skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 188th commandment says to wipe out Amalek completely, male and female, young and old, sparing none, since evil has no future. Livestock too.

Maimonides elaborates that when the Jewish people wage war against Amalek, they must request the Amalekites to accept the Seven Laws of Noah and pay a tax to the Jewish kingdom. If they refuse, they are to be executed.

There are more moderate interpretations, but this discussion is about Ashkenazi fundamentalists.
You've got to separate the tech from human nature. Penicillin, modern medicine, travel, communication etc. are good. Greed corruption and self interest are a human thing irrespective of whether you have high tech or not. We may make some progress there but it's not really a tech issue.
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PhD stipends are technically not classified as income in the UK. As such, they are not subject to minimum wage laws or taxation.
NASA and most of the unmanned space exploration programs will probably be fine.

It's the manned space exploration programs and all the space-as-in-vapid programs that could and should be cut with extreme prejudice.

And in case I need to make myself clear: There is no value in manned space exploration at this point, at least no value that can't be obtained with unmanned programs. I say that as someone who was and will always be fascinated by Apollo, Space Shuttle, et al.
Why do you think people become CS professors? One of the reasons is that they don't like working in the industry and maybe don't even know how to program.
I expect to be very responsible during my working hours.
Any recommended article/link to get the backstory on this situation?
There have only ever been 3 models: NNTP, email, and IRC. ActivityPub is email, that is different servers have different data. Bluesky is NNTP, that is different servers have the same data.

I think a lot of this work is cool, in particular I love the stuff cribbed from IPFS. But I think the main idea here ("we got into trouble because we took responsibility for moderation, let's at least make it possible for it to be someone else's responsibility so we can say 'hey, you might not like our moderation and that's fair; just run your own!'") doesn't address the core problems Twitter had. This structure of media heavily incentivizes shallow communication and rage bait. It divides us by reducing us to cardboard cutouts of our hottest takes and worst moments. It isn't a good idea. Making it impervious to Congressional scorn isn't a step in the right direction.

But OK, stipulating I'm wrong here, it seems fully bonkers that in order to "decentralize" a platform like Twitter that each node has to have a full archive of everything. Who realistically would do this? Wouldn't it be easier to offer your own moderation algorithm or client instead? Is it supposed to protect against Elon Musk buying it too? Feels like being open source and running some replicas is easier (again, the NNTP model).
Not sure I agree with your numbers but I also never see a single political post and everyone seems to say thats all that exists so it might be specific to how you use it or which feed tab you frequent
Office of Personnel Management data breach (2015)
Same thing happened to me when Poker Face used Ngozi Family for an outro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlOT_gSRE48

If you find the documentary, let me know! All I know, besides the bands (also, that "We Intend To Cause Havoc (W.I.T.C.H.)" is one of the greatest band names of all time), is that at one point they all played their shows in lock-in overnight parties because of curfew rules.
my undestanding is that they had to build not only the entire hardware platform from scratch, but also the software.

in one of his talks Bryan Cantrill talks about how AMD cpus were meant to be booted off a uefi microcode, and AMD themselves told them such... Until they kinda reverse engineered the AGESA thingy and made the cpu boot without bios/uefi.

I guess that's the kind of things that take a lot of time... the first time. In the future they'll likely to be iterating faster.

EDIT: i wrote the comment above to the best of my knowledge, somebody from Oxide might chime in and maybe add some more details :)
On my having come with percussions at the strings meeting see the other reply.

I want to check the papers you proposed as soon as I will have the time: I find it difficult to believe that the conscious cannot intercept those "changes of mind" and correct them.

But please note: you are writing «Not only are ... not intentional»... Immature thought needs not to be intentional at all: it is largely spontaneous thought. But whether part of an intentional process ("let us ponder towards some goal"), or whether part of the subterranean functions, when it becomes visible (or «intercepted» as I wrote above), the trained mind looks at it with diffidence and asks questions about its foundations - intentionally, in the conscious, as a learnt process.
Agree and agree.

My point was more just being aware of how we sound to others who don't even have the opportunity we have. But maybe our vocal opposition can inspire them. I don't know. This is a very emotionally charged subject and maybe I should have kept my attempt at nuance to myself.
"Matt Mullenweg is showing the world that he’s one of the pettiest CEOs out there."

https://slate.com/technology/2024/10/wordpress-wpengine-matt...
So fix the real rulers.
He didn't get detention for hallucinating facts. He got detention for plagiarizing hallucinations without attribution.
I remember this code!

If we're talking about my desktop, its current configuration is 3x 2TB NVMe (configured as zfs cache) plus 2x 12TB HDDs (mirrored). I've set sync=disabled, with transaction groups committing every 10 minutes — this is fine for my use case — so the HDDs spend most of their time spun down.

