skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have struggled to even look at my News app anymore.

Next to articles about the protests or other things, there are the articles about the hostages or something else that just feels like a propaganda piece aimed at one thing.

And that is just the headlines.
In the last year, if I accumulate all service outages at GitHub and at my office’s ISP, I think GitHub was out of reach for more than a couple of hours five times.
Imagine if it were Russia or China
Partly. The "model" for inflammation that confirms a causal relation doesn't look like it's ever been used before.

> To directly confirm that ETS2 was causal, we used CRISPR–Cas9 to delete the 1.85 kb enhancer region in primary human monocytes before culturing these cells with inflammatory ligands, including TNF (a pro-inflammatory cytokine), prostaglandin E2 (a pro-inflammatory lipid) and Pam3CSK4 (a TLR1/2 agonist) (TPP model; Fig. 1d and Extended Data Fig. 2a–c). This model was designed to mimic chronic inflammation16, and better resembles disease macrophages than classical IFNγ-driven or IL-4-driven models17 (Extended Data Fig. 2).

i.e., gene editing (by whatever means) is not really a win any more than changing bits in memory is. The win comes from having an in-vitro model that replicates the in-vivo disease, or from correctly identifying the relevant genes (e.g., here ETS2 is the furthest gene considered, and could easily have been excluded).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyber_warfare_forces

A cursory look and it seems Germany and China were first to having a specific branch, but China dissolved theirs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_and_Information_Domain_S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Str...
Fixing my iPhone 13 Pro cameras at 255K
No my point was that your conjecture that they are starting a new exchange to get around naked shorting rules is obviously wrong as they can't just create a new exchange to get around the SEC's rules.
Atlas V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V

has a first stage powered by the Russian RD-180 engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180

and a Centaur upper stage powered by RL10 engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RL10

Vulcan Centaur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Centaur

has a first stage powered by Blue Origin's BE-4 engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BE-4

and a second stage known as Centaur V. It's an upgraded version of the Centaur, also powered by RL10 engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(rocket_stage)#Centaur...

Vulcan has only flown once, in part because of slow delivery of BE-4 engines, which to date have not powered any other launcher (though they are meant to eventually power New Glenn).

So I don't know what you mean by "Vulcan Centaur engines replacing the Russian RD-180".
That's much more oriented to network security, spectrum and hardware, stuff like that. For an American military organisation engaged in internet influence operations you'd want to look at the signature reduction program. Something like 50,000 people strong at this point, insane amounts of resources going into that.
Have you considered that things might go the other way around: if Russia had such a strong influence on the US through its political action lobby as Israel does, Russia would be considered by politicians the main ally of the US, and the economic and military ties between the two countries would be unbreakable. Because the purpose of these lobbies is exactly to influence how a certain country feels and acts about another.
USA censor Social Networks that don't allow them to do it.
I was unaware the definition of a crime is that someone's life is at risk.
Israel is a postindustrial economy with a 600,000-man military reserve and (unofficially) a nuclear arsenal of the size and capability needed to destroy the society of any industrialized nation on Earth.

Almost all of the support and protection they've received from the US since October has been mainly to keep leverage on Netanyahu and to keep the war from spreading across the Middle East. For example, if Iran's missiles had bombarded Tel Aviv, you're probably going to see Israel bombarding Tehran, which could pull in Iraq, etc., and Israel has yet to lose a fight against its regional neighbors.

They don't need the US to prop them up economically or militarily, which should bring about a conversation about support come next budget, but I doubt it.

I too would like to see a more moderate group in charge.
Is there much practical reason that requires sending people to the moon still? Modern robots are cheaper and can perform science more effectively than any human
Yep. My last company had unique id columns for every table in the DB. Everythibg worked flawlessly as far as associating data.

My current company uses natural keys all over the place and its a total clusterfuck trying to associate data at times.
A primer on the next generation of antibodies
But it's not been killed, just moved to the device rather than the cloud
Building the Zed Text Editor
IIRC one of the big ones is that of how the crew is supposed to board the vehicle. Cargo Dreamchaser is launched in a fairing so that its aerodynamics don't matter on the way up. This is fine because the cargo can be loaded prior to payload integration. But that won't work if they're carrying crew.
> I don't understand how this much power over the US was ever deemed acceptable?

Free speech sometimes applies to things you don’t like. There’s pro and anti propaganda for just about any foreign interest. Some of it’s just more subtle such as recommendations on TikTok.

Ukraine had really obvious pro Ukraine requests for military aid and images of destruction, but quite a bit of pro Russia propaganda was more subtle aiming for people to stay out of it.

