skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's interesting to believe that Israel can effectively and permanently take out Hamas (and the like), while they cannot prevent October 7th. Either they have sufficient intelligence/surveillance or they don't. The last "election" in 2006 was the year after a majority of the population of Gaza was born (median age 18), and politically, it seems Netanyahu prefers Hamas to any less radical representation, because fear is a tool.

Furthermore, the leadership of Hamas doesn't even reside within Gaza (in Qatar), though it's not like Israel holds it's targeted killings within its borders, either. The people of both sides suffer, but those outside and those with political power on both sides are eliminationist. I think it's important to listen to member of cabinet when they say "nukes are on the table" or a settler when they say that everything from the Nile to Tripoli are rightfully theirs, when you evaluate similar Hamas rhetoric.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza-iran-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETNqgBCjwc

Israel claims that 55 Hamas commanders have been killed. What is the proper ratio of that to civilian deaths (17,700)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2023_Israel%...

How does Israel know there are bunker/tunnels under the Al Sharif hospital? They built them.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-israel-build-bunker-...
JavaScript ternaries could be beautiful
Deus Ex didn't have full "the cube can rotate" physics but it did a lot to move this kind of thing forward. You can totally throw a can of soda at a cop.
Right, and when I was a kid computers were things that fit on entire office floors. If your 'much longer' is only 30-40 years I could still be around then.

In addition you're just asking for limits on compute, which ain't gonna go over well. How do you know if it's running a daily weather model, or making an AI. And how do you even measure capabilities when we're coming out with with other functions like transformers that are X times more efficient.

What you want with AI cannot happen. If it's 100% predictable it's a calculation. If it's a generalization function taking incomplete information (something humans do) it will have unpredictable modes.
I'm not too worried about it because it's never a 100% overlap. Even my brother and I share only ~50% DNA. It gets way sparser for more distant relatives.

About insurance companies, they're legally forbidden to use such data.
Not because it's edgy, but because it's the right and ethical thing to do. Free culture and free software, opponents of copyright, has driven much innovation over the last few decades.
If the allocator can't keep up with the code, then maybe the allocator simply is bad?
They should have used the thermal grill illusion instead of real heat
Are you claiming ignorance of the fact that the Hamas charter originally called for the liquidation of Israel? This is common knowledge. Granted, they have revised it recently to tone down the genocidal language, but I don't think anybody should be deceived about what their intentions are.

As the history of the slogan "from the river to the sea", please read on it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea, it has little to do with Likud.
What if you want to run a query to compare your DNA to everyone else’s to see if you have any relatives that are registered already? Wouldn’t that need access to the entire database and essentially be a point of weakness?
Hat tip to New Atlas for pointing me to this:

https://newatlas.com/automotive/hyundai-snow-chains/

And a video from Hyundai:

https://youtu.be/kIxJobVCRTI

(Turn the sound off; it is just annoying music.)
Funding of the study is a role in the study itself, since it is the study itself that requires the actual money.
It doesn't seem as simple as that considering revenues are above $700bn. Plus, it's not like the defense industry is considered small by any means. I'm willing to bet everyone you know (or nearly) has flown in an airplane. I'm definitely not an economist but googling around it doesn't seem like the difference in revenues is an order of magnitude. But I'm willing to believe I'm misinterpreting and/or didn't look hard enough (most certainly the latter is true).

I definitely agree that software is more profitable, but the gap is a bit surprising, especially considering the high skills and training required.
A few points:

1. It’s not “unfettered” and never has been. That’s an extraordinary claim which suggests you have no firsthand knowledge of the requirements imposed on those wishing to migrate to the UK.

2. Consequences of migration on welfare systems is net positive (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/about-department/fiscal-effe...). Obviously as asylum seekers are unable to work, there is a cost (around £4bn/year) of operating the scheme. It is true that likely the tax contributions made by successful applicants for asylum does not fully offset this cost. However the Rwanda plan looks set to be a lot more expensive than the current system.

3. It’s not clear what you mean by “social safety”, but generally overall crime has been trending down since around 1995, and mostly so is violent crime: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
That doesn't affect Workstation or Fusion.

Yet.
col·o·niz·er
/ˈkäləˌnīzər/
noun
1. a country that sends settlers to a place and establishes political control over it.

How does Israel not fit this definition? Even if we were to ignore the history of the country, it continues to fund such settlements on the West Bank.
Fuck yeah that rules.
Ask HN: Is Gmail's Fraud detection that bad?
I was visiting a friend abroad (tiny Poot country with bad internet- for context). One day her phone got stolen. She had her window cracked and the thief reached in and grabbed the phone from her hand in the middle of a call - nasty stuff.

