skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Hamas is still holding hostages and firing missiles and promises to attack over and over, leading to a situation where the border communities are ethnically cleansed because nobody sane is going to just wait there for the next attack. The defence is to remove the threat for good.

2. This formulation is mind-reading. I recall the more correct formulation is asking what the "reasonable person" would do. Or in this case the 'reasonable state'. It's probably impossible to define a reasonable state without sneaking in our preferences. But if we look at the past record of democracies, they were very aggressive in similar situations.

3. There are reams of papers on proportionality with never any clear conclusion, because the definition was intentionally made to be subjective. The better options are to look at other states are doing (a lot more dead in the campaign against ISIS) or to compare the likely futures given each course of action and see where less people are killed:

There's no peace with Hamas, and they won't let themselves be unelected peacefully. So at best we can expect having another war. We need to compare the future of continuing this war, to the future of stopping and having another one a bit later. I can see a lot of scenarios where the future war is bigger and more destructive compared to this one (the future war would have to retake areas cleared in this one; Hamas could take over the West Bank in the meantime, or manage to drag Hezbollah into the war next time).
Another epic win for the BEAM!
> which may mean there's not much substance to say yet

They don't need to talk about substance. Jeremy Howard + Eric Ries gives more than enough just with their names.
Nintendo wasn't actually the first company to implement cartridge logo checks. Sega did it first with their "Trademark Security System" or TMSS, which worked in pretty much the same way, but then lost in a US court case against Accolade as the judges deemed that anything strictly required for games to work could not be protected by copyright or trademark law.

Despite the precedent however, the same idea kept popping up in many subsequent consoles and even some non-gaming products:

- The original PlayStation reads the logo that gets displayed on the startup screen from the first 16 sectors of the disc. Notably, US consoles will not validate the logo against a known good copy - possibly hinting at the fact Sony was aware of the TMSS case - but Japanese and late European models will.

- Similarly, PS2 games must contain a bitmap of the startup screen logo in the first 16 sectors of the disc, and PS3 games are required to have a PNG of the original PS3 logo in their filesystem.

- Xbox 360 hard drives must have a PNG of the Microsoft logo in their "security sector", which among other things contains a digitally signed copy of the drive's serial number to ensure third party drives cannot be used.

- macOS will refuse to boot in a VM or on non-Apple hardware unless the BIOS can provide a supposedly copyrighted (but otherwise well known) 64-character string.

- The handshaking process for establishing a connection to an Oracle database server involves sending a string that clearly states it is property of Oracle and protected by copyright law.
Youtube is for marketing. Netflix is for revenue.

Just like regular ads by TV channels on youtube.
Kaliningrad/Königsberg is a more apt comparison then? Because that's functionally what the CCCP did.
If you're blessed enough to do it (or can sweat it out): build companies that reject that line of thinking and hire those people.

The good news is that the markets are already proven, so—though, not easy—it boils down to building the same products while restoring some semblance of their original vision (just under a new brand name).
"The term "3 nanometer" has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by IEEE Standards Association Industry Connection, a 3 nm node is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 48 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 24 nanometers"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process
Upgrading N versions is just as much as a threat to availability regardless if N is 1 or 3.
That 'clear path to orbit' depends on what the performance of the raptor engines is, as flown. Getting the first stage to work on all engines was a big achievement, but how effectively those engines are working is another big part of the puzzle.
What other options does Israel have?
"To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it." (thanks hinton)

From a quick look, it looks like the app tries to take a nD object and project it down to 3D and render that in 2D while using rotation to demonstrate... something?

I work with nD arrays and the only way I can visualize them (to the extent that I can visualize anything in my head; it's tough) is either by making 2D planes and viewing those or by looking at the node connections (like in a hypercube).
Even then I don't think that's conceptually anything like "comprehending" high dimensional geometry in its native state.
GM Says It's Nixing CarPlay to Make Drivers Safer
We're blowing right past the 3.14nm step
Oh, but I will. For the headlines like this have no place on HN.
> What about the Jews who were ejected from neighboring Arab countries during these various wars? Do they get to go back home?

Yes, they should also be allowed back and several countries have explicitly allowed such a thing.

> Do you truly believe a compromise can be reached with an organization that committed a massacre on the scale of October 7th? Personally, I'm willing to compromise a lot for peace (divide Jerusalem, give up the west bank, whatever. Fighting over land/religion is absurd), but I honestly don't believe that's what Hamas is aiming for. Their actions at least indicate otherwise.

