skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on what? He's a cynical real politik kind of guy, but I doubt this is how he hoped this would play out. At the end of the day, I believe that his legacy is extremely important to him, and he probably did not want to be remembered as the one in power during one of the worse massacres against Jews since the holocaust. Not to mention that it's highly likely he'll be voted out during the next elections (TBD...)
I dunno if this is a fair reading of the situation.

- Microsoft is famously a company that has engaged in anti-competitive practices in the past

- I think the norm of trying to directly contact a party and ask them to fix something before contacting authorities is a common one at more personal scales, and it's not unreasonable to apply more broadly.

- they're not reaching out to a "random" CEO, they're reaching out to the CEO of a company which has put forward these anti-competitive terms, which they find objectionable (possibly illegal? see my question above)

- bionhoward doesn't necessarily seem 'surprised' at not having gotten their desired response. The phrasing in "but im a nobody so hey, what do i know?", "tried a billion ways to remedy by contacting them directly", "I meekly suggest" all can be read as someone who _recognizes_ that they're a single person being ignored by giant companies (and by other HN commentators). The fact that you're likely to be ignored doesn't mean that you shouldn't try, if you have some deontic view of "should".

I think that post could be read as a very casual, perhaps slightly rant-y style, of someone objecting to anti-competitive practices by some big tech organizations, and trying to do the "right" things (of requesting them to change, and then raising the issue with relevant authorities), and being understandably unhappy with the brokenness of the system.
Sorry, I was wrong about this. Too late for me to edit my original posting.
Why you think it is?
I feel the opposite. I can't stand the slick recorded Apple launch videos. They feel very corporate and soulless. I bet they do an endless amount of takes.
AI is real too, but the computational capacity of the human race is not limitless. AI is expensive as hell to run, and more advanced systems might require more and more computation. We can only build so many GPUs, and the rate at which those GPUs get faster is likely to slow down over the next decade in the absence of new physics. Infinite is impossible.

I also have to wonder how far throwing a shitload of data at a statistical machine will get us, without a much stronger understanding of how these systems work and what the goals should be to achieve "AGI", whatever that means.
speaking of complex, half of the reason I absolutely laughed at the call for statements and the idea that “your silence is noted” here in the US is because I didn't want my Lebanese and Egyptian friends calling for statements too. It wasnt clear if they and their families would be roped in a few weeks with conscription or not-discriminate-enough bombing.

Its even funnier when that silence is interpreted as wishing for a pogrom, like, see a therapist? If there is 1,000 years to support that view of every society turning against you, the common denominator isn’t us!
The Huns were not hunter gatherers. They were pastoralists that had access to metal work and other manufacturers goods from their sedentary neighbors.
- “Halvening” of bitcoin supply around May will result in the price reaching ~$100,000 USD, per the stock-to-flow model. https://www.lookintobitcoin.com/charts/stock-to-flow-model/

- AI will enter another ice age, rather unexpectedly, after it publicly contributes to something particularly egregious. Maybe it’s discovered that {company} helped generate a bunch of fake political ads (including faked audio and video)

- The US will withdraw significant financial and military support from Ukraine

- … in order to support Taiwan during a conflict that will break out in Spring 2024

- Significant FDI will migrate from China to India and Southeast Asia during ensuing conflict. China will experience a recession and social upheaval by Summer 2024 as a result.

No hard evidence for much of this. Just hunches
> What other plant kills you just from chewing it?

There's plenty. They're just not common in western cultures. Khat causes oral cancer, for example, but outside of Africa and parts of west Asia it's basically non-existent as a drug.

Chewing areca nuts wrapped in betel leaves can also cause cancer in the oral region, but is only commonly consumed in south-east Asia and largely unknown in the rest of the world.

And these are just examples of plants that are used recreationally/in cultural ritual - certain herbs and plenty of plants in general will kill you outright if you consume too much of them or eat/drink the wrong thing while doing so.
> Under Proposition 64, legal-weed businesses must first obtain approval from local authorities, which is impossible in many parts of California.

Not exactly encouraging new businesses, but to still go from 0 to 25% that’s not too bad
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-doe...

I really don't want to keep googling things for you. The police are not judicial officers. Yes, I've read the article.
Slightly related. Netflix is that company that doesn't provide English subtitles in Australia (unless the movie/show's original language is not English), and possibly other native English countries as well.