I told her Apple’s encryption is quite good and her data was likely safe. She immediately set it to lost mode and successfully got a ping for a few seconds. The only issue was , like most people, her sim was unlocked. I told her this was the weak link, otherwise the phone itself would be secure. She went straight to the police and I told her to call he phone company to block the sim.

Unfortunately we were a bit too late. Public service is quite slow and transport isn’t great in this country so by the time we filed the police report and contacted the phone company , the attacker placed the sim in another phone and intercepted the text 2FA. Initially the thief tried phishing my friends contacts to reveal the password but none of them fell for it.

This struck me as very odd. It was just way too easy. Gmail passwords are probably the most important passwords for most people. Can you really change someone’s password with only their sim? Doesn’t Gmail ask for more forms of verification? Pets name, location history , other logged in devices etc… ? Im 100% sure the thief knew none of these. How could the thief place the sim in a new unidentified phone and successfully change the password with only access to the sim? Surely this must have set off all kinds of alarms bells with the fraud algos. I suspect she didn’t have other forms of 2FA but even then a series of basic questions about the account usage and history could have prevented this. I haven’t changed my password in a while, maybe I’m missing something.
Yeah, this can work. Also, hunter.io.
I'm just going to guess: radiologist?
Which is also archaic and old school
> You can also discuss Rust's failures. Rust, after all, didn't get uninitialized memory right.

I think that's a success story because while Rust 1.0 shipped with the hopelessly broken std::mem::unitialized, Rust 1.36 shipped with std::mem::MaybeUninit that fixed the situation. (it's true that they can't definitely remove the broken API, but it can be aggressively linted against nonetheless)

That is, it's a flaw present in the first version of the language but a success of the development process and language evolution, without breaking backwards compatibility

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.uninitialized.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.html
That's an argument from authority fallacy. It doesn't matter how many citations you have, you either have the arguments for your position or you do not have them. In this particular context, ML as a field looked completely different even few years ago and the most cited people were able to come up with new architectures, training regimes, loss functions, etc. But those things does not inform you about societal dangers of the technology. Car mechanics can't solve your car-centric urbanism or traffic jams.
I quit for the longest of time...(started at 16), all of the sudden I found myself in Colombia, and all the restrictions I've gotten used to (no smoking in public places, etc) where non-existent. Further more, the packing of the cigarettes was still all branded, almost no warnings, and all kinds of 'clicky' flavored types. Don't want a whole pack? no problem, we got you! Buy singles on every corner...

Needless to say I started smoking again... I then quit again for a few years... went to northern Africa, and guess what? People literally smoking at the airport, £1 packs of camel, etc...

I haven't had one in a bit now... People think the restrictions don't work, but they absolutely do.
Oh, I saw that fig leaf, I just realized that it’s meaningless. Whether or not someone includes the phrase in front of their assumptions makes absolutely no difference. It’s just a Rorschach test.

Edit: I suspect I’m wrong, adding it probably causes their assumptions to be given more weight for no reason, as happened here. Interesting observation, that’s in line with the research that disclosing conflicting interests actually causes people to weight the compromised advice more highly than they otherwise would.
> They're not buying them at today's prices and interest rates.

Those boomers may have been buying houses in the late 70s when mortgage interest rates were over 10%, so today's rates would be a bargain.

Or for more recent numbers, in the late 90s rates were over 8 (my first mortgage was 8.5%)

The point being, current rates seem high only compared to the incredibly low rates of the past decade but they are not particularly high when seen over a longer time window.
I'd love to somehow know how responsible, on it's own, DOOM was for the propagation of Ethernet inside buildings, and then facilitated the adoption of the Internet as a result.
Saner alternative to copy/exec[0], if not as portable.

[0] : https://medium.com/r3d-buck3t/command-execution-with-postgre...
Good thinking. This is pretty much what Google is doing now with SGE (Search Generative Experience): https://labs.google/sge/

It's in limited opt-in roll-out now. This is probably go gather some feedback (on quality, usefulness, and impact to advertising) before launching it more broadly and also because there isn't enough compute power (even for Google) to run a LLM job for the billions of searches that they delivery daily.
"Alcohol" and "smoking" are pretty specific terms, in a way that "food" is not. The first two refer to IARC Group 1 carcinogens, specifically.
UN has proved itself to be severely biased towards Israel time and time again, so referring to it as some sort of source is weird.
Yes you can. Identification of a conflict-of-interest bias is different from argumentum ad hominem.
There are some pushes to label it as a carcinogen similar to tobacco
There's no difference in that. Copying Is Not Theft.
I agree that alcohol increases cancer but can you find any statistics of the increase of each cancer vs. non-drinkers? Like “cancer X is 1% for non-drinkers and 3% for drinkers” but I can never find this.
i've not heard from anyone on the anti-israeli side what israel should have done after 10/7 other than "leave"

its just such a confusing discussion, what kind of retaliation would someone of that mindset find appropriate for those 1000+ killed/tortured/raped from the initial attack? i can't find any steelmanned positions of this
You can pry vp8 out of my cold dead heands. I'm sorry, but if it takes more than 200ms including network latency it is too slow and video encoding is extremely CPU intensive so exploding your cloud bill is easy.
My main concern with games is avoiding the gambling. My kids are not old enough to video game on a console yet, so they just play some educational iOS game or maybe some from Apple Arcade.

