skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time Israel “attempted” peace was before the majority of Palestinians were even born. The only peace talks that had any chance of working were held by Rabin who got promptly murdered. Israel also never stopped killing Palestinians and refuses to return the land they have unlawfully occupied.
> Basically, I believe the advanced calculations to be correct because they lead to things which are (eventually) used in daily life.

I think you are missing my point - if you can short circuit logic, you will never be able to know whether your calculations are correct (but you will believe it)

Whether the outputs are used in daily life or not is irrelevant. You don't truly know if that is happening because you do not know what the fuzz factor is in the simulation.

Is the night sky the same as it was yesterday, or is it generated on the spot and your memory edited? The latter is more compute efficient.

Does your coworker look the same, or is the fuzz factor in the sim very high and they have a new face/body generated every day, with your memory edited to match?

Etc. that the outputs of the equations you described are used or not is irrelevant because it would be far more compute efficient to just not have them mean anything and to fuzz their existence/workability
Even if there were a cure in the future, there isn't one now. That's not the medical system giving up, that's being realistic. Having to wait while unbearably suffering is not something that can be expected of someone.

I prefer a system where there is a good procedure for death with dignity than one where we are not allowed to help someone end their prolonged and unbearable suffering.
Also you can view The Prinzhorn collection in Heidelberg Germany.

https://www.sammlung-prinzhorn.de/
I wonder if the fact that we spend the last 50 years or so having policies erroding all our social benefits might have a role in the deterioration of overall living conditions.

But off course no, it's because our grandparents were more loyal to their companies.
> I'm enabling genocide somewhere just by _being_ Jewish and/or for supporting Israel.

Hoping to not get over political, but the western media is failing to separate the Israeli government from the Israeli people, the latter of whom have a sizeable portion that don't agree with the governments actions in Gaza.

It's sad and as you suggested, just fuels racism in the form of anti semitism. All it takes is one extreme to destroy an entire point of view.
Companies have limited leadership opportunities for developers. It's pointless trying to make everyone a leader when there's 1 leadership position for every 20 developers.

Yes, yes, you can be an informal leader as well, but let's please recognize that not everyone wants to be one, and it's ok to be "just a worker".
Do those have military relevance at those depths?
12 bits/word

60 words/minute

60 minutes/hour

8 hours/day

5 days/week

4 weeks/month

=> 7 Megabits => 864kBytes . Fits onto a floppy.

What we could express as words, we could fit onto floppies.
Ask HN: Nice alternatives to Postman?
Hey HN,

I'm looking for alternatives to Postman. It's become too bloated in my opinion and I no longer enjoy using it. I'd like something minimal yet effective, preferably as a "native" macOS app but I might be fine with a functional and well-designed electron app.

Thanks for any suggestions!
No, they got the designation because they used suicide bombings in the nineties. But OK, so you'd call Israel a terrorist state then? And consider Israel the bigger problem due to the scale of their actions?

The Hamas charter is from 2017. Do you have any specific complaints about its contents?
Thanks for posting this!

I posted it myself at the time, but it made little impact:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39483019

It's important to know that this article is just part 4 in a series.

Here is the rest:

https://www.theregister.com/Tag/One%20Way%20Forward/

It is based on this FOSDEM 2024 talk I gave in February:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3095-one-...
Sorry about that.

It really get's me in the crop when my family unfamiliar with mental illness says the same things.

The folks who think you only see a mental health professional or go to the clinic because you are mad.
HTTPie is a good alternative. Check it out here https://httpie.io/
> Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham tweeted a bit of an ode to late-night work, writing, “Some of the very best work is done late at night. Not just at startups, but in research too. That's when you can work on hard problems without distractions. “If you looked at emails reporting important breakthroughs, a surprisingly large number would have been sent after hours.”

ironic for the thought of "without distractions" .. all i can think of are "open offices" and "meetings" are the real distractions to a whole lot of folks; or companies so big and siloed where folks refuse to talk to other folks .. which all boil down to management problems and terrible expectations.

I do think a 4 day work week and max 30-32 hours in those 4 days would make a lot more folks happy in the long run (albeit easier said than done) - at least worth a try vs not trying at all. need somebody to work more than that, then pay em overtime... Classic example of Mike Monteiro's fyou pay me in which a lot of people dont get paid for work
do you have any examples of a military using a statistical model that names targets, which were then killed without any human vetting?
From the news article I understood that this was an experimental setting, where participants were asked to perform actions in order to prevent data sharing with apple. From the news article I also interpreted that it is indeed "possible" (in the technical sense), but zero of the participants managed to get it right.

