skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like a comment that does not capture the actual Amazon userbase.

In my top 10 American city, Amazon delivers multiple slots same day, guaranteed no-extra-cost 2 day shipping, and offers a variety of 5-7 options that include digital rewards, local pickup, etc.

No competitor is in the same ballpark. Nearly every other e-commerce site I use, from small to large businesses, take 2 days to process the order and ship the dang thing and 4-6 more to arrive. Amazon ships in a matter of hours, and will even pay a driver uber-style to run it to your house immediately, for $3 extra. It's completely routine for me to shop from a small to medium business for my gardening hobby or photography hobby and wait 7-14 days for order processing and another 7-14 days for shipping. I waited 28 days for some camera filters, filters I chose to buy from the company instead of Amazon, even though they sold the same ones through Amazon on 2 day shipping. I waited 28 days!

Even for returns, Amazon operates return centers in all of my local Whole Foods, and they don't require boxing or labels. Every other e-commerce site I use makes me jump through hoops, find a printer, print a label, find a box, and then find the some random low-cost shipment center just to do a return. With Amazon, I show up with an unboxed product, they can my phone, and I'm out.

I recognize the level of harm Amazon does to society in a variety of ways, from their hostility to workers rights, their abusive use of contractors to reduce liability, their abuse of single use plastics and other pollutants, but on the topic of delivery speeds and customer experience, they are so far beyond any competitor that it's not even a comparison. Amazon has invented a style of e-commerce convenience that no competitor can rival at all.
See the part where I said aiding and abetting a known target makes you a target. "What about the children" is a very poor argument. Would you rather a fireteam kick down the door and have to shoot the entire family when they all scurry to a room and grab arms because daddy told them to? Because that's what happens - all the time. There's no "put down your weapons" like you see in movies. You have about 50ms to make a decision to neutralize a target.

I know people who are very screwed up after having to shoot children carrying weapons because their parents told them to. I know people who've had to make the kill/no-kill decision on a woman and her child approaching a convoy. It's a fucked up situation. That's why we try to avoid war.

You can't just deploy operators when a guy goes home to his family. It's expensive, dangerous, and difficult. If you leave him alone he could be ordering people from his home to kill your people. Unconventional war is by definition unconventional. If they fought like a regular military their families would most likely not be targeted. I have no data but I can tell you absolutely no one wants to kill women and children. Except for hamas, that is.
Playing nice with Excel (and PowerPoint) is an underrated feature. The next step I see from business users is taking the formatted Excel table and pasting it into a PowerPoint slide. The hacker mindset often says the Microsoft Office suite is the wrong tool for the job, so we should use X tool and Y process instead. That may be true, but there's so much institutional inertia at established organizations that it's hard to completely abandon the Office suite. Anything that lets a technical user do something programmatically, but allows the output to be easily manipulated by a non-expert is invaluable.

I've had success generating svg visuals and placing them in slides, which PPT treats as a "shape" (the Graphics Format ribbon appears), and business users like that they can modify the shapes (for example, change the color). Great Tables supports pdf export, but not svg. I just tested a pdf vector in the current version of PPT, and while it maintains the vector, PPT won't let me convert it to a shape (only the Picture Format ribbon is available). Great Tables doesn't seem to support svg export directly, so there needs to be an additional pdf -> svg conversion.
Let's not forget to add Xvid to this circus, having X in your name was all the rage back in the early 2000s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid
Completely disagree. Every project that has xz/liblzma added as a dependency should be looking at the source, compiling from said source and making sure their binaries that they shipped with their software match this. For example, homebrew should do this. If the attacker configured the backdoor for the server to enable a universal master key, who's to say they didn't engineer a backdoor for the Homebrew version to export private keys from the current user's .ssh folder?
Indeed, I can't prove that it is or isn't the case that my thoughts and memories aren't being constantly overwritten to make reality consistent. I don't have a firm belief one way or the other, but I act like reality does intrinsically make sense.