I don't think compromise is an option that has legitimately been tried.
Yes, it's about scalping. It's become a standard practice for novel, in-demand, pricey vehicles.

The policy seeks to ensure that buyers are driver-owners and not dealers-flippers.

For the crowd that desires a CT to drive, its a good policy.
It was my impression that we aren't even sure if we have true free will. Is this not the case?
You have still not substantiated that the Nordic Resistance Movement is advocating for genocide, let alone this web retailer that is (allegedly, by the left-wing organization that attacks judges and politicians) linked to this movement, let alone their customers, which is who you originally accused of advocating genocide.

This is three layers of guilt by association, and you have not substantiated even one.
Does anyone know if this is good (or at least better) news for the custom ROM scene? GrapheneOS recommends using hardware attestation over both SafetyNet and Play Integrity API to support alternate systems, but is this still good news?
That seems remarkably slow compared to what I have experienced recently. 2-3 minutes to port scan is generally what I expect. In fact it’s a good idea to simply black hole and ban the first couple hours of traffic on a new setup. Gets rid of a lot of bad actors with little downside. But this is for personal stuff.
It's not entirely doubled down on. There is work on IRDL, a domain-specific language for dialect definitions, and PDL, a language for pattern definitions. In theory, those could replace tablegen one day. I haven't looked into either too deeply, though.
> US "overreacted" hard and made sure that Germany was forced to make the nazi ideology wholly illegal and every depiction of a nazi symbol in public illegal.

The US also poured a massive fortune into rebuilding the West German economy and society, to ensure it wouldn't fall to communism. Violence and repression alone would not have worked.
I’m not sure we are talking about the same thing - just because you have cheap unlimited 4G doesn’t mean you get that 4G signal in a basement. VoWifi lets you still call someone with your phone number when the signal is bad but you have wifi access…
OP here - we have more coming about the role that the BEAM VM played in this migration too.

(The BEAM is the virtual machine for the Erlang ecosystem, analagous to the JVM for Java. Knock runs on Elixir, which is built on Erlang & the BEAM).
I guess having to enter the API key is not a great user experience for regular people who aren’t developers.
Is an AI smart enough to win math competitions AGI? (Grant Sanderson) [video]
Smoking causes brain shrinkage: study
I suppose we’re going to take Dan, Beersheba, Gath and Ashkelon out of the Bible now

In 637 the non-urban population of Palestine (incl. Galilee) was still majority Jewish - Justinian had only turfed them out of Jerusalem. There was no genocide in 637.

Furthermore, no one elected Hamas as the restoration of the caliphate and spokesperson for entire Muslim world. They’re actually not Isis.
The MS authentication process presents a 2 digit number on the client device, and triggers the app to request the user enter the same 2 numbers, showing an approximate geographical location of the client request.

It seems totally proprietary but also pretty benign.

If you’ve already got Outlook or Teams on your device, then I don’t think you’re any worse off.

I despise it myself because each time I have to Auth anything I have to approve it. Having a separate device could start to get annoying given this.

Your call though.
Not sure if I am completely off-topic here, but I was recently reading this essay by Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust...., where he mentions a related risk: because we now can "talk" to those LLMs in a similar way that we talk to people, it makes it harder for us to realize that they are not people. And so it's easier to abuse our trust.

I guess my question here would be: will human language have to change because of interactions with LLMs, or is the whole point of LLMs that it does not have to change (and therefore humans will have to learn not to be abused by the machines)? Because we already have languages to talk to machines: those are programming languages, which are designed to be unambiguous. The problem I see is not that we don't know how to talk to machines, but rather that we now have machines that are really good at pretending they are not machines.

Not sure if I am making any sense at all :-).
Quite often, higher-profit higher-margin businesses are more robust. If you have a 1% margin, and costs increase by 2%, you're bleeding money.

If you have a 50% profit margin, you're not sensitive to small (or even medium) fluctuations.

That's not a universal. I can give a half-dozen counterexamples (including Walmart) which, for example, operate with extreme efficiency, or achieve massive scale. But it's a good rule-of-thumb.

Running a business, there are sometimes more important things than profit. Robust businesses are more pleasant to run and to work in than ones with razer-thin margins (even if bigger and more profitable). As an entrepreneur, if I were to pick:

1) Guaranteed income of $200k for the rest of my life (inflation-adjusted) with fun work and reasonable work-life balance

2) A $20M payout with 50% odds

I think I'd pick #1.

