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If Hamas releases the hostages, we have no idea what would happen. Israel has shown it self to be very unpredictable and unreliable in following expectations from the international community, and the USA has shown it self to have an unconditional backing of whatever Israel does.

I absolutely think that Hamas should release the hostages, immediately and unconditionally, but at the same time we have to be realistic that it is probably not going to happen without a ceasefire, and the non-civilian hostages are probably not going to be released without a permanent ceasefire and a prisoner swap.

Regardless of whether Hamas wants continued war or not (which I kind of doubt as most Hamas members have civilian family members victims of the ongoing genocide) we have to realize that Israel is the main actor here and is committing a genocide. Israel, with a backing of the USA, has consistently refused ceasefires in the past, even when Hamas has shown in the past that they do release hostages during a ceasefire.

I think the January ceasefire negotiations are very telling of how things usually go. Israel wants to continue the genocide and Hamas wants to keep the hostages, there is some settlements and concessions made, weeks go by, Hamas attends negotiations, Israel boycotts them, US state department blames Hamas for not wanting the deal, Hamas declares they want the deal, Netanyahu keeps insisting the war will continue regardless of deal, UN says they should make the deal, the deal falls apart, the US state department blames Hamas, the UN votes at the Security Council for a ceasefire resolution, the US veto’s it.

In an environment like this, there is no way Hamas will release the hostages. Israel has to be the one that takes the first step, regardless of how unfair it may seem to you.
It doesn't seem so.

I really love Nomad's UX, so I hope we get one sometime soon-ish.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40234398
Yay, even licensed to the Brazilian National Police (that doesn't exist). Did they mean the Federal Police?
Well, it's could also have become a meme or whatever the right term is. There's a lobster roll place in a Maine coastal town that always has lines around the block with maybe hour waits. There's a place right across the street that IMO is just as good--as are a bunch of other Maine coastal places you've never heard of.
There's no universal best option, here. Even two different pictures of the same thing at slightly different angles might look best with different upscaling algorithms. There are also variants on the smoother one to favor certain kinds of transitions. Really, though, all of those options suck. AI-powered options in Photoshop (much more controllable and reliable than SD or the like) actually invent details, so if provenance or accuracy is not important, (as it would be in a historic artifact, legal document, piece of visual art, or unique artisinal product,) that's always a possibility, but most projects have too many images to make tweaking each one individually viable.

Except in extremely rare situations, I flat-out refuse to work with low-quality source images in my design jobs. They can either give me a proper source image, pay me to rebuild it in a vector program if it's a logo or similar, or go down to the local sign shop and get someone to "design" something for them using a template. Most people end up having a higher quality copy around and just didn't know the difference between that and the screenshot they took of it, or the thumbnail they downloaded. At 300DPI with 4 colors, those flaws are glaringly obvious compared to screen resolution and sRGB color representation.
10h on, 8h off. A 400 mile trip does not require off-time or stops unless somehow you get so snarled in traffic that you're averaging less than 40mph. Drivers are really good at avoiding needing to stop the rig for bathroom stops.
That's great feedback. I actually went back and forth between those two descriptions. I agree that "dense text, like financial reports and legal documents" is more precise. Those are the kinds of use cases this project is built for.

I want to keep this project tightly scoped to just retrieval over dense unstructured text, rather than trying to build a fully-featured RAG framework.
> schlep blindness

Thanks for that! I was about to add a reply describing my situation of schlep blindness without using that noun. Of course, it'd have taken much longer text.

I'd say besides identifying problems, you'd have to have a knack for look-out for an easy solution for that problem, and most importantly building a business around that solution.

Back in 2004/2005, I was working with a payment gateway; it was super difficult to work with. I forgot the name now. I guess it was along the likes of Authorize.net. But, at that time, it never occurred to me to turn that into a business problem and solve it (face palm).
Currently live on YouTube is a highly informed and very spicy discussion on this topic, with Eric Berger and the guys from Off-Nominal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYtDBi-Xf9o
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I feel uncomfortable when people make me feel like a jerk for consuming their service, and I would rather opt out of the entire dining experience.
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LLMS, like cryptocurrency has now been discovered by the business bros with the dollar signs for eyes. This will make a big part of the world will get actively shittier and aside from actual cool and useful applications like summarization etc. I predict that the malicious usecases outweigh the good ones at least 10:1.
This is excellent. There will be blood on our hands if we allow our software to be used to more closely surveil and police people. Not only because the software as it currently exists is flaky, but because of how it will enviably be used. Certain communities will have it deployed against them more, parallel construction will hide when technology is used in violation of rights, police and juries will believe when technology has a "hit" that it proves guilt and not understand the caveats, etc etc.

