skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that is just an internet search away, and provides an endless list. Let us ignore the major bombings of Gaza in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022. How about the following few:

Jewish Voice for Peace giving a timeline of major violence against Palestinians for about a year before 2023-10-07: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-...

2023-09-18: "2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank" https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-ye...

HRW on the above: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-...

2023-01-13: "Last year Israeli forces killed at least 146 Palestinians, including 34 children, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported" https://apnews.com/article/politics-israel-government-palest...
I guess I don't have enough context to really understand this. It takes 1.5 hours to calculate what dependencies Home Assistant needs? Wouldn't you normally amortize that out for each top-level dependency you add to the project and write it to a lock file or something, so that builds just become fetching the relevant artifacts?

Even then, I'm not sure how it would take 1.5 hours even on pen and paper.
no, it isn't. Over the course of a few decades, a kilogram of methane has the greenhouse impact of ~50 kilograms of CO2 because of the different absorption modes methane has that CO2 doesn't. If terraform leaks more than a few percent of their product into the atmosphere from carelessness (who cares about tracking such a low value commodity?) Then this is worse than just leaving the CO2 in the atmosphere. I really wish they'd address this fact more. Some possibilities:

-The hydrogen half is still a great way to make hydrogen for industrial processes

-The methane can be used on site of production for organic chem feedstocks

-Many new rockets are using methane as their fuel, using it at point of origin instead of transporting through leaky pipelines and trucks.

Any analysis along these lines would be reassuring that this isn't going to be a net-negative, climate wise.
> lobbying Congress to cancel a program that spreads manufacturing

It's not lobbying to cancel a program, it's lobbying to replace a program with another. That other program may bring jobs in the same places; it's actually quite convenient to do so, since there are not that many people around with expertise in rocket manufacturing.
> absolutely zero reason

A prevailing theory is that advanced users opt out of telemetry, where as regular users don't. So Microsoft has no idea what advanced users use and the OS gradually becomes less sophisticated.
While there's certainly darkness here it clearly shows Frost was not all doom and gloom. Even a very cynical reading would be hard pressed to discount the positivity of the small act and the feelings of connection it engendered.
Yeah, I love their work but I am concerned that the VC death-spiral will be painful. I wonder whether they will offer support plans or similar, except that past experience makes me cynically assume that most developers will be “$5? haha, no!” until pivoting to complain about whatever they end up doing to make payroll.
This is work from Google research outside US. You could even call it a different company with the same name. It is Google US who made those AOM / AVIF decisions.
Any moderately well run shop will have a mechanism to get updates when a dependency of theirs has a security issues, depending on the line of business it may actually be required by a regulator or certification body (eg PCI etc)

We should probably be more afraid of the backdoors you can’t see in proprietary that would almost never be found.
Let's not get into a all-or-nothing fallacy here, my point is that there is an important security difference between:

1. Languages where obfuscation techniques look a lot like business as usual.

2. Languages where obfuscation techniques look weird compared to business as usual.

The presence or lack of comments in #1 situations won't really help to bridge the gap.
What should be added/removed in this post given that it's been 5 years?
Bootstrapping is such an odd concept. Like, something that's self propagating is in a sense not fully reproducible and holonomic, unless you maintain the original non-bootstrapped version which would add tons of work.

A compiler bug could put a bug in the compiler and propagate itself indefinitely.

An implementation in some other languages that has an implementation in C means you could theoretically start from ASM and rebuild.
There was just a Shark Tank episode where the entrepreneurs pitched essentially this. Nobody questioned the tech side of it, but they still didn't get a deal.
I read that article and feel your interpretation is very misleading/wrong.

The Guardian article makes it clear prior to those denials that those higher-up appear to not to care how accurate it is and appear to be making a conscious choice to accept the fact it is highly flawed on the basis that it might kill some of whom they would legitimately claim as valid targets.

It's clear from the operational details discussed in the article the critical target number is largely number of kills, regardless of whether they are any actual material threat, or not.

