skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both Islam and Christianity (and Judaism, for that matter) can be pretty oppressive, if you read their scriptures at face value. They all record Bronze Age attitudes.

The earliest of those was compiled long into the Iron Age, though some of them refer to events which would, based on the timeline in the narrative, have occurred in the Bronze Age (or the Copper Age, or the neolithic) through that Iron Age lens. And, even insofar as, e.g., the Mosaic law may be said to “reflect Bronze Age values”, its also basically declared mostly-irrelevant to non-Jewish Christians in the Christian scriptures when taken at face value (in Acts of the Apostles.)

Which is not to say that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism can’t be oppressive, and some of that doesn’t come from their Scriptures, but to the extent either of those is true, “Bronze Age values” in the scriptures “at face value” are mostly beside the point.
Every time I’ve checked over the last decade (including today), you can buy a mac mini that supports the latest macOS for under $250 on ebay. You can also test your app using github actions for free if your use case fits in the free tier.

There is no way to do this for an IBM z16, which is the kind of vendor lock in that people are saying Apple doesn’t have.
3.6M Boomers retire per year, 10k per day. 1.8M citizens over the age of 55 die every year, half of which are in the labor force. 4M potential workers turn 18 per year. This is a demographics story, which the Fed is powerless against (from a labor perspective). This labor “shortage” will last at least a decade, if not longer.

It’s also why the Fed is making peace with the neutral rate being closer to 2.5-3%, but they can’t give up yet trying to get to 2% without losing credibility. Powell said they’d cut if the labor market saw signs of weakness, which differs from previous signaling (but is likely a result of discussions behind closed doors, with the Fed coming to a conclusion to focus on full employment over getting control of the last of price instability, for whatever reason).

With that said, central banks have reached terminal rates, and some have started cutting already (Switzerland). The Fed will potentially cut soon, stoking labor uptake. Maybe this pulls more workers in, further pushing down unemployment. Maybe this causes retirements to increase beyond expectations (due to equity re-pricing upward when rates drop, bolstering retirement account balances). We are in uncharted territory.
I noticed recruiter spam lately not surprised. Surprised companies all stopped hiring and started back at the same time. Is there a newsletter everyone is following.
It's even worse, even with an Apple Developer account you still need to beg them for certain entitlements. No entitlements means no VPNs, no invisible push notifications etc.
Can I fine tune an AI on my white papers, memos, and social media posts? Then have it attend meetings for me?

I myself can wait in reserve as a backup, just like Amazon Go's 1000 Indians.
> if there's a strong model explaining it

This is the key that everybody ignores.

If you simply throw variables together, you wind up with too many confounders. You can also get the direction wrong.

"Growing tall causes you to be male" is my go to example. The correlation is super powerful--because it's completely backwards. It is also competely valid unless you have a model to differentiate--at which point it becomes obviously non-sensical.
At best I can tell the direction of a light source with my eyes closed. That still seems like it could encode four states. But the light intensity might make my skin uncomfortable. Better perhaps to use tactile.
The problem is that ffmpeg does a lot more than handbrake exposes, that's all anyone is trying to say.
The microphone issue happens all the time with a coworker. I noticed it being generally laggy as well. Sometimes the notification badge won’t go away even though there aren’t any left.
I'm so gonna try this out... in a maximum security isolated VM
It's the most famous piece of European history for US students.

Keep that in mind when working on brand promotion for your startup. Eccentric behavior with a mysterious name gets attention.
Reuters has become a propaganda arm. They have no credibility.
Typical Wally!
(from Dilbert)
It's more akin to filtering or stopping email spam, which can be somewhat lucrative.
yes, and it's quite challenging
for instance => https://sightengine.com/detect-ai-generated-images
Likely that their Q2 budgets get approved around the same time.
I appreciate the long explanation of ZFS, but I don't feel most of it really matters for the discussion here:

> Updating the blocks in place violates design invariants - once you violate them, the data safety guarantees are no longer guarantees.

