skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In October, the San Francisco-based genetic testing company headed by Anne Wojcicki announced that hackers had accessed sensitive user information including photos, full names, geographical location, information related to ancestry trees, and even names of related family members."

For those who do not know, her sister is a longtime Google marketing person since 1999, who worked on AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, GoogleAnalytics and the money-losing data collection and advertising subsidiary YouTube.

It seems personal data collection for profit runs in the family.
> toy market will ever recover,

Also people are having less kids these days -- for better or worse (I think worse) -- so people have less need for toys. Also kids love just paying video games on tablets and PCs, so also less need for physical toys.
I would say a definition for GAI is a system that can improve its own ability to adapt to new problems. That’s a more concrete formulation than I’ve typically seen.

Currently humans are still in the loop, but we already have AI enabling advancements in their own functioning at a very primitive level. Extrapolating from previous growth is a form of belief without evidence since past performance not indicative of future results. But that’s generally true of all prognostication and I’m not sure what kind of evidence you’d be looking for aside from past performance.

The doubters are dismissed as naive thinking that something is outside our ability to achieve something, but that’s only if you keep moving goalposts and treat it like Zeno’s paradox. Like yes, there are weaknesses to our current techniques. At the same time we’ve also demonstrated an uncanny ability to step around them and reach new heights. For example, our ability to beat Go took less time than it took to develop techniques to beat humans at chess. Automation now outcompetes humans at many many things that seemed impossible before. Techniques / solutions will also be combined to solve even harder problems (eg now LLMs are being researched to take over executive command control operations of robots for example instead of using classical control systems algorithms that were hand built and hand tuned)
I'm getting to a point where I automatically assume any business is both taking my money and trying to totally fuck other parts of my life behind my back to make more money.

If capitalism is so great why is it so incompatible with being a good and honest person?
you're better than this mozilla. hopping on the ai trend is disgusting given your alleged morals
Virgin Rock: Aerosmith – Dream On
libc is a bad idea. Deciding the default allocator how to talk to the kernel should be provided by the same library is a bad.

Musl should be able to exist without providing any allocator.
Lots of words have odd spelling due to false etymologies.

That's true as well.

It was an etymological fallacy that drove those spelling reforms to 'correct' the spelling anyway.

There is no real value in keeping the k in knife when the sound was dropped as an example.

To me, these two statements suggest opposite recommendations. The first tells us that we should be cautious of prescriptive changes to spelling. The second that we should go ahead and drop the k in knife (and presumably change the spelling on all other words to be more phonetic).

I am inclined to be conservative here [1]. I found Mark Twain's satirical piece on the issue [2] rather persuasive. Like it or not, those old prescriptivists' changes have become part of the etymology. Making further changes for the sake of easier spelling would only complicate the etymology even further, and make it even harder for future English-speakers to read the texts of today.

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/

[2] https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html
Si Jiping is a dictator and not a wise thinker.
A useful 1a for ChatGPT specifically is BabyAGI-style "what their current/next objective is."

There are vector database solutions that address the forgetting of context. Oobabooga has superbooga (chromadb), SillyTavern requires the headache of the Extras service but will let you use chromadb, Google or OpenAI. Koboldcpp doesn't do vectorization, but does have a clunky autogenerate-summary feature that injects a summary of events so far into the prompt.
As fare as I can see it's just a MacOS image, nothing is happening
I've been building backend systems for over 35 years across many industries.
Was it R.A. Salvatore? I would love to watch Drizzt Do'Urden on the big screen.
> the stronger side can't be expected to moderate its response when we're talking about the murder of ~1000 civilians.

A fundamental principle of the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) is distinguishing military and civilian targets, and minimizing harm to the latter. That applies to all sides in every war. [0]

In warfare, generally all sides are outraged, filled with hatred and revenge. They wouldn't be killing each other otherwise. That is not an exceptional situation, it's the norm; that's what the LOAC was written for. 1200 civilian deaths, though absolutely horrible, unforunately also is well within the norm for warfare. 100,000+ have died in places and times, including at US hands.

Obviously Hamas didn't follow that principle (they seem to have intentionally violated it). I can't say how well Israel is doing it, but it's an essential issue. Saying 'we're angry' or 'our people were killed' is not exceptional in warfare and does not create exceptions.

[0] https://www.justsecurity.org/89489/expert-guidance-law-of-ar...
Getting laid off shortly after Christmas is worse than getting laid off before Christmas for many people, yes. If you know you're being laid off before Christmas, you can pare back on Christmas spending. If you're laid off after it, then you can't.
Paper explaining it in detail: https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatc...

