skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to bring up that most people in the developing world (China, India, Pakistan) are absolutely thrilled with AI and ChatGPT as long as they are allowed to use them. They see it as a plus
You are drawing some sort of analogy between two dissimilar conflicts. Yet what the analogy precisely entails is totally unstated.

I am willing to entertain the idea that there is some relationship between them but it is very hard to do this when you cannot be bothered to explain in plain English why you think these two conflicts are related and in what manner? What aspects are you referring to?

It can be frustrating when someone tries to make a strong point, but focuses mainly on the flourish and does not actually explain any reasoning -- this doesn't contribute to intellectual exploration since without explaining your reasoning, there is zero chance you can convince any thoughtful person to change their mind.
Yep, you are right. See the followups. My characterization was indeed unfair. I confused copyright assignment and CLA, and understood "no copyright assignment" as "no CLA", which is of course wrong.

And for me this totally reverses the situation, AGPL + CLA means "We can make it proprietary tomorrow, and only we can do it".
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What a coincidence! I am the DevRel of IPinfo, and I was just about to reach out to you. My teammate (Shoutout to Max) has already mentioned your project on our team Slack, and I was thinking about a polite way to pitch our free IPinfo Country ASN dataset to your project. I will open a Github Issue right now.
So that's why they had to start spinning the space station in Armageddon (1998) before refueling the shuttle! To pool the propellant.

Great attention to detail, very scientific movie.
The media also doesn't define what it means to be a "doomer". Would an accelerationist with a p(doom) = 20% be a "doomer"?
Sure, everything going through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds will lose at the very least a couple of atoms here and there, but that was not the point and that does not make thermal protection tiles an ablative heat shield.
> there was virtually no condemnation when the daughter of one of Putin's propagandists was assassinated

Massive difference between targeted killing and broad slaughter. To put this on the other shoe, it's why we were never going to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan or Vietnam.
I played this with a friend at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin.

I felt really bad, they were so bad I kept winning, and their hand’s skin cracked bloodily and got bruised after a session. But they insisted to finish the game.
Took a punt on one but fully expect to be hit with customs in the UK.
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These protectors an already bad typing experience even worse. Never broke a glass and 10% lower resell value years later doesn't interest me.
It's 2024, and I've yet to see anyone implement Domination from Never Say Never Again (mentioned in the Wikipedia page): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI9_cLu5-JY
>we've tried that

Here's a former Israeli official responding to this claim better than I reasonably could:

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/10/10/the-crisi...

https://www.hoover.org/profiles/shlomo-brom

>[Shlomo Brom] retired from the Israel Defense Forces, where he held the position of director of strategic planning in the general staff, in 1998. He was also the deputy national security advisor, 2000–2001.
If Israel wanted to kill civilians, why order evacuations? Why let aid trucks in?

Israel is willing to kill a lot of civilians in order to destroy Hamas. But I've seen no evidence that Israel wants to kill civilians. Individual Israelis, sure, but as a policy? No, it would be counterproductive.
There's enough room in the market, and the tech is early enough that little paying fandoms can pop up anywhere. Similarly to crypto, all the hopefuls believe their chosen AI will dominate the others and become the AI Godhead (loosely)
The people who resorted to eating cultivated grass seeds had more imminent problems to worry about before ambitions about being warlords. That occurred a few thousand years later.

> which in turn forces their neighbors to do the same to survive

Until gunpowder, tribal societies were at least a strong as their hierarchical contemporaries. The Huns destroyed the Roman Empire and Mongols conquered China.
Power and Internet are not readily available in Gaza and haven’t been for 2 months. Sure solar and usb charging and satellite communications. I haven’t had a ping from our office since early October though.

I took a few suitcases of clothes to Egypt last week to try to get to the kids of our employees in Gaza, the ones whose existing coats and stuff are in rubble with any toys memories and belongings they had. Getting them through Raffa is not easy.
That seems like a pretty accurate take on the rationalist movement though? My skepticism with it is that awareness is not enough to overcome bias.
If you want to see what Hamas says, or the tone of a segment of regional discussions, I encourage you to use your favorite translator on https://www.aljazeera.net/. The arabic-language views are not always shared on the english-language version. The blog section is particularly aggressive at times.

For the most inflammatory statements by leaders you can look at https://www.memri.org/, whose translation choices are sometimes disputed, and who is accused of being some sort of CIA-backed saboteur for choosing the worst statements without enough context, but I think can give you an idea.
There's an interesting contrast between that slick faked demo with the seemingly live video recognition and another video Google released the same day, showing the processing and understanding of raw audio [1]. In the latter, the awkward interface used in the demonstrations looks like something cobbled together for internal use, and the first example, of recognition of tones in spoken Mandarin, looks like something from a research paper, not a consumer-facing product announcement.

