skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that 'indirect murder' citations are operations in propaganda and not reason. It involves torturing numbers like it is Abu Ghraib (lets assign all of the deaths of the uninsured to Brian as clearly he is entirely responsible for the existence of the current healthcare system!), take more leaps of logic than Olympic gymnastics, and all mixed together with an extra large dose of motivated reasoning. In order to absurdly alchemize what is an inconvenience and possible financial hardship into the equivalence of mass murder.

The fact "indirect" has to be added as a qualifier to murder is very telling to the illegitimacy of the concept and proof that just murder wouldn't stand undisputed. There is no reduction in culpability in the actual concept of murder.

There is no difference between killing someone with your bare hands, training a dog to push a button on a detonator, or even using a hitman or deliberately creating a lethal rube goldburg machine.

Instead "indirect murder" is just a way to call things which aren't murder a form of murder. That is a quite dangerous form of polemic which is used to justify violence. It can be applied so liberally to argue that dissent harms "the cause", leading to setbacks and therefore is a form of mass murder and justifies killing dissenters.
Gee I can't even understand the abstract.

Can someone explain in plain English how RL is even doable here, let alone desirable?
I'm not very good with words so I can only hope the reader will be able to understand that things are not black and white, but that its a spectrum that depends on countless factors, cultural, societal and other.
The problem is that everyone that tries, keeps missing the CUDA forest and focus only in a specific kind of tree.
If that were the case, then we would pick surgeons by randomly grabbing a person off the street, and not use surgeons that have been trained for years in their profession.

But then you might say, "Medicine is a science, and art isn't. All art is relative and no one's opinion is better than another."

With that, I don't agree. I think someone who has spent more time studying a topic probably, not always, but probably has more insightful things to say about it. A Shakespeare scholar probably has more insights about Hamlet than a guy who read it in high school twenty years ago. In short, I reject the idea that expertise doesn't exist in evaluating the arts.
Ruby and Rails will continue to grow in notoriety thanks to improvements in YJIT, GC, and Ractor/Fibers and the reemergence of SQLite as a production-grade tool.

GenAI tools will "replace" developers in the same way that no/low code tools allowed anyone to make an app. These tools will be tied to specific vendors, meaning you can completely embed with AWS/Google/OpenAI as an LLM app platform, or hire that developer to build the app. Developers who augment their tooling with LLMs will learn faster and become stronger generalists overall. Grow-fast companies will hire less than otherwise, but subject matter experts will keep the lights on and those who can reach across bureaucracies to get things done will remain.

Consumer appetite for products using LLMs for traditional workflows will tarnish: chat bots and human-computer interfaces will frustrate but novel applications like improved search and last-mile customization might take hold: "AI powered" will leave marketing lexicon for segments with consumers who want more privacy and who just want to buy new shoes online.

We won't see the return of high-demand positions with high pay and lots of perks. Companies have been incentivized and permitted to run lean and increase performance demands from remaining staff. Teams have been understaffed for months, but growth remains steady.
Then your post upthread was content-free and pointless. It's not news that government intervention sometimes goes badly.

Maybe explain why you think a specific instance of government intervention is bad. That would actually be interesting and lead to discussion.
Unless it provides the polyglot capabilities of CUDA, and related IDE and graphical debugging capabilities, not really.
I'm not sure it does if I'm honest. The encapsulation via JSON is quite bad and transactional model of HTTP is non-existent. One of our key problems on our platform is deciding on how to handle failures like that in transactional systems. Email is to some degree transactional due to the distributed state. It's going to get ugly.

IMAP is ugly but that is all well understood.
> self hostable serverless

This sounds contradictory. How can I host something that doesn't use a server?

Looking closer, I think they mean "you can set this CloudFlare plugin up yourself". Which is not self hosting, and definitely used a server.
The war in Ukraine is rarely analysed in the media, which cover focusses public opinion on superficial and emotional readings (one might say this is organised propaganda).

