skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is true in general. Many people that support Israel are critical of Israeli policies in the west bank (including the US administration).

I think there's a problem when you apply different standard to Jews vs. everyone else or are parroting some narrative that has anti-semitic aspects to it.

For example, I would call people contesting the right of Israel to exist, despite many generations of Israelis living in that area, despite the UN's recognition of the state of Israel, and despite the historic connection of the Jewish people to that land (and there are ofcourse many non-Jewish Israelis which people tend to overlook), anti-semitic. If someone aligns themselves with this message, I would also tend to consider them anti-semitic.

I would likely agree with much of your criticism of the west bank settlements and the behaviour of the settlers there and in general that is not anti-semitic. It's not black and white- there are many lies being propagated and there is are many truths that deserve criticism. Propagating lies about jews is basically what anti-semitism is all about and it is rampant.
Some years ago I was wondering what the words 'There is a balm in Gilead' means. Spent hours googling, both in English and Danish (my native lang). Found Jer 8:22 "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?" and inferred that Jeremiah must have associated Gilead's balm with (glorified?) healing processes.

So as a test I asked this service 'what is balm in Gilead' and it returned 4 other Bible sentences. Pressed 'Summarize', which unfolded comments on the 4 sentences and a summary of

'Overall, these passages present Gilead as a contested but fertile region east of the Jordan river. It was prized territory that was given to several Israelite tribes and seen as a divine provision. The name "Gilead" means "hill of testimony" referring to its choice lands. So the metaphor of "balm in Gilead" signifies the healing, restoration, and provision God can bring even in difficult times.'

My key observations:

1) The overall summary highly matches my own interpretations

2) Jer 8:22 was not referred - possibly because it does not define the concept, it just refers to its meaning

3) Inferring the summary from the 4 sentences is not easy but apparently AI can do so

I have a question on the generation of the overall summary: Is it based on on the 4 sentences only or does it include other biblical text behind the scenes?
Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
You should spend more time being bored.
Sometimes the truth sounds unbelievable.
Thanks for sharing this. I know different people think differently, but I hadn't even considered ADHD.
This has happened before though. The dotcom boom ( approx 1995 - 2000 ) saw a lot of non-nerds getting into tech cause of the big bucks.

The thing is many of them quit tech in the years afterwards, they didn't enjoy playing with computers all day and went off to other jobs that paid well.

Many of the over-40s you are talking about are survivors of that group or went into computers during the slump right after.

Even today the same thing is still happening. Plenty of 30 year olds boring with tech and want to become lumberjacks or farmers.

Which might just entrench the situation.
Yeah, Russian roulette is a perfect analogy for this. Never heard of grenade roulette. haha
Hopefully that will be literally illegal due to accessibility concerns.

Doesn't matter either way. Can't wait for AI-powered ad blocking. Just imagine it. AI parses content and filters out ads, brands, even subtle PR text from pages automatically. Not just textual content either. It also kills ads in audio, video, images.

If I can imagine it, it must be possible. I'm sure someone much smarter than me will create this at some point. Perhaps this comment will inspire that person.
"shockingly quaint"

That's basically what happened to WW2 Germany. The country was crushed to the point where they unconditionally surrendered, killing 5 million German soldiers in the process.

Nazism is pretty much dead in Germany. So the approach did in fact work, and quite possibly would have worked even without the Marshal plan.
This model should be done more. Develop the product in the open, offer a fully functional open source version, and then offer a paid version on commercial app stores.

This can bring in some extra revenue for the project, plus covers the app store dev work.

I bet a bunch of users would buy it just to support the dev team. Plus I would argue an app store purchase (one click) can be done faster/easier than any donation flow I have seen for an open-source project.

Just something to think about.
Yes and that component of Firefox is called chrome. It was named before Google Chrome was created.
I thought the same thing but someone told me that was autism so I just keep my mouth shut. lol
So, let's for a moment assume that Israel is successful in eradicating all of Hamas. Unlikely, but for the sake of the argument let's assume that it works.

Then, two days later they kick a bunch of Palestinians out of their homes and bulldoze it, hand the land to a bunch of settlers.

What's to stop a new Hamas to rise again?
12ft ladder is down? Temporary or defunct?
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Well that was a frustrating read, largely because of the comment section
>The like and reply system is an organic and representative method of what comments people find interesting

I think maybe you've got rose-colored glasses on? See e.g. this post from Nate Silver about old Twitter:

>If you’re one of those annoying people like me who thinks there’s value in pointing out hypocrisy ... you will get absolutely shat upon on Twitter. People feel extremely threatened when you point this stuff out. They will go great lengths to deter it. They will launch all types of ad hominem attacks against you.

