skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What HN commenters fail to grasp about what might drive one's choice to use musl: It's not that musl is so good, it's that glibc is so bad. At least this is what drives the choice for me.
But Barth was famous for his short stories.

(Maybe if NYT had to publish an obituary to Matsuo Bashõ, they would piously limit themselves to three lines.)
>And you have to be extremely naive or one sided to not realize that Hamas does use those type of roles as cover for their operations.

Why would Hamas use anything other than clearly uniformed soldiers, marked military vehicles, and civilian distanced military installations?
There are "Chase Offers" for your cards and accounts that give an extra 5-20% cash back if you click to activate them prior to buying it with that payment method - they're often brick and mortar retailers and restaurant chains. In addition to a "Chase Rewards" area that is for redeeming points, booking flights/hotels directly, and earning extra points with online retailer referral links.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868539
Don't worry a lot of us are taking notes.
> Unions hold countries hostage by closing down rail or airports. Still, a solution that doesn't cost 1 billion dollars per person is always found.

Completely different situation. You only need the majority of the workers in the union. No single person or small group of people can hold up the process.

For this situation to be at all similar to a union negation, you’d need to group all affected property owners together, offer them some multiple of property value each and ask for a group vote as a binding decision.

That’s still eminent domain, just potentially with a higher payout, which equates to a higher cost to the taxpayers.
Friends of mine ran a small Ltd as a moonshine operation to fundraise for causes they wanted to fundraise for.

The way they do it has been tried all the way to the top here and everyone agree it is legal.

They still lost all their contracts, again[1], after media found out and made a fuzz about the fact that nobody took out salaries but transferred the profit to causes they identified with. Media even pointed out that it was legal, but, big orgs don't care: they do whatever it takes to get media away.

[1]: yes, this isn't the first time.
I don't share the position you describe, but I don't think it's particularly bizarre in a capitalist society. When capital is very directly connected to the power you wield over everyone else, it's not unreasonable to wish to know the identity of the people that "control your fate." It's just the natural tension between the power of the people and the power of the wallet.
You shouldn't compare the same quality setting across encoders as it's not standardized. You have to compare based on file size.
> How do you reconcile 'vote with your dollar' without knowing who you are voting for?

"Vote with your dollar" is for morons. I don't reconcile it because it is irrelevant.
Privacy is a human right. An LLC is not a human - granting it privacy rights is a choice which a government may make for practical reasons, not a moral issue.

One of those practical reasons would be the use you put it to; that reason might be outweighed by widespread use of the same mechanism to shield wrongdoing.
Because this is war and not a SWAT police operation?

If soldiers in the field have reason to believe the enemy is in a building and call in air support to bomb it, no part of that is a war crime. Even if someone later goes and discovers the people in that building were actually preschoolers; what matters is what the people in the field making the decisions knew at that moment.
So... help me understand why it's on the order of $20-30 (or more) in my grocery store or via well-known spice merchants online?
Or to do away with the concept of starting and stopping wars altogether. Just constant AI based justifications for killing.

Wouldn't be surprised if this hasn't already been the case in Israel-Palestine already. AI targeting of Palestinians long before October 7th in other words.
I understand why Amsterdam can focus on E-Bike speeds, but I sincerely wish other countries would do something similar to this for cars and trucks. It seems almost trivial to add adaptive governors and GPS Geofencing for cars.
I wonder if this is a reaction to the push to reduce interchange fees for credit cards by creating a new revenue stream that offsets the proposed changes. See https://handsoffmyrewards.com/
Well, Google does sell user data (see Squarespace acquisition [1]) but sure not yet to an advertiser.

IIUC, it's a much more vetted system than most online advertisers do. Chase has some screenshots [2] which would imply they're not grabbing data at runtime from a 3rd party and it seems very similar to their experiences "adverts" [3].

I think PayPal's Offers is probably the best parallel. [4]

[1]: https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670?hl=en

[2]: https://www.chase.com/mediasolutions/solutions

[3]: https://www.chase.com/personal/events/experiences

[4]: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/offers
The social mobility has been decimated in the west and most definitely our kids will have it worse compared to us. It's not easy to be living in a declining environment.

Compare it to working for a dying company that does layoffs after layoffs and is eating itself in a downwards spiral. Of course nobody is happy.
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Reflecting on the future intersection of AI and corporate governance, one of my underlying concerns ties directly to the concept of mortality.

Currently, the inevitability of death ensures a natural cycle of change within companies, as departing leaders make way for new visions and ideas. This turnover allows for evolution, adaptation, and sometimes, necessary redirection. However, the integration of AI into these leadership roles introduces the potential for an 'immortal' rigidity.

