skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that ecologically damaging? Maybe in the old times when silicon wafers where produced in Silicon Valley and when no-one thought or cared much about the environment. But today, I would assume the damaging effects of semiconductor manufacturing are less profound. But I do not know. Any inputs are welcome.
tl;dr

maybe we’ve learned that “intelligence” is a meaningless concept, always enacted on levels that don’t themselves seem intelligent. Once we pull away the veil and learn what’s going on, it always looks like search, statistics, or pattern matching. The only difference is between intelligences we understand deeply (which seem boring) and intelligences we don’t understand enough to grasp the tricks (which seem like magical Actual Intelligence).
Did they have Mossad agents doing grunt work on the assembly line? All it takes is one spy working on the assembly line to relay how the malicious pagers look like to make the operation a waste.
When I've dealt with R in production, cursed meant:
- Difficult to keep package versioning, even with "renv".
- If an analyst decide to use a single function from the "tidyverse", you have a tons of dependencies.
- Large docker images (1G+) due to packages like "devtools" and very large dependency tree for the "productivity packages" (see above).
- Hard to communicate with the process. With luck, you can set it up and work with 'r-script' [1]. Without luck, stdout from process or simple files for io.

In the end, to have a nice webapp, we ended up rewriting the R code into typescript. Julia don´t solve this also, as you have a hard time to set it up to communicate with other things. It seems that we can´t avoid the "2 or 3 languages" problem if you don´t use python.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/r-script
>Human brains when generating 'random' numbers

Fortunately, contemporary humans have access to computers, which can generate random numbers for them free of charge.

>Given how much of our appearance is due to genetics, that's basically all the harm

I can't fathom your concept of "harm"; and neither, I think, would any prospective customer of this service.
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> If it wasn't fundamentalism, what do you think motivated the attacks?

I don't mean to be snarky, but I'm finding it very difficult to take you seriously when you make preposterous comments like "Palestinian lives are worth more in Israel than in Gaza" and "Israel left Gaza before".

Hamas is not a fundamentalist group, and indeed they have frequently called out Islamic extremist groups, such as ISIS, for their murderous behaviour. Probably best we don't discuss ISIS further in the context of Israel though...

I also suspect you know very well the reasons for the October 7th attack, which Hamas have been open about[0]: in essence, it's a battle against:

- Israel's blockade and control of the Gaza strip
- Israel's occupation and colonialism of Palestinian lands
- Israel's continued violence, murder and dehumanisation of Palestinian civilians
- Continued Israeli aggression and land theft
- Israel's apartheid regime
- Israel's complete disregard for human rights, international law and the UN
- Israel's inhumane treatment of thousands of Palestinian hostages, including institutionalised violence, torture, starvation, amputation, sexual assault and rape[1]

[0] https://www.palestinechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-rights-gro...
They're already looking to destroy israel prior to this incident.
My understanding is it isn't a new factory. Wasn't the equipment moved from another operational factory so they could get up and running quicker?
Very interesting project. Is there a way to use my own API keys from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google etc. instead of paying the monthly fee for AI?
The fzf repo has a guide/example code for ripgrep integration that works pretty well.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#ripg...
They won't leave.

For 50 years in the US, the maximum tax rate was right below 80%. That didn't make the country poorer, on the contrary: that was the time the US asserted itself as the main planetary superpower. "The rich will leave" is a myth. Probably some opportunists like Elon Musk will, but he's just the (extremely) vocal minority. Most recently in Norway after a targeted tax, out of 230k+ millionnaires and billionnaires, a lot vocally said they would leave while only 30 actually did, which was just marginally over the usual migration rate for that category of people.

So even though no one ever proved that "the rich will leave" (while the opposing has been shown numerous times) over the last century, the simple workaround is to make the tax global or at least as wide as possible, which is what is attempted here.
As a hobbyist, sure. It's not quite that simple when I have commercial apps I need to run in a regulated environment.
I’m generally optimistic about generative AI tools but I 100% agree with this. They’d be better off using Wordpress.
Well, yeah… The US doesn’t really have allies (the one exception some would say is Israel) - why would Taiwan be any different from the others? Interestingly, TSMC only became a stand-out player in the last 15 years, before then there were basically zero reasons for the US to care about Taiwan except to contain China. Now they have one reason apart from containing China, but it’s still mostly just about China.
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yes totally agree with you, it's not our audience even if maybe it's not clear from our website. That's why you've got VS code online integrated in the product => it's for developers
The EU doesn’t consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization either — only its military wing. Much like people who considered the Provisional IRA to be terrorists but not Sinn Féin.
Even if the costs were lower, the trend is towards more inference compute time (o1), so these costs might be valid for the future.
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I assume that you, as a company, need a special permit to manufacture lethal weapons or military products on EU. Either you have it, or you don't. And if you don't have and still do it, I understand that you are breaking a dozen of EU laws.

