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> Or, Israel could have avoided going to war with Hamas altogether and tried to release the hostages with a deal by giving in to all of Hamas demands [...] can't imagine any other country on earth taking that option

I do wonder whether history backs up this statement. When I hear about hostages taken by terrorists in the news, most of the time, if they are released, and if I remember accurately, they are released via negotiations. I think I hear politicians talk about not negotiating with terrorists, but in reality I think hardly any nation has that as an actual policy, and do in fact negotiate the release of hostages. Even Israel falls into this camp.

I don’t think we have any examples in recent history of a country going on a genocidal rampage to free hostages. So I do in fact think that most—if not all—other countries would have indeed reacted in different ways here, and negotiated to free at least all the civilian hostages within a few months, and the military hostages over the next year, and I do think most—if not all—countries would have done so with exactly 0 civilian casualties.
I built a free AI design tool [0] which gives website design/UI improvement pointers right in the browser.

Made because in my previous squad I was basically told my UIs are terrible lol.

[0] - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...
We already periodically replace them, that period just happens to be their lifetime. If you shorten that period you lower the stakes if the "other side" gets to fill a slot, you'll get another chance to rebalance in X years, where X is a known value and doesn't require someone to die (or willingly relinquish power).
Insurance companies will see if it was a novel targeted hack that really couldn’t have been stopped vs laziness and poor security hygiene in which case they will cover less.
My takeaways were

1. Developed and developing countries reacted differently to different incentives. This to me is just another point where “the invisible hand” only works in certain limited cases. Markets are identifiable measurable systems. Not magic

2. It’s a mix, it needs careful monitoring and good across the board policy and industrial involvement - yeah. We need good government and good private sector involvement. So there goes the paddle just as we enter the brown looking creek …

3. Loving the graphics - Inwish Incoukd do that with matplotlib
Thank you! Awesome work with pglite as well, very exciting tech!
amateur radio lives in a different IT world. A significant amount of popular software is shared as archived source files with ambiguous licensing, hosted on personal homepages, and served via unencrypted HTTP.
I have 4 of their Pocket Operator things which I haven't taken out of the drawer for t least a couple of years. Do not regret a single cent of what I paid for them. If anything, I occasionally regret not (yet?) having drunk-ordered a few more - I'd quite like a PO-33 and a PO-35, but while sober I know I wont use them any more than I use the ones I already have.
Are there any software applications for ordinals?
Really cool, awesome work!
This is wonderful and I'd like to see more examples of multi-sensory experiences for working with computers or algorithms.
Are brains, especially the subconscious are powerful at finding and learning patterns - so being able to utilize that seems so useful!
I'm not sure it's SMP/multithreading support was anything terribly special; NT4 Workstation had the same capabilities.
You're lucky if you get source files.
I really think so. But man I went through the dark night of the soul to get here. It's not easy and when you see some of the most well known VCs such as a16z selling their souls for a seat at the table, it really gets to you and you have to insulate yourself to break through and break free.
This doesn't actually address some of the scenarios SB is intended for. I.e. you're an IT administrator, you manage a fleet of 1000 machines, you want to ensure that they are all running secure bootloaders and secure kernels and secure software, top to bottom. In that scenario, every end user having a little "security vulnerability" button they can press if they get bored (or feel like being malicious) isn't appealing.

Having to send someone out to press the button at a thousand desks in order to update the bootloader? Also not appealing.
Second-largest diamond found in Botswana
That's kind of almost been me with eurorack. It is in many ways just a toy to play with. But it's quite a lot of fun, and it's allowed me to experience what it's like to create music far further than just playing sheet music on a piano did. The OP-1 does seem much more focused on actually making the end product of a song than just playing around with sound design on eurorack though, so I'd probably react to it the same way as the OP.