>...

>Twitter’s architecture makes this worse, particularly the quote retweet and the Trending Topics module. It is a medium where dissent from the consensus is treated punitively.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blo...

Or here's another post about old Twitter:

>Really, the problem with Twitter is just that it’s ruled by shouty jerks. All of the other problems — ubiquitous fear of “cancellation”, disruption of organizations, toxic status anxiety — ultimately come back to the Shouting Class.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-to-fix-twitter

It's interesting to me that HN threads about Twitter seem uniquely toxic, e.g. namecalling Elon. My hypothesis is that there's been a population replacement. Twitter was previously dominated by a certain group of shouters. The old shouters lost their power to a new group of shouters, and now the old shouters shout about the situation here on HN.
Pretty sure bathroom fans DO vent to the outside. At least in homes here in the US.
Nothing special going on with my system-- just Firefox with ublock origin.
I think exactly the opposite. It's because you should take a measurement after 15 minutes of relaxation that it's useful to have a wearable monitor. Those conditions may happen naturally throughout the day, and can be detected by your watch automatically (via continuous heart rate monitoring plus accelerometer readings), so blood pressure readings can be taken serendipitously, which is way more convenient.

Also I think in theory true continuous blood pressure monitoring data ought to be a lot more informative than just resting blood pressure. We may not yet have the research to really draw conclusions yet, but it should become possible to do that research relatively quickly if a whole lot of continuous blood pressure data becomes available.
Yes, but consider where it started from. I’ve been there since 2007 and I think the current version is just fine and getting better and more useful.
Indeed. This is why I figured I'm probably not the target audience. Reviewing and editing is a huge part of technical writing (along with having a window open for what you're writing about), at least the way I do it.
I uh, don’t think you understand how encryption works…
I had to ask gpt every line about the meaning of terms :D, i know im not the target audience, but i find this stuff interesting at a conceptual level.

Is it basically about using stats to improve on linear models?
What is the heuristic they are checking for here? That problematic actors overwhelmingly will be unable to show an active wifi adapter?
> The whole thing runs on regular servers. Hetzner has become our cloud of choice, along with Backblaze B2 and SQS. It is written in Go. From an architecture perspective I try to keep things simple - want folks to make economical use of their servers.

Cool, glad to see Hetzner, at least presumably for compute, rather than the almost routine, absurdly expensive, mega cloud providers.

I have a few questions if you've got time.

1. What made you pick Hetzner in particular, and did you evaluate any of their primary competitors? (e.g., OVH, etc)

2. In your $100/month figure, did you decide to go with dedicated servers or the "cloud" VPS line? If the latter, was there any particular reason over going with the bare-metal offerings?

3. Are you making use of Hetzner's U.S. servers as well or is everything currently in Europe (or vice-versa)?

4. Was there any particular reason for choosing B2 and SQS as opposed to self-hosting object-storage on the SX servers?

Normally, I wouldn't even wonder why someone wouldn't want the burden of more infrastructure. But given the choice of going with relatively unmanaged Hetzner servers, presumably self-hosting clickhouse, etc, and then with your compute provider also happening to offer fairly large storage servers on the cheap, I might've been tempted to cut out the additional providers and DIY it:

- less costly for large amounts of data

- zero lock-in [1]

- fewer companies to deal with

- likely better negotiating power with Hetzner when the time comes if a bigger percentage of your overhead is with them as opposed to spread out across three providers

- fewer points of failure; if the Hetzner servers are down, I would assume you're in trouble anyway, so perhaps keeping [most] of your eggs on the same network might not be as bad as it sounds

- presumably better latency and bandwidth + the ability to communicate over a private network [2]

5. I see the license is AGPL. But I don't see the usual "you must dual-license all contributions under MIT/BSD/ISC as well [so that only we can re-license the project]" nor "before contributing, sign this agreement transferring copyright [and your first born child]".

Was this just an oversight, or do you intend to be one of the few SaaS companies that really truly is open-source rather than "open-source" [until peopled are locked-in] and then going "open"-core? If the latter, then awesome -- cool to see.

6. Any regrets, disasters, or lessons learned so far? Usually, I find these stories the most interesting but unfortunately too few are willing to share.