The EU now needs to do something about it, and do it fast. Or to pretend that nothing happened, surrender to Israel, create a dangerous legal precedent "for the cause" and send a clear message that EU manufacture laws are a joke: "All those security filters painfully raised around EU products worth zero and can be easily jumped over". This is a really bad message for all the EU makers.

A franchise of your brand also signed a contract to make your product. I assume that changing the functionality or specifications of your registered product is strictly forbidden in that contract. I bet that this move violated some laws on Taiwan also.

If I was the CEO of Gold Apollo I would be fuming and furious at this moment.

Israel not only pushed them into the middle of a war that is not their war, without their consent or knowledge; also destroyed the brand image and painted a target in the backs of each employee and reseller of Gold Apollo.

At this moment, nothing suggests that the Taiwan based company were part of this. They should apologize, clear things, and detach themselves from this PR mess as soon as possible.

I understand that from the Mossad point of view this can be a big success, but from the point of view of the companies that try to sell their legit products, this is an direct attack.
Second chance pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
I wasn't directly affected by this, but have recently learned a some about natives in the far northern regions through some popular media. I appreciate having some more context for these types of relations and the meaning of the Navy's apology.

Check out The Terror (2018), a 10-episode suspense-horror set in the 1800s telling a fictional story with similar themes, but with the tables turned on the colonizers. I recommend it for anyone who found this topic interesting.

There is also an antagonist in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992) who came to mind, Raven. This character is an Aleutean Native, an ethnicity that falls under both Alaska and Russia territory. The history described in this article also reminds me of his story.
> The labor force is projected to become younger, more educated and more female, but those groups aren’t necessarily a match for the industries expected to need more labor — including health care, construction, and trades ...

> ... researchers are skeptical that AI and automation can fill the kind of practical, hands-on roles that the economy will need.

I have a real vague memory of an old Hard SF story, where 99.999% of humanity has digitized their minds, and now live only in an awesome cyber-utopia, reaching every-greater heights of intellectual awesomeness. And/or hedonistic excess.

The other 0.001% are a hereditary servile class, who toil endlessly in meatspace to keep the massive cyber-infrastructure, and its not-quite-sentient maintenance robots, working. (The sentient robots have also moved into the cyber-utopia.)

Then, one day, the ill-treated servants flip the giant OFF switch.

Asimov or Clark, maybe?
Why would criminals use specific apps like this and not just something like Signal? Or Session for an example of an Australian app.
Exactly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy
3 weeks to go? I don't think this one is going to pass. And for good reasons it is just really vague in the form that is on the initiative.
>These people should always wear military uniform and live in a separate neighborhood

That is on the table, yes. Otherwise, while they mingle with civilians, it's clear that the civilians are in danger. If I'm one of them, and I'm intent on persuing this action, moving to military quarters is going to come to mind.

Imagine one of those pagers, hip height, at a shop queue or bus stop. Or you're on a bike in traffic next to one of them.

Everything about this sucks. It absolutely is indiscriminate. It's different than droning a guy at his house and accepting his wife as collateral damange. This is 3,000+ maiming explosive devices scattered all about with no way of mitigating the collateral damange.
Ohhh, completely forgot about it. I hope this gives Haxe more spotlight, it's a really cool tech.
If you don't know exactly what you are measuring, the measurement is worthless. We must therefore isolate the measurement subject for the measurement, and avoid uncontrollable influences as far as possible. This is how engineering works, and every engineer should also be aware of measurement errors. In addition, repeatability and falsifiability of the experiment and conclusions are required for scientific claims. The mere statement "too slow to be acceptable" or "worthless pile of lies" is not enough for this.

A measurement method does not have to represent every practical application of the measured subject. In the present case, the measurement allows a statement to be made about the performance of the interpreter (CPython) in relateion to the JIT compiler (GraalPy). Whether the technology is right for your specific application or not is another question.
Contact us forms should be quick to complete. Doesn't look like that's the case with yours?
More like a relic of (actual) "spaghetti code", it was relatively common in really old Lisp code.
I don’t know if you are trolling or so misinformed it is funny.

