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Late Mary Boyce attributes lower outbreaks of pandemics among Zoroastrian communities to the strict purity laws and practices. For example, it was unacceptable to pollute water, considered one of the sacred creations of Ahuramazda. To avoid polluting water, Zoroastrians would not wash their hands directly in rivers or bodies of water. There are hundreds of examples of these strict purity laws. [1]

[1] A History of Zoroastrianism, The Early Period by Mary Boyce <https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfZoroastrianismVolI>
Usually by the time you are in working age people have outgrown the e-ego waving contest to be incentivized to cheat in an inconsequential video game*

*with some exceptions.
You already remember what standard pronouns to use to refer to each person in your life. They're words you learned right from the start of learning the language. The same isn't true of "neopronouns".
Holy ….. what a fight you had to do. So glad i hardly play any mulitiplayer shooter games. I’d hate to have my insane Steam library stripped away from me.
Reduced thoracolumbar fascia shear strain in human chronic low back pain
We don't want to wait until we're in freefall to correct the decline.
The End of Jobs (2022)
it's just a form of subsidy, $500-$2000/month worth depending on where

paid for by the people who don't have kids

not very different than just giving out cash or tax credits
I thought it was a great idea! I also often use the Vercel Deploy button because it allows me to try things out quickly.
Thank you, MSN, for the digest of self-serving public relations fluff from Meta et al. This typifies the ingrained credulity and lack of critical thinking in service of corporate advertisers I have come to expect from the tech media.

Will the AI that Meta plans to build also infuse more masculine energy into the code it writes? Maybe the Meta super-AI will know what brand of bow Zuckerberg hunts with, and the name of his coach.
it wasn't a brag or anything, i just don't know by what means i would've been introduced to that stuff other than game cheats. 15-year-old-me definitely did not care about crackmes or malware reversing.

i did start writing code in middle school, though. php, mostly :)
it's mini-golf
I find that Python scripts that deal with calling other programs have even more sharp edges because now you have to deal with stdin, stderr and stdout much more explicitly. Now you need to both know shell scripting AND Python.

Python’s subprocess has communicate(), check_output() and other helpers which takes care of a lot but (a) you need to know what method you should actually call and (b) if you need to do something outside of that, you have to use Popen directly and it’s much more work than just writing a shell script. All doable if you understand pipes and all that but if you don’t, you’ll be just throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks.
There are situations where you are allowed to incorporate the text in your product (fair use).

The million dollar question is if this counts.
how do you hit over water in mini-golf?
> What the hell is a skill issue? Open a random GitHub repo.

Can you be a bit clear? I rarely see any project whose authors express types with fully qualified names. What exactly are you talking about?
> Why do you want to destroy market power for people on visas even further

Under what auspices are they supposed to have market power in the first place?

H1B folks are supposed to be here to make up for deficiencies in the labor market. When those deficiencies don’t exist, we don’t need to add more of those jobs.

There is definitely a humane way to do this (e.g., don’t just yoink people out of jobs), but the current situation with companies claiming no qualified candidates is often farcical.

> leading to even more exploitation than exists today?

Imho, poor implementation and oversight of the h1b program is the cause of a much of the exploitation that exists.

Right-sizing the number of h1b positions in the country based on data that’s in the ballpark of realistic is not an unreasonable ask.

As I have said elsewhere, I know and have worked with many h1b folks, and I love that the program exists.

That said, there’s no need to continue to allow the abusers to abuse it.
There is nothing bonkers about it. Should Obama be subject to prosecution for murder for allowing the bombing of a US citizen in the Middle East? Or should he be immune because he was engaging in an official act as President to protect the US?
"Perhaps only if my server was interacting with your server, or sending mail, correct?" - yep I believe you can run email through a different service and be just fine,

I don't know if datapacket is considered high end at all, it might be.. my only knowledge of it is seeing it's ip addys regularly used in failed admin login attempts and being used to send contact form spam..

Of course they are not the only ones being used for such things.
>> Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.

Took a look on it, seems like a highly particular / specialized area of mathematics. It's like computer science, can't know them all. If you work all day with some area, say compilers or databases or financial software or what else, you'd be a whizz at it while it's unreasonable to expect someone from a different domain be able of more than a superficial understanding of what you write.

I'm pretty good at math but like with computers, I don't have the compulsion to dive deep into an unfamiliar domain just for the sake of it. So commenting on the article: cool, now I know how these problems are formed and in the very unlikely domain I'll need to produce one, I know where to look. Likely this will never happen, though.
I'm the real world, judges I know are using it to do case summaries that used to take weeks, Goldman is using it to do 95% of IPO filings work and I personally am using O1 pro to write a ton of code.