Reason being, if reality is consistent, than acting as though it does achieves my goals. If reality isn't consistent, or is consistent in a way that differs from what I am capable of comprehending, then I am unable to compute any pattern of behavior that would be helpful to achieving my goals.

Thus it only makes sense to me to act like reality is consistent. I think that if I am acting this way, then it makes sense for me to say that I "believe" reality is consistent in a non thought overriding way.

EDIT: Looking at your comment again, I think that you think it is likely that reality should be simple because computing that would be easier. If we are stuck in a simulation by more advanced beings, then it is possible that compute power is a limiting factor, or they may just have computers so powerful that simulating us could be a cinch.

The simulation scenario is easy to imagine. However, just because I can't imagine scenarios besides "it just is this way", "God did it", and "We are in a simulation" doesn't mean such scenarios don't exist.
Human: There are hundreds of Hamas hiding in Al Shifa hospital.

AI: Go in and kill them

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Is that why the picture of "destruction near Al Shifa Hospital" is in there, to lead us to believe it was the heartless software that led to the raid?

(https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-wa..., as if you can believe anything coming out of there)
Take April 1st off and spend the day alone. People being annoying on that day is the perfect excuse to waste the day with computer games.

Or go fishing. Whatever rocks your boat and is far from other people.
> PG&E gets to effectively tax Californians an amount of money determined, roughly, as whatever the can spend times 1.1. Guess who massively overpays and who ends up kicking an enormous amount of money toward PG&E for essentially no value.

I mean that's strictly not true. PG&E's spend has to be approved by a regulator who in the past has not approved capital expenses.

> When PG&E suggested inspecting 300,000 poles a year to ensure safety in 2012, CPUC cut the total to 235,000.¹¹ In 2011 and 2012, when PG&E spent almost $100 million more on replacing poles than allowed by CPUC, the regulator took that as a reason to deny future claims for pole replacement spending. It said “PG&E demonstrated the capacity and willingness to spend more than previously authorized…to meet service obligations,” thus they would not include extra required pole replacements in the “rate base.” These sorts of decisions created exactly the wrong incentives, penalizing PG&E for doing more than was required.¹²

https://ciceroinstitute.org/pge-failing-california/
Curious what is it like with grocery stores and plastic bags where you live? If I go to a large grocery store in US there could 100+ people in the store I can guarantee you I am the only one there with my resuable cloth/insulated grocery bags. Everyone else walks out with single use plastic bags.
That’s one hell of a thing to put on your CV under achievements
Bleeding Wall: A Hematologic Examination on the Great Firewall
Politely letting you know that it’s spelled quite, not quiet , so that you can learn from this. The English language can be really dumb
Ugh. I hate it when the playwright comes to shows. They always have opinions.

Their work is over. The words are set. Now let me do my job, figuring out how to say them and how to move. It's between me and the director. We're the ones who can see the set, know the other actors, feel what the audience is responding to.

One thing I love about doing Shakespeare: he's very sparing with stage directions. He lets the words speak for themselves. Often, they suggest how I should sound, when I should be silent, how to move. But he rarely enforces an action on me. And even better... because he's dead, he's not going to come at us if we cut something we don't like, or rearrange.

Modern playwrights love to tell me when to take a (beat). Guys... you wrote the words. I'll figure out how fast to say them. You did your job. Now stay home and let me do mine.
Never heard of them but I watched the video.

It's quite funny and over the top. And the details of how committed they were to this joke is pretty impressive.

The usual complaint about corporate april fools is that it's just a not very funny blog post, done for PR reasons.

But these people committed. They had fake leaks, a fake conference, a rebellion in Discord. I'm impressed with the level of effort it took to take a joke towards an alternate reality game type level.

Bravo!
Related:

Has China Lost Its Taste for the iPhone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815330
Very charitable of you! (do we need an emoticon for charity, like we have for sarcasm? symmetry would suggest yes.)