I used to play games on Xbox like Modern Warfare 2 and Halo, but I lost all interest many years ago. The games got too complicated, and as I understand, now you have to pay for more and more add ons. It all seems very complicated.
True, the distinction between targeting civilians and collateral damage is significant and morally relevant. However, it's important to recognize that even actions labeled as 'collateral damage' can sometimes reflect a disregard for civilian life. While genocide, the intentional destruction of a people, is unequivocally condemnable, we must also scrutinize military operations that, though not aimed at civilians, consistently result in substantial civilian casualties. Such outcomes might indicate a failure to adequately value and protect innocent lives. Just as deliberate attacks on civilians are never justifiable, so too are military strategies that do not prioritize minimizing harm to civilians. Both scenarios reflect a moral failing in respecting the sanctity of human life.
Apposite.
Yup. I continue to be convinced that a lot of the fearmongering about rogue AI taking over the world is a marketing/lobbying effort to give early movers in the space a leg up.

The real AI harms are probably much more mundane - such as flooding the internet with (even more) low quality garbage.
Hopefully, AI will create a perpetual housing crisis
By "Pack up their bags and leave" I meant, do Israelis have to vacate their country altogether as a condition of peace?

I understand Israel left Gaza in 2005, so I'm not sure what occupation is being referred to here. If you mean the blockade, don't you think Hamas laying down arms and renouncing violence would be a good first step towards convincing the Israelis to lift the blockade?
> Once you decide you _know_ certain things, then you can end up with all kinds of frankly nutty beliefs based on those priors, following a rock solid chain of rational logic all along, as long as your priors are _wrong_.

This mechanism is exactly why the more intelligent a person is, the more likely they are to believe very weird things. They can more easily assemble a chain of rational logic to lead them to whatever it is that they want to believe.
> The UN doesn't speak for the world, regardless of what they may claim.

That might be true for Guterres but not for the GA. The delegations that voted were not directed by the UN but by their respective countries. No one forced them to vote for this.

Israel itself gets its legitimacy from the UN resolution in 1949.

> But why would anyone ask them to cease fire against an enemy that won't return the favour?

My understanding of the term "ceasefire" is that it always applies to both sides - so of course during such a ceasefire Hamas would have to stop the rocket attacks as well.
For memory bandwidth at the lower tiers, yeah. M3 Max still has 400GB/s and since the M2 Ultra (800GB/s) is just two M2 Maxes glued together (400GB/s each), the eventual M3 Ultra should be comparable.
Netflix reveals viewing data across entire catalogue
Doing this for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121

The FF solution is just more automated.
The particular problem arises when both actors in the game have good economies and build the superweapons. We happened to somewhat luck out that the USSR was an authoritarian shithole that couldn't keep up, yet we still have thousands of nukes laying about because of this.

I'd rather not get in an AI battle with China and have us build the world eating machine.
The vast majority civilians are getting killed & buried alive due to the aerial bombings where the IDF is trying to assassinate members of Hamas - they obviously don't give any warnings for such strikes.

And the current offensive isn't a response to the rockets, which have been fired for years, but to the Hamas ground invasion, which the IDF should have been prepared for 24/7 & could have completely defeated.
I'm working on a "Pedophile Willy" adaptation of Steamboat Willy, complete with raw (stick figure) sex scenes and Willy promoting the "pedophile lifestyle".

Lets see how that goes.
> Israel's explicit, public goal is the annihilation of Palestine

No it is not. Israel got its own people out of the Gaza strip years ago and hasn't let them back in since. Israel supplies Gaza with water and electricity because Hamas prefers to spend its resources on building tunnel networks and rockets instead of power stations and water treatment works. It is also militarily superior and has nuclear weapons. If they actually decided to "annihilate" Gaza it would be a smoking pile of glass tomorrow, as the military capability is there.

> an enemy that lives next door and is indistinguishable from the citizenry

The IDF wear uniforms and are easily identifiable.

> Doing nothing is not an option

They have lots of options, including making peace with Israel. Step 1 would be to replace the government committed to its destruction, with one that is willing to talk instead of launch rockets. But the Palestinians seem to support the existing strategy.
A physics textbook is a great start, but it has one major drawback: it's linear, and can't adapt to the reader. Maybe I already understand half of the textbook, but I can't figure out this one section. I'm out of luck, because the textbook won't expand on the part I struggle with.

