skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genocide as defined in international law is very broad, it also includes cases where 0 people are killed:

- displacing a group in a wider region to try and dilute the ethnicity/culture is genocide

- trying to increase infertility in a group can be genocide

- forcing children from a group to attend schooling of another culture can be genocide

Any action or set of actions that causes going from condition "this cultural/ethnic/national group exists in some state" to condition "the same group is has suffered irreparable damage" can be genocide if done with that objective.

For example when Canada was sending Native American children to boarding school it was clearly a genocidal act, the only uncertainty would be around the intentions:

1) if the Canadian government was trying to improve the standard of education and literacy then it wasn't a genocide

2) if they were trying to bring some good old Christianity to new continent pagans then it was genocide.

In general forced boarding school of a minority definitely would sound like genocide.

You can guess how starving a country while bombing it to scraps scores on this scale
Workers in Saudi Arabia say Amazon failed to compensate them for labor abuses
Even better yet, whole-leaf tea (where the leaves are balled up and dried) -- put a teaspoon or so in the mug, add hot water, leaves unfurl and you can sip the tea off the top. Then when finished, add more water for a second infusion (some teas I can do this all day).
This is a pretty cool article and it shows out the difference in needs across states.

I remember I lived in Toronto for a year and constantly got asked why Americans needed "big trucks" for anything. They assumed every American had some massive truck.

I had to explain to them about farming, hauling stuff, etc... I'm not sure they believed me.

Hell, Californians feel the same way. "Who could ever need such a monstrosity!"
I'm glad they are publishing their cookbooks recipes on github too. Openai used to be more active there.
"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. " For sure you can play with this tutorial as it is interactive

Fine to remove "Show HN" next time
There’ll always be an advantage for those who understand the problem they’re solving for sure.

The balance of traditional software components and LLM driven components in a system is an interesting topic - I wonder how the capabilities of future generations of foundation model will change that?
The math is simple enough, it's just the delta-v requirements are brutal. Or you take the slingshot approach at which point the math requirements are brutal.

And I'm not aware of any KSP mod that helps you plan slingshots. And even if there was a slingshot maneuver requires a lot of precision because your ejection angle is highly sensitive to exactly how close you came.

The Parker probe was sent outward to Jupiter and used it to slingshot away much of it's energy. (We normally think of using a planetary encounter to gain energy but it works both ways. Ejection velocity from a slingshot at Jupiter can be anywhere from hitting the sun to solar escape. It's just most probes are heading out, not in.)
indeed, we've seen this approach as well. All these "frameworks" in real business cases become too complicated.
I think expecting five orders of magnitude improvement from either side of this (inference cost or phone performance) is insane.
Maybe reach out to Netflix's live streaming dept. since we all learn so much more from our own failures.

Cheers!
It's just an ugly ass syscall extension mechanism (so it has no direct equivalent in Linux lets say), it definitely looks bizarre in modern times.

Int 2F is initially handled by DOS as a stub, but additional programs (like drivers and TSRs) can override INT 2F, put their bucket of functionality and then fallback to whatever the previous installed handler was (called chaining) for whatever they don't handle.

This gives a glimpse into how much various crap could end up installed as an Int 2F handler:
https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/websitecopies/Linux.old/doc...

It was often used for feature/presence checks and usually nothing time critical as that chaining setup was most definitely not timing friendly.
The word "computer" itself used to be the name of a human profession.
Yes, this is actively being explored, see for example this for Iridium: https://investor.iridium.com/2021-05-24-Iridium-Makes-Strate...
Even Windows has %appdata% which is where you put stuff on disk that you need to stash away. There's also function calls iirc which will give you a handle to a temporary file if you need it.
Try to define happiness in a universal pragmatic way.

