skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel left Gaza and then blockaded it, and has carried out major bombing campaigns against Gaza and ground invasions several times.

The conflict is not limited to Gaza. In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel continues to build its illegal settlements, to subject the Palestinian population to a humiliating and brutal military occupation, and to kill Palestinians regularly (several hundred in the West Bank this year).

Until Israel leaves the occupied territories and allows the Palestinians to live as normal people, there will be Palestinian resistance. A few years ago, the people of Gaza tried nonviolent resistance, protesting at the border fence. Israel responded with live ammunition, killing hundreds of protestors.

The Palestinians have tried every way to obtain their freedom: protest, negotiation, armed resistance. Nothing works. Israel is, by far, the stronger party, and it does what it wants to the Palestinians with no consequences.
Show HN: Open sourcing Restly – GPT-4 powered tutorials from your OpenAPI spec
Hi HN - Marius (mbuleandra) and I built Restly as a side project. Restly generates a user-friendly tutorial against any OpenAPI spec. While building public-facing APIs, we found that writing these guides by hand took a lot of work. Many OpenAPI specs were too large to send to GPT-4 / Claude directly, and even when we could send them, we experienced lost-in-the-middle and hallucination issues.

The project is very alpha but works against the Vocode API when we specify well-defined goals.

Let us know your thoughts; we would love your contribution to the project!

[1] https://getrestly.com/
[2] https://github.com/Get-Restly
I believe general purpose tool will atract people with general knowledge, so more people. Very specific dev will atract experts, so less people will engage to the work.
If it was fast and high-resolution, yes.

But with 25 fps @ 2K it's not really usable yet. You'd want more like 140 FPS (e.g. 70 Hz per eye) at 8K, so one would need another 100x speed-up to make this VR-ready.
> Why would they need those?

To convert voltages to useful levels without suffering massive losses in efficiency.

> What applications cannot be made to work at 48?

Basically every logic-level transistor will not work at 48V. It's nice that these last-century analog devices could be made to operate at different voltages: present-day semiconductors are not so conveniently flexible.

Simple physics dictates that required inductors to step between voltages increase in physical size (and weight, and material cost) as that voltage disparity increases. Capacitance required, etc. all increases with it. Efficiency plays into both of these as a triangle. Heat increases as this disparity increases. These properties are unacceptable for a myriad of use cases.
There is no need for Russian/Iranian propaganda bots. Israel does that already for them: Seeing how Israel tries to defeat Hamas by withholding water, food, electricity, medicines for 2.2mil civilians in Gaza or by using genocidal language by Netanyahu and his war cabinet (Netanyahu: „they are Amalek!“, Gallant: „they are human animals“, Herzog: „there are no innocent in Gaza“, and then compring Hamas to Hitler/Nazis/ISIS/Satan) or by bombing hospitals, schools, ambulances, killing civilians by the thousands, then at the same time handing out guns to Settlers who loot, kill, start pogroms in the West Bank.
This is such good news! I bet a lot of monogenic disorders are on the table now.
One idea is the World Community grid, a lot of great projects for different causes. The link below is the Dinosaur Comics team (slightly biased here), but there are plenty of others. Haven't researched it very much, but this just popped into my head.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?team...
It is still not some metric of who is right? The media here wants to make it sound like Israel is just intentionally murdering civilians, that's just not true. Everything targeted has had Hamas targets in it.
I kind of take the opposite position. History is complicated, always. However, the basic problem of Israel and Palestine is that Palestinians either live under military law (the West Bank) or in a big prison (Gaza). That's obviously not a democratic, dignified, or otherwise morally defensible situation.

Ultimately, the security needs of Israel need to be balanced against the rights of the Palestinians, and as it stands, the Palestinians have no negotiating power, so they get nothing. If politicians around the world made it clear you cannot be 'the only democracy in the middle east' while having millions of people subject to military law, I expect the Palestinians would have enough negotiating room to force some kind of reasonable settlement.
You mean “the spot that didn’t have any meaningful separation from the rug,” I’m sure. This has been a deeply fulfilling conversation and I’m glad we got the chance to talk past one another today.
I always was under the impression that Anti-Zionism was just being against Zionism.
I will make clear that I'm talking about the transcontinental railroad.

The companies were gifted not just land for the railroads, but 100ft of land on both sides of the rail line, as well as bonus land grants for every mile of "grade" totaling about 6,400 acres (2,600 ha) for each mile of railroad built, because the desire was for the railroad companies to fund the construction by selling the land. We also gave them significant bonds at 6%, which were repaid in full and with interest. The money was free and didn't exactly have strings attached. Gifting land to private individuals or companies used to be America's favored way to set up the next generation of wealth. In total, the acts to build the transcontinental railroad gifted the private companies more land than the state of Texas covers.

