skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel didn't occupy Gaza. It completely withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The use of the word "occupation" in this context is newspeak.

Gaza used to be under Egyptian control until 1967. The term "occupation" in the context of Gaza and international law referred to it being occupied from Egypt by Israel in the six day war. The term "occupation" used by pro-Palestinians refers to the existence of Israel. They s/Israel/occupation/ and they refer to the Jewish presence anywhere in Mandatory Palestine and the middle east.

I'm not going to revisit the entire history of the conflict in this comment but the adoption of terminology like "apartheid", "genocide", "occupation", "resistance", "ghetto", "concentration camp", "nazis" etc. is intentional and insidious. The intent is not to criticize Israel. The intent is to dehumanize it and justify violence against it as a whole. The people using these terms are intentionally presenting falsehoods refuse to acknowledge the factual reality. The choice of terminology is to prevent dialogue.

We don't need new words for the status of people living in areas that are occupied. Everyone understands that people living in occupied territories (such as e.g. Germany post WW-II) don't receive the same rights as the people living in the country of the occupier. That is not Apartheid. Israel recognizes that it occupies the west bank (from Jordan btw. which also doesn't want the territory back) and has tried many times to resolve this issue.

tl;dr I do have a problem with people calling Israel an "apartheid state". Let's reserve that word to South Africa which is what it's supposed to mean. This is just wrong on so many levels. If you want to criticize Israel do it on a factual basis.

And btw, this was true pre-Oct 7th as well. I'd argue these people have contributed to the events of Oct 7th and are partly responsible for this terrible mess we're in today.
Whatever one's view of copyright claims against genAI (and personally I think they are meritless), this should be a wakeup call for people who don't see the difference between "source available" and "open source". Meta pretend it's models are open source but of course retains the right to control how they are used. Now the distinction isn't hypothetical.
Yeah - antidotally I feel like earlier in a hiring process people are apt to expound on candidates fit for portions of the role and in later stages it basically just thumbs up or down and only more exposition in the case of disagreement
I was also extremely upset that the whole expression wasn't wrapped in parens
I feel like people who do this achieve it more by practice than some generalised intelligence. Most of the popular puzzles seem to revolve around essentially just tying different arithmetic combinations until you find the set of sums that explains the output. That seems like a very easy skill to train, yet I don't think doing so would improve your general intelligence. That said, the second puzzle in the linked tweet is quite good.
> Just focusing on metrics is not enough

This is not about focusing on the metrics itself, it's about focusing on what matters to your customers: the metric is a tool, not a end goal.

It's obvious in the airplane example OP has, what matters is end to end time (and why HSR are more successful than you would think they would be at the travel game btw).
So they're complaining about scraping taking down MJ. I don't understand the allegations... if they're scraping things from Discord that wouldn't bring down MidJourney. The only way you'd bring down MJ would be to... use their service too much? Am I missing something?
Or it's a simulation and someone keeps pushing changes to production.
It has certainly been a wild ride. Running an organization is certainly a different skill set. I've learned that I'm pretty good at that side too, but it drains me in a way that programming does not. Bevy's success has definitely been a mixed bag for me. It has been extremely fulfilling and a dream come true. But things were also much simpler, calmer, and pleasant when I was building Bevy alone incognito.
I won't say we ended up with anything superior, but we definitely benefited on cost as you mention! We have an intro writeup of our experience using OpenPlotter and a Raspberry Pi-based setup here.

https://sailingcourage.xyz/projects/plotter/

Something also not often realized is that many, many sailboats are actually quite old (20, 30, 50 years!) and so are their on-board electronics. Any chance to update wiring, instruments, diagram out on-board electronics, etc. is probably a really good opportunity for nav system and overall boat maintenance.
@dang — this is just a thin wrapper around a great engineering-related YouTube channel.

The direct link is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhHoyqQEhA
I wrote a similar, but web-based, service focusing on peer to peer file sharing. Since it's a web app, there are file size restrictions imposed by browsers but give it a shot! A signalling server is used for connecting the clients but you don't need it once you're connected to your peer, file data is only ever sent over a P2P connection. By choice, there is no fallback TURN server so some network configurations that aren't able to establish P2P connectivity can't share files. The price of privacy!

https://dropnow.elguindi.xyz/
eBPF has only recently become less bounded, at 4.15 for example it was still very bounded ;).

(I assume you mean maximum # of instructions etc?)
> Blender video editor is ... slow

Might be time to think about trying Blender again. This was posted here on HN about a month ago. https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/02/06/I-accidentally-Blender-V...
Agreed, I like to go in the first ~20% but not actually first. That gives you a chance to quickly make any changes from good qualities you noticed in the first ones, but get it done before fatigue sets in. And it's just nice to have it out of the way so you don't have to stress!
We visited Pisa, briefly. One thing to note is that everything in the plaza, including the surrounding walls, is leaning. Everything. The ground must be like mud.
Google: if your website is slow to load we'll downrank you

Also Google: builds tool that claims you load a bunch of JS & CSS from their ad network, thus making your own website slow
> That the holders of 113 seats can collude against the holders of 37 seats is quite logical

Well... Yes and no. Because it's precisely that kind of behavior that make it that more and more people keep voting for the far-right (or far-left FWIW): their voices are never taken into account.

