skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would note that no one in Palestine has chosen for Hamas to be there. They are more like a criminal organization with populist propaganda, with a focus on smuggling and sanctions evasion as a business model. Even the election they “won,” they really didn’t in the conventional sense, and there hasn’t been another in 10 years.

I’m not taking sides, as someone raised Quaker and a later life Buddhist, I know everyone killing others is wrong and there’s no excuse for everything horrible that’s happening. But no one listens to the guy in the corner saying “could we just stop killing each other?”

But it’s absurd to say that somehow Hamas is a legitimate democratically elected government and the populace has had any say in the things they’ve done in their name.

Hamas decided to do October 7 assuming Israel would do something awful so they could martyr their own people for propaganda purposes. They didn’t ask anyone’s permission to volunteer the lives of the 20,000 people killed, nor the horrors of October 7.

Israel played directly, and in greater magnitude, into their stated goals of inciting Israel into atrocities. The goal isn’t to defeat Israel militarily but to destroy its international standing and by proxy the US. They wanted to end the idea of a two state solution forever and make the only options destruction of Israel or genocide of Palestinians.

The general populace of Palestine has no desire to be wiped out, they don’t want to live like this. They want to live a normal life like everyone does. But they don’t get to choose if Hamas controls their fate. Sitting in a western democracy it seems inconceivable that you can’t choose your government. But most of the world can’t, and they are at the mercy of whoever has the most guns and psychopaths to hold them.
My guess is that it was a small, rather high efficiency little subcompact Toyota pickup, and that it was driven relatively few miles annually and kept in good running order.

Depending on the country and engine, there's also a possibility it was a waste vegetable oil burner (that was quite popular in certain circles, and I believe the old Toyota diesels were just fine with it).

Also, there's more than just carbon emissions to consider, and this is an odd, deliberate-seeming blindness of the "environmental movements" of the past decade or so - blowing up a mountain for the minerals is fine, as long as it's carbon neutral. If you'd like to "never want another mobile computing device again," I suggest the book Cobalt Red, on the lies and deceit active in the DRC related to cobalt mining out there (basically, the nutshell is that regardless of what anyone claims to have done to improve the conditions, they've "worked around the problem" locally in ways that are almost impossible to detect on the ground, and it's still a ton of hand-dug cobalt in horrid working conditions, with the short lifespans and horrible deaths to go along).
The story is from Reuters, who messed up the headline and lede. Per their own article, that is not at all what the judge ruled:

> In denying Twitter's motion to dismiss the case, US District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that Mr Schobinger plausibly stated a breach of contract claim under California law and he was covered by a bonus plan.

Twitter's lawyers filed to have the suit dismissed and the judge rejected the motion. The case is still ongoing, and no decisions were made about the outcome of the case itself, merely that it will be allowed to proceed.
> Rumors suggest they’re gearing up to make iOS 18 an AI focused release.

Don't underestimate Apple at disappointing enthusiasts like you and me. We've been hearing many awesome stories about the next thing Apple will do, only to realize their marketing team chose to keep it for future iOS/MBP/iPhone generations to keep the profits high.
What’s the current high score?

Is there any way to check that online?
The vast majority of food demands in urban population centers cannot be met by small farm operators, for scalability and price reasons. There are also a number of foodstuffs that can either never be provided by local farmers, or can only occasionally produced due to climate reasons. This is as true of "nice to have" goods as it is staple crops like wheat or rice. Resorting to sources that are further away and require extra measures to preserve freshness and ensure the items survive transport is something we will never escape from given global population size, the bias towards city settlement, and diet preferences.
I would argue it's better than nothing, and what are they going to be biased towards?
This is similar to the recent post about private members in Ruby. It's a sytaxical check that the receiver is literally 'this'. Which, like you say, can be checked at parse time without any lookups. Even identity(this).privateVar doesn't pass in Ruby due to not being sytaxical this.
The article's example of a Fortran program is an anachronism. In 1975, what we had was Fortran IV which didn't have any of the structuring stuff shown in the example. This example of Fortran IV shows where most of BASIC came from although there are important features of Fortran that it doesn't show (DO loops, multi-character variable names, SUBROUTINES, FUNCTIONS, COMMON blocks), but Basic was pretty clearly designed as an interactive, student dialect of Fortran.