Cull predominantly the male population and their family members, not assassinate active threats is the overall impression I got of the Israeli strategy.

I must add that anyone claiming the use of AI and inference models in this way is in anyway justifiable needs to seek help. The claim of 90% accuracy is almost certainly over claiming by over 100%.
I apologize that this will seem like, well it IS frankly, more reaction than is really justified, sorry for that. But this question is an example of a thing people commonly do that I think is not good and I want to point it out once in a while when I see it:

There are infinite use-cases for everything beside one's own tiny personal experience and imagination. It's not remarkable that someone tested for the best version of something you personally don't have a use for.

Pretend they hadn't answered the question. The answer is it doesn't matter.

They stated a goal of x, and compared present-x against testing-x and found present-x was the better-x.

"Why do they want x when I only care about y?" is irrelevant.

I mean you may be idly curious and that's not illegal, but you also stated a reason for the question which makes the question not idle but a challenge (the "when I only care about y" part).

What I mean by "doesn't matter" is, whatever their use-case is, it's automatically always valid, and so it doesn't change anything, and so it doesn't matter.

Their answer happened to be something you probably agree is a valid use-case, but that's just happenstance. They don't have to have a use-case you happen to approve of or even understand.
Yep, but i have been here long and the non-contributing downvote phenomenon seemed to me to start when HN got more widespread participation.

How did you figure out the conversation sniping to be earlier members?
ssh/sftp?
Make that two of us. Enter is too easy to fumble-press while having tens or hundreds of files selected, so it’s better to have that hooked to something inconsequential and easily reversible. By comparison Command-O is much harder to press unintentionally.

Also if I recall correctly, enter to rename has been Mac convention since the beginning, making it not wrong but just different.
Lots of services are great when the parent company is taking a loss on them. Idk if that was the case here, but with Alexa it is, and so was Uber.
I guess similar issue with Safari not showing the url path by default, which is completely ridiculous. It is a large part of the UX. It is not going to be of benefit to anyone.
Lattice Semiconductor's iCE40 sort of qualifies, no? (Maybe getting a little old now?) Cheap and fully supported by an open-source toolchain and really easy to use. (Unless a GUI is needed.)
If big fish eat little fish why have nation states not nationalized everything?
Musk's xAI poaches another engineer from Tesla in a clear conflict of interest
Given SpaceX's heavy use of vertical integration, I highly doubt that it'll spread as many jobs around as SLS currently does.
There are CRTs with long-persistence phosphors too; they found applications in radar and the like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor#Standard_phosphor_typ...

https://tubetime.us/index.php/2015/10/31/crt-phosphor-video/

http://www.labguysworld.com/crt_phosphor_research.pdf

The P10 phosphor there claims "Persistence from several seconds to several months"(!)
I am not worried about GPT4 like this but GPT6 or GPT7.

On the other hand, I think of how at the individual level if they price me out then they don't have a mass scale product.

I suppose I worry far more about this with Sora too.

I have also spent about $300 on Midjourney in the last 18 months but I don't know how to spend money on Stability.
Why? The goals are different, the support is different, the stability is different, the use cases are different, the compatibility is different... all in all they're almost as different as Opera and Vivaldi.
There's a difference in capability, though. A smart person is capable of being stupid on Twitter. A dumb person is not capable of recruiting top-tier rocket scientists + engineers and starting a company that has achieved everything that SpaceX has.
7 out of every 10 Fentanyl pills seized by DEA contain a lethal dose
Plants still have the same issues with shortening telomeres, but their mechanisms for repairing and maintaining genome stability are much stronger than in mammals.

So if you were to take new growth and graft the same variety of apple tree for the next million years, at some point it would no longer be viable. But how many years that would take isn't really known. On a human scale, yes, they can be considered immortal.
This all strikes me as a nice opening to an apocalypse movie. Pulling CO2 and upgrading to methane - wouldn't that amplify GHG effects?
Not OP but I had an experience like this recently. A toxic manager hated me and other employees, and wanted to fire me in the quickest way possible. He started to give me tasks that were clearly illegal, like sending the passwords of the company by email to random people (contractors included which made it more obvious).