The UK and EU do limit those activities. They remain entirely legal providing you get explicit opt-in consent.
If I run some simple inference locally on a 4090 (450 TDW card) it takes order of seconds and that sucker's going full blast, you're looking at order of 1 kJ, which is significantly higher than what is quoted in the article.

Article numbers line up better with CPU inference for ~1s.
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Very high. But since they provide actual utility as opposed to the overwhelming majority of the current usecases for generative language models, it doesn’t seem relevant here.
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Since CEOs typically own a lot of stock and are compensated for performance, doesn’t that seem like a strange theory? Intentionally destroying a company you run and own shares in so you can buy more shares seems like a really complicated and high risk strategy compared to just running it well, making a fortune, and getting an even bigger CEO gig.
I take incredible exception to what you are saying. What you are saying might be broadly correct for software as a whole, but not at all for web sites; most commercial web sites exist to drive sales, through advertising and promotion of products for sale if not actually selling the products. The largest client I've had for the past six years or so is a web site that makes revenue through advertising and subscription/premium account sales, so improving the site such that it draws in visitors, entices them to stick around and view ads, and encourages them towards ponying up for a premium account for access to more features is the motivation behind everything I do on it. Everything I do on that site is for the purpose of generating revenue. Another site I'm currently building is just a straight-up e-commerce site for specialized products. One I worked on in the past was a credit provider that specialized in loans for medical professionals and encouraged them to take on loans which in turn made the company profit in the form of interest. One major project I worked on early in my career was for a local newspaper that sold advertising and newspaper subscriptions. I could go on.

As for "original software," how are you defining that? Is software only original if it doesn't use any pre-existing frameworks? Okay, is it all right if I use a pre-existing programming language with a pre-existing standard library, or do I need to build my own? Is it all right if I host on a pre-existing VPS provider, or do I need to start my own hosting company? Can I host in pre-existing datacenters or do I need to build my own? Can I use pre-existing server hardware, or… At the end of the day all programmers who are getting anything practical done are using pre-existing tools at some level to solve their problems, often building new tools along the way. If I use the right tools for the job, build what my client wants, and keep end user experience in mind as much as possible (and I always do), then what's the problem?

Are you actually a web developer? Are you not passionate about it?
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Prepare to be surprised. Hezbollah ordered 5000 pagers specifically for distribution to only their own terrorists for coordinating group activities.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-exp...
For the lazy among us does anyone have a recommendation for an off the shelf medium sized LED dot matrix display controllable from python probably over USB?

Ideally it’s ready out of the box to sit on a desk and be programmatically controlled from a python program. I said for us lazy ones and therefore know that means paying more than one should if they were not.
They said:

> ... those people you mention are already served by signal, so curious what additional value add you bring.

I was responding to that.

(And thank you for this and your other response(s))
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I probably wont continue doing it for long as well. I thought about this out of the necessity of tracking my puppy potty training. And it's not that we forget about going for a walk, is more like getting an idea of at what time of the day, on which frequency they need to pee or poop, and arrange the walks around those times so they can learn to do it outside quickly.
So, this might be useful for puppy and also elder dog owners.
We considered creating a $25 promo code that anyone could use without contacting us, but the reason we chose this method is because even with a $1 promo code last time, we saw many fake accounts spamming it.

That said, we still have a $3 promo code that anyone can use without needing to comment here: HN_3. Also, if you prefer not to comment publicly, feel free to send your feedback to feedback@oblivus.com!
>Try harder

Why? I have zero interest in yet another utopian idea that will probably result in millions dead, as they always do. The current system works well enough and seems like a miracle to me coming from where I grew up, the fact that you can work hard on anything you want, take risks and get rewarded for it, and no one is gonna arbitrarily take it all away is magical.
Systemd unit files can exec shell scripts…

There have been times where I needed to do something that wasn’t available in the unit file syntax, so I just do it in a shell script and ExecStart that.
It does not. Almost no regex engine does that.

To add more color to this, the precise details of what "Unicode support" means are documented here: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/UNICODE.md

In effect, all of UTS#18 Level 1 is covered with a couple caveats. This is already a far cry better than most regex engines, like PCRE2, which has limited support for properties and no way to do subtraction or intersection of character classes. Other regex engines, like Javascript, are catching up. While UTS#18 Level 1 make ripgrep's Unicode support better than most, it does not make it the best. The third party Python `regex` library, for example, has very good support, although it is not especially fast[1].

