skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't be downvoted for this. The dollar reserve status is only guaranteed as far as 'the commerce' is protected. Your understanding and comment show the true power dynamics.
It is padding. It was encrypted with AES, which has a block size of 128 bits. Its input needs to be padded to that amount, unless you use it in some stream modes of operation (e.g. CTR).
think I should have said "excellent analogy" but hey-ho
"Don't let your mind speak louder than your heart". In tech we value data and being right so much, we may be too often missing the important part of being a decent human being.
Definitely agree that the ones building should be product-minded. It should be normal and expected for engineers to perform customer interviews.
> Overall, if you have a product management organisation, you're doing it wrong.

I've found myself on both sides of this issue in my career and I've landed on it being a good thing to have a PM organization, assuming your entire org is large enough.

The main reason why is that when PM (or whoever plays that role in a team) reports up to the same engineering management chain, all things eventually bias towards the needs of engineering. Much-needed feature work that is likely to advance the business eventually always gets de-prioritized because there's always tech debt or infrastructure work that inhibits people in some way. Sometimes it's actually the right move to do that, but you need tension between two orgs that have equal chairs at the table to make that kind of call. That ends up not happening when it's a part of engineering.

Of course a lot of the sad reality in our industry is that separate PM orgs get to have more power than engineering orgs because they get to own "what's good for the business", and when you combine that with a bunch of PMs who know how to follow a process or framework but don't actually understand their own products or users, you get a nightmare.
Two orders of magnitude. (Currently they input 300 MJ of electricity and get 4 MJ of fusion.)

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director says it could be done in "probably decades — not six decades, I don’t think, not five decades, which is what we used to say." [https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/2022/national-ignition-facility-achi...]
Everything in france is going according to plan, having people rioting on the streets isnt necessarily something the government is trying to prevent, it gives them the political cover to enact totalitarian laws...which is precisely whats happened there.
Hamas’s tactics worked great here. They’ve created 20k new martyrs to recruit off. Prompting a big reaction was the goal, and they got it.
I couldn't find much info on the spatial aspect they are experimenting with. I was expecting to find different patterns like checkerboard, alternating lines, concentric rings etc and how they impact the co-culture dynamics. There are test prints at [1] and they mention "3D bioprinting handling robot arm that can pour layers of alternating bioink layers" in [2], but layering doesn't take advantage of XY. And maybe it's useful to have temporal control too, like add culture 2 at location 3 at timepoint 4.

[1] https://2023.igem.wiki/rochester/contribution

[2] https://2023.igem.wiki/rochester/implementation
IIRC Suez shipping cuts container costs by like 2%.

But real threat is energy shipping.
There is another option, end the occupation of Palestinians and pressure Israel to have a Palestinian state.
Surprisingly nice website.
Question I've had about this, because there's a map in the article.

The Houthis have been shooting missiles and launching drones at commercial shipping, but also at Israeli cities. [0]

I like to think I understand how to read a map.

The route from Houthi controlled territory to Israeli territory either (a) flies over Saudi Arabia or (b) flies over water immediately adjacent to Saudi Arabia. E.g. specifically Jeddah and Mecca.

Why aren't the Saudis doing anything? They're fine with ordinance flying right next to their major population centers, launched by a group they've literally been bombing?

[0] https://news.usni.org/2023/12/16/u-k-american-warships-shoot...
More details on this discussion: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/6824#issuecomment-1817... . Basically he is too busy to continue developing the encryption features but is able to review the related works.

There is also discussion about using ZFS on LUKS in the same thread: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/6824#issuecomment-1819...
Actions over words. The Houthis are indiscriminately targeting trade. If they had the discipline to only hit Israeli ships, this would be a different situation.
They also have demanded death to Israel and Jews though. They’re a cat’s paw for Iran, who don’t really care about Gazans except as they can be used to delegitimize and destroy Israel.
> Jurassic World movie fans may be familiar with mosasaur.

Jurassic World fans and parents of 3 year old boys
...in mice.

Also, this is just a preprint.
I'm not sure precisely what supreme court gem you're referring to, but just to be clear, double jeopardy only applies when a jury finds a person innocent. People who are found guilty can potentially have a new trial if new evidence comes to light.
Yes, they dismissed Gitlab in part because of the self-hosted argument: "I know I can download GitLab and set it up on my own server. However, I’m a software developer, not a sysadmin. I want to spend my time developing software, not putting out fires and paying AWS bills for the rest of time."

Yet they ended up choosing a self-hosted option, Gitea, because it was recommended by an acquaintance and they set up a couple lightsail servers on AWS to run it.

