skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free flow of information and lack of government control over access to that information. Much of the early Iraq war and even, to an extent, conflicts with ISIS and Yemen had the benefit of those citizens not having access to the internet. So any information many American citizens were getting was filtered through what the military allowed to be known, then further filtered by the news.

With Palestine and Israel, we were able to see it with our own eyes. I remember specifically watching TikToks of a teenage girl in Gaza posting about the evacuations, hearing the bombs in the background, etc. It felt "real" to us, which is a terrible way to put it, but I believe that is why the protests are much larger than other conflicts.
How about a formal proof? :)

I jest, but that should be the gold standard for anything life-critical and good to have for mission-critical software. Alas, we're not there yet.
Using skin resistance is not a fool-proof method. The resistance of wet fingers can vary widely from person to person. Mine has always been lower than most others that I've measured, and my dry measurement is well below the 500KΩ threshold described.
Don't forget Smotrich, a leader in the current government, who said it was a "mistake" that the first Israeli government didn't "finish the job" of expelling all the Arabs from Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-at-knesset-ben-gurion...

The current Israeli government has espoused their views that Palestinians should not have their own state, that all Arabs are terror supporters who are the enemy of Israel, who should be exterminated or removed. And this was happening regularly long before October 7th. I wonder why some Palestinians don't see Israel as a viable partner in peace or that they feel their only option is to destroy Israel before they are destroyed themselves?
oh that evil omnipresent Russia!
If you are referencing this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

That data is from the late 1990s, before the Affordable Care Act greatly expanded access to healthcare, and many new treatment options have become available since then.

What I meant, though, is that across a big population’s entire lifetime, there will be a ton of high healthcare cost events. And with technological progress, new treatments will always be coming out. Which is a great thing, just not what is typically thought of as an “insurable risk”.
At room temperature, about 25 years -- but there are a lot of variables that can affect this in both directions.

https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec4/
Imho, being heavily pro-Israel on the first day was perfectly appropriate. They'd just seen a crapload of innocent civilians butchered, and a bunch of them taken hostage.

Obviously you can still think that Palestinians have legit grievances without supporting massacre, and likewise you can support the Israeli right to defend itself. But at some point the actions of the Israeli military looks less like an effort to root out Hamas and more like ethnic cleansing.
You aren't painting a fair picture. RFSoCs cost more but they also have much more dynamic range (both amplitude and temporal). It's just just about configurability, but also performance.
Hm... maybe I should make the owner an offer? I definitely think this software should be preserved.
The definition in FARA is not limited to non US citizens. It means agent of a foreign power not a foreign person who is an agent
I keep my account. I use it as a superset of my resume. Lots of pictures and links to projects I've worked on.

I only connect to people I have actually worked with for more than 6 months. Very few other acquaintances, roommates, family members, etc. My account is fully public. I don't pay for Premium, which is a scam. I don't connect to my own company's LinkedIn instance, for many reasons.

I do not participate in any of the social stuff. Political conversations and faux-nice-quit posts ("Hey Guys! I'm no longer with FooCorp but am sooooo excited about my next amazing adventure!") get instantly muted and unfollowed.

I one-click decline all recruiters, unless the job looks interesting. Those get a quick reply, a scan of the job description, and then a no-follow.

That alone has given me more opportunities than I know what to do with over the last decade, and zero headaches.
what specifically do you find interesting in these technologies?
Hey... talking about children here. The heck are you doing?
> perhaps because there has always been a powerful campaign to equate any criticism of Israel to antisemitism.

That is the #1 tactic used to build smearing campaigns against people critic of Israel.
The difference between being a racist and expressing disgust for what Israel has done in decades to the people of Gaza and the West Bank is so huge that either people using the word "antisemite" in that context are deeply ignorant, or they simply have an agenda. To my knowledge, most journalists and/or politicians aren't that ignorant.
Yup, and I fully expect that to be solved by end of 2024. I have already fired up Halo Infinite on NixOS with a patched kernel and have seen HDR working via gamescope. Just a matter of ironing out kinks, KDE is already in progress, I expect Cosmic to start supporting soon, too.
i have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot more bears in videogames in response to this
My immediate thought on this comment was of was Steve Jobs but I’ve backed off a bit. The man seems to have been a bit of an asshole to some, the stories are numerous, but in some ways he seems different.

I think mostly because he didn’t seem devious, or self serving, just blunt and his mission was to the company or product more so than to himself.
UNA: Uniform Neural Alignment.
Haven't u noticed yet? Each model that I uniform, behaves like a pre-trained.. and you likely can fine-tune it again without damaging it.