With Israel you see some really blatant pro Israel propaganda, but both sides also have a lot of more subtle stuff.
I make software, I don't want my OS restarting without my telling it to do, or tricking me into restarting for updates I don't need immediately. I'm stuck on Linux until Microsoft makes a version of their OS for power users.
We did in fact start by creating a data structure that we parsed!

The main problem we were trying to solve is essentially that we had a lot of code like:

f(x) = sma(ewm(x))

g(x) = slope(ewm(x))

And we wanted to avoid recalculating ewm(x), while also not holding memory for it for longer than necessary. Our production use cases would have tens of thousands of intermediates, so the potential saving from getting this right is huge.

Naturally a DAG is a great fit for this type of problem. We started by creating an explicit DAG, where everything like ewm(x), sma(ewm(x)) would be a node in the DAG. We could then evaluate the DAG efficiently using multithreading, dropping nodes when everything that depended on them had been calculated, etc.

And I would usually stop there, but there were two main challenges. One was that the syntax was pretty clunky, and we wanted researchers (who weren't software engineers) to be able to use it. The other was that we wanted _any_ reference to something like ewm(x) to map to the node, even if they were used in very different places – and it was quite difficult to map these dependencies without explicitly tracking.

It's hard to quickly summarize our macro, but basically what it let us do was write the short syntax and track dependencies using the underlying Julia expressions. We mapped those expressions to nodes in the DAG, and that let us calculate the dependencies without having to track them explicitly. I don't think this would have been possible without some amount of homoiconicity and macros.
This is kind of like saying "only eat rice and beans. Even if you want to eat steak, just eat spam cause it's cheaper."

Marriage and/or starting a family is a decision that you'll make outside of finance. If you're making it solely based on financial reasons then you're doing it wrong.
Reasonable approach and I applaud your effort to maintain the site's purpose while also not ignoring these issues (that do have some relation to the tech industry, as we've seen). Thank you.
> They are smart with their hacking and that’s where it ends

So are often russians, or chinese. Maybe the concentration is on another level, they are a tiny country but highly educated for generations.

I'd bet if we properly educated and developed whole world we would discover Einsteins and Bolts in many many places out there. Ie elite athletes often come from places around where they could do sport, ie mountaineers but also many others.
I take your point - you're right maybe there isn't anything that much more different.

But it feels a lot more different because the two examples you used are very clear and direct stimulus-response pairings. See food, get hungry (and get ready to digest)

See mate, get aroused, genitals get ready.

But a hormonal response is weird because:

- you see a baby then your body makes you more nurturing

- testosterone has all kinds of health implications on a longer time frame, it affects decision making, strength, muscle growth etc etc

So the fact that the body has been preprogrammed to alter our mind when we see (our?) baby is kind of impressive. Would be interesting to know if it's all babies or just our own. Do male midwives or fathers of adopted children see the same T drop.

Not to mention that T is also such a sought after hormone that understanding (and controlling) this response could be quite helpful
You make it sound like Waterfall had full plans and completely vetted ideas.

It didn't.

> Just build it and figure it out as you go.

That sounds like hundreds of waterfall projects that I was pulled into after they hit the 1/2 way mark and we're running behind because of unexpected scenarios.
Bragging rights (ostensibly "practical" in a geopolitical, soft power projection sense)
“I’m proud to say we’ve stopped congestion pricing in its tracks,” said New York Congressman Pat Ryan

Hard to believe driving into Manhattan is the best option for many people.

Where are those maglevs (or trains) that were going to whisk people into the city at 100mph?
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587847
Happy to answer any other questions!
> "why we simply can't take their word for it"?

As someone who was involved in spiritual practice of "stopping internal dialogue" for years, I can tell you that one learns that that dialogue (or monologue, pretty much the same thing) is quite subtle and complex, essentially multi-layered.

Typically, when you think that you "think about nothing at all" it's just the most surface layer that has stopped, and more subtle talking to yourself is still going on. It takes training just to become able to notice and recognize it.

After all, it's just such a constant and monotone hum at the back of one's mind, one learns to completely ignore it.

So no, I would not take a word of people who were not trained to notice their internal monologue that they haven't any :-)
I wonder the same thing. If any academic reading this wants a paper idea:

1. Examine papers and other claims that an LLM gets something wrong that a human would have gotten wrong. How many of those claims have any citations about how many humans actually get it wrong? How many of those citations use the general population instead of the population of people who would be uniquely well-suited to answering the question correctly (i.e. people who signed up for the GRE are more likely to get GRE questions right than the general population).

