skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the name Israelis gave the system betray their intent. I noticed in Portuguese, our word for Lavender, "lavanda", sounds similar to the verb meaning to wash, "lavar". According to wikipedia[1] it goes back to old latin roots: "The English word lavender came into use in the 13th century, and is generally thought to derive from Old French lavandre, ultimately from Latin lavare from lavo (to wash), referring to the use of blue infusions of the plants." I belive it is the same root behind English words like laundry or laundering. So, naming it 'Lavender' appears to give a clue to its true purpose: Laundering, our whitewashing the mass scale killing of civilians as collateral damage from computer-targeted strikes against militants, automating and streamlining the creation of plausible sounding excuses to provide cover for mass commitment of criminal acts.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavandula
This proposal is just for the release of software binaries to run a server, not code.

> In asking for a game to be operable, we're not demanding all internal code and documentation, just a functional copy of the game.
Also war crime.
makes sense, things are weird when the world is upside down
I am aware of this paper from National Bureau of Economic Research.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161
If you can point me in the direction of a $1000 laptop that's equivalent to a Macbook Air, that also seamlessly works with an equivalent to a $350 iPhone, that also seamlessly works with an equivalent to a $300 iPad, that also seamlessly works with an equivalent to a $300 Apple Watch, that also seamlessly works with a $200 AirPods then I'll consider migrating. Also, it needs to not be tied to Google. Don't care at all about iMessage.

Edit: Not an Apple apologist and have many, many gripes about their business practices and their software.
All of the data transformation (codecs, compression etc.) libraries should be in WUFFS. That's exactly what it's for, and unlike the C++ this was written in, or indeed Rust, it's able to provide real compile time safety guarantees for the very affordable price of loss of generality (that is, you can't use WUFFS to write your video game, web browser, word processor, operating system or whatever)

For example in C++ array[index] has Undefined Behaviour on a bounds miss.
Rust's array[index] will panic at runtime on a bounds miss, at least we know what will happen but what happens isn't great...
WUFFS array[index] will not compile if it could incur a bounds miss. Show the compiler why index will be a value that's always in-bounds when the index occurs.
It's hard to criticize low cost solutions like this; if they work, they work! If there was slightly more control over the network infrastructure, I'd choose to go with CARP as my failover mechanism. It is probably one of the best OpenBSD features.
Yeah. But it seems to be most widely used in web browsers.

I’ve never seen a .tar.br file, but I frequently download .tar.xz files.

And therefore, a Rust implementation by Google of xz compression and decompression would be most welcome :)
I mean at the end of the day an AI being rubber stamped or a human being rubber stamping "minor intel" for a drone strike its still bullshit.

But blaming AI is just easier than acknoledging at every step of this theres a human being Oking it, the war is Ok'd by a human, the target list is ok'd by a human, the missle launch/bomb drop is ok'd by a human, the fucking trigger is pulled by a human.

But sure because the target list was vetted by an AI its the AI's fault.
Number of outages is increasing. Originally it was 6, now it's up to 11.

earlier post (archived): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924328
If only there were third-party app stores...
Absolutely, 7B will run comfortably on 16GB of RAM and most consumer level hardware. Some of the 40B run on 32GB, but it depends on the model I found (GGUF, crossing fingers help).

I ran this originally on a M1 with 32GB, I run this on an Air M2 with 16GB (and mac mini M2 32GB), no problem.

I use llama.cpp with a SwiftUI interface (my own), all native, no scripts python/js/web.

7b is obviously less capable but the instant response makes it worth exploring. It's very useful as a Google search replacement that is instantly more valuable, for general questions, than dealing with the hellscape of blog spam ruling Google atm.

Note, for my complex code queries at $dayjob where time is of the essence, I still use GPT4 plus, which is still unmatched imho, without running special hardware at least.
They may not even know why and it may be okay -- they speak it somehow, right? In this case, the language is both a set or rules and a systematization of a pre-existing phenomenon. There's enough ephemeral, hard to explain concepts, but most humans just aren't used to explain it even to themselves.

For example, I've never learned English, anywhere. I know it from .txt and .ng documents and a couple of dictionaries I had back in the DOS days. I'm an uneducated text-native, basically. But here's what I'd say to that newbie:

- Usually we use "...'s" for attribution like in "human's cat = cat of a human". But "it" and other special words like "that", "there", etc are an exception. We write "it's" as short for "it is", sometimes "it has". But we write "its", "theirs" for attribution, like in "its paw" = "paw of it" ~~ "cat's paw" = "paw of a cat". There's more to this, but you can ignore it for now.
Batteries are good at smoothing out daily or even weekly variations but do not make any sense whatsoever for seasonal power storage.

It's ridiculously cost ineffective to charge a battery in July only to discharge it in December.