That said, the use of LLMs for language learning is one of my main interests, and the ability to detect nuances in a learner's pronunciation will be very useful when it becomes widely available.

[1] https://youtu.be/D64QD7Swr3s
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The "zero-page", the low 256 bytes, amounted to a big register bank; compilers for 6502 used it that way. The hardware stack was for return addresses only, and was plenty; a zero-page pair pointed to the stack for arguments and locals. The designer of the ARM noted that her programs ran faster on 6502 than when ported to early 8086, largely because the latter was relatively so inefficient.
The IDF actually can avoid the vast majority of civilian casualties - they are the ones choosing to drop a huge number of bombs. They can do their job of defending Israel by actually protecting the border, and go after Hamas in a much slower & more precise way.

See this article from Israel for an in-depth examination of IDF tactics: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...
That threshold is likely shifting as Netflix has less and less compelling content, and the competition markets their exclusives more.

Though maybe there is some core who just doesn't bother cancelling and resubscribing because it's become a hassle.
> brands like Lego have evolved, are insanely expensive (>$100)

I thought that Lego prices had remained pretty steady over time.

https://realityprose.com/what-happened-with-lego/

OK, that study was published 10 years ago, but I haven't noticed any huge price hikes in the last decade for comparable sets. Yes, there are some bigger sets now than there used to be, but the small sets haven't gone away and are still there too, at what seem like reasonable (to me) prices. And while sets based on licensing deals (e.g. Marvel/Disney) are a bit more pricey than their own in-house ranges (City, Creator, Friends, Ninjago, etc...), again it doesn't seem like a huge gap?
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Just having an archiver that gives you a tradition search over every webpage you've loaded-- forget the AI stuff, would be a major advance.

I don't know about everyone but a majority of searches are for stuff I've seen before, and they're often frustrated by things that have gone offline or are downranked by search engines (e.g. old documentation on HTTP only sites) or burred by SEO.
Ask HN: How to balance theory and practice when learning Machine Learning?
On one hand, delving into academic papers and fully understanding the math involved seems to demand a commitment akin to pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning. I'm also not entirely sure how important/useful this approach is. Especially for those not involved in cutting-edge research.

On the other hand, the engineering approach emphasizes empirical experimentation and software engineering practices: fine-tuning, hyperparameters, APIs, MLOps pipelines, etc. From this approach, the models feel like black boxes with some configurable settings.

How do you balance these two aspects when learning about Machine Learning? How do you decide which to focus on, especially given how fast the entire field is changing month by month?
Technically they killed more than 28 total people, although I agree with the notion that whether it's 28 or 40 doesn't really move the needle very much.
You're assuming that the probability to be drafted is the same for a tech worker as for the rest of the population. I don't know whether that's a valid assumption or not...
Fortune tellers and Clever Hans do not score perfectly on multiple choice tests and neither do humans.

I don't have any evidence of how humans perform on multiple choice tests where all the answers are incorrect and they are not given that option. Do you? Or are you just assuming that they would challenge the context?
Devlog: Jim Guthrie wrote some music for our Sword and Sworcery-inspired game [video]
Perhaps more relevant is that, after being acquired by private equity, Zulily is (probably) shutting down.

Apparently litigation is more profitable than competition.
An animal muppet would know.
Yes I'm well aware. What I'm talking about is iMessage doing it's own compression, which is more than what the carrier limit requires, as well as stripping file formatting from images and making them all JPEG. Me and my wife are on the same family plan so we have the same carrier. If the 32kb was a carrier limit, then the pictures I send my wife would be 32kb and just as blurry as the ones she sends me. They aren't, however. They're only compressed enough to where the fit the MMS size limit for the carrier
And that's exactly why long copyrights stifle innovation and encourage rent seeking and stagnation. As soon as they saw the deadline approaching, they started creating new content (which arguably hasn't been that good, but that's another problem)
Is this Fisher the one that proposed the "p<0.05" rule?
As a German living in NL: Same level of complaining, just much more attention to socialisation in general. It's more of a we mentality, in Germany you can live next to your neighbors for 10 years without ever having talked to them and the workplace can be a completely impersonal space. In NL everybody knows each other, private matters are shared freely even in the work environment, transparency, group responsibility and team building are highly valued.
As others have said, Israel is still under constant rocket/missile shower from Gaza. So I think it's safe to conclude that your point 2 is met as well.

You can follow along with the missile alerts at https://www.oref.org.il//12481-en/Pakar.aspx (VPN to Israel required).

