skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get where you're coming from, But let's put things in perspective.

First off, nobody's saying that the loss of innocent lives, especially children, isn't tragic. It's heartbreaking, and every life lost is a huge deal. But saying that Israel is intentionally targeting children and women oversimplifies and misrepresents the reality.

You mentioned feeling ashamed, like back during the Iraq war, but consider this: have you ever been in the shoes of a country under constant threat from a radical militant group? Imagine if 1,200 of your citizens were attacked, with the clear intent of causing as much harm as possible. What would you expect your country to do? Most people would say: stop the threat, make sure it never happens again.

Hamas (and many of its supporters in the west) claim that the attack is a response for Israel making Gaza "an open-air-prison" – it's inaccurate to say the least. Yes, Israel did enforce a blockade on Gaza, but it's crucial to understand why. It wasn't to make life miserable for Gazans. The main goal was to prevent weapons from getting to Hamas, a group that's openly committed to destroying Israel. And it's not like everything else was blocked – food, medicine, and other essentials were still getting through after security checks.

Hamas makes their goals regarding Israel very clear in their covenant.
It's not just about land or politics; it's about an ideology that doesn't recognize jews right to exist in this tiny piece of land.

Sure, Israel isn't perfect. Mistakes happen in war, and they should be acknowledged and dealt with. But calling it genocide? That's a stretch. Genocide involves the deliberate, systematic attempt to wipe out a group of people. In all the conflicts, Israel has actually taken enormous efforts to minimize civilian casualties, like warning civilians of upcoming attacks, especially in this ongoing conflict.

I'm curoious to get your perspective - how do you think a country should react to attacks from a group like Hamas? It's a tough question, right? What's the right balance between defending your citizens and ensuring minimal harm to the other side, especially when that side uses civilians as shields?
Even if the algorithm "works", it does not guard the critical section correctly. The code that is supposed to go between lock() and unlock() may be executed before the lock is acquired or after it is released because CPU is allowed to reorder anything as it wishes in the absence of memory barriers.

Other replies here go further and suggest that the implementation of the algorithm is also broken without barriers, which is probably true as well.
Additionally jump into LispWorks or Allegro Common Lisp, to enjoy how the survivors from Common Lisp days with a full blown IDE feels like.
Prefixing your scripts is an awesome tips. A colleague told me he prefixed all his commands with ',' and I've started to do the same. '_' might clash with 'hidden'(?) shell expansions etc.

Sadly git doesn't allow for aliases with an comma-prefix, so all git aliases starts with a dot.
This is subject to all of the usual caveats of survey-based self reporting. There are a lot of reasons people will not want to admit their jobs are bullshit until you get to know them personally. But among most of the people I know who did disclose that to me, Graeber's generalization and categorization tracks pretty well. It helps me understand why these people feel that way in a common rubric, and give them better advice than just indulging their wild fantasies to go throw everything away that they worked for and become a surfing instructor or teach in a ghetto school after 4 weeks training.

It's not like I work as a paid workplace psychology consultant or policy maker.
There is no queue
Money. That's almost always the reason for "why would they do that?"

It's much cheaper and more sustainable for the wealthy and powerful to train individuals on very high level technologies then reuse their skills in every way they can, regardless of how feasible, the economic and ecological footprint, or any concern outside of making profit.

Electron is not some comic book villain. JavaScript is not horrible and can be the optimal choice for many software applications.

But these technologies and tools are easy to teach to many workers who may or may not: understand the computational architecture to come up with better economic efficiencies, have interest in applying their skills to properly solve a problem rather than put food on the table, and so on.

The higher level the skill is, the less interest and deep systemic understanding needed for the job: many new jobs created.
It's pretty much the same as you describe for me in English.
December I bought a Thinkpad L13 Gen 3 for my wife and installed EndeavourOS for her. The laptop is really not bad, which did surprise me to some extent, had low expectations. In any case a lot better than the Asus laptop my wife had before. Did not examine fixability very thorough, however.

I would have preferred a Framework Laptop, but after two years of waiting they still don't deliver to Switzerland, at least officially. I am typing this on a Framework 13 which will be soon two years old, but when I discussed how to import it myself I got told off in the Framework community. I was not using a freight forwarder. I used my other address in Germany.

If after enough years Framework still does not support Switzerland, my next laptop will probably be a Thinkpad. It's a very good second to Framework. I know a few years ago there were many complaints about declining quality but with the model for my wife the tide seems have to turned (finger crossed).
Yet right on red seems to correlate with drivers not paying as much attention to pedestrians and people getting killed https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019822...
Ranger?
So even the Lamport bakery algorithm requires memory barriers, because modern processors can reorder instructions? Does this mean that modern CPU architectures necessarily require hardware-supported atomic instructions for proper concurrency?