2. For claims that are totally missing citations on human performance, run some tests with humans from the general population (or as close as you can get), and see how the LLMs compare.
Does anyone still have any faith or trust in the UN at this point?
Cool it with the histrionics.
It looks like the RTT is 6 minutes (more or less depending on orbit) for packets send to mars, but despite that it does seem like the easier option yeah.
It's not about the specific program, it's about the overall perspective.

Looking at https://www.space.com/every-spacex-starship-explosion-lesson...

there have been many many prototype and other losses. And incidents, some catastrophic, some less so.

SN1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 and the orbital Starship launch attempt all had failures losing hardware. If NASA/publicly funded work had that many failures (or a fraction of them) there'd be Congressional enquiries and calls to shut down the program and stop burning tax dollars.
It's all unraveling at OpenAI (again)
Is it just me or is it incredibly odd and unexpected for a decision like this to come so late in the game? Why wait to delay until after so much time and effort has gone into making it happen?
> when the contracts for this were being awarded, Boeing argued that SpaceX shouldn't get the contract at all because Boeing, having "human spaceflight heritage", was guaranteed to do the better job than an inexperienced upstart.

I think it's useful to note that this wasn't just Boeing's opinion - it was pretty widely believed in the industry. And not without reason - Boeing had Shuttle heritage.

Thankfully, NASA kept both awards.
Good for them. But if you're Arab Israeli, you don't have the same slate of rights and representation that Jewish Israelis have. See: freedom of movement to and from the Gaza Strip prior to October 7th.
> It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue.

Of course it isn't impossible, and this is backed by what we know about paleoanthropology and other instances of cognition in animals - humans were making stone tools millions of years ago, which takes planning in the form of imagining what you want the tool to look like and how you will do it and what it will be used for. It's exceedingly likely we had this ability long before complex speech evolved. Apes also use and make tools, which would require planning, and I don't think they have an internal monologue going on. birds from the corvid family can do some pretty advanced problem solving that requires planning. Cetaceans might be an exception, because they appear to have some form of language, but this is a pretty wild claim not really backed by any kind of science as we understand it today.
That regulations were created in response to events that should have been regulated does not imply that the resulting legislation was an appropriate way to solve the problem. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Look for one designed to use external power. Lots of people have connected them to car batteries (there are projects on the web). The consumer ones tend to use PIR sensors to trigger short video recordings, which might be a problem if the camera is too far away. Birds tend to be well insulated and may not emit much IR. Maybe pro ones use doppler radar to trigger recordings? You might want to choose one based on how long it can be configured to record video after being triggered, 30 seconds for example may not be long enough for what you want to capture. This is not a normal use of a trail camera so figure out what your needs are and see if there is one that meets them.
There's another gotcha I found out at my workplace -- for Postgres, tables without a primary key has trouble when you want to use logical replication. The times you might want to use logical replication includes using AWS's database migration service to shrink allocated storage.
A different approach to solve both 1 and 2 is timestamp-oriented IDs. You can get useful cache locality/less "index bloat"/fast initial inserts if your keys can be easily ordered in time. Sorted by timestamp means very similar behavior to B-Tree appends of a monotonic integer, even sometimes in the worst cases where "same moment" IDs aren't monotonic and rely more on random entropy.

I got some great DB cache/index performance from ULIDs with a bit of work to order the ULID timestamp bits in the way the DB's 128-bit column "uuid" sort best supported.

Now that UUIDv7 is standardized we should hopefully see good out-of-the-box collation for UUIDv7 in databases sooner rather than later.
Sure, I do mention thinking in images in my original comment and count it as some type of internal monologue. I personally do not believe it's all images, as that would preclude using highly abstract concepts. But I might be wrong, and it might be 100% images. That being said, it does count as an internal monologue.
Arguably, opinion is split: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808
I wonder which other professions exhibit the same effect?

Artists certainly don't, as art remains art even when the artist themselves becomes lost to time.

I suspect politicians may be, for every problem they do solve becomes the status quo… though also every problem they don't solve becomes their fault, so perhaps not.

Civil engineers may be on the boundary, people forgetting that cities are built rather than natural when complaining about immigrants with phrases such as "we are full", yet remember well enough for politicians to score points with what they promise to get built.
> And I guarantee I'll beat anyone on a quiz of actual facts about world news. (e.g. after SBF was convicted, not before.)

Put your money where your mouth is - prediction markets or some other fair debate. I personally would take the other side of that bet if contrarianism is your default.
If they could make money by selling new copies of Windows I’m sure they would. But they ran out of ideas with Windows 7. Since there’s no reason to buy a new copy of Windows, MS needs to turn their customers into a recurring revenue stream.

