skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's ... interesting ... to note that this is precisely the sort of "ticking time bomb" scenario often raised in justification of torture and rampant surveillance:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticking_time_bomb_scenario>

It would be interesting to see how well the abusive and transgressive approach fares against one that's far more sympathetic to the interrogatee. U.S. experience from the Iraq war was that soft-touch interrogations were far more effective.

This past November, U.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, the dean of the United States Military Academy at West Point, flew to Southern California to meet with the creative team behind “24.” Finnegan, who was accompanied by three of the most experienced military and F.B.I. interrogators in the country, arrived on the set as the crew was filming.... Finnegan and the others had come to voice their concern that the show’s central political premise—that the letter of American law must be sacrificed for the country’s security—was having a toxic effect. In their view, the show promoted unethical and illegal behavior and had adversely affected the training and performance of real American soldiers. “I’d like them to stop,” Finnegan said of the show’s producers. “They should do a show where torture backfires.”

<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/19/whatever-it-ta...>

(There are other instances of F.B.I. and military interrogators reporting both that testimony obtained under torture is either misleading or no more accurate, useful, or timely than that obtained under sympathetic treatment. I believe there was a Fresh Air Interview following 9/11 / the 2nd US-Iraq War though I've yet to locate it. There's a searchable archive for anyone with stronger search-fu here: <https://freshairarchive.org/>. Specifically matching "interrogation": <https://freshairarchive.org/search?keyword=interrogation>.)
What would be being landed would be a CSM-based shelter, not the whole Saturn V.
Ok, that’s a fair point. Imagine you’re Bjarne Stroustrup, sure he doesn’t consider himself a c++ programmer, and he isn’t worried about his employment prospects, but he still has a vested interest in this issue.
" I am talking about women/children. " Can you elaborate, what makes especially women special as a victim?
The point being that while it’s not at all enforceable there’s a non zero number of people who will think it is and not fight it
In other news, nearly 40% of homes are owned by corporations.
More than that, does it matter? What difference does it make, considering that most content created these days is mediocre opinion pieces.
Double especially if they automate it.

Here is the rule, don’t question it, and now do it yourself. Everywhere you go you better follow the rules and check yourself in. Never question it.
Name a conflict or intervention by the US in that region that has made use of US assets based in Israel. Hint: there aren't any.
We instead use assets in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, etc. Using anything based in Israel would cause more problems than would be solved.

Israel isn't really an asset to the US, it is more of a liability that we tolerate.
That's likely what the picture is and according to the caption you could barely notice.
All reports are that Netanyahu and the Israeli intelligence services knew this attack was coming. They've been promoting Hamas over more moderate elements in Gaza. The goal was to provoke an attack which would "justify" a counter-attack to completely level Gaza and kill or force out all the remaining civilians.
What is the order of the cost of the workflow function?
They might win in the long term. Linux is moving in a micro-kernel direction with things such as netmap, io_uring, DPDK and SPDK.
I find a lot of millennial devs like me are old, have responsibilities, kids, a family, barely have time to game.

I bought a PS5, only own one game and I barely play with it. I just have either no time or little energy to play. I wanna get Spider-man 2, but I know I'd just end up not playing it.

Now the Nintendo Switch is another thing. I still play it quite a bit, especially the Zelda game. It's just so easy and convenient to pick up anywhere anytime.

It boots up quickly and it's just so convenient.

And that's it. That's life for a lot of us, squeezing in gaming here and there whenever there's time, whenever the wife gives the go ahead or whenever you've tackled your day-to-day responsibilities.
If they were only providing a service to the advertisers, why would non-advertisers use their site, and even sit through ads?
It happened over several seconds, and would have been so faint that you won't notice it without heavy video processing.
Nations at war defend themselves by degrading the military might and desire to wage war of the enemy state. I find Israel's actions to be overly callous towards civilian death, but it's important to keep in mind that civilian death was inevitable once the government of Gaza decided to invade Israel and intentionally target civilians.
> This follows from HN's core principle* because curiosity and battle can't be active at the same time.

Does HN have a policy against epistemic soundness in claims? Because if there is a method that is maximally useful for these sorts of issues, it is disciplined epistemology. Yet, I know of no explicit policy on it, but I have been subjected to scolding for practicing it, suggesting there is an implicit policy, at least to some degree (perhaps only on some topics, who knows). Or, an error has been made....which once again is an epistemological matter.

If people refuse to even try to utilize the tools that exist, and discussion of that phenomenon is disallowed, it may not be optimal game play....and sometimes, suboptimal gameplay results in large quantities of death. Is curiosity about that a good thing?

(And yes, I do realize that the culture we've been raised in has taught us that statements like mine "are" necessarily "in bad faith", though mine is not actually.)
Importantly, if you look at lists of "C/C++" security holes, you find it is almost all C security holes. So when they write "C/C++" they are hoping you won't notice they are lying to you.

