skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not saying it’s impossible but that it’s a numbers game: if you have a messy battle with Hamas and kill a dozen people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, that’s a dozen lotto tickets for the n% chance that one of the people who knew them succumbs to the propaganda saying the answer is to join Hamas and strike back. Angry people make rash decisions, especially if they think they don’t have choices.

I would highly recommend reading the FP article I linked. The author has researched this for years and one of the things which has made this so depressing for me is more cogently discussed in their work about what causes people to resort to violence. Japan and Germany had their share of angry losers, but they also had productive opportunities for most people – the U.S. wasn’t taking their land for American settlers and crowding them onto reservations. If you’re a Palestinian teenager aware of the outside world but resigned to a life of subsistence farming or living on foreign aid, and then someone destroys your family’s farm and says that the land they stole is theirs now, violence is going to look more reasonable because pretty much everything else has been removed. That’s completely unlike WWII, or even Vietnam, and I don’t think we’ll see anything good come from it.

Now, imagine some fantasy where Israel leaves occupied Palestine to a UN peacekeeping mission or, say, the United States gives a big chunk of BLM land to anyone who wants to emigrate (not saying this is politically possible, just for the sake of argument). You’re that same Palestinian teenager who’s been shat on your entire life but now you have the option of likely being killed fighting on behalf of people you couldn’t vote for and clearly don’t care about you … or you could do literally anything else with your life and have a much better chance of living to age 30. Having options is hugely transformative and I think any path out of this has to involve finding one.
I always found the de-alcoholization of mouth wash a bit interesting. Seemed to happen a little after big tobacco lawsuits. Almost like they know something and worry about it.

As with coca-cola decreasing bottle sizes (before that was the cool thing to do). We went from 591mL to 500mL. And new smaller cans in addition to the 355mL cans (222mL). Huge promotions on Coke Zero. Decreased the sugar content in the regular product. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/why-coke-is-lowering-its-suga...
You could honestly just do in memory SQLite and use that lol idk that’s what I did because I wanted to quickly be able to handle thousands of simultaneous scheduling tasks.

Took like two hours and it works fine. Customers are happy. Event logs persist to s3 in case I need to replay (hasn’t happened once yet).
Every person has a unique perspective in human interactions, implying diverse viewpoints. Discussions often generalize these complexities, as comprehending every nuance is impossible for one individual
And, yet, humanity is still around with more people than ever on earth.
No, he said moving to Linux because Windows took away some existing rights is like moving to Canada because the US modified existing rights. Both are things that can be changed if enough people complain. Moving to Canada or using Linux because you prefer it in general is a different thing. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/964284402741149698

That tweet has no effect on whether the company's actions benefit me or not.
I've never ever ran a query for "software inc" before. They should be okay.

Plus, search engines usually catch up based in click-throughs, bounces, financial kickbacks (cough), too.

Searching for Go programming language stuff was a pain a few years back, but now engines have adapted to Go or Golang.

I don't use Google, so ymmv.
FCC Reaffirms Rejection of Nearly $900M Subsidy to Starlink [pdf]
Shame does not make you do less drugs. This is a terrible take on the drug crisis. People turn to drugs because it is the only thing that gives them a tiny bit of relief in their hellish state. The less shameful tactics have already been tried or rendered ineffective by the severity of the users pain. But sure try the less shameful drugs of alcohol, weed, prescribed drugs, unhealthy food, thrill seeking behavior, and let us know if it solves the core suffering. It usually does not and the presence or absence of shame has nothing to do with it
Not at all. But I think one's feelings on global warming & nukes can be influenced by previous exposure to eschatology. I was raised in American evangelicalism which puts a heavy emphasis on the end of the world stuff. I left the church behind long ago. But the heavy diet of Revelations, etc. has left me with a nihilism I can't shake. That whatever humanity does is doomed to fail.

Of course, that isn't necessarily true. I know there's always a chance we somehow muddle through. Even a chance that we one day fix things. But, emotionally, I can't shake that feeling of inevitable apocalypse.

Weirdly enough, I feel completely neutral on AI. No doomerism on that subject. Maybe that comes from being old enough to not worry how it's going to shake out.
That seems easy enough to bypass, as civilian GPS is an unauthenticated protocol, you could just put the phone in a metal box and transmit fake signals from three SDR radios.
Good all-round post, I know TG is not easy, but it’s quite powerful and I’d rather use it instead of something else that lacks.
It's not just "like" a religious schism. As Charles Stross is fond to point out these movements draw very overtly from Russian cosmism[1]. From colonization of space, to immortality, mind uploading, and of course AI singularities, longtermism, transhumanism, AI doomsday cults map on these ideas almost 1:1. It's a secularized version of various Millenarian ideas.