If AI were to maintain steadfast control, it might anchor organizations to a static set of principles or strategies, lacking the organic, transformative shifts that human mortality inadvertently guarantees.

This challenges us to consider how we might embed adaptability and growth into systems that, by their nature, could become inflexibly eternal.
I just tried googling for Intel's PyTorch, and it's clear as mud as to exactly what's run on the GPU and what is not. I assume they'd be bragging about it if this ran everything on their GPU the same as it would on NVDIA, so I'm guessing it just accelerates some operations.
> In the case of Al Qaeda, that might actually have been true?

Very clearly not, as admitted by the man himself. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-says-u-s-drone-stri...
Is not liking some software and making a mild joke about it considered hate now?
Sorry for your losses!

My exposure to these issues is rather more mixed. One of my grandmothers suffered from dementia. During the early stages, she was aware and suffered quite badly. But oddly enough, once the dementia was full blown, she lived several more years happier than she'd ever been, because the worries and restraints which had bothered her all her life were gone.

Another relative died in the earlier stages of dementia, and his last two years were fairly miserable. And now there is a relative who is also in the earlier stages, and who is determined to avail themselves of assisted suicide rather than live with dementia.

Speaking with their doctor, we learned how exactly the procedure works — in our country, it just requires a doctor's note, but the doctor will NOT issue that note if the patient already HAS full blown dementia (for obvious reasons). So you would have to request euthanasia relatively early in the process.

My relative is convinced that they are just fine, and that it's really hackers and conspiracies out to get them. Should I press the issue and insist that they are in the earlier stages of dementia and should get euthanized before it's too late for that option? I've chosen not to that — if they make that decision, I will support it, but I will not attempt to influence them one way or the other beforehand.
Right, and then you can check out where they live and whether they're nice people.

Seems good to me.
> If I am John Barth and I find out my NYTimes obituary is 242 words long

Are you looking at an earlier version? The one I'm looking at is about 1800 words.
That... means the same thing.
> As I recall, some processors stored the return address at the word before the first instruction of the subroutine.

Yep, that's what the PDP-8 did. The evolution of the PDP-8 is arguably a journey in hardware support for recursion.

Initially the JMS instruction stuck the return address in the first word of the function (as an aside, a lot of time caller would put it's arguments after the JMS instruction, and the callee would read arguments offset of the return instruction, incrementing it with each read argument until the return address pointed to code again).

Then it became relatively common to use one of the autoincrement locations (the PDP-8 had 8 memory locations that would increment any time you used them as a pointer) to create a simple stack, and function prologues/epilogues manually managed this stack to allow full recursion.

Then later on hardware stacks were added in the microprocessor implementations like the Harris 6120 to make this more performant.
Agreement Template – Essential Questions for Co-Founder Alignment
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Here's their company page. Might explain the use of word press...

https://terraformindustries.com/
Or the opposite, make EVs seem cool :)

In my observation and conversations with people, electric vehicles are associated with the brainiacs and luxury brands. There's a large portion of people that identify with the "blue collar" - they don't perceive EVs as aligning with their values. Some taglines from truck manufacturers: "Built Ford tough" "Guts. Glory. Ram." We might suspect that people buy these vehicles as a reflection of their male virtues.
I'm the lead dev of this project - let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)
I think it will just shift away from relying on cloud providers for the underlying infrastructure.
Really exciting for Terraform to hit this mark. Hopefully true, and not an April 1st joke. Casey Handmer (founder) is a pretty interesting guy. He also helped with the initial analysis of the crackle on the Vesuvius challenge scrolls that contributed to the breakthrough of reading the first passages from the scrolls. See https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/reading-ancien...

Highly recommend checking out more articles on the Terraform Industries blog and Casey's personal blog.
Ollama Integration to Home Assistant
CDKTF. Or in other words, shit camouflaged by a pleasant clown outfit
Related:

StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up’s future

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39894334
"We produce the Leiden Ranking for policy makers, research managers, researchers, journalists, and anyone else with an interest in the scientific performance of universities. The Leiden Ranking does not consider the performance of universities in terms of teaching. We therefore expect the information provided by the Leiden Ranking to be of little value for students, and we advise students not to use the Leiden Ranking to choose where to study."

https://www.leidenranking.com/information/general
while the Anglo world seem to have some quite severe issues re. housing, that is not the case in the Scandinavian world. housing and jobs are roughly as easy/difficult getting your hands on as for the past generations.

