skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you arguing just to argue? In 1947 the UN decided on borders for an Arab state - they did not name that state and at the time the term Palestine was not the name of any supposed rulers of that Arab state.

The point under discussion above is the fact that the Arabs rejected the borders of this proposed Arab state. So they started a war and the borders were changed. That's the risk they took and lost. It is disingenuous to claim that Israelis stole Arab land at this point - the Arabs tried to steal land and lost.
how is it possible to forget to turn in homework? in my school teachers would ask for the homework to be turned in at the beginning of a class. you could forget to bring your homework, or worse forget to actually do it, but it was practically impossible to miss turning it in.
I think there is more to it. The USA has well the U and S - a homogenous enough and high population bunch of wealthy (relatively) English speaking states with similar enough laws/rules when it comes to commerce that you immediately have a large incubate market before your product can go global. This probably network effects into more funding, which creates a feedback loop, centered on the schilling point of Silicon Valley / SF etc.

If I needed a $1m for an idea, I can go beg for it in Australia, UK etc. have the Dragons Den types laugh at me for not giving them 99% for $100k, or I go to the US and have a different problem - how to choose which investors to dedicate my time to, and which are wasting my time. But getting the money is not the problem.
What we feed these huge LLMs is not just language, but text. and an enormous amount of it. The transformer is an arbitrary sequence to sequence modeller.

Think about what is contained (explicitly and implicitly) in all the text we can feed a model. It's not just language, but a projection of the world as humans see it.

GPT-3.5 Instruct Turbo can play valid chess at about 1800 ELO, no doubt because of the chess games described in PGN in the training set. Does Chess suddenly become a language ability because it was expressed in Text ? No
This article highlights the dangers from fake/illegitimate/non-oem aircraft replacement parts that are being used to repair aircraft.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-ma...

Doesn't make me feel comfortable about flying.
What do you mean, it nets out?

Shouldn't the car trips from/to the airport mean that an airplane journey is even more dangerous, as you can't really fly without those additional car trips?
It would be helpful to have a demo video or something more than a sign up page for a ShowHN
I’m fairly sure there are much more video evidence of hamas evils posted by themselves. E.g. the beheading of migrant workers with shovels.
There is no such thing as a free lunch :)

Modern GC implementations offer an important advantage - very cheap allocations and batched deallocations which allow to sustain high allocation traffic that goes through the heap.

This comes at a cost of non-deterministic memory usage and object de-allocation. Further tradeoff is made between GC pause times, allocation throttling (Go) and even higher memory footprint (ZGC).

My knowledge on the exact overhead of Swift's reference counting is very limited but there's a good chance it comes with significant upfront cost that you don't have to pay in languages with GC or with compile-time-defined allocation semantics (Rust and C++ RAII). There's a reason why Apple invested in atomics being as cheap[0] as they are on their ARM64 cores.

Overall, every time I find Swift benchmark numbers on the internet, they turn out to be far[1][2] from near-Rust performance despite being a language built on top of LLVM.

[0] https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm-int.html (e.g. CAS, CASAL, DMB)

[1] https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

[2] https://github.com/jinyus/related_post_gen#multicore-results
Show HN: LLM Templates – Streamline daily tasks with templated LLMs
> Assuming it doesn't have basic design flaws

To me it seems to have some basic design flaws. As the (disabled) author said, there's no right stick and thus most games are completely unplayable. He'd rather just have the ability to remap the buttons on a normal controller.

Compared to the adaptive xbox controller this thing looks absolutely useless to me.
Do they also delete all of your previous Kindle purchases and all of your data in AWS?
The odds of hearing a specific song that was played yesterday is ~1%, the odds of hearing any song that was played yesterday is ~10%.
Link goes to main page, not the article
> I've avoided Tesla because I don't want anyone thinking I support Musk.

I don't mean this to be rude, but nobody cares that much about your car purchase. People have their own things to think about and are rarely thinking about the reasoning for your purchasing choices.
Apple confirms that it shut down Beeper Mini's iMessage for Android
Hi HN,

Just wrapped up the first version of my newest project: LLM Templates. It's all about making your daily grind with Large Language Models (like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) a bit easier.

So what's the deal with LLM Templates? It lets you create and use quick templates for those repetitive tasks you do with AI. eg.

Deciphering code: “What does this code do? {{ code }}”

Email makeovers: “Make this email sound cooler {{ email }}”

Quick info grabs: “Need the email of {{ person }}”

Right now, it only supports GPT 3.5 and GPT-4, but I'm planning to add more models soon.

I hope it could be a real time-saver for many of you. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

Cheers!