Even basic survival varies acc ross culture and contexts. People die in the millions all the time for their countries, ideas, religions, offspring…
To pay for renewable energy ? Thats what's happening in my country , although renewable energy supporters claim renewables are cheaper. .....
Actually, parent is wrong. You're not supposed to do that shit on Windows either. That's what AppData is for. Writing configuration files and folders to "Documents" or the user's home folder is sloppy shit.
I would suspect that a slingshot at Jool would do it but I've never tried.
NVMe is faster than SATA. But for my purposes SATA is fast enough; I just hope manufacturers would make SATA SSDs cheaper than NVMe SSDs. But alas that's not the case.
It seems difficult to fit a city hall in either of them.
Rachel by the Bay (https://rachelbythebay.com/) has long impressed me as someone who clearly is deep in the actual work of systems, day in and day out, and can write well about it.

Julia Evans has a wonderful approach as well, and has amazing talent for teaching: https://jvns.ca/

Kellan Elliott-McCrea (https://laughingmeme.org/) has given the world some of the better advice on the hardest parts of software scaling, which is of course scaling the human organizations. New grads are virtually always underestimating that part of the work; eventually you realize the hard problems are usually social and not technical.
Yeah, it was a joke.

However, these scammers tend to come across as the platonic ideal of a perfect support rep.

My wife almost got taken by one, several years ago.
Once upon a time, I was a sysadmin, the sole tech guy at a small marketing firm. I came to similar conclusions about a new co-worker who everyone else respected highly. My instructions for them to follow in using the computers always resulted in calls for help. There was always some trivial wrinkle that tripped them up. It got to be quite frustrating.

It took a while to realize that what happened is that person was a pure "packer" in the mappers/packers sense.[1] Packers NEVER check concepts or instructions for consistency, and don't build mental models of how things work, they just are really, really good and memorizing things and following instructions precisely. However... any deviation and you're in a world of hurt, like a language without error handling.

I reconsidered the instructions I provided, and edited them to include any exceptions that might happen (files not present, etc) and included ways to deal with each. We became quite supportive of each other after that change. They never had another problem using the computer for their work after that.

I suspect it's not the case for you... but it's a non-zero probability this applies.

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?MappersVsPackers
Looks like Puget Sound market is running 93% occupancy, with 392,000 total apartment units in the market, thats 27,000 vacant units today. Very healthy market but not a crisis.

https://simonandersonteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/202...
The federal government doesn't set or enforce building codes for your apartment building. State and local governments are responsible for that.
> But you don't see this kind of discussion on the narrow models/techniques that made strides on this benchmark, do you ?

I don't understand what you are getting at.

Ultimately there is no axiomatic definition of the term AGI. I don't think the colloquial understanding of the word is what you think it is (i.e. if you had described to people, pre-chatgpt, today's chatgpt behavior, including all the limitations and failings and the fact that there was no change in GDP, unemployment, etc), and asked if that was AGI I seriously doubt they would say yes.)

More importantly I don't think anyone would say their life was much different from a few years ago and separately would say under AGI it would be.

But the point that started all this discussion is the fact that these "evals" are not good proxies for AGI and no one is moving goal-posts even if they realize this fact only after the tests have been beaten. You can foolishly define AGI as beating ARC but the moment ARC is beaten you realize that you don't care about that definition at all. That doesn't change if you make a 10 or 100 benchmark suite.
3 million? You may have missed some classes in school
It's rarely mentioned because it's irrelevant. He wasn't shot because of the insider trading, and the insider trading doesn't morally justify the shooting.
> The whole notion of semantically pure HTML, vue vs. react, and all the other nonsense web developers obsess about. It does not matter to them at all. You could use divs for every freaking HTML element and they couldn't care less. Or render the whole thing with some native UI toolkit to a canvas (which is an option these days). As long as it does the job.