We still suffer from the aforementioned issues...
I mean, honestly I don’t really think anyone cares about international law when decide to murder a bunch of people (any conflict, not just this one). That’s the problem really, you can shout as much as you want that they don’t have uniforms etc, but this is not some battle field with the solders lining up on each side. The article also explicitly states that they have a program called: “where is daddy” that targets males when they are home with their families.
You can rent a mailbox or hire a registered agent for exactly this purpose for trivial amounts of money.
I think it can also be explained in part by better record keeping and availability of data. It's not unreasonable to assume society has gotten better at assessing and tracking teen mental health today compared to 60+ years ago, when such data did not exist or before concerns about teen mental health were raised. Having more data means it's possible to draw more conclusions. IF you poll people about concerns of alien invasions, suddenly you will get people showing concern about aliens.
Interestingly that article says Iomega was working in these five fore the Zip drive and abandoned the idea for Zip, others picked it up and ran with it.

But the article asserts they came out in 1997 - with no citation, and my friend had moved by 1996 so I think that date is off by a year or so. Though given where he worked it’s theoretically possible someone have him a prerelease version as a developer prototype.

Edit: PC Mag claims 1996 https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/ls-120

And the NYT says March 1996:
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/11/business/3m-chases-the-dr...
Given how poorly privatized healthcare plans cover mental health, getting diagnosed let alone regularly treated for mental health is a luxury for many.
US supporting Ukraine made sense, Russia was the clear aggresor.

US supporting Israel makes very little sense.

That being said, Trump signed bill to removed reporting of drone strikes by US military and he approved more strikes than Obama.

So US likely has amplified systems compared to Lavender and Gospel. We'd have no idea.

This season of Daily Show about AI comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY

Everyone claiming AI is going to do great good, solve climate change yada yada is deeply in an illusion.

AI will only amplify what corporations and state powers already do.
I don't understand what you mean. To improve performance using the same basic architecture the model need to scale both compute and training data. Where are we going to find another 10x the web sized text training corpus?
If they can sell the board with more RAM for more than their extra RAM costs, or can sell more GPUs total but the RAM itself is priced essentially at cost, then it's not a cost center.
How does the data get encoded into 10.5 bits but displayable correctly by an 8 bit decoder while also potentially displaying even more accurately by a 10 bit decoder?
Or alternatively pressure from the top down on targeting specialists to get more and more targets selected resulting in less quality and effort spent on selecting targets and maybe leading to rubber-stamping proposed targets without adequate consideration. Which isn't to suggest that that would definitely make the AI better per se
He missed out you know.

With a name like that he could have made a small fortune.

The surname Bezos, to me looks like a Liverpudlian scouser name. Are we sure he is not a born and bread scouser?

The new operating system just out "bez OS scouser alpha version" entirely closed source of course but says he cares about your data and privacy.

I know a scouser named Bez. Wasnt he in happy mondays?
AI is not a bubble. Anymore than iphone / the internet was a bubble.
There's a lot more to format support than Chromium. There's a pretty strong meme out there on the Internet that webp is evil despite being supported in all browsers for years because there's still a lot of software out there that never added support and people get annoyed when an image fails to open.
Exome-wide analysis implicates rare protein-altering variant in human handedness
They do not charge for egress either.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/landing/ad/use-cases...
I was about to say something nearly identical to this, but couldn't have put it better than you did! In this specific scenario, I think the joke was in good taste and might even spawn some serious discussion and questioning (as seems to be the case already).

In fact, I came to this thread wondering if such a comment (about Erlang) would be made, and I was not disappointed. I am an Elixir (/Erlang/Gleam/BEAM/OTP) fanboy and WhatsApp is basically the canonical example of OTP's strengths, so perhaps I should be outraged! But I am not, and that says a lot about the quality of the joke (it's not a "Reddit-style" joke - it actually makes one think). It's fun and enlightening to consider the ways in which Erlang's reliability guarantees can be hamstrung by (presumably) external factors such as DNS/hardware/BGP, and a good reminder that things are messier than just which language or platform one chooses.

Anyway, yes. I would distinguish between enlightening jokes that arouse curiosity, and Reddit-style low-quality "humor" and trolling.
This week I've been working on a totally run-of-the-mill React app and thinking a lot about little algorithms and data structures things like what's the best way to form the data required to populate a dropdown by merging three different data structures. I am mainly using built in data structures like arrays, sets, maps, objects, etc. but there is plenty of art into how to put them together into code that runs fast, is easy to maintain, etc.
I've been into retro gaming for a while (primarily consoles) and this is the first I've heard of this site. I've also not actively searched for "best ds games" or similar in the past 10 years as I just know to go to Racketboy [1] (which is currently down, so not a great look).