JR
Has there been a console that uses hall effect sensors in first party controllers in the past 15 years?
No change to warming as fossil fuel endgame brings focus onto false solutions
Factors driving a productivity explosion
What strange reasons. Is this a joke?
That’s because both Iraqis and Palestinians were occupied and brutalized by America and Israel respectively. so there is much to share. Just like South Africans commiserate with Palestinians or African-Americans about their experiences.

But that doesn’t mean Iraqis are going to fight a war for the Palestinians. They have their own problems to deal with.
This is EXCELLENT work! Exactly the sorts of stuff I was wanting to see more of when I complained about the lack of LLM related prompt tools:

https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...

Work like this is more important than much of what VC backed startups are producing. Work like yours may continue to languish (unjustly) for a b it before investors get a clue and realize that tools like this, automatic1111, and other tools which give lots of control to the users on how they use their models are actually the most lucrative investments.
> This is gonna be the new GPDR

We should certainly hope so given how much that forced a long overdue reckoning for the data collection and sales markets.
Which goes to andrewstuart’s point; the Microsoft Adaptive Controller was released five years ago.
Amazon systematically underpays all their employees. They do this by encouraging employee churn, like to the point where warehouses occasionally realize "shit, we're running out of new people to hire in the entire metro area". This means they have a high tolerance for a lot of things that would be considered disqualifying. For example, in a lot of workplaces, random drug testing is mandated by insurance, which means people who smoke weed are unemployable. Amazon will hire them anyway[0].

That's not to say Amazon has no limits - they do background-check for felony convictions, and having one would make it harder to get hired by an Amazon warehouse. However, they've still built a hiring system that optimizes for hiring the precariat[1] and underpaying them so they stay precarious. They've built all the economic incentives for them to be stolen from. We don't necessarily need to prove specific allegations of theft in the same way we don't need to prove that specific cracks in the road are caused by water getting in and freezing.

[0] For the record, this is a good thing, but Amazon is doing it for incredibly terrible reasons.

[1] The class of people in permanent precarity - i.e. people who you can get to do anything, including run a marathon across a poorly-organized warehouse filling boxes for eight hours for little pay.
You could argue it's legacy media if you can pass it on to your descendants...
Yes, but messages from iPhones *to* androids is not encrypted.
Shohei Ohtani joins L.A. Dodgers on record-demolishing 10-year, $700M deal
>- In order to achieve some reasonable level of protection from MITM attacks you can't just get someone's key from a keyserver. You have to go hunting for it and you're never really sure if there's a revocation cert out there that you just missed.

This is a convenience consideration, not a security one.

>- Some people publish PGP keys on their websites, and you could use that to contact them over encrypted email. You are still vulnerable to metadata analysis and unless you manually re-key on every message (which you don't), you don't enjoy forward secrecy. Additionally, all it takes is one oopsie moment for someone to Reply-All and forget to encrypt first and now the entire conversation went out unencrypted. This has happened to me.

These are problems with encrypted email, not PGP. Encrypted email is not the only way to use PGP. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38575764

>No mention is made of how to prevent BadUSB-type attacks from jumping the air gap.

You could write newly minted keys to single-use CD-Rs.

>If you really want to be sure nobody mints their own key from your airgapped machine to impersonate you, you now need to monitor your machine. That raspi in a drawer is still vulnerable to Evil Maid attacks, and the worst part is you won't know someone's impersonating you until it's too late.

If physical access is part of your threat model, you'll want to monitor access to your stuff anyways.
> there is IMO absolutely no amount of reasoning that can justify it

Unfortunately, I don’t see any other way. But I would be very happy to know of any that will eradicate hamas, and let both sides’ civilians finally live in peace.
bottoms-up
> FF security out of the box has also been inferior to Chrome’s.

Privacy with Firefox out of the box isn't that much better than Chrome’s either, but what sets Firefox apart is that it can be very effectively hardened. At work I deal with all kinds of compromised and malicious websites and nothing beats Firefox once you've got it locked down.

> I’ve used FF since maybe 2008 and in my experience it’s never been worse than it is now in terms of performance, its interface customisability, and its benefits vs its largest competitor.

It's gotten more difficult to customize firefox over the years for sure, but what competitor offers better interface customizability? What can you customize in Chrome that you can't in firefox? What's chrome's equivalent to userChrome.css? Check out https://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ for examples of what you can accomplish.
This. Also, you rarely have a full idea how your downstream clients interact with the system that was changed.
Show HN: 8-Bit Style Pokemon – Personal Website
Just published my personal website v1 with some 8-bit style design that gives people nostalgia. Check it out at https://yzhx.xyz/.

You can also find the source code on my GitHub.

Here are couple of takeaways from the project:

- It is a Next.js app built from the template (https://github.com/chronark/chronark.com). I made many changes, but I appreciate the components that came with the template!

