skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not an expert in international law, but I’m not sure that I am. At the very least this subject is confusing, and we might—very likely—both be confused by it.

The right of self determination applies to peoples, not people and not states. What is peoples is another issue which is not clearly defined. But I think of it as a broad category of defined group with some shared cultural heritage, be it ethnic, religious, or culture (but not subculture). LGBTQ+ are peoples, Inuit are peoples, Icelanders are peoples, and so are Israelis, which are separate peoples from Palestinians (also peoples). Jewish people are also peoples, but they are not the same peoples as the Israeli people. Many belong to both peoples, but there are many non-jewish Israelis and much more non-Israeli Jews.

In the context of international law you can think of the Palestinian people as both an ethnic group, a group with a shared history and culture, a nation group as well as an indigenous group. As I understand it there is a varying degree of self determination which is granted to each type of group. The right of self determination of internationally recognized nation states is pretty much undisputed at the UN. And since Palestine is one (albeit without control of its territory) the question should be answered.

But the UN also has other charters like the rights of indigenous peoples (which Israel did not vote against) which grants the right of self determination to indigenous groups within your territory (in Israel this is at the very least Bedouins; but potentially all Palestinians; the case at the ICJ actually specifies Bedouins in this context). Likewise there are quite a few charters granting the right of self determination to colonized peoples, of which Palestine also qualifies.

Now when we speak of Jews as a single ethno-religious group. They are definitely peoples and as such should have some degree of self determination. But within the context of international law, this is pretty limited, probably only to the right to practice free religion (which is sadly more than the Roma people in Europe get). The Jewish people live in many different countries, have very different culture, speak many different languages and are of different ethnicity. If it was up to me, this wouldn’t matter, if they had a shared class interest (which they don’t) they should get the right of self determination (as long as it doesn’t go against the international solidarity of workers). But we are in this UN based world (for better or worse) and as such the nation state trumps all rights of self determination. So the Jewish people as a group will have to settle for the same degree of self determination as every other religious group (except the Roman Catholics) that of free religion within the nation state they live in.
I've noticed that ChatGPT (4) tends to ignore large content in its context window until I tell it to look into it context window (literally).
One of the ads I mention are ones that are automatically added by Spotify to the front of the podcast that specifically target me. I've heard them mention where I live many times.
IANAL, but my understanding is the GDPR applies if they have users located in the EU, regardless of where the servers and company is located.

If Reddit wants to serve ads to users in the EU and store their info (email, ip, post content, etc), then the GDPR absolutely applies.

Enforcement is another question, but several US companies have been fined due to GDPR violations.
Quality code is simple code, simple code does not provide job security nor does it pad CVs, its not only a top down conspiracy but a bottom up one as well
I built something similar and the position accuracy is really great.
However, I only used a single camera mounted directly below looking upwards.

I estimated the distance from the perceived distance between the LEDs (assuming the drone is flying slowly and parallel to the ground).

Using this setup I implemented a controller that would land the drone "on" the camera. And this way much better landing precision than using GPS can be achieved.
You have played too much assassin's creed. DNA determinism has not been realistic ever.
Seems likely this will open up Florida to lawsuits down the road.
YOU (in the non-personal sense) may make your job an important part of your identity. But I would ask you to ask yourself the following questions - "What do your close friends do for a living? Does what they do for a living matter to YOU?
Does what they do for a living in any way affect your relationship?"

I ask this as a thought experiment because I personally believe that we THINK people care about our jobs more than they really do. True friendship should (and does) transcend "jobs".

Maybe I'm an outlier - but I believe most folks just want to have a good time with their friends - specific careers be damned!
Great article, on a side note I wish we had a better word than ‘enshittification’.

This ‘word’ has no etymological roots and cannot be taught to kids/teenagers or placed in the dictionary/thesaurus (most likely placed under the vulgar section if it has one) or cannot be said on tv or radio (some stations and channels have a policy that prohibits strong language being said over the airwaves)

There has to be a better word than this before we can just make up words that contains strong language without thinking about it.
But this is not new, there have been decades of effort in this field (countering the dark energy theory), and in my Uni's physics department we always had the QT guy vs the DE guy trying to convert students to their legions.
That's just ridiculous. Modern countries like France do not use credit scores. They just look at your last few bank statements.
I wonder if he used phind to build his phind competitor.
I once drew a comic that parodied the History Channel. It involved "Unicorns of the Third Reich".
Floating Cities: Reality or Hoax? [video]
i think flutter is newer and less popular. the real benefit is expo which makes deploying the apps to google/apple stores very simple.
Why would MS develop two mail clients? Seems like a PITA. Developing one must be painful enough.