Being a software engineer / computer researcher / highly technical person (which puts them / us in a technical competent bubble), it might have been an actual surprise that zero participants managed to perform the task successfully. Add to that that they might have sourced participants from the student community in a technical university, and I don't see why their surprise is "theatrical"

Edit: As expected, quoting the original article: "The participants were recruited using the following methods: (1) posts on the university’s official LinkedIn page and (...)

Participants represented a wide variety of educational and professional backgrounds, including Computer Science
and IT, Architecture, Business Administration, Art and Design, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Research and Development, and unemployed participants (...)"
Mentioning the fact that the EU has an industrial deficiency in tech is not "uncivil" any more than mentioning that the US has a manufacturing deficiency.

It is just a fact - I am not sure why you would think it uncivil.
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Not the same at all. These are not really cut down in any important way and are full fat complete standalone OSes.

That people think it's a good idea to run full bare-metal OSes in VMs is the reason why I wrote the article.
You mean Medically Supervised Injecting Centres ?

https://www.uniting.org/community-impact/uniting-medically-s...

These exist in a number of countries and are seen to have favourable outcomes:

https://adf.org.au/insights/medically-supervised-injecting-c...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC314055/
Unless you where far North Queensland you would have been safe from the living dinosaurs of the Cassowary. Also Bin chickens are cool if a little ugly. There are some bird here that tweet but it is not common. If you have ever come across Cockatoos in a flock... it is like a screaming cloud of destruction...
> In languages like C++ and Rust the majority of objects have trivial lifetimes and don't need reference counting at all.

Sure, that's why they can get away with an inefficient GC.

> Hence, even if per object the cost of RC may be higher than tracing, the fact that there are 1000x fewer objects to manage makes RC a huge win.

The "win" here is not RC at all but the fact that there's little reliance on GC and, of course, it's not really a "win" but something you buy by giving up on something else (i.e. a tradeoff), in this case abstraction ability (memory management details cannot be hidden as implementation details), and giving that up increases maintenance costs. So to get the footprint savings you have to pay -- either with performance, if you rely heavily on a refcounting GC, or with maintenance cost, if you don't. To get the performance you can choose to pay for RAM or for more development hours, but either way -- you have to pay.

Tracing GCs manage not to do any work for the vast majority of objects, those with trivial lifetimes -- they, too, don't manage the vast majority of objects (the allocator just bumps a pointer and the GC is never even aware of the existence of most of objects) -- by not freeing dead objects promptly which comes at the cost of spending more RAM.

In other words: good footprint, good performance, good abstraction (i.e. lower maintenance costs) -- pick two and pay by giving up on the third. C++/Zig/Rust pick the first two, Java/C#/Go pick the last two, and I guess Python picks the first and last.

There are, of course, other nuances; e.g. most refcounting GCs in common use leak memory as they are too crude to handle cycles, and not all tracing GCs are state-of-the-art.
I’m confused by the diagram. A and B appear to be early in the process but looking more carefully they’re actually pointing to steps 11 and 12. Seems a little misleading at first glance.
> Language can easily be interpreted as a technique of the tongue. Obviously, the main contributor to the extra level of human evolution is the propagation of thoughts from mind to mind.

It's not just a technique or a system of communication. It's a communication system that is coevolved with us to help us optimally think about and communicate in our social environments. Language does this by compressing our reality into a set of useful abstractions that have high utility. If an abstraction is useful (e.g. "money" or "drink"), it survives evolutionary pressures. If it is not useful, it is discarded by evolutionary pressures. You're left with a highly optimized system that compresses our shared reality into the sweetspot level of abstraction such that we can think and communicate optimally within the memory limits of our brain. That's amazing.

What's unresolved, in my mind, is how much did language contribute to our evolution? Like, what exactly does the bidirectionality look like in this coevolutionary process?
Those boring places would be great places to hide misske carrying subs no? And hence other subs might want to engage there.
>It could change something if we forced them to compete on how much of CO2 they emit for MWh.

A carbon tax basically does this but at an economy-wide level, and allows us to play off fossil fuel companies against EV companies, rather than just playing off Shell vs BP, for instance.
There have been several.

IBM i is one, formerly known as OS/400.

The Pick OS is another.

Here's a modern one, DBOS:

https://dbos-project.github.io/
any plans to support other backends besides ollama?
Pomace is often treated with a pectic enzyme, not out of concern for methanol levels, but usually to enhance pressing yield of juice. Otherwise, it’s also sometimes used as a fining agent.
The main culprit is this:

> Well, that all came to an abrupt end in September 2023 when Google decided to release an algorithm update that completely obliterated thousands of independent content businesses overnight, and we are one of them.