The labor to build said railroads was then imported from Ireland and China. These same laborers were then treated as outsiders and "anti-american". The people who "burned the midnight oil" to build the cross country railroads were not americans working for a profit motive, but immigrants purposely encouraged to come to america with a false promise of "opportunity" so that they would be stuck here with limited opportunities outside of working for the railroad under shit conditions that often resulted in deaths, and underpaid with funds from the sale of land that was gifted to the companies by the federal government.

This was as clear cut a handout to build infrastructure as you can get, and then we let these same companies pretty much explicitly become robber barons. We paid for their capital costs and then let them eat the profits from said capital. The same acts giving railroads money also made provisions to build a cross country telegraph line, so there's some handout to future communications infrastructure.
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers
I wish someone would create that 500 line checklist. I've seem attempts, but they tend to be either not actionable (is the software high quality - meaningless), or of metrics that are just gamed (is test code coverage > 80%?)
> People don't want a reciprocal death count from Israel

Unfortunately, many people in this thread do want that

> they want them to resist escalation

I want Hamas to resist escalation too. Why has Hamas broken every ceasefire in history? Why does Hamas continue to fire rockets at civilian areas?
Done late on a Friday.
Why is Israel settling the West Bank and refusing to make peace with Fatah and the PA? There's no Hamas in power there but Israel has refused to stop violently removing people from their land on the basis of their ethnicity.
This is super cool. Lichess deserves all its praise and more, what a great idea.
The EU will probably look closely into that.
1. News outlets here actually did not show the full Hamas footage from Oct 7.

But they have no problem showing Hamas propaganda.
I read somewhere recently, and sadly I don't have a link, that these little companies building things using AI, say proving some product that uses the OpenAI API, are building tools that the tech giants can simply incorporate into their products. This is especially true for Microsoft, because for anything a startup can produce built on OpenAI, Microsoft can simply reproduce it as part of Azure. Sure, that might be infringing on a startup's IP, but that hasn't stopped MS in the past. Worst case, MS can buy out the company, giving the founders and investors their exit.
> * reduced metabolism (leading to more weight gain than a subjectively equivalent amount of sugar),*

Doesn't that mean aspartame somehow contains more energy than sugar?

I mean, assuming the increased weight is fat, that is stored extra energy.
You can take their name and then reverse engineer the email format, e.g. First Last => flast@getaround.com | first.last@getaround.com
If I know anything about software dev, it'll be someone at Bleeper who fat-fingered something in their haste to get the weekend started.
I'm assuming that's the point of the centrifuge?
What I'm saying is that if your goal is to introduce more engineering rigor and your plan is for for the tiny percentage of graduate school graduates to percolate these ideas through the industry, it's probably a bad plan and likely to fail.

This was a thread about why software developers don't do engineering like other disciplines. One partial answer is that those other disciplines take it much more seriously at the undergraduate level, at least on average.

Probably the more compelling answer is that the industry doesn't' really want them to for the most part.

> but you'd be amazed at how even in 2023

I really wouldn't.
Coming from Europe and living in the US for the last couple of years, I'm shocked at how society here is clearly pro-israel.

It is very clear that in the US the life of an israel citizen is valued way above the one of a palestinian. It is sad to lose that level of humanity.

all of the discourse also conveniently ignores that Israel created a large-scale open-air prison in Gaza and removed any hope left for people living there.
Smart to do it Friday afternoon.
> Recall that Palestine's goal is to eliminate all Jews.

No, that's not Palestine’s goal.

Its not even clearly the goal of the Palestinian Islamist extremist group Israel fostered specifically to have a less sympathetic enemy to deflect pressure for peace with Palestine to use as a pretext for perpetual war, though it may be, and whose fault is that?
If you're just lazy like me, you just go through an exterior wall, staple the cable up along some trim, and go back through the wall into the room you want the cable. Caulk it up and paint it and you can't even tell it's there. Best to get outdoor-rated, or direct-burial cable. The layer of paint over it also seems to do a pretty good job protecting it.
What a disappointment. I don't live in the eastern US but I would have loved to see chestnut trees there in their prime.
I honestly don't see the difference between a factory worker that works seven days a week and lives close to the factory (and doesn't travel, as that's for folks with free time and disposable income) and someone who is in prison. In both cases there is only a very small society that they are actually a part of and very limited personal autonomy. I know a lot of folks like to say the theoretical presence of choice means someone is free, but let us be honest here: When you are poor, you may have a choice of where you are imprisoned but that doesn't mean you can escape.
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Yeah. I just mean in terms of VRAM usage.
You know, there could be bugs in spec. And you can have a software written with bugs but according to spec.