It's somewhat adversarial, with the idea that if people who have disagreed in the past agree on a note, then it's probably true.
Approximately every stage of every rocket before spacex started landing them was “lost”. Test flights are part of development costs. Nobody at spacex is particularly concerned with test fights being test flights.
Please, go through the images first. Then explain to me, how bulldozing a park aids in Israel's effort to fight Hamas?

Again, Israel has the right to fight and fight hard, anyone would do that in their place. But I think many people in the west are awefully unaware of just the scale and magnitude of the destruction Israel has unleashed.
Am I cynical thinking the opposite? I can’t imagine they got that domain for a song. Spending a pile of cash on vanity such as that is a real turn off for me; it signals more flash than bang. Am I wrong to think this?
Hahahaha.

You can't be serious.

Hand to hand combat?

Just because you're depressed doesn't mean you have to bend reality to pretend "hunter gatherers had it best".

Hell, no one is forcing you to use work with a computer. There's many avenues to do a more "in line with nature life".

But I suspect you want your internet and amenities and all that jazz.
absolutely not that's what they do in Zero Tolerance places like the Gulf States
The answer is: One if it's the gavotte
I would assume it could be guaranteed that they would arrive unarmed.

> Unless you mean to create temporary refuge camps heavily armed within Israel that would still be closed borders, which doesn't seem like an improvemnt over the current situation

You are right that they would have to remain in a confined space. Still, they wouldn't be in danger of being bombarded which would be a vast improvement. Compared with an evacuation into Egypt it would also have the advantage that people would presumably feel more confident that they would eventually be allowed to return (given that Israel would rather they returned to Gaza than remain indefinitely within Israel).
> From your perspective, how would you want to set these filters? A SOQL query, or something else?

For myself, I want to write SOQL there, though I'd guess many of your target customers will want a point-and-click option. Selecting a list view for that object could be an interesting UX hack that might be worth exploring: there's some Salesforce Labs product that does that.

> Salesforce <> Salesforce is not heavily tested... Curious what use case you have in mind?

I've seen a number of configurations for different purposes, the most common one being sandbox data movements.

Management of multiple production orgs gets complex fast, but there are a few places where a tool like this could find a niche: org migrations come to mind. There's often an interim period where you're two way syncing (even though you'd rather not!) before the org being phased out is done.

Good luck!
By harming civilians? Like GGP, I am disgusted by everyone carrying a weapon in this conflict. These people were driven out of their homes and walled off in poverty a few decades ago by an unelected government, which legitimized itself with elections only after they were gone. Some of the displaced are violent. That doesn't justify inflicting further pain on the rest.
Depends on the severance. It's rough because you're starting the application process now, and not many companies are going to start the hiring process with someone a few days before a Christmas break.

That means you can essentially only start the process in early January, so you're already a few weeks/a month into your severance
Can you define what you mean by genocide exactly?
I am a MTG player. Also I used to own my own game business.

I am not sure Chris Cocks will preserve wotc.

First an interesting fact: one of the people pushing Alta Fox to meddle with Hasbro is a guy that was MTG player in the 90s.

Now about Chris Cocks: after he became CEO of WotC, the company did grow but making lots of short term focused things, like ditching the Pro scene, spamming Commander and Modern products (and I am a heavy Commander player...) spamming foils and other collectible crap, and reducing good promotional prizes.

Also they ditched some good products to offer complete crap after he became CEO, for example the holiday boxes were wildly useful and today they are crazy expensive because how useful and cool they are, if you find them. But lots and lots of stores has the Chris era gift products stuck on shelves collecting dust.

Then after he became Hasbro CEO things got somehow worse, like the OGL stupidity, 35th anniversary product that is ludicrously expensive, selling pre-sale products on Amazon official WotC store so cheap it undercut stores so badly they lost money.
This is fun! I like the voice, and the picture of Santa and his helpers are cute.

After discussing with my sister-in-law, though, we won't be showing this to my nephew -- still a true believer in Father Christmas -- because she reckons it sounds slightly too generated, and she's concerned that it might break the spell. :-(

For myself, I think I would have been charmed, but perhaps I was more of an 8-bit kid.
goal directed programming is the related non-sql programming paradigm. unicorn/icon[1]

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Use cases:[2]

autoparts inventory (book keeping page statics of sales/sales person, parts, inventory on hand, etc)

internet statistics for through put on all interfaces on group of servers [0]

--- topic related books:

Joe Celko has book series 'SQL for Smarties' that covers basic through advanced aggrecation with sql using example queries.

Joe Celko's 'Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties' covers some of the ideas related to 'SQL statment returned a database'?

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[0]: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/173044/nested-aggreg...