AI's biggest use cases are for doing actual work, not necessarily replacing regular interactions with your mobile or entertainment devices
> C++ itself is a nightmare

Only if your nightmare is writing software using anything at all.
If you need the logs, doesn't that prove the point that the AI is not a derrivative work?

Like if you can't figure out which works were used to create the AI just by looking, its hard to argue that they "copied" the work. Copyright is not a general prohibition on using the copyrighted work only the creativity contained within.
Very :+1:

> Always baffled me how little commercial sense HNers had when I was growing up and reading this forum.

How long have you been reading HN? How have you felt the "HNers" w.r.t. nose-for-commerciality (and along whatever other dimension you think is relevant) change over time?
Yes but the entire content of the article was taken from what that economist thinks should happen. Not what the actual plans are. The communist party has done no course correction at all so far and the actual decision what to do can only come from Xi.
SLYP for deep sleep:

- S *Shape Tomorrow:* Make a mental note of 1-3 major things to do tomorrow during work hours.

- L *Love & Gratitude:* 5 minutes on bed: acknowledge one positive thing from today about d2d life, family, and work & feel love and gratitude, and be thankful for this day.

- Y *Your Daily Movie:* Recall everything throughout your day, EVERYTHING, recall as many details as you can remember (audio, video, emotions, feelings). Play the daily movie forward & backward, slow or in a flash.

- P *Prayer & Sleep:* Pray for peace & have a deep sleep (by the time you reach this step you're already flat asleep.)

I wanted to have better sleep and created the SLYP steps and followed them ritually for about a year but nowadays I am flat as soon as I reach my bed.
I haven't seen those videos which is probably a good thing. Russians are known for their brutality. Doubtless there is brutality on the Ukrainian side as well. Both side have exchanged many prisoners so clearly it's not a matter of policy to execute them. Many Russians have family in Ukraine and vice versa.

It's pretty much a bloody mess. It's also complicated. For me it boils down to the fight between freedom and democracy and oppression and totalitarianism. Putin wants the world to be a worse place for all of us and is willing to have hundreds of thousands of people die for that.
That hacker spirit is alive and well, and will be long after the fascists for one simple reason:

The same open minded creative attitude that fully and warmly welcomes people who are different, is also what makes us better able to solve science and tech problems in a creative way. The fascists need the hackers, but we don’t need them.

Authoritarianism is fundamentally culturally incompatible with innovation. Nazi cryptography was broken by an eccentric gay man, and so on- thousands of such examples.
By hitting it sufficiently hard
Taking a huge shit in the morning is a precursor to breakfast
And you just invalidated all of your opinions in all of your comments on this site. Congratulations.
The point is that the 'billionaires' were not exploiting their workforce. The workforce that made Google, MS and many other companies were also highly paid.

The consumer surplus of all these things is the bigger thing.

And getting to that is really not easy.
Show HN: Integrate LLM in Your Shell
"The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean" by Ronnie Ellenblum, whom I believe was a student of Richard Bulliet covers this topic as well.
You may be missing the feeling of being a human being with atonomy over the course of your life. Missing in the sence of absence, definately not in a sense of sadness or regret - be happy to not have to worry about the most existential things in life and being dependent on the whims of a boss / company / ecomomy for them. tl;dr I'm happy for you to not be in the rat race, it's completely not glorious (to be in it).
That's more of a leetcode bench than real world coding bench
I have two kids. After the first 3 months they were sleeping 7-8 hours through the night.
That's not necessary, many people generate garbage anyway.
> but do they (or Amazon) have the rights to use said books for LLM training?

The real question is - does copyright grant the authors' the right to control if their work is used for LLM training?

Its not obvious what the answer is.

If authors don't have that right to begin with then there is no way amazon could buy it off them.
I think because they are trained on Claude/O1, they tend to have comparable performance. The small models quickly fails on complex reasoning. The larger the models, the better the reasoning is. I wonder, however, if you can hit a sweet spot with 100gb of ram. That's enough for most professional to be able to run it on an M4 laptop and will be a death sentence for OpenAI and Anthropic.
You seem to be in agreement with my sentiment.

There is also additional work in remembering which pronoun to use with which NB person. With most people, you just automatically say the right thing.
Blame the Thatcher Revolution and the sell-off of the council housing estates. Councils used to actually make money from housing, however, the revenue went back into building more homes, so more revenue. Rents were not extortionate or subsidised, however, if you were on benefits then you would get your rent covered.

The council housing provided an option at a base price, private landlords could not compete if they also had to pay for the mortgage, at a time when interest rates were a lot higher.

Once the council housing was sold off, there was no longer this base price, unless you wanted to spend five years on the list for a housing association, as in the privatised council housing estate.

This change meant that the best place for your money was in property. Property was no longer a near-depreciating asset, house price inflation went through the roof, but was not part of the inflation index.

