skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hamas’s Oct 7th attack also had a 2:1 civilian to soldier death ratio, so about the same as this “most efficient urban war in history”.

“The latest death toll from the attack is now 767 civilians, 20 hostages and 376 members of the security forces, giving a total of 1,163. One person remains missing.”
https://www.barrons.com/news/new-tally-puts-october-7-attack...
I’m guessing “rewrite it in Rust” would have been an unpalatable PR for the pip maintainers to merge.
In 1968 they had better languages and programmers were still using goto for control in them despite better options.
macos finder is still bad at everything. it organizes the icon view without grid support so things will be spaced weird and go off the screen. it doesn't tell you how fast files are transferring. shift click to select a series of files doesn't work in icon mode. enter doesn't open the folder. there is only a back button and not a go up directory button and these are just the things i could immediately remember with 10 seconds of thought.
> The article says that the water is returned to the lake at about the same temperature that it leaves...though I'm unclear how that's possible.

The most plausible explanation is that the article is wrong, and that the author meant to say that the lake is about the same temperature as it was before. Which is generally true; although the water being returned is slightly warmer, once you get more than a few meters away the difference is negligible. There is a ton of research on this phenomena with respect to the lake source cooling plant in Ithaca, because people obviously had the same concerns about that one before it was built.
Once you start swapping batteries, aluminium-air batteries become a real option. There was a demo 10 years ago showing a 1000 mile range using such a battery. Alcoa and Phinergy did such a demo - see https://eepower.com/news/ev-with-1000-mile-range-unveiled-by...
It's tricky to change up some parts of pip because it might break some existing users flows. It's really hard to test for this kind of infrastructure tool because it's so environment-dependent. The rewrite lets there be a clean slate. Meanwhile the target of being "compatible" with pip gives them a good idea of where to go, and they can focus a bit more on testing given the lessons learned.
i think now their current positioning is that the competition actually helped demonstrate the value of some kinds of speed, and that finally got those performance issues prioritized enough to work on by people with the right knowledge. Node doesn't lack for people who want to contribute, its more about people who -can- contribute well, and yes as other comment noted, its often to easier to try things out outside the system rather than work within it.
There is a great documentary on him: In the Realms of the Unreal
> What percentage of Macbook profit margins accrue from overpriced flash storage?

They want to sell iCloud subscriptions, because it's the recurring revenue for them.

I'm still somewhat amazed photo/video/audio creatives, who deal with large files all the time, have to deal with apple's bullshit around storage.

Most of creatives I've worked with end up with file storage solutions like messy solutions like "stack of external drives".
Hamas’s Oct 7th attack also had a 2:1 civilian to soldier death ratio. Yet the author of that article credits the IDF for setting a new, humane standard.

“The latest death toll from the attack is now 767 civilians, 20 hostages and 376 members of the security forces, giving a total of 1,163. One person remains missing.”
https://www.barrons.com/news/new-tally-puts-october-7-attack...
Only a few times, really only when I've gotten into some kind of trouble. Though I got laid off three times in the last two years, so I have had a lot more experience with HR than I have really wanted.
Yeah "lets rewrite in Rust" has become a meme with negative connotations that will attract ridiculed or be ignored, but Rust clearly excels in this sort of tooling. Whether it makes sense to rewrite an existing codebase or pigeonhole it on the edges is another question.
uv isn't a performance improvement on pip but a ground-up rewrite in a completely different language.
An excellent film about his life and work has been made: In the Realms of the Unreal [1]. Oddly not mentioned in the article (or did I miss it?)

[1]. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390123/
Responding to just the headline, as I don't have a NYT account and chose not to bother with paywall workarounds (and I'm not on wifi and chose to pay about $17/mo for mobile service, including taxes and $5 for a gigabyte of data, which I'm both happy and careful with):

No.