Also, is there any evidence as to how common this memory re-ordering is?
Eyesight is just photon-sensing. There are primitive animals with primitive light/dark sensing.

Hearing is just vibration- and motion-sensing. It evolved from the lateral line in fish, which is not limited to "hearing" per se, but detects motion—current and transient pressure waves that might indicate predator or prey swimming nearby.

Smell is just chemical sensing. Catfish have chemoreceptors across their bodies.

A lot of intermediate forms are impossible to present to you as evidence because all we have is the fossil record which generally doesn't include soft tissue, which is where most of the interesting stuff happens.

One mutation that enables the slightest bit better sensing, provides an advantage, and offspring of that species in that area will gradually end up with that adaptation. Then it repeats. The "must have" is not dictated by some agent, but by environmental selective pressure, relative to pre-mutation versions of the same organism. It's induction, but for biology rather than math/cs.

It's quite possible that other types of photon and vibration and chemical sensing could have evolved, and would be superior, but we started down a path that locally descended to where we are now. And the existing tree of life would predate or out-compete pretty much any new multi-cellular life that tried to "experiment" and "evolve" novel sensing organs.

You want to talk about just-so stories? Cephalopod eyes attach to the optic nerve on the opposite (back) side of the retina, so they have no blind spot. Did a designer goof up on vertebrate eyes and not fix it, but instead implement a very complicated neurological fix involving saccades and "blinding" our brains to the instantaneous hole in our vision?
NB: there is a planned 2nd edition without the involvement and against the wishes of the author :(

https://x.com/christerericson/status/1050488747010060288?s=4...
Is this a joke? It surely has to be. No one cares what some fantasy book teaches. God is not a registered real estate broker, as they also say:
"Most Zionists don't even believe in God but they do believe that he 'promised' them Palestine"

Regardless, your narrative is false because we know exactly what the founding father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, wrote about Zionism in great detail in his book "Der Judenstaat" and it was a colonial project from day 1. They even considered colonizing Alaska or Uganda before they decided to colonize Palestine.

There is no hasbara you could tell me that I haven't heard before in my 20 years of dealing with zionists. All of your narratives contradict each other and try to deflect from the reality that "israel" is and was a colonial project from its inception.
And if the pedestrian is a child?
The other day there was another post about a bash history in a db, years worth and searchable and available on all machines.

I do not get this. I have over 30 years certainly cobbled some complicated commands, but I never need an ancient one.

If it's complicated and used more than one day, it's a script.

Complicated or not and used a long time ago, it's no longer valid.

These days "so old it's no longer valid" is barely a year. Back in the sco Unix days you could have 10 year old commands that are still valid references, but Linux never had that except for trivial things.

There are exceptions but they are exceptions and so by definition not reasonable to focus on.

I think that building essentially mini apps right on the command line and then carrying around years of shell history to reuse them is solving a problem the wrong way. A stupid and backwards way.

It's losing sight of what the problem actually is and like growing one weird finger muscle to the size of a leg instead of realizing maybe you're not supposed to still be using a finger for that job.
Many such cases. When you take a serious postmodern look at classic Marxist and Anarchist theories you begin to see the hidden assumptions they sneak in, and it becomes philosophically untenable. That's why sincere lefties/anarchists mature into left-liberals, and you don't see people like Foucault, Chomsky, or Zizek calling for revolution.
Common Lisp is the uniformization of what Lisp Machines across Genera, TI, and Xerox PARC (although Interlisp-D was a different species) were offering for a full graphics workstation, alongside other systems.

It was as kitchen sink as having POSIX (basically a full blown UNIX specification), to be expected to fill in the stuff missing from ISO C standard library.
Writing this from Moscow over private OpenVPN instance hosted on Hetzner by a friend of mine. Sometimes it stops working. It's been like that for a couple of years like that.
If the simulation hypothesis of reality is correct, does this mean we might encounter such edge cases in physics? Where should we look?
I was just trying to make a joke about racism because of the thinly veiled racist viewpoints in pretty much every post here but I guess I picked on the wrong guys. Okay I'm done, sorry.
> Personally I'd be quite suspect of any conclusion where "reason" and "emotion" does not converge.

You'd be right.

Emotion tells us what we want, reason (when we don't mess up, which most do at least as much as ChatGPT) only tells us how to get what we want and what the consequences might be.

The imperfections of human rationality is another reason to not use utilitarianism, as it is far too easy to just be wrong about what maximises utility, no matter how simple or complex you define that concept.

