skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the (arguably) unequal focus only Israel's human rights record relative to other countries

Two thoughts on this:

Firstly, every time a country is getting criticized for it's human rights abuses it, like clockwork, raises the spectre of being "unjustly singled out" about it's human rights abuses. To be clear, I would very much like every country on earth that engages in human rights abuses prosecuted for it, including mine, and specifically every U.S. President that's still currently alive since they are ALL guilty of them in varying degrees. And that way, we can't be accused of biases.

Secondly, I believe it's fair, even if we are biased against Israel in this way, to be biased since it has the rather unique position of being a state that exists solely because of and by the authority of the West. It is a colonialist project and has been from it's inception and I don't think you can take this situation on fully without acknowledging that fact.

Debating whether it should or shouldn't exist is rather moot at this point because it does, and tons of people live there who have committed no crime and done no wrong. That said, it is at the end all, an ethno-nationalist state built on a foundation of war crimes too numerous to count, that is currently incrementing as they barrage an utterly impotent neighbor to death, and it is doing so with the enthusiastic encouragement of FAR, FAR too many colonial powers. Maybe that's enough to say, ethically, that all of it's citizens should be displaced, maybe not. I do not know the solution. My point is that Israel's existence, in entirety, is violence perpetrated against every country it borders with, it wars with, and who's land it sits upon. That cannot be ignored.
I am more internet infamous, but my one viral success has impacted my life in more ways than I could explain. But that one success took 5 years of my life.
Well, here's the only solid thing with referenced figures that came up. Chart on page one is quite the ride, as I'd have expected for early science:

https://21sci-tech.com/Subscriptions/Spring%202008%20ONLINE/...

Everything else I found was unfortunately hand-wavy "scientific consensus says" and the ubiquitous "280ppm" coupled with "pre-industrial" repeated again without reference, nor apparent empirical basis.

Not convincing, which for "the science is settled" I'd expect a bit of a higher standard.
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You admit to intentionallu underpaying your employees, and then insinuate moral failing on their part for proving their worth to after you told them your underestimate of it? Good for them that they left, and left you poorer for it.
It managed to make my S23U lag, which I don't experience often.

Very good read though, thanks for that. Was reading it while spending the sunset under a tree in a hammock.
I ran Linux Mint on my 2015 MacBook Pro for a long time.

Maybe in the near future Linux will run well on Apple silicon as well.
> As of May 2024, these campaigns do not appear to have meaningfully increased their audience engagement or reach as a result of our services.

Just like I've predicted many times on HN.

Text generation is low on the list of things needed to successfully engage in automated spam. Social media is built on reputation, not who can write generic believable text the quickest. And funny enough the ex-OpenAI people (mostly Helen) calling for gov regulation said GPT should not have been released to the public because of this risk.
Hi. The difference intentional, but I could easily be convinced that it's the wrong decision. Here's the thinking:

Basically if you allow deep-linking into the daily, they kind of stop being a daily puzzle. They'll also confuse new players following the link, because they'll be thrown into a more complex puzzle than most are prepared to tackle without doing the tutorial and a small puzzle or two. Hence the link to the main menu.

While for the non-daily puzzles, playtesters from were requesting the ability to deep-link into specific puzzles to share them from very early on. And it makes sense for those links to be long-lived, because those puzzles are not being presented as being time-limited unlike the dailies. So the link has a fairly different use case.
SST is working to relase ion which uses pulumi instead of CDK: https://sst.dev/blog/moving-away-from-cdk.html
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The enforcement is inconsistent or a drag on both sides already. I've seen both sides in the US. Enforcement benefiting the tenant is quite common.
So... how do Koreans and Korean learners do it? Not to mention other languages that used to use Kanji but dropped it?

You have to imagine the entire education system and everyone in it got changed to Kana only and Kanji was subsequently removed from modern literature from that point onward. That's the thought experiment. It was even tried successfully in places...
Are there publications for “research as a leisure activity”?

Somewhere where I can read what “amateurs” are researching in their free time?

There’s a few channels I follow on YouTube, but they all seem to be living off of the content they produce

I’m curious about communities of people with scientific inclinations, doing experiments of interesting things “at home”
>Apple's Metal API is custom-made to the silicon Apple is making

Do you have any examples of this? My guess is that the API, being higher level than vk/dx, is designed for ease of use by developers, not to expose hardware level details. In fact Vulkan would be more suitable for that as it is lower level.