[1] : http://unicon.org/

[2] : https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu/courses/CS338/lectures/6%20Ne...
Calling it a “legitimate beef” crosses the line from considering a thread of thought into defending the ISP because it’s only true from their perspective.
site's pretty funny, but would likely be more useful with more information and less clicking-around-nostalgia 8-)
My comment was about wanting to see more (nerds) -> (public) communication, not about anything (public) -> (nerds). I understand they're not good at it, it was just an idealistic lament.

My bone to pick with Musk and Altman and their ilk is their damage to public discourse, not that they're getting attention per se. Whether that public discourse damage really matters is its own conversation.
"punishing crime" is a frankly insulting understatement of the way countries like Singapore or the UAE treat accused criminals. Not to mention the list of things that count as crimes there. I mean if you're that angry about shoplifters or homeless people doing drugs on the street, okay, but don't be dishonest about what these role model countries actually do
I think Israel has to ask itself why there is such a large militant force on its borders, embedded in the civilian population. Why the population support it and why it is hell bent on destroying Israel. Why for example does this problem not occur for other nations? Could Israel be responsible in some way for the situation it is in? The alternative might lie some way from addressing that.
They published the data. You are free to use whatever JS library of your choice to do that. Then you can come back and post a Show HN, then someone else can comeback with their Show HN of how it was rewritten in Rust/Go/Lisp just for the lulz.

Hell, it's tuesday, so by monday, I expect a "did it in a weekend" SaaS allowing uploads of boring raw excel data and receive a nice UI for the mere exchange of them a permanent and irrevocable license to use the data for any purpose commercial or not.
> The government is supposed to represent the interests of citizens.

I'm not sure that's ever happened in this country. They pay all sorts of lip service, but when challenged or under pressure, the US makes a lot of excuses for leaving its own people behind.

Thankfully we can repay that favor and see how they like it when there's nobody left to defend them.
So can they host the Gutenberg project in NZ then? There is no feasible way for people to prevent people from downloading the hobbit. They couldn't stop music or movie downloads except by adopting a subscription model that effectively reduced the prices. These files are tiny and the ethical case against it is so much harder to make.

Edit: also, these are the sorts of books that don't get lumped into subscriptions and are often missing from digital libraries.
Sure, but the point of the phrase is that the question itself is a waste of time.
But the country in the 80s didn't have a generation of brainwashing by Billionaires, Millionaires, and Temporarily-Displaced-Millionaires parroting the myth that the executive board of a publicly-traded company has a "fiduciary duty" to make as much money as possible.
Israel has brought in 300k reservists. In a country of 9 million, that's a not insignificant percentage of the population.

Many of those are part of the tech sector and are currently not working.
So, lobsters have undersea farms?
> Gaza's citizens chose Hamas as their elected government

Well... They got 44% of the vote in 2006 and have refused to hold elections since
You're still focusing on median which I think is a valid measure on its own but not wholly representative of mobility at all. I'm personally very biased, but I think social mobility is most important between upper-middle (usually the most educated and hard-working) and upper-classes because that's where the most value creation happens, and personally I think that it's much more motivating to have a chance to become very wealthy than it is to increase your income by $10k

> But once you remove sterotypes, what makes you think it's easier to climb to the top in America?

We have lower marginal income taxes, self-funded retirements, and proportionately less capital tied up in generational assets like buildings. My impression of the EU is that most of the upper class and upper-middle class are land/building/family business inheritors, whereas in the US equity in large businesses take a larger share of the upper/upper-middle class asssets.
Could you provide some basis for those claims? I'm not saying your wrong or right, but especially for this situation, we need some reason to believe ...
I wish I could do that, but unfortunately my music taste is so varied/fluid that it would take thousands of dollars and a full day's work to purchase and download all the music I listen to these days. And a couple years from now I'd need to do it all over again to update based on my new taste.
Preventing Serial Kafka Processing at HubSpot
I have fiber provided by the city utility in Knoxville... is this an exception to that rule? (Moved here fairly recently).
One of the only sources that has journalists on the ground is not valid?
> If you serve data from a DC in California to the west coast of Australia it will take 10 seconds of just network transfer time.

What? Is this a typo or do you think that’s true?
They are considered incredibly biased against Israel, certainly by Israelis.

(Israelis consider a lot of media slightly biased against them, but Al Jazeera is in a completely different league.)
> If you serve data from a DC in California to the west coast of Australia it will take 10 seconds of just network transfer time

Where did you get that calculation? Looks way way off
Don't treat the Palestinians like they have no agency...
The thing you have to realize about Canada is that corporate power is concentrated in Toronto, especially for the oligopoly industries (i.e. most of Canadian business) and the oligopoly nature of the industries allows Canadian companies to go even more insane that the wokest coastal city based American companies. Since it's almost entirely concentrated in one spot it also allows the insanity to spread and multiply way faster than the multipolar corporate structure in America. So, if any Canadian ISP thinks you are unethical and abusive you may actually be doing it right.
I liked the D&D movie, though it definitely felt budget with some awful CG at times.

