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Israeli business leaders reportedly agree to engage in general strike 3 years ago

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform_p...

[The 2023 Israeli judicial reform] seeks to curb the judiciary's influence over lawmaking and public policy by limiting the Supreme Court's power to exercise judicial review, granting the government control over judicial appointments and limiting the authority of its legal advisors. If adopted, the reform would grant the Knesset the power to override Supreme Court rulings that deem legislation passed by the Knesset as unconstitutional, by reintroducing the legislation and approving it with a majority of Knesset Members.

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Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style 3 years ago

From https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Security,...

Q: Does Petals guarantee that model outputs are correct?

Not by default. A faulty or malicious server could give you incorrect outputs. There are two things you can do about this:

- Verify outputs. Send some of your tensors to two or more peers and check that the answers match.

- Set up a private swarm. You can launch your own swarm hosted by people and organization you trust, who are authorized to process your data.

In future, we plan to implement an automatic verification and a reputation system, so that clients can select servers that they can trust.

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Starting October 19, storage limit will be enforced on all Gitlab Free accounts 4 years ago

A couple of notes

  - If I tag a docker image with multiple tags, and then push it to Gitlab, each tag counts towards the storage limits even though SHAs are identical. eg 100MB container tagged with "latest" and "v0.5" uses 200MB of storage.
  - The storage limit is not per repository, but per namespace. So 5GB free combined for all repositories under your user. If you create a group, then you get 5GB free combined for that group. Does this include forks? Does this include compression server side?
  - The 10GB egress limit per month includes egress to self-hosted Gitlab Runners in free tier. Consider this with the 400 minutes per month limit on shared runners.
These limits feel less like curbing abuse and more like squeezing to see who will jump to premium while reducing operating costs. Is this a consequence to Gitlab hosting on GCP with associated egress and storage costs? Is this a move to improve financials / justify a market cap with fiscal storm clouds on the horizon? Is this being incentivized by $67m in awarded stock between the CFO and 2 directors?

Stock history over last year for GTLB (since IPO in 2021?): https://yhoo.it/3QaExCs

From the golden era of 2015: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/04/08/gitlab-dot-com-stor...

To celebrate today's good news we've permanently raised our storage limit per repository on GitLab.com from 5GB to 10GB. As before, public and private repositories on GitLab.com are unlimited, don't have a transfer limit and they include unlimited collaborators.

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Ask HN: What has been your experience with chronic fatigue syndrome? 4 years ago

I've been diagnosed by a GP, but I didn't find that diagnosis led to specific treatment. Most conventional doctors treat it as depression if other tests come back normal. I've tried heaps of other health practitioners over the past 15 years and its been hit and miss. I had a lot of family support from the start.

B-Complex in the morning and Magnesium in the evening, along with Enzo Pine Bark for cognitive issues made a huge difference for me for the past 3-4 years. I've recently been focusing more on digestion, the gut, microbiome etc. Changing diet, dropping gluten and dairy made a huge difference. I had markers showing celiac disease. Most of the changes have been trial and error, noticing the patterns as I went.

I've been seeing a psychologist since my last burnout too. I recognize I feel I have to overcompensate for the tiredness and looking weak from CFS by taking on risk and pushing myself into burnout. The stakes of trauma and conflict are higher for me. I always felt like I was alone with CFS, like no-one understands and that was incredibly isolating. And there is a feeling of being in a car crash in slow motion keeps me in a constant state of chronic stress. Some of my experiences could be seen as being locked in the "freeze" state, with efforts to move out of that state producing panic and anxiety. To me I believe this is all a minor (but still important) part of the complex picture though, and related to the consequences of my experiences both socially and personally with my condition.

Life events have been super hard because I'm already primed with stress so sometimes the hits hit harder and recovery takes longer. A supportive partner and family definitely has helped.

I tried exercise and yoga, I would get yoga lows and exercise did not make me feel better personally. For a long time, I wouldn't get burn when exercising, instead I would feel weaker like I was wasting away. And then one day I was trying some new changes and I felt I could handle going to the gym - I got positive gains out of it.

I see my CFS as a complex array of vague dependencies, interrelations and consequences. An analogy is getting someone out of poverty, it may be a lot more complex than just giving someone money to give them a hand out, theres usually a lot of reasons (and assumptions on my part), and its usually easier to denigrate, not care and ignore them. Every way I look at it I see a different viewpoint. It has been a journey of poking in all directions trying to find a way in, and an emergence of a personal truth and understanding.

I want to emphasize its not all straightforward - I've given up many times along the way.

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Cameras and Open Source Smartphones: It’s Complicated 4 years ago

One of the things that I came across when I was looking for an RPi camera replacement was Samsung's "ISOCELL Plug and Play" - A turn-key solution with prepackaged lens, EIS, image pretuning, and VCX* objective camera evaluation. The image looked good enough compared to cutting edge at the time, and I imagined it would be perfect for small startups and companies who wanted a quick time to market.