C AREA OF A TRIANGLE - HERON'S FORMULA
C INPUT - CARD READER UNIT 5, INTEGER INPUT, ONE BLANK CARD FOR END-OF-DATA
C OUTPUT - LINE PRINTER UNIT 6, REAL OUTPUT
C INPUT ERROR DISPAY ERROR MESSAGE ON OUTPUT
501 FORMAT(3I5)
601 FORMAT(4H A= ,I5,5H B= ,I5,5H C= ,I5,8H AREA= ,F10.2,
$13H SQUARE UNITS)
602 FORMAT(10HNORMAL END)
603 FORMAT(23HINPUT ERROR, ZERO VALUE)
INTEGER A,B,C
10 READ(5,501) A,B,C
IF(A.EQ.0 .AND. B.EQ.0 .AND. C.EQ.0) GO TO 50
IF(A.EQ.0 .OR. B.EQ.0 .OR. C.EQ.0) GO TO 90
S = (A + B + C) / 2.0
AREA = SQRT( S * (S - A) * (S - B) * (S - C) )
WRITE(6,601) A,B,C,AREA
GO TO 10
50 WRITE(6,602)
STOP
90 WRITE(6,603)
STOP
END
Could you provide more context on what’s disgusting? I’m not a go programmer but this looks like it’s just a wrapper around a library called ‘maphash’ and doesn’t do any of the hashing here? This is more of a service wrapper around that lib so that it can have a consistent seed value etc.?
i literally didn't, but ok!
was thinking exactly this... and even better, why not on real data, especially since real, clean, data in this field is not at all hard to find.
Big data study yields insights into pregnancy symptoms and how they progress
Some important notes:

- they monetize neo-Nazis and are proudly doing so

- they ban a lot of legal speech, including advocating eating disorders and erotic content

- one of the founders recently hosted unrepentant eugenicist Richard Hanania on his podcast

- similar to the situation with Twitter, this is a private company that has a right to moderate their content as they see fit, and no one is asking for government intervention -- just a boycott

The evidence suggests that they're monetizing neo-Nazi content not because of a commitment to free speech or even because of greed, but because they agree with it. If they believed in free speech, they wouldn't ban content about eating disorders, and if they were greedy, they'd certainly have a lot of porn on the platform.
Ah, but you forget. The rightsholders (will) use the TPM to control what you can run on your machine in your home.
Not FTL. If an opposite lane sided car passes you at 180 km/h and you are running at 120 km/h, it looks like the gap "widens" at 300 km/h speed.
That happened naturally as early Windows developed alongside rapidly improving hardware. The situation today is due to an arbitrary policy decision by Microsoft. Microsoft could easily create a SKU of Windows 11 that runs as well on ten year old hardware as Windows 10 does.
I hope they get rid of it completely. People on r/locallama and others have made much better assistants using GPT which use iOS APIs to control the phone. It's ridiculous that Apple still hasn't done anything useful regarding Siri.
Reuters messed up the headline and lede. Per their own article, that is not at all what the judge ruled:

> In denying Twitter's motion to dismiss the case, US District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that Mr Schobinger plausibly stated a breach of contract claim under California law and he was covered by a bonus plan.

Twitter's lawyers filed to have the suit dismissed and the judge rejected the motion. The case is still ongoing, and no decisions were made about the outcome of the case itself, merely that it will be allowed to proceed.
My consulting company bills me out at a much higher multiple than that in my gross salary
It is not the words of one "priest", but of all the Catholics in the compound. And I love how you appended "Palestinian" to try to discredit him, as if a Palestinian's word is not worth much, but the word of the IDF, who have been caught lying through their teeth about almost everything that has happened on and since 7/10 is. And you are wrong. The compound hosts more than just Palestinian Christians. Catholics from around the world serve in Gaza.