The only two cases where I disagree with this, where I think one should be suspicious of the emotion, are:

(1) you have two choices, A feels good and B feels bad, and reason tells you that choosing A will ultimately lead to a new condition you are disgusted/repulsed by/hate/etc. even more than you dislike choice B.

But even then, distrust the reasoning also.

(2) when you can't even figure out why you don't like something.

The reason I care about that, includes homophobes and transphobes violently attacking people and using their emotions as the justification.

But again, that you don't know the answer doesn't mean there isn't one — Old Testament law about shellfish and pork make a lot of sense once microscopes lead to germ theory.

I'd put "has weird request for disposal of their corpse" in their W&T in the second category. Would I do what he did? No! But I'd also not specifically ask for my organs to get donated… because having to think about it makes me shiver a bit, not because I have any reason (including emotional responses!) to object.

> The former is more useful in convincing other people to agree with your views

Depends on the person, I think.

This is why I think it's important to show the reason why I don't accept utilitarianism: the people who got there by reason will only change their mind by reason.

> the scant few things I already know about utilitarianism smells enough that when GP brings up the mummy story, I'm not going to read a dozen books and academic papers on utilitarianism before I decide to agree with him...

This is good!

Nobody has time to do deep analyses of everything. Having quick shortcuts is fine — there are commenters on here that I've learned to skim past as they only make me angry or annoyed, so I don't get to even see any of their attempts at justification by reason.

(And that lack of time is again a reason against utilitarianism…)

But as I don't share your inner experience, nor anyone else's, I still have no idea which emotion either of you is experiencing. The other commenter is just acting like it's obvious. Is it empathy because you imagine yourself stuck forever motionless in that body, or disgust because it's a corpse and those should be hidden, or is it a violation of the sanctity of the human form (an emotion I don't have but which people discuss so I assume others do have)? Or something else?
Just wondering, is it because 3 * 0.5 + (-1) * 0.5 = 1.5 - 0.5 = $1M?
We're building B2B SaaS that has AI at its core. Some of the customers asked exactly this ("we want your thing to be in house, so that our data never leaves our infra").

The solution is fairly straightforward - prepare custom models that can be deployed on customer side. It is not even something that is hard to achieve with all the great open source models out there. Yes, it's going to be costly, but it can be done.
Resolving Colds to Advanced Covid with Methylene Blue (2023)
I think it’s such a weird thing that a security guard is paid less than a tenth of my salary. I’d never be able to trust them.
I don't know how the federal government works but I am positive that in the private sector evidence of extramarital affairs can cause your clearance application to be rejected.
In many places a pedestrian is a rare sight and drivers forget they exist.
I was also shocked when I visited at the inefficiency and lack of tools for workers comfort and safety in construction.

You would see people working under a flood light at night, with burlap sacks as you said, as well as manual tools that were sorely inequipped for the work they were doing.

It was almost like it was cheaper to just hire someone to beat concrete for 14 hrs/day with a household hammer, for the duration of their life, than to pay $5,000 for a jackhammer and progress 5X as fast.
In so far as anger goes against AIs being trained on particular intellectual properties.

A made up scenario¹ is that a person who is training an AI, goes to the local
library and checks out 600 books on art.
The person then lets the AI read all of them.
After which they are returned to the library and another 600 books are borrowed

Then we can imagine the AI somehow visiting a lot of museums and galleries.

The AI will now have been trained on the style and looks of a lot
of art from different artists

All the material has been obtained in a legal manner.

Is this an acceptable use?

Or can an artist still assert that the AI was trained with their
IP without consent?

Clearly this is one of the ways a human would go about learning
about styles, techniques etc..

¹ Yes you probably cannot borrow 600 books at a time.
How does the AI read the books? I dont know. Simplicity would be
that the researcher takes a photo of each page.
This would be extremmly slow but for this hypothetical it is acceptable.
Any site you recommend for searching?
looks like HN isn’t interested in hearing how economics actually works today
If true that would surely invalidate basically all the energy based weapons being developed ?
This is a perfect example of what I like to call the Eggs-Waffles Phenomenon. Basically, you can’t say something like “I like waffles” on the internet without someone replying “how dare you malign people who like eggs”. And here there’s not even a value judgement or personal preference yet this has somehow been perceived as an attack on the childless. Others have jumped in to bemoan the perceived attack on the family. It’s wild.