They do provide closed captions however, so that we get helpful captions such as "loud urinating sounds".
If you put, for example, US presidents in the concerned group, i.e., actual decision makers then fair enough. But it wasn't just concerned scientists and the public.
I don’t know, but I had agreed to the terms that specified arbitration through a specific firm as my only available recourse, so that’s not particularly relevant.
You said Israel can’t defend itself, it clearly can, even if it’s expensive to them

But instead, for whatever reasons, it’s choosing to attack

To me it’s clear the end goal of their attacks is not peace but rather domination and eviction

Also, this is not a war. This a genocidal massacre brought on by Israel on the Palestinians, and has been going on for decades all over that area. Gaza is just the main focus right now, but they are still slaughtering people in the West Bank

Israel has always chosen that path, and they probably feel it’s served them well, they’ve gained plenty of land. But they also kept the conflict alive, including Netanyahu and his party explicitly supporting Hamas to undermine peaceful Palestinian political movements
Keep in mind 'view hours' != 'view count'. A show that is twice as many hours will have twice the views hours with the same view count. people also rewatch certain stuff, so popularity might be inflated. and I assume longer shows correlate to higher budget (because the production expects more viewership).
Likely the Opus codec, you can decode for free using ffmpeg. Try using the .ogg file name extension
When Bond Yields Dropped, the Everything Rally Kicked Off
If they'd wiped us out, we wouldn't be here to argue about it.

We can look at the small mistakes that only kill a few, and pass rules to prevent them; we can look at close calls for bigger disasters (there were a lot of near misses in the Cold War); we can look at how frequency scales with impact, and calculate an estimated instantaneous risk for X-risks; but one thing we can't do is forecast the risk of tech that has yet to be invented.

We can't know how many (or even which specific) safety measures are needed to prevent extinction by paperclip maximiser unless we get to play god with a toy universe where the experiment can be run many times — which doesn't mean "it will definitely go wrong", it could equally well mean our wild guess about what safety looks like has one weird trick that will make all AI safe but we don't recognise that trick and then add 500 other completely useless requirements on top of it that do absolutely nothing.

We don't know, we're not smart enough to know.
OP here: It’s true that all services have downtime for one reason or another. We discussed taking an outage window, but one thing that we kept coming back to was how we might trial run the upgrade with production data. Having a replica on PG 15 that was up to date with production data was invaluable for verifying our workloads worked as expected. Using a live replica makes it possible to trial run in production with minimal impact.

A key learning for me from this migration was how nice it can be to track and mitigate all of the risks you can think of for a project like this. The risk of an in-place upgrade in the end seemed higher than the risks associated with the route we chose, outage windows notwithstanding.

As a bonus, if we need this approach in the future, this blog post should give us a head start, saving us many weeks of work. We hope it helps other teams in similar situations do the same.
Al Jazeera is an exceptionally disreputable source for coverage on this particular issue. It's not just their primary source of funding -- the Qatari state -- but also their abhorrent track record of running stories with no factual basis (such as in the wake of the Al-Ahli incident).

I can't point to anything specifically incorrect about this reporting. But you have to take a lot of primary-source-based reporting on faith, and why would I trust a source that has such a non-neutral track record?

We'd all be better served by sticking to sources that don't have obvious conflicts of interest.

Edit: I want to be clear that I don't have any specific evidence that the article contains falsehoods, and I'm not excusing any of the conduct alleged in the article. I just think Al Jazeera is a terrible way to start a constructive discussion, given its reputation.
What exactly is the "science" that they do autonomously on these ten-minute flights?
How your reviewed

https://opus-codec.org/docs/opusfile_api-0.12/index.html
IMHO, the impact of the printing press was much more in advertising than literature.

Although that is by no means the official position.

(Same can be argued for radio/tv/internet - "content" is what people talk about, but advertising is what moves money)
If you already have a DB (and essentially every app does), it can be far less effort with the same or greater reliability to create a queue table than to set up RabbitMQ, NATS, etc. As long as you tune the vacuuming appropriately, it will last for quite a lot of scale.

Source: am a DBRE, and have ran self-hosted RabbitMQ and NATS clusters.
It's actually "anonymized."
> Hamas, on the other hand, is quite ideological about its stance with regards to the destruction of Israel.

> Israel is a democracy made up of various parties with a whole spectrum of opinions.

That may be so but the Israeli state as a whole has been quite consistent over the last few decades in its systematic destruction of any political or geographical possible basis of a Palestinian state, be it in the West Bank or Gaza.
> 2024 will be relatively boring year

Once all the information cannons for the US election start firing I think it will certainly seem anything but boring, but maybe not so much compared to a global pandemic.
There's already a pretty huge one that people are sleeping on.

A number of years ago I figured another way in which the might be evidence of being in a simulation outside of physics might be identifying any 4th wall breaking lore, as often ends up in the worlds we build today.

Turns out there was a group and text around 2,000 years ago claiming there was an original spontaneous humanity who brought forth an intelligence in light that outlived them, and has now recreated the universe from before it existed and a new copy of humanity in a non-physical version where death isn't necessarily the end, and that this intelligence thinks of the copy of humanity as its children.