Upon further reflection, it occurs to me that these situations are exactly why the Geneva Conventions[0] require combatants to have (a) uniforms, and (b) a command structure:

(a) prevents someone low from disingenuously stopping the buck by claiming "tweren't no orders; I'm acting on my own"

(b) prevents someone high from arguing as Uber does: "you see, we're not a traditional army that gives orders to our fighters — we just provide a service that matches attackers and targets online, and really, anything bad that allegedly happened was only between those two parties"[1]

[0] if we're not doing these anymore, just go ahead and tell me "the future is now, old man", and I'll take my mutterings to the pétanque piste.

[1] > "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun —TAL
Seaweed as a Resilient Food Solution After a Nuclear War (2021) [pdf]
> Or for a more standard/modern FS like XFS (I don't expect OpenBSD to go for ZFS bloat).

At some point, I think I heard that they might use HAMMER2, which would be nice.
I felt it as well. It's all over social media now.

https://www.threads.net/search/?q=nyc%20earthquake
Yeah this is either an opsec blunder or a smokescreen.

Sariel is an anagram for Israel.
From Hetzner's snapshot data loss email two years ago:

"The snapshot contents are distributed over multiple internal servers and data is stored in a way that allows up to two separate disks to fail without impacting data integrity. This means the snapshot can still be accessed, even if two disks fail at the same time."
This is the same 64k argument again.

You don't know what is possible with more resources being made available.

Eventually, people will figure out how to use them.

The main issue we face is that we're not limited by the top end, we're limited by the bottom end.

Bottom end computers are still running sata and 8gb of ram. Once you see that stuff move to 32gb and 1tb nvme, you might see changes in strategy.

Games are a big one for example, those things now run multi hundred GB, SSD speeds make a huge difference in what is possible there.

Just wait til game Devs figure out how to use generative ai backed by huge models disk speed and ram will definitely play a role.
Folks aren't going to make the trek to a library every time they want to watch a video or take an online course. Or imagine they have children that they'd have to supervise/provide care for while doing whatever necessitated the trip.

I'm not denying the side effects of libraries being a beacon - that much is true.

But this program was designed to ensure folks had reliable fast internet at home.
It will widen the labor pool until it suddenly doesn’t anymore, right? “Horses Need Not Apply” was all about that - the point being new devices were introduced until suddenly horses became pets rather than working animals (on a farm), and our insistence that technological change creates new jobs (“creative destruction”) wasn’t well founded.
It might be purely due to how expensive they are.

MRI studies proven that people really do draw more pleasure from tasting wine when they know it's expensive.
I have been using the xstack filter for several years now.

What I do is take several diverse short video segments, like 100, concatenate them into 4 segments (example 23+24+26+27 since they have diverse lengths) and then xstack them into a 2-by-2 mosaic video.

Before, I was doing it in a single stage, but now, after some advice, I do it in 5 stages: 4 concatenate stages and 1 xstack stage.

I have not profiled/timed it so see which is faster, but it works pretty well, although I often have a lot of different weird warnings.
To have control over how they appear, and also to appear in social media videos, especially shorts.

Nice work
What to Expect on the Grid During the Total Solar Eclipse
April fools outside a very small close group of friends is unbecoming.

I dont want my government to joke

I dont want my employer to joke

I dont want my client to joke

I dont want my supplier to joke

I dont want my religious leader to joke.

Why? Because the above aren't my friends. They are not invited into my intimate inner space of close knit relations. Furthermore I don't need a cheap laugh and I don't need someone to entertain me.

The pervasiveness of "joking around" in these settings is further evidence, for me, of our society's infantilization.
The US has killed plenty of non comabatants using human guided drones for decades...
People are buying art in IKEA, of course they'll hang an AI painting as well.
Love this idea!! A product like this is so needed in the indie hacker community, thank you!
Military technology has been helping people decide who to kill for ages. For example, long distance cameras and night vision devices use extensive image processing. They're designed to improve visibility but can undoubtedly lead to false positives in the heat of the battle.
"I'm not crazy!" "That's what a crazy person would say!"