And how is that justified? The murder of two old women in a Catholic church compound, by a sniper no less. And one of them was murdered while trying to retrieve the body of her mother.
FWIW I believe 'drive by wire' is exceedingly rare. The Lexus RZ450e and the Cybertruck are the only vehicles I know of where the steering wheel is not mechanically connected to the wheels.
My point was the phrase already contains the word model. Why are we calling it a multimodel LL model? Why not just add multi to the existing model?
> 2. Legislation won’t happen until enough people care enough to demand it

I can demand legislation to encourage/require behavior that I myself won’t practice in absence of said legislation.

It sounds counterintuitive but it makes sense… by analogy, if I’m a hockey goalie I may have the opinion that goalie pads have gotten too big and the game would be more exciting if they were required to be smaller. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to personally wear smaller goalie pads and put myself at a disadvantage, unless the league requires it.

I’m in favor of laws that reduce single use plastic even if I myself don’t go out of my way to avoid single use plastic. Too many products around me use it, and if I had to pay attention to every product I buy to avoid it, it would be very difficult. But if legislation existed to force companies to avoid making it in the first place, my individual purchasing decisions would remain simple and we’d all benefit.
A one line code change inside iOS made me waste 5 minutes
This is cool, but honestly... Go learn how to paint or play an instrument.

join a band and create art.

You will have a ton of time to learn to code and build servers.

I was one of these early bloomers for being a programmer, and you know where it got me?

The same fucking place as all of the other people who started in their mid 20s. Its a waste of time.

Well... I make hundreds of thousands of dollars and have a stable career and I mostly like my job... BUT! My point stands.

There are absolutely diminishing returns for being a "good" programmer, and then it opens up to social stuff. Being able to impress someone with your paintings. Being able to both implement and design a page. Being able to jam with your co-workers after work every once in a while.

If anything focus on school and drill math as hard as you can, it is a HUGE hill to climb later in life.
The question is: what is BASIC? Just to take two examples, Atari BASIC and Atari Turbo-BASIC XL. They share some keywords but on the other side are totally different languages, for instance Turbo BASIC has structured programming constructs like procedures.

Part of the problem is that the OS API is kind of restricted to basic sounds and graphics drawing primitives. For everything else you need PEEK and POKE.
Taiwan isnt a country too? Geopolitics leads to some crazy claims of truth. It couldn't be more clear that there is extreme pressure for states to support Israel, especially due to USA's position. Argument from authority is rightfully considered a logical fallacy
It's not even about building it, it's about controlling it.

So if Altman is as smooth and ruthless and self interested as he appears, he's likely to end up in control of... something big.

Even if he "just" becomes the next "richest man in the world," that's still a title that carries with it a massive ability to shape society. It's no wonder people would like to understand what this potential oligarch is like behind closed doors.
When Will Queer Bravery Become Part of the World War II Narrative?
For Hamas being one: basically the entire Western world (Canada, US, UK, EU, Japan, Australia) has declared them as one.

For the IDF not being one: literally no country, not even Iran, has declared them as one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...
I’m disagreeing with the premise that making conscious choices about what I purchase can be reduced to “voting with my wallet”, or that we can conclude it “doesn’t help much” based only on a limited outlook on what helps i.e. there are many more reasons to do it that may never have a meaningful monetary impact on the system.

If legislation is the only real end goal, that raises the question: how do we reach that goal?