When testing should start? BEFORE the first line of code is written.
> I had no idea Panera was killing people with lemonade

That's what this suit alleges: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/12/man-dies-on-way-home-...
Thank you. These are the sort of amazing responses that make HN so good.
> I really struggle to believe anyone beyond a small minority even thought about Palestine or Israel before Oct 7.

It has been a relatively prominent issue in Ireland, and especially Northern Ireland for some time. You can find plenty of images over the years of republican murals with Palestinian flags on them (e.g. 10 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/189yeg/o... ), or conversely unionist bonfires with palestinean flags on it: (e.g. last year https://nitter.dafriser.be/M_AndersonSF/status/1542523209311... )
There is a well-established solution to conflict, called democracy. People fight it out in ballots and legislatures; they resolve differences by the universal rules (apply to everyone) in indepedent tribunals (courts; they all are guaranteed human rights.

It doesn't work beautifully or easily or perfectly, but it keeps a lid on things generally. Our recent abandonment of it is awful, and serves only the warmongers, hateful, and power-hungry - the people who benefit from the absence of things like universal human rights.
For my own team we do a few things:

- Have engineers write most of the stories, as they are better at slicing things down to PR size.

- When product writes the stories, make sure we align on engineering approach as part of the pointing process. If something should definitely take multiple PRs, we call it out then.

- Heavily use feature-flags so that it's easy to have more than one PR for a story, as deployment to prod and release of a feature are decoupled

- Have a culture where it's totally cool to ask someone to break up a large PR into smaller parts.
A blockade? You mean the defenses set up by Israel and Egypt after Hamas started attacking?

Ethnically cleansed in Nakba? You mean when Arab countries declared war on Israel and then lost?

Non-violent protests? You mean using molotov cocktails, rifles, and grenades?

You're describing effects but ignoring the causes.
How did you come up with 40b for the memory? specifically, why 0.7 * total params?
Have you thought about why young Palestinians have a different opinion from older ones? The opinion of powerless people is not set in stone, but is often a reaction to things outside of their control.
I am going to answer this as honestly as possible, but this is a personal interpretation (like everything in this hn thread), it doesn’t refer to a free Palestinian state as much as it does to the people. When Israel is inherently setup as a country for Jewish people, that does indeed call for the abolition of the state of Israel as is, but to me that is like saying fighting against apartheid in South Africa was calling for a genocide of whites. It could have been if they would have fought for the need of having an apartheid state, but it wasn’t necessary.
Missed that -- thanks!
From decades of observing at a distance and observing observers at a distance, I think it's safe to say that, like fusion, there are walls that AI run into, not unlike the risers on a staircase, and when we collectively hit one, there's a lot of scuttling back forth. A lot of movement, but no real progress. If that plateau goes on too long, excitement (and funding) dry up and things die down.

Then someone figures out how to get past the current plateau, and the whole process repeats. That could be new tech, a new architecture, or it could be old tech that was infeasible and had to wait for Moore's Law.

Right now we are on the vertical part of the sawtooth pattern. Everyone hopes this will be the time that takes us to infinity, but the old people are just waiting for people to crash into the new wall.
Easy! Software that fulfills its requirements the cheapest.

But how do you define the requirements is the real question (and problem)…
The reason I find it easier to work with people who have a degree in Computer Science is that I don't have to convince them of the need for good algorithms and not to try to implement parsers or cryptography by hand.

When it comes to software engineering I feel there is no qualification where you can feel that the gross naivety about quality and working in teams (and with other teams) has been similarly ironed out.

Instead you get people hardened in sin from their repeated experience of writing one horrible bit of untested code quickly and then leaving before the shit truly hit the fan :-)

One's management is very impressed with those kind of people and very contemptuous of those left behind who have to painstakingly clean up the mess.
I was responding first and foremost to the assertion that such attacks were merely "possible". I demonstrated that they are actual. They put real people who have nothing to do with this war at risk due to actual antisemitic behavior.

Your characterization of military action against military targets in Gaza as mass murder is an interpretation, but not a reasonable one. Israel was attacked by thousands of Hamas soldiers. Hamas governs Gaza (poorly, and undemocractically, but they do govern it). Israel is responding to the attacks by Hamas by attempting to destroy Hamas. Hamas is still launching rockets at Israel from Gaza even today. They are still fighting.