Only if your definition of “does the job” does not include “is accessible to every potential user” or you put in much more effort than you would otherwise have to if you used the web standards as intended.
Congress, you might want to take a look at this- What might DOGE have brewing?
Ample bodycam footage of people on drugs, or overdosing is widely available. I’d like to imagine that many people’s first exposure to drugs is seeing the terrifying things it leads them to do.
Welcoming Campsite's Founders to the Notion Team
> That's what the law is for, and courts, and juries

but it is not though, right? in your very next paragraph you went into political drivel about “libs/left” and Trump and whatnot. In this country nothing is about the law any longer, every single crime is a political charade. Is Luigi a criminal and should be either in jail for the rest of his life or executed? Absolutely. Is Trump a criminal who should be in jail for the rest of his life instead of being President? absolutely. But just as Trump will never see inside of a cell, Luigi may also not spend the rest of his life in one :)
It matters to extent that they want to market this as general intelligence, not as a collection of narrow intelligences (math, competitive programming, ARC puzzles, etc).

In reality it seems to be a bit of both - there is some general intelligence based on having been "trained on the internet", but it seems these super-human math/etc skills are very much from them having focused on training on those.
New Orleans is hovering around 92% occupancy across the market at $1,273/mo average rent. Plenty of room for both to compress. Very healthy.

https://mmgrea.com/new-orleans-2q-2024-report/
There is clearly a difference between states that invested in projects that went over budget. Power generation is cheaper in a lot of states due to the price of natural gas is dramatically lower than it was 20 years ago. Florida uses gas for 75% of electricity.
NixOS user here, where running precompiled binaries from your downloads folder won't work.

Could you look at supporting a Flatpak for Linux? If unsure, I'll happily throw a manifest together and post it on a MR.
Investigating a new respiratory virus outbreak in Santa's workshop
I'm still holding on to my hypothesis in that the excitement was sustained in large part because this progress was something a regular person could partake in. Most didn't, but they likely known some kid who was. And some of those kids run the gaming magazines.

This was a time where, for 3D graphics, barriers to entry got low (math got figured out, hardware was good enough, knowledge spread), but the commercial market didn't yet capture everything. Hell, a bulk of those excited kids I remember, trying to do a better Unreal Tournament after school instead of homework (and almost succeeding!), they went on create and staff the next generation of commercial gamedev.

(Which is maybe why this period lasted for about as long as it takes for a schoolkid to grow up, graduate, and spend few years in the workforce doing the stuff they were so excited about.)
We worked with ARC to run inference on the semi-private tasks last week, after o3 was trained, using an inference only API that was sent the prompts but not the answers & did no durable logging.
Oops, I must have pasted the wrong thing. Thank you!
I have a small system running proxmox with a disk activity LED on the fron. And even when quiet with no containers or vms, it is hitting the disk.

a LOT.

I turned off a bunch of stuff (I don't run replication):

systemctl disable pve-ha-crm
systemctl disable pve-ha-lrm

But stuff like /var/lib/pve-firewall and /var/lib/rrdcached was still written to every second.

I played around with mount options like commit=n

It kind of helped to use log2ram:

https://github.com/azlux/log2ram

but it sure didn't eliminate the problem.

I think with a little effort from the proxmox guys, they could gather a lot of low-hanging fruit.
he said “basically everyone” which is true. I don’t have to eat this large apple pie that is front me now but I’m about to :)
And human costs have been increasing a few percent per year for a few centuries!
Doctors, lawyers, programmers. You know the difference? The latter has no legal barrier for entry
That’s the model when you’re in the IP business - nothing new here.

This is what you use to fund the next generation of said IP. There is no magic.
1. Get a set of dishes that does fit nicely together in the dishwasher.

2. Start with a cold prewash, preferably with a little powder in there too. This massively helps with stubborn stuff. This one is annoying though because you might have to come back and switch it on after the prewash. A good job for the robot butler.
This is seeing the morality of the situation upside down:
Committing genocide is bad, whether it's by your enemy, ally, or you own does not change that.

