skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a lot of shooting attacks since the start of 2023, for one. If you want go back further, there was involvement in the intifadas.

> Two decades on, Israel has sounded alarms over the growing number of gunmen in Jenin and their stockpiling of munitions. Israel says the camp is a hub for planning and preparing militant attacks as well as a safe haven for fighters funded by Hamas or the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad group.

> Israel also says more than 50 shooting attacks have been carried out by Jenin-area militants since the beginning of 2023 and that almost half the population is affiliated either with Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-is-israel-atta...
The craziest part about the page is some of the sample drawings people did that are unbelievably good.
Based on opinion polling and UN votes, most of the world is opposed to Israel's treatment of Palestinians, so the null hypothesis is that you would find far more pro-Palestinian voices represented on social media (not just the users, but also the unpaid and paid moderators).

We clearly see moderation policies being biased against pro-Palestinian points of view. All the "mistakes" moderators make are in the same direction.
I hadn't made it that far. That veers firmly from "stupid chest-puffing about real engineering" to "reactionary dogwhistling."

When I search for the author, one of the only other sources I can find for him is bylines in a neo-Nazi-affiliated magazine[1][2].

[1]: https://www.takimag.com/contributor/ScottLocklin/161/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taki%27s_Magazine
> It's possible but it doesn't happen by accident, you have to show that they are related, and no one does (because the people who work on LLMs aren't actually interested in this question, despite the fact that argue it to death).

The relatedness of human language cognition and machine language performance is already evident, in that studies of machine language performance can already falsify some theories of human language cognition. The pattern goes like this.

1. Language competency requires component X.
2. Humans have language competency.
3. Therefore, humans have component X.

When we see a machine, without component X, using language as a human does, we know the theory has gone wrong at the first step. The article mentions one such instantiation of this pattern. The new data has narrowed the space of plausible theories of human language cognition. The machine learning engineers play the role of experimentalists. They collect data but may not have a theory ready to explain what results.

> You have to have a reason to believe that it would yield insights. There isn't one.

The reason is that models in general yield insights. They have yielded insights before, and so we may expect them to yield insights in the future. The explanation for this is either philosophical or psychological. Whatever the reason, humans who look into a specific system are very good at generalizing to a whole class of systems. F=ma is a model, and certainly wrong. But by probing it, we can begin to discover general principles like energy conservation. In the same way, a large language model is a model of a system that acquires language. By examining its specific behavior, we may come to understand more general principles of language acquisition.

> You have to actually have a rational process to produce insights, not just mix a bunch of numbers in a vat and "assume" that some insight is going to come from it.

Where there is already an understood rational process, you no longer need the insight. Sometimes the big leaps of scientific understanding come from looking at the data and then coming to Eureka.
We seem to define “cars” as vehicles that can:

1: Carry a 1,000 lb payload (4 people plus luggage)
2: At a highway speed of 75-80 mph
3: For a non-stop duration of at least 2 hours
4: With enough armor and safety features to probably keep you alive during a crash at 50-60 mph.

In that sense, a Honda Civic, a Tesla Model 3, and a 4 door pickup truck are all quite similar.

I think it’s a shame there’s no market for a 45 mph, 400 lb payload vehicle. They’d probably only need a curb weight of 1000-1200 lbs, and if electric, only a cheaper 15-20 kWh battery.
Oh yeah, Godot is perfect for that. GD Script is very approachable (it's like if Python got Typescript-ified).

I'm sure that as the GDExtension project develops, it'll only be a matter of time until someone builds a visual programming language for it.
If they change name, I vote for "Mulder".
Perfectly stated headline. The tech megacorps get a free pass on completely redefining the definition of ownership in a way that's flatly parasitical and bordering on fraudulent (aside from the immense amounts of now completely normalized personal life tracking they do against you for so much as sneezing in their direction) but god help your moral standing if you decide to try roundabouts against their efforts at making your "ownership" of things you bought into a strictly conditional, locked-in limbo. Fuck these corporate/legal notions and their defenders, who view consumers as little more than milkable cattle as far as I can see.
From what to what? What counts as “serious?” What percentage of flights? Which kind of flights? How many of them are commercial passenger (as opposed to cargo)? Can the variance be ascribed to noise?

Sorry if some of these questions can be answered from the paywalled article. But my gut says that this is making news out of nothing important.
"Noise reduction" is not dark frame subtraction.