Again - you can copy blocks prior to deleting anything, and commit them atomically, without losing safety. The fact that you (or ZFS) don't wish to do that doesn't mean it's somehow impossible.

> the type of client that needs in-place defragmentation can reasonably do the two-space trick (if you're big enough, to make that infeasible, you're probably big enough to easily throw in an extra JBOD at least and relieve fragmentation pressure).

You're moving goalposts drastically here. It's quite a leap to go from "has a bit of free space on each drive" to "can throw in more disks at whim", and the discussion wasn't about "only for these types of clients".

And, in any case, this is all pretty irrelevant to whether ZFS could support defragmentation.

> this makes it into minimally offline operation

See, that's your underlying assumption that you never stated. You want defragmentation to happen fully online, while the volume is still in use. What you're really trying to argue is "fully online defragmentation is prohibitive for ZFS", but you instead made the wide-sweeping claim that "defragmentation is prohibitive for snapshotted filesystems in general".
Show HN: Diego – A CLI tool for importing into Hugo exported data from services
Hey there! Initially, I had created a script to automate importing some exported files into my Hugo website. As I implemented support for the second service though, I realized that it would be better to convert the script into a CLI tool. (Also, a good opportunity to learn/practice Go).

That's 'diego.' I released it about a month ago, but I'm only announcing it here now. Basically, it's a CLI tool designed to import official exported data, CSV and JSON files, from popular services into Hugo. It offers:

- Automatic CSV and JSON conversion into Hugo data files
- Support for all Hugo data file formats
- Easy data management in a human-readable format (YAML)
- Automatic generation of Hugo shortcodes for imported data
- Optional scrape capabilities for fetching missing fields
- Flags suited for scripting and pipelines
- Persistent configuration

Feedback, suggestions, constructive criticism, and contributions are welcome! I've just submitted a patch implementing support for Instapaper. If you have ideas for additional services that would be a good fit to add support to, let me know.

This is my first released FOSS project

Below is a link containing a plaintext report of my TODOS along with the time I've spent on each item while developing diego. (I think it helps getting an overview of the project internals).

https://paste.sr.ht/~ttybitnik/4968a1ead00d82dc92a5aced5eef4...
Some years ago, a colleague literally spent all night in the office, on the 31st of March, implementing clippy for another third party commercial application (not MS Office) that was heavily used by the company and across that industry.

He inspired me to take April Fool's seriously. I've since changed industries but last year I jumped on the AI bandwagon with https://chatellite.space and this year a nod to a popular mobile game https://flappysat.space .

Functionally completely useless but they taught me a lot and made some people laugh.
They aren't conflicting points of view... because these people don't care about the climate at all. If they did, they'd be all for:

- transitioning dirty fuels to natural gas

- transitioning natural gas to electric

- nuclear power

- economic growth (green solutions are expensive and only rich people care about the environment)

- dense cities

But as you point out, they cherry-pick only some of these.

The reason is simple... they believe in one or both of two things:

- getting elected

- anti-humanism

The medieval Christian belief in an inherently wicked humanity (original sin) has been replaced by a modern anti-development, there-should-be-fewer-of-us mindset.
It's possible that spacetime expansion oscilates:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330726290_Confirmat...

Main frequency is around 7 times per age of the Universe. Secondary one is around 10.5 times.

When I look at it, I think that dark energy is just ultra strong low frequency gravity wave coming from rotating ultramassive objects far outside of our observable universe and way older than our little local shenanigans we call Big Bang.
This best it represents specific times and places, under specific regimes, not some constant fact of working the land.

Working the land had tons of downtime - even back at medieval and ancient times. In fact, even hunter gatherers have been observe by ethnographers to just need 2-3 hours to get the food for the day.
The "Don't" campaign and Kak, 1973
> Bro no one is left on a registered sex offender list if they were "innocent".

"Bro" according to the Illinois website, an "attempt" to commit any of these crimes (aka, arrested for them) puts you on this list.