I only actually have 4TB of data on the system. It keeps growing, but the working set is probably much less than that.

Which means, it's 100% cached. A single read sent to the HDDs would have a latency of multiple seconds; absolutely catastrophic for a desktop workload. In this case _always_ using the cache _is_ the right answer, but I've been trying to think of an algorithm that would be able to do so without hardcoding it.
It'd be interesting to see how big a CPU chip scaled up to be big enough for a human to fit in (were it hollowed out) would end up being.
According to the Lancet medical journal, the Gaza deaths are closer to 200k but other sources say it might even be higher. No one knows because most of the hospitals are not operational, the dead from collapsed buildings can't be retrieved.

For Syria, I've heard ranges of anywhere between 300k and 700k. The difference between Syria and Gaza is most of the dead in Gaza are woman and children and the Syrian civil war death toll is over a decade
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The author seems very political along the lines that the majority of Americans who voted for the incoming government are evil.

Like saying YC "CEO, Garry Tan, is known to be vitriolic online, anti-progressive" who you can witness here saying "great outcome for San Francisco. A near clean sweep of moderate Dems" https://x.com/garrytan/status/1854048895162347672

I mean that's another reason for the "swing right" if people favouring moderate dems are denounced as anti-progressive.

Also re a big tech swing to the right, I don't recall the old big tech like IBM and Dow Chemical being a paradise of woke hippies.
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I don't know you, but based on what you're saying, I guess you're in a much different environment than I've ever been in. You're probably also more of a "type A" person than I am.

I've always worked in places that are essentially established businesses. People are mostly bureaucrats and lazy. I believe that's a large majority employers. If you honestly can't understand that that's how a lot of people work, then I think you live in a bubble.
1) only if you truly believe the earth to be flat
2) the earth being a sphere is an objective fact that can be proven by multiple means.

You would either be mistaken if you believed the earth to be flat, or a liar if you didn't.

That also has absolutely nothing to do with your original claim -- that Linus has been "dishonest" because his opinions about technical matters discussed on LKML aren't objective. There is a fundamental difference between stating a fact ("the earth is a sphere") and an opinion ("this work is not up to my standards" or "I do not agree with your approach to solving this problem.")

Note: being rude in expressing their opinions might make a person an asshole, but it does not make them "dishonest."
I don't think a manager will be impressed by a report saying "I know you can't do your whole job, so let me handle face time with the execs so I can take your job from you."
We use it for a huge part of our infrastructure. 3000+ pods running on an on-premise K8s cluster, with most supporting services and systems also running on NixOS. We could never have done what we do, with the manpower we have, with something like Debian+ansible.
I’d presume that as a postdoc they have a pretty good handle on the academic job market and don’t need a one sentence FYI about how it’s important to publish.
I think £10 is the maximum credit agents can offer up the chat.

I had a problematic delivery, it was listed as out every day and 'couldn't be delivered' every day for a few weeks. After a week of this I would get on the chat every day or two to complain (get told that the problem had been resolved and that it would 100% get delivered the next day) and get my £10 account credit. After I got to £50 they promised again that the product would be with me tomorrow and quietly cancelled my order and issued a refunded.
lovely, i favorited that comment!
> It's not my fault that a file system uses up more space storing the same amount of data in two files rather than a single file.

It's not interesting to see people play word games with each other in the HN comments, so why is it interesting to see this kind of disingenuous behavior? Trolls have always existed. I don't get what's interesting about it.
People who are busy thriving at work aren't hanging out in this self-pity party thread.
The gap is much bigger between Americans and Chinese/Indian than it is between American and European.

I’m not just talking about public forums. Saying anything to your superior (perceived superior or otherwise) would result in disciplinary action nearly 100% of the time. It is not even about blunt vs tactful feedback. It’s about any feedback. You do exactly what you’re told and you shut the fuck up.
We've been running it for 7-8 years in production, and it has (and is) serving us well.
I cannot disagree with your assertion that the majority of employment environments have a toxic pathology of hierarchical insecurities, and I've certainly worked within them.

Albeit, yes, with a flagrant disregard for authority (I hesitate to label myself "type A", it's such a reductive term) that worked best when in the second and third decades of my career I was generally engaged on a consulting basis as a fixer/troubleshooter.

So I would admit guilt to an accusation that I have placed myself inside my current bubble intentionally. It's a matter of psychological safety and self-respect. I wasn't kidding when I said I hope you can find a way off that chain, it's an outcome I'd wish on all my peers.
I could not find the answer for you, but I speculate not many: the frozen dna was only stored for 35 years. Cloning also does not need to introduce additional mutations into the dna afaik. So I'd expect very few if any mutations from the material they froze.