What they are very clearly describing is dark frame subtraction, as they repeatedly mention damage from cosmic rays. Things are not helped by this being a press release munged up by a writer.

"Noise reduction" is where the camera's image processor applies smoothing over different channels as part of all the other processing it does, such as vignette correction, chromatic diffraction compensation, and remapping for lens distortion.

Some but not all of this is bypassed when doing RAW images. RAW processors (especially from the camera manufacturer) typically apply similar corrections automatically, but you have varying degrees of control over this. They're usually better quality due to more computational capabilities, and faster software development cycle vs stuff baked into the camera's ASICs or firmware.
> It's downright mythological what Microsoft achieves and continues to do.

This seems like it was meant in a positive way, but I really don't think that if compatibility with your system requires "mythological" efforts, that should be seen as a good thing for your system.

It's also worth noting that backwards ABI compatibility only masters when people limit their software by not distributing the source. Early UNIX software can run fine on modern GNU by just compiling it.

API Compatibility Is All You Need ;)
If so, why do we see a sudden increase in just one year worldwide, including Europe?

The most plausible explanation is brain fog from COVID and long COVID compounded by employee shortage and overwork.
I doubt any deception is necessary. I bet you could tell the check-out person at best buy (i.e. a representative of the owner) that you plan on ripping and sharing the movie you're buying, and 99 times out of 100 they'll just say okay and ask if you want to sign up for a credit card.

Doubly so for something like a garage sale. They might ask if you can share other things with them.
The class that prints money and operates fractional reserve banks (in partnership with your local government) extracts a cut from everyone that touches or must use ("legal tender") their money. It's a function of interest rates and the fractional reserve multiple (k). Interest is paid on fictional moneys (accounting fiction) that is canceled but k-1/k fraction of the interest paid on the fictional money goes into the banker pockets. So implicitly (rk-r)/(rk+k) of the economy denominated by that money is exploitation of actual work done to make interest payments on non-existent monies. It's a great scam and it's nicely setup since all direct parties involved (depositors and borrowers) are made whole. But that portion of interest on magic money that bankers pocket was the product of actual work. It's a great racket. No wonder they fight world wars over who gets to print the magic money.

--

p.s. some basic math for the down voters. the most basic model with loans issued and serviced in one cycle.

D = total deposits

k = fractional reserve multiple. (iirc ~23 in US?)

r = interest rate. we'll keep things simple, and assume bank interest rate is same for depositor (rd) and borrower (rb) but usually rb > rd.

B = total loans issued = k * D

I = total interest earned = B * r

L = total liability of banker to depositors = D * (r + 1)

I' = total interest liability of banker to depositors = D * r

F = Fictional money created on loan issuance and destroyed on loan conclusion = D * ( k - 1).

X = Exploited wealth from public at large where interest paid for fictional money is wealth extracted structurally by the banking institution. X = I - I' = F * r

It's a nice chunk of money*. So X is wealth extracted from the society that must use a debt instrument that is created by fractional reserve banking. It is structural and "owner" and "worker" alike, anyone who has to make non-fictional interest payments, is affected.

* B = "United States Total Loans was reported at 12,228.056 USD bn in Oct 2023" /G

from Google "Depending on the terms of your loan, you may expect to pay as much as 50% of the mortgage in interest. The point at which you begin paying more principal than interest is known as the tipping point. This period of your loan depends on your interest rate and your loan term"

50%. k-1/k of that is wealth extracted from society. @k=23, 22/23 ~ 95%. Chew on that. The X factor.

So whether you are Elon Musk borrowing billions or Joe Schmoe borrowing for a car or a student for a loan, the overwhelming portion of the interest you pay is wealth extracted by a mechanism that were it not enforced by law, it would be blatant fraud.
It's planning to make RCS blue bubble in 24.
eponymous laws often tend to function as thought-terminating cliches especially if taken to extremes.

hanlon's razor is another one: malice is a very real thing in the world, it's not at all the same thing as occam's "don't say the devil killed your crop when there's a perfectly good scientific explanation" razor. in this case it's actually "memetic mimicry" - one meme having successfuly adopted the "coloration" (form and tempo) of another for propagation, despite lacking the essential characteristic of the first.

once these memes become established, people rarely question them, even when the ground circumstances have changed, or in cases in which they were never true at all.