It's totally fine for the author to share their preferences; they're just exhibiting the internal inconsistencies and irrational behavior we're probably all guilty of at one point or another.
This sounds like something I’d like to see replicated…
Wake me up after the replication in humans.
Technically if we would globalize the economy even more and develop more maritime routes the system would be more robust. It’s not obvious to me a system of localized economies would work better in the modern world.
This won't stop people from lending things. It just means borrowers can't leave reviews.

I'd rather have a much smaller set of verified reviews than a bunch of fake ones. Decreasing the quantity in this case often means improving the quality and signal to noise ratio.
No, it's not common to reopen court cases if the jury finds a person innocent. You can certainly reopen court cases where someone was found guilty, but that's not double jeopardy.
You can summarize this article with a famous Einstein quote:

> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Isn't it clear that scale governs the self-determination theory? You can run a company much like a startup if you choose to. Many people/businesses do not choose to do that and that allows bureaucracy and hierarchy to thrive.

This isn't a "product manager" problem. This is a loss of identity or culture. Many of your great people will leave because of this eroding. Blaming it on product managers is lazy because it shows you aren't looking close enough.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization
> Prompting a big reaction was the goal, and they got it

Hamas lost control of Daef and Islamic Jihad. They launched an attack that was shockingly brutal, took hostages and then lost them, and are likely to lose physical control over Gaza for some time. There might have been an inkling of a strategy, but nobody on the ground was calling shots.
The point remains that at some point that will impact China because that's where most of the containers come from. Then what? Again China is really the last country Iran should want to piss off.

Or, that'll benefit Chinese shipping companies as, again, I highly doubt that they'll be targeted.

The US are probably the least impacted, if at all.
> they're unable to communicate with their teams on the detailed technical matters on a daily basis

Yeah, I've had PMs who've ground backlog grooming sessions to a halt so engineers can explain in detail what each one is, or shared incorrect information about a bug fix or new feature to a technical writer for release notes because they were so confidently incorrect.

The PMs with enough aptitude to understand and explain what the engineers are doing, even if they're not actively participating in implementation because they're applying that knowledge to broader strategic/roadmap decisions and cross-team coordination, are the best to work with.
The title doesn't say be naive. Emotions can be an important tool in curing division and hate, as much as they can be misused to create it.
Well isn't that what people with big guns do now?
As an avid Valgrind user, I don't know of one.

But if you would like, I could post one to my blog.

If you would like me to, contact me privately. [1]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/contact/
“Because profit” is a bad explanation. It’s super incomplete.
Doesn't matter, the original point was about Google not being able to build a better self-driving system than Tesla, despite abundance of data, which is true, as far as I'm informed. Whether or not Tesla's self-driving system is "good enough" (for any chosen metric) is beyond the point.

But I guess people these days just love to jump on the opportunity to hate whatever is trendy to hate at the moment.
> Ie us-vs-them mentality is very popular in radicalizing say well-meaning patriots

If you can only feel your own feelings you are definitely not feeling enough. Try to understand those you hate?

That said, I realize that is probably hopeless, but so is getting the same people to think.
If you count the efficiency of the steam turbines to actually generate electricity from the fusion thermal energy you'd need something like 750MJ of fusion energy to break even. (assuming your steam turbines are 40% efficient)

Given that you'd want to actually generate electricity rather than just break even we're talking about three orders of magnitude rather than two.
I don’t see why they would sell WoTC considering it’s the profit generator that keeps the other businesses afloat.
It might help, but it's by no means reliable.
Does someone know what the percentage of mice study successfully replicated in human studies is ?
One would think, being described as "Comfyui Online" the expectation is the Comfy UI itself. Since it is not, is this not a misappropriation of the Comfy UI team's identity and their own grass root branding?
Sorry, meant the post being on HN, not the project itself. The sale might be relevant to customers of DocuSign who are potentially considering migrating before the usual enshittification that happens after a sale.
I'm beginning to worry that we're giving mice too much of an edge ...
> if you are solving it, you get to choose how to do it, in what order and with what priority

In times of plenty, this works, and I think it can have high velocity. Especially with very small teams that all have high levels of direct investment in the result.