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20240320154449/https://www.racke...
I would like to see Terraform succeed with their green goals!

When I can run 'terrform plan' on my entire infra without using a billion joules of energy, I'll chip in
I think the implication is that Gaza does have semi-autonomy (it is a complicated situation - there's a blockade, but it has security autonomy within its region. Or did before October 7th).

And Gaza was pushed towards democratic elections, which they held, elected Hamas, and Hamas hasn't permitted a democracy since then.
I don't think you're exactly wrong, but I think it is too narrow.

You're perfectly right that there is far too little tech literacy. Even with the example of my parents. But they're an example of someone who I think would especially benefit from this. Because they wouldn't get it out of their own desire, but because I their child would install it for them. Because I don't want to build and piece together everything. Because I'm used to the general tech support of them calling me up, and having to figure out literally everything on the fly because the only time I touch a Windows system is my yearly Christmas visit.

I've ran a NAS in their home before and the reason they stopped is because they got a new router and "it broke." Prior to that I was able to ssh into their network because I had a pi laying around.

But the problem you specify is not the problem you think it is. It is UI/UX. Many of these things can be set up automatically. The reason PGP is a disaster is because it's cumbersome to use. Google making it default and not having to think about it solved that. Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp made encryption trivial for people who wouldn't have done it before because "it is too hard." I'm unconvinced this is anything different. Where if you take a family member only basically tech literate, can help them do the initial setup, and away you go. You just have to make it as easy as WhatsApp (or even a lot less), and I believe you could.

I say this as someone who is a researcher and does a lot of backend programming. I know we give UI/UX people a lot of shit (and quite often they do deserve it. There are a lot of annoying useless changes), but they do also play a huge role in making technology accessible. Really, that is their main role. And truth be told, the environment has dramatically changed where now a days there's many custom distros that make things easier and even these days my Grandma can use Linux. There's definitely a hardware and backend problem here, but I'm actually convinced the biggest issue is design. Which, let's be real, is what made computers prolific in the first place.
One can make natural gas from CO2 captured from air and with hydrogen electrolysed form water. But then one has to ask: why not just use hydrogen directly and skip the inefficiency and cost of direct air capture of CO2 and of making methane? If one is dead set on making a carbon-containing synfuel, why methane and not something more storable, like methanol or higher hydrocarbons? Or, why not use the hydrogen to deoxygenate biomass (including waste biomass like paper) instead of laboriously collecting completely oxidized CO2 from air?
> Security and Reliability: Nunu uses stable and reliable third-party libraries to ensure the security and reliability of your application.

Yeah... That doesn't inspire much confidence. Did they check every repository and every artefact in the supply chain to ensure there's no malicious code or binaries made by f
a state-sponsored actor?
> “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.

That is appalling.
Foreign influence from Qatar is another serious case, but still small fries compared to malign foreign influence from Israel.
Do you use credit cards? If not, just know you are leaving cash on the table. Stores have to pay high transaction fees on “premium” cards, which leads them to raise their sticker price. So if you pay cash, you’re basically subsidizing cash-back cards.

If I spend $2k a month on my card and get 1.5% back, that’s $30 a month. It adds up.
But the company is still profitable on the whole (even if their margins are not great these days) they basically just shifted some of the costs from one department to another
Do storage boxes have any availability risk? “Storage box” sounds like you have an actual VM with an attached spinning disk, which doesn’t seem tolerant to hardware failures. I couldn’t find any details on their website about this.
Why would a human ever flip a burger at that point? It's not a particularly difficult task for a robot.

Unclogging sewers on the other hand…
Maybe because the hailing for yet another "safe" language starts to feel kinda repetitive?

Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, modern C++ with smartpointer,...

I mean a concepts for handling files in a safe way are an awesome (and really needed) thing, but inventing a whole new programming language around a single task (even if it's just a transpiler to c)?
Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model
Can someone do this with userbenchmark? I'm dying to know what unhinged maniac runs that site.
As a "carbon industry" observer, this is pretty exciting news. I've had my eye on Terraform Industries for a while and love what they're doing; they're one of the few groups that actually seem to understand the implications of what it will take to shift to a carbon-neutral economy, and their core insight about the economics of atmospheric fuel synthesis is one of those "obvious when you hear it" ideas: solar electricity is trending ever-cheaper, so rather than trying to maximize efficiency in an expensive piece of kit you can make cheap 'inefficient' equipment and get lower overall costs, which in turn unlocks scale.

Their recent post on "Terraformer Environmental Calculus" is a great read, if you are interested in this space: https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/terrafo...

Congratulations to the team!