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[1]: I know B2 provides a relatively standard, at this point, S3-compatible API and everything as well. But I think there is also still something to be said about a somewhat Juche-esque approach to infrastructure, wherein should prices rise, contracts change, service degrades, or whatever else, you'd have the ability to almost immediately switch at a moment's notice to literally anyone else who can lease you a box with some hard drives or any colo provider.

[2]: This goes out the window somewhat if you're using the VPS line and American servers, though.
And yet this did not save Wael Al-Dahdouh's family. He followed every order and evacuated his family. His wife, kids, and grandchild were wiped out in an airstrike in a refugee camp no less.

He handled it with immense maturity and dedication. He's back to work reporting on the war.
@dang, can you clarify whether HN guidelines say it is OK to call names if the person you're namecalling is not participating in the HN thread?

BTW I also think you broke these guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

(Seems like X/Twitter is one of the most divisive HN topics.)
sounds like you are literally trying to launder money

system seems to be working as intended
The bit that seems to have really pissed me off is when the Hawks decided that they didn't want peace and Rabin was murdered. We got that close to stopping this or at least to seriously de-escalating it. That's when I realized it's not just one side that wants this conflict to be perpetrated, there are elements on both sides that see their case strengthened the longer the conflict lasts and the more lives are lost.

Both sides need to take care of their extremists. Otherwise this will just go on and on.
For small and mid sized players, it’s not to save a few bucks. If your fraud prevention isn’t locked down tight then you will draw enough fraud that it threatens your ability to take payments at all. This stuff can kill a business in a bad day or two.

Take it up with the payment providers. They provide fraud prevention but like to leave vendors guessing about how to configure it, and make it a premium add-on, which is kinda fucked up since they’ll boot you off for letting too much fraud through. It’s a protection racket on the vendor side—they’re also being screwed by this state of affairs.
JS is a language I can cobble together something hacky in and I don't have to care about types or anything yet, just making something work. It's fun! :)
I still don't understand why Let's Encrypt (or another similar entity) can't offer code signing certificates, even if they aren't EV.

FaceTime with an employee for two minutes with a picture of your government issued ID.
You are doing the low-brow dismissal thing.

It's better to just think to yourself: "this doesn't seem like a useful product to me, I don't understand why people find it interesting, oh well", and move on.
It's rare to hit a complete dead end, but if it happens, yes, backtrack and try again.

But it's not like it's all going to be wasted. I've explored one branch of something that doesn't work, but I've explored. Some plots/character developments/scenes/places can still be reused in a different way when I try again.
Sounds useful in general, but in this case the problem wasn’t that low-level. It was just some daemon that decided to include a copy of the MAC address in the body of a UDP packet it was sending.
Are you kidding? The envious poor have always despised those with just a little more than them even more than them, even more than those who literally oppress them! Just look at how small landowners got treated and before then how freaking millers were literally demonized. Down that path of spite lies a road to madness where someone with a quarter more in their pocket is a mortal enemy.
15 Years of Android Memories
I kept waiting for this kernel discussion to converge on a scheduler or memory manager improvement, but joy proved evasive.
Excellent article and a really clear view on statistical model training dynamics. This perspective will no doubt contribute to the development of deep learning theory.

I'm interested especially in the lessons we can learn about the success of overparametrization. As mentioned at the beginning of the article:

> To use the picturesque idea of a "loss landscape" over parameter space, our problem will have a ridge of equally performing parameters rather than just a single optimal peak.

It has always been my intuition that overparametrization makes this ridge an overwhelming statistical majority of the parameter space, which would explain the success in training. What is less clear, as mentioned at the end, is why it hedges against overfitting. Could it be that "simple" function combinations are also overwhelmingly statistically likely vs more complicated ones? I'm imagining a hypersphere-in-many-dimensions kind of situation, where the "corners" are just too sharp to stay in for long before descending back into the "bulk".

Interested to hear others' perspectives or pointers to research on this in the context of a kernel-based interpretation. I hope understanding overparametrization may also go some way toward explaining the unreasonable effective of analog-based learning systems such as human brains.
Agreed, it's why I read stuff like HN comments! Marketing copy is not a good source for comparative information.
Yeah but think of the attacks I thought of in the shower that it mitigates
Ultimately we need to continue this trend of shaming specific companies, like FTX and its management, than masquerading that as “crypto”. Just like we do for every other industry.
Conclusion: A thread pool is the preferred solution and the go to that I have been using for years. The tricky part is optimizing the size of the pool.
CSS light-dark() function heh ;)
I think they meant “shit air” literally. As in, it doesn’t just smell like farts, it is actual farts, being proposed to be blown throughout the rest of the house
>They weren’t [running for their lives]—at the Oct. 4 concert depicted in the video—but Reuters makes no mention of the fact that hundreds of Israelis were actually slaughtered at a concert three days later.