What purpose / user target do they both have?
Being able to feasibly feed it a whole project codebase in one 'prompt' could now make these new generation of code completion tools worthwhile. I've found them to be of limited value so far, because they're never aware of the context of proposed changes.

With Gemini though, the idea of feeding in the current file, class, package, project, and perhaps even dependencies into a query, can potentially lead to some enlightening outputs.
That in top of everything else, with OpenCL stuck in 1990's tooling.
> we weren’t trying to create a 3D engine, we just threw a bunch of images at some linear algebra and optimized. Out popped a world simulator.

Heh. Sounds like what a personified evolution might say about a mind ;)
This sounds awful in practice having to memorize different functions for the same thing based on mutability of the thing.
“Worsening”
> Big tech products can't just keep getting shittier—can they?

Well I think they can still get a lot shittier, but no. Eventually the "I could run an instance for myself and my neighbors and it would be better than this" line will dip below the enshittification trend line.

Meanwhile, people are working on ways to avoid having their work be shackled to something that's destined to become less trustworthy over time (the critical dependency varies, but it's usually in there somewhere, it's wherever you get your "moat" from). So there's hope. The replacements have a chance at escaping the cycle.

We gotta stop building things that control people and start building them because we actually want the outcomes that they make possible. Until we do that, the enshittification will continue.
Paleontologists discover a 240M-year-old 'dragon' fossil in full
Most AMD stuff doesn't work on consumer GPUs.

Try to make ROCm work on a random AMD card.
Just install a browser plugin that allows you to load a custom stylesheet on every page.

Unfortunately I'm seeing an increasing number of websites using 500 <div>s with 45 nested layers of <div>s within each <div> to create a table instead of <table>s so it wouldn't work on those.
RSS Fusion – Merge multiple RSS/atom feeds into a single feed
It’s more about the exchange rate, 150 yen to a dollar is verryyy good for the dollar.
Saying goodbye to legacy versions of the Evernote app
credit karma used to be good like most other services that are popular... I think that they were some of the first ones to give you your credit rating for free and tell you why it moved, etc...
>"Really wish this existed in the 90's when my family moved to the US from eastern europe."

I moved to Canada from USSR in the beginning of 90s. The scams were plentiful and unexpected. Lucky for me I've followed that golden rule - if it sounds too good then fuck it. Saved me from lot of troubles. Some of my friends were not so lucky.
Preformationism
Could you describe a bit more about how you've re-trained your eyes with an eye chart?
(12 bit) Word.
Is there anything in the spec that says any specific element disappears from view when you page down?
I have a second Nokia phone that keeps sim cards from other countries that I dont need all the time (e.g. 2FA). Receiving txt is free and just need to top it up once per year to keep the number running.
I wonder how true the degradation is, actually. One thing that I've noticed is that randomly, ChatGPT might behave differently than usual, but get back to its usual behavior on a "regenerate". If this is bound to happen, and happens to enough people, and combining with our cognitive biases regarding negative experiences, the degradation could just as well be a perception problem combined to social networks spreading the word and piling up on the biases.
I hear this argument and I should point out that it can hurt people saying something like that. I understand where you are coming from and I disagree strongly with your statement.

Around age 12 I discovered software development and became my greatest passion. It helped me escape MMORPG addiction and being happy (have a family, buy a home, pursue my hobbies).

If I lost my job I would be sad, no doubt, but I would still be me, a passionate software developer.
If you told me I wouldn't be able to write code anymore because of some illness, I would be in a very bad spot, way worse than if I lost my job.

My profession is part of my identity in a strong way, my job is business (although I do love the place I work at).
Bezos getting richer? Get used to it.
Panama vector API is still in preview for a reason.

And it depends on Valhala being done.
> just a sort of naïve sense that there HAD to be more going on behind the scenes than gluing bits of other videos together

People really still think that's all thats happening?
Show HN: Caring Co – A booking.com for aged care homes
It was a revelation the first time I learned how disposable I was.

The flip side to “work isn’t your identity” is I find that I do my best work when I’m fully engaged and care deeply about my coworkers.
The word “shit” is being “deshittified” which I think is… awful.
There's more to quality code is simple code.

Some things or situations are inherently complex to handle and you may still want software for them (especially because they are complex). Simple code won't usually handle complex stuff, and you may still need quality.

Now you should reach for simplicity. Which may itself be complex to define.
Wow, clojure devs are learning that ides are useful
Piers Morgan and Oprah Winfrey 'deepfaked' for US influencer's ads
I would think for the common case of answering a question given a reference library, that RAG is going to remain cheaper and better.

No way do we want to post the entire reference library for every conversation.

Only if it's one off: read this book, answer questions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged with 18 Counts of disseminating classified information on July 12, 2007. If Assange had surrendered to US authorities circa 2007 (He wasn't indicted till 2019), he would have been sentenced to no more than 15 years if he was found guilty on all counts and had no parole.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...
With all due respect your opinion was better when it was viewable as pure hyperbole.