No, not unless you include social and cultural engineering, towards a way of life that has worked for us for tens of thousands of years, a way of life with minimal to zero automation, with much of our time spent ensuring shelter, food, and companionship. This is not a bleak proposition to me, nor do I feel blinded by romanticism; such a life closer to the land and water is that much closer to death, but also, in the company of mutually-supportive family (to use the term broadly), entirely meaningful.
You forgot the lovely thing that is .DS_Store, which ends up everywhere your machine visits on the network.
I'm be written lots of C code that runs on lots of architectures & platforms: PDPs, x86, ARM; Windows, BSD, Linux, VMS. My projects have spanned them gamut from tiny to gargantuan (millions of lines of code). I've never needed autoconf... what's it even for!?
Carbon molecules yes. But methane was a significantly higher (80x) greenhouse gas potential than CO2. So it's definitely not neutral in that regard.
From all accounts, it’s—not good. Also, it’s really long and it would be a non-trivial (and expensive) effort to make it available.
Schmidt Ocean Institute (which owns/operates Falcor (too)) is an awesome nonprofit supporting a lot of really fascinating and impactful oceanographic and environmental research. One of my favorite oceanography documentarians, Leo Richards, produced a truly beautiful video for Schmidt Ocean Institute and put it up on his YouTube channel, Natural World Facts, which I highly recommend for anyone with an interest in the ocean or scientific research in general:
https://youtu.be/Uh3fNYVwDXM?si=QnzFTJFJ5hIhXWoJ
Golf is one. What's another leisure activity that will increase once we get a four-day week?

I'm thinking travel but that can't be done every week. What can people do every 5th day of the week instead of going to work?

Thought of one, spectators sports. People love them but they take very little effort to attend.
Australia are the 'easy' cheerleaders of the western alliance. Put it wherever you want.
I only have experience with citrus, but as far as I know you can graft forever. Some variants don't have seeds, this is the only way to propagate them.
Human is the loop.
From the article

> The backdoor’s careful design could be the work of US hackers, Raiu notes, but he suggests that’s unlikely, since the US wouldn’t typically sabotage open source projects—and if it did, the National Security Agency would probably use a quantum-resistant cryptographic function, which ED448 is not.

I'm not personally knowledgeable enough to assess this claim.
Train scheduling is not a simple binary “freight gets priority = problem, passengers get priority = no problem” matter. The GP referred to a specific implementation of a priority system in which passengers could be delayed for more than the base length of their trip, which presumably makes planning around taking the train quite difficult. This is the “problem” with it. Someone else asked if the other areas experience that problem. I said the Portland/Seattle and LA/SanDiego trains do not. That doesn’t mean they don’t have some variety of a prioritization scheme whereby freight often goes in front of passengers, it means they don’t experience the specific problem GP referred to whereby passengers can experience massive delays more than doubling the length of their trip. This in turn makes commenting via train in these areas comparatively “easy”.
That may clash with the European Directive on Electronic Commerce for businesses which do anything online. If you just have a shell company to own your yacht, that may be entitled to privacy, but if you do transactions online within the EU, the entity has to be properly identified.[1]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
This is cool, haven't run this yet but seems really promising. Am thinking how this can be a super useful to hook with internal corporate search engines and then get answers from that.

Good to see more of these non API key products being built (connected to local llms)
I can’t access the web archive link, but is there any further context beyond the headline? Why would we not expect a production company to give editorial notes?
When using Jpegli as a drop-in replacement for for libjpeg-turbo (i.e., with the same input bit-map and quality setting), will the output produced by Jpegli be smaller, more beautiful, or both? Are the space savings the result of the Jpegli encoder being able to generate comparable or better-looking images at lower quality settings? I'd like to understand whether capitalizing on the space efficiency requires any modification the caller code.
Because water is densest at 4 degrees, the bottom of every (big enough) lake is that temperature. If they pumped warm water in at the bottom, it would rise because it’s less dense. Regardless that lake is so huge, it would have negligible impact on the overall temperature.
Well Turkey is a democracy(and a NATO member), Armenia is too.
It's the fixation with Jews that compels such scrutiny of everything that Israel does.
I prefer enter to not open folders and files. Command+O opens.