One thing that I've noticed having lived in East Asia for several years, mostly Japan and China is just how non-existent that stuff is over there. Never met an Indian AI doomer. It's always interesting to see what ideas are absent or present in other cultures because it gives an intuition about what motivates these beliefs.

[1]http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-cre...
> Given that, do you deny possibility that some residential infrastructure targeted by Israel

In principle, no. However, the IDF has failed to provide convincing evidence in many cases, especially in the case of the Al Shifa hospital. Doubly so when their most spectacular piece of evidence - the tunnel found underneath the hospital - was casually revealed by Ehud Barak in a CNN interview to have been an old Israeli construction from the time of the military occupation (taking Christiane Amanpour aback live on air) [0].

Do I think that some of the apparently civilian infrastructure they destroyed was legitimate targets? Yes, absolutely. But given the scale of the destruction and the scantness of evidence, I do not at all believe that all of it was.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/11/20/exp-amanpour...
Was it a dart that disabled Duke Leto?
No the 17-19000 figure includes Hamas fighters
i don't know about you, but i have no interest in subsidizing bad policies of large companies with my leisure time, much less my work time that they're not paying me for. maybe those large companies should either abandon those policies or develop their own software without our help. or pay us
$2k bounty for anyone who can help decode Opus stream
The company I'm helping is using a Chinese manufacturer for their wireless microphone. They said it's "8:1 opus compression" but after reading all the documentation, I had no idea what it means. However, I know what the end audio sound like, I can even get mp3 and pcm format, but it's from a third party app. I'm look for someone to zoom or google meet, and you work with me to figure out a way to decode this data. Doesn't matter if you can help me figure this out in 2 minutes or 2 hours, I'll send you $2k for your help. Thanks for reading :)
Maybe so, but it was legalized in CA for recreational use way back in 2016, and the scheme came into force in 2018. Part of the issue is that nobody wants to permit a dispensary in their neighborhood, so coverage is poor. Another problem is that it's simply much more expensive.

If you're already happy with your friendly neighborhood plug, why change?

I found the the article I mentioned:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-22/legal-weed-...
1. AI will be adopted into more and more things, the AI industry will still grow, but nothing more impessive than e.g ChatGPT will appear in 2024.

2. China will not attack Taiwan

3. 2024 will be relatively boring year (in compare to last 3)

4. Nvidia will not grow to $650 or above

5. Electric cars hype will slow down
> That's almost the most infuriating thing about their copyright grabs; it hardly even gets them anything of interest. They're not making any money on the actual Steamboat Willie movie.

It's not about making money from Steamboat Willie, it's about preventing others from enjoying it without a monetary transaction happening. I'm sure if they could, Disney would rather destroy all copies of a work they weren't making money from than release them for free. Look at game companies fighting against people distributing abandonware. It's not about the value of that particular good--it's about the value of the other things they are trying to sell, and not letting customers get something for nothing.

"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country."
Disagree. Customer support is not free. Good customer support is not cheap. Whether you agree or not, good CS is one of the Zappos differentiators.

There are outlets for cheap shoes (in this case) without overhead from support and other sources.
So is PowerPoint and Minecraft but you won't see me advocating building our next backend out of redstone
Whenever I see comments like this I wonder if anyone making them has taken a course in Thermodynamics.
IMO relying on laws for such restraint is silly. In a world of deception such as Dune, it would so trivial to plant a lasgun surreptitiously. Who's to know the cause of the resulting explosion that annihilates both gun and shield?
When has an ivory tower not involved the ‘most advanced research labs’?

Or do you mean largest implementors?
The only genocide in history with massive population growth.
Yeah, I worked on https://tablam.org and https://spacetimedb.com.

It becomes pretty clear that `order` is a significant property to make useful (and performant!) programs. "Duplicates" is also required to make usefull programs.

One nonobvious reason for this: You wanna report that a `customer` has a duplicated key `1`. If you CAN'T model `[(customer.id = 1), (customer.id = 1)]` then you can't report errors! And `erroneous` data is VITAL to make useful programs because then the only possibility is "perfect" data, and that is not possible!

Another reason is that we want to `count` duplicates, to see `duplicates`, and other NON-obvious at first: "What is a duplicate?". Get fun with floats, Unicode, combining case and non-case sensitive input... and is obvious that for useful programs IS REQUIRED to support bags in an extended version of the relational model.

And yet...

IS very important to remember about `set semantics` and try to adhere to it when makes sense. Your query planner will like it. You "valid" constraints like it. And `unique index` like it. And so on...
Interesting! Within almost every truth there lurks a valid but ultimately very minor counter-point.

Sorta a tangent here, but it's annoying that this is the very thing that causes people biased to not believe to latch onto as evidence they're right. Once introduced, further reasoning or curiosity about the subject tends to stop before weighing matters of degree, which leads to missing the big picture.