Mao kicked off the cultural Revolution in May 1966. By August the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. That’s 4 months.

The cultural Revolution was sudden.
As someone that learned UNIX on Xenix, we were pretty much aware of it being Microsoft.

> If we go way back in time, Microsoft was actually the first one to go to AT&T and beg to get a nice high-volume commercial license for Unix. And for many, many years we were the highest volume licensee, not only for our own Xenix products, but Siemens with theirs, Santa Cruz with theirs, and dozens and dozens of sub-licensees

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https://web.archive.org/web/20010818203946/http://www.micros...
I looked through it just now. Everyone talks about Chinese interference on social media but I would argue the US probably has a lot more undue influence.
It seems doubly weird, as blu-rays and other such things they are comparing to aren't written, but pressed as is when sold in large copies.

I get that a lot of uses may be as a hard drive, but imagine ginormous AI model files or some such, pressed and shipped as updates. The energy cost would be far different.

Or maybe Ultra Mega Super HD 4D video.

Or... or... blockchain history for bitcoin in a few years.
I am building something like that, but currently only targeting public/private repos and releases. Would be possible to pull more settings from the api, more difficult for private repos though. Hit me up at hello@ambersignals.com
Ooh, so this can take real images and predict albedo and lighting! Please, someone use this to make relightable gaussian splatting scenes. Dynamic lighting would really expand the usefulness of 3D scans made from photos, and I haven't seen anyone get anything close to what I would call "good" results in that area yet.
Perverse incentives. People are paying them already without that feature, so why bother? They are incentivized to do and provide as little as possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

> Doctorow has used the term platform decay to describe the same concept.
Show HN: Online Cm to Pulgada Converter
Hey, check out this website I made for converting cm to pulgada.

You know how it is – when you need to convert units in everyday life, you're always reaching for a calculator, trying to figure out the conversion (and sometimes having to Google it first), and it's a real pain.

So, to save everyone time when it comes to converting cm to pulgada, I whipped up this website. Hope it comes in handy for you!
It's a known anxiety response for dogs.

The hard part is most humans can't connect their own angst with their environmental conditions!
I heard it’s a big Cassandra too. But that’s only the backends and the frontend and their data engineers are important too.
It would be amazing to add support for M1 aka Metal: I was able to run Q8 version with llama.cpp and it's blazingly fast. The problem: I don't know how much accuracy it loses and https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-2b-it/tree/main takes too much memory which results in OOMs.

Do you have any estimates on getting Metal support similar to how llama.cpp works?

Why `.gguf` files are so giant compared to `.sbs`? Is it just because they use fp32?
Sorry... I tried to fight that battle when it first became popular and just got snarked on and voted down. Like it or not, the tech community has decided that Cory Doctorow's poop joke is a precise term of art to be taken seriously in technical discussion. People will even gatekeep it, if you use it in the wrong context.

It's a very important and necessary word, apparently.
I would avoid using database triggers for business logic.

In the app (Django or whatever) after inserting news item, call a service (async) that matches users, sends alerts
In practice it's not that bad
Terra = Capital-T

Bytes = Capital-B

200TB not 200tb
I have had good discussions with a colleague about this, where developers lean toward getting roadblocked by all possible engineering problems, they advocate checking to see if there are solutions to the problem that don't require engineering.

In this example, I think they'd suggest communication first then solve the engineering problem later.

Eg: just tell people they need to clear the floor or it can get stuck. People will still want it.

Perhaps the next step is lower touch engineering, ie: beep when it's stuck.

I tend toward engineering stuff, but I have come to realize you can't always afford the engineered solution, and that doesn't have to stop you from delivering stuff.
Part of this is the hubris of Big Tech in shedding test teams and skilled testers in favor of devs who claim they can do it themselves. And then don’t. Because they don’t enjoy testing, and they aren’t rewarded for doing good testing.
Quantum physics makes small leap with microscopic gravity measurement
Writing a terabyte of information at 10c/kwh would cost $3.78 [1]. Not nothing, but doesn't seem entirely impractical for all cases.

Heat dissipation might be an issue?

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=17+%CE%BCJ+%2F+bit+*+1+...
I just create golden images with NTLite.
It’s the breathless one-dimensional optimism of Wired Magazine and TED talks
From the article:

> There was no guarantee further charges would not be brought more serious than those which had already been laid, in particular with regard to the Vault 7 publication of CIA secret technological spying techniques. In this regard, the United States had not provided assurances the death penalty could not be invoked.