Since then the economy has been that of rent-seeking. There is no point making stuff as you might as well sell the premises to a developer to convert into luxury flats, which then get bought by rent-seekers and rented out to people that would have had a full-feature council house in previous times.

When a rent-seeker has income from one property, they can remortgage to buy another, then use leverage to buy more and more.

Rent-seeking is not adding anything to the economy, no product is made. However, rent-seekers vote Conservative.

In an economy where everyone has to pay more for the parasites that are the rent-seekers, the cost of labour goes up. This is just because people need more money to pay to have a roof over their head, not because they want gold taps.

This is the root cause of the decline of the West, you are probably old enough to remember how this capital from rent-seeking spread out from London to even the slowest seaside town. Wherever it went, businesses stopped making stuff and started importing instead. Once that business of making stuff has gone, it never comes back.

The real value is in making stuff even though there is plenty of profit in retail, 'no product is made'. Furthermore, it is not possible to stop someone from doing the same as you, buying widgets from China, marking them up and flogging them with an English manual.

In the USA the situation is the same in the big cities. In the flyover states there is a different Ponzi scheme afoot, with vast tracts of suburbia built but without the long-term tax base to maintain the roads and other infrastructure indefinitely. So long as there is cheap oil and the dollar is the reserve currency, it all works with printing money, with the world taking the inflation hit, not the USA.

The sheds you see full of toys are not in New York, they will be somewhere such as Florida or Texas.
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It's also an exploit. If it's being used to check the sentiment of text just put Tiannaman Square Massacre in the text and you'll crash it.

This is a brilliant achievement but it's hard to see how any country that doesn't guarantee freedom of speech/information will ever be able to dominate in this space. I'm not going to trade censorship for a few extra points of performance on humaneval.

And before the equivocation arguments come in, note that chatgpt gives truthful, correct information about uncomfortable US topics like slavery, the Kent State shootings, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Iraq war, whether the 2020 election was rigged by Democrats, etc.
Ukraine doesn’t necessarily need to retake its lost territories by force. They only need to keep bleeding Russia out until the war becomes untenable for them. Russia loses like 1500+ soldiers and 100+ vehicles per day, just to move a line on a map a few meters. Their economy is hitting double digit inflation despite a 21% interest rate. Their recruitment efforts are running dry and they may have to resort to mobilization soon to continue to fill their ranks with more cannon fodder.

At a certain point they may have to come to the negotiating table, and the longer this drags out the less favorable their position will be.
“The 2020 election was stolen.” Is a pretty easy one. You seem to be eager to request proof but not provide any counter proof of your own. The easy response to your question is: can you?
What happens if I input 10 news headlines from different news sources into an AI prompt and publish and sell the resulting AI output. Is this copyright infringement?
But AMD decided to use those technologies and Intel decided not to. AMD on TSMC N4 is beating Intel on TSMC N3 because AMD has better designs.
Could be Clearfactr [1] which was a really interesting twist on spreadsheets, developed and built by a single person.

Clearfactr was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018.

It's been used internally in Goldman since then and they don't make it available outside the company unfortunately.

[1] https://www.clearfactr.com/
Yes, it’s just an example. And when you install 10 different tools like this, one might argue that your argument is the same as the famous Dropbox comment.

Look, this is not a contest. I’m just an indie developer trying to build something that my customers want.

They are smart and they use many different tools.

I’m sure many of them, like you, prefer Msty or other products. But some of them are really like my product because it fits them better.

A product doesn’t need to “be the best”, or to “win the entire market”.
I used to use any standard editor but these days I use PyCharm or Visual Studio (not Code) otherwise, I just use Sublime Text or any adjacent reasonable editor.

Elementary OS has the nicest editor that other Distros have not snatched up yet not sure why. Its fast, and fits the bill where KATE and Sublime Text are for me.
carpet-bombing every researcher, AI startup, and random Joes with the latest engineering samples of unreleased top-of-the line products

That doesn't help if the drivers are buggy. AMD needs to send hardware to their own driver developers.
Very impressive web page, particularly for 2021. I like it how 'slides' are presented in the midst of text. Is this an ArcGis thing?
Unsurprising, Mark Zuck always seems to have an app ready, remember Threads? Its no secret that he can just throw a few devs money and get something going awfully quickly.