For some reason, call it mid-pandemic boredom, my wife and I saw Hasbro's GI Joe film "Snake Eyes" in theaters. That was pretty awful.
They just need to innovate to keep up with entertainment changes, and they haven’t. They’ve become crystallized in brand management and focused on very traditional and impotent MBA-lead strategies to “monetize the portfolio” and completely missed the chance at gaming innovation leadership.

They should make WotC’s management in charge of the overall company. I had a chance to work with them extensively on MTG internet properties and they are a cut above most management teams.

Chris is an interesting mix and as long as he makes long-term choices instead of them plethora of short term profit driven choices he’s been criticized for he is capable and thoughtful. I don’t think we’ve seen what he can do as he has always been beholden to the parent corporation’s culture.
I'm curious why you think there are much fewer homeless in conservative cities (like Provo, Jacksonville, even Orange County)? Is it because everything is backwards? The progressive cities are actually conservative, and the conservative cities are actually progressive?
It's like designing a webpage. If you don't have the innate skills, you'll take 15x more time and the result will be almost surely abysmal.
Us Boomers call that Syndication. It would be interesting to see the contracts written for these shows. The old broadcast days, shows tried to get to 100 episodes as quickly as possible as that was the qualifier for becoming syndicated. Becoming syndicated is where people really started earning with those points on the back end.
Yeah, the only woman that showed up to that smaller dozen person regular event was my gf. Once.

I kinda understated what I was saying in the above because I didn't wanna get hounded by the basement dweller crowd, but the reality at the bigger events was pretty ugly. The only girl that ever showed up was the daughter of one of the organizers. Only a couple women showed up otherwise.

One story I can mention is from a different party I went to in a town not far away. This was a big bigger of an event, around 300 people and only run once a year. I only recall a woman showing up once.

That event held a 1v1 quake tourney with a modest cash prize. This woman was good. She smoked everyone easily. This was a bit of a shock because a couple people at that event had competed at quakecon and such.

The entire time she was at the event there was this mob surrounding her PC of... well, imagine the least socially aware and hygienic dudes that would show up to an early 00's LAN party. Didn't matter what she was doing or trying to play, they endlessly pestered her and tried to chat her up. If she walked across the room to get a coke you could see half the room openly staring at her turning their heads. Stuff like that.

Unsurprisingly she didn't return for the second day or any future event.
This credit score system in the US always made me curious. Say some point I had a proposition to move to the US and I asked the company offering the job how they will ensure that I immediately get the best possible score. They said it was not possible because it was a personal score.

I told them that I will certainly not start to build a credit score at 40 yo so they will have to find someone else.
> If capitalism is so great why is it so incompatible with being a good and honest person?

Capitalism was never about that. It was about having acting in their own self-interest as to maximize economic efficiency. That model works great when you are selling commodities and physical products.

Capitalism in the era of personal information as currency is a entirely different beast that needs to be reworked.
I wish they would fix basic features such as downloading pictures on Firefox for Android. Often long pressing the image on your screen opens a context menu that does not allow download, only following the link associated with the image.
Hasbro needed to, and failed to (imo), transition into selling higher-end luxury toys for adults with nostalgia - and focus less on kids.

With the exception of DnD, everything else Hasbro-owned has failed to capture such an audience I think.

Their toys are generally priced ~$25 or less. Higher-end variants of their toys are not by Hasbro, but rather by other companies. Want a high-end nerf gun? You're going to Dart Zone, not Hasbro.

On Amazon their toys are competing on the same footing with the cheaper (often better) knock-off brands.

Their board games are dated and haven't really evolved. Monopoly is $15 while Catan is $100, /r/HotWheels collectors want old cars not the cheap new ones, etc.

By comparison, brands like Lego have evolved, are insanely expensive (>$100) and I constantly see adults with disposable income purchasing them en-mass while they're not really affordable as kids toys anymore.
Gensis is the first book of the Tora, Old Testament and as such tad older than Christianity.
> it's the picture of a fight against the entire civilian population

Israel could have been done with that 6 weeks ago, if they didn't care about making the distinction. It's a pretty small region, after all.

Are they doing a good job in distinguishing military targets and civilians? No. Could anybody do better and still make progress towards the stated goal? Uncertain.

But I don't think that "Israel is not even trying to protect civilians" is supported by Israel's actions.
so this is how growth hacking look like, building a landing page for a imaginary product to test market-fit idea?
This is roughly equivalent to watching a developer work and insulting them when their code doesn’t compile. Nobody who writes code cares, that’s just what writing code is like. You could spend a ton more time writing code trying to get it to compile without errors ever, but that would be a whole lot more pointless work.