I'd recommend anyone interested in any of this to have a play with Cardinal[1] for free. But I will say that it's a lot easier to play with the real thing. The difference reminds me a lot about when I was really into rubiks cubes and how much easier it is to learn the different variants of twisty puzzles with the physical puzzle in hand, compared to the computerised versions that required clicking and draging, and felt removed from the real thing. So for that reason I'd say that it has been worth actually getting eurorack for me. But even so I've barely played any real songs on the system.

[1] https://cardinal.kx.studio/
Unrelated, but GPU coil whine can give unintentional ambience to LLM inference.

In some llama.cpp versions on my home inference rig it would manifest as a sort of squelchy sound that would match the generation of characters on the screen, reminiscent of the effect often used during dialog in 8-bit era video games.

I found it quite comfy.
It's almost like you didn't read the article. Anyone can increment the variable, and both MS and the Linux communities agreed on the solution.

How dare Microsoft operate within the bounds of an agreed-upon industry standard, what a monopoly!
Ah excellent extra detail! Eight years. I wager you've put in a remarkable amount of hammock driven development in that time.
"The cultists claim that it IS a machine language." Cultists? I'm still left scratching my head as to how this is relevant to my comment.

I wrote about the Fregat upper stage, DRAKON's expressiveness as it relates to recursion with an example of an environment where it might be undesirable, and how the implementation of quicksort shown on Wikipedia is "perfectly fine."

Where are the cultists there?
I’m not sure the N64 would be easier. The graphics hardware in the N64 is complicated.

In some ways the console is really modern (perspective-correct texture interpolation, z-buffering, subpixel positioning). On paper, it seems a lot like a more modern system. But the hardware complexity is a beast. and the design is permeated with bottlenecks. Half of the graphics pipeline is taken up by the RSP, which is a fully programmable vector processor--sounds cool, but in practice it is unapproachable. 4 KiB of texture memory (and if you use a palette, half of it is the palette). RAM bandwidth is barely fast enough to handle 3D scenes.

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

The folks working on LibDragon have done a lot of work to make homebrew a better experience, but you’ll note that support for 3D graphics is still only in a preview branch.

https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon
> just use your window manager's tabs, stacks, or workspaces.

I wish we were in a world in which this is realistic. I can’t think of any major environment in which this is practical (maybe KDE has some plugin …).

Microsoft once experimented with what I consider to be the right approach (https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/65cfl8/microsoft...), but it didn’t get far.
Local mail here is delayed like a month it’s crazy.
As an Australian it's always a bit of a shock to see brand new European and American trains stopping at platforms no taller than a kerb, meaning you have to walk up steps.

I'd be very interested to see how much of a bottleneck boarding from the lower level of these trains is, in sydney we have double deckers where you board from the middle level from high platforms[1] and the stairs are already a flow limitation in the city section, I can't imagine how bad it would be with people going up two flights of stairs

[1] here's a pic: https://railgallery.wongm.com/sydney-trains-bits/F112_6364.j...
This is really disappointing. Google play store was struggling enough with evil apps but it was the one “trusted” source.

A real opportunity exists for trusted and vetted apps.

I guess Google will just sell anything now
Confusing fame and noteriety is a common problem, except they aren't the same thing. Not to mention copycat crime is definitely a thing. Your point is moot.
No. Not at all.
I think there are two main points
1) "Everything being equal" Open Source Software provides more value than proprietary.
2) Most of blowback you see is not about proprietary software but behavior of abuse or "bait and switch", which proprietary companies can practice because they have leverage
There was a good provocative keynote on a similar but slight different theme from an O'Reilly big data conference a number of years back by Maciej Ceglowski, "Haunted by Data" which I remember as the "Data is nuclear waste" talk: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

Also other talks from him: https://idlewords.com/talks/
> Is the datalog engine exposed? Is there any way to cache parsed queries?

We don't currently expose the datalog engine. You _technically_ could use it, but that part of the query system changes much more quickly.

Queries results are also cached by default on the client.

