device database for it? or Firestore can handle it?
> March 15, 2023

Is this obsolete? Does it contain the cutting edge prompt engineering techniques such as saying you'll tip 200$ for a correct answer?
Neon – Serverless, Fault-Tolerant, Branchable Postgres
Thank you veryyyy much. I am doing it solo and I am not a CS major. This comment made my day!

I just have one concern though, the user will be interacting heavily with the flashcards while studing and I want to store that info for the algo. Should i go with an on-device database for it? or Firestore can handle it?
> there's a lot of writing from Roman times and not much evidence that Christians as a group were specifically singled out

Especially if you arbitrarily exclude Christian sources. This is just bigoted historical revisionism.
It's also worth noting that these rituals included worship of the Caesars themselves. The rejection of an imposed faith then, necessarily, also included a rejection of empire.
I had never heard of this before. It looks fascinating. Thank you for sharing!

You say it “looked” promising - past tense - did Google kill it?

Is anyone else working on anything similar (Apple, MS)?
Thank you for the comment. Firebase is gonna be my choice

I just have one concern though, the user will be interacting heavily with the flashcards while studing and I want to store that info for the algo. Should i go with an on-device database for it? or Firestore can handle it?
watched it based on this suggestion, really enjoyed it!
That tweet at the end is the real lesson:

You "highly educated" folk have built a bizarre world of human interaction that isn't human in the least. I read the entire article. If someone is negatively affected by that interaction, they do not understand what real conflict is. Like, at all.

People who get offended by passive aggressiveness as benign as what was described in the article, do one simple thing. Please go visit another part of the country. Or the world. See how they talk. Different cultures (even subcultures in the US) are more direct and blunt. Other are very circumspect and shy with criticism.

A person from one side of the spectrum will find it grating to interact with those on the other side. But that feeling goes away over time, with one simple tip - assume everyone has good intentions. Because most people do.
Thanks for the advice. WIll try to build the MVP asap.
Thank you. I am gonna go with firebase.
I think Dometic and Engel sell portable freezers that will do what you want. They run off 12-24VDC or 120/230VAC. My larger one runs off a 100ahr battery for 4 days. You can set the temp from 20C to -4C.

They are pricey though $500-900. You can get off brand ones that are cheaper.
AMD can get ~65% more mi300x from the same 5nm wafer than Nvidia can get H100s
Wasn't it on-screen keyboards that were the mitigation against keyloggers way back in the day?
CodeBuild can be a bit slow to start sometimes. It also doesn't support Docker on Windows builds and it's limited to 8 hours per run.

Shameless plug: I wrote a CDK construct that lets you create runners on demand in response to a GitHub webhook (so basically what was suggested here only with handling of more corner cases that came up). It lets you start runners in CodeBuild, Fargate, ECS, EC2, or Lambda so you can pick whichever works best for you. There is a table in the readme that shows the difference between them and why you might want to choose one over the other.
https://github.com/CloudSnorkel/cdk-github-runners
Deposit Convexity, Monetary Policy, and Financial Stability [pdf]
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox Mobile nightly
Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?
That separation of church and state was always a factor in middle ages Europe - it meant that power was fragmented between the church and state and was broadly a liability once disasters of the middle ages unfolded. After the rise of Liberalism and the rise of the nation-states that separation became an advantage for European states and a huge competitive disadvantage to theocratic states.
“The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, discuss”

- Linda Richman
Do you have some test/benchmarks with the current AI engines?
Amazon's Culture of Writing [audio]
I work in academia and this was a tenure track position - these are quite rare and I have the feeling that only those will get these positions that can work 100% in 50% of time anyway (which accounts to 200% of work in a regular 40-hour job). I just wanted to make absolutely sure that I will have a limit of 6 hours a day and can take care of my body afterwards. Sitting 8 hours is just not doable anymore at close to 40, at least not for me.
Do you have a reference documenting this requirement?

I've not seen it reported, & when I last checked (long ago), 23andme seemed to allow a customer to decide whether their sample was retained beyond the current round of tests.

And, if it were a current requirement, wouldn't this Nebula offering be prohibited in California?
How to implement multi-tenancy
Is there an counterpart tool for ffmpeg with those parameters in GUI? That would be an omnipower app...
At first I thought “now this seems like the kind of article we need, boosting interest and confidence in science” and then I clicked on the link and found that I couldn’t read it.
People realized long ago you can't wave around the word 'emergent' to solve this problem.
I'm curious about the deficiencies you see in argparse... my bias is to minimize 3rd party dependencies ...
Look, no offense but it sounds like the battery thing is an issue for you in practice, as evidenced by the fact that you carry a spare battery and plug it into a charger multiple times per day.

A phone should adapt to your lifestyle. You should not have to adapt your lifestyle to your phone.
A toy remote code compiler and executor written in Go
Entity Component System [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
Scientists are people too. These efforts have always struck me as a desperate attempt to cling to conventionally intuitive views of what humanity and sapience actually means, in the face of physical laws which don't seem to treat "personhood" as anything special (aside from the "observer-interaction" of quantum physics, which some claim involves impact on the universe being observed rather than just what parts of reality the sensor/observer can perceive).

EDIT: Though to be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if neurons just so happen to use quantum decoherence in their computations. I just don't think it has any relevance to the macro-level phenomenon we call "consciousness".
We haven't come to an agreement on the meaning or interpretation of quantum effects, so I'm not sure it would explain much at this stage of physics.
> There were tons of old binary formats that were like this. It can happen with text, but it's less likely to, because a larger proportion of textual formats build over a container like XML or JSON to offload the text parsing, and then they end up with some pre-structured data.

Note that PNG also "build[s] over a container", since it's a descendant of IFF.