Honestly once you're at the whims of an overzealous psychologist you're boned. Potentially. I hope the real Woods gets to sue everyone involved in declaring him mentally incompetent, that declaration took away his rights as a human being.
4.8 in New Jersey

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...
It's still a human strategic decision though: they could have created or configured the system to minimize collateral casualties. They apparently didn't.
> it's too early to claim that a project is not vulnerable to backdoors

I don’t think that’s a fair or accurate paraphrase of the blogpost.

They said they weren’t exposed to the backdoor (headline), or this issue (body of article). Both are deliberately singular, and from context clearly referencing the known back door.

I don’t see anything in the post claiming they aren’t vulnerable to back doors in general.
Misleading title. The source, Cisco, “[...] announced the launch of the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI.” So in other words: AI impacts jobs. Let's upskill and reskill roles most likely to be impacted by AI.

... the exact opposite of this title.
And nowadays, for subsampled images libjpeg post classic version 6 insists on doing the chroma upscaling using DCT where possible, so for classic 4:2:0 subsampled images (i.e. chroma resolution is half the luma resolution both horizontally and vertically) each subsampled 8x8 chroma block is now upscaled individually to 16x16 for the final image, which can and does introduce additional artefacts at the boundaries between each 16x16 px block in the final image. But the current libjpeg maintainer insists on that new algorithm because it is mathematically more beautiful…

Granted, the introduced artefacts aren't massive, but under certain circumstances they are noticeable, which is how I stumbled across that topic in the first place.

Thankfully, most software that isn't still stuck on libjpeg 6 has switched to libjpeg-turbo or some other library instead which continues using a more sensible algorithm for chroma upscaling.
Well I'm in the UK and there's a plastic bag tax of 25p per bag. Since that law was introduced, everyone comes to the supermarket with their own bag.
...I'm having trouble discerning whether you understand the abject stupidity of that suggestion, or if you're just being sarcastic. Poe's law strikes again.
The equivocating in this thread boggles the mind.

- Windows isn't the only other OS, nor would that mean that what the CCP is doing with HarmonyOS is OK.

- Backdoors are the rule, not the exception in China. This is not true of the US.

- I disagree with the Patriot Act and NSLs, but let's not forget that the US is a free democracy and that those laws can change if there is political will. That isn't the case in China.
>>Using one of the most biased and anti-israel as a source what could go wrong?

Which one exactly? The guardian article quotes literally hundreds of sources - which ones are you bothered by?

>>the use of technology and AI to minimize civilian casualties in guerrilla warfare.

It achieves literally no such thing, it's dishonest to suggest otherwise.

>>How much civilians did US kill during Vietnam war?

Peak whataboutism. As if everyone on the internet is American or believes that we should be comparing everyone else to America.
Trinity is actually a fork of KDE3, not 2.
The implications of this is that anyone is easily able to find the name behind a google account?
Yes this is completely my experience too. I spent most of yesterday battling with the query planner. Sometimes you can't express with table statistics something that you know to be true for the exact query that you're making.

There are a lot of arguments about query hints etc becoming stale and the performance changing as the table grows but I'm less worried about that - it would be a gradual degradation of performance. What worries me is that the table stats cross a threshold at 3am and suddenly the query planner chooses something crazy.

I've also wondered if an approach of trying a bunch of query plans could be fun. Get it to pick the top 10 possibilities and just run them all and record stats on which was fastest. Doubly so if it ever decides to run a seq scan where there is an index. Please. Just try the index! That said yesterday I was definitely at the point where I just wanted to express the exact query plan myself.
To get many eyeballs on gem diffs, we need an easy tool.
> this one is the first that killed people who it shouldnt have would tell you otherwise

I honestly can't tell if you're being ironic or not.

