skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a dense urban area, it has civilians and children.

That bomb is large enough to level an apartment block, so ~100 casualties and they don't know where it will land. Who are they targeting with that type of bomb, 1 Hamas fighter hiding among population?

It's error margin is in hundreds of meters. You are not allowed to kill 100 innocent people in the hopes (not certainty!) of getting 1 enemy soldier. That's exactly what 'indiscriminate killing of civilians' means.

That is why United States has never used this size of bomb, let alone unguided, in it's recent wars in Urban areas. They were also fighting guerrilla fighters - Taliban, Al Qaeda, etc.

The act of using this weapon in Urban area is a war crime, just as it would be a war crime to use chemical weapons, etc.
I've found GPT-4 speeds up my testing. I simply ask it to create the unit test. Usually it passes and covers at least the happy path, taking care of all the mocking so I can build on that.
Kind of... Windows itself actually has zero native support for Vulkan, it's all implemented through backdoor APIs exposed by the three major graphics drivers. In practice that works well enough in Win32, but it doesn't work at all in the UWP sandbox, so if UWP had succeeded in the way Microsoft wanted it to then Vulkan would be locked out. Luckily UWP was a complete flop.
If there were a common tool for integrating assessment into instruction, it would be possible to continue to rank/sort students regardless of their educational context. Understanding the rigor of the course itself would necessarily be quantifiable as well. Think of it more like "we do a standardized test every lesson/week/month" instead of once a year.
It's more than intake. It's food order, stress, sleep, context, and so on. Did you eat enough fiber, did you add more fat this time, did you drink the night before? Did you walk afterwards? Unless your life is extremely regimented and uniform, they provide a ton of data.
I see that. For mountain towns, there can be a practical constraint on the number of houses you can build, given the geography. The town would have to sprawl a long way, and people on the edge of town would be far away from all the services, and literally become marginalized. This is the complaint mentioned in the article about the proposed plan of building thousands of new houses. I don't know about Steamboat Springs, but this is a problem in other places I've been, where you've got a small, desirable town in a narrow valley between huge mountains: where will you build those new houses, 10 miles outside of town?
yes, i agree that the graphics pipeline of current browsers is a lot heavier weight, so file format efficiency is a smaller part of the picture

when rendering directly into the framebuffer was a win depended a lot on the relevant memory bandwidths. vram access being slow is not a new thing this millennium

both microsoft windows and x-windows did support hardware acceleration of drawing operations, and that was crucial for getting good gui responsivity on platforms below about 64 mips. hardware acceleration of drawing operations is kind of like vector graphics file formats but not the same thing unless the file format is wmf, so you had to do things like ripscrip on the cpu. in the 64-512 mips range that is faster than an 80486 but slower than a raspberry pi 1, you can draw a totally responsive megapixel gui entirely in software. the crucial equation is that a 256-color megapixel frame is a megabyte and you need at least 20fps to be usable (50 without double buffering), so you need 20 megabytes a second of bandwidth to the vram

the isa bus gave you 8, so you were stuck with either partial screen updates (only drawing changed regions) or hardware acceleration. other platforms were somewhat better but mostly only a little. hardware acceleration could typically do bitblt but not polygon fill, so vectors lost again. vlb came around in the 80486 timeframe and changed things a lot

the first versions of both microsoft windows and x-windows supported graphics file formats but no compressed formats
I’d argue grounding is more serious as it inflicts pain on their customers as well.
> (the consumer being an adversary under the SGX threat model) proved too difficult to maintain.

This is what's wrong with so much of this "security" tech. It's not for our security but for that of the businesses and their business models behind it.
“The federal government and its Bureau of Reclamation – the agency responsible for managing the West’s complex system of reservoirs, rivers and dams – has legal authority over the lower basin but not the upper basin under the current law of the river”

The upper basin (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming) proposal puts mandatory cuts on the lower basin (California, Arizona and Nevada) and only voluntary cuts of unspecified amounts on themselves.

“the lower basin plan would spread cuts ranging between 1.5 million to 3.9 million acre-feet across all seven states, plus the country of Mexico – which also uses river water.”
Yes, the general rule was to stay at least a year though. My first two jobs were a hair under 2 years each. The first one was an unbearably toxic environment, but that's typical of your first job. I learned a lot because I did everything: networking, database, reports, server config, applications, integration, support, etc. All from scratch. The second I learned a lot but got stuck in a rut once I learned it. This was my big name company. I then did contracting for a year then the dot bomb + 9/11 happened, contract expired and I was out of work for 6 months and miserable. I learned that it might be beneficial to stick around a place for a while that seemed stable. First job after dot bomb was 8 years (learned a lot but stayed 2 years too long), 6 years (learned a lot and left at the right time), then 2 years (didn't learn much, tried to right a sinking ship) and currently 5 years (learned a lot and it was a file -> new experience).