If you chatted with them, you know .. that strange sensation, you know what is it.. Intelligence.
Xaberius-34B is the highest performer of the board, and is NOT contaminated.
Hi

Lost my job in 2022. Have been sick for the last month.
Have been struggling to find a job, my laptop stopped working need your help to buy a laptop, and to pay rent, thank you for reading
How did Christianity change the Roman Empire?
I am the government that put in place the conditions for you to make that wealth and that preserves those conditions today at great expense.

I take from you what ever I need to ensure those conditions persist.

You are nothing. You are a cog. I am the government, representative of the majority here, not the few lucky ones who won the lottery (that I created.)
Regime change alone doesn't work, unless one works on the causes that made the regime emerge. It's one of the very few lessons "the West" learned in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Can someone explain the appeal of 1GB Internet?
I think there are a lot of different versions of FGMs, from those as cruel as the one you describe down to the purely symbolic ones.
I think you misunderstand copyright and perhaps conflate it with a trademark. A given prompt may yield a result closely resembling some copyrighted work, but that in and of itself does not violate copyright. Getting a nearly identical result is very unlikely, perhaps with enough tries on a very famous painting. Even then, that is not the purpose.
Criticising current Israeli government policy doesn't hold Israel to a higher standard than that of other countries.

Also Israel critics also tend to be _much more likely_ to condemn the actions of other states (e.g. Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Indonensia in Papaua, etc). The issue is that the press is less interested in this and the general American public is much more interested in Israel than they are in Saudi Arabia.
The Red Rising saga is something I stumbled on by chance and slowly consuming it for relaxation. It is a great and often extremely fast paced pop sci-fi (if there is a genre called that). Lots of action, interesting world and hierarchy with political maneuvers often turning into bloodbaths. There is a big quality improvement starting from book 4, where the focus goes from the constant action to flesh out the characters still alive.
It's not enforced by the card. It's just a plastic tab that slides so as to tell the reader that the card should not be written. There is nothing to stop a malicious reader from writing to a write-protected card.
Too late!! NPR actually sold it to Automaticc (of wordpress/tumblr/simplenote fame) a few years ago
Are there some regulatory reasons why it would not be available? It seems weird if Google would intentionally block users merely to block them.
> This was Chomsky’s impossible dilemma. Somehow, he needed to ensure: a) that the research he was conducting for the US military did not interfere with his conscience; and b) that he could criticise the US military without inducing them to cease funding his research. His solution was to make sure that the two Noam Chomskys – one working for the US military and the other against it – shared no common ground.

It's called doublethink.
www.houseofmath.com might be fun
The palestinian diaspora at this point is basically worldwide, which is somewhat ironic considering who caused it.

This has little to do with the actual point, though.
There are definitely things where chatgpt doesn't help much or is worse then doing it yourself. Part of using it effectively is to get a sense when it is effective.
On your opening sentence against this one from the article:

> feels like really one of the most basic things that we didn’t understand

Nothing can prepare us for the depth of mathematics.
Since 1948, when modern Israel was founded.
On track for a new record this year though...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/global-c...
any other good general-purpose MIDI editors? my friends and I used Anvil Studio a lot back in the day despite it being kind of atrocious—always wondered if there was something better out there these days
World's deepest, largest underground lab operational
Fair enough, but there remains the possibility of finding an alternate, safer chemotherapy drug.

Does anyone know if changing the drug would require a new FDA approval for the entire regimen, or could the protocol be easily changed?
A (further) removal of Palestinians from their land is the definition of ethnic cleansing, so no I would hope they wouldn't be supporting that.
Seattle online retailer Zulily closing operations, cutting jobs
Up until recently this was state of the art (or, spraying DNA really hard onto cells, or putting cells in a DNA-laced salty spike trap). All pretty barbaric methods really, and still widely used.

The fewer cells comprising the organism/thing the more likely it is to have any likelihood of a meaningful result. Which is not much at best because like the most fundamental capability of a living cell/organism is keeping out foreign DNA and not integrating and reproducing it if some does get in. So the approach is to do it on a massive scale and design in some easy way of recognizing/selecting for the successful ones i.e. if it happens in nature it's vanishingly unlikely that the zapped genotype lasts for more then a generation, just like with any other random mutation.

The likelihood of a zapped-in chunk being a major evolutionary advantage could be higher than that caused by an environmental factor, just because it can transfer big chunks of something that was once useful to someone else, versus the more point ish mutations caused by radiation etc.