60% roundtrip is cost effective if you're synthesizing when the sun is blazing and the wind is blowing hard and burning it when wind, solar and batteries have all tapped out.

Thats especially so if the equipment has low capex which it seems like this does. Unlike batteries that makes it cost effective to overbuild and idle it most of the year.
Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud. Noise pollution is a real problem, but most people aren’t willing to do anything about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
Been there done that. with the added twist that all the parking lots were city owned and required a parking permit, of which there were a limited number, to get one of the limited number of permits you had to get on a waiting list by filing a form in person a city hall and then wait and hope someone let theirs lapse. eventually got a call about one after a few years when already planing to move. in the mean time had to park on the street about four blocks away as anything closer was 2 hour parking.

Similar story with my home towns community college, where they had a habit of building new buildings on what used to be parking lots but refused for years to build new lots and when asked by the student counsel to build a parking structure the college president refused to consider it. I suspect if he hadn't had a had a reserved parking spot less the 30 yards from his office door his tune might have been different.
It's so important to stay grounded.
We sell a B2B application. We've had "call us" prices since the start as far as I know.

Yet even though we're now dominant in our sector, we've got about 50% of the revenue from a couple of dozen very large customers, and the remaining from many hundred medium and small businesses, including many single-person shops.

A key ingredient is that we have a usage-based pricing element, so what we charge a customer monthly varies with their activity. And it's primarily this element that is tweaked between customers, so that it's affordable to both small and large, while still making it profitable for us to provide the software and support.

Having such a varied income stream has been quite good for us, and has allowed us to turn down potential lucrative customers which had unreasonable demands that could have killed us, or be flexible when certain customers really struggled under corona say, so they didn't have to go to a competitor.

I used to be quite negative to "call us" pricing, but got a new perspective after I started here. That said, I prefer transparent pricing when shopping software on my own.
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A spam filter is different to a LLM detector.

The non-functional OpenAI tool claimed to be a LLM detector but didn't work, so they were 100% right to withdraw it.
This is a ridiculous take. I recently left my job to be a stay at home dad. We are worse off financially in every single way.

This is like complaining that you won’t want to have $1M of income every year because you pay more tax. You pay more because you make more.
With the WhatsApp/Facebook/instagram outage earlier today. I am thinking this is either a cloud provider issue or DNS or BGP issue lol
These racist Islamophobic talking points are so grimy to read.

The "modern and democratic" world leaders are currently trying - and failing - to whitewash an undeniable, livestreamed, openly boasted genocide and land-grab.

This is enabled by a variety of full-on unapologetic apocalyptic death-cult religious extremists and a complicit media who happily run fossil fuel greenwashing campaigns and silence anti-war voices.

Compare Muslims killed by Jews and Christians over the last few decades to the reverse. It's hard to argue for any moral high ground whatsoever when you look at the raw numbers.

If the best argument you have is that the West treats women better, maybe look at how many women we've murdered in the middle east, or the 26,000 rape-related pregnancies in Texas, or the Ethopian Jews sterilized without being informed in Israel, etc, etc, etc.

Those vastly wealthy ME leaders repressing women the hardest? They got all that money selling oil to us.

It's a lot of work unpeeling the layers and layers of Western hypocrisy and bullshit, but it has to be done. It has to. We can't keep killing millions of brown people for their natural resources and expect to have a nice society/planet to live on.
Reputable URL from a non-Israeli/non-pro-Israeli source, or your words don't count, or are just disinformation.

There's only so many times the phrase "human shield" can be uttered by aggressors before it starts to lose its effectiveness.

They dropped a JDAM on the building. After repeated pleas on known channels to stop.
I believe he has a gofundme up to cover his legal expenses.
I have them in my garden. The do great on the California central coast (with only water from natural rainfall except drought years).

Someone else commented that the claim of having to harvest in early morning is silly-- can confirm; just pick them whenever is convenient, but the flowers do only last a couple/few days. Also, no need to harvest the entire flower, just pull the stigmas with your fingers (it isn't difficult, just time consuming).
Warning: CSAM is heavily referenced in the article.
>>No, because methane is worse than CO2.

Should've just stopped here. Being synthetically produced doesn't magically make it not a potent greenhouse gas.
It’s always BGP!
Because the US, after bullying countries like Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg to clean house, is now left as the single biggest western tax haven in the world.
> single East European country in the EU, the average ~~monthly~~ [edit: yearly] wage (I'm talking about the whole population) is at least 18-20k

Median disposable household income in Poland is around $600/mo [0], only $200/mo more than in China

Median monthly household income in Romania is around $545/mo [1], so disposable is probably comparable to China.

Median monthly household income in Bulgaria is around $600-700/mo [2], so disposable is probably comparable to Poland.

The only Eastern European country that broke the $1k/mo barrier was Estonia with around $1k/mo [3].