If you allow I would like to rephrase your conclusion differently

> The Nazis committed genocide but so did the USA, the USSR, the CCCP so they should not act all high and mighty as a paragon of morality.
If they’re building good AI models (and, let’s hope, testing them)

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
True, but the accurate clock doesn’t need to be aboard the satellites as long as they have continuous (low-jitter) connectivity to the timing source, and Iridium and newer Starlink satellites do.
Exactly the same happened with me. Picking up the phone and responding to email (in weeks, not hours or days) didn't lower my bills. This sort of marketing is perhaps deflection.
The TNFS protocol used by FujiNet has also been used in other network cards for old 8-bit computers. My own ZX Spectrum is fitted with a Spectranet card which enables the same kind of connectivity and creativity. I wrote about it in my "DevOps For The Sinclair Spectrum" article[1] which featured here, and my TNFS site is now available through a JS emulator on a web page[2] if you want to see the kind of thing you can create. It's sort of like an old-school BBS, except the code is downloaded and run directly on your computer, which opens up a world of possibilities like multi-player games and even bridges to protocols like Gopher, Gemini and IRC which make communicating with the "modern" Internet possible even on an ancient tape-loading 8-bit micro from the 80s. Really fun stuff!

[1]=https://www.markround.com/blog/2021/12/21/devops-for-the-sin...

[2]=https://jsspeccy.markround.com
thank you for the great work!
Why is social media so anti-social?
We're speaking recently a lot about ecology. I wonder how much CO2 is emitted during such a task, as additional cost to the cloud. I'm concerned, because greedy companies will happily replace humans with AI and they will probably plant a few trees to show how they care. But energy does not come from the sun, at least not always and not everywhere... And speaking with AI customer specialist that is motivated to reject my healthcare bills, working for my insurance company is one of the darkest future views...
that's a good point. People who follow crypto accounts on social media probably own some amount, so it's pretty easy to go from there.
Are you in the north of the N/S smart meter divide? I wonder if that has a lot do with experiences.
Telemetry Harbor simplifies IoT data management by offering an easy-to-use platform for data ingestion, storage, and visualization. With pre-configured Grafana dashboards, users can quickly push and view IoT data without the complexities of self-hosting or infrastructure management.
Boston City Hall is the perfect candidate for an eco-brutalist makeover. Add the SF Hyatt Regency while you're at it.

Europe's eco-brutalist buildings are gorgeous. [1] [2]

Boston City Hall's problem is the windy open plaza. The building stands as the only imposing mass in that area. If there were trees and other shelter, one could admire it. But as it stands today, it intimidates.

All that being said, positives changes are happening. Cop slide is definitely one of Boston's must see attractions.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/11...

[2] https://www.archdaily.com/958637/uncovering-the-hidden-gems-...
This has been well known for a long time.

Just another paper confirming the "Alcohol Longevity J Curve"
> You'll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible.

That's the most plausible definition of AGI i've read so far.
Has Elon Musk might have unleashed his 100,000 GPU cluster on government reform?

Pahlka in her earlier essay said the bureaucracy would have the upper hand in their clash with DOGE. Someone has apparently tipped her off as what DOGE has planned and it appears she has somewhat reversed her position.
I suspect the people positionally most likely to find bits, were also least likely to want to give them back. There's generally a long tail to any army or kings parade and you'd think a good few people with means and ability were dotted around long after John had moved on, sifting the strand with rakes.

But you'd also think a bit would be missed. Maybe like "detectorists" there's a chunk waiting to be found, for somebody to do their gold dance to.
I don't think it's a particularly cryptic measure.

The UKs peak carbon per kWh was at some point. Since then it's dropped at a percentage rate higher than anywhere else.

The biggest thing has been the elimination of coal even if it's with natural gas as it's a much cleaner fuel. It's still a fossil fuel, but burns with much less pollution.
I'm retired (yeeted out of the workforce due to Long Covid, and the brain fog)

I'm about to pull the trigger on TinyTapeout, and possibly the Zero to Asic course, so I can get a BitGrid chip running, and characterized. It's either scalable to Petaflops, or not... and I need to know.

This will require learning VLSI design, how to write testing routines, and then there's all of the software required to actually make it useful.