The alerts aren't as overwhelming as in October and November, but still happen with regularity.
Do you trust Amnesty International?

Amnesty International has for decades documented widespread torture by Israeli authorities in places of detention across the West Bank. However, over the past four weeks, videos and images have been shared widely online showing gruesome scenes of Israeli soldiers beating and humiliating Palestinians while detaining them blind-folded, stripped, with their hands tied, in a particularly chilling public display of torture and humiliation of Palestinian detainees.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-ho...
From the school of "newborns don't feel pain"
I’m actually playing games from the epic game store on my steam deck. Linux support is from proton, it’s not tied to steam.

> They also pulled a few games off Steam just before launch after they'd already been advertised there.

They offered a better deal to developers for a limited-time exclusivity. It’s not like epic is pulling things out from steam, publishers and developers decided to go with the exclusivity offer.
Please don’t make excuses for either side.
Tweet seems to be deleted?

Ah whatever it might also be it's just nitter failing and the direct link shows some "oops, sth went wrong" page without being logged into the Xinternet
The 1967 borders were what was agreed in the peace process in the 90s.

1948 borders are irrelevant.
Complaining while staying moderately satisfied is a uniquely British thing. But gosh, they also complain so much about everything.
go woke go broke.
Yeah definitely agree, we had to rework our logic for these cases. We've worked with ~4 Million row objects. In general with our polling strategy syncs, the problem was more the size of each record. So a table with 1M rows but 400 fields was way more problematic than 2M of just 5 fields.
> It might be nice to hear from some of those 8bn voices.

They won't matter.

Where AI is likely to take us is a society where a few people at the top run things and most of the mid-level bureaucracy is automated, optimizing for the benefit of the people at the top. People at the bottom do what they are told, supervised by computers. Amazon and Uber gig workers are there now. That's what corporations do, post-Friedman. AI just makes them better at it.

AI mostly replaces the middle class. People in offices. People at desks. Like farmers, there will be far fewer of them.

Somebody will try a revolution, but the places that revolt will get worse, not better.
> their community moralizing the use of nuclear weapons to shut down GPU clusters

Did I miss some news?
dead man walking!

1. switch to subscription model <- we are here
2. jack prices to maximize profit among the proportion of customer that can pay higher prices.
3. smaller startups migrate to other cheaper tools
4. cheaper tools slowly become mainstream
5. vmware is irrelevant and dead. ~ 7-10 years, maybe less.

The problem with this strategy here, is that unlike Photoshop (sorry gimp) there _is_ alternatives.
> Hamas intentionally mixes their forces with civilians

This is the entire point of mandatory Israeli military service and aggressive illegal settlements/settlers protected by the IDF.
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I'm most worried about rising sea levels. Climate change was a major election item here because we're getting massive floods every year.

Populist parties here promise world changing solutions - clean energy, carbon neutrality, etc. The more pragmatic ones suggest flood mitigation, mangrove forest coverage, still more sustainable energy but less aggressively.
I was the IT connection. I worked with the gear daily, so it was easy to borrow gear or just MitM it when it was headed for the dumpster.

I kept it because memories, but it's a big ass rack switch, so it may go the way of the dodo someday.
This reminds me of the ergonomics of the original grizzly-bear sized Xbox controllers. Ah, nostalgia!
I was calculating laid off workers at $70k.
> I type questions into Google and frequently get misleading or outright incorrect answers directly in their BS summaries.

This is a good point. If you treat a search engine as a language model and vice versa you will run into issues. These issues compound even further for users that decline to scroll down and click the links that search engines return
That's true, but as long as the baseband doesn't have access to the rest of the device, there is at least a limit to how much damage it can do, which is a good incremental step. If it can't exploit the OS, then worst case, it has access to network traffic (just like the next router in the chain, which is why all the traffic should be encrypted), and it has the ability to help locate the device against the user's wishes (but so do the cell towers).

Rewriting baseband firmware is also a great opportunity to make it Open Source, and I hope that happens as well.
And yet somehow Google, Bing, etc. manage to return results in much less than 3 seconds.
AI generation is like any tool. Once it's available to everyone, you have to do something unique with it to have something worth grabbing people's attention. If AI can illustrate and flesh out the plot of a comic book on a simple prompt, then we'll quickly get bored of those comic books. When someone takes the energy and time to create a unique plot, setting, rich characters, timely themes, etc. and then feeds that to the AI, the result will be interesting to people. People who put less effort in, will get bland, unsellable output out of an AI
When I buy a 200€ Lego set I still build it up for a few hours.

I can't come up with something I would buy from Hasbro in that range and having something to do with it though.