War is hell. Civilians die, especially when the opposition hides in and under civilian structures. There is no magic weapon or method that will eliminate Hamas without killing civilians. And Hamas has demonstrated over and over that they will not respect ceasefire or stop killing, and they have been widely supported by Gazans. Hamas must be eliminated and Palestinians must actually want and accept peace for there to be peace.
I don't know if this is really the right word being non native but this seems like whataboutism. Sorry if it is a too loaded term, but it does seem to fit. The fact that there are many other injustice does not make it less of it.
Whatever the reasons for the conditions, you have a large population of people who lack control of their own fate. Historically, those populations don't quiet down and accept it.
I don't know what's going on, and I wonder who actually has accurate information.

Speaking as an early online person, who has long believed in the democratizing power and goodness potential of the Internet... Contemporary "social media" are usually wastelands, both of rampant manipulation, and of people who haven't yet learned critical thinking nor even seen much examples of same.

I would like to call for there to once again be eminently credible and respected journalists, academics, and officials, who research and understand various global situations, and report accurate assessments that people can trust.

Trustworthy experts could answer immediate questions, and also show everyone else by example, how to think and speak better, to answer future questions.
It wouldn’t be an “identity crisis.” It would be catastrophic for the safety of Jews in the country. There is not a single Muslim Arab country in the world where Jews are first-class citizens. Nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab countries after the creation of Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_...
If you are saying that American Jewish people now support the Israeli government, that is not what I've seen. But I lack a poll or other evidence - do you have one?
> One is that we don't understand the fundamentals of software as well as the underpinnings of other engineering disciplines.

That sounds like an awfully bold claim. I have the feeling we understand software a lot better than we understand mechanical engineering (and by extension material sciences) or fluid dynamics. By a big margin.

I worked with finite element software and with CFD solvers, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to simulate a proper airflow over a simple airfoil and get the same results as in the wind tunnel.
> what other unknown, better coordinated, better funded, interest groups might be doing this sort of thing on a massive scale.

There is no better-coordinated or -funded lobbying group than the military-industrial complex, which is, of course, all in on Israel.
First of all, thank you for finding this paper, it seems to be addressing the question directly.

However, I believe you are overstating the results of the paper. If anything, the paper demonstrated massive reductions in zero shot translation capabilities after removing translation. And for languages with no cognates with English, BLEU scores are pretty abysmal. So the paper suggests that parallel corpuses still very important.

For whale languages, you won’t have any cognates with English, and we don’t even know if they have a grammar that is remotely human.
Yes, a blockade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

Yes, Nakba was an ethnic cleansing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

Yes, they sniped peaceful protesters at the March of Return: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_Gaza_border_...

I encourage people to read these links for themselves.
Bug free software means developers would not disclose any information about present bugs in the software they ship to customers.

Really bug free commercial software does not exist. And can't exist. There are always bugs which are known but would not be fixed.
I think Google chat(s)'s issue may be lack of features and marketing, Microsoft Teams is drowning with bugs, performance issues, poor UI/UX design, etc.
quick to assert authoritative opinion - yet the one word "better" belies the message ? Certainly there is are more dimensions worth including in the rating?
Optuna – A Hyperparameter Optimization Framework
>These items are products such as used cars, furniture and appliances, which saw big run-ups in prices during the pandemic.

So is this an actual reduction in price, or yet again just covid supply squeezes easing off? Does a 2.6% drop in price actually offset the price increases of the past 5 years?
Why? iMessage so far isn't a part of the EU's plan. There's no requirement for it to be open.
This [1] is why the Palestinians are winning the information war among the people that still have a well-functioning soul. And, of course, the fact that the Tsahal has already annihilated thousands of Palestinians kids ("people under 18 years of age", to use the BBC euphemism) and is planning to annihilate thousands more.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/18dp0jp/mental...
If I tell you someone will break into your house sometime in the future...maybe tomorrow, maybe 5 years from now, and actually maybe never...how would you change your behavior?

There was some intelligence about a potential threat, but hardly anything specific that they could easily respond to. Coupled with the fact that Hamas has their own counterintelligence laying out deceptions in the months leading up to the attack.

I guess Israel could have just stationed a few battalions over the full length of the border....forever.
Or for simulating crazy impossible dynamic camera shots from a few fixed cameras. Or for creating a gods eye security view of a premises, with virtual move/pan/tilt/zoom. Reality TV as if you have a camera man in the middle of the action, from just a periphery of discrete fixed cameras. And of course your VR POV on the court of a basket ball game, running after the ball, dodging players, calling fouls better than the refs -- in fact, why bother putting refs on the court/field.
Accessibility in gaming expands with Sony's new Access Controller for PS5
Well as per above both are smooth talking psychopaths. However you're right that Altman is much poorer and should probably be listed in the second tier.