I'm also looking to get a decent 3d printer, and some machine tools so I can make machine shop parts with my own machine shop. ;-)

I especially want to be able to make cutters and hob/shape gears, like I used to for work.

Oh, and continue on with Kicad 8.0 so I can build a PCB for a 16+ channel SDR receiver to do passive radar.
>If it was simply to get their own state surely they could have achieved it by now

The PLO has accepted a two-state solution since 1981, for nearly 44 years. This is what Avner Yaniv called the "peace offensive", and is especially dangerous because it weakens Israeli attempts to deny a Palestinian state. The solution to this is simple: provocation to encourage extremist elements. Of course in 1982 Israel went a bit further and used provocation to set a precedent to invade Lebanon in an attempt to destroy the PLO entirely.

>Which means returning to their original homes (I don't see how you could do that without throwing out the Jewish 'colonists').

This is not what the right to return is. This is what Amnesty has to say about return:

>Where possible, Palestinians should be able to return to their original home or lands. If this is not possible -- because they no longer exist, have been converted to other uses, or because of a valid competing claim -- they should be allowed to return to the vicinity of their original home.

"Valid competing claim" includes the modern-day owner of the home.
> The consequences for each dead hostage should be massive

Even when Israel is killing them?
Charity Majors (https://charity.wtf) is a great writer and speaker, and her work on observability is directly relevant to infra at scale.
I think some of the WSL stuff refuses to deal with SUBST'd drives. And if you use voidtools's Everything, it's worth spending 2 minutes setting up some excluded paths so that you don't get doubled up entries. But it seems it does generally work pretty well. I've recently done work for a former employer, who it seems are still using SUBST'd drive Z:, just as they'd always done when I worked there nearly 20 years ago. (Main reason: we'd found it worked well at the place we'd all worked at previously...)

The idea of everybody having the same paths for things never sat right with me, because it's an easy way for absolute paths to sneak in, which can be (and occasionally was) a problem when trying to support multiple branches later in the project lifecycle. But if you've got a CI system, which people typically do in 2024, that's much less of an issue (because you can arrange for the CI system to build from a random path each time). And it is pretty handy when you can paste universally-usable paths into the chat.
I believe you.

I’m coming from the perspective that lots of great intentioned ppl who want to buck a social norm, run up against obstacles and the have to start compromising, eventually reverting back to the norm. A founder has to make an unsavory deal with an investor, or they get fired, or they cash out…

Jim Jones started out as an idealist. Putin was super popular early on.

Generally I put my faith in systems, and consider human nature as more of a constant, dependent more on situation than individual over the long term.
You want to provide citation or just say you are objective? Look at any major nation-wide multifamily housing market report. Not a crisis. It's just expensive in the most desirable locations.

CBRE's headline: Slight Apartment Oversupply Expected in 2024 (oversupply means vacancy drops below the industry target of ~93%)

>>The biggest wave of new apartment supply in decades will temper rent growth and improve affordability for renters in 2024. With delivery of 440,000 new units expected in 2024 and more than 900,000 currently under construction, the overall vacancy rate is expected to rise and rent growth to decelerate.

https://www.cbre.com/insights/books/us-real-estate-market-ou...
> C-influenced languages usually differentiate between “arrays” and “lists”/“vectors”

On that note, Swift is in the process of introducing a fixed-size array type which they intend to call “Vector”.
I think you'd be surprised how hard it is to cover 100% of a store floor. As another commenter pointed out, even if you can angle matters. Getting a shot of the top of someone's head is a let less helpful than getting a good angle of their face.
I’d be surprised if that were an issue.

Starlink probably could learn the position of every satellite very accurately based on latency and signal strength and angle data from all the ground stations alone if they wanted to, if they don’t already.
I'd love to see this combined with the author's fork()-less implementation of ps to make a (almost) fork()-free implementation of psDoom.

Seriously though, this is really cool
What voices do they use?