> Since September 2023, Google has hidden our site from millions of retro gamers, reducing our organic traffic and revenue by 85% and causing our business to be on the edge of going under.

Google is flat out refusing to lift this penalty on people's sites for 7 straight months now.

You can read about that here,

https://www.seroundtable.com/no-hcu-yes-core-google-update-r...

and also this tweet:

https://twitter.com/glenngabe/status/1775495481604358363

--

This is absolutely insane and Google is putting 100% of its faith into an LLM algorithm (the "Helpful Content Update") that in of itself has a token limit and thus cannot read the entire page. On top of that, seven months is a long time and a lot of people will have worked on their sites to remove and/or update their content to have less fluff, etc. And yet Google is refusing to push an update.

From what I have seen in various places, Google has ruined thousands of livelihoods without giving people a second chance, all of which has been done automatically without human supervision. If this were to happen to big publishers, you know for a fact that where would be a class action lawsuit ready to go by now.
It's not more effective where you have the right conditions for pumped storage, but those conditions aren't very common around the world.
That looks like an April Fool’s story. The Register usually runs one, every year.
So why don't you stop and think that maybe phones should not do any of these things? Would you like to be thrown in jail because someone's phone's "ai to enhance faces" made it look like you accidentally?
Is the whole point of all this data collection nonsense really just to serve me irrelevant ads I never click? What are they doing with all this worthless information?

I downloaded a shitty freemium mobile game once and now 80% of my Instagram ads have been ads for shitty mobile games for more than a year. Is this really the best the 500k+ a year ad magicians at Meta came up with? Is this what gives Meta its trillion market cap? Just like Amazon serving me ads for washing machines, right after I bought one. And Google Maps promoting shitty restaurants and services I don't want to go to. Is this the cake apple wants a share of?

I can't wrap my head around data collection.
I don't understand what "emulating executables" means and reading through the text didn't clear that up.

So it's an emulator that emulates whole platforms so one could run windows executables on other platforms, without any required extras? Like having WINE combined with an actual emulator?

I'm confused. Is this a tool for 80s style crackers to write the modern equivalent of trainers?
In five year's time - by 2030, I foresee that lots of inference would be happening on local machines with models being downloaded on demand. Think docker registry of AI models which is pretty much Hugging Face already there.

This all would be due to optimisations within model inference code and techniques, hardware and packaging of software like the above.

Don't see billion dollar valuations for lots of AI startups out there to materialise into anything.
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Cool

Hopefully they will move 30,000 wonkdows PC's to linux once Microsoft imposes the £61 annual extended security updates fee.

let me open my terminal and start up python:

30000*61
1830000

£1,830,000 for the first year extended security updates and will double in consequitive years. A tad greedy! for a few old rotten wonkdows 10 machines.

They first collected our data for free, then had the audacity to charge us for it too.

Roll on linux

Dare I use the word Enshittification?
You can rename/switch branches. You can change what branch is considered main/master. You can find valid reasons why you'd want to do stuff which raises the alarms so that other people become deaf to them, and only then execute the rewriting attack. Relying on people noticing (even with alarms) is just super fragile.
> They are just monodimensional,

That's not how linear algebra works.
Pretraining and even finetuning (to a good extent) is overrated and you can create plenty of value without it.
How much data is being stored, how actively is it used, and what kind of budget do you have? :)

Maybe take a look at UbiCloud?

https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql

Their website says they're hosted at Hetzner, though it doesn't mention which country. Hetzner is mostly located in EU, but does have a data centre in the US these days too.

Note - I'm not a customer of theirs, so don't really know them.
Will try it out. Thanks!
That's a good argument for not running IaC tools on your own workstation but on a dedicated machine where the environment is also somehow vetted.

On the other hand I am not sure how to actually vet all used tools. For instance if you take Helm there are many pointers to repos for various Linux distros and other OSs: https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/

Who to trust? While the Helm page says "members of the community" are in charge of the Ubuntu repo the Fedora repo is called an "official repository". Presumably judging from the OP that means "official Fedora repo" opposed to "official Helm repo".

So essentially there are no repos of the Helm maintainers which makes installing and auto-updating it on any Linux distro virtually impossible.
Massive worm that would be nearly impossible to shutdown.

DC and Cloud takeover due to hitting an ssh bastion host.