With three quarters of the seats left, they can form unholy alliances (involving rightwing parties, leftwing parties, ecological parties, etc.: allianes which are looking more and more unlikely) to make sure the status quo persists... But is this what people want?

I mean: they didn't just have one person out of every four vote for them: there's also no single party who got more vote than that.

If it was a "winner takes all", they'd have won already.

What are mainstream parties going to do? Ignore the issue until more than one in every two voter votes for Geert Wilders?

Is this what it'd take for mainstream politicians to wake up and realize that maybe, just maybe, they did act in a way that pushed one people out of every four to vote for a far-right party?

Or put it this way: if all the parties are going to collude anyway to govern (because so few of them are getting seats), what's even the point of going to vote?
>I believe the human mind is specialised to think in terms of serial solutions

The brain is massively parallel - 80 billion neurons operating asynchronously at only 100hz.

>is having a neural network the end problem that needs solving?

Absolutely! Neural networks are a general-purpose way to solve a huge number of problems, especially problems that involve raw data or the messy real world.
It supports them by creating its own private key and signing them on your system. That's inherently incompatible with only trusting modules from your distro vendor.
one round through the sieve without the cheesecloth, discsrd large solids, and then one round with the cheese cloth, no squeezing. I don't typically add vegetables to my stock thought, as it seems to me to make more sense to me to add them later, so that the flavors don't evaporate off.
I think the way HN does it would be good; give me the “showdead” option.
But that takes current, not merely voltage. It's very hard to do with the discharge of static energy.
A Purple Barium Copper Silicate Pigment from Early China (1992)
All of them. It’s no coincidence Facebook is leading the charge to regulate social media, AI, and other technology usage.

Regulation is a nice “free”* moat once you’ve made it.

*lobbying costs aside
As they should. Open sourcing things should not be a legal liability. Open models have to have some sort of protection
The Firefox profile I'm using is no more than 3 weeks old. Fresh install of Windows was done around that time.
Unbelievable how much we can work out from just the odd photon hitting us from somewhere in the great unknown.
I'm pretty sure they don't want to actually straighten it due to the immense cost of renaming it
How is that an improvement over just giving the ping binary on disk that capability? And how would "su" and "sudo" work in your model?
Agree. I thought the leverage one was the odd one out - more ego than impact. I think high impact organizations are usually made out of individually low leverage people working together
First through colander and then 1 or 2x through fine mesh strainer.
What do you need an antidote against? (“Anecdotally”, I think.)
You don't seem to get PCIe Gen 5 outside of the top-end devices it seems. Agilex 7 has it on the Intel side with the R-Tile devices (including a hard CXL IP too which is lovely), but their recently announced Agilex 5 (the UltraScale+ competitor) only host PCIe 4.0 x8. I guess it takes up too much in terms of resources to double the throughput on a low-power device.
Why Line Chart Baselines Can Start at Non-Zero
I like Kagi's downranking sites with ads. Really removes the incentive for sites to spam you. Too bad I haven't found Kagi as a search engine sticky, it seems about as good as DDG on average.
This is a nice explanation of the theory. It seems to be dataset-independent. I'm wondering about the specifics of generating images.

For example, what is it about image generators makes it hard for them to generate piano keyboards? It seems like some better representation of medium-distance constraints is needed to get alternating groups of two and three black notes.
Yes, it works as long as it’s a batch. Won’t work if the next candidate they see is 15 days later.
What is the requirement defining "first class quotation"?

In support of ways of implementing Scheme hygienic macros, there exists an invention known as syntactic closures. In what ways does a syntactic closure fall short of being a "first class quotation"?
"Democracy dies if the voters can actually give power..." I don't think democracy means what you think it means. Democracy dies if you take power away from the voters, which is what you seen to be suggesting.
Can't really fault them for not disclosing their datasets etc. Without meaningful protections it would be a huge legal liability.
Same. I was a Vegas guy through the late 90s/early 00s, and then got out of the area for a few years. When returning I really just wanted Vegas like from before and tried all kinds of stuff. It was very surprising to me how hard it was to find! Kdenlive is really, really great and is super intuitive to me.
Forum that is usually fast with updates: https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/658098-latam-78...
StackOverflow answer [January 2024], using term rewriting:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/77857873/1250772
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https://txt.cohere.com/command-r/
I guess the point is not some libertarian utopia, but rather to eliminate any and all institutions and mechanisms that fulfil this post WWII socialist idea of corrective redistribution.

