skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Finally, Jewish people cannot colonise an area they’ve been for 3000 years.

I’m not sure what that means.

I’m a person. I have ancestors who were likely [0] forced out of at least four identifiable countries. Many if not most Americans are in a similar position.

Does this mean that my descendants could “colonize” places where my ancestors never lived but could not “colonize” places where they did not live?

If I moved, permanently, to Antarctica, Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, New York, England, Russia, Ukraine, Mars, or Argentina, would I be colonizing, “returning”, etc? Does the answer really depend on where my ancestors lived 50 or 100 or 3000 years ago?

I do think there’s something to be said for someone moving to where their recent ancestors live or lived, but this gets complicated very very quickly, especially when political borders move in the mean time.

I once visited the house in a foreign country where some of ancestors lived in the 1930s, from which they were quite aggressively removed. I’m pretty sure that if I moved back there by force, I would be doing something very very wrong.

[0] I say “likely” because some degree of extrapolation is needed as to what happened tens of generations ago. And the number is likely much larger than 4.
MANGA?

(Or would that be the alternative history version where the companies were Japanese)
That'd be a reasonable interpretation. Although a slightly more palatable take is that I'm arguing I don't exist independently of anything else. It is safe to say something exists because, otherwise HN comments don't get processed. But the idea that we exist as independent perspectives is probably an evolutionary illusion. Or alternatively, if we do exist as independent perspectives then we appear to be an uncomfortably short step away from GPUs being able to do that too using nothing much more than electricity, circuits and matrices. There doesn't seem to be anything special going on.

I'm not confident enough (yet?) to take that all the way to its logical conclusions in how I live, but I think the evidence is strongest for that interpretation.
How this was downvoted is beyond saddening. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
It sounds like it's a chimera, so there's actually a half male half female genotype (or rather, a full male genotype in half the body and a full female genotype in the other part).
There are lisp coders who don't use emacs? or vim?
Why would people trust them now? Now nobody is to be trusted. By the time the 'news' get it it's old and already on Twitter. Nobody besides boomers watch the news and 23 year olds aren't going to log off TikTok to watch boring shit they already knew 8hr ago with more detail than the 30 seconds they will hear about it from some loser talking head in a suit.
What's stopping VCs or their staffs from double checking or keeping track after the money has been disbursed?
It seems to me like its main value is in some sensible defaults.

In my opinion it isn’t really different enough from CSS to be useful, and every time I’ve used it I have to read through the docs to find out what CSS it’s generating so I can debug it.
I think one of the most eye opening study of this kind is that, people perceive attractive people as more trustworthy. In this world, if you are ugly, people will think you are hiding something. Thank you God.
There's a hint of red trouser brigade in many of these pubs. Some are beautiful pubs and worth seeing for that but plenty on this list are meh.

The Jolly Gardeners for example is now a pretty who cares gastropub when it used to be called Zeitgeist about 5 years ago and was, by miles, the best German pub in London - obscure regional German beers on draft, genuine German food made and served by Germans, all Bundesliga matches and filled with actual Germans. It's not even the best pub (which also appeared in a movie) on that street.
I've made two things that I use daily (for several years now):

RSS/Atom reader for CLI: https://github.com/lallassu/gorss

Simple Todo list (replacement for Wunderlist): https://github.com/lallassu/doit
I do have code and lots of photos. And I use good old hard drives to store them. Cloud storage just for backup.
I'm on my fifth Tesla now and I drive a lot. The switch from radar to pure vision has been really disruptive and annoying, especially in tight spaces like a garage. If this ends up causing more nagging, the value of having autopilot will simply be worth the "costs". I used FSD beta and while it's a cool party trick, I just don't trust it enough to use every single day compared to using basic autopilot.

I've driven with GM's Super Cruise (Escalade) and it's about 80 percent the same as basic autopilot. The interior quality is much better but you're in a GM vehicle which are kind of known to be ticking-time bombs.
The article seems to talk about the systems themselves, not the intelligent people making these systems.
And the spoiler buttons serving no purpose excepted preventing to read fast... obnoxious.
I think that "the cloud" should not be considered to be a safe long-term storage. It can be used as redundancy backup, but if you really need to keep your data, you should take care of that yourself.

This is not a technical issue, but an ownership issue. Google is mostly an ad company and as such they don't really treat you as users but as a product.
A raid-RAID?
I would compare them to other companies: they’re not going to lightly outshow their own products since that both affects sales and increases the odds of a lawsuit on behalf of everyone who bought the older models under false advertising. It’s more likely to end badly in court if the lawyer can say everyone else in the industry got this right but their clients vehicles will never get the promised features because they lack the necessary hardware.
Not to mention a tax on the company. You have to do all of these mailings no matter what!