I refused for two weeks while providing alternative solutions but this sociopath still was not happy. HR got involved somehow, but instead of siding with me, they told me in the nicest way that I would be a good employee if I obeyed and sent private data by email.

It was obvious this time that they were building a case against me, because I knew what they were capable of. But younger me would have happily complied and break the law because, after all, HR is good for the employees and are not talking to the managers behind your back, right?

So, the red flag is "when HR is nice to you." Never forget that they also obey the orders of the managers.

Also they will happily forge emails to fire you. I’ve seen that more than once, and they’ll pretend it never happened. That’s why you must keep traces of email conversations if you feel something is wrong.
Many boards were controlled by US proxies at one time.

Perhaps things are more transparent now, but I doubt it... =)

Only posers build a private bank in the Cayman islands.
I like sweeping and vacuuming, its therapeutic. 0/10 will not buy.
Does macOS support mounting SFTP shares?
Time to add a `--stardate` flag to the `date` command then?
Oh wow! Thanks a lot Colin for checking it out :)

> Your LaTeX didn't render for $R^{2}=0.78$
Fixed, thank you.

> You're missing an "is" in this sentence:
Fixed, thank you.

> Is there a reason for the stray strong "i" in the middle of the text?
I am not sure where

> I can't parse this sentence: "Because I was still collecting the data, and the I had only until 2015 then"

Thank you for pointing this out, I rephrased it. What I meant was: I started working on the analysis before the data collection was complete. At that time, I had the data from 2006 to 2015. And that is basically how I discovered your profile.

> although I'm unsure of some of the conclusions
I agree. It is a limitation for such exploratory work. I am curious though to know which conclusions you are unsure of.

Thanks a lot for taking the time and going through it. Big fan here :))
I find it ironic in an interesting way that on HN there is such a strong privacy bent generally, but on the topic of financial privacy it seems to be the reverse
Astral is a company but that doesn’t make this an ad without evidence you didn’t include. Do you personally know that this was anything other than organic praise from a happy user?
As an alternative, liberal democracy and convincing people via talking rather than fighting or dehumanizing people?
I don't think it's worse, per se, but I hate it/myself _more_ when I contemplate switching from autotools to cmake -- it's like upgrading from CP/M to DOS, when what I'd like to have is a Mac.

And as much as autotools blows, every time I try to build some project that uses cmake I inevitably go through some rigmarole making a build directory (not that out-of-source tree builds aren't the right thing, they are, but why make me create one?) and finding some obscure set of -D options to get the sucker to build on my system. configure && make still has cmake beat from a user's perspective.
So maybe start with a quarter tablet? .. </sarcasm>

Genuine question: How does it make fiscal business sense to kill your customers after one hit?

Edit: thank you all for your informative replies
> Also, he needs help from a verifiably trustworthy source, verifiable in a way that doesn't require a lot of effort.

PGP signing parties?
> not being insane

Insane? It’s what all of BigTech and every game dev does. It’s tried and true.

> vcpkg, conan, and Fetch_Content fix all the issues

Not really, no.
> except for having to edit at a lot of randomly-chosen cursor points far apart from each other (but how often is that your use case?)

I use Sublime, and pretty often I do a "Find All" for some term; then Multiselect (Cmd+L); then select from cursor (Shift+RightArrow); and then type something. Which is essentially "editing at a lot of randomly [or at least arbitrarily]-chosen cursor points."