And to the reconstruction: I don't think it does in this case. As they talk about working with frozen cells and we are not in the realm of frozen Mammuts who's genomes has degraded and needs to be reconstructed. In that case yes, we would talk about smaller pieces.
I always do Wednesday to Wednesday. I think I’d rather fix something than having it hanging over my head. That said, I prefer systems that don’t require constant attendance. But when I was young, I reveled in that. You get to have a lot of fun firefighting and using each chance to make sure the fire can’t be lit next time. Thoroughly enjoyable and eventually the fires reduce.

I still think of each error as a possibility of improvement to asymptotic zero error and I prefer working with people like that.

Others prefer other systems and I think that it’s fine for each of these groups to select for members appropriately aligned.
Your manager often admits they do bad things for no reason?
Slow down :)

- In one case you write (p/100) and in the other (totalDiscount/100). It wouldn't matter because the end result is the same mathematically, but the apparent meaning is different. But anyway...

- Now the calculated total price is 30, but it should be 70. totalPrice = basePrice * (1 - totalDiscount/100)
You may be right, but I think you can have those examinations and comparisons without necessarily falling into complacency. I think that only happens if the forces driving you are mostly external.
Can I suggest there is a difference between feedback and therapy

We are all human, we have biases and blindspots.

Your trusted lieutenants can come to you and tell you you forgot to do X and because doing X is something either within your personality comfort zone or just outside it, you can if reasonably adjusted take that on.

But there will be things you are not reasonably adjusted for, things that require you to make significant adjustments to your world view and personality - things that you need to make serious compromises on

Some people are so maladjusted they cannot compromise on stuff most of the world agrees on - generally we call them criminals. But this is a spectrum - bad managers usually have very poor matching between their personal problems and the needs of the role.

But even good managers reach a point that their instincts and their rational mind cannot take them past.

In short “everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence” is not a skills problem, but a character problem.
ahmedfromtunis's comment was killed, presumably because he attributed it to Gemini, but it was correct on the facts. Here's the response I wrote to him:

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Count of symbol types is what you'd look at. You have a bunch of unknown symbols, so there's nothing else you can look at.

For comparison:

Japanese hiragana: ~71 symbols [*]

Cherokee syllabary: ~86 symbols

Greek alphabet: ~24 symbols

Latin alphabet: ~21 symbols ( https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR187776 )

[*] Many Japanese syllables are spelled with digraphs ("sh", if the "h" appeared in a special combining form) or diacritics ("è", if è and e were completely distinct sounds, as they are in French), which lowers the memory burden. I've counted diacritics as creating new symbols and digraphs as not doing so.
It should also be noted that a difference is often made between alphabets in the strict sense, where consonants and also vowels are represented by distinct symbols, and alphabets in the wider sense, where this is not the case (vowels are not represented at all or occasionally by certain consonant symbols typically when clarification is necessary). A writing system where symbols denote larger units of speech is not called an alphabet, but a syllabary. If it does not represent phonetic, but semantic units, it is called a logographic script. There are of course all kinds of mixed forms ("I ♥ NY").
700k fatalities is a little high as consensus estimates go, but it’s not ridiculous, even low estimates are in the hundreds of thousands.

It’s been going on for more than 13 years and has way more factions than anything happening in Gaza right now, many/most great powers both regionally and globally have a hand in somehow, and the Western press doesn’t report on it nearly as much as on more recent conflicts.

If college campus protests were driven directly or substantially by human suffering you’d be hearing about Sudan every day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
I think the useful thing here is to mention the trade-off. Practically all my SWE friends making $1m+ are instant responders whether denoted so or not.
I do believe that a tiny uncomfortable UBI would increase the overall economy, and benefit individual businesses by pre-weeding out a lot of posers.

If someone can get by on $500/month, and not feel the need to make the effort to live better, it would be a service to all to give that to them.

And on the other hand, a small fallback that makes it easier for individuals going through a rough spot to come back also helps the overall economy and individual businesses.

Finally, if we had a basic program like this started, the number could go up with overall economic productivity. Slow at first, but as the AI/machine economy takes off, especially with practical accessibility to off planet resources, a tiny fraction of the economic output would make everyone rich by today's standards, just at the time when human labor's economic value heads to zero.
It definitely does; my point is that sanctions aren't very granular (essentially like surgery with a spade), and make life miserable for a whole bunch of people and companies that you didn't want to sanction. Of course, you inflict a lot of damage to yourself as well, as we're experiencing in Europe currently.