I did a whole lot of projects on my own time to keep up to date with interesting new tech and make some side money. Nothing really blew up though.
The Arc browser borrows very little UI or tab/account syncing code from chromium. The non-V8+Blink bits are almost entirely written in swift as far as I know.

This means it probably has the most Windows Swift code of any app out there and that’s why I mentioned it.
Wait, someone made a similar comment as this elsewhere in the thread. So why don't you just upvote that?

If you have your own thoughts, surely you could just think them to yourself while upvoting.
One of the components of the solution is a property tax regime that strongly favors occupancy. Not a homeowner’s exemption.

If a house is going to be built, it should be used. Don’t let them sit empty.
Ski resorts are already way overcrowded, despite the insane lift prices. How is making it more accessible going to help anything? It's already at maximum capacity.
Its a ski town. Vacation homes is what is driving up the prices and they don't care about if they can get a hair cut or not or if the local school can hire teachers. Ski resort is either bussing in their employees or has employee housing.
Sure. And it would be nuts to start trying to incentivize fighting back by prosecuting people who don't.
Imagine you did all of that, received and accepted an offer, and then they made you work on snap. Grim.
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What if people die and lose everything or groups of people get hurt because of the Ransomware? You could also say the person handing a wallet to a criminal is actively contributing and should of kept his money in the bank. The point is that its not always as simple as "backup your files".
That does seem most likely. The putative insider blog post about the production incident essentially said the same thing: the contractors/managers were exploiting a loophole to avoid recording the work in such a way that it would trigger a required review step (or somesuch, I forget the details). Not a big leap from there to "didn't get recorded at all", and from there to "lots of other stuff isn't recorded either".

Boeing is in so, so much trouble here.
>What has been shown is the negative advantage minorities, impoverished, ESL, disabled people have when taking the test and the advantages that wealthy people who can pay for tutors have.

How does this contradict the GP? This doesn't necessarily seem inconsistent with standardized tests correlating better with academic success on its face. Because I would expect that such people tend to have not just worse standardized test scores but also worse academic success (because of the advantages that wealthy people have that these people lack).
Wait I'm confused... From the preliminary report we know that the door plug was removed by spirit to fix their damaged rivets, and it sounds like the NTSB had documentation to support that as of when they were writing the preliminary report. Quoting from that report:

> Records show the rivets were replaced per engineering requirements on Non-Conformance
(NC) Order 145-8987-RSHK-1296-002NC completed on September 19, 2023, by Spirit
AeroSystems personnel.

So why is the NTSB looking for Boeing personnel?
"Capitalist" is a nonsense term that no longer carries any meaning.

There is a revolving door between government and corporate leadership.

There is no functional difference between corporate America and public service at this point in time.

One does not rule the other: they are one and the same.

Social media companies have entire teams run by Federal law enforcement.

Federal leadership draws its senior staff from companies like Google.

It is impossible to conduct business without thoroughly invasive involvement of multiple layers of government telling you what you can do, how you must do it, tracking your actions to ensure you comply, and levying obscene punishments if you don't.

For this "service" you are charged a level of tax that would make the Pharaohs green with envy.
Anecdotally, I've heard from friends that sort of thing happens with some regularity. A (especially second home) ski condo is one of the most optional large assets you can imagine and even more so if it's really inflated in price. (A lot of people probably also grow out of this sort of thing over time.)

As an aside, a second home is something that's never appealed to me. Neither the effort, the expense, nor the ties to a specific location seem like great tradeoffs for most people.
OpenAI was formed in 2015, Altman was only president of YC for a year by that point.
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Also one that favors ownership... 100% higher for winter properties, 400% higher for AirBnbs and rentals
> Would they even remember that long ago who did what?

The plane in question was manufactured last summer, IIRC.
Believe it or not this stuff is easy mode once you learn to ignore the terminology. It takes relatively little knowledge to know how to get data into the right format, set sensible training parameters and check results -- basically a handful of function calls. The trained models are also highly interpretable, you can literally plot them with Graphviz to understand how the model is treating values of each feature ("column")
I didn’t claim this. My claim (later clarified) is that the government doesn’t have a right to force me to use my body to save another person’s life.
"I think the closest we’d be able to get to this is maybe smaller, more granular standardized test that do a better job of testing multiple specific dimensions over an academic career vs a big bang at the end."