The residue of holes in C++ code is about the same as JS, Python, etc. So just eliminating C and C-like constructs gets you to the same level of security as the other languages.
Technically, even without PII an adversary could determine that you have been in a physical place, they just wouldn't know what to call you.
A distinction without a difference - they're both in the same rent-seeking model.
Be careful with this, because when you overdose on category theory you can end up (co)designing the first practical method of deleting not just a neighbourhood, but all humans from the planet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Teller%E2%80%93...
I think of Al Jazeera like I think of the NY Times: it's the unofficial mouthpiece of the establishment. I apply my prior understanding of those establishments to adjust what I read into what i believe is a more factual understanding of the underlying reality.
> 1. Utter bullshit - completely useless to everyone; unjustifiable.

Isn't part of what you're romanticizing of these traditional societies the utterly useless shit they might do with some of their time? Our work pays because someone values it, that is tautological.
It can't create partition tables or filesystems, so no, but

ffmpeg -f data -i /dev/zero -map 0:0 -c copy -f data - > /dev/sda

is roughly equivalent to to

dd status=progress if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
> Don't regret time spent doing something you enjoy.

This common saying is harmful and borderline hedonistic. Not all enjoyable activities are good activities. Should ex-smokers not regret their past smoking habit, then?

Everything must be in moderation. Playing video games, watching movies, and binging TV shows are great for unwinding after work. But if you do them too much, they can disrupt your life.
This is fantastic. I want to know: how do you plan to sustain this? Donations?
I probably don't know about the case but this sounds completely backwards. Aren't Google (not that I like them) the ones which do allow third party app stores and Apple do not?

So they're being punished FOR allowing choice?
Python allows nested functions too.

Can't remember about Ruby.
Isn't defense also supposed to be targeted against an aggressor? How could the millions of innocent civilians that Israel is displacing, destroying all their houses and belongings and killing (and maybe torturing as described in this article), be considered in any way as aggressor?

if a terrorist hid in an appartement building, and the police came, start killing all the inhabitants of the building and destroyed the building, in order to stop that terrorist, would you be wondering if that response is legitimate defense? I don't think so.
HIPAA law and implementing regs include broad allowances for disclosure to law enforcement, some of which involve some degree of subjective judgement on the part of the covered entity (and most of which do not require a warrant), but, no, it does not allow pharmacies (or any other covered entities) "leeway as to what legal standard they require" (emphasis added) before such disclosure.

See, generally, https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-doe... and the regulations cited therein.
>demo showing product in use
>I can actually buy it
Is this 2006
Yeah, i mean't infinite figuratively. LLMs should at least enable some middle ground between selecting between A,B,C,D and anything goes.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Companies are still stealing from the customers.
Disney doesn't need to rely on IP protection to maintain a hand in merch sales in their own parks.
Realistically speaking, homeless drug users don't want treatment or shelter; they want to be left alone to do drugs.

Most drug users don't want to get off drugs. That's why you need an intervention. No addict likes interventions either. You have to be really self disciplined to turn yourself into treatment.
Did you mean to link to a forked repo?

https://memorycache.ai/developer-blog/2023/11/30/we-have-a-w...

links to https://github.com/misslivirose/Memory-Cache

but did you mean https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/Memory-Cache
Just need a Linux version or an open source alternative now
This is a bit like saying "you can write a buffer overflow in any turing-complete language, because you can write a C emulator, and then write the buffer overflow in C"
Thanks for the feedback! :)

Yeah, adding audio to the video would help — I'll try do record something later today and update it.

When building LLM apps a good chunk of the workflow is testing new stuff and seeing what works or not, and one of the most useful features of RΞASON to me is that its OpenTEL compatible. Which allows for things for you to inspect your LLM at a close level with ease (see: https://docs.tryreason.dev/docs/essentials/observability#usi...).
With all the 'investment' in ISO27001:* validation of the existing infrastructure choices and the like, I'd be astonished if any move in a large company was able to happen within five years.

From what I've seen none of them have taken this issue seriously, either, and won't until they get squeezed hard enough, at which point they'll have to... spend five years trying to move!
You know, shooting demons, solving mysteries, jumping over koopas, that kind of thing…
As I wrote on September 14th, 2001, 3 days after 9/11, "Just don't act rashly".

https://groups.google.com/g/borland.public.delphi.non-techni...
What if they sell their entire business to a subsidiary?
X Support Is Infuriating
what's wrong with al jazeera?
I'm not a bot.
Where it crystalized for me was watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio... as it happened live.

The AJ coverage: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...

From reading the AJ coverage, you would believe that Israel bombed a hospital and killed hundreds. An inexcusable atrocity, obviously, if it were true.

But on Wikipedia, you can see the actual impact of the bombing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...