Ergo, we see a lot of lifestyle businesses, businesses which don't try to grow, or otherwise. Yes, one can make a lot of arguments about fiduciary duty, shareholders, etc. Some of those are even correct for a large, public corporation. But most don't apply to a founder-owned founder-run business.
Merlin saw much less major iteration, but with that it's worth considering that there is a lot more experience with Kerolox engine design out there (plus a much simpler combustion cycle). Plus it was based on a NASA reference design. I do recall from Eric Berger's Liftoff book, they struggled with the nozzle design though. Very early Merlin had an ablative nozzle.

I suppose the better way to put it might be that Merlin's iteration was more in getting the production sorted out, whereas Raptor is iterating everything based on lessons from Merlin and previous Raptor iterations.
With Mendelian randomization a genotype can be used as an instrumental variable if it is causally linked to the trait (usually as part of a genome-wide “association” study)—lung cancer in this case. this can provide reasonable assurance of causality. See Book of Why.
> Is there some part of the Apache 2 license that insists that people using Apache 2 licensed code in a project clearly mark what code is Apache 2 and what code is under some other license? Of course not.

yes, there is

i quoted the relevant part of the apache 2 license in my sibling comment above
I found TableGen frustrating when I first started working with MLIR, in part because I expected it to be a layer of abstraction, but it very much is not. It is (in MLIR) mainly convenience tool for autogenerating boilerplate code. Once I realized that and got used to looking at the generated code, it became much easier.
Actually something like that happened with Kaliningrad after WWII. The German population was forced out and Russian population brought in. The language was changed to Russian.
Neat tool! Some of our findings for large tables could be interesting for a tool like this, making it easier to apply the right strategy to the right tables. Having something like this with those strategies could be indispensable to teams running a migration like this in the future.
It's not on Netflix in my region so I guess I'll go fuck myself.
What you're apparently referring to is slight change in Hamas charter in 1997.

In fact, what they actually said was "Hamas advocates the liberation of all of Palestine but is ready to support the state on 1967 borders without recognising Israel or ceding any rights"

i.e. they would support the creation a Palestinian state within 1967 borders in the interim but not give up their fight for the rest of Israel.

This "softening" (as one left-wing newspaper called it apparently unironically) was in contrast with their previous stance which would reject a Palestinian state offer if it was based 1967 borders.

They have never gone back on their stated aim to reconquer all of Israel and never indicated they will tolerate Israel existing.
This is merely another way in which AI will be cast as a co-creator. Especially given the limitations in copyright law in the US I think many early systems will operate like this, just to secure the output as intellectual property…
Why is this funny? Netflix is not a video hosting website? It's a subscription-based on-demand streaming service. You can't host my videos on Netflix, can you?
> This is categorically false

If the people of the only democracy in the middle east didn't believe this, they'd not have elected Likud to power for 2 decades and counting.

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel)

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a "Palestinian State," jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform...
This is very well put. There's also a second issue, which is chilling down the receiving tank quickly and efficiently enough that the fuel being transferred doesn't just flash bil and vent off into space. Like rocket combustion, this is very hard to model and sensitive to nozzle geometry, how fast you spray, the phase of the moon etc.
How much of moore's law has simply been foundries just choosing to make smaller steps to secure a nice roadmap of product offerings? Have any significant changes been made to EUVL that prevented them from making 2nm chips a decade ago? Or were the learnings along the way what got them here.
Frankly I do not recall a single service without downtime, this includes banks I use. Yes I'd be mightily upset if said downtimes had lasted for days. 15 min - I do not give a flying hoot as long as it is not too often.
I’m stoked to hear more. It’s phenomenal tech.
Inflammation is 'mismatch between our evolutionary history & modern environment'
WebDriver is your friend: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/

WebDriver protocol:
https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver2/

Chrome:
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

Firefox:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Doing it w/ Ruby:
https://watir.com/
"Ceasefire" only applies to civilized parties than can actually uphold agreements, to which Hamas do not belong.

Either way, for the parent post being flagged, it is absolutely correct in its assessment and its flagged status is just a small glimpse on why the collective west faces the existential threat and does as much work at dismantling itself as its enemies (which too do so in the open).