(tu quoque is another example of this - actually, if conduct is normalized by routine and broad acceptance of the practice, then collectively we have (apparently) decided it's acceptable. And in that case no, it's not a fallacy to point out that everyone is doing it. There is a kernel of truth that one wrong doesn't excuse another, but if we have accepted the practice then it's not really a wrong. And it is generally wrong to single out a particular participant while giving everyone else a pass, as this unequal enforcement of laws (or norms) easily becomes a tool of oppression and bias. This becomes the classic "everyone smokes weed, but only black people get arrested for it".)
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Sure, but the way it was framed was so negative. The Grok engineers answered this online shortly there after and, of course, it was no where near as nefarious as people want to make it out to be.
Sounds like the one! Engine after engine going out. Without (at first) any obvious cause.

> From a complete loss of power to all engines to on the ground with zero deaths, zero injuries. That's exactly the kind of story I'm talking about that gives me such faith in flying!

Understood (and agreed). But you missed my point: fate of that flight didn't result from safety engineering. It depended entirely upon the ash-laden air it flew into, and its effect on the aircraft & its engines. No amount of systems redundancy could have made it a safe flight.

So yes: flying is very safe these days. But there are limits to what safety engineering can provide.
Private equity is an inevitability of a financialised capitalist economy, so what are you suggesting? Some sort of vigilante justice?
WordPress 6.4.2 Maintenance and Security Release
An Explanation of Tyson's Law [video]
It Isn't News, It's Just Sand
45mph? Are you kidding me? So they can jam up all freeways?
Consciousness being quantum would at least explain qualia. It would be easy to say feeling is simply a new quantum field unbeknownst to us instead of an (as of yet unexplained) emergent property of the currently known fields and their fluctuations.
There’s an interesting thread of truth in this, and you’ve touched on it. Paul always goes top down fist, and bottom up second. I don’t think he explained that very well.

Doing bottom-up first is fraught with danger, since you don’t know what you’ll need until you start writing an app. That’s why it’s so important to let the bottom-up approach be guided by the needs of an actual application. It rarely goes well any other way.

The problem isn’t starting top-down, but that people never do the bottom-up work that you uncover. They get around it in other ways, mostly by suffering. A lot of devs don’t even realize they’re suffering; they think it’s part of the work. Whereas if you pull apart the elements of your top-down program into their component parts, you’ll almost always end up with shorter programs that are more powerful. Sometimes exponentially so.
https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2024

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2025

From the README [0]:

"""
By default, the current year is used. You can override the year by supplying a year parameter, e.g. /calendar.php?year=2027.
"""

[0] https://github.com/neatnik/calendar
I will unapologetically deviate from your question to a parallel one…

Sneak King from Burger King has a special place in my heart.
Would you feel safe driving around in a 1200lb vehicle when most others cars on the road are 4000lb+. I love the idea of smaller vehicles, but big fear is safety of a smaller vehicle vs the monstrosities on the road today.
In my experience we wouldnt need them if we were capable of doing their few simpel tasks. For some absurd reason people would rather argue needlesly.

My gut says half can be automated away and the other half needs a strictly defined job description free from any opportunity for freestyling. You could probably hire 2 or 3 extra for a while to hammer out the spec.
If commuting is going to be compensated, then the compensation needs to be flat. If it costs more to employ people with longer commutes, those candidates will invariably be discriminated against in regards to hiring/firing, and the candidates most effected will invariably be lower income, as longer commutes is such a common feature of lower cost housing. It would become an anti-social-mobility mechanism if not done right.
I mean if freeways adjust to have minimum speeds of e.g 55mph instead of the current 45 (and even that's only in some states), it would solve this by constraining such a car to cities and backroads.
Toyota is sinking a lot of money and effort into anti-EV lobbying because they somehow missed the EV bus.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/07/toyota-bet-wrong-on-evs...
how did you do that before covid when working from home wasn't yet common?

i understand the problem for a single parent. in most countries they just can't work 8 hours a day. the time where kids are away for me for example is barely 8 hours by the clock. that is without commuting time and lunch break. once the kids come home someone needs to start preparing dinner, followed by housework.

with two parents however, one parent could work early, and the other could work late so that there is one parent around in the morning and one in the evening.

the trouble now is of course that this becomes a coordination problem with two different employers who have different expectations for the work schedule
I disabled the setting where people can send me iMessages using my email address.
Or use the much more detailed about:memory, that's how I discovered the live leak.
For Boeing aircraft you compare the totaliser fuel quantity with the calculated quantity based on engine fuel burn to determine a leak.
Parallel construction is a great euphemism for "knowingly and willingly breaking the law, then deliberately lying about it".