Gay marriage isn’t legal by some accident. Attitudes about cannabis aren’t shifting for no reason. These are issues that people cared deeply enough about to keep pressuring the system for decades. An apathetic voter base doesn’t accomplish those changes.
But no one is training these kinds of models on their personal device. You need compute clusters for that. And they will probably run Linux. I'd be surprised if Microsoft trains their large models in anything else than Linux clusters.
Agreed. It's arguably legislation that added all the traffic signs around SF and it's individuals that decide to ignore all of them. Every time I go out I see cars turning left on Mission between 14th and 28th (no lefts on Mission allowed in that entire section). I see them driving north on Mission through 20th and 16th, both of which have signs and road markings "right turn only". I see them turn right at "no right on red" stop signs, many of which have 3 different signs. A painted sign, a red right arrow, an LED red right arrow with the no circle mark ⊘ over it. They still turn right. There's also 50% of the cyclists on Valencia that go through read lights.
They use many clouds. But LLM should be their core business and they usually don’t outsource that.
That's true for any default apps on any platforms though.

It's why Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars per year to be the default search engine.

That's why there needs to be regulations that default apps must be optional and must be permitted to switch to any apps for open standards that are available.

Apple should not get to pick which services I want to use, that's my choice on a device that I own. If I want to use Google Messages as the default SMS/RCS client, that should be permitted and without any pushback from the platform vendors.
Why do you think people making shitty forms (as most of them are shitty) would magically start making good forms because of AI?

This is one of many problems that had nothing to do with AI, sorry to disappoint.
That's really not how languages work.

Even between different scientific disciplines.

For example, what is covariance?

Besides, the criticism was overly pedantic, but alas. The explanation wasn't even that bad.

Decomposition of a design problem in a set of orthogonal questions is exactly what is being described.
Solving then the problem by providing solutions that don't overlap is also what is being described.

And the author is right about mentioning that because it's not actually obvious that giving a solution to each "eigenquestions" provide a canonical basis for the solution space, so to speak.

Really it seems that people want to be pedantic just to be pedantic... I don't think such arrogance is warranted here.
GOTO-based programming is just continuation passing style - the definition of GOTO is literally switching the continuation of the current statement to something else. (Which means that its preconditions are OR'd to the preconditions of its target statement, and its post-condition is not defined. A GOTO-based program becomes easier to analyze and understand if you add COME-FROM markings to every possible GOTO target.) Incidentally, one can understand self-modifying code in a similar way.
Heck, it hasn't even been assigned to a committee yet.

It doesn't even have a bill number assigned.
So is YouTube storing somewhere in the realm of 50-100EB somewhere? How many data centers is that?
The platforms are large enough now that there is a public interest in the moderation decisions that they make. Like a utility or a mail carrier or an internet service provider, if you reach a certain size in an industry that tends towards a natural monopoly, then the public has an interest in regulating your behavior towards neutrality.
What would that generation of programmers do their thing on? A programmable abacus?
Corporate models are already going that direction. Adobe’s image model is only trained on Adobe Stock, for example, and they and others are getting volumes of new images that artists have explicitly consented for use in an AI model to quell the goal post moving arguments about stock creators not imagining AI. Other models without that will exist too by then there is one world where this bill will just be providing protectionist favor to the former models, and the latter models will still exist in some more anonymous or offshore capacity.

Everything that happened in 2022 and 2023 is over, all of those discussions are outdated already, it’s too late to try to make levels of working groups and information gathering.
I agree, but that would take much more than a 7-minute read. I wrote about everything I know about marketing in other posts in my newsletter. You'll see dozens of articles about writing good copy, launching on social media, growing an audience, etc.
It will allow more people to do a Monte Carlo search across a much broader spectrum.

The mass will filter through this by popularity.

And good people/artists will be able to learn faster, more and iterate faster over ideas.

For everyone else who actually doesn't care that much, they will get similar content cheaper.

After all there are so so many people watching normal TV daily with a ton of advertising or blindly radio which delivers the same top 50 list over and over.
Yea, Android is not open, AOSP is.

Google is not immune to this either, all companies should be treated the same way IMO. Monopoly status should not be a factor when it comes to default apps and such.
> No mention of on-shot Daviau's lack of replay-ability. Ok, that's not entirely fair. Pandemic is infinitely replay-able as a mansplaining exercise.