Some Microsoft employees have been calling for such limits for years [1, 2]

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-github-workers-prote...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-workers-asking-drop-p...
>Yes, we arent using mobile gaming as an indicator of GPU growth/performance.

Who's "we" because big tech has absolutely been touting GPU gains in their products for a long time now [1], driven by gaming. Top of the line iPhones can do raytracing now, and are getting AAA ports like Resident Evil.

In what world is being over half of a 185B industry a technicality?. A lot of these advancements on mobile end up trickling up to their laptop/desktop counterparts (See Apple's M-series), which matters to non-mobile gamers as well. Advancements that wouldn't have happened if the money wasn't there.

[1] https://crucialtangent.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/iphone5s-...
Why don’t you use a different browser to work with Figma files if yours can’t run it properly?
If they charged for the extents that are actually read from S3 (even if the network connection was just closed), that'd be fine. But charging for terabytes when the actual connection consumed a few kilobytes is still wrong; surely they didn't e.g. buffer those terabytes of data from S3 disk storage into memory.

Charge for the buffer you fill: sure.

Charge the theoretical maximum: silly.
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So we're back to needing everyone to mask up given your leading paragraph.

Again, I hope the general public never accepts this ever again. I don't want to live in a world so obsessed with safety and safety theater that it accepts such a radical transformation of the public space. So what Taiwan does it.

I hope the info you shared is valuable to someone, I don't have the inclination to make my case in further detail, so I'll just stay at this level of argumentation: the tradeoff is unacceptable to me, and, I hope, to the majority. If it ever comes down to this again, I'll make a serious effort to relocate to somewhere still sane.
Generally, avoid "experiences"-based marketing, and focus on having a good product. (though this does depend on your audience)
What if Mars collided with Earth and that's what killed Mars and transferred life to Earth and also made the moon?
Desert greening is transforming dust and sand into farmable soil (2023)
Oh I would certainly bet there's a lot of reasons it costs more money too. I'm just being reductivist and pessimist about it!
This one might be, but the first one is almost certainly no suicide.
>Can someone tell me everything is going to get better?

Yes but only after it will get much worse.
If you go to an island like Paros and venture into small towns away from the tourist centers like Parikia and Naoussa, you will not only walk on ancient Byzantine roads but stumble upon a lot of traditional gatherings. Not quite platonic or Aristotelian, but still different enough from most western musical geometry.
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1. Seperate work and life.

2. Set borders: regular work 8 hours, up to 10 when shit hits the fan. No calls after the worktime and any company related app goes in a work profile that is not touched outside of work, same with websites.
I purchased spindles of archival grade CD-R and DVD-R disks for family media archives back around 20 years ago. They were expensive but worthwhile so far.

The reel-to-reel tapes I was transcribing were literally falling apart as they played one last time. Others suffered from the hydroscopic substrate that made them twist and curl. I didn't know about tape baking back then.

I have a media capture kit that includes 4mm and 8mm video, VHS, reel-to-reel and a bunch of adapters. I pipe all the video into a DVD recorder and also an HDMI to USB adapter so I can capture everything twice with one play.
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To be fair, Sysco can provide a lot of different levels of food. Yes, they're most associated in the public eye with the microwaved and boiled examples. But they can also deliver many fresh ingredients or just staples like rice or flour.
I suspect it's legal. The focus seems to be on face and speech recognition and I am sure MSFT's internal metrics on the AI's ability to recognize non-white faces/accents/etc are very bad.

Even with LLMs, the existence of lawyers unknowingly using ChatGPT confabulations in court suggests that police officers will do the same with investigations or surveillance. A cop who takes Sam Altman's dumb tweets too seriously might think Azure's GPT-4 service can look at an evidence report and apply its AI Magic. Probably not something Microsoft wants to defend in court.
I think spRAG should be pretty well suited for that use case. I think the biggest challenge will be generating specific search queries off of more general user inputs. You can look at the `auto_query.py` file for a basic implementation of that kind of system, but it'll likely require some experimentation and customization for your use case.
using Vim without using h, k, j, and l for navigation is incomprehensible for me. 20% of the keystrokes that I perform in command mode must belong to that group of four keyboard navigation moves.