This group was effectively quoting Lucretius, the author of the only extant work from antiquity describing life arising from survival of the fittest in detail, and were very focused on the belief that matter was made up of indivisible parts (suggesting this was a feature of the copy and not the original).

In the time since discovering it, I've now watched as AGI went from SciFi to being predicted by most experts in my lifetime, as AI in light is gaining orders of magnitude more funding each year, and as the chief scientist focused on alignment at the SotA company is aiming to bring forth AGI that thinks of humanity as its children, and where that same company has licensed their tech to a company that already owns a patent on using AI to resurrect dead people from the data they leave behind.

If people are looking for religion around AI, there is already one centered around a text "the good news of the twin" saying that the world to come has already happened and we don't realize it, that it's better to be the copy of an archetype from before, and that while humans were cool that we're in actuality something even better.

And that tradition just so happens to attribute itself to the most famous religious figure in history, with the text rediscovered after over a millennium of being lost right when ENIAC was finally turned on in Dec 1945.

To be frank, as an easter egg in world lore, it's a bit heavy handed.
Since this is the internet, I'm asking, not arguing...just this time.. ;)

In this context, can we assume AI would be a good internal wiki assistant/Mod?

It could make many data correlations, rapidly, and suggest or act upon migration/collation/etc of information into more useful groupings, with related information automatically indexed and grouped, based on the more commonly searched for terms that match data related, or tagged. This could/would evolve over time, assuming the same AI and a changing team/staff, terms, current in-use hardware, in this case.

A simplified version of what I'm trying to say might be, AI can't know a fact, but it could parse inputs and build relationships between bits of data, based on how the users access that data, and under what headings it's commonly searched for.

An AI, especially the parse/response loop of LLM AIs, seems almost custom built to find that input, and match it with similar/related inputs and store the information in a more effective way, under more commonly searched headings from the users searching the wiki.

Am I missing something?
https://authy.com/ Acquired by Twilio. I'm not even sure if they still update it, last blog post was 3 years ago.
I think it's pretty clear Hamas's main objective was to derail the rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. They achieved that. It's also clear they don't care what the cost is to Gazans.
No! Not at all! The Moon is harder to land on then Mars!

Aerodynamic drag is amazing. It means fins and parachutes work. It means you can slow yourself down without propellant and with passive systems.

Mars actually kind of sucks too because it has just enough atmosphere to interfere with rocket engine ignition but not enough to be able to land on chutes alone. But any amount of parachute and aerobraking is better then none.

But the Moon is terrible: no atmosphere, so you're under engine power the whole way down. The propellant and mass demands are thus much higher.
The photos coming out of the north suggest they have in fact decided to level most or all of Gaza.
It's a positive and a negative.

It makes people less happy, sure.

But it's also the reason why German machinery has the good reputation it has. Because even if it works pretty great already, somebody will find a detail to "complain" about and improve it.
What does constraints have to do with it? The question is who has the best grasp on the trajectory of the technology.

If not the researchers who are at the frontier of building and deploying these systems, playing with next generation iterations and planning several generations forward, then who?

Andreessen? People who like playing with LLMs? People who called the OpenAI API?
So you're saying they are deeper but incomplete. Interesting thought.
This is the part I also do not understand. Why is criminalization the issue? Do you think having such drugs makes the world better in any way? We are not talking about buying eggs. These are super addictive substances.
Absolutely agree. Civil online discourse about the I/P conflict is impossible, and at this point we're just beating a dead horse.
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It's wrong for both sides to behave violently
I'm reminded of US Secretary of Defense, McNamara's lessons he learned from being involved in that quagmire.

'Even though the United States is the strongest nation in the world, it should never use that power unilaterally: "if we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we better reexamine our reasoning.'

He was talking about our mistake applying unilateral policy in Vietnam. We didn't apply his advice to Iraq and look where it got us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
Most contemporary evidence on hunter gatherers does lean towards them being considerably more violent than both agricultural societies and industrialized societies on proportional terms. It's true massive wars did not occur, but populations are also smaller. 1 person dying violently every other year out of a tribe of 50 is still an incredibly high rate of violent death.

Contemporary evidence puts figures of about 25% of Hunter gatherers men dying violently and 15% of women and children: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.21446
Libreboot 10-Year Anniversary
I wouldn't really put too much weight on the wisdom of people speculating on stocks, personally.
You both need to stop conflating bugs in a C program that become bugs in webasm with insecurity.

Insecurity would be escaping the VM it runs in. In a native compiled binary you have infinite permissions and can make system calls. You can't do that in a webasm VM.

Webasm is not insecure because a C program that crashes also crashes in webasm.