These are all government statistics from the Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Estonian government.

Eastern Europe has developed significantly, but still lags behind Western Europe massively.

Based on the hiring packages we've given to developers in Warsaw, the salaries were around $30-40k, but we could have paid much less if we hired someone from EPAM.

[0] - https://stat.gov.pl/files/gfx/portalinformacyjny/pl/defaulta...

[1] - https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/a...

[2] - https://www.mlsp.government.bg/obshchiyat-dokhod-na-domakins...

[3] - https://www.stat.ee/et/avasta-statistikat/valdkonnad/tooelu/...
"Apple School Manager is a simple, web-based portal for IT administrators that works with your third-party mobile device management (MDM) solution so that you can easily buy content in volume, whether your organization uses iPhone, iPad, or Mac."

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-school-manager/intro-t...
FDA's Peter Marks says agency ready to review novel cancer vaccines
Before my time but isn't 1956 too early for Silicon transistors?

I'd have put it around 1963. Before DTL chips, introduced in 1964.
Non-military TTL came along in 1966.
"according to the Gaza Health Ministry" i.e. according to Hamas. The actual truth is nobody knows. There are a lot of children in Gaza.

To be crystal clear, the below isn't attempting to justify targeting children but it's important that those who are blindingly critical of Israel understand the complex realities.

Hamas does employ combatants under 18yo (which is what counts as children in those counts):
"There have been reports of children below 15 years of age in Hamas, with the lowest recorded age being 12, but the process of selection for the Izz al-Deen Al-Qassem Brigades is reportedly long and rigorous and has not to date included children." - https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/cscoal/2001/...

"Amnesty International is gravely concerned about reports that earlier today a 16-year-old Palestinian child
was found to be carrying explosives when attempting to pass through the Israeli army checkpoint at Huwara,
at the entrance of the West Bank town of Nablus"
...
"a 17-year-old Palestinian detonated an explosive belt he was wearing as he was being tracked down by Israeli soldiers,"
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde150...

"However, children receive military training and are used as messengers and couriers, and in some cases as fighters and suicide bombers in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.21 All the main political groups involve children in this way, including Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.22

At least nine children carried out suicide attacks in Israel and the Occupied Territories between October 2000 and March 2004" - https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/cscoal/2004/...
In thinking through my response (as rational people do), I think I was a bit too inflammatory. I still agree with myself in principle but it's not quite fair to label people who want to live while doing their job as cowards. It's one of those two wrongs don't make a right. The innocents deserve to live, as do the warfighters. Being a warfighter (conscription aside) is a choice though - being 'collateral' is not. It would be great if those with the power to take a life put even this much thought into it.
…then my Apple Music app would be responding now?
While a possible explanation, that sounds extremely inconvenient, and a silly default.

It's Google's own group of my own org. Does it make sense that the spam button would punish my group own email?

Also, if I mark it spam in the Groups interface, it's still polluting the inboxes of all my team members where it has already arrived, right?

I'd have to tell my team to never use the spam button on obviously spam emails. That doesn't make sense for a business email product!
Saffron ice cream.
MBRV: Bun/TS/React boilerplate that runs front end and back end on same port
Most TypeScript bundlers that support UI hot reloads require running server & client on different processes/ports, leading to a cascade of problems.

This runs on a single bun process without sacrificing dev features.

Another benefit is keeping things explicit in the codebase without any framework magic (for things like hot reloads and server-side rendering)
That too is war propaganda though.
CoreWeave owns and runs their own infra, they aren't a middleman.

There are middlemen that can actually get you better prices and availability than you can get yourself, because they buy or rent in volume, and can pit the hyper scalers against each other to get better prices.

If you want even a handful of A100s on GCP you need to buy reserved instances, but lots of resellers will rent them to you hourly, and they have RIs underneath.
Good news, though. I’m sure the tombstones will magnanimously be allowed to have more than a 140 character limit
Localsend looks neat, but they're absolutely pissing into the wind by saying that it is "Open-source Airdrop" in the title in the Play store.

That's a clearcut case of absolutely willful trademark infringement, and it will not go well for the authors when (not if) Apple happens to cast their gaze in that direction.
The reverse flow is probably weaker by a million to 1.

Tons of people are scammed each year, and there are very, very few retaliatory paths. I would suspect that the graph is acyclic for most people, but for people like, say, Krebs, that they have a different graph that most people don’t have.

In other words, they’re on a different graph.
"the political and military structures" Then why no aid? Why no water, electricity, economy or medical infrastructure either?

"inevitable" Yes, they made us do it. See what they made us do?

"Niger or Myanmar, Armenia/Azerbaijan." Hey everyone, look over there!

No one will take blind defenders seriously.
I was going to post something “low content”, but instead, I will say: please donate to the ICIJ[1] and/or the OCCRP [2] if you have the funds!