To generalize a lot, this is kinda where we are in the current meta of truth fracturing. Our biases drive us to discover nuances we grasp onto to avoid believing what we don't want to.
Straight to jail!
An incomplete ban, though. Some people might object, others might want such new capabilities.
I think it was Pearl's Book of Why that went into far more detail about how it was decided that tobacco causes cancer from purely observational data. The technique was... relatively convoluted, and supposedly Fischer fought tooth and nail against Bayesian techniques required to adequately answer any such causal questions.
Google Drive dominates cloud storage[1].

[1]: https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/file-sharing--198/goog...
Everything “off-by-default” is a “Ma’am, in order to refund the faulty transaction, I need you to open settings…” away.
This is just about the worst "yearly report" by a major company I've seen. A mass of text, a link to an xlsx file and a youtube video with audio quality remniscent of a telephone earnings call. Where are the pretty charts and interactivity all in glorious HTML5?
Company Insights on Cotter AI
I’d put my money on yes, but at a far lower risk than smoking.
Just because the two both use subscriptions doesn’t mean their business models are in any way similar.

JetBrains, for instance, also does subscriptions. They are generally lauded as doing them right. I would never compare JB to Amazon or VMWare just because they both do subscriptions.
You know a lot about JRuby's use of FFI! One correction though, JRuby uses a reimplementation of jna called jnr, which is generally much faster (close to jni for simple calls).

We are working with folks on the FFM team to re-implement the core jnr back end. It's very exciting work, and I will present it this weekend at RubyConf Taiwan!
I re-read the book just last year. Im pretty sure there were no dart guns.

Hunter-seeker missiles existed, but they were touted as rare or somehow difficult to operate I believe.
Changes were made based on the fire. The capsule was “production” in the sense that it was going to carry people. It doesn’t need to be mass produced to be “prod”. It’s prod like “this instance matters”.
Like the folks pushing the grey goo panic? In my experience, nope.

Everything’s possible until you have to actually make it work, then surprisingly the actual possibilities end up quite limited.

That said, despite micro-nuclear propulsion being a fantasy, the bomb was real.
Same. I feel Netflix is a really shitty version of HBO. I rarely, if ever, watch it.

The original House of Cards was great. Mindhunter was alright. Neither reached the pinnacle of most HBO programming.

It's a shame that David Zaslav believes prestige television must take a backseat to cheap, "comfort" viewing. And the fact that they ditched such a prestigious brand to rename themselves "Max".
I addressed the same point in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620617

Basically, I think it comes down to options. After WWII, the average person in Germany or Japan wasn’t forced out of their home and livelihood, and the Marshall plan was quite effective at giving people peaceful options to be proud of. What I’m not seeing now is how Palestinians get something similar, and if you push people into a corner even non-violent people will conclude they have no alternative.
I like this approach, it could turn out to be quite Edisonian.

Along the way you could really uncover some things that others would not.
> Such an old system (written in Perl), but still runs great!

This is the kind of hardware I love. Stable over time, no dependencies. I moved all my music to squeezebox system in 2004 and everything works wonderfully today.
I used to work at a company that talked a lot about "customer obsession", too. However, in reality, the way the company operated reminded me of that scene from The Wolf Of Wall Street: "Fuck the clients. ... Move the money from the client's pocket into your pocket." And it all started at the top.
There’s a cool book about the making of Dune84 called A Masterpiece in Disarray by Evry, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126132210

The author does a good job of interviewing pretty much everyone in the cast and crew and gave me a good sense of what it must have been like to make the film.
imo, portraying advertisements as articles is worse than AI generated content
It's kind of infuriating to see people put global thermonuclear conflict or a sudden change in atmospheric conditions (something that has cause 4 of the 5 biggest mass extinctions in the entire history of the planet) on the same pedestal as a really computationally intense text generator.
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Yes, it's inferrable with some caution.

There's also the obvious elephant in the room that Israel is executing a disproportional response to the terror attacks and the conditions they're creating will only extend this conflict and create more terror. As the article states, it's pretty well understood that citizens need stable material conditions before voting really works well, otherwise they tend to trend towards the reactionary.
Slight change to the description:

"Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For example, one of the reasons we know that smoking causes lung cancer is that when only -6dB of the population smoked, +6dB of people with lung cancer were smokers. If you are a doctor who treats patients with lung cancer, it does not take long to notice numbers like that."

What was the change? +12dB or 10^1.2, which is 16x.