We don't need to get into why this concept is deeply flawed both morally and structurally but if the following truths are reasonable:

- Not everybody is equal in terms of value output, importance to society and value deserved.

- The most important civilisation sustaining things exist at the tail end of distributions.

- As such these things should be held extremely high in society relative to everything else.

Then we can take these truths to make claims like "the CEO wallmart is worth more than thousands of employees combined" because the difference between a good CEO vs exceptional CEO is billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs (throughout the economy).. let alone a bad CEO.

In the same way, we can say the difference between a gifted person going deep into english literature vs the average person is massive. Does it really make sense for society to back the average person on this venture? Does it make sense for the person?

Without societies backing, it would've been nearly impossible for the average person to go into this world.

The key is average here, I'm incorrectly using the word. The lady in the article is clearly not average but is she exceptional? NOPE.

Why does her role exist, why are the such courses in such third their colleges? what happens to the students..
I understand that from a security perspective, but from an e-waste perspective even the current 7 years support is disastrous let alone the previously 3-5 years that vendors.

Not everybody has the same security needs, I often gift my older phones to my family members and if I have the choice to leave them on a fully unpatched device vs a GrapheneOS that is a "best effort" patch I will happily choose GrapheneOS.

I am super glad for all the work you guys do in any case, you can only love from me and I am honestly not buying an phone that doesn't support GrapheneOS at this point.
That part was a trick. Was... at this point, people assume even worse things but by-and-large don't seem to care.

But the above comment was about user-submitted feedback used for improving Google Maps, which doesn't seem like a trick at all.
I also built something similar for Python [0]. I decided to go with a separate DB file for the queue, I think it's better for performance but also to avoid mixing the data storage with the message queue (in my case, I assume the message queue is just an implementation detail and not really tied to the rest of the DB schema).

[0]: https://github.com/litements/litequeue
Imagine the huge impact this has on the fairness of jugement in trials?

Especially in current time where justice is understaffed and judges have to work long hours...

This is quite scary in my opinion.
If you think Figjam is expensive, you should see their new dev mode pricing — I’m sure they’re making a mint!
My experience with stock boils down how much effort is required to create the stock vs how much and how long can it stay in the fridge.

It takes hours to make good chicken stock and I want to make and store a whole lot of stock so that it is available to me for at least a week or longer. However, I don't have a lot of space in my fridge.

Boiling your stock down to a fraction of the original volume is not a solution .. the carrots and celery and especially the aromatics do not do well when frozen for over a week.
edit: typo
One generally accepted feature of life is maintaining a localized entropy anomaly, at the expense of dumping excess heat to an outside reservoir. There is no evidence that the Sun is doing anything like that. All of its MHD processes follow normal laws of thermodynamics, where structures will persist at a variety of scales and durations according to universal power-law spectra. The gravitational dynamics of the asteroid belt definitely doesn't exhibit any entropy peaks not explained by Jovian perturbations, etc.

I think you are confusing statistically improbable, but completely normal, patterns with meaningful ones, which is probably the primary flaw of the human brain.

That said, it's also improbable that our meat brains can comprehend every possible form of life in the universe.
It reminds me of the Lewis Terman study. Terman was a psychologist and intelligence research that studied the lives some n > 5000 "gifted" children over the course of his entire life (and their entire lives too). In fact, the study is still going on to my knowledge.

Anyway, of the all the gifted children studied, many of them went to be fairly accomplished but never became anything noteworthy -- doctors, lawyers, teachers, researchers, etc..

However, two of the children that didn't meet the cut for the study due to not having a high enough IQ actually went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize separately in separate fields. Those two individuals were Luis Alvarez and William Shockley.
Added bonus: it has 50% less animated “responsive” design.
We have a right wing government in the UK. Immigration has never been higher.

They make a big deal out of being nasty to immigrants to keep their base on side, but they, just like everyone else, need the immigrants to support the economy.
They are heavily invested into using GPIO: https://openplotter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started...

I wonder if industrial-strength RPi clones / variants exist. The demand is certainly there.
> You have to ask why they feel the need to spend on contractors.

They often have salary caps which don't allow them to fill all vacant positions. Whereas the same company's caps for contractors are higher.
I'll hold my breath until I see this result replicated a few times using different methods.

This reminds me a lot of https://datacolada.org/98 and if I think about it, the data would be trivial to fake.
Exactly so. SQLite also has a rich collection of CHECK constraints which can raise errors if data is not to your liking in some fashion, this includes validating JSON. Not a JSON schema, admittedly, although (just like for Postgres) this is available as an extension. https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-jsonschema

Saying that SQLite doesn't have "real types" is simply false. If one doesn't want to learn how to use a tool, blaming it for that failure is poor form.
Well peepz, it’s been fun, but I’m off to bed now because sometimes I get sleepy. Ta! :D

(Thank you for all the comments!)
My personal theory as someone who lives in Europe but not in the Netherlands: while it's easy to assume that only racists would vote for obviously racist parties, I believe there's a large number of otherwise-reasonable voters who follow them because they are the only ones who say out loud that the politicians of the last 20+ years have dropped the ball.