Should be configurable though.
It's April 3rd, confirmed
Dbt code review best practices by California Integrated Travel Project
Yeah today the gas usage is higher then usual and it's still pretty low.
A huge part of the problem is relying on the system. Project repos should include their dependencies. The Linux model of global shared libraries is, imho, bad and wrong.

Building a project shouldn’t be complicated. There should be extremely minimal branching and if checks.

My blog post where I argue this in more detail: https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/dependencies-belong-in-...
The grocery store relies on the mystique of the thing. The people making those expensive jars probably also seed articles online about it being extremely expensive. Then when the average person goes to the store they look at it and aren't shocked by the ridiculous price because somewhere at the back of their mind they will have read it is worth more than gold. lol. Meanwhile, anyone in the know is buying it by the wheel for quite reasonable amounts, and likely better purity.
Virtual Demonstration for the Future of Mankind
According to the stats parents now spend more time with their kids :

From :

https://www.prb.org/resources/do-parents-spend-enough-time-w...

"Time diaries indicate that married fathers spent an average 6.5 hours a week caring for their children in 2000, a 153 percent increase since 1965. Married mothers spent 12.9 hours, a 21 percent increase. Single mothers spent 11.8 hours, a 57 percent increase."
I don't think it matters at this abstraction layer? You reason about intervals, scales, chords etc the same regardless of the tuning system. That only matters for sound production, which this doesn't do.

It definitely assumes you're on a 12-tone system so is really only useful within western european music theory. But that is usually what people mean when they say "music theory" anyway.
Not sure why. Out of the 26 IP addresses that accessed the egawk repository in the last day or so, only one was banned. The client identified as Twitterbot, coming from 136.49.X.X.
Seems like a standard laundry list of requirements and hoops that would need to be jumped through for any other software / service. If they can do this for their email, accounting, database, nuclear submarine, etc. software I'm sure they could do it for some "social media" software.
They were referring to algorithms that need to use that much space either way and where the alternative is maintaining your own stack.
30k functions are a problem but they are manageable if goto isn't used in them. I prefer not to but a have figured them out.
it's fucking outrageous.

one of my favorites: go save a file in some deeply nested directory. use Column view in the save dialog to get you there.

now try to save another file. you're in Column view only there's one one column: the last saved folder.

ZERO WAY to get back out!

WHY WOULD YOU TRUNCATE ALL OF THE PARENTS FOLDERS FOR NO REASON!
Yep, I do
The first paragraph in the article explains it. It is similar to RabbitMQ.

> NATS is an open-source messaging system. At its core, NATS provides publish-subscribe messaging, but has expanded to enable other features. It has a request/reply mechanism which you can use for service-to-service communication (in lieu of HTTP APIs). And it now includes a persistence layer which means it can on workloads you'd normally turn to Kafka for. The project is supported by the CNCF.
It's a meme because most of the people peddling hydrogen as a solution don't look at replacing existing uses of hydrogen (e.g. ammonia or as a process chemical) but instead try to sell it for dead on arrival ideas like fuel cell cars, blending in the natural gas pipelines, or burning it directly in homes for heat.

There's an order of magnitude more companies and hype around those use cases than there are around actually important ones.
Source on the logic being different from pip?

Last I checked it's nothing more than a port of pip to rust.
It's virtually impossible to be a dollar billionaire, period
"Computers" is too broad to be meaningful. Compression tools are no more a part of the security infrastructure per se than socks and staplers are.
You just explained it yourself. Time slows down for people who are accelerating (not in freefall).
How to Learn History
> I've never seen a toll road decrease in price because no one was using it.

Have you ever seen a city with congestion charge have all traffic vanish? :P

> Car number go up, price go up. Bing bong

As already mentioned by me, to you, above: there are lots of roads with dynamic pricing with this exact characteristic. But there's a tradeoff to be made between having a simple charge and by having fancy dynamic pricing.