And there is Lego master tv show which also makes a lot of sense.
People always talked about how long George Burns survived as a cigar smoker, but luck, genetics and how much you inhale all alter your risk profile. Cigar smokers tend not to inhale, but they still expose their throats and stomachs to all that smoke. Throat cancer sounds terrible.

Camel unfiltered is some sort of statistical anomaly. Hope for those genes.
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> But second, it's easy to say, 'it's probably fine' from the outside, when your neck and your future isn't at risk.

Yeah this was basically going to be my response to the first part of your response. 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.

> And too much force could provoke them. It's not that simple.

I agree. My comment was just trying to look at the question of why the initial invasion by Hamas was seen as an existential threat great enough to justify an all out counterattack. I don't know how to answer when enough is enough, and I could easily believe that Israel isn't even considering that question out of rage.

The damage to Israel's international reputation could outweigh any security it gains through deterrence - the fact that Hamas hasn't freed their hostages or stopped firing rockets suggests that they don't want Israel to stop fighting for this reason
sounds like the email providers are in the wrong here. quit reading my mail.
I've been reasonably happy with my fiber provider (Ziply). My town is building out a municipal fiber network that is considerably cheaper however. They just finished a phase that stopped 50 yards south of my home. They'll be back to finish the north half of my street in another 4 years if they stay on schedule.

Sigh.
But what about reparations? Israel has destroyed most of Gaza's infrastructure and housing. Israel is responsible for this act of genocide.
In Austria we like to joke about Germany as a "failed state" sometimes, but in comparison it really does ring true. Maybe the country would be better off as a loose confederation instead of a federal union?
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I believe that's exactly what GitHub Copilot does. It first scans and indexes your entire codebase including dependencies (I think). So when it auto-completes, it heavily uses the context of your code, which actually makes Copilot so useful.

You're absolutely right about models coming to our data! If we could have Copilot-like intelligence, completely on-device, scanning all sorts of personal breadcrumbs like messages, browsing history, even webpage content, it would be a game-changer!
would love a solution for this too

raising bi-lingual kids is much easier when you can give them second language media, and it doesn't seem like it would be an expensive flag for Disney to flip...

might even be an opportunity to rebrand themselves as educational...
Interesting that you completely overlooked this part of my comment: "(Citation also would be good for GP's claim, but they did specify "think" and were clearly speculating, whereas you make your assertion with certainty)"

Might want to Google "Confirmation Bias"
To your last paragraph, as I understand it, 9/11 was also moreso caused by lack of intelligence being acted on properly, rather than being completely blindsided. Of course, it may be that all the surveillance measures could mitigate future terrorist attacks, but in reality the cost is high and the benefits are empirically not great. I think that if Israel withdraws now and focuses on defense, it may not prevent (civilian, primarily) deaths entirely, but it will be more workable for a lasting truce in the future. I don't want to say that those deaths would be a "sacrifice" or "necessary evil", but it is a realistic cost, as unfair as it is.
> A century later, American academia has gone in the opposite political direction—leftward instead of rightward—but has ended up in much the same place. The question is whether we—unlike the Germans—can do something about it.

Even when it would be most apt, writers just can't bring themselves to draw parallels with the Soviet Union, can they?
percentage wise, Absolutely yes. Ukraine is 40mil.

If the current rate was sustained in the Ukraine/russia, we would have seen at least 400k death rates. The estimates are 10-20x less. (between 10 and 20k)

You lost the plot, when even a goon like Putin is starting to look more human and conducting a massive war with less civilian casualties.
> They can do their job of defending Israel by actually protecting the border

They can't. Hamas launched thousands of rockets on October 7th, and Israel has no way of stopping something like that again short of what they're doing now, a massive bombing campaign and land invasion to take out as much of Hamas' built-up stockpiles and war infrastructure as possible.

There is no workable defense here that doesn't require significant offense.
The "easy" way is a configurable logic device like an FPGA or PLD. But that's still a programming effort more than logic circuit design.

Modern discrete logic chips can be tiny. A cursory browse through Digikey shows some single NAND gates in a 1x1.5mm package. You can probably get smaller if you want, but that's still ridiculously tiny.

Given that and the insane accuracy of modern PCB printing and pick and place machine assembly, you can design a very complex circuit in an extremely small footprint.

From there, the hard part is designing the logic. Today, you'd probably use something similar to an FPGA compiler that turns a program into a logic circuit. Which leaves the hardest part as laying out the circuit on the board.

So yes, you could do it and do it extremely small. But there's good reasons this isn't generally done anymore.

Would certainly be an interesting project though.
Heroku just does this. At my old job we would scale the database using replication multiple times a week depending on expected traffic.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-follow...