In relation to the eels/lightning, the mechanism is totally plausible but the question should be more how meaningful is it in comparison to all the other ways DNA is transferred like viruses/bacteria/fungus, radiation, bad luck, etc. Generally other unicellular critters are somewhat better at sneaking in weird DNA than environmental factors because it's their trained profession or something
It depends on the contract negotiated by the union. In theory, the union can put a floor on pay, with cap and allow individual workers to negotiate higher wages if they are so inclined. The US sports leagues offer the best example of this.
Windows 11's hardware requirements were made to coincide with CPU's that had hardware mitigation for Meltdown and Spectre attacks, as part of their attempt to push the general baseline of security for average users
> And yes, sometimes it does happen that there are antisemitic people that join those groups. But if they aren’t the organizers and are quickly excluded

I don't think you can easily say "this person is not an antisemite"

When you have entire groups organizing and deploying hostile rhetoric, referring to Jewish people themselves as "colonizers", that's drifting towards antisemitism

When you have universities selectively employing double standards where they will fire faculty over e.g. praising Brett Kavanaugh (I can find several other examples if you like) but suddenly "care" about free speech when the topic is related to Jewish people, it's hard to rule out the question of antisemitism there. Especially considering some of these universities had antisemitic policies historically
Mmmm.

It's not like the collective West (aside from USA) offered safe haven to Jews. We kinda just threw them into that corner of the world.

The important issue here is the obviously shrinking pseudo-state of Palestine. The 1947 borders of Palestine have shifted dramatically in Israel's favor, but Israel continues to send settlers to the West Bank.

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Hamas was wrong to attack Israel. But Israel is wrong to continue expanding its borders.
> I really struggle to believe anyone beyond a small minority even thought about Palestine or Israel before Oct 7.

This appeared repeatedly as important news, sadly mostly due to wars and terrorism.

Jerusalem relevance alone for multiple religions with its holy sites made it important topic for many.
Clearly it’s worth what people are willing to pay for it. At least it isn’t being used to compute hashes of virtual gold.
If you can't crack their SSH key, you DDoS the site or their provider

If you can't compromise his account you create a shit-storm or spew fake info to discredit
Are you saying all the sleep/hibernate, touch-pad, wifi, etc. issues that have plagued linux on laptops for decades at this point have now been resolved?
"The article refers to elements with atomic weights higher than 260, which would mean elements like lawrencium and rutherfordium; they all have half lives of less than a day."

Does the article really mean that?
" r-process can produce atoms with an atomic mass of at LEAST 260 before they fission."

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

and

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279166139_Charge_sp...
The modern car contains within it a perfect example the dichotomy:

1. The ECU ("hard" engineering)

2. The infotainment system ("soft" engineering)

Now, an interesting thing I have noticed is that "soft" software engineering pays more. Often substantially more.
The replies in that are pretty terrible. I'd forgotten how awful the bluecheck-reply slurry was on Twitter since they started selling those.
Can they do sperm (or egg) selection to change those odds for IVF?
Yeah, after 2 years in a trial and error state. Im pretty sure its gut related. Just didn't find the right variables yet unfortunately...
e.g. product recalls?
That's a hell of allegations on Sama from employees, if true.
Thank you for the perspective. It's probably true I've just never found myself in the right crowd. Interestingly, I started at a dysfunctional Windows shop 20 years ago. I spent a couple years there, and left for the Linux world where I fell in love with open source and never looked back... That was until recently when I ended back up in Microsoft land, somewhat inadvertently.

I'm sure that documentation you describe still exists. The Microsoft docs site is pretty thorough. But every time I have personally found myself involved with windows, things have been an enormous mess of string and bubblegum.

Linux shops are certainly not bastions of consistency, but I've just found better success with git-driven automation in Linux environments than I've ever experienced with my own senses in any Windows shop.

I firmly believe it boils down to the fact that RDP enables laziness out of the box, whereas linux requires clearing a few hurdles to make things quite as easy. So there is a tangible incentive to do things the sustainable, "right way" and not limp along with short-term quick and easy fixes.
Did you look at the SuperNote? I’ve one, and love it. It seems more hackable than the Remarkable from what I can tell, though the base functionality has been enough for me so I’ve not customised it.
Iraq never attacked anyone. A better comparison is the war in Afghanistan.

If we compare # of people in each country. 10/07 for Israel was like 15 9/11s (this is a quote from a President Biden speech).

So not only is it worth asking - how many Americans didnt want to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. But how many would be against some sort of war like that, if tomorrow morning they woke up to a 9/11 sized attack in 15 of the biggest US cities, happening at the same time

Not only did the US go far from home to destroy Afghanistan, but the whole world joined them to do it together
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572877
Might I ask you extend another one?
That is not how I would characterize giving a couple million Palestinians, who are apparently mostly kids, a better quality of life.
I think you are underestimating the diversity of these global platforms.

As an example, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are among the top 10 countries in terms of Twitter users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-...
Israel and pro-Israel commentators have spent a lot of time and effort trying to ingrain the idea that Israel == Jews. Of course, not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews. And there are many Jewish Israelis who are critical of the actions of the Israeli government.