That, and IIRC Sublime actually does its "Find and Replace All" operation, as essentially this same multicursor-select-and-type operation internally. (If you have a large-enough buffer open, you can see it gradually doing it!)
See the video I linked or the other commenters with references that Methane is a higher contributor to global warming than CO2 by 30x. It’s not about the carbon removed, it’s about the methane leaked.
All of the above, stealing of money, secrets, AI model weights, destruction, access to crypto passphrases, spam, impersonation, blackmail ... maybe not directly to systems with good security, but its like picking a lock, every bit of progress helps, security exists in layers, and one weak layer compromises the next... ssh is a pretty fundamental technology, and highly trusted.

There are wonderfully colorful podcasts about this. Darknet Diaries is pretty decent, and entertaining, for public consumption.
Not to my knowledge. But I see some people are trying to make new dumps available from time to time.
For example, this one has all the data until Nov 2023
https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenPipe/hacker-news
That's definitely true. And a lot of times it could be a random open source project that is under the radar and rarely thought about. E.g. The Great Suspender Chrome extension which was sold to an unknown buyer which later turned it to malware: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-great-sus...
I agree we can do it. It just has to be done. Aka give the EPA some teeth and require actual monitoring and enforcement rather than a self reported fantasy.
QEMU and tcc were created by Fabrice Bellard, they were written by a god! Us mortals use autoconf ;)
Djb followed this with email and Djbdns having config scripts that were plain bash. I remember at the time a lot of people got upset - "it can never be portable". But it compiles and runs everywhere it's supported maybe we're OK with not having detection for amigaOS or something.
his site was down last I checked. hope it gets archived
>"just figure out how to merge it in, and if you don't like it, that's malfeasance!"

It isn't not accepting it or hostile. That is completely not true.

They actively push against JPEG XL, despite all the data, prior to even 1.0 suggest it is or could be better than AVIF in many cases. To the point where they even make up false benchmarks to downplay JPEG XL.

Companies were even willing to paid ( wont name ) and put resources into getting JPEG XL because they see it to be so good. But they still refused.

It is at this point people thought something doggy is going on. And then not only did Google not explain themselves. They were even more hostile.

So why the extra hate? Well partly because this is a company who gave us an over promised WebP and underdelivered.
Surely the DEA wouldn't exaggerate?
Manned submarines, perhaps, but what about unmanned submarines?
Yeah on premises drives are where it’s at for anything data intensive. I don’t regularly handle the volumes of data you do, but have on occasion and based on past experience I wouldn’t use cloud storage for anything remotely heavy duty, regardless of the desktop platforms and cloud services involved. Too much room for things to go awry when I can’t physically plug the storage in.

I’ll use cloud storage for off-premises backup in addition to local backups, but that’s about it.
CARP is nice[1], but you need to have two machines on a broadcast domain for that. That doesn't give you geo-redundancy, like this solution does.

[1] I use it with FreeBSD to have redundant internet routers.
These things constantly change and who has time for all of that?

Windows to me is intuitive by default, I can't find macOS intuitive after 10 years even when being forced to work with it professionally.

I still can't deal with copy paste ctrl/cmd btn being in an awkward position and if I change it in the settings other problems ensue. My muscle memory is all kinds of done.
You develop a tolerance that sort of drug so a dose that would turn you or me into a zombie would barely register for a junkie.
The Industrial Revolution, climate change, and Brexit (2016)
Plus, they can't be running in supplies on foot, under the canopy, or getting the stuff out!
This is fascinating.

The chart, the overnight x3 jump in traffic, the fact that we don't know what's Y axis refering to, the other fact that every single reputable source says traffic is going seriously down.

This is posted by somebody who recently was the richest man on the planet and not long ago was considered as the best enterpreneur in history, and a great engineering mind.

I guess we are all humans after all !
Datacenter Processors for AI is already 78% of Nvidia's Revenue
First archived version on the wayback machine is from November, 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20201127234815/https://sadafpack...
Funny enough, I was forced to program in exactly this way, when I was first learning to program. But not in the 1970s... in the year 2001!

Why? Because my first exposure to programming was the semi-graphical scripting "language" exposed by the game-development tool "RPG Maker 2000."