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/image-sensor/isocell-plug-... EIS video: https://images.samsung.com/is/content/samsung/p5/semiconduct...

Unfortunately I never got one and it now looks to be unavailable. I don't know if Samsung would have had interest in Open Source efforts to support the modules.

VCX objective camera evaluation links: https://www.dhd.com.tw/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/VCX_Whitep... https://vcx-forum.org/

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Big name corporations more likely to commit fraud: study 5 years ago

Environmental pollution causing chronic health symptoms is one of the darkest things that I have ever experienced. Even if you identify the source issue, it is a never ending battle against Occam's razor with communities, government regulators, and health professionals.

Overall you experienced systemic failure: the business fails to protect the customer but isn't held accountable, the health profession focuses on managing the individuals mental health instead of recognizing the exposure¹, government regulation did not protect you or help you afterwards. Legal needs evidence and money to make it work. It's all too hard and no one wants to know.

Whats really scary is that happens more than you think... And unless you are a part of a class action of people with similar issues, or you have power and influence, or it is a widely recognized issue, its really hard to deal with.

Look after yourself, your family and do your best.

¹ There could be studies in medical journals, or toxicology reports published by govt or others, but that doesn't mean your doctor will read or follow them. They might help extend your understanding though.

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The Best and Worst Microcontroller SDKs 6 years ago

I found it easier to work with mbed than STM32Cube for USB and ethernet. I found it really hard to understand the autogenerated STM32Cube with USER CODE BEGIN lines and couldn't make sense of non-working examples for Ethernet and USB for my target board.

Mbed was more of an abstraction layer - I saw a lot of similarities to what STM32Cube does underneath.

The process of adding target platforms has a bit of a steep learning curve. I copied a target with the same MCU and worked from there. But once the target platform is implemented writing code is pretty enjoyable.

See https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os/pull/11648/files for the example of adding a target See https://rohfle.gitlab.io/posts/2019-10-19-olimex-stm32e407-t... for example ethernet code

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Ask HN: How do you deal with chronic illness? 6 years ago

This is great advice. Stability and looking after yourself are key strategies to make your life easier. Save money if you can. Having a buffer makes it easier to say no or walk away or take time off.

I think that the invisibility of chronic illness combined with the expectations of society and others is the hardest thing to deal with. Especially during certain life phases, and especially with people who are close where the expectations reveal themselves over time (family, partners / their family, business associates). Empathy can erode over time too.

Every man and his dog will give you advice how to manage or cure things, but in the case of an ambiguous chronic illness, I found that being selective about who you listen to / when you listen is best. Some days you say to hell with it and ignore everyone's advice. Other days you will wake up and say, today is the day I am going to try this that I haven't tried before. Also keep an eye out for those little things that make a difference that nobody knows about but you. Don't feel like you have to justify them to anyone.

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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper 6 years ago

Thanks for the changelog... you're totally right about the software moving slow. Lots of UX changes, lots of battery improvements, but the only major feature added that I saw was handwriting recognition.

I get it isn't possible from an end user point of view to connect as mass storage. But I wonder if it might be possible with the hardware after modifications to the kernel configuration.

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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper 6 years ago

1. The RM1 and 2 both don't allow file transfers as a mass storage device.

In the FAQ at https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2:

reMarkable 2 features USB-C for faster charging and data transfer.

Even if this does not mean that mass storage is or will be supported officially, maybe unofficial support could be added using the Linux Kernel's USB Gadget API g_mass_storage as a module. More info:

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/mass-storage.rst
  https://developer.ridgerun.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_use_mass_storage_gadget
  https://github.com/reMarkable/linux
  https://remarkable.engineering/ -- toolchain here
> 3. While the hardware is amazing the software moves at a snail's pace. This is either management holding development back by trying to simplify the device out of existence or the team simply lacks the resources or ability to improve it

To be fair it looks like a pretty small team (7 people listed with 2-3 actively developing) so I doubt it is management. More likely not a priority right now, limited resources, or in the too hard basket.

There is this repo in their Github org: https://github.com/reMarkable/vfatbuse

Looks like the CTO had a crack at implementing mass storage in v1

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Australia fires: Misleading maps and pictures go viral 7 years ago

After the sky turned orange in New Zealand a few days ago from the smoke from the Australian bushfires [1], I stumbled across this blog post by Scott Bachmeier:

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/35342

The post contains relevant satellite imagery taken from Himiwari-8 showing the creation of pyrocumulonimbus clouds from the fires, along with thermal imaging. There is also a technical explanation about how the thermal anomalies are detected.

The smoke cloud is now heading to the middle of pacific ocean and is still visible from space [2]

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/118597927/in-pictures-auckl... [2]: https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17&z=1&im=...

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