> It's okay if you genuinely think prohibiting something is effective at providing people with more effective usage of that thing.

Charging for something != prohibiting.

There's already a lot of costs driving into the city (including the opportunity cost of being stuck in traffic). Adding a charge can make driving cheaper for people who have a high value on driving (because they value their time).
Skeptics also point out that the blue part of blue hydrogen is carbon capture and storage, and nobody seems to be willing to pay for the extra cost of that.
Kosovo ?
I'd say flip that around.

If people own things in their own names, they're welcome to reasonable privacy. But the corporation is a special government program to enable certain kinds of collective action because we get broader economic benefits from things like the ability to limit liability. If people want special government support for financial activities in the broader economy, which is what corporations are, then I say key information should default to being public.

If people don't like that, well, they don't have to use the government program. But like any government program, I think voters should have enough information to be sure that it's not being misused.
What do you possibly get about trying to hairsplit the number OF DEAD CHILDREN. Oh, yes, you’re right. It wasn’t 20,000 so we shouldn’t say “tens of thousand” it was just twelve thousand three hundred children.

“Impacted” is definitely one word for it. Murdered another.
For usermode fuzzing it's pretty nice and easy to get running, but for more advanced cases I ended up using the underlying unicorn-afl directly. IIRC it wasn't loading some ELF correctly (this was some years ago).
> Everything the Israelis have ever been accused of doing, the Russians have done in Ukraine.

This is demonstrably false in trivially obvious ways. How many Ukrainians have left the country? How many Gazans have been permitted to leave? And the question you keep muddying the waters around: What's the military to civilian casualty ratio? It's much worse in Gaza, no matter how you slice it.

Even if we run your apples-to-apples comparison: 25k civilians dead in Gaza, "tens of thousands" (let's say 40k?) dead in Ukraine. (I am not sure how credible this is). The Ukrainians also claim that 180k Russian soldiers have died. Israel hasn't killed more than 12k Hamas members; Hamas claims 6k dead. In the one war, far more military than civilian casualties; in the other, the reverse. There's really no way to spin this.
The SLS delivered a crew capable Space Vehicle to Lunar orbit, and the space vehicle returned a crew capable capsule back the Earth. The lift capacity of FH is not capable of that.
This is all about SWaP: Size, Weight, and Power.
In what world are most Israeli centrists? They are mostly fascists by any definition of the term.
That's wild. I have cut hundreds of pin oaks and have never encountered that. I learned something!
What the civilian mind can imagine is a mere trivial percentage of what the military can turn into reality.
It does. However it catches some different things*
So .. like ... Why not dump python entirely if you are doing a python to rust port of a core aspect of python tool gain?
"First rule of government spending: why buy one when you can buy two for twice the price" - Fictional billionaire R.L. Hadden, in Carl Sagan's "Contact"
It's pointless to even try and calculate this number. There are ~3000 billionaires in the world. Most/all of them have children, and I'd wager a large chunk of these children have access to >$1B of the wealth, whether on paper or not. The only special thing about these 15 is that their parents are dead and/or their inheritance or trust fund has already kicked in.
I’m unclear on how you “port” a library from Python to Rust, it’s a ground up rewrite with a familiar interface to pip but fundamentally doesn’t share any code.
The good local LLMs are also loss leaders, a company spends a lot of money training a model then gives it away for free in the hopes they can eventually pivot to an actual business model. The work being done with local LLMs seems to take for granted that Mistral and co will just keep shoveling investor money into the furnaces forever to keep the free LLMs coming, and there is no contingency plan for when that money runs out.

Likewise local image generation is almost entirely dependent on the charity of one company, and per the OP that company is on the verge of going broke.
> There is a great reason for doing it: nothing else has worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician's_syllogism
I live in the suburbs, 10k sqft lot, back yard, grill, slide & swings, great year-round weather

I talk to one of neighbors maybe 4 times a year - never met any of the other people on my street in the year I’ve lived here

I love it
Every time I hear "new system faster than old system!", my first thought is: what features does the new system not implement, what corner-cases does it ignore?