> Other datalog engines support recursive queries, which makes my life so much easier. Can I do that now with this?

There's no shorthand for recursive queries yet, but it's on the roadmap. Today if you had a data model like 'blocks have child blocks', you wanted to get 3 levels deep, you could write:

```

useQuery({
blocks: { child: { child: {} } }
});

```

> Also, why the same name as the (Lutris) Enhydra java database?

When we first thought of the idea for this project, our 'codename' was Instant. We didn't actually think we could get `instantdb.com` as a real domain name. But, after some sleuthing, we found that the email server for instantdb.com went to a gentleman in New Zealand. Seems like he nabbed it after Lutris shut down. We were about to buy the domain after.

> Given that it's implemented clojure and some other datalog engines are in clojure, can you say anything about antecedents?

Certainly. Datomic has had a huge influence on us. I first used it at a startup in 2014 (wit.ai) and enjoyed it.

Datalog and triples were critical for shipping Instant. The datalog syntax was simple enough that we could write a small query engine for the client. Triples were flexible enough to let us support relations. We wrote a bit about how helpful this was in this essay: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase#another-appro...

We studied just about all the codebases you mentioned as we built Instant. Fun fact, datascript actually supports our in-memory cache on the server:

https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
I’m going to reply to both you and your sibling comment because they’re basically the same from the perspective of what I wanted to say: just because you know some stuff about DNS isn’t actually enough, because there’s a wider context that you’re missing. Most importantly, without a VPN the traffic you send will often go to an IP that is controlled by a single entity, so your ISP is going to route packets from you to [Phrack IP]. Of course the content of those packets is going to be encrypted, but it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that everyone is reading Phrack 71 that just came out. So that’s basically enough to figure out everything already. But to bring it back to DNS even then it’s riddled with issues as you’re aware of: it’s complete unencrypted by default, so that just gives you the domain directly. Often you’re going to be sending that traffic to your ISP directly but even if you’ve set things up to use a different server you still haven’t solved the problem of people being able to know what you’re doing.
StructuredRAG: JSON Response Formatting with Large Language Models
> Sometime in early May 2024, ARRL’s systems network was compromised by threat actors (TAs) using information they had purchased on the dark web. The TAs accessed headquarters on-site systems and most cloud-based systems

So someone was using the same password for the work and personal stuff and no one has ever bothered prioritizing 2FA got it.
I don’t know if it’s still true, but at least up until relatively recently, #3 and #4 were the same thing; Nebula paid its creators in YouTube sponsorship. (i.e, if you were a Nebula creator, you got “paid” by Nebula buying sponsorships on your YouTube channel)
Power cables are smaller.
I think you must have misunderstood your scuba diving instructor because you have that part almost entirely wrong. Scuba divers don't hold their breath while ascending. This is extremely dangerous due to lung over-expansion injuries (gas embolism).

https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/lung-expansion-injuries/

Among healthy people at sea level, hemoglobin oxygen saturation is already near 100%. You can't squeeze more oxygen into the hemoglobin regardless of inspired PPO2. What actually happens at higher PPO2 levels is that extra oxygen dissolves into the bloodstream and circulates unbound from hemoglobin. (This is why recompression chambers can be used to treat patients suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.)

Ascending back to the surface reduces PaO2 (assuming no change in breathing gas) but this presents no risk of hypoxia since the diver would just be returning to normal levels. The only exceptions would be for a technical diver breathing a hypoxic mix (like less than about 15% O2), or using a rebreather where some sort of error or failure prevents oxygen from being injected into the loop.
The thing I’ve gotten most confused about historically is whether RS232 is voltage levels or a protocol
Uh, nobody? It’s not relevant.
Everywhere I’ve lived where it actually does get to -40, none of the pipes burst if you lose power for extended periods. First, they’re buried well below the frost line, and secondly, there’s usually an pressurized air inlet nozzle somewhere so you can open a faucet and blow all the water out if you’ll be gone for a long time.