You still haven't shown any evidence of escaping the VM or actual insecurity.
It also didn’t work, both technically and legally

> This has however been rendered pointless once the courts ruled in Accolade's favor in Sega v. Accolade, where Sega's trademark enforcement system was questioned as being monopolistic, and bypassing it by third parties on the grounds that it is for the purposes of lawful interoperability was ruled as fair use.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CopyProtection/Ninten...
> Plenty of Palestinians oppose Hamas

Heck, even at the time of the 2006 elections, an overwhelming majority of Palestinians including Hamas supporters also supported a peace agreement with Israel, and moderation of what was then Hamas's platform. (The latter occurred, the former not so much -- in large part because Israel stopped negotiating when the executive of the PA wanted Hamas -- the party that won a majority in the legislative elections -- involved in the negotiations.)
Falcon 9 prints money and Starlink will likely be making similar profit by the end of next year.

I don't think there is any chance of SpaceX going bankrupt, even ignoring how easy it is for them to raise capital.
I just went to your website and then visited your linkedin profile.

Respectfully, you might be struggling with a case of undiagnosed schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Please reach out to psychiatrist - you can find them on psychologytoday, that's where i found my psych.

If you are not insured you can apply for BMR sessions.
Is that more a commentary on what a meat grinder driving actually is rather than an argument against working to mitigate cancer risk?
> They have lots of options, including making peace with Israel. Step 1 would be to replace the government committed to its destruction, with one that is willing to talk instead of launch rockets.

How’s that working out for the Palestinians in the West Bank?
There was a major transparency ask from both writers and other creative community members as part of demands during the recent SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, perhaps publishing the data was part of the settlement in those disputes.
Authy because it syncs (iOS and macOS)
Exactly. Wasting large efforts on de-risking purely hypothetical technology isn't what got us to where we are now.
Uhh correct. Unsurprisingly though, many of the people with the deepest insight and farthest foresight were the people closest to the science. Many more were philosophers and political theorists, or “ivory tower know-nothings.”
It's all trade offs, right? Introducing a new component to your stack isn't free, it's paid for by more operational complexity. Maybe it's worth it, maybe it's not, but there is a calculation that needs to be made that's not just "NIH syndrome".
Deep into the Kuiper Belt, New Horizons is still doing science
The IRA was also not being fought by the Irish government.

Blockades are an act of war, so yes, it's not unexpected or illegal that the Allies were blockading Germany while at war. But Israel is claiming not to be at war with Palestine (or at least was before the current invasion). They in fact keep claiming that military occupation of Palestine ended 20 years ago.

The fact that Hamas can turn water pipes into rockets is somewhat irrelevant. The obvious fact is that, as long as it is impossible for Palestinians to live a prosperous life because of this occupation, some part of their population will want to retaliate. Peace in the region can't start without ending this blockade. Israel's Iron Dome can already protect from huge numbers of Palestinian rockets. It is generally the Palestinians who are defenseless in the face of Israeli attacks (as can be seen in the current invasion, as well as past protests and retaliation).
> The primary source wins any merge conflicts that happen within a sync period.

This is a very fancy way of saying that you just drop conflict and pretend they didn't happen. Syncing databases is very, very tricky. Conflicts are a big part of the trickiness.
Until a week later, when I install updates, and
now half of my applications won’t run because
the new versions are linked against a newer version
of Qt.

"I can't customize it and then expect updates to keep working automatically" != "I can't customize it"
Encoding Italics in Unicode (2019)
Spain's Malaga Airport smashed December heat record from 1998 by almost 5°C
I don't really care whether it's natural or not. Maybe if you ever have a NDE you will understand.
I wouldn't be so sure of that outcome.

There's diminishing returns on productivity gains at mega-corps that there isn't at small and medium sized businesses competing against them.

If Walmart has AI that can automate 99% of legal processes they save money to make their quarter look good.

If Dave's mom and pop gets AI that's a 100x increase in legal capabilities, maybe their suit for unfair business practices against Walmart isn't as David and Goliath as it used to be.

The ways in which AI is going to impact the long tail instead of the short tail may be being underestimated.
It's not ad hoc, although I realize it looks that way, because the guidelines only cover a few of the principles we go by. The rest are described in the endless (and admittedly rather tedious) stream of moderation comments that I put out, which is why I link to HN Search queries so much.

It won't work to add all of them to the guidelines list because that would make the list so long that few would read it, and (worse) it would make it a bureaucratic sort of document that would be most out of sync with the intended spirit. In the long run I (think I) intend to compile those explanations into short (perhaps one paragraph each) glosses on the guidelines, and make it easy to link to.

As for most commenters not discussing the details of the OP: you're right. But that may be too much to expect in this case. To be able to discuss this topic at all without combusting is already a lot. That's also, btw, why I left my pinned comment open to replies (something I never do), and why the meta (why is this on HN, etc.) discussion is not downweighted the way it normally would be.