What are the trade-offs?
Changing your build tool to another tool (designed to be a drop-in replacement) is very different from changing your entire codebase...
existing code? swapping build tools is extremely different
Yeah but I suspect there’s something more going on than Rust magic. They’re claiming a savings of about an hour and a half. (4% of the original time) That sounds like an architecture change, or more likely a whole lot of caching.
When and who was the last time a person who came from proportionately "nothing" became a billionaire? Maybe by nothing I mean parents with no savings account.
Funny Take on OpenAI
Agreed. They make a better Customer that draft requirements and RFPs.
Exception: JPLs robots.
> from programs older than the TK sats.

What was that older than Corona?
Have you looked into tools like CrewAI [0]?

[0] https://www.crewai.io/
I did forget that, but unless something significant has changed since I worked there, the in-store vinyl section is generally like 2 or 3 boxes sandwiched in between soundbars and TV stands. The CD section, right up to its demise, was an entire wall, plus a bargain bin, in every store I visited.
Pretty much no. They would rather do almost anything else than be forced to change business models.
The selectivity of Western calls to not commit war crimes predates the response to Oct 7. Two weeks earlier, the Azerbaijani dictatorship ethnically cleansed over 100,000 people from their ancestral land. Not a peep from anyone, in fact Azerbaijan is a "reliable, trustworthy partner" according to von der Leyen: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/statemen...

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-passion-of-artsakh/
Canada has high levels of immigration and needs to plan for the demands of a significantly larger population in the future. You can keep ratcheting up the demand on existing infrastructure or offload some demand with better solutions.
Not when you called templated functions and were greeted with compile-time template stack traces. Or you called overloaded functions and were presented with 50 alternatives you might have meant. The language is inherently unfriendly to user-friendly error messages.
Damn they spoon fed you this narrative and you ate it right up.
Can't you go up a folder using the dropdown at the top?
There are obvious answers....

Why do you ask?
Andres Freund and the xz backdoor
Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
Some here comment on notes they've taken for their entire life, often using powerful note-taking systems.

Of course, there's a ton of note-taking systems out there. Org-Mode [1], Obsidian [2], plain .txt, ...

And it's become quite simple to integrate such systems with LLMs.

Whether to add that data to the LLM [3], using LLM formatting, or to visualize and use it as a personal partner. For the latter - there's also a ton of open-source UIs such as Chatbot-ui[4] and Reor[5].

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Personally, I haven't been consistent enough through the years in note-taking.

So, I'm really curious to learn more about those of you who were and implemented such pipelines.

I'm sure there's a ton of cool interaction experiences.

[1] https://orgmode.org/
[2] https://obsidian.md/
[3] https://ollama.com/
[4] https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui
[5] https://github.com/reorproject/reor
I do generally try and assume the best out of people. Most people aren't assholes, they're perfectly nice, and they probably aren't out to rob you or ruin your day.

Corporations are not people. A corporation is basically a superorganism made up of people, but functions differently. The HR person is probably a genuinely decent human, but fundamentally they still have to do their job, which is (like basically all of us) dictated by their higher-ups. Their job isn't to be your best friend, it's to make the company more money.

Ideally, it is by resolving the problem. Sometimes they need to fire someone, and in order to fire someone without the risk of a lawsuit (in a lot of jurisdictions) they kind of have to substantiate the case. Usually they and the manager will put you into some kind of "performance improvement plan" or some kind of "attitude coaching" so that they can pretend that they tried to work with you, but they will also just try and look for you to slip up and mention when you did something unkosher.

Generally by the time HR is called, it's too late, they've already decided to fire you and they're just going through the motions.

I'm sure most of the HR people are lovely humans, but that's just orthogonal to the point.