This is the heart of the concept, yes. We should be attempting to make in-classroom assessments as trustable as standardized tests which would allow them to continuously implemented during instruction. The quantity of data will provide a significantly more robust representation of a student's abilities today, and over time, compared to the infrequent snapshots of the ACT/SAT/etc.
The Dutch quite liked Philips Electronics when that was still a thing. Also, DAF Trucks, Océ printers/copiers and some others. The slogan Koopt Nederlandsche waar, dan helpen wij elkaar (Buy Dutch products so we help each other) used to be a thing and still rings true in (an aging) part of the population.
I wonder if Google does something to detect fake Android reviews or coordinated review bombing? It seems to me, at least anecdotally, that they don't have effective mechanisms for this.
> Long-term they will likely make no changes because human desire, habits and behaviors are rarely unknown to us.

It seems like this thinking leads to desires, habits and behaviors remaining a mystery to us.
Eat fiber first. Add more protein. Eat reheated rice (resistant starches). Isn't it interesting how much these little details matter?
Build more mountains, duh! /s
> why would you justify it?

Let's not start accusing each other. Drop the BS.

> using human shields (directly by putting military infrastructure in civilian ones or indirectly by not distinguishing themselves)

That doesn't mean they are using human shields (and it doesn't mean they are not): Asymetric forces need to blend into the environment - the mountains, the city, etc. In the city, that means blending into the civilian population - it doesn't require any intent to use them as shields (but they still could intend it - they even could intend to cause civilian deaths to drive world opinion).

> The death of human shields is their responsibility, and their alone

The asymetric force is at least partly to blame for the deaths of civilians, but that doesn't excuse the 'symmetric' force (is there a better term?) from all laws of war and basic human morality. They can still minimize civilian death and still follow rules of proportionality - Israel can't justify nuking the Gaza strip because Hamas is hiding among civilians.
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That's a good point. When I saw the robotic symphony, I thought it was pretty ridiculous, because you don't need separate speakers to play the sounds of different instruments. But a normal person in 1900 wouldn't have understood this from a picture, and if they saw a picture of a normal rock concert today, they wouldn't know what it was or how anyone could hear the instruments (though they'd recognize the drums and guitars as such).
Yup, if it was built in the mid 2010s or later I'll see that, but most of the machines I've worked with have been running since the 90s. Still running Windows XP etc.
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Gosh I really wish this WASN'T of general interest these days, but in the immortal punchline of Dave Chappelle - "I understand"
So, obsolete?
IANAL[1] but is it possible that "vik" meant "home" or something as long as 20,000 years ago, before people even populated the Americas, and that this word persisted throughout the development of American and North Germanic languages?

[1] linguist :)
> So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.

I could say the same for programming with Copilot.
If this is correct, it's still worth understanding!

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

However, on the whole, I am glad to have more than one political system in the world, more than one political philosophy, and I don't want 100% of the world to be capitalist democracies. Monocultures are brittle, and with diverse systems, we can all learn from each other.

Even very bad systems (Stalin, Hitler, or name your other horrible dictator) often have good ideas somewhere -- perhaps in some economic policy, in some organizational structure, or otherwise -- and even if not, are worth studying to avoid the same mistakes.

My general feelings about China are generally:

1) I'm glad to visit

2) I would not want to live there

3) It seems to be improving, on the whole (despite backsliding in some areas)

4) I'm glad they're there and experimenting with a different system

I have limits, and there are many systems I wouldn't say this for, but my line is pretty far out for how much diversity I'll tolerate.
A prescient and pragmatic reply. I too, felt a bit miffed that they were jumping onto this hype bandwagon.

However, as an early user, I've continued to support them and I think you've articulated really well why they're doing what they are doing -- and what made me not drop my subscription when I saw them integrate "GenAI" into Kagi.
Ask HN: Do phone calls count toward your data?
I just got the email from my cell phone provider:

> Beginning January 2024, we're enhancing our network services, and as a result, C-Band and Ultra Wideband data (indicated by 5G+ on your device) will start counting towards your cellular data usage threshold.

Is this their way of saying that my calls that are routed over 5G will count against my data usage? If so, it is a very roundabout way of saying it!
Well, people needed to filter out AppleTalk on the WAN side. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people didn't - and those T1s were expensive.
Surveillance would be a less of problem if we took data and privacy rights more seriously. We should and must.
Way to incorrectly quote me. My preface was:

… because I'm not saying that my conclusion:

And originalism is one way of interpreting the Constitution. There are other methods that other legal experts employ. Which is my only point. There is no single objectively correct way to interpret the Constitution. So it’s incorrect, for the most part, to say, “this is what the Constitution says/means”. One should say, “this is what i think it means.”
Did Vowel go under or get acquired? https://zapier.com/blog/introducing-zapier-central-ai-bots/
I've done the zombie thing and it's less of a privacy issue than you might think. They don't need your name or contact details, though you can optionally give some.
Although it has it's downsides, Salt Lake City?