- The pixel art in the background is from Brandon James Greer on YouTube (https://youtu.be/cxjX8O6YSHI). Please do check out their work on YouTube; they are amazing! I'm currently using it for the sake of convenience, but I plan to replace it with my own pixel art soon.

- The font I used for the website is Unifont Japanese OpenType Version (https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html). It supports a wide range of glyphs from different languages, including Hanzi.

If you have any questions or if there's anything you're curious about, my DMs are open on 𝕏 anytime.
> these days, generating or decoding PNGs is the bottleneck almost nowhere

Anecdotal, but I'm familiar with a system which spends ~50% of CPU cycles on PNG encoding (most of which is actually spent in zlib compression).

The other approaches I've seen involve creating performance-focused forks of zlib (e.g. zlib-chromium and zlib-cloudflare). This has benefits beyond PNG encode / decode:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/improving-zlib-cloud...
Most (all?) mirrorless cameras these days have an electronic shutter too, so it's not like it would put any extra miles on the mechanical shutter.
One-file/lightweight Node.js, no-dependency static file web-server
Of course LLMs can be intelligent. We've trained billions of humans to be automatons and simply work within the confines of school and work. Never create original thought. Why would a machine not be able to emulate this?

The question implies a difference between human automatons who perform jobs and follow rules, vs intelligence in the sense of philosophy or generating original ideas beyond the confines of training.

It's like saying most humans aren't intelligent. Absurd. LLMs are absolutely capable of this.

The counterpoint tends to be around emotion and empathy. Besides being a very clear shifting of goalposts, this is already solved. We have several intelligent humans who have limited empathy and emotions. Are we to argue they aren't intelligent?

Some of our most brilliant people, and many people who just live their normal lives, are excluded from the premise of the question. I suspect it is rooted in a fear that human intelligence isn't exceptional.

AI models are already intelligent, the question is what humans we're comparing them to.
How did you manage to take this as a personal insult? Some people buy an iPhone for the blue bubble, some have what they believe to be good technical reasons to buy one, some people like the aesthetics, some people buy one out of habit. Stating that each category exists is not an insult to those who fall outside it.
Yeah, I’m with you.

Then of course there’s always some disingenuous replies that defend it, any way they can, while simultaneously trying to sound academic to deflect potential responses.
It's all right in the article.

> But designing accessibility products is a massive task, as every disabled person's impairment is unique to them, and gaming technology is always evolving.
Sony's plan to tackle this problem is through customisation - making it possible for each person to tailor the solution to their own individual requirements.
Linux kernel userland ABI is stable. Nothing else is on linux.
All these companies only ever do things for financial reasons. Enabling all people to use your serivce or device or website is a win-win.

Sony doesn't sell the Playstation as an act of charity. They do it to let people give them money for things they enjoy using. Likewise for these types of accessories.
I have Google's DNS and DoH turned off
Massachusetts charts a new energy future beyond natural gas
> Are Palestinians citizens of Israel, or is it a foreign country

Palestinians who live in the lands that Israel has ruled since 1948 are citizens of Israel. The West Bank is not a foreign country, there was never an independent state/country established there. I do not know why the Arabs did not establish an independent Arab state in the West Bank in 1948. In any case, Jordan militarily occupied the area from 1948 to 1967 and Israel militarily occupies the area since. And Israel has been trying to pass off that occupation to an entity that would establish an independent state there for almost 30 years. But no such entity existed or exists today. The PA would be the first contender, but they are incapable of actually administrating the area, and also they rejected every single offer that Israel made to pass the duty of administering the land to them.

> that Israeli settlers are invading

The Israeli settlers are not invading. I've repeated this a few times in this thread, so this is a copy-paste:

League of Nations (and UN) mandates can not change the laws of the lands they administer - then can only issue temporary orders (usually limited to three years). So British orders are not valid in the holy land today. Likewise, military occupation (Jordanian, Israeli) also can not change the laws but rather can issue temporary orders. So the law of the land in the West Bank even today remains Ottoman law, modulo "temporary" Israeli military orders that are actually renewed (for the most part) every three years or so.

Ottoman law since the 1850's stated that anyone who settles land (houses, farms, factories) owns it - Muslims and Jews and Christians alike. Their goal was to increase the population of the near-desolate holy land (which they called Greater Syria), and collect more taxes. Those laws still stand today, for better or for worse. There is nothing "illegal" about Israeli citizens building homes in the West Bank. What would be illegal would be if the Israeli state were to transfer its citizens - international law is binding on states, not citizens. But citizens moving is not banned by any international law, and settlement of the West Bank is actually encouraged by the laws in the West Bank dating over 150 years, because nobody since has had the authority to change those laws.
How neural networks learned to talk [video]
I don't think the bottom-up model denies the importance of the top-down architecture. In practice, you have pressures from both sides. You need to explore what's possible at the bottom but also respect what's required from the top. And they are complimentary. You explore what's possible from the bottom and then you need to adjust how you should organize those possibilities according to the requirements from the top. At the end of the day, as everything else in the world, it's all compromise.
And yet I have yet to see one in the wild. It's all WebM and Gifs these days.
I'm impressed by his prediction. Producing indistinguishable-from-human communication is so complex that being off by only a few orders of magnitude is pretty good (and it may yet turn out it's possible to do using less storage).