There are also times of famine, however, and the work that keeps the lights on is often not work that even invested software developers want to prioritize. When making money is on the line, there's always somebody who's there to make you eat your vegetables. Who, in your conception of the problem, is that?
a tar pit as in the ones formed from petroleum, as in when crude oil rises to the earth's surface? as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago?

its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time. if you're trying to say those could have been locations where those rituals might have taken place, i suppose its fair enough to ask that, to test it you could check the locations and crude grade of all currently known oil locations, and if you manage to find similar grades on land as you find in the middle of the sea, especially in locations that were never land to begin with or weren't land during those time periods, then that would disprove the idea because they wouldn't have made tar pits in the ocean. there probably other ways to test this idea but this is what i have off the top of my head.
Except when it doesn't, because not all problems are caused by the machine's configuration, and software that displays the "it works on..." feature tend to break due to the most diverse and uncontrollable causes.
When they can't use git and find project tracking software too complex to understand, this is what regularly happens. Either this or charts and tables in Miro/Figma boards.
No, the parent is right. The very first two reasons given were being open-field and that they "didn't wasn't to be a sysadmin".
Let's not forget about the feed algoritms that will prioritize anger and only anger because this is what drives impressions.
In the real world people can see who's doing what by looking.
You have the right idea, but you got the formula wrong. That's evidenced in the source you link, but you can also reason it from first principles: a higher discount rate should make the cash stream less valuable, not more. The correct formula is n / d.
This is very impressive and useful, and horrifying all at once.

I imagine it would help a stroke patient, I also imagine it would give out unfiltered thoughts, which might be troublesome.
The EU/US, and Israel could have easily avoided this entire thing if their first act had been to immediately condemn Hammas at the UN Security Council, and call for the immediate unconditional release of all hostages.

All they needed was to show a little restraint instead of giving in to their revenge instinct. China and Russia are both hostile to Islamic terrorism. Nobody would have vetoed that resolution if Israel hasn't started immediately flattening Gaza.

That is actually how Hamas would have lost its leg.
"The cost is a deterrent", well put.
They seem to be unable to solve it without hiring people and paying wages, hence their call for help from volunteers
> Do any taxis allow you to swipe your credit card and select a tip during the middle of the ride, rather than waiting until the end?

In NYC you can use some apps (e.g. Arro or Curb, which are apparently sort of the same thing) to connect to your current ride so that it pays when it is over
Or maybe food and medicine to Gaza is their goal, but they lack the means or incentive to specifically target Israel-related ships.
TL;DR: A prolonged closure of the Suez route...

* would pause a major source of income for Egypt, which is already in the midst of a financial crisis;

* would raise the costs of trade as shipping is rerouted around Africa, taking more time, and insurance premiums soar, possibly triggering another global supply-chain crunch and another global inflation wave; and

* could escalate into regional security crisis and military conflict.
https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models/blob/main/... doesn't have any restrictions on commercial usage does it?
Time Difference of Arrival Sound Localization on the Raspberry Pi
> Why aren't the Saudis doing anything?

The House of Saud was normalising its relationship with Jerusalem [1]. Its Wahahabi population is significantly more conservative than it; protecting Israel by intercepting the Houthis’ missiles could cause a domestic issue.

Also, Riyadh was happily bombing the Houthis in the Yemeni civil war. We asked them to stop [2]. There is likely an element of schadenfreude “we told you so” geopolitics going down.

[1] https://globalriskinsights.com/2019/01/the-solidifying-of-th...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1422M5/
There is nothing historic about this. State powers have destroyed militarily inferior terrorist groups using overwhelming force before.

What would be historic is if this led to a long term reduction of terrorism in the region. However Israel has offered no explanation for why their attempt at brute force anti-terrorism will work better then every other attempt.
That is already being worked on, of course, regardless of the Houthis. The Keren Shalom crossing from Israel to Gaza just opened, which should allow double the aid to reach Gazans,

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-enters-gaza-th...

That should be enough in theory. But see details in the article, there are many logistical challenges remaining to actually get it to those in need.
Then use your free subscriber share link to this article for us. This HN; they'd even pirate Factorio.
It a bit like navel gazing, but HN?

If a thread started for ‘best X of 2023’, I’d be pretty sure of the results.
In some situations the US has gone to war with countries who not long after are close allies. Germany comes to mind, but there are others. In other cases the situation you describe is more accurate. What are the primary factors that influence one outcome or another?
Misra C++:2023
This doesn't seem like an impossible problem to solve for at least 80% of cases. I'm sure there's a long tail of review bombing, but in any given week, how many different titles are being brigaded? They say there are 300 volunteer "librarians" who moderate reviews: a relatively safe plan would be to get another couple dozen of them, give them a dashboard to show clusters of unusual review activity, and see how many wildfires they can put out just by throttling the number of reviews, or temporarily halting reviews for a book.
vitamin d is a steroid !! it is not a simple vitamin !!
US history is full of the government oppressing and murdering citizens. And yes, there's also many armed rebellions. Precisely zero of them have overthrown the US government.
pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently.

amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.
But that's the problem, you only know what's safe in hindsight

That's part of the point: safetyism is a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safetyism. If you personally want to wait until more data is in, then wait, but let the rest of take reasonable risks to move things along. I would, and want to, and suspect many others will too.