>the strength of iOS clearly helped them decide to move iOS game developers to the Mac

What do you mean by this? Are there a lot of mobile game studios publishing on MacOS now? (this is a legitimate question)

>rather than try to court the so-called AAA companies who are stuck in an x86, Windows+console, heat up the wazoo world.

Why is that? The only actual barrier there is x86. But Vulkan is not related to x86 anyway. It is only related inasmuchas they are both not supported by Apple. But this discussion is itslef about if Apple should support Vulkan, so the reasoning here seems circular. Also, if Apple doesn't like x86 games that is fine because they don't support x86. So it's not like they are not support Vulkan because they think developers will start distributing x86 games to their customers because that's impossible.

>heat up the wazoo

I mean, it will use the same about of energy as any other demanding application like Blender or video editing. And you can always lower the graphical settings to make it consume less power. Similarly mobile game developers would likely increase the graphical settings for a mobile game that they port to MacOS.
making paper is much more environmentally damaging than making plastic

i'm not joking, look it up
Google Translate has been around for years, and runs on regular CPUs fine, so I personally wouldn’t classify it as current generation AI or predicated on Nvidia chips.

Definitely a killer app though. Same as Google maps is a non-AI killer app.
It's like being born a Gracie and starting jiu jitsu before you can walk. Of course you are going to be proficient in that field at a young age due to being taught by an expert at a time when the mind is most malleable.
Ok, the problem is we don’t know whether that code will be called.

So if we added some way to require that value to be used, something similar to `std::hint::must_use`, then we may be able to return function pointers?
> American politicians like to always pitch Israel as "America's Greatest Ally"

In the Middle East. Which is sort of true. (Cairo, Riyadh and Doha aren’t as reliable.)

Our traditional greatest ally is the U.K.
> Both saw a limit on the time someone could be at the company and still be promoted.

this is called "up or out", maybe 10-15 years ago my little sister had this same setup at Mckinsey but she's not there anymore. The idea iirc was if you haven't been promoted in 2-3 years then you're better off leaving and trying somewhere else so you get let go. I haven't heard of that setup in a long time.
You might look at aip diet. It is more gut centric but good results for MS and similar.
I don't know if it is a big problem but people around the world, mainly in Muslim majority countries, hate US because of its unconditional support of Israel. Over long term, this is not good for the US.
Its bad because if Palestinians agree with the attack then they can be collectively punished, that's usually what comes after showing those polls. How many in Ireland supported IRA? Should UK have bombed them as well?

Did Israel provide evidence that UNRWA supports Hamas? If so why did many countries reinstate aid to UNRWA?

Israel may have left Gaza but they still control all their borders and airspace, even the Egyptian border as nothing can pass there without Israel approving it (even before Oct 7).

Israel might be loosing the propaganda war because they're killing mostly civilians and are starving them. They are a colonialist and apartheid state. The current government has supported Hamas as a divide and conquer strategy so Palestinians cannot unite and form their own state.

If you want to get out of the propaganda bubble of Israel try the Badhasbara podcast.
Hey, yes most companies would not want to self host, and for them there are plenty of options, but we do have companies that opt to self host. There are few reasons we have seen so far

- Operating in a regulated industry, we have customers who cannot send customer data to 3rd party services (in financial services, healthcare) and need to self host for that reason

- Existing solutions are too expensive for their business model, we have Kenyan, Brazilian and Mexican consumer focused companies from other countries spin up and use the self-hosted solution

- Cost savings and Philosophy, believe it or not there are some companies which like to self host software if possible, and have dedicated dev ops resources already maintaining software and spinning up another solution is not that much incremental work.

Beyond that there are other reasons to want to open source a solution like this. Anyone can add communication channels and integrations for example. And lastly its fun to work on an open code base!
It’s basically an argument that boils down to “it’s not because I don’t like it”
> disclaimer: IIUC, never experienced first hand.

I have run (Sun) workstations off of NFS, including completely diskless ones. /var was often done on a per-workstation basis.

(I'm actually planning out a diskless HPC cluster that will be deployed in the coming months.)
The moderation on SE is abysmal, but it's the best moderation around for such a large, universally accessible, user-submitted knowledge store.
> the problem with short stints is that you're considerably more likely to fail the initial screening by the internal recruiter.

That's exactly why I was trying to guide you into a back door.
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I'm absolute putting Linux on my mother's computer when she needs a new one again.
Its hell already, with climate hell or without. Nothing of value was lost.
Thus far, I have only found LLMs to be as good as StackExchange.

Heck, maybe a little better than that.

There's still some untapped potential.

