skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle urged again to give up JavaScript trademark
Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits
Israel is desperate to provoke?
Hezbollah is bombing Israel since the October 7th attack. 300,000 refugees inside Israel because of this bombing. Who is provoking who ?
If it is confirmed I'd expect it to actually boost B&H's business, as long as B&H didn't actually know of or participate in the tampering with the shipment.

As you note B&H is well known for being run by Orthodox Jews. So why the heck would Hezbollah, an organization that wants to destroy Israel, buy their batteries from B&H?

It suggests that B&H is a really great place to buy things, so much better than the alternatives that even if dealing with Jews goes against your fundamental beliefs it is worth it.
I'd bet that's part of it, so what percentage it is would be impossible to determine, which itself may be impossible to realize, for some.
Dude is a genius. Avoids a layoff by getting the deadwood to quit instead.
This tool makes it relatively easy to find cost savings, and also to do chargebacks. Most kubernetes clusters waste tons of compute for no reason at all.
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M
Will be interesting to see the ratio of civilian to military injuries was and if this is better or worse than something like a bunch of drone strikes or rocket strikes.
RTX 4000 ADA?
That's a very under powered card: https://github.com/mag-/gpu_benchmark
> It's funny how Americans have difficulty with the "citizen" word and prefer the word "consumer".

I am not American

I described a "consumer society" to describe the American economy

methinks the English description "subject" might be a better word to describe individuals
nodejs.org is also kinda down[1], wonder if it is related

[1] https://status.nodejs.org/
> The core of the issue is trying to wrap polling style of logic into an event based system (which windows is at its heart).

Well said. The irony being that the event based system on windows is wrapping the polling of the USB device in the first place.
> It can be both more expensive and a better value though!

No, it can't be. Stop with the pseudo intellectual linkedin lingo please.
This argument doesn't make sense.

1/ you're saying people managers should be allowed to work from home then?

2/ Why does delegation not require RTO but writing shit at a desk does?
What do you mean by previous bits? Where are you seeing how "everyone is crawling"?

With each puzzle, you know that the top bit is 1, and nothing else. Every bit below that is unknown, and you need to go through the whole range of n-1 bits. Puzzle #10 has 9 bits to guess, because it's between 10_0000_0000 and 11_1111_1111. Puzzle #66 has 65 bits to guess. If someone says 66 unknown bits they've misspoken.
I've been trying to find one but I've had very little success, with software engineering jobs anyways. What other fields offer remote work?

Honestly I could care less about pay, being able to work remote like I previously had was so much better for my mental health and well being.
Still -- seems a lot ?
And then the union makes an agreement about going to the office 3 days a week instead of 5 and declares a victory for the workers.
I’m a fan of Stallman and his ideology toward computing as much as anyone but tend to think that the ship has sailed long ago. We are not living in a world where everyone who touches a computer has the knowledge or skill set to know a good idea from a bad one. Long-gone are the days when our passwords could be blank because the other guy using the system was also a kernel developer. And so unfortunately Stallman’s ideas are mostly a thing of computing utopia fiction.

It’s fine to let the experts worry about securing our systems. The Internet is safer for it. And it’s fine to not think so, too. But for those people, realize that the product may not be for you. That’s why we have a dozen flavors of Linux.

But maybe I’m just getting old.
A blanket increase in skepticism might not work, could be counterproductive, and you can argue that blind skepticism is one of the root causes of current disinformation crisis. People feel like they are superior thinkers because they reject every widely-held description of reality and embrace every conspiracy theory they find on the web.
This might be true but would be an easier argument to make persuasively if Israel had backed off after it more or less roflstomped the Al Qassam order of battle and virtually the entire Hamas command staff.
> it has four, going on five, esoteric proper nouns in one sentence. it's not hard to parse, but it isn't something I love reading either.

Even so. If the sentence was something like "Kowalski's Mosquito soared high above the Führerbunker, Hitler's final redoubt in Berlin," no one would find that problematic. McCaffrey's sentence is only troubling if you've already assumed that made-up names are inherently bad writing.
Yes, we are definitely talking about two different processes. Biology is far more complex, nuanced and inscrutable. We don’t understand what all is in our DNA. We do have strong ideas about it.

When it comes down to it, code is data and DNA is code. There are natural pressures to have less DNA so the hundreds of MB of DNA in humans might be argued to be somewhat minimal. If you have ever dealt with piles of handcrafted code that is meant to be small, you’ll likely have seen some form of spaghetti code… which is what I liken DNA to. Instead of it being written with thought and intention, it’s written with predation, pandemics, famine, war etc.

I agree we tend to simplify our artificial networks, largely because we haven’t figured out how to do better yet. The space is wide open and biology has extreme variety in the examples to choose from. Nature “figured out” how to encode information into the very structure of a neural network. The line defining “code” and “data” is thus heavily blurred and any argument about how humans are far superior because of the “reduced number of training examples” is definitely missing the millennia of evolution that created us in the first place.