> No one is spending 10 years in prison "before a trial and then all charges got dropped".

People spend quite a while in jail, simply waiting for court.[1]

> OP is a straight up pedo creeper on top of being a liar and you are defending them lol

1. Everyone deserves to be treated fairly, it doesn't matter what they did over 10 years ago when literally every molecule in their body has been replaced several times over since then.

2. While this entire thread is a dox and personal attack on some random internet person, which is very clearly against the rules (@dang?), I'm not going to idly stand by because people can't think critically.

[1]: https://cause.vmhost.psu.edu/usproc/sites/default/files/usre...
Kiosk Banking. Back in the 1990's, just before the web became a thing, it was an idea to bring banking to consumers without the bank buildking, which they called "brickless banking". Kiosks would be placed in public locations like malls. Customers would enter the kiosk, close the curtain or door, then connect via video-call with one of the agent in the call centres. Depending what product the customer wanted (mortgage, credit card, etc), the kiosk would print the necessary forms for the customer to sign then deposit into a secure mailbox in the kiosk. Millions of investment $$$ were planned for this ... then it was suddenly cancelled when the bank realized what this "web" thing might eventually become.
Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
A great book I can recommend on this very topic: Bullshit Jobs (https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...)
Cap’n Proto’s pattern on Cloudflare workers sounds like a good idea for someone who is already on Cloudflare.

Bit of a harder sell to migrate lambda functions or workers to this, doesn’t seem like there’s a progressive option to do so?
For reference, dostarlimab (JEMPERLI) is essentially GSK's answer to Merck's pembrolizumab and BMS's nivolumab. Or KEYTRUDA and OPDIVO, respectively, if you're in the USA and bombarded with pharma ads. All three are monoclonal antibodies that block PD-1 on T cells, thereby stimulating the body's immune system.
> in PNW there is even less “surprising, sudden weather thingies.”

I'd put the constant wildfires in the weather thing bucket.
Where is the "Mossad Is going to burn your house down" copypasta now? Just for laughs.
Yes, the code example you've given is exactly in the direction we're thinking. (Edit: thought it can't be verified yet.)

We haven't documented the algorithm because it's not the unique part of what we're doing. It works in a very simple-minded way, analysing possible states.

The interesting part is the insight that function interfaces are the boundary along which verification should take place. Applying this idea consistently we escape the combinatorial explosion which tends to plague efforts in this area, because every function can be verified by itself. Notably, Dafny recognised this point before us, and the earliest clear statement we can find regarding it is in Dijkstra's "Notes on Structured Programming", in his chapter "On a Program Model". You may find that illuminating read.

I'm no expert on Clang/GCC and the new annotation syntax for C and C++, but from what I've seen it's not general enough for what we're trying to achieve in Xr0. The safety semantics which are expressed in annotations in Xr0 (see [0] for an example) get very detailed.

[0]: https://xr0.dev/learn#initialisation-of-memory-and-the-clump
Oh, cool! I was just trying to give the maximum benefit of the doubt, but this is good to know. The systemd hate never seems as justified as it'd like to be...
But, from the perspective of today, Kodak would have had to basically eclipsed Apple.

Even displacing the big Japanese camera manufacturers, who by then had dominated high-end photography, would have required reversing decades of a shift away from high-end cameras like the Retina line.

I don't doubt there was company DNA against digital photography but it's not like non-smartphone photography, especially beyond relatively niche pro/prosumer level, has had such a good run recently either.
Nothing, we can compile x*3. We can't compile x**3, because we do not have a runtime library setup for WASM yet (Flang above had the same issue) and WASM can do x**2, but arbitrary power, such as x**3, requires a runtime power function that we haven't implemented yet. If you want to help, you can fix it probably quite easily right here: https://github.com/lfortran/lfortran/blob/69d488b1d1fd26b163....
Probably VI; 4th edition didn't have a set symbol.
Of course: if they need the security, especially if it can't be achieved with a standard TOTP generator, it doesn't really make sense to rely on whatever their employers have lying around (which could very well be not an Android/iOS phone, new enough, with enough space, bootlocked/un-rooted enough, or even a phone in the first place).
I think part of it is that the efforts are all going to be kind of dodging bullets, in that everyone knows that a popular use case of Plex is for pirated media. So all monetization efforts have to be carefully designed to not risk implicating the project directly into that use case. Which means that monetization efforts mostly lean slightly differently from what the users would want to pay for.