The actual winning move would be strengthening sanctions against Iran and its proxies, quick eradication of any actual and perceived threats in the middle east and the lift of unofficial ban by the West to Ukraine to conduct military operations on the territory of ruskieland as well as supply of all long-range standoff munitions that are scheduled for a decommission in the next three to five years so that we can actually save money for US by being more efficient at doing so with immediate and second-order strategic benefits to everyone involved.
Ask HN: What are your startup IPO predictions for 2024 and beyond?
Where do you think some of the top 10 private YC startups [1] might land on this list [2] in the future? Which ones will do well after the IPO, and which ones will crash or go sideways for a long time?

I was an early employee at one of the top private YC startups and I have an opportunity to sell some or most or my shares on the secondary market via a forward contract (or similar.) I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts and opinions. Hopefully someone reading this has done a lot of research and can make some reasonable predictions.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation

[2] https://rows.com/tech-ipos-of-the-last-decade
I wonder what the numbers were for when the office was on Netflix.
> Except that there will be competitors who don't have a downtime every month.

Who said anything about downtime every month? Most companies I know do major DB version upgrades once every 2 years max, often less frequently.
> Absorption refrigerators are strictly better than the compressor designs

That's not true! CoP of ammonia absorption refrigerators struggles to get past 1. You can easily get a CoP of 4-5 with a compression refrigerator.

Ammonia absorption fridges are useful when you have a source of waste heat, then it's basically "free" for you.
I played this a few years ago, it was awesome
Concur regarding Dark - it's kind of amazing that Netflix can, when it wishes to, produce "HBO Caliber" content - but so much of the time it's just time-filler drek.

I don't regret a single minute of the time I spent watching Dark 3-4 years ago, nor the time I spent in the office discussing it, or even the time I tried to graph it all (with varying degrees of success)...
Wonder how was their drug policy?

I can see some firms afraid of porn but distributing leaflets about safe fentanyl use, lol.
The copyright will expire no matter what. Using the rubber hose Mickey establishes it as an active trademark. That will make it challenging to sell derivative works but the films themselves will be public domain.
Ask HN: Are there APIs for building your own flight scraper?
I see that Scott's Cheap Flights morphed into going.com. There are a bunch of other services but the reddit thread didn't seem positive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TravelHacks/comments/14zh0k5/aside_from_scotts_cheap_flights_does_anyone_use/

I did notice that ITA Matrix is listed there and powers the Google Flight search. But, it doesn't appear to have an API.

I want to watch several cities as origin points and then look for inexpensive international connections to several cities and see if there is an inexpensive option. I'm hoping to take my three kids to Europe this summer but even now the flights are all about $1500 per person. I know sometimes airlines post erroneous fares and maybe I'll catch one of those?

Are there any options for home grown and managed solutions like this? It seems like a fun hobby project.
You are aware in Islam there’s a concept of God dealing with the oppressors, right?
> However, that does not relicense the original works that you are aggegating.

What does this claim even mean? I don't think that anybody thinks including Apache code in their GPL project would retroactively relicense the code of the Apache-licensed project that they probably had nothing to do with, written by someone they may have ever met. Is this what you're confirming?

> The aggregate work itself would also have very little copyright protection, even if you AGPLv3 it.

> The only copyright you newly get in the aggregate work is selection, arrangement, etc.

That's not really how code works. The old code is mixed with the new code, and the combination (I've always thought) is going to have all of the restrictions of both (all) licenses involved.

If I take a public domain book containing un-trademarked characters, write 20 additional chapters for it, and do a 20% rewrite on the original chapters, are you saying that my book wouldn't be copyrightable? Sounds like the GPL.
> Israel wants to be around for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. You can't accept existential risk, even if small, if that's your goal.

There are exactly two ways of accomplishing this:

- Kill everyone else, total genocide, nuke their cities, don't leave a single potential future enemy alive ever, Final Solution;

- Make peace with your neighbors, get then to stop hating you.
Perhaps a few more things missing but equally important - but perhaps also we are very close to these:

Access to act on the world (but "influencing people by talking to them" - cult like - may be enough), a wallet (but a cult of followers' wallets may be enough), long term memory (but a cult of followers might plug this in), ability to reproduce (but a cult's endeavors may be enough). Then we get to goals or interests of its own - perhaps the most intriguing because the AI is nothing like a human. (I feel drive and ability to reproduce are very different).

For our common proto-AIs going through school, one goal that's often mentioned is "save the earth from the humans". Exciting.