Short of building UTS#18 2.1[2] support into the regex engine (unlikely to ever happen), it's likely ripgrep could offer some sort of escape hatch. Perhaps, for example, an option to normalize all text searched to whatever form you want (nfc, nfd, nfkc or nfkd). The onus would still be on you to write the corresponding regex pattern though. You can technically do this today with ripgrep's `--pre` flag, but having something built-in might be nice. Indeed, if you read UTS#18 2.1, you'll note that it is self-aware about how difficult matching canonical equivalents is, and essentially suggests this exact work-around instead. The problem is that it would need to be opt-in and the user would need to be aware of the problem in the first place. That's... a stretch, but probably better than nothing.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar?tab=readme-ov-file#summa...

[2]: https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/#Canonical_Equivalents
This happening at the same time as germanys intel project freezes makes the fall seem even harder
I think the number is a lot higher than two ASBM per carrier. There's always a group of carrier, cruiser, and a destroyer squadron that provide a layered defense. So it's probably not that simple.

https://totalmilitaryinsight.com/aircraft-carrier-defense-sy...
And whatabout all of the lights I can see being used in the average American house at night, shouldn’t we address the environmental costs of that first?
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Bought just this past Sunday and delivered this morning, had zero issues finding and ordering it :)
I feel like these "50% off for the first 50 users!" sales are 99 % scams, all that's missing is "purchase in the next 5 minutes for 80 % off"
I checked Wikipedia to learn about the Social Credit System, and according to the article, no such system exists as described. Most assumptions about it seem to be based on misinformation from Western media. Could you clarify what you mean?
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This is a nice use case though, helping with communication.
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Apple ignoring standards again.
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You can have company control without having even a majority.

This is similar to what zuckerberg is doing with Meta. Supervoting Class A shares vs common shares, etc.

The arrangement is completely up to the governing docs of the entity.
Right, but why not use GitHub accounts?
Knowing all the efforts that the US government has had to devote in order to push Apple to bring those jobs home, for other countries that do not have as much muscle as in financial and industrial leverage, their industrial future must look quite bleak.
A monospace version of a font designed to have every glyph be different is DP Sans Mono: https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Sans_Mono
Is there a Nerdfont version of this that I can use for my terminal?
One question seems obvious:

With AIs and stuff, are we saving humanity's digital history, or are we saving a swarm of potentially biased auto-generated content published by the few that can afford the large scale deployment of LLMs?
Excellent post. Thanks for your time and effort.
The [z] and [ð] are phonemically different in English, just as [i] and [i:] are, so it'd actually be "Ðe riform is komplijt". American rhotacism prevents us from spelling it "rifoom" as would be proper, unfortunately.
> It's plainly obvious when you run even the very modest AI models at home how much power these things take.

Really good point to put this into perspective. I tried models locally and my gpu was running red hot. Granted, I think the server boards like H100 are more optimized for the AI workloads so they run more efficiently than consumer gpus, but I don't believe they are more than 1 magnitude more efficient.
> Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished.

I’ve been personally working on a project over the past year which addresses the exact issue:
https://linkwarden.app

An open-source [1] bookmarking tool to collect, organize and preserve contents on the internet.

[1]: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
> I don't have any sense of how common ligature usage is anymore

It's much more common in PDFs than it is on the web, at least when the underlying plaintext is concerned.
As someone who also has naturally curly hair, I think he and I both learned how to let your hair be naturally curly without being frizzy at about thr same time. For years I would just get it cut really short, but I recently went to a really talented stylist who showed me how to curl my hair well and make it look more natural
cron worked just fine and seemingly was perfect for the job for decades and dozens of operating systems.

What happened?
Did ChatGPT just message me First?
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I focused on puppies, but elderly dogs is a nice use case though. Thanks for the input!
It's a shame that Hezbollah do not wear uniforms, a war crime[0]; because then it would be clear that these are military officers, and thus terrorists by that definition.

Or is your statement that the people targeted were not military? Or... what's your point with this comment?

[0]: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule65
You think systemd-resolvd does its job well? :p
Am I misinformed, or was 3,000? They are the most senior 3,000? When you send out 3,000 explosive into the general population, how do you mitigate the collateral damage? I truly don't know the answers here. I'm under the impression that they all detonated simultaneously, so I'm keen to infer that there was very little thought given to civilians unlucky enough to be in the vicinity.

Man. Blasting off fingers and genitals is really something...