In fact, I have Vim mode turned on in all contexts where it is possible -- in my terminal, in any editor I use, etc. It is difficult for me to properly edit text without Vim mode, honestly.

But not using h, k, j, and l would cripple my productivity in command mode. It allows me to zip down 6-8 lines just by holding the j key down for an extra split second, or 6-8 lines up with k key -- and I can control exactly which line to stop on by lifting my finger.

It pains me to think of not having this at my fingertips.
I thought it was cool if a little impenetrable without extra effort! Reminded me a bit of Urbit’s old theorycraft, which I think is still an open question as to whether it’s an elaborate ruse, so the idea did cross my mind that I’m getting my leg pulled, but it seems to be in earnest. I have some similar thoughts in a related but different domain but user-extensible syntax is certainly a nice and uncommon language feature.
> I would say yes and no.

Why would you say that? Why can't you say "I don't fully agree".
I think it's time for you to go touch some grass, and not make yourself out to be more of a fool than you already have.
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At the time I (and my dad) were buying CD-R and DVD-R for storing/backing up home media, we still had dial-up internet. "Research" was precious time on the phone line and while I am one to indulge in an excursion down the presumably gratuitous information rabbit hole on many topics, the archival-ness of burned discs never occurred to me. It must have been a discussion on it here on HN, many years after the last time I used disc drive for burning, that I realized it was something worth thinking about.
I would stick to mounting SoMs on your PCB until you have a clear need for something else, integrating a SoC onto a PCB isn’t trivial, you need to take a lot of care of signal paths and RF properties.
Lots of good options here: https://diskprices.com/
> we do, it’s just 80% privatized and a massive liability and inconvenience for citizens in ways that it doesn’t need to be

I am guessing to you are referring to how multiple private organizations can just poll for my social security number and I cant do anything about it? Yeah...
The mom and pop, if they raise prices too high, punish themselves when they lose business. Perhaps even to the point of insolvency and folding.

If the PE firm raises prices too high, they don't punish themselves at all, because those customers go elsewhere. "Elsewhere" being just another office/practice which they also own. Mom and pop couldn't do that themselves. They didn't have monopoly-like powers to ensure their success.

> Why is there a barrier to entry that prevents some new young doctor or vet

Because the young ones are getting started, and do not have the capital to start a practice (or to buy an existing one). How much does a dental x-ray machine cost? How much do the dental chairs cost? How much does the lawyer that fills out the paperwork to get the permits for that retail space to be a dental office cost, per hour, and how many hours of paperwork?
https://prospect.org/health/2023-05-23-quackonomics-medical-...

Interesting story of how some private equity guys would

- buy hospitals

- sell the real estate for more than they paid for the hospital, signing a long-term lease at a high rent

- pay themselves an immediate huge profit. the higher the rent the hospital promised, the bigger the sale/leaseback deal, so the bigger the profit.

- default, hospital goes bankrupt, the community and the dumb patsy who bought the hospital gets left holding the bag.

classic bustout from Goodfellas or The Sopranos, but mobsters get investigated, PE guys don't.
After some brief research it seems the issue you're seeing may be a known bug in at least some versions/release of espeak-ng.

Here's some potentially related links if you'd like to dig deeper:

* "questions about mandarin data packet #1044": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1044

* "ESpeak NJ-1.51’s Mandarin pronunciation is corrupted #12952": https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12952

* "The pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese using ESpeak NJ in NVDA is not normal #1028": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1028

* "When espeak-ng translates Chinese (cmn), IPA tone symbols are not output correctly #305": https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/305

* "Please default ESpeak NG's voice role to 'Chinese (Mandarin, latin as Pinyin)' for Chinese to fix #12952 #13572": https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/13572

* "Cmn voice not correctly translated #1370": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1370
This one was quite pointless. It's someone scrolling some web page from top to bottom, with a few gratuitous zooms and some mouse pointer movement. What am I supposed to take away from this? I can't even read all the text, and there's no voice-over, so really all it communicates is "we have a web page that says supercharge your growth with AI"
Is it really established wisdom that multiple inheritance might be an anti-pattern? Anyone care to elaborate?
Also check out modern recreations of the hydraulis.