Every time a standard-of-care treatment is safe and effective you can thank the FDA for doing the unglamorous work of holding these companies accountable

Every time someone dies because the FDA has killed or slowed effective treatments, you can thank them for doing the unglamorous work of holding back progress. The dead aren't posting to Hacker News.

Give me (and others) the freedom to try. I'm a dead man walking anyway, which you don't seem to get, or acknowledge.
I’m slightly confused. Are you saying that after October 7th a un resolution would have gotten hostages released and Hamas wouldn’t have attacked again?
>but the catastrophist discourse that there's a deep slowdown in productivity compared to the previous decades and that today we're mostly relying on things we already did in the past maps pretty well with my perception.

Mine too. Any ideas why productivity has slowed down so much? Is this a software online observation, or more of a wider pattern

With software I guess part of the problem is that there's a lot of diminishing returns, with it being much easier to just crank out some initial prototype that does a lot, then it is to adjust some spaghetti mess that users deeply rely on. But that should only really affect individual projects, not necessarily the industry as a whole
> us-vs-them mentality is very popular in radicalizing say well-meaning patriots or heavily left-leaning folks into properly stupid irrational positions, siloing them into self-feeding echo chambers

> part of population with lower than average IQ (which by definition is half of mankind)

Sounds like us-vs-them mentality to me honestly.
That would be much better from my pov.
I think [[clang::lifetimebound]] would let the compiler detect this at compile time?
Vitamin D is one of the few nutrients you can overdose and it can destroy your inner organs, muscuskeletal system and brain.

If you decide to take high dosages of vitamin D you must get your blood values checked regularly.
Does it?

Well that's obviously not true. The first one that made the news when it was commandeered is Israeli-owned and I believe that all the ships targeted since have some links with Israel.

The effect is that everyone is thinking twice before sailing through those waters, though.
> perhaps here you will find the reason you enjoy more liberties than someone living in china or north korea.

False dichotomy. There are plenty of nations that have strict gun control laws and plenty of liberty.
Yeah, I am on the fence about flagging this post actually. Using the branding so blatantly feels really slimey.

That would be bad HN etiquette, right? Its not a straight up scam, its seemingly a legitimate service...
Beyond Consciousness: How Meditators Voluntarily Enter Void States
I'm not a doctor, but readers are encouraged to research the known risks of Vitamin D overconsumption in humans.
Solstice – 5 [video]
Trajectory from Yemen misses Jeddah and Riyadh by 100s of km. My guess is Saudi doesn't want to start shit with Yemen again, especially in defense of Israel. Even more so when Houthi's have demonstrated capability of hitting Saudi energy infra a few years ago and now ships in transit.

Regional force balance has changed. Iran/Yemen has developed reasonably competent missile tech that they destroy regional energy infra and potentially to revert rich petro states into desert tribes while globe is warming. While robbing world of 1/3 oil/lng. No one wants to risk that over Israel, least of all arabs.
ChatGPT powered CS chat by Chevrolet of Watsonville answers coding questions
Companies will pay millions to offload liability. It can get pathological. I especially hate the scenario where you don't even have root or sudo on your own production servers and have to beg for logs and software installs.
For what it's worth, the claim that improving laser efficiency should be straightforward sounds right to me. That they ignored laser efficiency to focus on ignition sounds like a principled approach to research: pick a specific target and focus exclusively on that target.
In many jurisdictions, certain words are "regulated" by law, or by an organization which is has legal authority. This is true for titles like "Engineer," and also academic accomplishments like "Bachelors Degree." (Unlike "certificate," which is not regulated in most places. Some certificates require 24 units. Others require clicking through a website.)

Canada has its laws and regulations, the US has its laws and regulations, etc.

If you don't like the law/regulation, you can try change it. But while they exist, they should be enforced. And while not perfect, these (regulations on names) exist for very good reason, and they're usually very precise. You and I don't get to decide what "should" be allowed.
Review bombing isn’t just negative. People also review bomb their competitors with positive reviews in order to get their competitors’ listings taken down. How do we stop that?

The harder we police against fake positive reviews, the more we incentivize this sort of anticompetitive sabotage.
Verified purchaser is not a good signal, and they know it.

It's a way to force the fraudsters to buy from Amazon.

Don't fix the problem - make more money from it. That's what companies do.
I poked it a while ago for a project but found some important bits missing for what I was trying to accomplish. It may well be better now, this was over a year ago and maybe closer to two.
> perhaps here you will find the reason you enjoy more liberties than someone living in china or north korea.

False dichotomy. There are many nations that have strict gun control laws and plenty of liberty.
Personal ZFS Offsite Backup Solution
"If You Want Something Done, Ask a Busy Person To Do It" - often heard quote.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/30/busy/