Do you believe these were the first aid workers who were killed?
I think the best data we have of this in the US is the exoneration rate of death penalty convictions, which is startlingly high. A study from 2014 found it to be around 4% (https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1306417111).

4% may sound low to some, but when people's live are on the line that's terribly high. If a plane had a 4% failure rate it would be considered a colossal failure.
In question are fully autonomous, artificial intelligence-based, unmanned drones
Googling it, AliExpress still requires the item in its original packaging of you want to return it? If so, Amazon still dominates for anything worth returning. I can even drive the return item to the Whole foods down the street to return it at a dedicated Amazon kiosk.
I live on a dead-end street, which has bike/foot paths connecting its cul-de-sac to a new/wealthier neighborhood.

Any time I see a "much too nice for this neighborhood" vehicle turning around, I know it's because their mapping software gives the impression of this being "a shortcut" (it is not).

Regardless, I loves me roadway to noway.
> So the Luddites wrecked the looms.

And then went on to create computers, which made them far more powerful capitalists than the loom owners. Funny how things work out.
To make the waters murkier, there were also DVD players with DivX (MPEG4) codec support.

You could encode a CD sized video file, burn it, and watch it.
Not commenting on the applicability to the RubyGems post, but just in general point number 2 is something I've been thinking of as well. If I were going to undertake a long-term effort like this to compromise, I would not have put all my eggs in one basket. We might only have discovered 1 of 3 and should not be celebrating yet (though a congratulatory toast is very appropriate)
>Non-determinism is an implementation detail, not an intrinsic property, as I understand it (at least as long as you're setting temperature to zero).

Right. A transformer outputs a probability distribution over all possible tokens from which the next token is sampled and then appended to the input sequence, at which point the process repeats. Temperature controls the entropy of the distribution - higher temperature, higher entropy, conversely, lower temperature, lower temperature. Technically zero temperature involves dividing by zero, so under the hood it's simply set to be an epsilon so small that the entropy of the distribution is low enough that sampling from it always effectively gives one token - the token with the highest probability. And so at every step in inference, the highest probability token is emitted.
This is hilariously written, thank you.

I’m still under the mistaken impression that I’m useful so I can’t provide any examples.
M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake
The ACP was considered wildly successful though - do you have any anecdotes on the actual program?
> I don't think that's true, especially for complex command-line tools.

That's the issue. The interface a person sees, should be minimal when possible. Git can't claim it's not needlessly complex when tools like Mercurial and Sapling exist.

> You do read the manual on that airliner as a pilot because it's your job to know the systems of the airliner.

Man, if you are comparing Git to an airliner, you do realize people allowed to touch a real aeroplane consoles need months if not years of exams and hundreds of hours of practice in simulators? Are you saying Git should require the same? Because then the analogy doesn't work.

Any CLI that would require months of reading the manual and practising in Git sandbox would be deemed too complex for all but the most masochist of devs.

Git doesn't have to be that complex, but its fundamental file based "abstraction" combined with keeping it exposed to end users leads to problems.

As someone said, Git isn't a Version control system, but a Version control toolkit, that you shape into a system. And everyone has a subtly different way of thinking how it should work, so you end up with some very bizarre workflows.

> I dislike the shiny-plastic-button mindset that seems to infect everything these days. Professional tools tend to be more flexible and more complex than consumer tools, because professionals often need to do more, and get more out of those tools.

And I dislike the RTFM mentality that is pervasive in the OSS sphere, but here we are. I don't want to think about what exactly the Git is doing, and "Why is Submodule eating my directories?". I want to write code.

Look, it's fine to RTFM when it's you and your buddies are writing a kernel in 1980. Not when it gets used by millions of developers.
PiDP10 project (PDP10 emulator and 2/3 scale hardware)