If we decided to do evolution and self modifying networks then we will likely look for solutions that converge to the smallest possible network. It will be interesting to watch this play out :)
Correction: there are up to 12 of the 7 meter diameter antennas.
What are you gonna buy? Chinese tech? Iranian tech? Russian tech?

Who do you want to be able to spy on you and compromise your hardware?

Unless you can spin up your own fab (hint: you can't) you're dependent on a hegemon. US/EU/Israel isn't perfect, but pretty much as good as it gets.
Skill is just learning from trial and error.
Tangential to the post:

Was going to toss an application your way since it sounds like interesting work, but it looks like the Google Form on your Careers page was deleted.
So i could go to 7 banks and get 40 billion? interesting to note. Please note:

>this is what it read like to the average american that was paying attention to it at all. It doesn't matter if the above "isn't what really happened" - that's what was presented, in the rough order it was presented.

Also you did the thing whereby Musk's "net worth" somehow matters when this thread has folks talking about how that is all "just on paper".
anticipation of cluefulness?
epistemic frustration?
temporarily embarrassed expertise?

perplexed?
The biggest problem is that the defaulting to binary distribution also means that building from source is unsupported.

>Building from source takes a long time, is prone to failure, and is not supported.

Having issues building your Homebrew packages from source? Well, you better not take it to the bug tracker.
> The impact of foreign workers on corporate culture cannot be underestimated, this will ripple across corporate America. We are all worse off

Can you expand on this?
Note: The size of the puzzle is the number of unknown bits plus one, because the top bit is always set. Puzzle #66 had 65 unknown bits.
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"PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython" (2023) https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

CPython built with --disable-gil does not have a GIL (as long as PYTHONGIL=0 and all loaded C extensions are built for --disable-gil mode)
https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#py-mod-gil-slot

"Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913328#36917709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913328#36921625
Then don't work in a regulated industry. I don't know what to tell you.

Is there any evidence of the FAA doing this - sitting on applications that they otherwise should process?
Seeing some video from one of the hospitals, there's a lot of variety to the injuries. It looks like some people were looking at the pager when it exploded (injury to face and hand), some were wearing it on hip, some in pocket, some probably in an across-the-chest fanny pack.

It would seem this attack has managed to kill some, maim many, tag all, terrorize, and disrupt.
Lazy question but anyone integrated this with Emacs Dired, to transparently search all the files?
And seems to be about the parallel branches of Everettian Mechanics, not the multiverse of brane theory (the Bulk), or the multiverse of multiple disconnected bubbles of false vacuum.
Why is my first thought that this has a clever backdoor to find passwords and crypto keys?
That is what explosives look like. You're thinking 80's movies explosions, made with barrels of gas.

Tom Scott explains it better than I do https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWcTV2nEkU
Looks like all of that would run in a native sandbox environment which in turn is called from the Python running on the JVM. So, maybe it simplifies interop, but whether it's straightforward to get full performance from the native layer (especially GPU/multicore) is an open question.
There was a really dumb but also really entertaining Awkwafina/John Cena movie that I watched recently called Jackpot https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26940324/. At one point in the middle of the movie one of the characters calls a 3 letter agency friend and asks them for a "Phone Strike on his location". There is a mob gathered outside of their room, and within 30 seconds everyone's phone blows up and the protagonists escape. The movie is R rated but obviously it's hollywood so instead of blown off fingers and holes in ribs that we see in Lebanon, its just someone's crotch is aflame, that's about it. But it was the first thing that jumped to me when I heard about it. Go hollywood!
RTO is about protecting commercial real estate. It has nothing to do with productivity.

I say this as someone who is leaving a fully remote role for an in office one.

Remote workers do a lot of work for which they don't get the visibility and therefore credit.
HPy can eventually be used to support CPython extension modules in GraalPy
Think of all that time spent commuting that could be used delivering share holder value... Now it's wasted, just so that people can come in to the office. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL SHARE HOLDER VALUE
Didn't he kill his crew mates in the helicopter before or after landing in Ukraine.
> my understanding of government fines is they are usually reserved for willful deceit or negligence.

Having a process that allows unapproved changes to go through three times in two launches without confirmation is negligent

> This sounds like there was 40 different forms to fill out

They aren't getting in trouble for filling out the forms wrong. It sounds more like SpaceX knew exactly what to file and did so, and that the problem was not waiting for an approval.

> FAA doesn't have their T-2 poll because SpaceX thought it wasn't part of the launch procedure anymore.

You're breezing over the fact that they also controlled the launch from a brand new and unapproved control center.