Fun fact, -40 is the same in F and C so it’s fine to omit the units for once!
Andy, both my co-founder and I watched your Database course on Youtube. We learned a lot, and it's awesome to see your name pop up :)
Is this even legal? I feel like regulators might want to get involved
By the sources I posted, about 1/3 of accident fatalities per year involved excessive speed.

Let's say slowing down saved a conservative 1/4 of those lives, that still beats the 1,000 lifetimes of sitting in traffic.

There are now around 40,000 fatal car crash deaths per year. Multiply 1/3 * 1/4 * 40,000 = 3,333 lives.

Plus, when you're sitting in traffic, you're not dead. If you have other people in the car it can be socializing time. If you're not the driver you could be working or playing video games, reading, or working. Or you can listen to podcasts/lectures/etc (I know how much HN loves their productive time).
>50, <100
I wonder if regulators are going to have something to say about this
Apple to update EU browser options, make more apps deletable
'This to me is just another point where “the invisible hand” only works in certain limited cases.'

There's a certain amount of irony and despair when referring to the invisible hand of a free market in the context of government and ngo interference therein...
Computer Vision à La Apple: Building Multimodal Adapters for On-Device LLMs
I tried playing around with Cardinal the other day when it was posted here, but couldn't make any sounds :')
Am I the only person that is skeptical about this papers findings? 0.5% just seems implausible to me.
The study is preprint (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/) and it states that "The present data are derived from novel analytical chemistry methods that have yet to be widely adopted and refined" - "pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry".

This different paper talks about this approach and its limitations: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8929/1/2/16

"Prior to Pyr-GC/MS analysis, environmental samples undergo purification steps to isolate MP from the environmental matrix. However, this purification is not complete, and several organic and mineral constituents survive these treatment steps, especially in complex matrices such as sediments or soils. Hurley et al. [15] reported that the efficiency of removing organic matter from soil varied from 34% to 108% depending on the used reagent (H2O2, Fenton’s reagent, NaOH, KOH). These remaining particles will hamper the characterization and quantification of MP particles through Pyr-GC/MS. Upon thermal cracking, the polymers release pyrolysis products of lower molecular weight. Some of these products are defined as indicator compounds when they allow the detection of targeted polymers. However, some constituents of the remaining natural organic matter may release the same pyrolysis products as the targeted polymers [15,16,17,18], hence a potential MP overestimation. The identification of pyrolysis products that are specific to the targeted polymers is therefore necessary."

Sounds like the detection methods and methodology for microplastics are evolving. It is plausible that the amounts are materially over estimated.

Another thing that seems implausible is the increase between 2016 and 2024? "our finding that total plastics mass concentration in brains increased over 50% in the past 8 years.". 50% in 8 years! Is the world really that different in terms of plastic exposure 2024 vs. 2016. Unless something has fundamentally changed with the food supply in this period how can this be possible? Plastic production is increasing (https://www.statista.com/statistics/282732/global-production...) but for a 50% increase in this period something would have to have fundamentally changed with exposure routes in this period.
But a road filled with idling cars has high pollution levels, so you have to factor in the reduction in life expectancy and increase in disability from exposure to that.
That's actually a GNOME issue. XWayland apps look native on KDE for me, except for that X11 icon that shows up on the title bar!
Many duplicates
Or you could start a startup that codes circles around its competitors (see Nubank, which became large enough to acquire Rich Hickey's team). There's a growing list of Clojure unicorns, most of whom have a tech-forward culture.