Nowhere do I argue that you should or shouldn’t reproduce or that either outcome affects your perceived or actual value. The word “fail” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting in your perceptions here.
They are. Political parties do something similar before putting you on a ticket: they require you to declare any dirt on yourself that could possibly be revealed at a later date, even if only one other person in the world knows about it. Then they assess the risk of each secret, and maybe decide it's okay. But if they manage to dig up anything that you didn't declare, you're out.
while this is adorable and maybe even is "giving more to the artist" if ever true,

do artists only deserve to be paid only when someone "decides to pony up for an album"? that's a nice $10+ hurdle that will ensure it happens as rarely as possible. even $1 for a single song is apparently enough of a hurdle.

do artists not deserve to be paid if their song is just being played? it's just stiffing artists, whose music continues to play for free, for even that way of getting paid.
Crab mentality is dangerous. It seems like a lot of people would rather pull others down to where they are than allow everyone to be lifted up to somewhere better.
not all are auto labelled, some are hand labelled, some are initially labelled with something like clip/blip/booru and then corrected a bit by hand. The newest thing though is using llm's with image support like GPT4 to label the images, which kind of does a much better job most of the time.

Your understanding of the attack was the same as mine, it injects just the right kinds of pixels to throw off the auto-labellers to misdirect what they are directing causing the tags to get shuffled around.

Also on reddit today some of the Stable Diffusion users are already starting to train using Nightshade so they can implement it as a negative model, which might or might not work, will have to see.
I feel like a safety factor of 8 is fairly easy to achieve with humans? We’re not all that heavy when compared with the tensile strength of a rope.
They respond so well that a lot of people believe their results without question, even while we know that they hallucinate all the time. They’re good enough for many. Even here in HN, where everybody should know that they are terrible with numbers, majority of us cheered that somebody generated diagrams with them, I couldn’t even find a single comment which were about “wait a minute, they’re fucking unreliable numbers”.

Also regarding coding, they can definitely produce junior level code, especially if you follow a similar trial and error way of thinking which happens all the time during your work, if you try to use an unknown interface.
Note that there may be a 2nd edition coming but any release is against Christer Ericson's wishes and he's not involved: https://twitter.com/ChristerEricson/status/10504887470100602...
Just be careful with that, measuring mains is a bad idea with most oscilloscopes. The ground pin is usually connected to mains earth, so if you're not careful, you might create a short and blow up your scope. If you have one of these battery powered ones, it'll be fine, but the mains powedered ones are usually a no-no.
I am sad this is not still an active project.
Perhaps one could be made for underhanded Rust as well.
Apple only produces a few device models at a time. Where Lenovo and HP have a laptop configuration for every use case or every price point under the sun, Apple has three tiers at most.

That makes developing for Apple products relatively painless, but it also means that if they mess up, a significant portion of their customers are affected. Combine that with the sales numbers they're pulling off, and the end result is that Apple messing up is a bigger deal in practice.

There's plenty of news about other manufacturers, too. It doesn't seem to get upvoted to the front page of Reddit and HN as often, but tech news sites report about all kinds of failures. I don't know why people keep upvoting Apple, whether it's positive news or negative, but for some reason Apple just attracts a lot of attention. If you look outside vote based news, there are plenty of "Lenovo publishes UEFI firmware patches" news articles too, they just don't get as many comments.
I use plugin for FF (also chrome) that does this automatically. Can be configured to use any nitter instance: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/nitter-redirect
it is neither.

Otherwise, you'd see productivity being better in places that allow drug testing of normal employees and worse off in places that do not. But that's not the case: Retail employees in Norway aren't really less productive than those in the US.

Plus, if it really were a productivity measure, why would you not drug test more professionals and salaried employees? Does their productivity not matter? Wouldn't more small businesses find drug testing worth the money?
With a bit of prompt hacking I send information (shell session, pwd, command, timestamp) to a fifo, which is read by small Tcl script to ingest in a sqlite database. Aturin seems nice, probably does something similar.

It's a hacky script but the idea is sound. Good thing about SQL is that I can fine tune the query before feeding to fzf. A combination of order by recency and frequency of commands with and without context (pwd) works very well for me. With proper indexing I am not close to feeling slowdown, but if that happens I can probably just export data to duckdb and use that.
No, it can not use relaxed memory ordering.

Looking at disassembly of relaxed atomic operations, they are just normal loads and stores with no memory barriers or special instructions. That is not enough to make this algorithm guard a critical section.
Maybe pest and weed control is cheaper in vertical farming?
It's actually the same reasoning as with remote work. Lower level employees are easier to replace. So they can be more strict on those. And drugs and certain equipment can create dangerous situations. Where dangerous here means "has the potential to create expensive liability related lawsuits". Which is of course something companies do care about. This is less of an issue with office workers and creatives.
so is gamedev
so is gastro
so is public services
so is almost anything that isnt some high-level IT stuff, breaking news