There are a bunch of smaller ski towns but I'm not sure most of them would really appeal to me long-term.
Wow, this is fascinating to me.

When I interviewed at Red Hat is was almost entirely technical. There was a computerized technical test (essentially "here's a VM, set up <several things>" and then a script grades it), a verbal technical interview, and then a panel/presentation that was specifically about the process I took my previous company through in adopting k8s.
> My hunch is that this constraint should be that abstractions must be reversible.

> Here's an example: When you use a compiler, you can work at a higher layer of abstraction (the higher-level language). But, this means you're now locked into that layer of abstraction. By that I mean, you can no longer work at the lower layer (assembly), even if you wanted to. You could in theory of course modify the compiler output after it's been generated, but then you'd have to somehow manually keep that work in sync whenever you want to re-generate. Using an abstraction kinda locks you into that layer.

Just to make sure I understand, you're proposing a constraint that would rule out every compiler in existence today? I feel like overall I think compilers have worked out well, but if I'm not misunderstanding and this is how you actually feel, I guess I at least should comment your audacity, because I don't think I'd be willing to seriously propose something that radical.
Compare and contrast with FDR's choice of Truman.

FDR had to know he was going to die, and he did not want Henry Wallace to succeed him. True, he didn't prepare Truman for the job, but then, VP's were treated as a spare tire back then.

Lincoln, on the other hand, had no certainty about what was going to happen.
this is a hilarious take. It's certainly more serious for their customers, but is it more serious for the responsible parties (the board of directors)? It seems clearly not.
Yeah, it's nice. Also, old major iOS versions still get security updates, so a very old iPhone is still practically usable.
If 5G calls count against my cap, I'd just as soon set my phone to LTE only, since I don't really need 5G speeds anyway. Seems like just a ploy to be able to nickel and dime customers, and start charging for phone calls that carriers used to tout as free/unlimited.
> There is no way to do it without creating a Microsoft account (again F you Microsoft).

> That being said, is there no age restrictions on a Microsoft account?

These two sides of the internet seem to be finally settling, in the direction of requiring accounts for exactly that reason. There’s a growing level of legislative support for age restrictions and I suspect we’re going to see more calls for that as tools like this get more attention.
Yep. If you drive around through any of these towns, upon leaving in any direction you'll encounter a mobile home park down the road just a ways, tucked into a valley or next to a railroad, somewhere the views aren't as valuable and the roads aren't as good. Inexpensive manufactured housing or RVs on tiny lots (that still cost too much to rent for what you get).

That's where you'll live if you work most jobs in the town, if you're lucky; otherwise, you'll commute a lot further - potentially over dangerous mountain roads in icy conditions. Better hope I70 stays open...
"Rudolph Technologies Helps Semiconductor Customers Reach Market Faster with Smalltalk-Based ControlWORKS"

https://www.cincom.com/pdf/CS050418-1.pdf

Someone suggested Smalltalk a million lines long which I have no way to confirm or contradict ;-)
I remember those days, and really, slow file transfer > no file transfer. OTOH I was on thinnet at the time.

And who really had 115kbps at the time? That'a dual ISDN, which was used by pretty much nobody. It's not like IPX would have been better over that link.
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Rich people can afford those high taxes. Taxes don't get us to more housing. There have to be rules to build more housing. Nothing works without more housing being built, and housing has to be somewhat oriented toward more affordable housing (the missing middle).
Seems weird that they'd want to build SFHs rather than condos. Ski towns love condos. The density keeps everything nice and walkable and touristy for the snowbirds — and they're easier to heat, too.
Entry into the domain is hard because EE is incredibly mature in western countries.

By that I mean most work is heavily regulated, either defense, aerospace or industrial goods that must meet safety certs. Schematic and PCB design flow are heavily impacted and you can't go all tech startup go fast and break things on it.

Anything that's mass market consumer goods these days is outsourced to a shop in Asia or even Eastern Europe to design. At that point their labor is cheap that you don't care what they use.
The claim that they were bombed more quickly. (I can't read the WSJ story.)
Awesome use of that rant pic.

Next rant pic- When I RUN a F*ING EXE it should open a Window with the application in it you smelly nerds!!!!
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The threat model is, IMHO, absolutely ridiculous and assumes that humans have already delegated all tasks to an LLM. The mere requirement that _people read their own emails before sending them_ wipes out this threat entirely.