I wonder if they fired everybody creative a couple years ago while CPUs were stagnant, leaving them in a rough spot to respond now that things are doing ok (I mean we’ll never have 199X-200X again, but there’s competition again at least).
Star Liner has all the same problems that the Space Shuttle had. In an emergency, how do you get the crew out safely?
Small Team, Focused on User (First Blog from a Coming Soon Startup in Web4)
>I bet you can reason 1+3x=22 pretty easily without any words whatsoever

I've tried to do it, but I can't. I had to do something like "ok, so we subtract one from both sides and then it's easy, 3*7=21". Maybe I could do 2+8 but I still think the word ten "aloud".
Heh bean counter from a pharmacy corp. That's not going to save Google.

A CEO with a vision and passion for tech is what they need.
None of those apps need a tray though. Personally I have no problem using chat and email apps with only notifications. Something not being to your liking does not mean it's sabotage.

>what GNOME did was to try and force everyone to use the GNOME

I would be very interested to know if you could give a source for this accusation. Just show me one comment from a GNOME maintainer saying they are trying to "force" everyone and how they planned to do it. If they were going into homes and offices holding people at gunpoint forcing them to install GNOME then I think everyone would have heard about that by now.
> oscillates

Try to explain what "oscillation" is without reference to the concept of time.
Only if you threw away all the tooling and knowledge of the previous design and started from scratch.
Yes, but you don’t end up with different glyphs. Arabic script has letter shaping, that means a letter can have up to 4 shapes based on its position within the word. If you chop off the last letter, the previous one which used to have a “middle” position shape suddenly changes into “terminal” position shape.
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> Let's say: if you can just open the manual and start building, then it is trivial.

> We've built many rockets, there are numerous resources about building one, so building rockets is trivial.

Except that you're wrong.

Because it's very common for the first launch of a company's first orbital rocket to fail to make it to orbit. So you can't "just open the manual and start building".
why use Fex instead of Box86?
Trust me, it's good ;)
I struggle with not calling this propaganda:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/18skzb0/ah_behold_o...

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/new-billboards-along...
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> Nvidia or Intel could certainly make a console focused SoC at least as performant as AMD.

They certainly cannot, or they would have. Do you think that Sony and Microsoft stay with AMD because they like them or because AMD can deliver what they want?

> There are only two high performance consoles on the market

I'd throw the Steam Deck on that list too. High performance for its size more than high performance in general, but still. It's no coincidence that all the gaming handheld consoles, full blown consoles, and lots of gaming devices in general all use AMD.
If only developers were required by package managers to sign packages with their own keys, and users warned on signature changes...
I think I prefer dang's approach, at least at the scale that HN operates.
I believe the issue here is how much sway Israel has on the US and how rabid many US politicians are about Israel (to the point where many straight up accuse you of anti semitism if you just criticize the country or their policies)

Also issues like where you are not allowed to refuse to work with Israel if you are an arms manufacturer in the US (but you can refuse to work with the US military). I know that part of that is due to Israel being part of the FMS list but they are also the largest recipient on it...
Didn't we get to brag about it already? The value of continuing to have the capability seems to be outweighed by the costs of maintaining the facilities and equipment
I pick weights over my head. It strenghthens the inner voice stronger, and it tells me, this gives me stronger mind voice, calm pace. slow and steady
According to the wisdom of US foreign policy, yes.

For what it's worth, the US has also tried to work a two-state solution over the last 30 years with various degrees of vigor. That became much harder to accomplish when the Gaza Strip decided to elect Hamas to lead its government in 2006-07.
> Free speech sometimes applies to things you don’t like.

...and in the United States we've defined down "free speech" to include "monetary donations."
The flag is obnoxious (duplicates and okay-but-inferior sources don’t seem to violate the guidelines, and flags are about guideline violations), but ChrisArchitect is right: this link seems to be the same content but much more informative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584135

And that post is alive and well and not flagged.
You likely had much more ram than the average person did, right? My understanding was XP was based around the needs of the average consumer and wrote the OS in such a way as to almost mandate swapping rather than writing something smarter that could avoid swapping if the machine had more than enough ram.

Because that swapping would occur regardless, there would be a performance penalty when you didn't actually need it. Pointing the swap back to ram circumvented that.

I wouldn't say it's a crutch as there are still plenty of users machines and situations where ram might run out, so swapping is better than the apps crashing. But yes it's becoming increasingly obsolete.