Why are the different players acting the way they are and what are their interests? These are the interesing questions.

So far the war seems to have served US interests quite well with the US appearing to be the one clear winner. Perhaps a way to estimate next moves is to guess how things can eveolve from now and which scenarios serve the US' interests best. If they don't see further gains they might decide to freeze the situation but I doubt they would want anything to be seem as a Russian victory (though it'd be hard not to at this point).
Now Google's monitoring service shows 8.5 points of traffic from the Russian Federation. Before the "slowdown" it was 40 points. That is, now it is about 20% of the normal state. That is, we are no longer talking about some kind of throttling, but a real blocking.

We state: YouTube is de facto blocked in the Russian Federation
No they deserve me praise for simply running their stuff on metal... Like a thousand unix sysadmins before and after
Access journalism has damaged reputation of many professional critics. When a new product is launched, e.g. a video game, people want reviews on launch date, they aren't willing to wait. The only way to have a review out on a launch date is to get a pre-release access from the publisher. But the way to get pre-release access from the publisher is to have a good relationship with the publisher and you won't have a good relationship with the publisher if you are going to give negative reviews (even when it's well deserved).

"IGN 7/10" became a meme in the gaming community for meaning "we think the game has some serious flaws but we don't want to appear too negative". People pick up on this stuff, if bad products are 7/10, then reviews get meaningless and people seek more niche critics who are more honest and are not afraid to rate the latest release 2/10 if it deserves it.
How do those confidence levels work? It looks to me you're just assigning probabilities to outcomes.
I am more than happy to not use an "AI platform" for my e-mail and calendar!
What's also worth mentioning is that this article was shared on CERT fb profile and then shortly removed under the false pretense of being a spam. In similar fashion articles taking on this issue were removed or limited on visibility within the platform. CERT article was published again without the issues; Polish CSIRT team then released a statement regarding this action criticizing meta's moderation.
The premise was “Asian,” not “Northern Asian.” The latter appears to be speculation in this thread.
Or a feed with only this post
Oh, and the EEG fee (guaranteed price for producers of renewable electricity regardless of demand) that is now funded through the federal budget exploded to > €20 billion. Which is pretty much the amount that caused the government to collapse in the budget row.
you seem to be embellishing that line a bit:

>Although unable to obtain the specimen, WSDA did place traps in the area and conduct outreach to encourage reports of additional suspected sightings. Neither trapping nor outreach yielded additional evidence of hornets in the area. WSDA will conduct trapping in the area in 2025 as a precautionary measure.

That's just responsible book keeping. No different from making a proper test suite even though there is no unexpected behavior in the software product.

But if you really did find one of these in Canada, I'd definitely report that. You may unironically save Canada months of labor searching for a potential hive of migrated hornets.

>Not “confirmed” of course. Just like the report from 100 miles south of here 2 months ago. “Not confirmed”.

who's doing the confirming, or lack thereof? There may be difficulties with investigations if they crossed country lines. the WSDA, if reported to, may not have the authority to properly search in Canada. I'm not sure what the equivalent organization in Canada would be.
Backwards compatibility, and polyglot ecosystem, thanks to the amount of compiler toolchains that support PTX.
I did my top 5 for my field cyber security

AI in cyber defence and attack
Quantum resistant cryptography
Death of the password? Passwordless, passkeys, phishing resistant MFA
More suppliers compromised, another major open source project long con
Doing more with less: automation and consolidation

https://rakkhi.substack.com/p/cyber-security-predictions-for...
Natsume Soseki once said that reading every book from cover to cover is like marrying every girl you fall in love with. I think it was in the book Kusamakura.