> What instead happened was a number of launches occurred, and nobody cared because it wasn't important.

you gotta rtfa man, there were 3 violations across two launches with no overlap. We don't know how the FAA noticed, but they did so within a single launch on all counts.
Integrated, single purpose app. Most people don’t even know Notes has OCR. I didn’t until late last year, even though I’ve been iPhone user since the original came out.
And given where pagers are typically kept, future pro-creation of many wounded will be in doubt.
You find where the pagers are coming from. They probably had a supply chain going to cycle through pagers. 2,700 pagers being replaced regularly is an easy target.
If they were truly indiscriminate and and indifferent to collateral damage, there are far easier and more effective ways to kill a few dozen people in Lebanon.

The whole complex and contrived attack speaks of tying to minimize collateral damage.
The unfortunate thing is that regardless of politics, this will be seen as further escalation that ratchets up the risk of greater regional conflict. All wars eventually end, its just a question of how long, and how much death (both militarily and civilian) will be endured by everyone in the region. I hope there are diplomatic possibilities to de-escalate, but it seems those windows are closing.
This really proves my point.

I suggest that maybe the key to success is limiting ourselves to simpler TTL logic and make up for it by adding 10% additional material. Immediately somebody responds that TTL logic is the old way and can't be as good as modern C, let alone Rust.

So now instead of a few hundred large, durable transistors and relays which shrug off radiation and heat and voltage spikes and a have few enough states that they can be formally proved correct, we need delicate 30+ MHz microprocessors which need special radiation hardening and which will go up in smoke if their signal lines transiently exceed 10 volts, and runs a couple million lines of code.

The arguments here for Rust aren't even wrong, which is the problem. In theory Rust would be better than TTL logic in every way: easier, cheaper, lighter, more capable, more logging, updatable. Professionally TTL is an argument which can't be won and is therefore career limiting to make, so finesse wins out.

Yet large projects of every type keep 'mysteriously' failing due to "unforeseen difficulties".
Grateful that you are improving your projects with it!
I'd like for life on earth to go to the moon again. Why should I care if it's bearing a china flag or a usa flag? Nationalism and the "us" mentality is a disease.
You're lucky you're in a position where you have that choice. Many will be forced to find a different company that offers remote or will actually suck it up back into the office.
Hahah thanks!
It helps establish where the habitat/range of the animal actually is. For animals that move around a lot that can be difficult. For example a group of bats may fly down a particular corridor to get to a feeding site. You can establish the habitat for particular animals and improve understanding for the species as a whole to improve prediction.

This understanding is all useful in adjusting human activity to reduce impact. Or at least understanding what that impact may be.
Both things can be true
TIL: How to Get Shell Completions in Nix Shell with Direnv
This is on target. Tagging collaborators certainly has advantages, not so much for invoking a social glare at home but helping to identify them to intelligence sources, certainly.
Yoo, do drop the website with which you tried the tool with
Yes? Clearly the people directly beside the target were physically unharmed and confused about what happened. For all they knew the guy had an e-vape explode or something.

Maybe in the future they'll carry some emotional damage or something, but living in a country de facto in a state of war with a formidable nuclear-power neighbour, while governed by a terrorist organization that indiscriminately fires rockets into civilian areas essentially daily, carries that risk, right? I doubt such an operation was a surprise to anyone.
The spaceplane had an completely imcompressible hull, no synthetic atmosphere was required - in fact, serendipitulously an overkill herring, was the perfect atmosphere for humans.

It was the underwater habitat that had the possibility of extreme temperature gradient fluctuations.
There's actually a lot of good edu stuff on YouTube these days, many of it made by independent creators.

The problem is, of course, separating the good from the bad. My nephew learned a ton from YouTube (he's 8 now), but it's a lot of work for parents to ensure that the material is good and correct, and actually child-appropriate. (And his parents are both teachers, so they have a bit of a leg up on their ability to evaluate educational quality.)
Shouldn't they be named VPU (vector processing units) as they are no longer to produce graphics?
I know there are quite a few open source by default companies. But the ethos of open source is sharing / building something by the community and getting paid in a way which does not scale the way VC funding expectations work.

So to have some respect for the open source way on top of which you are building all this please stop advertising it as "open source infrastructure" in bold and sell it like a normal software product with "source available" on the footer.

If you do plan to go open source and actually follow its ethos, remove the funded by VC label and have self hosting front and center in the docs with the hosted bit somewhere in the footer.
Yes, apparently it can

https://www.graalvm.org/dev/reference-manual/python/Native-E...