The only monetized features that have decent overlap with user desires are the player features, mobile apps, plexamp and its sonic analysis stuff.
Dual? Pffft.
> How expensive are they to make these days?

A good question, I can't answer. But I can tell you, when my daughter had her liver transplant, they gave her an insane amount of medications for weeks. They only gave her one shot of a monoclonal antibody "Basiliximab". The syringe with it was escorted by two guards from the pharmacy.
Not every essay is created equal. Plus I don't understand what would a new way of combining same words, given llms already have seen trillions of tokens, would achieve. llms could inpaint to arrive at similar texts.
I imagine that an interesting sociological topic could be fashion trends and mass hysteria among business elites.
Well, adjusting for the inflation we’ve seen over the past few years, the price is actually not very far from 30k in pre-pandemic times.
Google lost ground in the AI race
Sure it has worked in the past, eradicating both Nazi Germany and Empire of Japan during WWII cost many innocent lives. "Few" millions. Now let us count together the wars started by these nations started afterward. I'll start: 0
Of course it will all amount to nothing if Israel will not finish the job.

> And Israel is blameless in all this...
The problem is that you assign 0 responsibility to Hamas. As if they are lesser human as if you consider them as dogs or something. Hamas took full control of Gaza, they could have done whatever they like and the choose to invest everything into attacking Israel. Evidently it wasn't much of a cage as they accumulated enough weapon to engage in 6 months war (and counting...). Fact remains that Israel decolonizied Gaza and in return they got October 7. What lesson should they learn from it?
Blind person here, do you remember what tools they used by any chance?

I find modern IDA pro to be pretty inaccessible, same with Ghidra (though I only tried that one on Mac, and the Windows version is apparently somewhat better).
> Is there any country in the world with a government which manages to withstand the temptation to print money?

In modern economic systems money is created via private/non-government banks through credit creation, and not through government actions:

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

I've observed that folks often mention "money printing" and inflation (cause of), but rarely ask what caused the money printing, or a collapsed economy, in the first place:

> 2003 Zimbabwe’s economy has collapsed. Up to a quarter of Zimbabwe’s 11 million people have fled the country. 3/4 of the remaining Zimbabweans are living on less than 1 US dollar a day. (Source)

> 2005 An estimated 80% of Zimbabwe’s population is unemployed.

> …by 2008 Only 20% of children in Zimbabwe are in schooling. Cholera outbreak after water supplies and sewage systems have continued to breakdown; by 2009, over 98,000 cholera cases. HIV/AIDS rate for individuals aged between 15 and 49 is 15.3%.

* https://clintballinger.com/2020/04/30/airplane-crashes-arent...

See also

* https://www.pragcap.com/understanding-hyperinflation/

* https://www.pragcap.com/inflation-is-not-necessarily-a-diffe...
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed, Prefabricated Homes to Solve Supply Crunch
Lol, this is great. You missed your chance to release it on 4/1 though.
The ones you named don't seem to be 8/10 on the sites I viewed. They're also more expensive than that in most places, like 50% more (depends on state taxes). Even $50/bottle is on the expensive side for many people.

Yeah, cocktail bourbons have a lower bar.
All good things if you want to use the autotools. And other tools too.

I've been porting and compiling Unix programs since 5 years before Linux. There was a lot of work needed to port between Unix variants, or even worse, non-Unix variants. So I can see the problem that the autotools solve.