A physicist friend of mine changed my life by simply saying that the reader is under no obligation to or has a contract with the author that he needs to read everything the author wrote. I cam across the more poetic Soseki later.
In a better world, it would be absurd. But America has quite a few no-excuse-is-too-weak xenophobes, who have a documented history of violence against random strangers, for the "crime" of looking "Asian".
Why do people keep quoting "military age" here? There's no a priori reason why the next CEO shooter might not be underage (common in school shooters) or retired (with time, pain, and guns on their hands)?
Intercepting WebSocket messages to analyze GeoGuessr party games
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
NVidia also refactored their hardware design to follow C++ memory model, I think this still isn't the case of others.
Fundamentally I think we want experts, not critics.

It matters less to me that they're not as eloquent, not professional public figures, not well renowned or have a fancy title at some prestigious publication.

In our fields we have many of that, I'm thinking at people like John Siracusa, with a background in doing things first, and using it to comment on stuff that pick his interest.

In the musical field I see podcasts like Switch on pop in the same vein, where they're not critics by trade, and will dive into the music mainly from a technical viewpoint.
I do these. Sirry for crude art, my scanner broke and i haven't got a new one yet

https://9gag.com/gag/azxeBoz?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium...

https://9gag.com/u/aszantu/posts

Edit:there is a discord community dedicated to support people mentally. It's called healthygamergg. The founder has a youtube channel and sells courses but anyone can join the discord and support fellow strugglers or get support by asking. No fès attached.
It isn't farmers, but oncologists are notably more likely to choose hospice for themselves when it comes to cancer care. It is similar for familiarity with death + end of life decisions.

Of course that case is probably related to knowing the actual probabilities and the suffering involved. Medicine isn't just "drink a potion and be instantly cured or instantly die", it is a long painful process.
Like always, one needs to engage with a critic over time to get an idea of how they view the world and to be able to project it onto your own preferences. YouTube greatly facilitates this.

And every decent reviewer makes an effort to lay out the facts in front of you and try to be somewhat objective, or at least account for diverse tastes, for a portion of the criticism, so you can reach your own conclusions.

There are tons of excellent full-time critics that know what they are doing. They might not sound as scholarly as in the past, but that was mostly a stylistic choice and I'm skeptical about there being much more substance behind the flowery language.
You can thank the supreme court for that. Also Trump ran 2015 in support of sports betting online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_...
As a lazy reader, could I ask those posters that use linear models for prediction to just say so, for example use tags as: [Linear prediction based on the last five years for bitcoin value]. Since I can make easily that prediction by myself I am not going to extract much value with your linear prediction. Anyway that prediction reflects what you are interested in or what is interesting for you, or what you consider could be interesting for the rest of us. That is the answer to another question: What do you think is interesting for us.
If anyone is wondering, the infamous “they” in this case is The Entomological Society of America, not the USDA or WSDA. You can read the press release here:

https://entsoc.org/news/press-releases/northern-giant-hornet...

Their guide to creating common names for insects is here: https://entsoc.org/publications/common-names/use-submission
I want to build from a prebuilt AI to help with coding
Been coding and now I want to crack into AI with sth that's convenient and don't suck for privacy. I've checked out:

- HP Z8 Fury G5: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-z8-fury-g5-tower-workstation-customizable-3f0p6av-mb

- Dell R940xa: https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-poweredge-servers/poweredge-r940xa-rack-server/spd/poweredge-r940xa/pe_r940xa_12870

- AnonAI On-premise: https://www.autonomous.ai/anon-ai/anon-ai-on-premise

Want to check out more options around $15k. I'm looking for something that's easy to set up, private for data analysis and is convenient to use without requiring endless config tweaks. Any options beyond those? Thanks.
No, let's be honest. CEPH is the only solution for data management at this scale (sub to few PB). The solution which is independent of application or workload. The market share, fact IBM is moving people off other projects internally for this, and the massive backing shows this.

Yes you can have all or a bunch of these features like failure domains via other routes/products but none have all of the stuff together in one place like CEPH.

There's a reason people call it the "Linux of storage". The only alternatives are manage this at a higher level in your stack (reinventing the wheel) or buying PB level solutions from corporate which is like saying I'm buying Oracle and MS over Linux.