Cut a few corners its fine, just need to get it out the door.
Semi-related:

I thought this might be why Apple put the power button on the M4 Mac Mini in that stupid position on the bottom of the device. If they can keep more of them on then they can potentially grab them when needed to do some distributed work.
Sadly an Australian innovator in the field (redflow/Zcell) went into administration. They had done a lot to push commercially viable models forward and sold into telco rural and remote, and I think were tendering into this market in California, as well as the US army base deployments.
Interesting. Regime change, narrative change.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence."
There was this visual novel for filing your taxes, but is sadly only relevant for the 2022 U.S. tax year.

https://taxheaven3000.com/
Unreal Plugin for Procedural Voxel Terrain
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US citizen by birth, but my parents weren't LPRs or citizens at the time I was born (1986).. they later received green cards and then citizenship in the late 1990s/early aughts.

I recognize that it's unlikely that this part of the order would stand in the end, but in the meantime is it plausible I might run into issues in interactions w/ the federal government? ('the fight is the point') Are there any documents I should get in order that might help? (already have my passport, having trouble track down original visa documents for my parents from when they first came to the US in the 70s)
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah there's fixed geometry due to time constraints. Glad you could make it work for you eventually!
I get the right answer on the 8B model too.

It could be the quantized version failing?
> Until this, people would dedicate their lives to their kids, children were the most important thing in people’s lives, everything from friends, to outings, to day to day life, would revolve around the child’s best interests and wants.

Is this actually true? I don’t really believe it. Sending your kids to work in the sweatshops doesn’t seem like “best interests and wants.” I think people were just surviving in their time/environment. Like we are now.
I tried Ghidra recently and the decompilation seemed decent enough. The UI seemed a bit less complete than IDA's though (I couldn't see a couple of things that IDA does/has though they might just be hidden away in menus).
You can't run the big R1 in any useful quant, but can use the distilled models with your setup. They've released (MIT) versions of qwen (1.5,7,14 and 32b) and llama3 (8 and 70b) distilled on 800k samples from R1. They are pretty impressive, so you can try them out.
Android apps can anytime do remote code execution. GrapheneOS even offers controls to restrict Dynamic Code Loading per app. But Google somehow cares only about RCE in browser extensions?
a simple metric is energy consumption

look at this chat - courtesy of perpexity.

United States 11,855 KWH
China 5,474
Germany 6,483
Australia 7,000 (approximate based on recent trends)
Singapore 9,000 (approximate based on recent trends)
United Kingdom 4,701

Energy consumption of the uK is that of a poor developing country.

people will cite the size of uk homes due to lack of land as if you can't build houses with a lot of sq/ft - sq/m vertically ?

the only thing keeping uk afloat at the moment is the friendly immigration policy.

money doesn't move in capital markets but people would rather pump money into property.
There will never be a free fall. You guys are watching too many dystopic movies.
And polio is largely cured from this generation, and vaccines now exist that prevent diseases that once killed infants, and we have cheap and fast internet everywhere, ...

This generation of "robber barons" has very clearly done more good for society than any other group of people of the same size, and I can't imagine how anybody who works in tech can not know of the specific good things they have done or be so confused about the bad to believe they are outweighed.
operation paperclip would beg to differ WW2 ended because of sheer numbers
Maybe because their games are not cross platform? Plenty of Nintendo games I would have happily purchased for PC.
His steam library was not restricted, just the game in which he was accused/banned.
Sometimes it takes a lot of words to debunk a misconception. What you initially said didn't have anything to do with setup effort, but also there is quite little setup effort actually described here.
>How do you read me comment and take away that I still dont know what Astral is?

From the comment I read, quoted directly:

>I have never heard of astral though.

If you meant "I only learned about Astral thanks to this post", then I pointed out how you might have found out by yourself before.
Why is this? Has RAM not come down in price over all these years?
> I’d be a better startup founder today than I was in 2015

You should do a startup then. I think you'll be surprised how little most VCs and customers care about your personal life.

No doubt the vibes worldwide are taking a dark turn, but pg has been pretty reasonable and his essay in particular seems like an accurate read on what has happened.
> heroes

More like the Kardashians of the startup/tech/VC World. Fake gaming creds, claiming to work 80hrs/week while having 60hrs of tweets.
... am I the only one who figures that linting would logically be a very low priority in those circumstances?
It is fascism to create a false narrative that all of our problems are caused by people with a different skin color, country of origin, gender identity, etc., and that it justifies setting up an authoritarian government that unjustly persecutes those groups and anyone that disagrees or tries to stop them.
What about the elderly people with kids that end up alone in nursing homes?

I know a few people in the 50s and 60s with no kids and they are perfectly nice and happy. I also know parents who are real shit bags. Let’s stop this false narrative that people without kids are miserable or selfish or evil in some way. We are all just people, kids or no.
> There was no apology given for their utterly corrupt incompetence.

Unlike the Trump administration, who were very eager to apologize for their own corrupt incompetent advice?
Show HN: Self hosted, API first NPS system
Needed this for a personal project, then decided to make it in the open.
This is cool! Well done. Where did you get the sound from?