Daviau didn't design Pandemic, and has designed dozens of well-rated games besides his Legacy series.
Easy to get rid of that by a little fine tuning and system prompting.
What I meant is that doesn't make sense for the Python version because multiprocessing has its own mechanisms for doing that. Same for the post-migration Rust binary.
Apple used to sell servers. I don’t thing they should settle for “just use Linux” in such and important field.
Thank you for the color and the insight. It’s really helpful to remind myself how lucky we are to live in western democracies, a relatively new invention, and how 99% of humans who have ever lived have had no agency in the rules of the world they inhabit.

I am curious what you think should be done in this israel conflict. What are the paths forward?
No irony in this comment at all.

The point is bad news spreads to "I won't bother".
I don't get it, does Apple also make fridges now?
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Yes, it is definitely reasonable. Why wouldn't it be?

I'm not sure what point you're making about Ticketmaster. That business is completely different from the rental market (for example, there are probably literally a million times as many providers).
One thing I've learned recently trying to go back through my old disc collections and archive things is that discs are prone to failure over the long term, and spreading your data out over more discs means less overall loss when a failure occurs. I have CD-Rs that have pin holes in the foil layer, whole sets of DVD-Rs from CompUSA that look perfectly fine and show up as new blank DVDs rather than the data that's clearly on them. Yes, archival quality discs can help and the Taiyo Yuden's I bought way back when I think have all held up, but even some of the pressed and manufactured DVDs and CDs I have are starting to show signs of failure.

If I were going to buy a large archive of software, I think I'd want it spread across multiple discs, even at the expense of having more physical media.
You're misinterpreting the process and the criticism. 1 + 2 are almost certainly being done together in a blackbox transformer, along with making the colors "pop" and faces "shiny". It's an opinionated edit that changes the substance of the piece, attempting to make it more palatable to modern eyeballs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36434358

Note that S3-FIFO has no loop resistance. Nevertheless, the result that this library is functioning in a loop indicates that some important changes have been made. Also, the result that Ristretto, which has loop resistance, is not functioning in a loop is clearly an anomaly and likely not being measured correctly. Ristretto's benchmark results on S3, DS1, and OLTP differ markedly from the official ones (https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto). Otter's benchmark results are quite suspicious.
> I get a kick out of it when it's done this way in TV shows and movies.

Greyhound is a nice example. And it was a very noisy environment
I was recently learning about Shors Algorithm which was kind of mind blowing until I found out it can’t actually be executed on anything right now. We’re still in the super early days. Like where microcomputers were 40-50 years ago
Oh fun q - let's see.

The basic idea came from me brainstorming with a separate friend about how to make games like stranger video[1] - we got into the idea of a game you could play entirely via calling a number. I pitched "rock paper scissors on the phone" to greg (we were going back and forth with ideas; I really wanted to make something with him!). So the basic idea was there from the start - although it came from a lot of thinking about the broader idea of "games about playfully interacting with strangers"[2].

We dropped a ton of features. We originally were going to let you play from the browser, give you a rematch button, make things best of 5, and maybe have a little phone tree. The most controversial of those is probably "play from the browser" - we prototyped this and it would have made the game more accessible but we thought that needing to dial a number made the game interesting - if the game is in the browser why wouldn't we use the features of the browser?

We also iterated heavily on the experience of recording yourself - e.g. tweaking our timeouts, moving from Twilio transcriptions to Whisper, etc. But I think that's all just making the UX better, not changing the core of the game.

greg shout if i missed anything!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38305787

[2] i wrote a tiny bit about this here: https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-talk-paper-scissors/
Those examples were just the easiest to lookup and communicate.

Windows 8 and later updates of Windows 7 require SSE2. Windows 8.1 can be ignored. Windows 10 requires SSE2, PAE, and NX for 32-bit or AMD64 with specific support.

Microsoft clearly didn't anticipate Apple switching away from version 10, which necesitates Microsoft switching from version 10 to combat the version number gap. There'a still potential for Microsoft to backpedal on TPM, or deploy something that justifies it. Alternatively, if Windows 10 is the last Windows I'll need, I guess I'll move to FreeBSD.