This ties into the odds form of Bayes' theorem given in the post; this representation of probability is

dB(p) = 10*log10(p/(1-p))
p(dB) = 10^(dB/10) / (1 + 10^(dB/10))

so roughly 0dB = 50%, 5dB = 75%, 10dB = 90%, 20dB = 99%, 30dB = 99.9%...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041, but s/4M/7M/.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There's lots of scenes of people shooting these projectiles that wiggle at the shield. You have a small amount of time to react still, but still different.

Then there were missiles. There were no missiles in the Book, for obvious reasons.
I don't think you read the article or the links you provided. It clearly states the police are obtaining this information through subpoena and not warrants:

In briefings, officials with America’s eight biggest pharmacy giants — Walgreens Boots Alliance, CVS, Walmart, Rite Aid, Kroger, Cigna, Optum Rx and Amazon Pharmacy — told congressional investigators that they required only a subpoena, not a warrant, to share the records.

And in the link you provided:

When might it be permitted for a pharmacy to disclose PHI to law enforcement officers?

Bearing in mind that, once in a designated record set, PHI could be an individual´s name or physical description, a pharmacy (or pharmacy staff) is permitted to – but not required to – disclose PHI to law enforcement officers in the following six circumstances:

as required by law (including court orders, court-ordered warrants, subpoenas) and administrative requests

In this case, the leeway in the standard here is what the pharmacy chooses to comply with. They are choosing to comply with subpoenas. This article points out how that standard could be higher (warrants).
Was never interested in this service previously and will never consider them in the future.

Did 23andme not expect themselves to be hacked?
Wasn't this Hamas's goal all along? They were losing their reason for existing, so they figured out a way reinvigorate hostilities? It looks like they succeeded.

> If I lost a loved one at the hands of Israel in such malicious and careless manner, I'm never going to not consider Israel as nothing but an enemy.

You could rewrite this as: If I lost a loved one at the hands of Hamas/Israel in such malicious and careless manner, I'm never going to not consider Hamas/Israel as nothing but an enemy.

And so this cycle looks like it will never end.
The math has been around for decades, but the hardware and capital requirements are huge.
Linguistics experts will have a fun time untangling the pre-AI language from the post-AI era.
Ivory tower is usually a pejorative term meaning people who are isolated from the reality of the situation.

So it doesn’t include the most advanced research labs when those research labs are in touch with the reality of the situation, like right now with AI.

Nitpick “most advanced research labs” if you want, it’s obvious what I mean: it is clear that the “shouting” is not coming solely from people who don’t know what’s going on.
Yes. He failed to get his personal shield up in time
> It seems like the root cause of this runaway AI pathology has to do mainly with the over-anthropomorphization of AI.

It’s an unsurprising form of paredolia, one not unique to those devout who feel they are distinguished from “lower” forms of life.
Having worked in GCP, it is not surprising at all to me that Google, despite having the resources, can’t productize an LLM.

It feels like OP question stems from a belief that all there is to training a good model is throwing lots of compute at it. As with any product, there’s polishing and fine tuning you need to do, both before and after travel. Google can’t do that. You also have to accept imperfection and clever tricks to this end, a.k.a. the startup / hacker mentality, which Google is also not positioned to do. I think Meta has a good chance though
More than a year after engine failure, Blue Origin to return to flight
Israel may have left but they have had a blockade since then, not just on their border but sea and air as well. UN considers it to be occupied territory, Israel controls food and water. Human rights organisations calls it an open air prison. Doesn't sound like a situation that would be fruitful for peace?

Hamas was elected as Bush pushed for elections too early as he wanted to solve the situation before his term ended, PA was unpopular due to corruption. When Hamas won the US pushed PA to do a coup which failed, this caused Hamas to take over Gaza completely and push out PA and stopping future elections.

Hamas is certainly the main problem now, but the situation was caused by typical US fuckery, Netanyahu supporting Hamas didn't help either. Others big problems are the apartheid state of Israel and their systematic stealing of land in the West Bank. If what they have in the West Bank is the kind peace that Israel wants then I can see why people are resisting them.
The article is about the 6800, not the 6809.
https://archive.ph/gBYij
AVGO is up 93% YTD, 4% on the day, the investors don't seem to be too afraid of the move, for some baffling reason.
> Will US retake semico node leadership or TSMC will continue to be #1?

Who is even remotely nipping at TSMC's heels at their scale?
The tech cults of the bay area are at least amongst the most obnoxious.
It is happening. But I'm more concerned by the enshittification of life for everybody working in a field that just heard the starting pistol for the race to the bottom. Dollar sign eyed executives will happily take that shitty version of their former product and "employ" gig workers making piece work wages to sorta clean it up without having to give anyone security or health insurance or anything. It's a turbo charger for the upper crust's money vacuum.
I've ben trying to remember that novel posted here on HN that counts the story of a people that sees strange signs in the sky, takes years to understand them. Succeeds, then leaves...
Anyone has the ref ?