> The CIA had made plans to kidnap, drug and even to kill Mr Assange. This had been made plain by the testimony of Protected Witness 2 and confirmed by the extensive Yahoo News publication. Therefore Assange would be delivered to authorities who could not be trusted not to take extrajudicial action against him.
There is what we call: "Occupational identity": https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4419-7988-9_...
Reddit on the Wikipedia model is Lemmy.
I think a big part of the problem is bad design, churn, and lack of technical skill in product managers.
>Because there are no requirements on UB by definition, there's no guarantee that those calls will do the same thing, even on the same runtime, using the same compiler, with the same flags.

Reread my comment. You are talking about behavior not defined by the C standard which I addressed in that comment. Compilers are deterministic. Reproducible builds are a thing.
Shoutouts to kicad for being there when the alternatives are multiple hundreds of dollars. I'm not good enough at PCB design to make my own, but I had to download kicad to find that out.
If you give instructions to a delivery guy, they are not secure anymore.
There was another study looking at gender differences in tool use linked on the page: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21905061/

In that one there doesn’t seem to be any clear difference in took use occurrence or skill between genders, though their were differences in what they used tools on, and the size/weight of the tools.
Do you have any advice for finding a firm worth joining?
> try to provide specific services or limit what you can buy with them instead of providing fungible currency

I like our local safety net: it works by subsidising those who need it at tax time, but they acquire all their goods and services on the open market (avoiding distortion).
After building out thousands of neural nets and facing the same annoying bottlenecks of chaotic codebases with no modularity and low performance modules, Zeta needed to be born to enable me and others to quickly prototype, train, and optimize the latest SOTA neural nets and deploy them into production.

Zeta places a radical emphasis on useability, modularity, and performance. Zeta is now currently employed in 100s of models across my github and across others. Get started below and LMK if you want my help building any model, I'm here for you

https://github.com/kyegomez/zeta
As a data point, I just built a new dev machine with a 14900K on a new ASUS board.

Out of the box with default settings, it was pushing 320W through the CPU in stress tests.

I use my machine for FPGA compiles so I need reliability. I learned that ASUS Multicore Enhancement is not the only thing that must be disabled, you must manually enter the power limits.

Now my compiles take exactly the same length of time but use at least 100W less power.

I am glad to know that with your field data, I've inadvertently sidestepped a potentially catastrophic bug. I don't want to release an FPGA bitstream to users with flipped bits. And the FPGA tools already crash on their own enough.
This would not allow the previous errors to be checked by the compiler since the main thing you're relying on is the name. Nothing prevents you to call deleted(mutable) and discard the result apart from the name.
There's not much bigger tech than Boeing, yet I doubt they will be left operating if their plane quality gets too shoddy...

Related reading : https://www.construction-physics.com/p/a-cycle-of-misery-the...
I also believe the word has become (except as sibboleth) nearly meaningless in general, but in the context of TFA it'd appear to be "globalist elites"
Step 1: Profit

Step 2: …

Step 3: Profit
Yes, that sentence "modulates key feature maps" doesn't tell me anything. What do they mean when saying they extract the normals?
My approach as well. Yep, agreed: we are just blips in the cosmic timeline.

The links are wonderful, thank you.

I appreciated the part about caregiver burnout:

"They are the shadow soldiers in the battle, where all the attention and support goes to the patient."
So then this proves that this ‘word’ doesn’t need to exist.

So then it’s baffling (other than it’s vulgarity) that this ‘word’ has become popular.

Only tech / writer / journalism circles has this sort of thing happens, I do hope that this word gets replaced.

Reintroducing platform decay or something similar would be a start to get this into books rather than that ‘marketing vulgar buzzword’
I might not care about what my friends do for a living (I do though), but I definitely care a lot about what I do for a living.
ElevenLabs joins Disney's accelerator program
Also big tech companies tend to have their offices in locations that are supply-constrained hellholes.

I. Will. Never. Go. Back. To. New. York.
You're right that by leader I mean more "ruler" in the biz-self-help context, but I would suggest anytime people are buying articles of clothing all in the same colour (compare Wodehouse's "Black Shorts" movement) it's obvious what they are doing, no matter what word we use to describe the person who is the focal point.
I call it "management decay." It also happens to all of my favorite food joints around town, because they're always being bought out.
It's telling that even an obviously sophisticated and careful user of these tools published the output of the model as fact without checking it and even used it as one of the central pillars of his argument. I find this happening all the time now. People that should know better use LLM output without validating it.

I fear for the whole concept of factuality in this brave new world.
So why am I getting passed up for product manager positions? Is this problem not recognized in industry or is there more to the story?
I agree, and to add on to that sometimes there's irreducible complexity to a problem, requiring complex code.

But never complicated code: crufty fixes upon fixes, too many layers of indirection, templates templating templates; you won't need that to solve complex problems.
Thanks, this is a fantastic article and it would be a shame to be lost.