They're literally professional criminals.
Yeah, I got it mixed up with the Xbox controller
Seems like it's potentially used for debugging, especially given that pycharm apparently appends additional params when invoking a new process (as noted in the comment at the top of the file).
You connect your iDevice to a computer running iTunes/Apple Music app (PC or Mac). In iTunes settings there is an option to "Manually manage media". Select that. Now you can drag your music to the device and it will appear in the Music app on your iDevice. Videos will appear in the TV app I believe (they have renamed this app from something else but it will play on your device). Only certain media formats are supported. On Audio I think its WAV,AIFF,MP3 and Apple Lossless(ALAC). If you have flac there are plenty of lossless converters from FLAC to ALAC (Lossless to lossless).

For Video I think MP4, and MOV are supported? Maybe more though I dont think MKV is.

For Pictures I think you just copy using the OS to the DCIM folder?

There is a Ukrainian company called Softorino that provides a one click app to just transfer any media with any format to your iDevice and have it magically appear in the right app. It does all the conversion work for you in the background.
Any job that can be done in an office, can be done in an office in India - does that not hold?
> Faema E-61 Legend

I worked a bar with a 3-group. What a joy to work with.
I assume downsizing to reduce expenses.

The current property is huge:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZjVa4Azzd47qemg86?g_st=ic
Not just any camera - an Interrotron!
You'd think Google would devote its resources to improve search, but instead they're paying journalists (who hate tech) to forge the very chains that bind us.
This is a trait of many great people. I guess they realise at some level that inspiring another generation helps carry the work forward than being dismissive and focusing on one's own work. This is also why I admire Andrew Ng.
That somehow was by being busy smoking their hydrogen pipe.
That was an interesting read and some details I’d not heard before. Thank you.
The coffee will no doubt soak up any small spritz of water quickly, it's basically a desiccant. No chance mold will be able to use that water.
See the author's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38587791
NPC's come from gaming/internet meme culture.

Non-playable character
Solving the Motorcycle Keychain Problem [video]
Frustrating: It might just be me but I can't click on enter on the loading screen on my android phone with brave, Adblock on or off.
You can’t leave it at that. What do you do to lock down FF?
I have my copies on the bookshelf behind me.
some people drive motorcycles. what's with this obsession with safety ?
You can’t really get anywhere in most of America if you stick to the backroads.
Chromium is the only browser that has security and privacy nightmares including Web USB [1], Web Bluetooth [2], and the Battery Status API [3].

I'd rather stick with Safari or Firefox.

[1]: https://caniuse.com/webusb

[2]: https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth

[3]: https://caniuse.com/battery-status
Also, there's an important ability: to be able to come up with new or modified procedures.
Even if my commute is only 15 minutes, I save probably 10 hours a week working from home because I can toss in the laundry while I work, walk the dog during a non-participatory meeting, load the dishwasher while I wait for a file to copy, etc. The amount of time I free up is absolutely insane. I can actually just be after work rather than doing chores.
yeah, I have a small electric ceramic burr grinder and I dont' have any of these problems. I also have a blade grinder for when I'm in a hurry/have guests. Still no problems, I might lose 1% to static.
> Sounds like your current/previous companies have heavier weight release processes that reduces how often releases go out?

Yes, that probably describes 98% of companies. So what?
And spray your cats as they attempt to abscond with your comestibles.
> meaning any impact is directly transferred to the passengers

I'm not sure this follows. There are some clips showing impact from a front collision being transferred to the rear wheel steering axle. I want to see standardized crash tests like NHTSA and IIHS. I wouldn't be surprised if your Model X performs better, but what I would want to know is how the cybertruck compares to other trucks.
Wish they did it for EMNLP which is happening right now and many of the EMNLP people will go to NeurIPS
Weirdly I decided to download this to watch today
Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do is downstream from the influence of giant corporations.
This is a really stupid idea. Murray Hill is a sprawling campus in a suburban area with plenty of on-site parking and a stone's throw away from I-78, a major interstate highway. New Brunswick is a densely-developed city, lots of traffic, and parking is a hassle with metered on-street parking and for-fee parking garages. The point of proximity to Rutgers University is a weak argument because Murray Hill is less than 20 miles from New Brunswick, not at all onerous for university linkage and a lot less than the distance from MIT to many of the high-tech businesses on 128 and 494 around Boston.