But I never spent much time learning the details on how the autotools work. When './configure' has some problem, it is a very steep uphill battle to get any traction on the issue.

So I'd be more in the camp of looking for a different solution than autotools.
Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There's a Fund for That
> paying off his debt to society.

Paying off one's debt to someone implies that said someone receives something valuable. What value does the society receive from a person spending every weekend in jail?

It's just a punishment, there to make them suffer, plain and simple. It has nothing to do with any "debts to society". I wish we'd stop dressing our punitive justice system up in fancy wording like these, or "correctional facilities", so that we can pretend it's something that it's not.
Isn't that basically how the image generation models themselves work? By refining the image until it can't distinguish it from a "real image".
AI cannot and should not replace search
> Informally, we define knowledge collapse as the progressive narrowing over time (or over technological representations) of the set of information available to humans, along with a concomitant narrowing in the perceived availability and utility of different sets of information.

> The main focus of the model is whether individuals decide to invest in innovation or learning ... in the ‘traditional’ way, through a possibly cheaper AI-enabled process, or not at all. The idea is to capture, for example, the difference between someone who does extensive research in an archive rather than
just relying on readily-available materials, or someone who takes the time to read a full book rather than reading a two-paragraph LLM-generated summary.

> Under these conditions, excessive reliance on AI-generated content over time leads to a curtailing of the eccentric and rare viewpoints that maintain a comprehensive vision of the world.

My intuition is that AI will just accelerate the trends that the internet brought on, which is that eccentric viewpoints are actually pretty common, even ones based on research and in fact. The internet people mostly use has become relatively generic, consumed through a pretty narrow, curated aperture (social media). This feels analogous to getting it through AI, as described in the article. Yet, people are still learning about eccentric, marginal stuff all the time, especially compared to, say, 50 years ago.

Assuming the AI's responses aren't artificially limited, people who are interested enough to look will still get to learn about topics in the long tail of the distribution, even in a world of ubiquitous AI. And they'll be able to dive as deeply into them as they do today. I'm not really worried about that.

If anything, the knowledge collapse will be at the center. Basic liberal education topics are what will go away. Or rather, they will be offloaded to AI. In the same way that people say they don't need to learn arithmetic because they have a calculator, my guess is people will be more likely to decide not to worry about what previous generations considered core knowledge: history, geography, the canon, and so on. "I don't have to know it, I can look it up". That'll all go away even faster than it's going now.

(I don't think this is a good thing, just stating the most realistic outcome based on extending what I've seen)
I am writing a solution manual to this textbook, by solving EVERY DAMN exercise and writing it up in latex.

It is EXTREMELY time consuming.

The actual solution manual is already available online.

I might gain an understanding of this field, but I doubt I will ever get an interesting job because of this effort.

Unless I revise this stuff, I will forget most of it in a few years.

Why am I doing this? Idk. Vanity perhaps?

Somebody stop me....
I like the idea of being able to use this in a real program, but I'm not sure how that would look. I browsed the docs, and I didn't see it addressed. I guess the question boils down to - how would it interface with other languages? On its own, it can't be used for general programming, so the only option I can think of is to run it as a DSL interface to a general programming language. Probably Python, since it's the easiest in this case. But it's not obvious to me what that API would look like, or what would be the right way to use it. Do you have any thoughts on this subject?
I can't seem to find anyone actually usefully trying this. Do you know of any data?
Any chance you'd add ebook support?
Why would you be expected to use a real phone number to build tools? There’s no reason to make development of tools less private than it could otherwise be, especially when all the privacy loss is on one side of the exchange. You need to provide a legitimate justification or the assumption that it’s for some weird data harvesty thing holds.
Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on her new photo app, souped up by AI
i had this idea in 2011
So would I for the lolz but they would probably just switch to fish or dash

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/COPYING

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/COPY... (Default Ubuntu shell since 6.10)
There's probably someone out there with a great card game that is just lacking a site...

Could you adapt the thing to suit another card game?