NVM the fact that customers will get them months after the work has automatically been done. :facepalm
A person who demands a cease-fire in an asymmetric war in which Hamas did the first strike is pro-Hamas.
But regulators have done that going on a century now, and it has held up in court. The FDA has long lists of definitions of what you can and can't call chocolate, milk, cheese, beef, etc.
I honestly don't know why anyone would use Google for anything anymore.
He's trying to say that California's law banning false advertising must be Constitutional because libel is illegal.

It's a non-sequitur though. Libel and false advertising are not the same thing.
Agreed, I use their services, but I absolutely do not depend on them. They can't be trusted.
He had backups. The FBI took them from multiple locations
They should receive the same representation, IMO.

Divorced from emotion, representation even for the most despicable of organizations powers the feedback loop of the judicial system, allowing it to set precedents, identify holes in law, etc.

I think the dynamics of defence and prosecution don't end at "One defends, one prosecutes". Defence forces Prosecution to devise a bulletproof case, they promote rigorous case preparation and ensure legal integrity. It's the same reason why we have opposition parties in politics. Without defence, how comprehensive would the prosecutions case be? Further illegal activity commited by the defendent gets uncovered all the time by prosecution, during the trial, due to the pressures applied on the prosecution by the defence.

Yes, the chemical companies actively poisoning the people should be burned to the ground, but, for the judicial system to function, they should receive zealous representation, and those representing them, should not be viewed as less-than.

That's my current take on it. Happy to be called naive and discuss this further.
Tiling WM for Windows with XAML layouts: https://github.com/StackWM
You never know when you'll have a fire, software bug, or critical disk failure. It's at least as good of a backup location as any other.
Just looking at the cheap 20TB disk drives available here in Austria, the disks alone add just over 4000 Euros to that, and then you still need a machine to host 12 drives, I see one QNAP for 12 disk for only 1500 Euros. But it has only a 2x10Gb connection.
Slimming down the data sounds like the first thing to do here.
I assume ingredient lists, which the parent comment referred to, are handled federally.
The actual headline is slightly less inflammatory: "Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data"

The facts of the article are even less inflammatory. The journalist uploaded 237.22 TB of video to his google drive when the "unlimited" plan existed. When google phased out the unlimited plan, he's not paying for a non-unlimited plan, and his account entered a read-only state. Now, the account is scheduled for termination since he's not paying for a valid current account.

It would cost the guy $5000 a month to store his data on S3 and he doesn't want to pay that, so he now needs to find someone to bear the cost of storing his video files before his account terminates.
The phrase "Freon is a greenhouse gas that has depleted the earth’s ozone layer" annoys me. A lot of people don't get that the Ozone layer and climate change (the greenhouse effect) are different things. Freon is both a very powerful greenhouse gas, and it destroys the ozone layer.

Since Freon and other CFCs were banned, the Ozone layer has been mostly coming back, but climate change is still happening because of the other greenhouse gases.
AI systems are not like people.
Improving Kafka Performance on Edge Cases at HubSpot
> I am sure Iran will agree with above statement, it’s just that their set of facts is different from those of US judges.

For censoring speech, we have before us two options:

Option A is to ban "mistruths", and to go down the philosophical pursuit of determining what is "fact" and what is fiction, which will change based on milieu, sentiment, those in power, etc., and will be argued endlessly. Then we need to get into "unintended mistruths" vs "intentional mistruths", etc.

Option B is to allow most speech and to only focus on tortious fictions (libel/slander).

I think most sane people would choose Option B. And yes, Iran will disagree with the "facts" of the American populace, as I assume a German will disagree as well :)
>it's not the waiter's/waitress' fault they're paid garbage

To be fair, it kind of is. There are other job opportunities for people.
Why do people never say this about Nissan and "ProPILOT"?
Variable speed limits are pretty standard on British motorways and they set a lower speed in dangerous conditions, heavy traffic, roadworks, etc.
Maybe they only use the log4j test script ;)

Or maybe someone had to run some scanning tool which reported 'no vulnerabilities'.

Exploiting log4j requires logging to be influenced by user input. Even if an application includes a vulnerable log4j but doesn't bother to log anything there's zero risk. In that case apathy saved you ;)
Will there be a firefox compatible verson ? I have been looking for a full text search history extension and what you developed is exactly what i am looking for but i use firefox and checking github there is a link for chrome only.
Agriculture doesn't use so much land because it needs to; it uses so much land because that's the cheapest way of producing food. There are lots of existing technologies that could produce more food per acre, but they are not economically viable. One example: greenhouses. Land use is primarily a political/economical problem, not a technological one.
> but it seems when I do, I get super heavy traffic

Do you mean you get more traffic when Google Ads are active/present on your website?

I.e. that the google search ranking algorithm prioritizes websites running Google ads?
The article said it was stored in a Google Workspace account, which means it is Google Drive and there are no egress fees.
> but still delivered on reusable rockets

The Space Shuttle from the 80s was reusable too. Falcon 9 isn't fully reusable (upper stage) and now Starship drops some new ring into the sea.