This is the dispute over the video.
Yes exactly! If he's going to pure entertainment value ... I mean this article itself is case in point.

It would probably be more than a chapter of material too.
A small warning about UDP based protocols
War ends when one side is destroyed or both sides agree to peace. When both sides see the devil and one side is stronger than the other side the other side many not exist for much longer.
> I've seen a lot of sentiment from people that they see more bots, hate speech, and irrelevant content on their timelines. Maybe what I'm hearing is just anecdotal evidence or stories in a bubble?

1. Note that they do not unambiguously define bots; it's "bots and content scrapers" lumped together:

> Blocked bots and content scrapers at a rate +37% greater than 2022. On average, we prevent more than 1M bots signup attacks each day and we’ve reduced DM spam by 95%.

2. I suspect it's a matter of signal-to-noise. Yes, the absolute bot count could be down, but how does it compare to the number of humans using X/Twitter and the volume of content which they are contributing each day? I've tried to find reliable statistics on this, but to no avail. My anecdotal experience is that fewer people I've followed are still regularly using X/Twitter since the Musk acquisition. Some are over at Post.News, some at Threads, some have shifted to Mastodon. It's a very fragmented experience now.
Has a distro Cloud-nature?

This is the most serious question of all.

If you say yes or no,

You lose your own Cloud-nature.
Risk of viral airborne transmission peaks within five seconds, study finds
Not to my knowledge :/
I'm not sure a cached pool of OS threads is comparable in this way to coroutines. The author also isn't doing any I/O bound work... or... any work at all?

You can schedule coroutines over a threadpool. From the author's code, I'm not even sure this was accounted for in the benchmark. If they are using a threadpool and vanilla coroutines, without specifying where they are scheduled, yes, of course it won't start up a pool of threads for you and be as fast as a pool of threads. It would be terrible if it did that by default.
Scala has `???`

https://m.garysieling.com/blog/scala-triple-question-mark-op...
The Israeli viewpoint in some circles is that the number would then be higher. And they may well be right, but that doesn't mean that the situation can continue the way it has been going for the last 20 years. The fanatics on both sides will have to be brought to heel.
If you look at fields medalists I think most of them got interested in math super young and got exposed earlier to much more material than average mathematicians.

So they may have an IQ advantage, but they definitely also have a data/training advantage.
"Al Jazeera is a Qatari state-owned Arabic-language news television network"

Excuse me if I'm not going to take that as a source.

Israel only provided some fraction of water and electricity to Gaza and is under no obligation to keep providing that in a state of war. Do you have other examples of countries at war when one side provides the other with water and electricity?

Look- you're right that Israel has asked people to leave everything behind and move. War sucks. I can't say I don't sympathize with those people, I do. You seem to have some emotional connection to this situation and I certainly do. I don't have any solutions unfortunately. Israelis have been pushed to the corner right now.
I Pushed ChatGPT to Build a Minimal HTTP Server with Virtual Threads in Java
> And yet this did not save Wael Al-Dahdouh's family.

As I have repeatedly said, in a war of this nature large numbers of Gazan civilians will inevitably die. As long as Israel eliminates Hamas, this is unavoidable. If Israel fails to eliminate Hamas, large numbers of Israeli's will be killed by Hamas in the future.

Between those two options, obviously Israel is going to choose the option where Israli's don't get slaughtered again in the future. As they should. Hamas is evil and needs to be destroyed. Which means, killing or capturing the tens of thousands of Hamas soldiers and other members. Hamas soldiers alone are about 30,000 to 40,000 people. Those men need to be killed or captured.
The packet was still sent from the randomized MAC. It just happened to also include a copy of the real MAC within the body of the packet.
I actually agree with that. Javascript has a good heart. Just wish they'd stop trying to add classes to the language.
The warnings were given for a while now. Unfortunately, the Hamas has set up roadblocks to prevent civilians from fleeing to the safe zone. They are using civilians (their own people and children) as human shields.
Could you use crypto instead? Use USDC (or some other semi reliable stable coin). Exchange for stable coin in other currency. Then withdraw to local bank in India. Move in small amounts at first to test everything out, check fees, etc.
Now try logging into your email account to get those OTPs when traveling through China... :(