And his timeline turned out to be pretty close.
2017: Open source web browser company silently to users, not even any discussion on bugzilla or anywhere else - installs a plugin made by an advertising company for a media conglomerate's TV show about hackers into everyone's Firefox installations.

The project manager responsible who used to work in the advertising industry tries to damage-control things and locks/hides the ticket. Another mozilla staffer unlocks/unhides it and states it was improperly hidden/locked.

The ticket is then made uber-double-super-secret so that not even mozilla staff can view it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003

Other tickets about it are locked because of "off topic comments."

Coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...

Then there was the Cliqz incident:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...

They actively worked to hide the plugin's true nature: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392855#c5

Cliqz was a division of Burda Media.
ACT test scores have plummeted too. Combined with what we know about the physical brain changes that can be observed after a single mild infection, it all paints a potentially concerning relationship with COVID.
A neat idea.

I wish there was a way to select a different year (by appending it to the url, for instance).
> I feel like the only way to get that nowadays at a reasonable price is to make one…

You be pleasantly surprised to learn that standalone music players are still a common thing in 2023.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/bes...
Roads and powerplants both improve society (debatable, but i'll ignore that) in exchange.
You assume that word and line are the same length. Haven't checked beyond that.
I don't recognize a single word in this title.
This is utterly barbaric. I don't know what else to say. Collective punishment is illegal under international law.
Chrome recently added a setting so you can display a tab’s memory usage when you mouse over the tab. In Firefox, you can check the memory usage of each tab in Firefox’s Task Manager (about:processes).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/task-manager-tabs-or-ex...
I don't know what the fix is but that's impossible. Israel has to stay a relatively united nation with a powerful military and nuclear power status or the Arab nations will immediately bulldoze it.
I just found this 2009 research paper written by a group of statisticians titled 'Does Your iPod Really Play Favorites?' (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessica-Culhane/publica...).

In this paper, they test different probability models to detect bias in iPod's shuffling algorithm and eventually conclude that:

> Our statistical tests show the long-term occurrences of these events are within expectations under the assumption of a random shuffle."

Regarding sorting by artists or groups, they found that:

> We failed to find any evidence to support the claim of users like Steven Levy of favoritism of certain groups in the shuffle.
What do we think, within 5 years pilots will be talking to AI chatbots that handle air traffic?
Poster, is there a source to your calendar? I want to add language that is not in the list.
Oh do come on! There are loads of towns, cities, hamlets, villages, bergs, burys ... etc that have the same name in many places.

It doesn't help putting New on the front to differentiate either. Its not as though we do that here in the UK either (much): Newton Abbot, Newcastle, New Forest, New Market. I drive through a Newtown on the A303 in the Blackdown hills. Oh, perhaps we do.

Here in the UK, I believe Whitchurch is the most often seen name for a collection of habitation structures (best I can do at the moment). We very rarely have white churches - so I have no idea what that is all about. Perhaps the Whit- is actually wit: "wise/clever" cf: witten and whist.

I should drop this in, given the name: I live very close to Brunswick street in Yeovil, UK (http://www.yeovilhistory.info/brunswick-street.htm)

The first Brunswick was probably in Germany. -wick and similar are a common place suffix in English, German and Dutch (ie the Germanic languages) for a farm or market place. Ipswitch, for example, was once known as gipeswic. Norwich is a northern wick (cf Norvik)

Probably best to read the entire article.
Quake used Djgpp. Doom, the earlier game from Id Software, used the commercial Watcom C/C++ compiler. Watcom was the go to solution for most 32-bit DOS games during 90s.
It could be you are using different apps from them so they never noticed. I've noticed some web "apps" have leaks that over time can bloat out memory usage leading to swap thrashes. gmail.com for example.

It was quite visible in top or about:memory or about:processes
That was my point though. The AGI optimist community always think that when a computer solves a new thing that computers previously didn't solve then AGI is near. Then a decade later we realize that there are still plenty of things that only humans can solve.
B6 toxicity is absolutely no joke. https://understandingb6toxicity.com/b6-toxicity/symptoms/

Can take months to years to recover from. I've had it myself, had all kinds of symptoms including peripheral neuropathy. Couldn't feel my fingers. Took me ~6 months to recover full feeling in my fingers and toes. It's literally the reason I don't take supplements now.