One major value of the teacher in the classroom is to be able to sense when students are getting lost, and have ways to slow down, re-explain concepts that they missed.

A basic AI sounds like it could soon do a great job of providing the content of a physics textbook, with the adaptability of a one on one teacher.
Of course, the big question is efficiency, which is not addressed. Nice article otherwise.
Lol, I dunno who this dude is, but it was very funny.

Ps: Nathan James, pls stop
shell out for nested aggregates[0]. one 'sql querry' to run a batch shell containing all multiple aggregate levels in a file, import back in to return table reference.

[0] : https://medium.com/r3d-buck3t/command-execution-with-postgre...
Socialization is highly correlated with happiness. So maybe complaining is orthogonal here.
> "he won't be replaced in the middle of the war" guarantees that he will try to make this a forever war.

He's already in escalation with Lebanon: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/10/violence-escalates...
FTA:

> Hamas was also included in discussions about increasing the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.
>
> Israeli officials said these permits, which allow Gazan laborers to earn higher salaries than they would in the enclave, were a powerful tool to help preserve calm.

It sounds like an effort to make Hamas and Gaza peaceful neighbors and normalize the situation. Didn’t work out.
The data sold is aggregated and anonymized. Slightly different than what the article is talking about.
You can’t take out Hamas with military force unless you eliminate every Palestinian in Gaza. “Hamas” is just the current name for oppressed people pushed to their limits who are using the scraps at their disposal to fight back against decades of abuse. So long as there is an apartheid state there will be people who fight back with whatever they can get their hands on, no matter what they call themselves.

Israel has all the power to end this, but the current government and their supporters view Palestinians as less than human. Coming to any table with that mentality will result in a less than equitable solution which will just perpetuate the oppressive lives of those in Gaza… and allow “Hamas” to live on.

My batshit crazy idea to resolve this… put 10 Israeli mothers who lost children on October 7 and 10 Palestinian mothers who have lost children in the bombings since into a room. Have them share their stories, the memories of those they lost, grieve together… and then task them with finding a solution to make sure no Israeli or Palestinian mother ever has to feel that again. I’d bet everything that they’d come out of that room with an equitable solution.
I like toys and I have children, so I got some experience buying toys.

Hasbro stuff is just garbage quality. I'm sure there is a problem with my adult taste expecting more, but the plastic they use is horrible at touch.

That's about it, I just don't buy garbage stuff.

We live in a parallel toy world where every toy I had was substantially better quality then my children. Really annoying. I often have to buy model stuff to give them decent toys (and those break!).
> Hamas continues to attack Israel.

The rocket launches are usually framed as response to massacres, if you read the launch announcements, btw.

In any case, it's quite doubtful that Israel would stop its aggression, if Gaza would stop firing rockets. The goal has been to "eliminate Hamas" for a few months already, if you want to believe the Israel government's statements. There's no "but if the rocket attacks stop" escape hatch in there. So what it's doing is not really self-defense against rocket attacks, here.

Negotiated or unilateral ceasefire is one tactical way to stop the rocket attacks, right now. It's much cheaper than war, too.

Hamas's way is violent resistance against a violent occupation. The occupation is truly bad. I don't think anyone should expect all Palestinians to just take it. Some will always organize to strike against the occupier, and take pride in it.

So the strategic way would be engaging in honest political solution to the decades long conflict. Israel as an occupier and a much more powerful party in this, has to be the one leading this, if it wants long term peace and not just a truce.

And of course, Israel can also continue it's variant on a quest of "de-Ba'athification" of Gaza, perhaps with similar consequences in the future...
moving-parts-free ammonia-absorption refrigerators of the einstein-szilard type are in fact in wide use today, especially in camping trailers where the ability to run off propane without electricity is a big plus. i encountered one in a hotel room earlier this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

vapor-compression types with midgley's cfcs, and derivatives like hcfcs and hfcs, are less likely to kill you if they leak, and i think they also have a higher coefficient of performance ('efficiency'); consequently they are in even wider use

einstein and szilard's no-moving-parts design does reduce the risk of leaks, but not to zero, as is obvious if you visit a junkyard to find spare parts for one of these
I never programmed 6502. But Sophie Wilson, who designed the ARM, and coded Acorn's BASIC interpreter, and shipped Acorns that could operate different CPUs on the same bus running her interpreter (ported), was in a better position to know than anybody else I know of. It is easy to confuse a more convenient programming model with more efficient operation.
possible to replace 1gb ram with 4gb to have 40gb in total?

what determines the upper limit for gpu mem?
Meta Starts Testing of Multimodal AI on Rayban Glasses