> More or less nudged all other manufacturers to producing eletric cars at minimum

Didn't he instead let them delay making electric cars by transacting with them for their ZEV credits?

I think the SpaceX stuff is still impressive, but he didn't deliver on his big statements. Dragon was supposed to land on Mars years ago for instance. The Space Shuttle wasn't economical, but Starship went back to lots of elements of its design.
Which were the basic skills you thought you were lacking in terms of remembering tone?
Or tab-based game on mobile. Tab down, draw line, tab up.
Beyond Illusion
That was fast: the warning has already moved to videos.
> You can't just introduce some transpiler in-between and expect that it'll work

Obviously it "works" and they didn't "just" transpile it but spent quite a bit of effort on this. Whether it's free of bugs that are not present in SQLite is a different matter. And while it's not run against the SQLite proprietary tests, it does pass all of the TCL tests IIRC, which are quite comprehensive on their own, so there shouldn't be huge glaring bugs.
The first email shown in the article ends with the call to action of "get more storage" and a link. Pretty obviously that would be buying additional space, not getting it for free.

(But it would cost something like $5k-10k/month, not the ~$10/month that he seems willing to pay.)
I don't understand vertical farming for anything other than crops that aren't eaten for their calorie content.

To me, it seems like an expensive way to increase the land needed to grow food. Land use is increased, assuming the energy to light the greenhouse comes from solar panels. You need ~ 10 m^2 of solar panels to provide 1 m^2 of sun-equivalent light, sure there might be some optimization to be done with wavelengths and intensity, but I haven't seen anything to indicate you could ever break even.

Why build a solar farm to convert light to electricity, then a big greenhouse where that electricity is converted back into light? Just plant the crops where you were going to put the solar panels!
Google decided it is time to sell GA for enterprises with 3rd parties involved. One client of mine (1B+ revenue, Xth largest website in Europe where x < 10) did not sort out the 3rd party agreement on time. Google's answer: we are going delete all of your data. Have a nice day!
It appears that he had a Workspace account which offered “unlimited” storage for a time, predicated on the account type being multiuser businesses or education, with a per-seat fee. Google phased out the unlimited storage awhile ago (over a year) after people discovered a loophole where paying for one account still provided unlimited storage. Predictable abuse followed (see /r/datahoarders).

While I’m sympathetic to the user and skeptical of Google’s commitment to their customers, this doesn’t appear to be a straightforward case of someone getting Scroogled. If he were paying for the consumed storage as a standard Drive customer, this wouldn’t be happening.
> If a man has done it, a man can do it. [...] Just because a particular assembly has it's tasks divided up between a myriad of people does not mean it is impossible to unify those tasks into a single person.

I don't understand your argument, in particular, the linked article already refuted this point by saying the following, but you didn't provide a counterargument to that:

> But let’s imagine an extraordinarily talented man who started on the factory floor, worked his way through an engineering degree, moved up through the ranks to design the very thing he was building before, and knows the roles of everyone on his team so well that he could do all their jobs himself. Surely this brilliant person knows how to make a mouse. Or does he? He may understand circuits – but does he know every detail of how to build a diode from raw materials? He may understand plastics – but could he single-handedly synthesize a plastic from its constituent chemicals? Does he understand how to mine silicon out of the ground? Nobody in the world – not one single human being anywhere – knows how to make a mouse. It’s orders of magnitude too complex for a solitary mind.
If it's Google Cloud you are talking about, then cheap as in cheap quality, yes. Cheap as in low price, no.
> One suggestion I hope you can look into: the Java world is a lot bigger than just Oracle Java, with multiple implementations where End-of-Life greatly differs. If possible, people avoid Oracle Java. Look up OpenJDK, Eclipse Temurin, Azul, IBM Semeru

https://endoflife.date/openjdk-builds-from-oracle

https://endoflife.date/microsoft-build-of-openjdk

https://endoflife.date/redhat-build-of-openjdk

https://endoflife.date/eclipse-temurin

https://endoflife.date/azul-zulu

https://endoflife.date/ibm-semeru-runtime

https://endoflife.date/amazon-corretto
I recently read 'The Winds of War' and 'War and Remembrance', novels by WW2 US Navy officer Herman Wouk. It is amazing how much history he crams into the narrative, documenting, among many other things, German treatment of the Jews before and during WW2. His hope and the purpose of the books as expressed in the last sentences of 'War and Remembrance' is

'For the rest of us, perhaps. Not for the dead, not for the more than fifty million real dead in the world’s worst catastrophe: victors and vanquished, combatants and civilians, people of so many nations, men, women, and children, all cut down. For them there can be no new earthly dawn. Yet though their bones lie in the darkness of the grave, they will not have died in vain, if their remembrance can lead us from the long, long time of war to the time for peace.'