Sure, the racist parties blame (wrongly) all problems on immigrants, but at the same time they are the only ones who publicly denounce that there is a problem to begin with. If I were struggling to get a good education for my children, who should I vote for? The party that wants to raise my transport costs, the one that ruled while the rich got richer, or the one that swears that my salary will go up once all refugees are gone?

I believe all it would take to reduce the power of the far right would be to run on a campaign of "we fucked up and we're sorry".
Are they also banning the host practice of renting out multiple rooms to guests who are strangers to each other?
I would prefer indoor cameras as protection from other guests.
Your post is awesome and is explaining something nobody else did, thanks!
on the other hand, HN is filled with self-proclaimed critics that they dismiss everything and display their utter lack of imagination -- like AI, Metaverse, (success of) Snapchat, AirPods before
Which would also count as new physics.
Previously people basically didn't bother to write multithreaded Python at all due to the GIL. Threads were primarily used when you had multiple pieces of work to do which could end up blocked on independent I/O. Which is common and useful of course, but doesn't help with the performance of CPU-bound Python code.

Even outside of high-intensity CPU work, this can be useful. A problem lately is that a lot of code is written using Python's native asyncio language features. These run single-threaded with async/await to yield execution, much like in NodeJS, and can achieve pretty good throughput even with a single thread (thousands of reqs/second).

However, a big problem is that any time you do _any_ CPU work, you block all other coroutines, which causes all kinds of obscure issues and ruins your reqs/second. For example, you might see random IO timeouts in one coroutine which are actually caused by a totally different coroutine hogging the CPU for a bit. It can be very hard to get observability into why this is happening. asyncio provides a `asyncio.to_thread()` function [1] which can help to take blocking work off the main thread, but because of the GIL it doesn't truly allow the CPU-bound to avoid interfering with other coroutines.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio....
Except it's not made out of the same variety of peppers as what we call bell peppers, according to Wikipedia.
Democracy died with mass immigration. The people didn't want it and it permanently changed the electorate, replacing the voice of the people with a new voice.
It seems they are using flask in their code, just to show you don’t to go crazy with your stack to build useful software.
Where "abroad" is pretty much US or Switzerland?
These kind of platform trials are getting more common luckily! Famous example is the COVID Recovery trial.
Much lower overhead, currently shipping, able to detect some forms of heap corruption but not nearly as reliably as CHERI. No protection on tags and small (2^4) space for them.
Yeah, that’s a good idea! I was today old when I learned that SQLite can have transactions across separate db files.
Learning or performance? Why the distinction matters for memory science
I wonder if their introspection is good enough to have our population on a Grafana dashboard somewhere
I look forward to seeing your implementation of this :)
> Just the act of writing out a proposal...

Strongly agree. But this is not the same thing as a tech review.

> Design review is just highlighting organisation failures elsewhere.

I don't think it is an organizational failure necessarily; it is more of a power balance issue. Most (esp. junior) developers wouldn't dare ignore a VP's comments in a tech review.
No, US paprika is ground dried sweet or hot peppers. Often imported from Hungary.
> we’ve been using the 13.8 billion cosmological age estimate ever since I started brushing up my layman's understanding of the subject.

I remembered the age of the universe as as 13.7 billion years, but I wasn't sure why that was.

Well, the initial WMAP results in 2003 supported an age of 13.7 billion years. Later results nudged this upwards to 13.8 billion years. Of course, all the results have error bars.
I believe it doesn't even need to go that far. EVERY party is running on a platform of "we're going to stop those evil assholes". Left says that about the right, the right says that about the left, greens, ... everyone.

We need a party that goes back to "we'll kill programs and then start a big program to do X". Better public transport. Housing in large cities. Land on the fucking moon again if you want. SOMETHING. With the power of government they're all very much solvable, but no parties are even interested.
Related: if you ever get a $5 Costco rotisserie chicken, don't throw it away when you're done with it! Put the rest in a small pot with some water and let it barely simmer for a long time (6-12 hours). Taste it every few hours, adding salt and stirring. Strain out the bones and other gunk, and you'll end up with delicious mostly-homemade chicken broth.
Hi, sorry the server was down, now it's back up! You should be able to upload now.
Somewhere aliens are making fun of how shoddy our simulation is coded.
Google is blocking rooted Android phones from using RCS messaging
What deanonymising information for the vendors could be contained in the messages ?

I get that buyers need to disclose their shipping address, but what would vendors disclose ?