A unique Ancient Greek instrument that was apparently the early forerunner of the organ.
They are not banning them from using their AI tool. They're banning them from the currently-offered licensing structure. This is a profit-grab, not an ethical restriction. It is of the same vein as Sam Altman going to congress and spooking them in hopes of regulating AI so that they are the only ones allowed to build it.

I wouldn't be shocked if we also saw a similar move to ban hospitals, schools, etc. from using the standard enterprise license under the guise of "we need to provide you with oversight for your vulnerable populations", and then charging them a hefty surcharge on top of the standard enterprise rate.

"Responsible" AI is more profitable than standard AI - regardless of the nebulous nature of what "responsible" means.
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Does this mean you're winding down your business? Just curious what the motivation to open source this was given this seems like your guy's core value add? Congrats on the launch.
The problem with this, as the article argues in detail, is that it leaves a hole in functionality that people need but offers no clear benefit in return.

A movable owning pointer that exposes its pointer-ness in its semantics is a useful tool when you're doing lower-level, sometimes-unsafe stuff with memory layout. The author points out that, because Box does not currently provide this functionality, there are crates in the ecosystem that step in to provide it instead. This middle ground between "raw pointers for everything" and "aliased XOR mutable" is an important thing to support.

This might be acceptable if there were some benefit to Box behaving this way. Perhaps if it actually made a difference for the optimizer? The benchmarks the author did seem to suggest otherwise- many mutations wind up going through a reborrowed `&mut T` anyway. Perhaps the conceptual model of "like a T but on the heap" is enough of a benefit? But being more permissive here doesn't change that model for safe code anyway.

The author dismissed this for much more concrete reasons than "it gets in the way of their point."
I will start one if there is community interest, which it seems like there is.
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OpenAI has blatantly ignored most of its principles (which Elon called out surprisingly well). Insane to me that people ignore that.
Obligatory link to Neumann’s presentation for the CMU DB lecture series

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2_AJNIxzU
Thanks Steven! Would love to get your feedback!
It is extremely important to not apply sticky labels to the back side of optical disks. The actual medium is just under the top surface and can be pulled up by aging adhesive. Similarly, be extremely careful writing on disks using permanent marker. Some solvents can also damage the backing.
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Pretty outdated. For awhile, it was the best book available, but in 2024 it's probably harmful.

Today, I'd read Serious Cryptography or Real World Cryptography.
When I saw they committed to using SVG as their renderer out of some philosophical principle around purity and “using the platform”, I knew the performance potential was doomed from the start. It’s was far too easy to grind penpot to a halt last I tried it.
> This circles back and begs the question: you need to stop giving to artists, because free users can't see lyrics, because Spotify is trying to nudge more people to go paid & give to artists?

I'm sure this marketing argument works well with some of the customers as cover up for greed.

Meanwhile, in reality, nobody will start paying just because there are no more lyrics. It's just another thing they hit them with to make the "free" version unattractive.

Maybe it works on the bases of shame with the younger population, where your friends can see the lyrics right away, while you have to google them. Like the colors on chat bubbles thing in the US. I don't know.
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I know you're being sarcastic, but isn't what you said also true?
American law enforcement openly disregard the foundations from which the country was built upon yet pushes other countries to adopt ideas which it abandoned but won't admit it out of humiliation--that which we call "democracy" comes with the very hooks and strings it tells other countries to abandon.

Just take a look at the countries that credulously adopted "democracy". They are not in a good shape and will probably never find itself out of the moving goal post that Western countries like to place on "lesser" countries.

America is addicted to these 3 things: Oil, authoritarian labour, drugs. It's law enforcement is not meant to police those addictions at all but rather to ensure its continued uninterrupted supply even if it means violating its own principles that made the country great (about 40+ years ago).

It's no wonder many Americans are yearning for past glory.
That's what it looks like to me too. All of the Red Lobsters I know of in California are in some very high volume locations, often in large multi-block shopping malls where everyone in a several mile radius goes to shop. They did a good job front running the state's population growth and locking in some great locations before they became really expensive.

It's pretty much a license to print money as long as the restaurant can maintain competitiveness in quality and cost. All of the restaurants in the strip mall that holds my nearest Red Lobster have been around for over a decade and half of them for over twenty years. The turnover is really low because everyone rakes it in as long as they don't mess it up. Looks like Red Lobster messed it up.
So... it's extremely unlikely two would die in the same year from natural causes.

(given a pool of 100, not even 32!)