[1] https://www.icij.org/
[2] https://www.occrp.org/en
No one is commenting on the justice or lack served by the war, just saying humans should be at the wheel and responsible for outcomes.
I would strongly argue that even being able to prove that a human might perform worse is not an acceptable excuse for the reasons I will outline. The bar for a computer needs to be significally higher than that of a human.

We know that humans can make mistakes, due to a multitude of reasons. They can be tired, moody, distracted, stressed out, time-pressured, simply not care enough, etc, all contributing to making the wrong call. But a computer does not suffer from such issues. Secondly, a computer (program) is able to perform billions and billions of computations within some time period in order to ENSURE that doing this thing with grave consequences is absolutely warranted.

Maybe for some domains we can tolerate errors from AI, but when deciding whether a person (and everyone around them) lives or dies, surely simply being on average even more accurate than a human is not enough. "Killbots" MUST be extremely heavily regulated.
Because our system of property, inherited from English common law, has a concept of a beneficial purchaser for value without notice. If someone gives you money for property and they are not on notice that there are conflicting claims, their claim is valid.

Such a system requires a way to establish constructive notice. A taker for value should have known that the land he was buying belonged to another if its ownership was properly recorded at the time of the purported sale.

Mileage may vary in different jurisdictions. Recording office May vary according to property type under state law; e.g., DMV might record motor vehicle titles while the county recorder in the county of the property probably records real estate.
Did it change recently?

I came a from a middle class family. I was applying right after the 2008 crash and my parents income was the lowest it was in ages while going through FAFSA.

It was literally a waste of time.
The incidents that occurred were minor but had the potential to be much worse (for instance, if he had figured out how to upload and display one of the items from his personal multimedia collection).
Mid-hi five figures per kilometer, pick endpoints and do the math. Divide the total by the population.
Flagged for long debunked [0] misinformation.

0 - https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/1/nyt_anat_schwartz

And even if this were true, collective punishment is still a war crime, and there's still never an excuse for genocide.
War in Ukraine raises prices of wheat, fewer people buy wheat, more people buy rice, price of rice goes up.

Or at least, that's the reason for why prices were up in 2022.

We're no longer in 2022, though. In 2024, wheat prices are ~the same as they were in January 2020, but rice prices are ~50% higher.

Whether you want to attribute that to price stickiness due to the war, drought conditions in Asia, or spirit animals, that's up to you.
My child and I watched this, very entertaining, well-spoken. Recommend!
The official term is "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
> war crimes trials

What is the alleged war crime in using a machine for target filtration?
That website doesn't work from my ISP. Can't even ping it or nc -z 104.37.63.7 443.

Edit update: Your security infrastructure is broken because I don't know what that is and don't use Twitter. If you check the AS, it's Google Fiber. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't dox me.
European iPhones will have more freedom than American iPhones. Amazing
The median age in Gaza in 2014 was 18. According to researchers in the US, 50%-61% of buildings have been damaged or destroyed. If Israel didn't kill tens of thousands of children it would be a statistical miracle.
Why such a high bar?

How many even earn (from scratch) $100 Million by age 30?

One would only have to save an average of $1000/hr, 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week, for a brief 10 years to reach just that level.

Clearly it’s too easy.
If the problem is that there aren't enough self-made billionaires, it's bad journalism to take an arbitrary slice of 15 out of 2700 of them and act as if they're representative of the problem. We could redistribute their wealth and everyone in the world would maybe get a couple of dollars.

I think if someone wants to make a point about whether billionaires are self-made or not, they should look at a more representative sample.
Russia -> Ukraine for a variety of reasons.

Russia produce(d) a significant amount of fertilizer which is required to keep much of the world's breadbaskets and farming functioning such as farmland in Brazil. Less fertilizer means less yield from land which has cascading affects into prices of various inputs. Lower yields of onions, tomatoes, etc will raise the prices of the product.

One of Ukraine's exports was wheat and sunflower products. The absence of wheat from a major producer puts the rest of the world in competition with your wheat products. In addition to bread products and much of the middle aisle of your grocery store, wheat products also go into animal feed. Higher inputs to your animal food costs.

Most "quality" beef is grain-finished in the US (this is not a debate about if grain finished makes better steak, its' just a reality in restaurant supply). If you have more expensive wheat inputs for your higher quality beef, prices go up.

Can't escape thermodynamics.
As I commented on a related thread, I really hope this succeeds and sets precedent against the rampant anti-consumer licensing of media beyond just videogames.

If I purchase a license to a videogame, song, movie, e-book, etc. in a transaction that's characterized as conferring ownership, I should have the right to consume it indefinitely, in whatever format, from whatever device, so long as I take the proper precautions to preserve my own access.
I was wondering the same thing. We have a system that guetzli's some of our heavily used assets but it takes SOOOOOO long