The US and Israel's story of it being a jihad rocket seems consistent with the explosion. The intelligence assessment that it was dozens not hundreds dead seems much more plausible to me.

The AJ perspective seems to be to treat Hamas claims as valid by default throughout this conflict, which I find concerning.
> exhaustively finding the best possible combination of QP/resolution pairs for an entire encoding ladder that also optimizes subjective quality – and not just MSE.

This is unnecessary if the encoder is well-written. It's like how some people used to run multipass encoders 3 or 4 times just in case the result got better. You only need one analysis pass to find the optimal quality at a bitrate.
To me https://tryreason.dev is working. Which browser are you on?
With respect, you seem to be the one struggling to let this one go. In two short comments you've accused me of: fulminating, not being constructive, posting against site rules, picking fights on the internet, posting ad hominem attacks, etc. All I've noted is that you're not legally trained, which you yourself admit.

My respectful advice is that if you're not legally trained, but wish to write legal analysis, (1) pause and consider how useful this actually is to others, and (2) if you must continue, preface (!) your statement with a disclaimer that you're not legally trained.

Lawyers are trained that with knowledge comes responsibility - people tend to rely on what lawyers say, often in unanticipated ways. Not only does this often lead people to go off half-cocked, but it can have legal consequences for the person giving the advice (there's such a thing as negligent advice). Generally these laws apply equally to lawyers and non-lawyers, and simply because you don't have any legal training doesn't mean you're not giving 'legal advice', it just makes your advice all the more dangerous. It seems reasonably unlikely you'd be sued for negligent advice for random comments online (not impossible!), but you should reflect on the ethics of confidently leading people on, from a position of relative legal ignorance.

I realise you may not be receptive to what I am saying to you - you appear to have become somewhat defensive and might be perceiving my words as further attacks - but I'm genuinely not here to diss you, and I'm absolutely not looking for a fight. Perhaps my initial comment was a little glib, but not knowing what precedent is and giving legal advice is rather like not knowing what a variable is but nonetheless giving confident programming advice. Generally best avoided.
Lots of words have odd spelling due to false etymologies.

Scissors, Island, Ache, and Could; were all from old English with random letters added by people in the 15th century who mistakenly thought they were from Latin.

Etymology is hard, and most textbook writers and teachers who invented the rules weren't qualified to actually find the true origin.

English accumulated a multitude of inconsistent spelling patterns, some from loan words, some from shift how words pronounced from vowel shifts, yod-dropping, and random reform attempts which weren't often based on rigourous evidence of origin.

It was an etymological fallacy that drove those spelling reforms to 'correct' the spelling anyway.

There is no real value in keeping the k in knife when the sound was dropped as an example.
A book in the public domain can be sold, so probably by selling books. Or other jobs. This seems really interesting to me as someone who does not write books full time.
To expand on this point a bit, Ars Technica has some articles on the copyright extension saga. In 2019, when works started going into the public domain again in the US, they published https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/a-whole-years-wo... in 2018, they published https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-i... which had interviews saying that there were no plans for another copyright extension term push.

Of course, both times, comments were pretty incredulous that Disney would prevent Steamboat Willie from going public domain. And now we're 3 weeks from that happening, and 1 week from the US House planning to go on recess, and there's no sign of any bill that would extend copyright further. People who pay attention will note that Disney has seemed to prepare for Steamboat Willie going public domain: part of the short now appears as part of their film logo in movies, presumably to enable them to claim it as trademark and sue anyone who tries to upload it into oblivion. Nevertheless, I fully expect quite a few people to do stuff like upload Steamboat Willie to Youtube in January, and it will be interesting to see what the response of that is.
I was shocked to learn my 7yo daughter associates Disney with Mickey and Minnie.

She's watched like one Mickey cartoon on Disney+, and she's seen way more Disney stuff than that. Never been to Disneyland.

But somehow to her, Disney === Mickey/Minnie. Branding is wild stuff.
While KimDotCom was getting raided in New Zealand for "piracy", Youtube knowingly used pirated music and film media to grow its site
> Though I've heard it's quite common in large enterprises that are fragmented due to a lot of aqui-hires, for corporate HR to forget or miss people they supposed to fire and who still remain on the payroll

Milton has entered the chat.
Actually pretty exciting for books.

Agatha Christie, W.E.B. DuBois, Evelyn Waugh, Nabokov, D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, and A.A. Milne all have books entering in 2024.

And a Brecht play (The Threepenny Opera - one of his best, at that), and a Eugene O'Neill (Strange Interlude)!
So do you, who exercise the full force of your voting power, feel like you have any influence over our country's use of surveillance powers? Any influence over the power to regulate investment banks and private equity from destroying the last vestiges of the US middle class, or the American dream? Any influence over weaponizing the world in every armed conflict around the globe? Any influence over illegal immigration, drugs, or crime? Because I don't see how either party is materially any different in any of these cases, and I absolutely see and understand how they've rigged the system to prevent anyone from disrupting their status quo. If you do, then good on you.
>"The news comes amid an industrywide pullback in EV investment due to slower-than-expected sales growth."