Protocol replication means you've reimplemented something which is storage related elsewhere in your stack. It's not incorrect to do so, but there exist better solutions and alternatives now.
Yeah, well, Zeppelin were exceptional in perhaps all ways.

Robert Plant was an unknown just singing around with perhaps the greatest fricking drummer of all-time (at least legendary, for sure). And Plant is also just incredible.

John Paul Jones was a multi-instrumentalist session player of renown, and Jimmy Page was already famous.

It's one of those stories where the very first time they played together they just looked around at each other, nodded, and knew that it was special.

Plus, they did the 2nd album while touring the first one (within a year, IIRC).

And, wow, that second album has "What Is And What Should Never Be" and, my all-time favorite, "Ramble On". Just epic. And then, later, "Kashmir", "The Rain Song", the list goes on and on and on.

And they also back up my point that alcohol is a pox upon humanity. RIP Bonzo. The alcohol-encouraging cultures on Earth are insane, but the ones that forbid it tend to be even worse in many ways. What a troubled bunch of kinda-monkeys we are, huh? Common sense just ain't very common.
Please remember to write "Show HN:" when submitting your own content.
This is pretty heavy on the marketing speak for HN.
I understand you mean it as a joke, but unironically, it's among the most widely deployed sandboxes in the world, which actually would make it a worthy contender if not for the resource requirements, complexity, and the upgrade treadmill.
Snyder is right-wing? News to me!

(Speaking of right-wing historians, does anyone have thoughts on Richard Pipes? Specifically his book on the Russian Revolution. I found it fascinating, but it has been criticized, and I'm not sure how much credence to give the critiques.)
It sounds like you've decided that "luxury good" means "anything that's more expensive than a competing product by an arbitrary dollar amount I've decided on".

That's not how the concept of luxury goods works.

Also consider that Android is not a 1:1 replacement for an iPhone in the same way that a Honda is a replacement for a Mercedes-Benz. Lock-in and ecosystem interop matters a lot more for a phone than for a car.

I would probably buy into the idea that a Pixel (for example) is a luxury Android device, but not that an iPhone is a luxury smartphone in general.
Ars Technicas Top Video Games of 2024
41% is not terrible either, but if you want the most blatant example from that universe, take The Acolyte: 18% given by the audience for a show of high school project-quality was quite generous, even.
Omg it's 1970 and we have IMAP now... Oh wait...
Those are generic enough you could argue they already occurred last year or this year?
If JMAP is to be successful, having support in Thunderbird is a must have first step. It's not helpful if the same party that provides the mail service provides the frontend as well. In that case you might as well leave out the open protocol and just push the browser-based client.

I like Fastmail and use it because it provides a service, and does so well (which includes support you can actually reach out to and talk to a human who will actually help you). I also like that my identity and daily e-mail experience is in no way hard-linked to them. I have my own domain, and I use Thunderbird and K9-Mail (now also Thunderbird).

I also like that I can log onto to their website and do things there if needed. This is mostly managing masked e-mail addresses and the occasional check on my subscription settings.
> you cannot use our platform to price gouge people and sell your shit for more than you are selling elsewhere.

You're badly misrepresenting the situation, to the point that I have to wonder whether you're just being dishonest. Many (likely most, but I don't have the data) 3rd party sellers aren't price gouging customers on Amazon, they're simply trying to pass Amazon's significant fees onto the customers.

They're being prohibited from doing so which reduces price transparency and competition which as you surely know, are both required for a market to be efficient.

This is a move that I would expect to disgust free market capitalism maximalists on some level, regardless of what one may think about Amazon's "right" to do whatever it wants.