But the whole bureaucratic issues are not to be underestimated. At some point, the US eased the sanctions on Iran a bit (under Obama I think), and my former colleague tells me that quite a few European companies were up for doing business with Iran (related to your regular old passenger cars in that case). At some point the sanctions got reinstated, and several German and French companies were threatened with sanctions if not outright sanctioned. My former employer (before my time there) had 2 projects worth ~$5M (of 2010s US dollars, not the monopoly money I earn now) total with some of these companies, and both were axed, even though the company itself had absolutely nothing to do with Iran. They got some compensation, but like not even 10%. Apparently, the whole sanctions thing is considered a "special case" in contracts.
Do you plan to get paid from Argentine customers? If not, maybe you can consider opening a US entity through Stripe Atlas, get a quasi-bank US account through Mercury and send the received amount to Argentina via SWIFT.
How do they know when the writing is pictographic (an idea expressed as an image, like a big predator showing teeth), or syllabic (an image of a bestial grunt, basically, like 'ugh' or 'caw' or what not) or alphabetic (the breakdown of syllabic utterances into, at first, the hard consantants and the vowels)?
Sure. We should harness enthusiasm and channel it in the right direction.

I'm not sure I agree the giants of today are built on the work of enthusiastic novices. Amazon and Microsoft have always had a ton of senior talent. Meta started with novices but then a lot got reworked by more experienced people.

You might get by with sheer enthusiasm and no experience but often that leads you to failure.
Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?
I’ve considered Mercury and Picat this year but I don’t want to go without regex and/or associative arrays. Also Mercury seems moreso about performance than semantics.

I think it’s Prolog for me again this year but with an effort to complete the problems in a more “Prologesque” way.
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If the feedback is irrelevant, you'll waste the least amount of time by not giving it at all. (I think that's slightly different from your scenario though, where you don't actually know if it's irrelevant.)
Arguably, that's implicit in "large". A large program has most likely been extended several times, through its various stages of growth (the alternative being that it was written in a single pass, unlikely). This is tied to the author's point about managing complexity: complexity is the main enemy of maintainability.
the link in the paper referenced goes to some auto-scrolling page with all kinds of content. I found a direct link here:

http://hydra.azilian.net/Papers/Interval%20Tree%20Clocks.pdf
> Doctors are one obvious example — they have on call responsibilities often more onerous than IT, and depending on the situation don’t always receive additional compensation for it.

I mean.... On call doctors literally save lives. Most on-call software engineers don't. So.
It can’t in Silicon Valley. Maybe in Tacoma or the very outer burbs of nyc. I don’t get the point living that far out though. You’re just in suburban hell at that point and stuck with working remote or a megacommute.

Either way, over half your net income is going to housing and that’s on the lower bound of what I gave. You probably won’t have a nice house. Maybe a starter home. May as well move to rural Indiana at that point.
painfully obvious you get your “information” from this “big tech” :)
How can you flatten without also removing a bunch of leaf nodes? Otherwise you’d have one M2 with 50 reports.
I mean, that occurs anytime these labor changes happen in general. Anytime they can appear to align themselves with workers while actually furthering their own ends, they will.

Doesn't mean that advocating for blue collar workers is wrong just because the "founders" are doing it too. Instead we should actually hold them f-ing accountable to what they claim to believe and support when this happens.
> I may have missed something, but I've never felt the "optimism" described by the article in the first place.

I think it depends what the "old days" are for each generation.

For me it is the early days of the Internet becoming widely available, late 80s to early 90s. Suddenly everyone I know has email, everyone is on usenet, I can talk (i.e. text chat) with anyone around the world.

Which of course we can today. But back then there were no corporations involved (commercial use of the Internet was prohibited), so no marketing involved, it was all real people.

And to me this is a key part:

> if I'm using a program from a company, and the company goes out of their way to control

This wasn't a thing. All the communication protocols were open standard (RFCs), the implementations were open source. Every program I used (aside from the OS, which was the domain of proprietary software back then) was one I compiled myself and could modify or rewrite to taste. So it was just us, regular people, who owned and controlled how everything worked and the possibilities were unbounded and thus extremely exciting.

Today mostly we're stuck using proprietary software/apps, or even worse, the "cloud" where the companies control everything.

As much as I can, I still want to control my environment so I stick with open standards like email instead of proprietary chat apps, and I run Linux & FreeBSD, and I avoid phones like the plague since there is no way to own anything on a phone platform.
This guy clearly failed because he didn't actually do any compression, he just ab-used the filesystem to store parts of the data and then tried to argue that metadata was not data...

But FYI someone else actually managed to compress that exact same data: https://jasp.net/tjnn/2018/1.xhtml
Russia can't make more SSJ-100. End of story.
Gamepads work.