But, if I try to replace coding with an LLM, I find that, eventually, my directions become more and more specific until it becomes meaningless, if not outright counterproductive to use the LLM compared to just coding things myself.

It's a good learning tool. But, that's where I stop.
Large codebase in which you need a hermetic, repeatable, incremental build and test support. Note that in a hermetic build tests can be incremental too: if input and code do not change, there’s no need to rerun the test, and Bazel will skip it.
https://archive.ph/lsn55

https://web.archive.org/web/20240605133656/https://literaryr...
Very good post. A lot of it rings true with my own experience and it seems like you've found a lot of good ways to work with what you've got, instead of around or through it.

I also like "addressing the pain" - a bit too much. I seek out pain just to build tools that address it, because that's almost always more fun than the task itself.

If someone paid me just to build things that improve people's personal workflows I'd take the job in a second.
I've tried having that conversation a couple times in my career, and it never works. At my current job, I am the top performer on a mediocre team, and it seems to be impossible to convert from contract to full-time. I also demanded something resembling a cost of living pay raise (been here 3 years), and eventually got the agency to give me about 6%.
I don't think that is true. If you run the Nginx web server on Linux for example, with a case sensitive file system, I'm pretty sure that the files you serve will also by default have case sensitive URLs. And probably it'd be the same with Apache on Linux with a case sensitive file system.
Its genetic as well, and in general they just have no idea.
>Well their enemies used social accounts to garner support from US citizens so you've got to start somewhere!

I mean, if Israel started bombing me, I'd try to garner support from US citizens too? There is a world of difference between that and faking social media accounts
In all contexts. Negotiate for higher salary, price on a car, etc. It never hurts to ask for a better deal.
I’m sure HR would hate this but I make this abundantly clear to the engineers I manage. The best raise you’ll ever get is by switching companies.
I thought I had great interviewing skills, but as I started applying for jobs with high standards I realised I've never actually developed those skills or tried to understand what kind of answers a serious employer is looking for. I've also never applied during a recession which skewed my experience.

The trigger for seeing that I don't have enough interviewing skills was during an interview, the interviewer replied to my answer with, "Okay, I guess that's one way to answer the question..."
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Sounds like a great personality type for a platform engineer..
Example in https://github.com/dev-null321/MIND/blob/main/test.rkt
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There's a few amendments that have not worked out very well.

The real flaw (hoping I don't start a flamewar here), is not refining them over time, and instead holding them sacred.
To be clear, I don't find SQL difficult to understand. I've used it for 20+ years and I can always get the query to generate my desired output. But I often find that the language is a hindrance, and that I can more efficiently reach my desired output using modern languages.

for example, here's the KQL equivalent to the 'average of sums' query:

purchases
| summarize total_per_customer=sum(amount) by customer
| summarize avg(total_per_customer)

I find this more elegant, and I'd prefer authoring it over any of the equivalent SQL solutions previously mentioned.
> There are three great powers, the US, China and Russia, and Israel has a um special relation with one of them, whereas none of its enemies do.

Things keep going the way they're going, and that special relationship has got twenty years left on the clock, max.

I don't think that American support should be taken for granted -- and it's not like Israel is cozying up to the Russians or Chinese. They may well end up like South Africa, with investment bans, arms embargoes, sanctions, no participation in international cultural events, etc. That's a very hard fate for a nation. The white South Africans of those days weren't able to hold out for very long.
> There is absolutely no way that rinsing out a container uses more resources than creating and transporting new disposable containers.

that's what i thought, too, until i did the math, and it turns out that i was wrong. rinsing out a bottle with hot water uses several times more energy than manufacturing a brand new plastic bottle from petroleum and transporting it (they're generally transported as preforms until the bottling plant, which keeps the costs down). in most cases, though, rinsing it out with cold water does use less

the high bit here, though, is not that you should stop using hot water to wash your dishes, or using reusable dishes. it's that the resource usage of food packaging is an irrelevant distraction from the real environmental devastation that's going on all around you

(actually no, the high bit is that you should base your beliefs and actions on objectively verifiable information and rational analysis rather than superstition)
I bite the bullet on the god of the gaps
> Much, much more peaceful

The entire history of our species runs counter to this. The most peaceful periods are uni or bipolar dynamic. Pax Americana is statistically meaningful [1].