> CPython provides a native extensions API for writing Python extensions in C/C++. GraalPy provides experimental support for this API, which allows many packages like NumPy and PyTorch to work well for many use cases. The support extends only to the API, not the binary interface (ABI), so extensions built for CPython are not binary compatible with GraalPy. Packages that use the native API must be built and installed with GraalPy, and the prebuilt wheels for CPython from pypi.org cannot be used. For best results, it is crucial that you only use the pip command that comes preinstalled in GraalPy virtualenvs to install packages. The version of pip shipped with GraalPy applies additional patches to packages upon installation to fix known compatibility issues and it is preconfigured to use an additional repository from graalvm.org where we publish a selection of prebuilt wheels for GraalPy. Please do not update pip or use alternative tools such as uv.
I think it would be probably best to handle it like real time audio, 8kHz is not far off anyway. Just collect mouse sensor data at a fixed sampling rate into a ring buffer, and don't try to have a separate complex object for each sample.
My best guess is explosively formed penetrator in the display.

I don’t think wholesale replacement of the pagers was likely to work for a number of reasons.

They had to go one step up the supply chain.

The EFP display could be set to trigger on a certain message, or even the clearing of a certain message, which in devices without said display would do nothing.

The display is most likely to be pointed at the user’s face, or opposed to their waistline (EFPs sort of fire both ways but in one axis.

The battery, if it were a cylinder as would be likely, would fire tangentially, likely not hitting much.

A prismatic battery would make a good place for an EFP but difficult to interface with and likely requires a second compromised component.
I'm so tired of this. It's really simple:

If the client is proprietary and controlled by the vendor, E2EE is meaningless.

Last I checked, Discord is a proprietary application that updates itself on startup with freshly baked proprietary blobs straight from Discord Inc. They can say all they want about how great the encryption itself is, sure I believe them, but as long as alternative clients are forbidden and Discord's proprietary self-changing software exists on either end, it doesn't matter.
It also shows up as a shortcut in spotlight if you search for “Scan Document”
New Spectacles and Snap OS: The Next Frontier of AR Glasses
>shouldn't too hard to make it score well on accessibility - good point

* Laughs in UI Dev *

Accessible components are far from an afterthought. LLM generated FE code will never be sufficient without some kind of base component library to pull from for things like selects, inputs, modals, etc. that are hand built and tested.
1.3 MB download.
This is pretty beside the point. The point is that X not having a GIL doesn't inherently mean Python on X also doesn't have a GIL.
That’s right, scans don’t appear in Photos. You can delete pages or scans with the usual iPhone controls (swipe left to show the Delete button, etc.)
Pagers don't have GPS devices embedded in them.

Apps (some more or less than others) represent a target for a nation state to pursue for information, graph analysis, bugging, etc.
looking forward to a lengthy blog post blaming BGP and/or some other operator
I have no doubt that innocent civilians have been injured. But it's also worth noting that there are thousands of Hezbollah members, so the number alone doesn't necessarily tell us much about the number of civilians injured. (Similar to the casualty figures that come out of Gaza.)

I hate the idea of any innocent civilian being injured. But it might also be instructive to consider the alternative: if Israel wanted to achieve similar results via a conventional war against Hezbollah, it seems virtually guaranteed that far more innocent people would have been injured and killed—not to mention the Israeli civilians on the other side, whose lives also matter.
> It is obtuse self-interest and disingenuous. Those comments rub me the wrong way.

That is pretty much all arguments for WFH. It's always "oooo I'm so much more productive" and occasionally "I can do errands and stuff now"... but never does it get more reflective than that. It might be great for the individual but for the team level and higher, it's probably not great at all.

Plus... I personally know a non-trival number of people who made some seriously boneheaded short-term real estate purchases in the peak 2020 insanity assuming they'd be doing this WFH forever. The amount of privilege these people had doing that while so many non-tech people got screwed over by their governments... makes it very hard for me to really feel sorry for people having to go back into the office. It was always supposed to be temporary no matter what anybody told them.
double.bot also backed by YC
And they will run how much slower or have strange bugs?
I would argue that Hamas has gone from being an organised terrorist group to being an idea.

Gaza has a very young population growing up with the current war, some (not all) will be radicalized by what they experienced growing up.
Claude refuses to answer because it won't assist with information about weapons.
One idea would be to come up with a secret value, then put it in an envelope for a while. Later on, you'd open it and publish the result. If anyone shows up and knows the secret before you open the envelope: maybe they're a time traveler! But while this might be convincing to you, it wouldn't be terribly convincing to anyone else -- they would assume you shared the secret with the "time traveler."

And this is effectively what Hawking did: the secret is just the location of the party.

(Obviously this isn't foolproof. If a reliable government agency prepares the envelope and makes sure nobody opens it, they could convince themselves you're legitimate. Which is why you need to do this as a fun, unserious joke.)

ETA: Also, if you wanted to make sure the government didn't torture the plausibly-deniable "time traveler" anyway, you'd swear everyone to silence and spread the rumor that "nobody showed up." How would we ever know? ;)
I found it super readable. I think it helps a lot if you’re familiar with the other authors Gwern is referencing.
Thank you! I've just doubled my order of Reynolds Wrap!