Of course, a lot of criticism of Israel is rooted in antisemitism. But saying all criticism of Israel is antisemitic deflects legitimate criticism, and makes it harder to identify legitimate antisemitism.
Berkeley has a class that teaches TDD and other XP practices. (Or at least used to.) Pivotal used to recruit a lot of new grads from Berkeley for that reason.

IME, “QA” doesn’t really correlate with quality software, nor is there really a time vs. quality trade off. Bad software is often also delivered poorly, and high quality software can be delivered quickly.
> The assumption that Israel can only exist as an ethnostate is itself a political assertion - it's the hallmark of right-wing Zionism.

I had a discussion at length on this with some very historically learned people (far more than me) shortly after the attack, with the context of Biden's response.

The underlying cultural memory is that of the Holocaust, and of thousands of years of oppression and pogroms before, where nobody would ever help the Jewish people if they were in danger. Thus the belief that the second the Jewish people became a political minority in Israel, they would be immediately and inevitably subject to ethnic cleansing and persecution by the government. Jewish supremacy is viewed as the only way for Jews to be safe in a world full of people who either hate them or don't care enough to help.

This explains Biden's "bear hug" diplomatic approach as well, which as much as it was directed to Netanyahu, was actually directed at the Israeli population (and he is now much more popular than Netanyahu is, from approval polling). The only way to defuse the situation long-term is to convince the Jewish people that if they accept peaceful co-existence without enforced ethnic supremacy and apartheid; and the only way to do that is to convince them that if they are threatened, that they will not be left to die alone as they feel they have been so many times before.
If neither the Windows 8 machine nor the Windows 3.11 machine are networked with any path to the internet, they can limp along for quite some time without replacement. The bigger worry is this ancient hardware blowing a cap and leaving you unable to complete some vital function for the week.
For my house, I bought one of those 360 cameras, Rico Theta something, it is about 3 years old, and took pics through out the remodel. There is free software to set those up like a 3D house tour, although not as flashy. I did that a few different points in time, but having the pics annotated to be searchable by room name or "wiring" or "duct" is more helpful.

The 360 camera was hugely helpful because I could take one picture of a room instead of 5-15. I could walk through 3K square feet and take pics of everything in about 15 minutes.
> The videos of destruction and death in Gaza are far more horrific than corresponding videos in Israel

Maybe you haven't seen enough of what happened in 10/7 then. I would rather get hit by a bomb then tortured to death in the most horrific way possible.
Tech management has bestowed glory upon me
In the UK, the Iraq invasion provoked the biggest protests ever witnessed. The current stuff is small potatoes in comparison.
Well, you would be wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
The government has kept that at bay so far with welfare schemes, religion, and nationalist propaganda. Don't know how sustainable that is. There is massive flight of talent already.

Even as someone who makes good money, increasingly starting to feel that any semblance of a "good life" is unaffordable here. The discourse among my friends - all well-paid mid-career professionals - was that it's often cheaper to fly out to a country like Thailand and stay in a good resort, than to have a holiday in India.
The best photo story I've ever seen!

> > > Then suddenly the cat shifted his position and there was a kernel panic

> > Your cat wanted to find out what the magic in "magic SysRq key" means

> > and pressed Alt+SysRq+C. The problem is that he did not consult

> > Documentation/sysrq.txt first; the "C" does _not_ stand for "catnip".

> Yes, it was a catastrophe.

> Truth is, cats are great panic generators and as fuzzy beings themselves,

> they're also great fuzzers.

Think I'm seeing and reading this for the second time (or am I confusing this with that bug report about a toddler breaking the gnome login screen..?).

But anyway, this bug report is great.
Are you talking about the hospital that was actually destroyed accidentally by the Hamas and the Hamas blamed it on Israel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...
The amount of software in everyday objects which runs without exhibiting bugs to such a degree we do not notice most of it even exists.
I'll mention that the "Lean way" for constructivity is that you write `def`s for constructions. These can depend on classical reasoning for well-typedness if you want (like for being sure a number is in range when indexing an array), but there is a computability checker. In particular, the compiler sees if there is a way to lower the `def` into some simply typed IR, and this IR can be further compiled to C. If you trust the compiler, then you can trust whether it's real construction.

(Of course, you can also go and prove a definition evaluates to some value if you don't want to trust the evaluator.)
Hamas is hiding among civilians. I don’t want innocent people to be hurt, but their use of human shields is simply the standard playbook in this type of warfare. Hamas rationally wants Gazan civilians to be nearby and indistinguishable from combatants.
> there is no such thing as zero bugs.

Ok, I think we’ve gone too far. There absolutely is such thing as 0 bugs and sometimes code changes don’t have bugs. That is not to say it can be garunteed.
I was just attempting to restate neilv's question in a different way. If you don't know that's fine.