This slower-than-expected sales growth is primarily due to the higher-than-expected pricing increases across the board for EVs that are made by car companies that aren't 100% EV by design, as well as higher interest rates.
Photoshop is a funny example because it will actually warn you if you open up a file that looks like paper currency.
Maybe it's habit-forming but not addictive?
The last chapter requires an enterprise license.
Ask HN: Why is Meta's ad targeting so much better than Google's and TikTok's
I don't see as many youtube ads anymore because I have youtube premium, but when I did I remember the ads all being for stuff like car insurance (I don't drive). Meanwhile, ads on instagram are hyperspecific to my interests I've gotten ads for people selling arduino-type kits, cool anime posters, computer monitors, some light-up piano thing.
The most interesting book cover designs are often left on the cutting room floor
Welcome to astronomy! If it's not an issue with local cloud coverage, it'll be an issue of not being visible from your area. But when it does happen! To me, it's better than the proverbial golf shot. Even though I've experienced the golf shot, I've never spent thousands of dollars on anything golf related. I've never stood out in the freezing cold in the middle of the night working on a golf swing. Also unlike golf, you can get assistance and people are typically happy to provide it.
Ah, I see that Broadcom is working on speedrunning the "lose all your customers" game. Not what I would do if I dropped eye watering sums of money to purchase those customers, but you do you, Broadcom.
Well at least one large telecommunications company's marketing department and one viewer got the joke.
But whether there's a crackhouse, or a liquor store in my neighbourhood that sells crack, there will be crackheads around.

And that's the main problem.

If you don't agree, just take some walks through neighbourhoods with a large number of drug addicts.

On my street everything from petty crime to casual assault to literal stabbings have skyrocketed. It doesn't matter where the drugs come from; it matters where it ends up, and where it ends up is inside the brains of our brand-new underclass.
They established early copyright because publishers would just print copies of books and never pay the authors at all. The middlemen aren't going to do it voluntarily, and if they do, they'll be undercut by those that don't.
If there as an election tomorrow in Israel, do you think the new leader would be against war? Like it or not, Hamas' actions have prompted a response from the Israeli people, a different leader wouldn't change that sentiment.
The more I read about war the shittier it gets. This sounds like a lot of the others.

I keep reading about wars, though. It seems more dangerous to look away.
I'm of the mind that you can't just casually cast naming or precision aside when talking about data collection.

If I'm askimg for a ZIP code I probably already know I can't deliver to you. If I thought I could deliver to you I'd collect the data necessary to do so, though not by asking you to pretend that the meaningful differences are not meaningful.

Others operate differently, Amazon makes a bunch more revenue than me, YMMV.
That's interesting. Do you have any thoughts on Nakba-denialism?
> I can use it to optimize my health and longevity

Q: Is it a HN thing to be (obsessively?) interested in health and longevity?

Dying is a natural process. Sorry.
Office Space was more of a documentary than a satire.
> We can already do that at leisure, but most would not care to go a whole day (let alone every day) trudging around by necessity.

We can do that at best 2/7 days a week. In reality, modern life forces us to dedicate even less time to that.

I've done that many times. The feeling at the end of the day is always unlike any other. Wouldn't swap those experiences for anything else.

> You seem to be framing the search for food as a low-stakes endeavor.

Have you ever picked mushrooms? Do you know how little time it takes to get enough mushrooms for weeks to come? And then how much meat there is in a deer?

I agree that the risk of being murdered is higher. Although I think you overestimate the frequency of encounters. There weren't a lot of people back then on Earth. I also don't think this decreases happiness all that much. The slow senseless willowing away in an office everyday seems like a much less happy existence, even if it's a longer one.
(cough, Proposition 13)
Reading that entire thing was a struggle. Really feels like _everyone_ is wrong here. Yes the current state of FE development is overly dogmatic and cultish. But it always has been. On the other hand the frameworks and build systems are solving actual problems, they're not there for looks.

5-7 second skeleton loaders are there because backend systems are slow, not because of the front end application. You can say "oh but you can pre-render", but there are times when you can't. You could render the whole thing on the backend, but then you'll wait 5-7 seconds at a white page vs. progressive loading. Whatever is taking 5-7 seconds (LCP) is not going to get faster for you in your region by some magical front end dance.

Not every business is the same and no one solution will work for everyone. And concluding that we should "go back to jQuery" really speaks volumes of the author. jQuery was not "the good old days".

The problem with FE is that they seem to be wannabe nodejs BE devs instead of the W3C experts they should be. If FE devs focus on web standards and less on Rube Goldberg machines they would be well served.