I asked you whether you believed that society would democratically support Amazon's actions to determine whether you're making those arguments because you genuinely believe this behavior makes average people's lives better, or whether you're just arguing some abstract extremist neoliberal talking points of freedom for the sake of freedom, no matter what it costs us.
Goodbye to Berlin, Europe's self-effacing capital
How does this compare to something like LangFuse?
Huh? The North Korea confusion angle was raised to explain why they might not have called it the Northern Asian Giant Hornet to distinguish it from the Southern Asian variety. That's what I'm responding to, nested in the thread.
The less of Chrome extensions, the better.
Make Math Obvious
I heard (on HN) that often an extension changes owners just before turning bad. Curious if that was the case here.
Slightly click-baity title. Please include uBlock Origin in the title.
This. People forget that when everyone's opinion matters, no one's matters. Alot of hobby cultures are alot more fragmented with the advent of social media today than in the early 2010s, and we do suffer for it. Fan OC works are down, modern works don't have lasting impact, it's the same tired discussions going in circles every year, there isn't really a sense of continuity in ideas anymore.
You don’t understand what most people do for work. I’d be very surprised if 10% of jobs are wiped out.
Emacs allows inlince images since the first X-based release, even more with Emacs. Inline images
on Email and everything.

Also, Email itself supports MIME too.

But no image will be concise enough against a good wall of text explaining it.

30 years ago was 1994. People used to post images under Usenet too.
But a lot of these images without some annotation they are useless.
I think many here think they are Claude Shannon himself so using something like Claude is just below such a genius.
There is a lot more detail in the article that makes not generic
> have transformed robotics

When questioned:

> believing robotics is fundamentally about to transform

These are not even remotely the same thing. Something that has happened already and is verifiable fact is not the same thing as your opinion, even if your opinion is based on a lot of sound arguments and reasoning.

Very tiresome to read so many claims of fact based on opinion of what will happen in the future.
Even Mac OS X early on had problems.

I actually maintained a "Crash Log" at the entrance to my cubicle, recording how many times a given application had crashed that day/week/month/year and ultimately extended it to record even the preceding years.

Quark XPress 6 required a colour-coding which reached into the hundreds for a given year (my recovery folder got cleared out once a week and had hundreds of GBs of files in it most Fridays), and Adobe Acrobat wasn't far behind (but no recover folder), while the OS itself was quite reliable --- work done using TeXshop and other Cocoa apps rarely crashed or had problems.

It was a big change from NeXTstep, where I can only recall one software crash, and two hardware faults (SCSI) during college, which was the high-water mark of my GUI experience, w/ a NeXT Cube (w/ Wacom ArtZ and a scanner) and NCR-3125 (running Go Corp.'s PenPoint) and Apple Newton MessagePad all connected together using a serial interface to write papers and take notes and do graphic design work on.
Elaborate if you’re going to disagree on why 80% is the magic number that means a supposedly liberal society should govern the QoL features of a foreign corporation’s product that already adheres to open standards on the communications hardware and software.
You probably don't need what you're thinking of a "VM instance" to run a VM, and for games you may well be better off building your own VM, although that depends how far down "arbitrary code" you go.

There are a few Zach-like games which achieve this kind of thing.

The scope of the VMs they build are different, the VMs in Shenzen I/O are quite different to that of TIS-100. Likewise non-zach zach-like games like "Turing Complete" also let you build through VMs.

These aren't the kind of VMs you might expect, they're not full x86/x64 emulators, they're very simple virtual machines that have can handle a small abstracted instruction set.

If you restrict the VM to executing a limited number of instructions/cycles, then you don't need it to be super performant in terms of clock cycles.

More important is to define the memory limits of your VM. This is a key constraint that will keep processing feasible but also keeps understanding to be manageable for the player.

If I recall correctly, TIS-100 has 1 general register and 1 accumulator register in each general cell. I don't remember now if there are also special memory cells, but if there are, I suspect the total amount of memory is of the order 64 bytes or so.

Other similar VM games have more memory support, but typically top out at 16KB.

What's the actual gameplay loop you'd like to achieve? Defining that will help define and shape the constraints you put on players.