Infecting codebases via compromised sshd+git. We really should be signing all of our commits.
"One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix."
I have not made enough cider and mead to be called a 'cider maker' in any sense but the most literal, and neither am I a chemist, so what I know about this is mostly from reading books and following others' advice. The way I understand it, all fermented drinks have methanol, including all your store-bought wines. They just have very little and it's distributed uniformly so the point at which it becomes it a health risk is way beyond the point where other things would be problems before the methanol (that's a roundabout way of saying - if you drink something like 20 liters of wine, the methanol in those 20 liters will probably not be your most pressing concern). Methanol only becomes a problem when it's concentrated, i.e. in distilled drinks. When you distill, you separate the methanol by throwing away the first part of your distilled result (probably has a proper name, I've never distilled anything myself), because the methanol evaporates before the other alcohols, the ones you actually want to capture.
These are charts, they exist mainly to aid in navigation with secondary benefits to exploration for resource extraction.

Besides, maps are very much about taxation, balistics, and administration. Much more than just ownership.
> get into the unusual situation where deletion requires, at least temporarily, more space.

s/unusual/usual/ surely.
Proofpoint Blocking Ups Clients
I host MIAB (Mail in a box) on DO (Digital Ocean)

Received an email from someone sharing this hosting service saying that he cannot email any UPS addresses with the following error:

<xxxx@ups.com>: host mxa-002b8001.gslb.pphosted.com[x.x.x.x]
refused to talk to me: 554 Blocked - see
https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com/?ip=x.x.x.x

Does UPS feel that it is acceptable to lose customers because of this?

This is not an isolated incident as I found out from a quick online search.
These are customers that are being blocked is this behavior even legal?
> Given the number of failed suicide attempts, not everyone is capable of committing it successfully.

Which is actually a good thing if these statistics are correct:
"Approximately 7% (range: 5-11%) of attempters eventually died by suicide, approximately 23% reattempted non-fatally, and 70% had no further attempts."*

*https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/survi...

> Giving the long-term-suffering an option of a peaceful and painless way out seems much more compassionate

Also much cheaper for the state/society/healthcare system (and even their families) than investing into providing additional treatment options

> e.g. late-stage cancer. But separate rules could be used for those who clearly have terminal illnesses

IMHO that's an entirely different issue, if all the available options were exhausted and the patient is basically guaranteed to die in N weeks/months while simultaneously suffering more and more giving that person the option to end it sooner seems to both reasonable and compassionate.

How can such certainty exist when were talking about mental illness? The decision made by this person will surely depend on external factors, e.g. if you're poor, your psychiatrist tells you that they can't help you, you don't have any close family to fallback on etc. are you more or less likely to commit suicide than someone who is suffering from a similarly severe issue but has all of those things?
> they got the designation because they used suicide bombings in the nineties

Did you completely miss their actions on October 7th? They didn't stop that kind of thing after the nineties.
One other thing to control for is the subpixel layout of their display which is almost always forgotten in these studies.
Yes, but the parent poster’s point still stands
People can have different opinions on the way Israel is conducting this war. I know I am conflicted.

But Hamas is not a legitimate resistance movement. It is a fundamentalist, oppressive, terrorist regime. You do not stand to gain anything by associating with them.
Quite a lot, at least at the weight and speed scale a missile operates on. The biggest source of gravity force difference is the distance between the equator / pole [1], and altitude (both in terms of altitude in reference to the planet core as well as altitude in reference to ground, e.g. due to the mass of a mountain range) also adds jitter [2].

On top of that, dead-reckoning is disturbed by aerodynamic effects such as wind, as well as drift from the gyro compass itself... a fine-detailed gravity effect map can be used to compensate for both of that, and adding imagery maps and radar/laser distance measuring is even better.

To add even more context... that is the reason why Germany's Chancellor Scholz is refusing to deliver TAURUS long range missiles to Ukraine. TAURUS owes its significant increase in precision over Storm Shadow / SCALP (UK/FR equivalent) to that kind of sensor aids, but the assistance dataset aka the photogrammetry, gravity and height maps of the flight route must be individually created and loaded into the missile as part of the mission preparation. As you can imagine this kind of precision information is stuff that we really don't want to get leaked to Russia so we can't (or don't want to) deliver the systems for programming to Ukraine where it might get stolen/diverted to Russia, so Scholz is afraid that the necessary direct cooperation of German Bundeswehr soldiers with Ukrainian soldiers might be seen as an act of war of Germany by Putin. (Complete horse dung if you ask me, but I can understand where he's coming from)

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/do-you-weigh-more-at-the-equator...

[2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/652759