For those who haven't seen RM2K scripting before: picture a cross between Scratch and Emacs Paredit mode. (E.g. https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/data/attachments/21/21958-f89...) It's presented as textual, but you can't edit it like text — only as blocks with associated properties dialogs.

And, of course, that scripting language in RPG Maker doesn't have anything so fancy as a stack.

Want some reusable subroutines? Well, you better believe you're allocating secret global variables for their parameters — no re-entrancy for you!

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Mind you, thinking back on it, it's probably possible to implement both registers and a runtime stack in RPG Maker 2000, given sufficient stubbornness.

Both features seem easy enough at first: you can do pseudo-"registers" like the zero page on a 6502; and you can do a stack through indirect variable access (https://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/523/).

The problem with both of these, though, is that RM2K actually has concurrency in the form of "parallel process" scripts — so any use of either of these abstractions by these parallel processes, will have different "threads" stomping all over one-another's state.

So you'd actually need multiple "zero pages" and "stacks" — one for each "virtual core" — and then you'd need to somehow assign/bind/schedule the "virtual cores" to parallel scripts (i.e. somehow get each script its own privately-known "stack pointer.") Which, to be stable in the face of race conditions, would normally require something like mutexes...

Knowing the bloody-mindedness of RPG Maker gamedevs, I'm sure someone did come up with a way to trick some runtime feature into acting like a mutex. But I'm genuinely scared to know what it was they did.
A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins
The article under discussion says that even by internal Israeli calculations in the early days of the war on a typical day “another thousand Gazans have died, most of them civilians.” Given the population demographics of Gaza, I do not think it’s a stretch you might get to 20,000 minors killed.

The article also questions your claim that the IDF was careful to protect civilians by eg destroying empty building. On the contrary, the IDF accepted extremely high civilian deaths to kill even one suspected minor militant.
Or to put it another way: if someone is using a human shield, you don't just shrug and shoot the shield.
That's great, but how do I take one of these underground caverns around with me? :P

More seriously, I'm sure hydrogen will make a valuable contribution to the stationary grid-level energy storage situation. I'm not convinced about other applications.
And, 2 days later: https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1772139983731831051

If I were George Hotz I would not live-tweet my stream of conciousness to that degree.
But before the point where most jobs are obsolete, some specific jobs (e.g. miners) may no longer exist. Entire mining towns may no longer be viable. We treat these problems very seriously. Thoughts and prayers for everyone involved.
Author here. We did not. We briefly tried Alpine, which I think is comparable?

I think Alpine is cool, but it didn't really stick with the team. I think that's because we were still writing our components in LiveView and sprinkling in Alpine. A big unlock with LiveSvelte was getting to move so much into `.svelte` files, but not converting the whole thing to a SPA. Working in a `.svelte` file gives you a lot of niceties that an Alpine-decorated LiveView component won't (prettier, intellisense, etc).

This approach could totally work with other paradigms, like Alpine and HTMX. I think the key is using LiveView as a backend-for-frontend, so writing all your components in `.htmx` files or whatever.
MS is pushing hard with copilot for $30/user/month (annual commitment... I see they've learned from Adobe, sigh).
My pet theory: Because they wouldn't have any excuse for not allowing network backups of iOS devices to them, driving people into overpriced iCloud storage plans.
Rope Core Memory
5+ companies with GPU clusters capable of training GPT-4 class models (as you said compute was the barrier)
Zig definitely has the right approach, but it's targets are still a bit limited so saying it's not difficult is maybe ignoring gcc's extreme portability that zig hasn't yet had to deal with.
For remote connections Transmit[0] is solid and among the oldest Mac apps still in development.

[0]: https://panic.com/transmit/
> Genuine question: How does it make fiscal business sense to kill your customers after one hit?

It doesn't. Even making the generous assumption that the DEA is being honest here, what constitutes a lethal dose for a non-user may be substantially less than what constitutes a lethal dose for a heavy-using addict.