> Once parties lack the resources for war

Generally speaking, impoverishment increases violence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
Which was released this year

Sure you can always wait for ever, there will be a 5080 Super one day too
'Some days when I’m not getting anything done, I’ve got this lingering guilt that I’m having a “zero day”'

I had this and after many years of treating myself that way, I treat myself kindly. It's a toxic approach and the easiest way to burnout. It's OK not to do anything.
With exceptionally more impact, both good (I’d say net good) and bad.
I'm really curious how this would've looked if he'd taken a mid-range budget approach to vision instead of being able to throw (tens of?) thousands of dollars of industrial motion capture cameras at it. Something like 2-4 global shutter cameras, all running a similar vision filter to what he first demo'd, feeding a kalman filter/state estimator to determine the ball's position. I can't blame hime for following the mantra of "don't build what you can buy (or get from a sponsor)" but it would be cool to see some affordable solutions (or attempted solutions) to this problem.
We had an integration test that involved many tool chains and languages to prepare. Rust compilation, WASM compilation, Docker builds shell scripts that produced a VM image, Python was in there somehow too, and then a test harness, written in Rust, that took all that to actually run the test.

With Bazel setup, and it was a beast to setup, developers could run all that, with remotely cached incremental builds, efficient parallel execution, and all reproducible (and same as CI) from a local developer environment with just one command.
500k Palestinians in Lebanon, 2nd-3rd generation "refugees", are not allowed to be citizens and do not have a vote.
(Palestinians are the only people in the world who the UN allow to inherit this status)

And now... Iraq?! you must be joking or cynic
r/worldnews has been astroturfed by questionable entities for a long time now. I'll never forget when they censored all information about blood drives after the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
Could you make a button similar to R (Record) but were you record sound through the mic and play it back?

I guess due to the discrete nature of the tool, the sound must be cut to 16ths.
This entire thread is an epiphany for me and I can vouch your bit as something I share as well.
I can see this. Spanner is an example where you don't want this, idk if that's considered common enough. Postgres and MySQL both support hash indexes that are unordered, but the default in both is btree, and Postgres hash indexes used to have some caveats that made them unsuitable (idk about now) so I've gotten in the habit of just using the default.

MySQL docs claim that a hash index is much faster if you only need kv lookups, so it seems like uuid4 with hash index would be suitable. Never tried it though, and can't say whether it's faster than using a btree with uuid7. Seems like in theory it would be.
the price the buyer is willing to pay is whatever is cheaper than the effort of piracy.
So much cope in the comments from people who don't want to face the fact that human beings are special in a way that materialism cannot explain.
>You are not hearing from them because once they embraced it they found people better than you [1] who'll work for a tenth of the price. In other words, offshore.

I know the companies in my country, they don't offshore because offshoring has additional overhead and costs they can't afford(small and medium companies), so they mostly prefer local workers they can tap on shoulder, and preferably German speaking.

And those few companies who do offshore(mostly banks and other large enterprises) already had offices abroad, no need for the pandemic to convince them.
For the record I didn't verify the deaths, I looked at information release in past conflicts for the last 10 or so years *.

"MoH statistics have also been verified by Human Rights Watch and used by the United States Department of State in past conflicts and as recently as March 2023, despite US President Joe Biden questioning those numbers without evidence."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/14/has-the-un-really-s...

Palestinian authorities were found to be releasing counts in good faith and never inflated numbers for the sake of an information war. This is a key point, why doubt an organisation that hasn't lied about it's death count before.

Deny, Discredit, Disinform, Diffuse and Defray are things you'll see time and time again in threads like these.

Now, it's a sobering thought 15,000+ children have been murdered, in 2023/2024. With full support of the US, 'ironclad' apparently.
Take my upvotes. Take them! Guidelines schmidelines!

(OK, I only got one).
The amount of content required to call it a "Copy" is also a gray area.

Same with the idea of "prompting" and the amount required to generate that copywritten output - again there's the extremes of "The prompt includes copywritten information" to "Vague description".

Arguably some of the same issues exist outside AI, just it's accessibility, scale, and lack of a "Legal Individual" on one side complicates things. For example, if I describe Micky Mouse sufficiently accurately to an artist they reproduce it to the degree it's considered copyright infringement, is it me or the artist that did the infringement? Then what if the artist /had/ seen the previously copywritten artwork, but still produced the same output from that same detailed prompt?
I’m so happy to see this! I’ve been saying for a while, if they focused on sample efficiency and building large public datasets, including encouraging Twitter and other social media sites to add image license options and also encouraging people to add alt text (which would also help the vision impaired!), they really could build the models they want while also respecting creatives, thus avoiding pissing a bunch of people off. It’s nice to see Stability step up and actually train on open data!