Many attempts have been made to help us remember where humanity has gone wrong. I am prone to despair to see something so well documented being treated as a myth.
The biggest issue of the modernc approach is that it can't use the proprietary sqlite test suites and fuzzer to ensure that it works like the original: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
That’s front and back of house, yes?
People collectively can act like systems.
I read that KOreader is unstable on the Libra 2[0], so I haven’t installed it yet even though I would like to. What has been your experience running it?

[0] https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/8414
Worse than that- even if you are adjacent to a crime that took place and not the suspect, they can also invade your privacy - rifle through all of your private data online and so on.

I had a friend who owns a PC repair shop who bought a laptop from another 'friend' that was sold to him illegally. (He did not know it was illegally stolen from the next state over) The state police came in (with FBI in tow) and seized all of his equipment. Every last computer (all of his own, as well as customers that had their pc in for repair) in the shop was checked over.

They held onto his equipment (along with 3 other customers) for 6 months, and he had to make do with a laptop to keep his business running. Fortunately, he had backed up his PC repair software to another location. Or he would have been out of business.

All because the FBI wanted to be thorough. Not because he was on suspicion of a crime.
If we had a normal Supreme Court right now, I’d agree.

They’ve been unilaterally reversing decisions that are decades old, and some of the justices are openly accepting bribes then failing to recuse themselves on related cases.

Musk certainly has enough cash to buy a few votes. I’m not sure if it’ll be enough to eliminate regulation of commercial speech, but I wouldn’t be surprised, given how popular that would be with politically-connected propagandists in the US.
My interested-lay-person understanding: Previously it would read a chunk of file, then decode it, then apply filters, then run multi-threaded encoding, then write a chunk of file.

Now it can read the next chunk of file while decoding a chunk while applying filters while running multi-threaded encoding while writing the previous chunk.

I expect this will be a big help for complicated setups (applying multiple filters, rendering to multiple outputs with different codecs), but probably not much change for a simple 1-input 1-output transcode.
Innovation is the only way we'll get out of this. Sitting on our asses consuming food for no innovation and a culture of shutting down any attempt like that will only make things worse. This is a good tradeoff for the environmental cost and risks which nuclear brings (which isn't even large).
When applying for RDOF you say what service tier you are targeting and instead of shooting for the minimum 25/3, Starlink applied for 100/20. When they didn't reach those speeds[1], they were ineligible but not just because they didn't hit the required speeds on their existing network. There are more details here[2] but the jist is that Starlink bid to supply 100/20 internet to over half a million subscribers and the FCC was required to assess if Starlink was reasonably, technically capable of supplying those speeds by 2025. Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn't had a successful launch. On top of this, the statistics that were available at the time showed that Starlink transfer speeds were already trending down and the network is a lot less utilized than it would be in 2025. There are technical challenges that need to be solved before Starlink is remotely capable of meeting that obligation and the challenges don't appear to be resolved yet. Giving Starlink money is a gamble and the FCC would rather play it safe.

>RDOF rules set speeds of 25/3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25/3 Mbps, 50/5 Mbps, 100/20 Mbps and 1 Gbps/500 Mbps. When the auction closed, the FCC noted 99.7% of locations were bid at 100/20 or higher, with 85% bid at the gigabit tier. That means Starlink will need to provide speeds of at least 100/20 in order to meet its obligations.

1. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/what-do-starlinks-la...

2. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A1.pdf
Though since its not law, as passed by legislation, this current supreme court, if it got the case and decided to hear it, could just as well throw all this out the window no?

They've proven multiple times they're willing to throw away decades of legal precedent over ideological motives already.
No, download from Google Drive (Workspace or not) is free. They don’t promise they’ll actually let you download 240TB in 7 days, though.

Honestly, /r/datahoarder with their 240TBs or more is why we can’t have nice things…
You go to a bank (people often go their bank with some expectation of a better rate) or you use check online comparator to see what deal you can get.

Then the bank will look at your current funds, the job you have, the earnings you have and after some abracadabra they will say yes or no.

There is no building of trust the assessment is on what you have and what you are capable of.

The credit is usually 1/3 of your salary (at least in France) and you novadays have to provide about 20-30% of the total amount.
I mean... we know how biology works? So...
Sure, let's blame the victim here!
> it's not at all clear that they're really more than a glorified autocorrect.

I use LLMs regularly in my job - many times a day - and I suspect you haven't used them much if you think this.

They're relevant to the singularity discussion though, because they already give a taste of what superhuman intelligence could look like.

ChatGPT, for example, is objectively superhuman in many ways, despite its significant limitations. Once systems like this are more integrated with the outside world and able to learn more directly from feedback, we'll get an even bigger leap forward.

Dismissing this as "glorified autocorrect" is extremely far off base.