Agree with the challenges you mentioned using new tech at a more mainstream company.
I thought capitalists don't want big government. Now you're saying it's the government's fault for not regulating the business more sufficiently? So which is it? You want larger government regulating stuff like this or not?
Innocent times. Perhaps Hylton could join the "vote of no confidence" motion in order to get justice for Tim Peters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314393
Starlink Now Being Deployed on U.S. Navy Warships
$75B Lost to Pig-Butchering Scam, New Study Estimates
decimate the it security team
This! One of the best developers I've worked with used to be a carpenter who had a kid with Down syndrome. He taught himself programming in his spare time. Smart, extremely driven and knew how good we all had it.
But now you just added `whitespace: no-wrap` to the middle element, with `overflow: visible`, to force it into a single line. That's hardly a generic solution, because it makes assumptions about the contained items... i.e. applying `whitespace: no-wrap` and `overflow: visible` will typically break the appearance of things.

Regarding AutoLayout: the six constraints from my original comment, don't say anything about the relationship between the left/middle/right items, so they will simply overlap if there isn't enough space. This can be remedied by adding two extra constraints:

1. left.right < middle.left

2. middle.right < right.left

It's just a bunch of equations. No weird tricks, no special cases, no hacks. You describe what you want with equations, and the solver spits out the solution.
Yeah it's wild have free market capitalists want small government and don't want regulations and then when a private company does something people they still manage to blame the government.

There's a weird juxtaposition where a lot of libertarians are really into right to repair. And look I'm all for right to repair but I am not a libertarian. Frankly, I'm not convinced capitalism is the best method to organize society at all.

But it's fascinating now when private companies do terrible things, they still manage to blame the government even though they are against a large government regulations.

Definitely a strange dynamic rossmann community.

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Pure emissions measures that don't consider waste outputs seem to be woefully inadequate. Having study periods that end in 2020 seems designed to arrive at incorrect outcomes. And finally, leaving out ocean based emissions and total amount of waste and electronic waste generated by new schemes seems thoughtless.
Ask HN: Who Got Laid Off?
Inflatable Ukrainian F-16 Decoy Emerges at Defense Show
You need a PS1 bios and a rom or disk image as well.
Now if this thing could take pictures, make phone calls and texts, and be able to dock to a monitor and keyboard and mouse, or at least a usb dock, this would be my dream device.
Not only do I dislike updates, aside from a web browser, I don't want my main machine to have network access (and that just to read static webpages and download non-executable files).

The updates and network access are mostly nonsense. The main 'benefit' of the former is to protect my machine from the ramifications of having the network access. The main 'benefit' of the latter is to facilitate downloading the updates.

My main computer is what I use to make things. When the software I use suddenly changes, when I have to worry about random apps connecting arbitrarily to other people's machines... it is more an impediment to my making things than it is an aid.
HTAs are tied to MSHTML.dll (the old IE renderer) and WSH/CScript is tied to the old, slow IE javascript engine, right?

I would expect this to have very limited compatibility, and even with the transpiling, very limited performance. Or is it possible for this to somehow use Chakra, or Edge's V8 engine?
How do you trace the wallet though?
Is AI eating all the energy?
I've played this game called Heroes of the Storm for many thousands of hours and I still struggle to identify a player's skill level. The only time I'm certain that I'm playing against a Grand Master-tier opponent is when the match-up allows for a lot of counter-play, these players manage to make you feel incredibly frustrated at every opportunity. It's also one of the best ways to learn, because it teaches you what kind of behavior is allowed and possible, and how to punish your opponent for their mistakes.
To me it was always just a silly way of pronouncing "Python", especially in reference to terrible shenanigans like the ones the post talks about :P
This is a Neal Stephenson LLM-generated ebook waiting to happen.
Sounds like a good fit. I recently got fiber to replace the Starlink I had before, but I had very few complaints compared to my other options. Latency still left a bit of room to be desired and you'd have to let the coffee brew while your Docker containers downloaded, but it was fine. Netflix worked, games worked, it's like... well, having internet.

I really wonder what the solution was before Starlink got rolled out. My first satellite provider was Hughesnet, a devilish business that would automatically charge you $15/gb over your 50gb monthly satellite limit. Well, shoutouts to the Navy crew that can watch YouTube now without getting shouted at by the regiment officer.